How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

All it did was make realise how much I am embedded in the legal profession - while laughing loudly all I could think of was that the Judge was in contempt of court for sharing the recording unless he got permission to do so!

I didn't know people paired socks as soon as thy came out of the wash. I always hang them all up at random then pair them up once they've dried. Admittedly my socks are all the same colour - black - so pairing up is based on compairing amounts of wear & slight gradations of colour which wouldn't be visible when wet. I suppose if people have socks of all different colours then pairing them up would be much easier & could be done when wet.

The award for the most adorable annoyance of the day goes to... :)

My heating doesn't work. Again. Today we're on day...3, I believe. 2/3 of my flatmates have their rooms cosy, my next door flatmate and I are freezing. 
(One of the two lucky ones jokingly calls my room - Siberia. it would be funny if it weren't true!)
I am so cold and annoyed I'm considering going out for a walk. And I am aware how silly that sounds.

But I've had my first review at work and I've apparently passed it with flying colours. A small joy of the day. 

I forget what heating we had in the first house I can remember. I do know we didn't have a bathroom and had to wash in a tub, and the toilet was on the end of the kitchen but only reachable by going outside. I don't recall the toilet ever freezing up, but I suppose it must have. The house also had incredibly steep stairs set across the narrow width of the house, with a door at the bottom so if you fell down them and broke your neck your stiffening corpse would be a surprise for anyone opening it.

The next house did have central heating. I remember the radiator in my room had a loose board by one of its pipes that I could lift up and hide things underneath. I didn't actually need to hide anything underneath, but it made me feel like I could had I only been one of the extraordinarily competent eight-year-old heroes of the books I read.

I hope my post didn't come over as "you have never had it so good" as that wasn't the intention. I was just remembering my childhood and the fact it all seemed pretty normal with no central heating. Now I couldn't be without it as I like a warm house. However I still like my bedroom to be cold at night but my bed to be warm and cosy so I still keep the bedroom window open a tiny bit even in the middle of winter so I have a cold room but a warm bed and central heating on in the house only when I am physically there. 

lynette, thanks, that's much appreciated, and possibly very useful info. Someone should be coming to fix it on Monday, but then again I've heard that before. (Fingers crossed!)

alece10, no, no it didn't sound like that at all! And I am sorry that my personal frustration with the cold has spilt over into the chat. I think Mathew's unmatched socks conundrum made for a much better discussion topic, really, but it sadly got overshadowed by my lack of heating concerns. :)

On catch up.

My mother talks a lot about ice on inside of windows when she was a child, I remember when I was a kid not having the heating on and being told to jump up and down to warm up, she has it on at a drop of a hat now.

I just have an image of a sock ladened matthew and i get a bit panicky at the idea of clothes falling on the floor (but I suspect his flood isn't covered in mud and hair from the dogs!

Midden wins.

Bung in oven ready meal with added frozen 'cooked' veg so it counts as 'cooking'.

Oh and my mother is currently taking up vaccine offer as she doesn't like the building she's been offered it in and the fact it's a council car park so she'll have to pay. I did query the sanity of this, offer to pay but no shifting.

I have a line from a song stuck in my head: "We love, we live, and give all we can give." I can't place the song. Google can't either. Anyone? I'm assuming it's from a musical, as I rarely listen to pop music & most operas aren't in English.

Act 1, scene 2 of Peter Grimes?

I've recently unearthed my old Minidisc equipment and a stack of old MDs so now I'm wondering whether to get back into it or not. It's a lovely format, but nobody's manufactured any recorders since the mid 2000s and the precision required means they're not going to restart so I'm considering building up a stock of spare kit from eBay for when things break down.

Unfortunately I'm not the only one still interested and high-end MD decks are selling for thousands. I don't love it that much.

You can wait thirty years and take it into ‘The Repair Shop’ to be refurbed...