What are you all up to

Same from us, as well @Oneputt . Hope they are soon fully recovered.

Have to say, I'm feeling a bit fed up (and that's being polite!). As you know, got back from dealers on Friday and all had gone well with the caravan service. Went into the van on Friday afternoon to read my Kindle, as I usually do (it's also my 'man shed'!), put the heating on and all was OK. Did the same on Saturday - heating was a dead as the proverbial Dodo. Not just failed heating elements, this time (and that's happened four times in the last six years) but nothing, zilch, totally kaput. Much cursing and swearing at the prospect of yet another trip to Cumbria at this time of year. Rang my friendly service Techy at home and he promised to ring Truma on Monday - which he did. Looks like it's some sort of failed temperature sensor in the boiler although it will require plugging into a laptop to diagnose exactly what's wrong - so it does look like I will be heading north again before long. I'm about to ring the Service Manager to see how we can resolve the issue but, all in all, I'm not impressed with the Truma heating. Such a disappointment because we love the van and it exactly suits our needs.

Snow here in MK. Quite heavy at one point but the roads are clear now so I assume it can't make up its mind whether to snow or rain! Need a few bits of shopping so will probably go to Morrisons in CMK as they have an under store car park, just in case!

David

No snow here near Perth, pretty cold though, frost has not lifted these last 2 days and can't see it lifting for another couple of days.

Livingroom window needs cleaning, the cat jumped up on the window sill all wet from the frost, then proceeded to walk up and down rubbing her nose on the window. Too cold to do it just now and the sun is shinning on it so good excuse to stay indoors.

My back and sciatica are slowly getting better, I can at least walk for a fair bit now. No limping or pain just a weak leg, still to master climbing stairs without leg giving way.

Had a de clutter of my kitchen cupboards at the weekend, the amount of equipment I had was unbelievable. All went on the local FB page and went straight away. Now need to go through my Christmas box and give that a good clear out. I used to decorate the house every year with lights and several floral displays. When the grand kids were small I also went mad with lots of other things that they loved but as the youngest is now nearly 15, I think its time to downsize to just a tree and table decoration, I will make a new one for this year.

OH is at the Men's shed this morning they are making Christmas decorations for the village display. He has been tasked to make a huge snowflake out of wood and metal, I think he is enjoying it.

Snowed all night here and still snowing at 9 this morning. Thankfully stopped and a slow melt under way. Not a great dea as you can tell by the amount on the bird bath, about 5". Hope it all goes otherwise roads getting out of cul-de-sac will be an ice rink. They never bother gritting our road. Years ago we had a blizzard, a foot of snow, so the snow plough was sent. They cleared the road but pushed all of the snow onto the pavements and driveways.😡 Idiots.

Sorry to hear of the boiler problem @richardandros We had a problem with our Truma boiler. Long story short the dealer stripped the boiler down, found out they'd ordered the wrong part so put it back and tested it and noise problem disappeared!

@Bakers2 OH has newish wellies, a size smaller than mine so I borrowed them. Tight squeeze but wasn't walking far. Got back. Sat in garage on MiLs trolley trying to get them off for 15 minutes before OH rescued me.🤣 Guess who'll be buying wellies soon?

@Tammygirl Sorry to hear about the sciatica. Mrs.WN sends her sympathy and empathy as she is afflicted from time to time with it, mainly on her lower back. Hope things improve.

Were you trying something @vbfg? There doesn't seem to be any comments.

What do people think about photo size? I find the largest one to be too big and they take over a lot of space. Those above are medium.

Hi WN. I was trying to reply and comment on a few posts but unlike the previous site, when you press quote, a number of comments from different people come up so I am not sure how I comment to just one person. I suppose we will get used to the new site but I was definitely not happy to have to come up with yet another password and having to have so many passwords is why I dislike computer sites, mobile phones and APPs so much. My computer will save them for me but it is on its last legs so I am worried as to what happens to my passwords when I buy another computer? As you may notice, I am not very tech savvy at all. Whilst on the subject of tech, what do I do with my electricals? I went to our local tip on Friday and although they have a place for old TVs, anything else they just throw in a skip, even if it still works and if it doesn't surely someone can take them apart and recycle the spare parts.

@vbfg In order to reply to one person just like I am doing then use the ampersand key which is @ It sits above the number 2 on my machine. Then without leaving a space put the first couple of characters in. You should then get a selection of possible recipients. Press return on the one you want and hopefully the name will light up in red.

If you want to quote someone then use the "Quote button on their post and it be put in the comment box. Hit return and you can comment underneath it. By the way you get an hour to edit on this new setup.

Hope this helps. Can't answer your electrics but we use Flintshire refurb who take them in and they fix them up. It's council run.

@vbfg - I suppose we are lucky in East Yorkshire having a pretty switched on local authority when it comes to recycling. We have a skip at the tip for all household electrical and electronic items and I understand they recover precious metals etc. Plus - if you have anything that's working, they have a special container from which the items are then donated to a local Hospice - who check them over before resale - to generate funds.

Thank you for the replies. I will have a go at practicing tomorrow. Unfortunately, we don't seem to have any recycling companies in our area and I don't subscribe to facebook. I will contact some of my ex work colleauges as maybe they will know of somewhere locally that picks things up to recycle them. I hate wasting anything that can be useful to others.