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National Grid arrived, fitted a new meter, so now we can cook a meal.

Ummmmmm, you’re going skiing when you’ve got a dodgy spine . What could possibly go wrong ?

You found our profile pic on Facebook.....Sneaky.

We are getting use to the smell

pair of you must stink with not having any water ...not being able to wash and that..... lucky you got no heating really or the pair of you would really be chucking up if you got all hot and sweaty.... every cloud.

if you was my mum and dad sitting in your house freezing i would of got this sorted on day one ... its fucking outrageous !!

Get on to them and tell then your phoning one of the morning tv shows to complain . They love a story like that and the feckers will be straight around to sort it.

HL 5 Barn find.... Cryin' shame as looks as if it's seen better days....

I was looking at it for miles waiting for the right spot

Hope @Nute has good travel insurance.

I was supposed to have my spine op tomorrow but it’s been canceled . Too many people with flu and RVS or some such thingy. On a positive note that does mean I can go skiing at the end of the month which I thought I would miss.

There was van action today, something for everyone. And also :

Be even better when we have heating and hot water.

Too Many Tassles maybe.

Hopefully we have got somewhere this morning, National Grid says they will be out sometime today to fit a new meter, Scotish Power & Cadent never got back to us. Boiler engineer has just been, needs a new boiler fitting, got a date for that, 2 weeks today At least we can look forward to having cooked meals later today.

By the time you finish buying accessories to bring yours up to standard you probably could.

Duc's MotoGP motor...complete w/ gear driven cams...which actually look more like sprockets...

you saw that rainbow and nearly caused a multi vehicle collision to get to that layby ... get off your bike... get your camera out before it disappeared ...in your relentless quest for the Bike Of The Month Crown.... and i think pedro ... that you have nailed it sir.

Report impending over the next few days

Nice work but cheaper with just a relay and a couple of inline fuses or fuse block..

you cant be left with out any heating.... you need to kick up a proper fuss

and a very skilled surgeon

As more electrical accessories become part of every day biking we are going to have to make provision for them if our bikes are not compliant . I currently have heated grips and a USB charging socket in my bike that was wired directly to the battery. In theory they should cause no problem as the Oxford Grips have a smart controller that will automatically turn off after 15 mins if no charging is detected. Also the USB sockets will draw no power unless being used. The problem is that I don’t trust them. I want everything to cease once the key is off. So with this being the case I bought a branded Lightening Box. Which takes power directly from the battery with a trigger lead to be attached to a switched live circuit. So if the ignition is on the Lightening box is, if off the same. There are several similar products to achieve this. Thunder Box (approx £85) Lightning Box (approx £50) Oxford Box (approx £25). I bought the Lightening Box but wish I had gone with the Oxford one as it looks identical. I expect they are all sourced from China and that there are many other options than those I listed. Here is the Lightening box in site on my Honda CBF600 which doesn’t have a great deal of space to fit such things. I took the trigger from the main fuse box on the instrument circuit. You can see the red wire in the picture. Ignition off Ignition on Wiring diagram Easy enough project but I thought I would put it on here if anyone wanted to do the same. Of course you set up your own relay feed triggered in the same way but to do it in a tidy way for 4 circuits would be a challenge and I couldn’t be bothered on my bike with its limited space. If there wasn’t a bleddy great ABS pump under the seat I may have done.

Couldn't help noticing them uhh her.

not so much the song ....

Yes you are correct, it is too much bike for you.

Good News mate.

Yeah true, but I would actually have to want one as well.

If only I could afford a Harley

That's a good idea, could try local radio as well and threaten Local MP, they probably don't know how feckless he appears to be.

That's how I used to do my electrics but a fuse box arrangement makes it so much neater

That's Britain mate. I come from a huge family but I know of maybe two that would help out in an emergency like Clive is facing and maybe one close friend. Everybody is wrapped up with their own problems. Also the current media narrative around immigration and benefit scroungers has fed into a very poor attitude to people in general and real acute need. Homelessness and food banks are normal and just accepted here which is abysmal given the relative wealth of our country . Given that context it's not hard to understand corporate indifference to Clives situation.

oh yea.

Our problem is neither of them say it is their responsibility........we are at a impasse

Agreed. Although I bet it feels like pissing in the wind trying to get a result. Been in the shed most of the afternoon as it's been raining all day. Made a wood frame to get the solar panels up. Hoping for a dry afternoon to get them up and secured.

Is it worth emailing you MP? may put a rocket up the feckers.

That's good to know about the parasitic draw, I was told they didn't use anything unless charging something but I didn't trust the feckers May get an Eastern Beaver for my Hornet, love that name

Paddy wants a job, but the foreman won’t hire him until he passes a little maths test. “Here is your first question,” the foreman says. “Without using numbers, represent the number nine.” “Without numbers?” Paddy says. “That’s easy.” And he proceeds to draw three trees. “What’s this?” the boss asks. “Have you no brain? Tree plus tree plus tree makes nine,” says Paddy. “Fair enough,” says the boss. “Here’s your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99.” Paddy stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree and hands it back. The boss scratches his head and says, “How on earth do you get that to represent 99?” “Each of them trees is dirty now. So, it’s dirty tree plus dirty tree plus dirty tree. That makes 99.” “All right, last question. Same rules again, but represent the number 100.” Paddy stares into space again; he then picks up the picture and makes a little mark at the base of each tree and hands it back. The boss looks at Paddy’s picture. “You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred!” Paddy leans forward and points to the marks at the base of each tree and whispers, “a little dog came along and pooped by each tree. So now you got dirty tree and a turd, plus dirty tree and a turd, plus dirty tree and a turd, which makes 100!”

We could cook a midday meal at our daughters house while they are at work, and the kids are in school, wife may struggle with their electric cooker though. Wife's sis lives 45 km away, so we would not bother with a trip over there, wife does text/phone her sis, but her sis is not very concerned with the situation here, they are wrapped up in their own world at the moment, preparing for their 3 weeks in Tenerife which is coming up soon..........Bastards!.

Without heating or a cooker, Cadent guy turned off the gas at the meter, so we have no gas in the bungalow. Wife has kicked up a fuss, she has been on the phone for just over 6 hours today, but both companies just go So we have got nowhere today.