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#10. I too stayed up to watch what turned out subsequently not to have been a prorogration ceremony as originally advertised. I wonder if I can claim a rebate on my television licence.
27/1: Stopping to make a delivery should be not be described as "parking". Normal practice, I think, would be to stop in a nearby sidestreet and wheel the cooker from there on a barrow. However I suppose there may be no suitable side street, or the driver may have been told to behave as he did. But it's a pretty poor show.
#4 Inspired me to have a look via Google Maps, having not been there since 1999, looks much the same as it did then. Thought it would have been long gone.
16 - did the gas cooker have an electric starter to light the gas?, if one of the rings/oven/grill wasn't lighting the contacts may simply have needed a clean (grills/sausages).

24 - of course the electric cooker will need a dedicated supply, if there isn't one already it'll have be installed.

All this palaver to get relatively simple tasks done, reflected in the ways that bigger more complex stuff goes wrong as well.
29. I especially chose my microwave oven (still going after 18 years) because of it's wonderful jacket potato program. Lovely crispy skin, soft and fluffy inside, usually done in around 20 minutes.
Practically all the numbers: You're obviously young enough and stoic enough to cope with the seemingly never-ending round of engineers, new problems for old, deliveries and being without water.

When you're older and bits of insecurity start to creep in, such things seem to make you lose the will to live.

There's something to look forward to!
15,16,17,18,19.

An engineer writes.....
These guys are technicians not engineers.
29 - with no hot water for weeks,it's no wonder you've gained three pounds. It's all the sweat and dirt! 😂😂😂
#14: By 2024 all those gas guzzlers will be rusting unsaleable hulks. Hopefully the site can be turned into a Tesla charging station :-)
I'd have a stern word with your landlord about a rent reduction while you're lacking heat, hot water and cooking facilities. It's their responsibility to provide these. Your annual Gas Safety inspection should have identified any inadequacies with your gas boiler and cooker. As others have suggested, a new electric cooker needs professional installation with a suitable supply. Again something your landlord or their agents should deal with. Not for you to struggle with.
7) Aw that's a shame. You'd have travelled along my street and passed within 10 houses of mine!

9) Despite living with 5 fully grown males, it falls to me to escort big spiders to the door and remind them that we live inside, and they live outside.

13) Such a sweet and distant memory now!

16) if your landlord/agency hasn't been doing annual gas safety checks (and issuing you a copy of the certificate) they have been breaking the law.

21) Guess you don't have a freezer! I always bung anything that's about to go off into mine.

15-Oct 1) Wish you had blogged about all this. It's like the Bus Stop M saga all over again!
24: I had a similar problem in new house. New leccy oven/gas hob did not tick the H&S boxes so they took it away again, and 10 days later, having spent a fortune dining out, they returned with an all gas appliance.
Should have done it years ago. Much cheaper to cook.
Now I'm worried about your totally enclosed kitchen, which I'm surprised no recent gas safety check has flagged up. It depends how big it is and if the door can be left open to another room with windows, but it really should have some kind of external ventilation to reduce smells and condensation. It's another question for your landlord, who should be pressed to put you up in a hotel until they sort out your boiler.
Sounds like we, the community of DG faithful readers, ought to get together to supply a care package for him.
1: I guess this is one of the few times DG made a positive response to an advertisement request.
2: If they were in Hong Kong today this behaviour would warrant an arrest.
4: Given how much a backwater a certain tube line going there is, I am not very surprised.
6: This is risky but I can understand that. I also gave my car a second chance after its engine lights glows up for a short while. So far it seems doing good.
7: Speaks a lot about how good deeds propagate much slower than bad ones.
10: It is never a good idea watching political proceedings late at night, be it civilized or not.
11: I think I have talked about this here before, but in Hong Kong mooncakes are often advertised as long as 3 months before mid-autumn festival (it's 13 this year by the way)
12: I agree, but I admit only having visited the more interesting one.
14: I suspect the planners submitted
the petition with their purpose being "recycling" the vehicles.
17, 18: The engineer probably thought that you went out so easily that your priority wasn't that high.
24: And they said technology ease up your life.
28 (and yesterday): Vans should be standard-sized, or parking spaces should.
There have been some impressively incorrect assumptions today.
...assumptions are the result of a policy of questions not being answered. bit like politics...and look where that has got us
21. For the record, cooking from scratch in a microwave can be learnt. just search the internet or there are many cookbooks.

Chicken breasts are easy if you skip the recipes that call for first frying on top of the stove (indeed I have cooked a whole chicken in a roasting bag). New England Boiled Dinner is a good start.

The Microwave Gourmet Paperback (1990) by Barbara Kafka - used hb copy less than £4
Modern electric cookers it appears are happy with a 13 amp supply. How they manage I have no idea, but you no longer need a dedicated 30 amp supply. I suspect they manage by not being very good. We have just been told today at work that the reason the new hand dryer doesn't work very well is because it's a new low energy one.
#10 Me also. I wonder how much an impact Bercow saying "this is not a normal prorogation" had on the Supreme Court justices

#multiple - As another commenter said - you really should be given a discount for a semi functioning living space.
Have you considered a cheap gym (or even multiple gym "trials") as a way of sourcing nice hot showers ?!
Showers can be had at sports centres...find the lowest cost option or wangle free access....use your noddle fella.
An engineer - you are quite right about the abuse of the "engineer" title. I have had several job titles which included that word although I never claimed to be one. I am qualified in architecture but I am not entitled to describe myself as an Architect, but many people in the IT industry do so.
The landlord/letting agents should at least be funding your premium gym pass for the duration, so that you can have a shower
Comments: always enjoy reading the comments, but special thanks due to 'B' for the use of "use your noddle" which I think I last heard/used around 1976.
If the budget allows, a fifty-quid induction plate will allow you to at least enjoy some minor hob action until full relief is available.
Ikea will do you one for £39.

It looked good. Was thinking it would come in handy when we re-build our kitchen.
"Twas on a Monday morning
The gas man came to call"

Flanders & Swan, your Dad will no doubt know the tune if you don't!
In case it's of any help (knowing how impractical you can be ;))...

USB portable shower - around £35 - get one 4800mAH or over. On Amazon the white ones with an orangle water sucky uppy bit are best. Sold for camping, but very useful in such situations too.

You can shower in half a washing up bowl of water (one boiling kettle + cold).

Put bowl in bath, stand in bath, turn on shower, get wet, turn off shower, apply shampoo/soap etc, turn on shower, rinse. If you stand with one foot in the bowl, the shower water will run down your leg and recirculate, so lasting longer.

If you also have a plastic jug of water at your side, you can finish off rinsing with that if the water runs out too soon.

DAMHIK.
But, it may be cheaper to buy a couple of £5.99 kettles, and boil all 3, then just fill your bath up. It's amazing how few boiling kettles you need to make a shallow bath, once you've added cold water.
But don't turn on all 3 kettles at once or you risk losing electricity too.
Brings back to mind the couple of weeks when our boiler was broken last year. At the beginning of the autumn of course. But it is "old" and probably needs turning into an expensive newer one. (Not quite as old as the ancient thing at a previous house: a cast iron part cracked, leaking rusty water everywhere. That was terminal.)

Extra jumpers, fan heaters and cold showers. Brr. But, as BW indicates, you rapidly learn to splash on the minimum of cold water, turn off to lather, and then quickly rinse. Or find a nearby friend with a warm house and hot water to spare.

Good luck DG. I hope the domestic turmoil is quickly resolved, and I trust the landlord and letting agent will see you right: you should be compensated for weeks with no cooking facilities, no heating, and no hot water.
I think mikeS might be giving you incorrect info.

The average older home has a 60-80 amp main fuse (new homes usually have more as they are differently configured).

3 x 2.2kW kettles on at the same time will use less than 30 amps. Even if they were 3kw kettles (cheap ones won't be) 3 on together would still be using less than 40 amps. Cheap kettles are often no more than 1.7 or 1.8kW.

I knew that O Level physics would come in useful one day.










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