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clingo said:
Could someone point me in the direction of the away from football thread?
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Not sure if this should be here or on Aber's music thread. I'm sure Cling can clarify.

Mrs Remote went to Jodrell Bank yesterday evening for a playing of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. It was in the auditorium with projections of space type things, including moon walks, synched to the music.
Interesting concept.
 
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Given the dry weather, the grass in the back garden is looking a bit sad. Its particularly bad on the south side, which gets most sun, especially under a 12' acer which must be sucking the ground dry.
I decided to start using waste water from the kitchen to try and improve things. Besides using dishwater (never succumbed to getting a dishwasher) I left a bowl under the sink to catch water that's usually wasted when swilling things, washing hands and running the hot tap waiting for the water to run hot (the utility room has hot water almost instantly, but the kitchen must be a bit further along the plumbing run). Over the last 3 or 4 days I must have caught 4 or 5 gallons a day that would have otherwise gone down the plug hole. Early days, but hoping for greener grass shortly.
 
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We use washing up water for Mrs BfB's potted plants. We also have a dishwasher, 2 actually, I'm one of them.

Kitchen dishwasher used once a week. I have lazy friends who thinks it's okay to use them daily!!!

Come on, must be some like that on here. <whistle>
 
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Given the dry weather, the grass in the back garden is looking a bit sad. Its particularly bad on the south side, which gets most sun, especially under a 12' acer which must be sucking the ground dry.
I decided to start using waste water from the kitchen to try and improve things. Besides using dishwater (never succumbed to getting a dishwasher) I left a bowl under the sink to catch water that's usually wasted when swilling things, washing hands and running the hot tap waiting for the water to run hot (the utility room has hot water almost instantly, but the kitchen must be a bit further along the plumbing run). Over the last 3 or 4 days I must have caught 4 or 5 gallons a day that would have otherwise gone down the plug hole. Early days, but hoping for greener grass shortly.
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I don't have a dishwasher either. Neither do I have a freezer. I had a power cut about three years ago and lost the contents. When I looked at what I had lost I concluded it was stuff I never used anyway. The only thing I miss sometimes is ice cream but that's probably a good thing.
 
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Barry Tiger said:
I don't have a dishwasher either. Neither do I have a freezer. I had a power cut about three years ago and lost the contents. When I looked at what I had lost I concluded it was stuff I never used anyway. The only thing I miss sometimes is ice cream but that's probably a good thing.
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We have a fridge freezer in the utility room and a small chest freezer in the garage.
We batch cook so keep stuff in the garage along with other stockpiled things like chips, peas and meat (we buy value packs from the butcher). There's always trout I've caught in there.

I had a misshap a year or two back. Unplugged the freezer to plug the mower in, then had a chat with a neighbour and forgot to plug the freezer back in.<doh>
There were a couple of days of bulk cooking after that.<laugh>
 
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Barry Tiger said:
I don't have a dishwasher either. Neither do I have a freezer. I had a power cut about three years ago and lost the contents. When I looked at what I had lost I concluded it was stuff I never used anyway. The only thing I miss sometimes is ice cream but that's probably a good thing.
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And your oven works with candles.

No wonder you keep Greggs and McDonalds in business.
 
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Barry Tiger said:
I don't have a dishwasher either. Neither do I have a freezer. I had a power cut about three years ago and lost the contents. When I looked at what I had lost I concluded it was stuff I never used anyway. The only thing I miss sometimes is ice cream but that's probably a good thing.
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We're about to buy a new freezer to be kept in the garage as the old one (freezer) is coming to the end of it's time. I thought we bought it about 15 years ago. Then found the warranty. It is 24 years old on 26/4 so had our money's worth.
 
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I've had a number of halogen security lights around the house for ages - probably 15 - 20 years. Apart from being expensive to run and regularly having to replace the 400/500 watt linear bulbs when they blew, the fittings themselves were showing their age - weathered and looked a bit rough to be honest.

Some had PIR sensors which were intermittent in operation to say the least, and others I can switch manually with small handset in the house or my pocket operating a 3 way RF remote switch in my garage. Handset works from over 30 metres - brilliant little gadget for less than a tenner - Chinese again. <doh>

Decided to change the lot for LED lights. Needed half a dozen but saw an offer with NightSearcher that I couldn't refuse. Bought ten, delivered next day FOC for just over 100 quid. A mixture of 30 and 50 watt fittings - some with PIR's and others without for the remote switching unit in the garage.

Replaced the half a dozen last week and what a difference - it's better than the CCS! <laugh>

Four 30 watters for manual operation and a couple of 50 watters with "walk through" PIR operation - that's just 220 watts the lot with them all on compared with 3 KW with the old halogens and much brighter white light to boot.

Fantastic upgrade and really so cheap if you can do the work yourself. Must admit I'm fortunate in that respect but then I don't get free legs of lamb either.......<whistle>
 
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Another thing about the above - how's this for customer service?

Although one of the PIR operated lights stayed off from dawn to dusk, after dusk it came on correctly when it picked up movement. Trouble was after it's allotted couple of minutes, it kept cycling on and off without any movement within its' PIR range. Obviously a defective PIR so I emailed NightSearcher. That was late last Friday afternoon but I thought they'd probably all gone home. <laugh>

Got an immediate "autoresponse" in my mailbox so I thought that was it for the week. Not so - got another message straight away apologising for the problem and saying they'd send out a replacement asap.

Monday morning arrived and so did the postman bearing a tracked 24 package containing the replacement light and a note of apology for my trouble. Fitted the replacement straight away and last night all AOK. Brilliant customer service.
 
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I'm a bit worried. I'm on a train travelling from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff and on the train carriage electronic information board it says "We are now approaching Cosham!" Have I slipped into some sort of time warp?
 
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