Where were we? Flipping those darn flat pancakes again

[BeachysSandyFlipflops]

Hello, damn quick work there by MNHQ

Mrs M - thank you x. Yes it was DD2 who wad uncertain. She is still uncertain. I think that may be part of the problem.

BTM - I seem to be able to get blokes in who are botch and scarper. Can really pick them!

Would go for wood windows.

Would never (again) have wood windows because of the amount of maintenance required. But this is also the reason why I like living in a naff 1940s redbrick - no pressure to keep it looking historically in keeping. Upvc all the way here, and happy to be mould and filler-free.

We live in a listed building and it is an utter pain in the arse if you want to do anything.

Oooh OK, thank you all, I would really like not to have wood...house is nothing special at the front (was built to house servants I think)...and wood windows seem to be a money sink and I would prefer more Hotter shoes, posh gin and holidays, frankly .

Yes, Hatty, seems plausible it is affecting how she feels now...would switching be a bad thing do you think? I am a tad concerned this may lie ahead for ds.

We, too, are in Listed. Can barely change a bath mat without permission.

FWIW - I'd go for wood.

Add to the others window experience. Wood looks nicer (in my view) but the price difference is so enormous that you have to place an incredibly high value on aesthetics or be forced to by listing rules to choose it I think.

Alarming exam story #1. A friend told me her daughter nearly missed a gcse exam as both she and her dd thought it was an afternoon exam. It was only when she got to work, switched on her computer and wondered why she had cancelled a meeting that morning that she thought to check the timetable. A lit of frantic calls - to her dd, to the school and to her next door neighbour who drove the girl to school where she was met at the door and rushed to the exam hall to get started just before the 30minute cut off.

Alarming exam story #2. Friend who is a biology teacher told us that the exam board forgot to send the microscope slides for the practical. Exam board was adamant they had been sent and signed for but on investigation found they had been signed for by a member of the exam board staff having been returned as undeliverable because they were sent in the Easter holidays without any advance warning. So poor pupils had to do practical with an emailed photocopy rather than the slide as well as enduring a delayed start whilst this was all resolved. Exam board has promised consideration but no one knows exactly what this means as yet.

We seem to just live with whatever the house has when we move in. Here, ugly upvc with dodgy locking mechanisms and one that doesn't open. The sun lounge more recent, has wood. Prettier but getting shabby and we never open the bifold doors as we can't fathom the locking mechanism and there's also an additional window and single door

We had v spendy wood for whole house a while back...

Tired. Sitting in pub with a fever tree ginger beer. Successive early starts catching up with me....

indeed mrsw

Hatty is DD2 a bit at a loose end as exams are finished but it's not the ebd of term? Or is she unhappy re the course?

Actually I think ours are posh woodalike.

Am making a quiche and have opened wine. Am feeling slightly less rough than I have felt for the last week, but am getting through tissues at an alarming rate.
Dd is lying on the sofa, having returned at 6.30am with friend in tow. I didn't hear them come in, which is something of a miracle, considering they set up the sofa-bed in the loft. Props to them for being v quiet. Or maybe my cold is just making me v deaf.

Having worked as an invigilator for 5 years, I can tell you that neither of the scenarios that MrsW recounts is particularly unusual.

Rose, do you know the company? They have really good guarantees. We thought ours was sticking and I emailed for advice and they sent someone the next day who said the main problem was my aversion to vacuuming invisible spaces .

Not really MrsM. The builders ordered it and did all the work when the room was being built. But I guess I could look for a label somewhere....

I have retired to bed.....woke up this morning in a blue funk and apart from some jollity potting up plants and the excitement of a thunderstorm, have not been able to cheer up.

I've had a little sleep, may stretch to a cup of tea soon and see how it is.

No reason, just appear to be thoroughly pissed off!

I would ask your builders or look through their invoices - there should be a guarantee and paperwork and an indemnity scheme in case the company goes bust I think? Ours were not posh (as aluminium doors go) and we have that.

If the installers were registered with FENSA, they should have given you some certificates when the build was signed off. Otherwise there should be some manufacturer's deets on the quote paperwork, if you still have that. Failing that, Google any info you can find on the inside of the frames.

Beachy, could it be time of the month plus exhaustion holding everyone up? Thats what happened to me last week.

Just sent DH out in rain for eggs to use up the bananas going off....

X-posts, Marty.

Sorry you're feeling meh, Flip-flops. I have spent the last 2 mornings in bed (v unusually) and feel immensely better for it.

Now I come to think of it, I feel more human than I have done in months, despite crappy virus. But I think this may suddenly end when I go into work on Wed.

Oh BTM, if only you lived closer... I have about 40 eggs and am struggling. Despite having just used a dozen!

Think it might the effort of holding everyone up, yes. I went to a barbecue last night and got a bit morose talking to all the others who have Year 11's sailing through....

So have I Stropps, loads of eggs and off bananas.... are you making banana bread?

Dd1 wants me to make a cake so she can lick the bowl.....

I am making pound cake. Heavy on everything and living up to its name.

Wellies, that wasn't my reason for making a cake

Glad some Y11's are sailing through - most seem to have had at least one setback/stress.

It's Hotter love
Trying to decide between getting the blue or the red ones.

Thank you again for pointing me in their direction.

Lovely, DQ, lovely. Hold your hats, crepeys, I am going to a real life Hotter shop this week!

Beachy, you are holding up so much .