Bah Humbug (OT?)

What's the most common Christmas wine?

"I don't like sprouts."

I'm humbled.

I did, and filled two drawers of the freezer *and* have a large trifle for 42p for pudding later.

Owain

Not sure I'll get round to plastering today but I did PVA my chases in the bedroom.

Owain

Thank you young man. Our Xmas was made considerably better when we got home earlier to find the power back on - it had been off since 01.30 yesterday, so about 36 hours.

My heat bleeds for the southerners..

Meh, ours was off for 36 hours last winter with several inches of snow on the ground. With three meter points the compensation was quite nice. B-) Some of that went on re-stocking on red for the genset. Don't forget to claim your compensation.

From whom and how? And what are "meter points"?

Don't forget to empty the freezer before it all refreezes into a solid rancid lump.

Owain

I claimed from the company that operates the local distribution network. Our outage was cause by an ice storm bringing down lines and snapping poles. Got £90/MPAN for the 36 hrs off supply.

Meters, this place has three for historical reasons. You'll need your MPAN to make a claim:

I claimed from the company that operates the local distribution network. Our outage was cause by an ice storm bringing down lines and snapping poles. Got 90/MPAN for the 36 hrs off supply.

Meters, this place has three for historical reasons. You'll need your MPAN to make a claim:

Won't you end up paying three meter rentals @100/year each?

No problems W.Midlands. Very windy but the rain was not heavy though it went on for some time.

Not from my PoV. Hopefully Pounder choked to death on a mince pie.

Couple of years ago we were off for 4 days. What was really annoying was that it really was just us. I could see lights in all directions. When the 'leccy people finally got to us, it took them about 3 minutes to fix. :o(

Thanks for the lead. Looking at UK Power Networks Ts & Cs, looks like it's a severe weather event so I'll put in a claim and see what happens.

Cheers,

Oddly we lost no (polycarb) panels from the greenhouse this time.

Why do you say that?

Looks like some are taking a bit longer;(..

Poor sods off line and poor sods having to put it right..

How much of this is gen damage and how much a lack of maintenance Mike around who might know?..

Indeed. One of our toasts over Xmas lunch was to the poor sods up poles putting 'leccy lines back up.