2nd year uni (starting 2018)

[HSMMaCM]

The old thread seems to have filled up!

[Needmoresleep]

Brizzle, I had noted the same. The ultimate MN stealth boast? Who cares about having brilliant children, kitchen islands and a two car driveway or an island.

I console myself with the fact that though I only have 12 radiators, my powerflushing firm is run by someone called Tarquin.

I knew someone (American) who had a two year contact teaching in an international school in Albania. Not easy.

[brizzlemint]

Brizzle, I had noted the same. The ultimate MN stealth boast?

I can't say I'm bothered either way TBH. Some people have lots, some people don't - I'm happy with what I've chosen to have and not have.

I don't have a power flushing firm (not sure my body would cope with it) but I'll happily let somebody called Tarquin have a go

We have 8 radiators, all small and perfectly formed.

[bigTillyMint]

I dont even know how many radiators we have. This is not because we live in a mansion

[Needmoresleep]

Hee hee. 12 only because some rooms have more than one.

I heartily recommend powerflushing. Life changing...

[bigTillyMint]

Ive counted up - 10 here (also have rooms with more than 1!) Plus 2 heated towel rails

[Needmoresleep]

Then we are even. In the power flushing world heated tower rails count as radiators.

My other specialist subject of the moment is teeth. Referred pain following an extraction. I would suggest we moved on, except radiators are a more fun topic.

The big news though is that after a three month battle and hours of being on hold, DD got a refund out of eBay. Almost as good as getting a first.

[EcclesThePeacock]

Nah... I'm sure the meaningful metric would require dividing by the maximum number of family members living in the house.

[Xenia]

Sorry... not a stealth boast and the saga over them and the huge bill illustrates why having fewer is much better. They took them all off at one point and put piping between where they were and various pumps to try to get the dirt out, rises them all out in the garden, put them back, then replaced them, and then replaced both boiilers. I had 3 weeks _ they came on 18 separate days for the work) with just about no heating. To leave my fan heated office I had to put on shoes and a coat and gloves to go up to bed. I was taking kettles of water up stairs to wash with. One monrning the front good was left open i the snow and the hallway was covered in a white mist of cold and snow in the house. The fact 5 of them still don't work despite all the money is still annoying 18 months on.

Sorry about the teeth,that sounds horrible.

My son was fine yesterday and it was nice to see him even just for an hour or two - he had an appointment in lLondon. He said on the way here a lorry would not give way as he entered the motorway and what do you do when you filter in and they won't give way - he thought he was going to die. Eventually it gave way. I suppose it is good useful motorway experience and it is basically one road, motorway from Bristol back to London, Some of those big lorries cannot stop or slow easily I said. Anyway he was okay. I don't driving on to the motorways either at times.

[Needmoresleep]

What ratio do you suggest?

At one point there were four of us plus au pair. Now though we are clearly luxuriating in surplus, albeit rusty, radiators.

[Xenia]

We were 7 ( 5 children amongst that).
Actually it is a huge issue of our age - should people be allowed like my parents to buy a house and then die in it (they both literally died in their house of 50 years which was lovely for them) or should we take a communist style approach and force people out of their owned homes and provide them to bigger families.

[Needmoresleep]

Sorry about your heating. I would not like to think how much we have spent over the last couple of years. (Actually on radiators and teeth, yesterday was a scan for an implant....I lecture DC a lot on flossing and brushing.)

The M40 from London to Oxford is awful. I foolishly went on a Friday afternoon last year, bunching all the way and about five pile ups.

[SMaCM]

Xenia, tell him it's ok to use the hard shoulder, rather than fight with a lorry on the motorway. Use it as an extended filter lane.

Don't even talk to me about radiators. I can't be bothered to count them and just know that they leak regularly.

[brizzlemint]

I do think it's a shame when people leave their family homes, I mean I will inherit some money from my parents but our family home is long gone - one parent is now in a home permanently and the other is in a leasehold property. I'd love to be able to go back to my family home to visit if not to live.

[Horsemad]

My Mum no longer lives in our family home, she sold it and bought a new (to them) one with my stepdad when she remarried years after my Dad died.
I make a point of going past my old house every time I go 'home'. I just drive past & have a quick look, then go on my way again. 🙂

Radiators: we are having a new bathroom soon and so are having a new towel rail fitted there. 😊

[Xenia]

In fact he did use the hard shoulder so was quite sensible and I suppose until you get practice on motorways it is difficult driving (which is probably why the rules have just changed or is about to to allow people with thei rinstructor on to motorways before their test).

MNy parents kept their (4 bed) family home but had separate rooms which was useful once they got ill and indeed both died downstairs and with 9 grandchildren, plus chidren and spouses etc sometimes ou need the space anyway when people visit you. Also my father in his last year needed his carers to take turns at staying over night and they took over the smallest bed room. So it can be a bit of a myth that you don't need much space when you're older (never mind housing a lot of your children's possessions )

[captainoftheshipwreck]

12 radiators but 3 MASHERS

[Horsemad]

3?! 3?!! That's outrageous! 😆

[brizzlemint]

I see your 3 mashers and raise you 4 corkscrews.

[SMaCM]

I see your 4 corkscrews and raise you 5 different kinds of tea

[brizzlemint]

I see (and probably match) your 5 types of tea and raise you 5 slices of pizza.

[Horsemad]

Don't mention pizza, I am on a diet and could kill for pizza right now! 😆

[brizzlemint]

If it's any consolation it wasn't a nice one. 99p co-op rubbish.

[Horsemad]

Any pizza would be good right now ☹️

[brizzlemint]

Have you had an Amazon delivery recently? You won't notice much difference between the co-op offering and an Amazon cardboard box.

[Horsemad]

😂😂😂