Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2

[Monkeylegend]

HTP99 said:

I wasn't aware that there was a good heart attack!!

I had a minor heart attack 20 years ago due to work and marriage stress in my mid 40's.

As a result of that I lost 5 stone in weight, changed my diet, started to exercise more and here I am 20 years later older and healthier, so have the right one and it can be good for you

The bad ones at that age drop you like a stone and "boom" you're gone.

[sc0tt]

Flibble said:

I'd be going to Le Gavroche. You're mental to turn down a restaurant that has a year waiting list for a game of footie.

French cuisine isn’t really my thing and looking at their website if I should be inclined I could book a table today for 2 at 12pm 12:15 and 13:15 should I be inclined or change the evening to 5th october.

Not sure where the year wait has come from?

[Blown2CV]

sc0tt said:

French cuisine isn’t really my thing and looking at their website if I should be inclined I could book a table today for 2 at 12pm 12:15 and 13:15 should I be inclined or change the evening to 5th october.

Not sure where the year wait has come from?

possibly from me throwing 1 year out there as a guess when it was suggested that whatever place it is was triple-starred, before it was named as la gavroche

[The Mad Monk]

bigandclever said:

I see M.Roux most mornings, can ask him to put the footy on for you?

Michel Roux jr is an honorary member at Harlequins Rugby. I frequently see him dining in one of the executive boxes.

The directors of Harlequins must have had a really tricky decision deciding who to give that free membership to?

"Come on chaps! Who is the most deserving person we can think of?

"Think! Think!

"I know we will give to one of the richest men in the ground!

"That's a good idea!"

[PositronicRay]

sc0tt said:

Flibble said:

I'd be going to Le Gavroche. You're mental to turn down a restaurant that has a year waiting list for a game of footie.

French cuisine isn’t really my thing and looking at their website if I should be inclined I could book a table today for 2 at 12pm 12:15 and 13:15 should I be inclined or change the evening to 5th october.

Not sure where the year wait has come from?

Well looks like a crap treat then. Go to the footie, let her pick up the tab, everyone's a winner.

[sc0tt]

PositronicRay said:

sc0tt said:

Flibble said:

I'd be going to Le Gavroche. You're mental to turn down a restaurant that has a year waiting list for a game of footie.

French cuisine isn’t really my thing and looking at their website if I should be inclined I could book a table today for 2 at 12pm 12:15 and 13:15 should I be inclined or change the evening to 5th october.

Not sure where the year wait has come from?

Well looks like a crap treat then. Go to the footie, let her pick up the tab, everyone's a winner.

An amicable conclusion... sunday lunch in a nice country pub the day after. Lovely.

[Blown2CV]

i mean she may well be upset, but she must have realised it isn't really your type of thing, and quite expensive to boot.

[Baldy881]

The struggle is real

[nonsequitur]

Baldy881 said:

The struggle is real

Home at half ten? Yeah.

[Baldy881]

nonsequitur said:

Home at half ten? Yeah.

I was sat by a river fishing, I'd usually stay until 11pm or so and be home before midnight, however on the back of her comments I thought it prudent to get myself home a little earlier (it was the dishwasher that is fked)

[nonsequitur]

Baldy881 said:

nonsequitur said:

Home at half ten? Yeah.

I was sat by a river fishing, I'd usually stay until 11pm or so and be home before midnight, however on the back of her comments I thought it prudent to get myself home a little earlier (it was the dishwasher that is fked)

Good answer !

[Teddy Lop]

Baldy881 said:

The struggle is real

as a spark you'd be amazed how many people calling me about trippy RCDs self diagnose the issue as a faulty trip switch that needs replacing - the idea that a safety cut out device is actually doing its job when cutting out comes to them like a conspiratorial revelation.

[Baldy881]

Teddy Lop said:

as a spark you'd be amazed how many people calling me about trippy RCDs self diagnose the issue as a faulty trip switch that needs replacing - the idea that a safety cut out device is actually doing its job when cutting out comes to them like a conspiratorial revelation.

We've had it before where wife called me to say street was suffering power cut, I asked if all the houses were lights out and she 'thought so'. Returned home promptly (was fishing that time oddly ) and all other houses had their lights on. I asked what she was doing when the power went off, she said nothing. I worked round the entire house unplugging stuff and eventually got back to the hob in the kitchen. When I looked closely at it, there was water dripping from inside the hob under the worktop. When mentioned this may be the cause, she then decided to then tell me that actually a pan had boiled over shortly before the power cut, FFS

I have a genuine fear for the safety of my household!

[SlackBladder]

Baldy881 said:

(it was the dishwasher that is fked)

That what I call mine too.

[Lily the Pink]

Baldy881 said:

I worked round the entire house unplugging stuff and eventually got back to the hob in the kitchen. When I looked closely at it, there was water dripping from inside the hob under the worktop.

Surely the hob should be on the cooker circuit, separate from the ring mains around the house, so only that circuit should have tripped and there's no reason to go round unplugging anything else ? And sounds like poor design if the overflow from a pan could get anywhere near an electrical connector.

[tribbles]

Lily the Pink said:

Surely the hob should be on the cooker circuit, separate from the ring mains around the house, so only that circuit should have tripped and there's no reason to go round unplugging anything else ? And sounds like poor design if the overflow from a pan could get anywhere near an electrical connector.

Depends - my old house had a single RCD, and if that tripped, then everything would go off. If this is the case, then someone may not know that it's the RCD, and assume that it's "the house".

My new house has a split fuse box, so some is on an RCD, and some isn't.

What new houses should have now are individual RCDs for each circuit.

[Baldy881]

Lily the Pink said:

Baldy881 said:

I worked round the entire house unplugging stuff and eventually got back to the hob in the kitchen. When I looked closely at it, there was water dripping from inside the hob under the worktop.

Surely the hob should be on the cooker circuit, separate from the ring mains around the house, so only that circuit should have tripped and there's no reason to go round unplugging anything else ? And sounds like poor design if the overflow from a pan could get anywhere near an electrical connector.

Whatever happened, the main trip kept going until offending item isolated - hindsight I should have started looking in the kitchen, but it was raining a little so I started with the outside lights. Was a gas hob and when I say pan overflowed, my wife is the type to put a large pan full of water on boil then ps off and wash her hair (and forget about the pan).

The trip was caused by water getting inside the hob and shorting the connections where the electric hob ignition was, out of my control that I'm afraid.

Anyway, that was my last house and I don't live there anymore

[LHRFlightman]

Left the house to go on holiday and turned off the water under the sink.

Wife: "If you turn the water off, won't that break the fridge?"

[Hasbeen]

I have never had a problem with the dish washer.

But then, I've never tried plugging her into to a power point.

[jakesmith]

On holiday in Spain wife just asked if she could use a UK stamp to send a letter home