Someone just asked me in work how my house is? and how long has it been now. Its been 16 weeks yes 16 weeks. My god I can't believe we have lived in that damp mess for all this time.
Hopefully when they dig the drains up again on the 4th January and FIX them properly this time. No cutting corners it will be fixed. And everything else will fall in to place.
I haven't mentioned it before but weekend before Christmas the drains in the road were struggling to take the rain water away because it was raining that heavily. I had a look at our storm drain that is just outside the cellar doors and it seemed to be holding its own. I asked Geoff to bring a couple of sand bags home from work.
During the week I happened to look at the storm drain again and yep you guessed it it looked like it was blocked. A call to united utilities and a call out later. The operative they sent managed to break the return valve in the drain so that all has to be replaced. I really couldn't make this up.
They are going to try and scheduled the work in next week. But its left my property really vulnerable to flooding I am so worried about Storm Dylan.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/30/storm-dylan-set-to-disrupt-new-years-eve-travel-across-britain
About Me
- Donna
- Hello my name is Donna. Thanks for visiting. I live in an Edwardian house in inner city Manchester, I love Baking, car booting, hunting around charity shops, and crafting.I work full time.I have two grown up children. And lots of spare time. This blog is my online diary where I can and do ramble on about my everyday life.
Saturday 30 December 2017
Thursday 28 December 2017
2018 cooking challenge
Yeahhhhh i'm back online. What a faff that was they bought me a new laptop yesterday and blow me too cut a long story short it was broke. We had to take it back and get a new one. I have a shiny new blue one.
Enough of that... Any one up for challenge.
Now despite all my good intentions I have added another 3 cook books to my already huge
collection. On top of this I am subscribed to yumly and pintrest I would love to say that all these additions mean a constantly changing and varied diet........
..........no i like looking at the pictures then heading to the kitchen to cook a chilli or a spag bol
So enough is enough and there is no better time of year to start changing this habit.
For me I will choose one 'new to me' recipe every week from one of my many resources and hopefully over time expand my current menu. Any one wanna join in? no pressure just a bit of fun
And hopefully loose some weight along the way.
Enough of that... Any one up for challenge.
Now despite all my good intentions I have added another 3 cook books to my already huge
collection. On top of this I am subscribed to yumly and pintrest I would love to say that all these additions mean a constantly changing and varied diet........
..........no i like looking at the pictures then heading to the kitchen to cook a chilli or a spag bol
So enough is enough and there is no better time of year to start changing this habit.
For me I will choose one 'new to me' recipe every week from one of my many resources and hopefully over time expand my current menu. Any one wanna join in? no pressure just a bit of fun
And hopefully loose some weight along the way.
Tuesday 26 December 2017
Broken laptop
My flu came back with a vengeance on Sunday evening. Off I went to bed at 20:00 all dosed and wrapped up. I didn't bother with my laptop yesterday. Come to put it on this morning and we have the blue screen of death.
Although I have a good tablet and phone I do love my laptop. It is actually 4 years old today. I do use it every single day to browse and I have a little eBay business so it does get a lot of use. My daughters have said they will buy me one between them for my birthday as an early present so I am going to go and a look tomorrow.
Sunday 24 December 2017
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