I've just spent several days without a proper water supply because a valve jammed at the Cheam water treatment plant. It was either very low pressure of totally dried up. They supplied bottled water so I could at least get a cuppa and I used rainwater from the garden to flush the loo, but I couldn't have a shower for four days.
This morning I received four separate letters from SES Water, two of which had identical contents.
It just adds insult to injury that they're wasting money on postage when the infrastructure is failing.
They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
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Did you know that Aloe Vera plants can have flowers? I didn’t until recently. I was given one aloe vera plant by a friend who was moving house. It hadn’t been watered for months and was almost dead. I kept it watered and stood it on my kitchen window ledge which is sunny as it faces south. Since then it’s grown and divided into two massive plants with loads of smaller offshoots. A few weeks ago the two biggest plants started to sent up flower stems. -
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My dad lives a few hundred metres outside the ULEZ zone. He needs to know where the boundary of the zone is so that he can avoid accidentally driving into it - He's 91 and can't afford to pay fines for accidentally entering the zone. He has a Samsung tablet but doesn't know how to access online maps of the ULEZ zone. I've tried showing him but he doesn't really get it. He'd like an old fashioned printed map which shows the boundaries of the ULEZ zone but I can't find one in any of the book shops or online. Do any of you know where I can get such a map? if all else fails I can buy a map of London and draw a line to mark the edge of the ULEZ zone but that would be quite time consuming. -
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A question for all the good cooks on Scooploop. I have guests coming for dinner on Wednesday and I'm planning to serve roast leg of lamb will all the trimmings. The problem is how long to cook it. I have a 3.116kg leg of lamb and the label says 8 minutes per 100g at 170 degrees, which adds up to 249 minutes or over four hours, which seems a lot. I've looked up various websites to see how long it needs to be in the oven and the suggested times include 158 minutes, 186 minutes, 124 minutes, 140 minutes and 207 minutes, with temperatures varying from 170 degrees to 200 degrees. I like lamb well done rather than pink. So if you cook leg of lamb on a regular basis how long would you cook it for and at what temperature for it to be well done? I have a fan oven. -
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Hi In a couple of weeks (Sunday 12th May) I'll be taking part in the Marsden March - A fifteen mile sponsored walk from near the Marsden Hospital in Chelsea to the other Marsden Hospital in Sutton, passing through Putney, Wimbledon Common, Raynes Park, Stonecot Hill, North Cheam, Cheam and Belmont. The aim is to raise money for the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity - The Marsden's target this year is to raise one and a half million pounds with around 5000 walkers. Some of you have already donated to my Marsden fund (thank you for that). If anybody else would like to contribute my fundraising page can be found at: https://march.royalmarsden.org/fundraisers/tonylang/marsden-march I've lost a lot of friends and family to various forms of cancer and the Marsden cured the cancer of a good friend, so I'd like to raise as much money as I can. The website of the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity gives more detail about the March at: https://www.royalmarsden.org/support-us/banham-marsden-march Every donation helps to make a difference, so please support me however you can. I'll be starting at around 9am and I'm aiming for a time of four and a half hours or better, which I think is a reasonable time as I'm 63. I have a tracking app on my phone and I'll post the results and some photos later. Thanks in advance. Cheers. Tony -
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I've just received an email, supposedly from the National Lottery asking me to update my contact details. It was from The National Lottery It includes a link to update your account. Looking at the source code of the email it leads to https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/sign-in Which seems correct. If this is genuine, and I'm not convinced it is, then someone at the National Lottery deserves a severe kick up their output port. They should never never never send out an email like that. If they need people to update their accounts send them an email asking them to log into their accounts as normal and do so. They should never include a link like that. OK, rant over. -
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Hi On Sunday 12th May 2024 I'll be taking part in the Marsden March - A fifteen mile sponsored walk from near the Marsden Hospital in Chelsea to the other Marsden Hospital in Sutton, passing through Putney, Wimbledon Common, Raynes Park, Stonecot Hill, North Cheam, Cheam and Belmont. The aim is to raise money for the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity I've lost a lot of friends and family to various forms of cancer and the Marsden cured the cancer of a good friend, so I'd like to raise as much money as I can. The Royal Marsden is a world-leading cancer centre. Their nurses, doctors and research teams provide the very best care and develop life-saving treatments, which are used across the UK and around the world. From funding state-of-the-art equipment and ground-breaking research to creating the very best patient environments, they will never stop looking for ways to improve the lives of people affected by cancer. The website of the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity gives a lot of detail about the March at https://www.royalmarsden.org/support-us/banham-marsden-march If anybody would like to contribute my fundraising page can be found at: https://march.royalmarsden.org/fundraisers/tonylang/marsden-march Every donation helps to make a difference, so please support me however you can. I'll be starting at around 9am and I'm aiming for a time of four and a half hours or better, which I think is a reasonable time as I'm 63. Thanks in advance. Cheers. Tony -
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