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[Johanino]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman.

So what exactly did Mrs H cook with it?

I have a bad cold/flu..it's doing the rounds..

And don't know how much my heating will be so loathe to put anymore than one heater on (even though it's not heating the flat )

E

[Handyman]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman.

So what exactly did Mrs H cook with it?
E

The Cooking Sherry was only a joke, unless you include what's now pickling my Kidneys.

A very nice drop of red it is too, I am planning to have the next half before I turn in tonight.

Regards, Handy

[Johanino]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman.

Hi Handy

I slept in my own bed for 2 nights now ...

All cos I got a new pure DAB clock radio from Amazon (£31 rather than £40)...

Freecycled a load of stuff lately ...maybe I should have sold it but since the charity shop won't give me discount on delivery I'm loathe to put it in there....

Anyhow bit hyper this am but at least I'm no longer psychotic and bed was sooooo nice this am. Have sheets on the works

SC

[Johanino]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman.

PS. For those worried about how they might live on JSA - here is my JSA budget



Budget 25
Ins 5
Save 20
Electric 50

Budget 25


Budget 25
Plusnet 30
Save 20


Budget 25
Save
CT 20

Mobile 15


Weekly 65
4 weekly 260
Yearly 3380
Monthly 281.6666666667
Codes

CT - Council tax (well basically just water)
Plusnet - Internet and Landline
Budget = groceries and misc


SC

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman.

What are you giving Lady Hooray for Christmas?

How about a nice calendar? (link)

[Johanino]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman.

Or some sawdust

SC

[Handyman]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman.

Hi all, just having a night time beer before turning in at the end of another 20 hour day. I plan to be up again in a few hours. No need to set an alarm, a beer before bed and the state of my bladder these days and I will be up before any alarm clock.

They say as you get older life get's easier, who ever said that should be shot, I put in more hours now than when I was 18.

I could do with one of the new microwave beds they issue the Army with, you can get 8 hours sleep in 45 minutes

Lady H is still on Baitch mode. I love how she contradicts herself,
Last week she was complaining that because it was dark early she wasn't getting a full days work out of me. This evening she came by while I was still working and asked how I managed to see what I was doing in the dark? I cant see a bloody thing I told her so if I chop the wrong thing down tough, But at least it keeps her happy.

I hope it snows soon, at least I would have an excuse to get on with some of my own jobs. It isn't as if she doesn't benefit from the work I am doing to the cottage as it is putting value on her property at my expense.

I can promise one thing, when I leave the Carpets and Wallpaper are coming with me.

Regards all, Handy

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman.

Lady H is still on Baitch mode.

Are you going to get her a calendar (link) for Christmas?

[Handyman]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman.

No I'm not getting her a Calender. She wants an A Corkscrew. Now I would rather get her one of your toys and tell her it's a stopper for a jeroboam



She thinks with one of these she will get her cork out quicker.

After a lecture about how we must economise because times are hard
she went to the wine merchants to pick up 4 more cases just for Christmas eve. She only has 12 guests staying over for the holidays so guess who will be on duty.

Most of the people staying are friends of friends, her own lot are of to Los Angeles and St Moritz.

Oh yes Times are Hard indeed.

Enough chatter. 6.16 breakfast coffee over, now where did I leave me paintbrush

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

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No I'm not getting her a Calender. She wants an A Corkscrew. Now I would rather get her one of your toys and tell her it's a stopper for a jeroboam

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For £55? Get her this (link) or this (link) or perhaps this (link).

Or you could give her this - link

She thinks with one of these she will get her cork out quicker.

That might depend on where she put it.

She only has 12 guests staying over for the holidays so guess who will be on duty.

Odd-knob the Butler?

Most of the people staying are friends of friends, her own lot are of to Los Angeles and St Moritz.

It always amused one of my friends to see shops selling "Mrs Peek's Christmas Pudding", as Betty Peek (who married into the Peek family of Peek-Frean renown) was his father's cousin and he knew that she was spending Christmas in the Alps yet again.

[Johanino]

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Yeah I vote the happy man one Handy

I have ECDL test part 3 today so just a teeny bit stressed

And no sign of G & T in Edinburgh. Presume G has an appt and T is not well pending neurology (that he won't chase up )

SC
PS....Ideas for LH's xmas pressie = LINK

[Handyman]

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Clogs when I saw your link and it came up Black Rabbit, I immediately thought of something else. Thank goodness you meant a proper Corkscrew, I imagined something with ears and D cell batteries. I would only get the job of changing them

Yes I think it must be the Happy man
Reminds me of the song, The Ballad of Deadwood Dick.

Must go, the Espaliered Lime Hedge is nearly pruned now. It has only taken 3 days and I have a mountain of twigs to rake up.

Regards all, Handy

[garlok]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman.

Hi Handy,

You must be a very mild mannered saintly gentleman! I could not doff my cap and put up with the likes of Lady Hooray. Sadly I would end up behind bars and unemployed.

Perhaps I am deep down just an outright Commie although I have never carried the Party Card.

"We'll keep the Red flag flying here"

Oh and I do know the other versions as well

regards
Garlok

[Handyman]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman.

Hi Handy,

You must be a very mild mannered saintly gentleman! I could not doff my cap and put up with the likes of Lady Hooray. Sadly I would end up behind bars and unemployed.

Perhaps I am deep down just an outright Commie although I have never carried the Party Card.

"We'll keep the Red flag flying here"

Oh and I do know the other versions as well

regards
Garlok

Trust me mate, I'm not. I once turned the MD's desk over with him sat behind it because he was being a twat.

A spell of homelessness and then a tied cottage makes you bite your tongue to the point of getting a lisp.

The more I see the less I like, Lady H isn't the worst. His Lordships family now there is an over paid (hang on none of them work they just collect a monthly allowance) bunch of upper middle class, well best not go any further in case any of them ever read this thread. But you get the idea.

I used to think that I had done my bit when I stood guard on the Berlin wall so people like them could sleep safe in their beds. Now I wish I had opened the gates.

Come the Revolution Brother.

Regards, Handy

[mrsinvisible]

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She needs you more than you need her tho, Handy. After all, you could move on, she however is stuck with her plum stacked gob and gobsh@ite family, and crumbling grandeur, unable to function without someone to perform even the simplest of tasks.
My mum used to say 'if you have a problem that money can fix, then even if you don't have themoney, you don't have a problem' It took me a long time to understand what she meant, but she was right. Lady H 's money cannot solve the problems she has!
I still think that you are an incredibly patient and generous man, and that Lady H does not deserve you.