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That's good value. My gardener charges £15.

Maybe a genealogist with a season ticket could get the information for you from the Essex Record office. They know their way round the records. A (fictional) genealogist has one clerk in his Local record office who hates him. Try and find out when it's her day off. Or ask to see the Head Archivist with a view to getting him/her to do the research for you. Have you still got any Mortgage letters from buying the house? If it's freehold, you may have the Land registry document. Your Medical card from the new practice?

Shall I start a new thread for Flaming June? or will you?

Oh ... that was Wed, now for Yesterday:I should have got some work done to find details (To make the Soliciting prices more affordable), but .....
I found that some "Scam" was being applied to my account - You may recall that I don't get bank statements re Address problems. So I was diverted into sorting it with the Bank. They Cant sort it so I sat in the corner with their head-office that they gave me - Even in a Bank the hum of even Gentle voices were Overpowering (Thinks: Do Mobile Phones lose Volume after the Years - It seemed very difficult to confer, especially as She kept leaving me "on-hold" whilst she investigated The receiving a/c and their History - she seemed to be flitting with desks and her colleagues). The Nett result was that they could retreive the payments that had been taken, gave me an a/c number for their retrieval business, but it could not be shown until the close of business (it materialised today - well all except a Fiver) Took about half an hour with this fast talking Irish accent from the Banks Edinburgh HO. and I was having a bad "Stroke" day - nothing serious, but I was VERY tired all day.
Enough ... NO - Mad Bus driver had decided that He wasn't going to use the Route, but Just wanted to go where He could drive faster. There is no simple way to complain - must complain to the Bus operator before complaining to ... who .. The Traffic commisioners - all difficult and no simple complaint routes (The Bus Operator is in Leeds?) but I'd liked to have him off the road yesterday. (I've kept the bus ticket with all the details)
And then today ... Oh no, I need access to The Essex Record Office to find a Case Number re The Case study on my estates Test Case, but I can't get records office access because I didn't have a current Status address because I don't have my Legal Address to confirm that I should have access that I cant get until I get the documents I need via the Record office.

Thats enough. I hope that you are having a better day than me .... Oh, I thought of you today. Among the Market in Chelmsford was a man sitting on a fold-up chair among the market stalls, No fruit or sprouts, just a Well dressed gent with a Folder and Diary (and a fold-up umbrella under his chair). Signs around his feet offering Violin Lessons - Teenager (over 14) and Adult: £14 per hour. Don't know where He is Based, but there is an Instrument (new and used) shop near but not in the Market.

Hi Rwth.. Had a few things today after a bit of "Hassle". Wed was meeting with a Solicitor (re House addresses, and a series of added on problems), itself complicated by lack of meeting times, and transport problems, and ... and... Can you imagine asking a Cab driver to take you to a Solicitor in a road in his Town Centre only a few minutes from the Bus Station cab-rank .... He shrugged his shoulders, couldn't understand english and gave me his satnav. I couldnt make his machine work, so He asked me the Post Code ... "Same as Here in Chelmsford?" So I had to write down the address.. "Ah, You mean Waterloo Road in Romford (15 miles away?). He eventually found the road and drove past the Solicitor (Two story Building with the words in Letters 12" high over the Door). Then He couldn't understand when I told him to go back - I believe He expected a tip. Would have been Less Late if I had walked.

Wordlover posts in Facebook as Rosalie (Fay). I think Suepet may have been in Facebook too. I left the Archers' groups because there never seemed to be anything else. I swopped for the Gardener's Question Time and Birder threads. Sometimes I get tied up in Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, but I do a lot of lurking.

I wish everyone well. 3 Wells seems to have regained some of her old strength, I'm glad to say.

Hi An Tarbh Dubh. Hope you are well.
Does anyone remember Suepet, (well, she aka Susan) from the Old BBC Mustardland? She was in The Writers Thread, so not someone I met (neither in reality, nor in Mustard). Now I'm trying to remember where I saw her Mentioned - She was looking for Wordlover.

... and an occasional visit from here, but we're always wishing you well! Enjoying the odd bit of fine weather, in between the showers.

You are still trying, that's the point. Pity it's just us two.

Not deliberately Hignoring you. Mind full of "Stuff" - Over a month since TIA and still cant get my head into gear ...

Doctor has prescribed it for cramp for years. I take it for a few days until I stop getting cramp, and it goes on working for weeks. Apparently the best tonic water is Fever tree, but my B in Law drinks Schh because he's an engineer and sells packing machines, possibly to the unmentionable. He gets a few free samples from customers. His daughter, with whom I shared a G & T om my patio, (one each) hadn't realised it was because of the free samples.

We play for the Church service once a month, including today. Next week we play for the village Open Gardens event in the church again. It's under new management this year, but there will still be scarecrows at the gates, and parachuting teddies from the Church Tower, using recycled umbrella covers. No teddy has been hurt yet.

Doctor has prescribed it for cramp for years. I take it for a few days until I stop getting cramp, and it goes on working for weeks. Apparently the best tonic water is Fever tree, but my B in Law drinks Schh because he's an engineer and sells packing machines, possibly to the unmentionable. He gets a few free samples from customers. His daughter, with whom I shared a G & T om my patio, (one each) hadn't realised it was because of the free samples.

We play for the Church service once a month, including today. Next week we play for the village Open Gardens event in the church again. It's under new management this year, but there will still be scarecrows at the gates, and parachuting teddies from the Church Tower, using recycled umbrella covers. No teddy has been hurt yet.

A rehearsal, but when is the actual production?
I had to Google re Quinine - Nasty stuff by what I saw - have a care: But useful to treat Malaria and aka Tonic Water! Can you actually buy the stuff retail?

Nil Desperandum. I hope you get help with this.

I've been to another rehearsal. It went quite well except it was someone else who hadn't practiced. Though I was struggling to reach some of the notes. The viola is a much bigger instrument, and I've been having cramp in my fingers. More Quinine tonight. It doesn't work for everyone, but it does for me. I only take it when I get symptoms.

OK, Three things.

1) Someone Local (website) interested in the change of Local Gov (Conservatives no longer the Majority - not that I believe it makes much different), But their is a move want joint support of different Councillors groups, incl address changes; I have tried to rouse the poster to contact me.

2) The ex (as of 12 months ago) Councillor (The one who was being helpful) is now the Agent of New (Parliamentry) Candidate Brexit I think is looking for tools to detour the Tory - I'm not a Presiding Officer now (because I can't get a position without an address) so I may just look into their Town Centre Stand on Saturday)

3) Ah.. I need to go back a little for this: In my Working days, I did some Management Jobs for Royal Mail. I got some info on address changes (i.e., if the occupant needs to change an address) [i]to summarize: House Name or Building Change - Do what you Like *: Road Name Change - if no name, Council Must find one if no trace can be found: but if a name exists, it can only be changed If all the occupants of the road approve to that particular: If its a House Number change - Need approval from lots of people (incl Neighbours, Land Registry, Council (and/or Business) tax collectors) But you havn't got a hope in Hell of getting a Number change - Think of all those Bomb damaged Houses in London - Replacement Houses take the same number - or suffix 'a', or 'b', or so on (Thinks - I did an Ambulance job in Maida Vale with numbers like one-hundred-and-twenty-four-and-a half? but the principle is the same). Under a 1925 Law (When many men had become motor driver trained by the Army) Address changes also had to be approved by Public Ambulance and Fire Service... for obvious reasons.[/i]
This would be an expensive case to argue, but all I am trying to do is to get The High Courts Decision activated. I have Previously Complained to Royal mail ("Don't tell us, Gov - we do what we are told") and The Post Office ("we do what the Council tells us") and The Electoral Commission (same response as the Post Office), BUT --- A Useful Bloke in the CAB - an ex Insurance enquirer - found another complaining outfit but they will only take an interest if they have a response that one got back from ones complaint to certain bodies involved in mail deliveries, to pass to a next higher authority....
Should be straight forward but so long ago, I re-applied to Royal Mail and The Post Office to the complaints I made originally - I must now specifically respond to their later response directly to the outfit The CAB gave me. I know "Postery" was included in their Title.

* One can add a house/building address, but NOT the first Line (number and Road) - I once worked in a Place called "Keir Hardy House", Very odd, The Councillors were Shop Steward's who's day job was pressing Ford for a pay increase, but at their own Council, they had to deny their workmen any increase?

[size=150]Let me know how the 'discussion' goes. Take it as close to the bone as you can. it may encourage someone younger and fitter than you to get involved.

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No to MP - or at least, I have been concerned elsewhere - not well.
Hospitals equip .... One Local news item was a Crane hoisting a Shower Unit over someone's house, overreached and the whole thing -crane and shower - collapsed on the house roof... Nothing to do with hospitals, but it reminded me of my Hospital days when four complete and very heavy fancy new Scan machines lifted one by one over the roof of The Middlesex Hospital Closed the road - Interesting Traffic problems caused in Tottenham Court Road.

Not certain about Wankel Engines powered by engine oil. Several times the cost of petrol, so will cost a fortune - especially if someone decides to tax oil. Not my dept. but I think you had to add oil to the petrol- something to do with sealing petrol-vapour seals being abraided by the rotor lobes.

Never done any quizzes. I'll leave that to you.

Gotta go. I don't know if this happens in your neck of the woods, but due to a shortage of police, they nowadays move a "Discussion" from place to place inviting "Problems in your area", but this one they are sharing the display with Fire and Rescue people. I'm wanting to ask about the change-of-addresses farce was the excuse to fill in the fire access to this otherwise-pedestrian estate...

[size=150]More power to your elbows, knees, nails and tooth. I'm sure you will win out in the end. Has your MP come back to you yet?

At Blunders' funeral, one of his stepsons came to talk to me. He was a whiz at Logistics and waxed enthusiastic on the topic of installing equipment and building hospitals round it. He was charmed by the rapt audience he received. The half brother of engineering methinks.

The Wankel engine used engine oil as fuel I think I suppose that means that it was ultra high compression and would use even less fuel than a diesel engine.

I arrived late at the fun quiz yesterday evening, using next month's start time as my guide. I was welcomed on to a table of three, from the same house. The questions weren't too difficult, but we won the contest, despite a sad result on the last round, the parameters for which were laid down at the beginning. It was embarrassing coming home laden down with prizes, since they insisted on buying me a bun and donating a candle lantern raffle prize as well. [/size]

I think Molywotsit - whatever brand - will put into the oil what the respectable oil-makers has already put in. (but not into auto or self changing gearboxes and preferably not on any gbox. Synchromesh, Auto, and self-changing gearboxes rely on grip for the newly selected geardrive - making the oil more slippery will will cost a fortune in repairs. Bit Difficult if You need engine oil in the gearbox - Oils are not the same as when My car was made - I have to get oil from a Vintage specialist).
Yup Dip the oil each week.
LandRover changed proprietership several Times. But The Flo-line through "Body-in-White" shed had provision to take an assembly off the track in mid flo - to go to specialists outfits to put their build into it before returning it for completion (e.g., Fire Tenders, Ambulances, Military radio-shacks, and Machine-gun platforms for the Italian Police..???) so their other flo-lines had to be tailored around this access.The Four-door RangeRover Robot in particular need a Heavy-counterbalance Fork Truck to stop it tipping over when long-reaching a rack of Nearside Doors into place - The truck had to scrape along the LandRover track - even moving it(?). That's why Ford took the Patents and left the Factory to themselves. ... (but did sell them Engines).
Gotta go - more Address-changing Battles to set up.

My apologies. I thought STP was thicker and more likely to soothe rubbing parts. Molyslip E being much thinner and more slippy. I think I'll just check the oil every 1st of the month from now on. The 850R goes in two modes, Economy and Sport. Jeremy Clarkson wrote glowingly about it, but he probably drove it in Sport mode. I read his article to Roger (Blunders) in hospital hoping it would wake him from his coma. He did wake up a day or so later. My husband did take the trouble always to check my car every now and then, especially when I was going on a long trip. I miss that as well as everything else.

A friend of mine once bought a Mahindra (Indian Landrover copy) in hopes that he could get it to go. He never did, and sold it on several years later. They did very well in the trans Asia rally, but probably not that one. He also once owned two examples of a car that ran on gearbox oil. Heinkel/Wankel engine. Eventually he settled down to driving Jaguars.

For what it's worth: I'm not convinced that diluting your oil with STP will help. Is it Leaking, or Burning? An Armstrong Siddeley 18hp has 13 pints of oil, (and anothewr four and half in the Gearbox), My Triumph 2000, holds 9 pints and a Volvo 240, 11 pints.

Yup, my "modern Car" (not that I've driven since my stroke) is a Volvo, and there are a few reasons why they have such a long life. Not exactly "Sporty" but a comfortable long drive.

The last Car Factory client was only was only far as Damson Lane (nearby to Birmingham airpor/NEC). A Once respectable superb car, (1946 - 2017) but a bit "dated" now. I remember a bloke on a bench in an outbulding taking each new engine from Ford's, Taking the Jaguar badge off of the rocker box, and applying a LandRover badge in its place. It is an Indian firm now, (but Ford has it's patents now so it can only making RangeRovers now).

And so much oil in a Tractor (Seven and a half litre deisel engine: no idea how much oil?) that there is difficult to fill it as it passes-by on he flo-line before it gets out of reach..
I hope I can post this - Blasted Connection won't connect?

Yes, that's what it did. I'm wondering if a can of STP would console it? Handbook says not, but that was when it was new. I'll ask my mechanic for his advice, but you big car experts might know better. I drove it half way up Dunkery Beacon yesterday, and it didn't object. A Morgan enthusiast told me Volvos go on for ever. I didn't blow it up, and never go above 3000 revs.