Cost of living crisis.

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

1 hour ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Theoretically that shouldn’t be correct given the air test new builds have to pass

Probably shouldn’t be but I’m just going on my own experience my sisters very expensive house is freezing and like something from ikea where as my house was built to last. My house is 100 years older but it’ll last longer for sure.

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, dsr-burnley said:

Shows how times change.  My brother was born prematurely in December 1960 (before central heating for most people) and not only was the bedroom cold enough for frost pictures on the window, but also my parents were told to put him outside for an hour or so each day to strengthen him.  

 

14 degrees at night?  I'm surprised he or she can sleep at all.  Very warm.

Quite.

 

Perhaps there's a few reasons that when you go to a graveyard and look further back than, say, the 50's, you see an awful lot of graves of kids under seven or eight years old.

 

Thankfully, those are the days behind us - mostly, for now and in the UK, anyway.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Cost of living crisis, but this Christmas we've been absolutely deluged with parcels!

 

Might be because RM have reduced staffing levels, but there doesn't seem to be any let up on people buying for Christmas.

[dsr-burnley]

10 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Quite.

 

Perhaps there's a few reasons that when you go to a graveyard and look further back than, say, the 50's, you see an awful lot of graves of kids under seven or eight years old.

 

Thankfully, those are the days behind us - mostly, for now and in the UK, anyway.

Agreed, plenty of reasons why child mortality has reduced.  I suspect that a lot of the reason why 1940's and earlier babies and children died young, was because of the lack of vaccinations and antibiotics and the far few calories that they used to eat, rather than lack of heat.  Bedroom heating was still relatively rare into the seventies and child mortality was well down by then.  No doubt inside toilets and hot and cold running water were factors in the improvement as well.

 

 

[Daggers]

1 hour ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Cost of living crisis, but this Christmas we've been absolutely deluged with parcels!

 

Might be because RM have reduced staffing levels, but there doesn't seem to be any let up on people buying for Christmas.

Our posty decided to leave my wife's parcel in our bin today - it's covered in bin juice. 

 

He's not the most popular person in the house...which is quite good as it's raised my position in the popularity table.

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Daggers said:

Our posty decided to leave my wife's parcel in our bin today - it's covered in bin juice. 

 

He's not the most popular person in the house...which is quite good as it's raised my position in the popularity table.

Muppet.

 

 

Question is...

To whom am I referring?

The postie (an incompetent moron - who didn't do their job properly (who you sexistly decided was a "he" you misogynistic, prejudiced, patriarchy supporting troglodyte!))

You? (The aforementioned cave-dweller.)

Or

Your Wife? (A woman so stupid, she married someone who despises her very essence that defines her as a woman.)

 

That is the conundrum.

 

[Daggers]

1 hour ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Muppet.

 

 

Question is...

To whom am I referring?

The postie (an incompetent moron - who didn't do their job properly (who you sexistly decided was a "he" you misogynistic, prejudiced, patriarchy supporting troglodyte!))

You? (The aforementioned cave-dweller.)

Or

Your Wife? (A woman so stupid, she married someone who despises her very essence that defines her as a woman.)

 

That is the conundrum.

 

You just assumed my wife’s gender. Checkmate, bigot. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

10 minutes ago, Daggers said:

You just assumed my wife’s gender. Checkmate, bigot. 

Curses! My petard is hoisted!

[Daggers]

1 minute ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Curses! My petard is hoisted!

As is my wife’s. 
 

Nightly. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

14 hours ago, Daggers said:

As is my wife’s. 
 

Nightly. 

But surely you get home some nights?

[ozleicester]

Looking at the data from the ATO, 1 per cent of taxpayers own nearly a quarter of all investment properties across the nation. 

[FoyleFox]

On 30/11/2023 at 20:52, Ian Nacho said:

My Victorian house (around 1900) is absolutely dreadful to heat at this time of year. I work from home and don't put the heating on until about 5/6 by this point the thermostat is reading around 6 degrees in some rooms. The heating will be on for a solid 3 hours and the temperature would've only gone up to around 9/10 degrees. The thermostat is set at 14 and it won't even get there tonight. I've got loft insulation and a modern boiler which has recently been serviced but it is just absolutely useless at retaining heat. Mad to think I'm spending hundreds of pounds a month this time of year to keep my house slightly less freezing than it would be without the heating. 

I've no idea how you cope with that! That's just insane. I'd need to consider moving.

Our heating was off for 5 weeks whilst away, the temperature dropped to 11c. Although, the heating went on for nearly a full 24 hours before we returned on Tuesday, to get it back to 20/21c.  

[Trav Le Bleu]

Just noticed that this thread was started 21 months ago, almost two years. It's more than a blip in the economy and that next to nothing has been done about it (at least, successfully) is criminal.

[fox_up_north]

For those that have had insulation done on an old house/ know someone who does / knows a firm - how the hell do you find people?

 

I've searched google, checkatrade and a few others. Feels like everyone is either doing cavity wall or loft with no other options. I don't want to just get a plasterer in to whack some insulation up without a knowledge of U values and preventing damp. 

[Daggers]

Hey, let’s sell off all the social housing stock and not bother to replace it. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

 

 

[Foxdiamond]

1 minute ago, Daggers said:

Hey, let’s sell off all the social housing stock and not bother to replace it. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

 

 

Very well put and the legacy has lead to millions of people facing a bleak or at the least a very uncertain future that should concern us all.

[HighPeakFox]

5 hours ago, Daggers said:

Hey, let’s sell off all the social housing stock and not bother to replace it. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

 

 

 

5 hours ago, Foxdiamond said:

Very well put and the legacy has lead to millions of people facing a bleak or at the least a very uncertain future that should concern us all.

Lifestyle choice, don't you know? 

[Foxdiamond]

1 minute ago, HighPeakFox said:

 

Lifestyle choice, don't you know? 

I know you are joking and if only it was a choice

[Wymsey]

11 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

I know you are joking and if only it was a choice

Think he was being sarcastic, by relating what he said then to a Braverman comment about homeless people (?)..

Edited 3 December 2023 by Wymsey

[Tommy G]

On 02/12/2023 at 13:33, ozleicester said:

Looking at the data from the ATO, 1 per cent of taxpayers own nearly a quarter of all investment properties across the nation. 

Shock horror

[ozleicester]

23 hours ago, Daggers said:

Hey, let’s sell off all the social housing stock and not bother to replace it. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

 

 

 

56 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Shock horror

 

[Daggers]

Number 2.

 

[Bordersfox]

21 hours ago, Foxdiamond said:

I know you are joking and if only it was a choice

Not so much a joke as a damning indictment of our politicians in one sentence by HighPeak.  

[Bordersfox]

38 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Number 2.

 

A very simple and damning stat for the last decade or so of our governance is the rise in homelessness by around 75%.

 

Judge a society on how it looks after it's most vulnerable and right now we're a fvcking disgrace.  

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

Walking through Nottingham the other night was a homeless man passed out on the high street clearly on something and I must have seen 40 people walk past him, and god knows how many before i noticed him, before i went and tended to him. It’s the governments fault and I can’t stand them but the general apathy or outright disdain some, but in that instant all people have for the homeless community is outright shocking. Shameful.