West London (rest of) Sept 2007 thread

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For when the August thread runs out.

good morning all

hi SJ welcome back to the cold glad you had a good time, see your ds found the biggest infinity pool ever.

sympathies to fellow snifflers have spent the night wiping noses and soothing coughs and also being kicked mercilessly by minisfx

Foxie perhaps I could pop around for a coffee tomorrow and return pirate stuff?

It's freezing today isn't it...

welcome back sj!

Yep the cold has finally arrived and our heating has come on and I need a woolly hat as once again I have no idea where I put last year's one! Doh!

Brrrrrr its freezing isn't it?

Welcome back SJ - glad you had a lovely break in Crete!

Kew - yes I'm probably around tomorrow - not sure yet as I may need to go out. The DCs are really looking forward to being with our (collective) CM next week for the one day we'll be using her Her puppy is so cute isn't it?

Brrrrr - am resisting putting heating on as too mean

Heating went on here last night.

I decided now that ds is at nursery I would venture to a meeting of the "friends" at dd's school this am. 2 hours later I am now a class rep, PTA secretary, organiser of the twice termly cake sale and one of 4 organisers of the christmas fair! That will teach me .

I'm mean about many things but the heating definitely isn't one of them. One of the good things about Kaz was that even in the deepest freezing snow there was abundant communal heating and hot water. very strange though, all the hot water is carried to the town (and around it) from the power plant in huge above ground lagged pipes. I can't imagine that the most efficent way to move hot water in the depths of a siberian winter, even with the lagging.

If you're not free on Friday, Foxie will just pop the stuff in a bag and drop off.

Kew,
Interesting. Is the water heated in the pipes at the power plant then transported to homes and other buildings?

COV, I've decided that the only way I can ever find out what goes on at DD's school is to become a class rep, and I also find myself in charge of running the Ladies Night.

My next ambition is to get the friggin' school on e-mail and to get loads more information on the website.... it would be easier to move a mountain.

Cov you love it really!

Ele yes its heated at a power plant out of town and piped into town for houses and businesses. In most towns they shut it down in August for servicing so no hot water in August!

oh bugger have posted on the McCann thread. Tear me away someone...

Kew! norty step with you

actually the assertions of
'in Portugal everyone has siestas' missed that one, and spanish word to boot'

also 'blonde girl Morocco surely foreign'

quite illuminating

back away from the thread KewCumber!!!!

clearly you don't have enough work to do today.

I am thinking of applying for a job as a VIP Lifestyle Manager.

Kew, step away from the thread otherwise we might have to do an intervention!

Welcome back sj, glad you had a good time!

Our heating system is very bizarre in that to have hot water the heating also has to be on, so now I need to turn all the radiators back on!

AAARGGHHHHHHHHHH have posted again.

"VIP Lifestyle Manager"?

So, if Putin wanted to burst a few water lines he ruin the water pressure (supply) to the whole city and watch them freeze to death. Wow.

In terms of cost effectiveness, I'm intrigued. Does heating it at the power plant save enough money the it is more cost effective then heating it in each home? I wonder if they have to heat it just to keep if flowing through a siberian winter? And I wonder how much insulation is required to keep those pipes warm in winter. I am puzzled however as to why the pipes are above ground. Too expensive to lay in the ground, maybe?

Hmmmm...

I love stuff like this. But ther rest of you are probably bored to tears so I'll shut up.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..........

bully

I hope you get everything you deserve over on the madeleine thread.

foxie/KC - what a coincidence my CM has just got a puppy and ds has fallen madly in love with it (as have I).

I want to post on the maddie thing as well - my dh calls me Mrs Maples as I had the case sewn up months ago and I know who has her and I predicted that Kate would get framed for it (right at the beginning). But then that's my suposition!!

[tries to remember all the coments QC made to me when I got dragged into that other MMC thread a month or two back...]

I did think (from press coverage, which I generally try to avoid as well, but it's impossible to filter it out altogether) that "Photograph! Of blonde girl! In a part of Morocco where a significant proportion of the population is blonde!" was perhaps not entirely newsworthy...

www.tenuk.com

it's a bit like personal shopper but obviously much more high powered!

Hello all

I spent some time in Archangel (in a former life pre baby) and it's the same with the heating there. The whole town is supplied with heating the winter months and then no hot water for May-Aug because the plant shuts down. I had to have icy cold showers every morning in May when it was still only 5 degrees outside but that was warm for the locals, brrr

when I moved from Ust Kamenogorsk to Almaty - my translator said to me proudly "is much warmer in Almaty - is nice!"

Almaty was minus 5 degrees.

Mind you compared to Ust at -20 it was indeed nice.

ave steps away from the MMC thread. And posted pointless comments on loads of others to bump it down my list .

WESt London Posse forgive me for I have sinned....

So MrsR - who dunnit?

suspect you won't get paid much Paddle...