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Post by mdgv2 on Aug 19, 2024 16:15:37 GMT -5
This is the first place I’ve ever had an issue with it, other than on windows.
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Post by herzlos on Aug 20, 2024 4:25:22 GMT -5
I cleaned the bathroom. Wasn’t filthy filthy, but needed doing. I do need more fungicidal spray though. Living in a basement flat is great for keeping cool, but a bastard for mould. I'm increasingly of the opinion that merely living in Britain is a bastard for mould... Absolutely. It's a constant battle against damp, and this years been worse than usual for rain. |
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Post by Haighus on Aug 20, 2024 4:42:47 GMT -5
This is the first place I’ve ever had an issue with it, other than on windows. Might be an advantage of living in the South East now I think about it. Driest part of the country. I live closer to the West coast so much more soggy. Don't recall mould being so much of an issue outside bathrooms when I lived in Yorkshire and that is a drier region too. |
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Post by mdgv2 on Aug 20, 2024 4:50:22 GMT -5
Also, I’ve previously lived on 2nd floor and up. So even if the building was near the water table, it’d have to go some to get to me.
Bored of this flat though. At least the upside of recent unpleasant occurrences will, probs in a year or so, allow me to buy somewhere!
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Post by pacific on Aug 21, 2024 5:52:53 GMT -5
I will add living in south Wales to that.. has almost not stopped raining this summer, and so the damp that built up over winter and spring has not really allayed. Have got through quite a lot of the mould and mildew remover this year that's for sure!
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Post by easye on Aug 21, 2024 8:45:54 GMT -5
A prize from a local dance for my wife and I's Cha-Cha. LOL
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Post by Haighus on Aug 21, 2024 8:57:33 GMT -5
A prize from a local dance for my wife and I's Cha-Cha. LOL Nice. Always struggled with cha cha, had more luck with jive and rumba. Although I prefer ballroom. |
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Post by crispy78 on Aug 21, 2024 11:24:56 GMT -5
Heh, I'm a reformed ballroom and latin dancer too... Met my wife at Southampton Uni ballroom and latin club
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Post by mdgv2 on Aug 26, 2024 6:56:12 GMT -5
Think I mentioned it earlier, but inherited Dad’s car. And today having nipped out for fuel and some snacks? I figured out the auto-park feature. Skynet, take the wheel!
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Post by herzlos on Aug 28, 2024 2:54:21 GMT -5
It took me long enough to become comfortably with hill hold and cruise control. Auto park sounds terrifying though presumably amazing once you get over it.
What car is it?
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Post by mdgv2 on Aug 28, 2024 3:38:36 GMT -5
Ford Puma Titanium Ecoboost. Apparently a small SUV.\
Its a fun drive, and the autopark is gonna come in handy, as it’ll mean I can squeak into parking spaces my natural skills wouldn’t allow.
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Post by mdgv2 on Aug 28, 2024 5:20:32 GMT -5
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Post by mdgv2 on Sept 2, 2024 10:49:51 GMT -5
Manly Men Man achieved!
Charged the car battery. Fuck knows what drained it, but drained it was.
And whomsoever designed the engine layout and put a battery that heavy, that far back and high up, necessitating a jaunty angle for removal needs to go and boil their idiot fucking head. Right now
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Post by crispy78 on Sept 2, 2024 12:51:58 GMT -5
Ah mate, nothing compares to getting the battery out of a Lotus Elise. That was a bastard of a job. It sits right in the middle of the front of the car, as low as it could be. It's under the screen wash reservoir and partially obstructed by the plastic ducting for the radiator. You need about 4 hands and have room for two, and have to bend over at a right-angle and lift it out at full stretch... Only did it once and will never do it again! (I mean, for starters, I don't have the car any more and am unlikely to afford another any time soon...)
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Post by mdgv2 on Sept 6, 2024 3:53:08 GMT -5
So on my drive back from Dad’s funeral, I forgot to pay for the Dartford Crossing. And I knew I had. But Becuase the PCN went to Dad’s address, I was only able to find the code out yesterday evening, when my brother went to Dad’s house ready for the valuation today.
Which means it had increased from “just give us the £2.50 and we’ll say no more about it” to “dirty boy, £70.00 penalty as well”.
Phoned them just now, explained the situation, and they, without stress or mucking about, reduced it to the £2.50.
They might be dickheads for counting to charge years after they said it would be free, but on this occasion they were really good.
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