kalos Posted October 18, 2022 #39126 Share Posted October 18, 2022 10 minutes ago, AndyMichelle said: I couldn't believe how close she seemed to come. We are good, thank you for asking. Andy Good to hear from you Andy and glad you are both good ☺️ Wish same could be said for Ventura who is stuck in Southampton ,something to do with cleaning cables stuck around propeller and rudder ,looks like turned midnight for her departure now. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyMichelle Posted October 18, 2022 #39127 Share Posted October 18, 2022 7 minutes ago, kalos said: Good to hear from you Andy and glad you are both good ☺️ Wish same could be said for Ventura who is stuck in Southampton ,something to do with cleaning cables stuck around propeller and rudder ,looks like turned midnight for her departure now. I saw Ventura looking beautiful as I came back from the Island, didn't realise she had issues. Andy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalos Posted October 18, 2022 #39128 Share Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) 10 minutes ago, AndyMichelle said: I saw Ventura looking beautiful as I came back from the Island, didn't realise she had issues. Andy All I have is your local paper https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23059519.p-o-ventura-cruise-ship-stuck-southampton/ and cruise cam below . Edited October 18, 2022 by kalos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare twotravellersLondon Posted October 19, 2022 #39129 Share Posted October 19, 2022 Well it's 12˚C here this morning and 22˚C inside with no heating on... so at least some of our heat conservation measures have worked! The switching of the cooker hood to recirculate using the carbon filters seems to have made one of the biggest differences. We had a small local power-cut the other day... something to do with an underground cable... and we learned a lot. We'll now keep the torches in an easy to access spot where we can find them in the pitch dark! We'll leave matches by the candles and we'll keep the mobiles powered up so that we can receive the texts from our energy supplier! As a back-up we have about a dozen remote control electronic candles (Christmas decs!) spread throughout the house so that we can have a little immediate light. The thermal mugs have been retrieved from the shed, the camping stove has been filled with gas and the food flask has been washed and freshened. We've even bought two little microwaveable bed-warmers for next to nothing from the local chemist. I need to eat at regular times and so we've easy instant meals that can be produced in just a few minutes and kept hot in the food flask. It's all from cans or we've batch cooked it... beef casserole and dumplings, lamb hotpot, chicken in white wine with rice, curry and naans, mince and (instant) tatties, stewed steak and (canned) carrots, pasta in bolognaise sauce... not exactly "haute cuisine" but we must have learned something in our camping years about producing quick, easy, filling grub! Anyway on this occasion...our power was on again minutes later. We had regular texts keeping us informed what was happening, we were given an emergency contact number. Neighbours even came out to check we were ok! But... it did cross our minds that... cruising might be a very, very nice alternative! 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalos Posted October 19, 2022 #39130 Share Posted October 19, 2022 14 minutes ago, twotravellersLondon said: We'll now keep the torches in an easy to access spot where we can find them in the pitch dark! We'll leave matches by the candles and we'll keep the mobiles powered up so that we can receive the texts from our energy supplier! As a back-up we have about a dozen remote control electronic candles (Christmas decs!) spread throughout the house so that we can have a little immediate light. But... it did cross our minds that... cruising might be a very, very nice alternative! Glad you saw the light in the end 😉 Glad you got your power back on . Every time we get a power cut I feel so......powerless. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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wowzz Posted October 19, 2022 #39132 Share Posted October 19, 2022 45 minutes ago, twotravellersLondon said: We had regular texts keeping us informed what was happening, we were given an emergency contact number. Worth remembering that in a full scale regional power cut, the mobile phone network will not be operational. Also, if you have a cordless landline phone, that also will not work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zap99 Posted October 19, 2022 #39133 Share Posted October 19, 2022 4 minutes ago, wowzz said: Worth remembering that in a full scale regional power cut, the mobile phone network will not be operational. Also, if you have a cordless landline phone, that also will not work. Blimey. Only been asleep for a few hours and didn't realise 1950 had invaded.🤔 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zap99 Posted October 19, 2022 #39134 Share Posted October 19, 2022 28 minutes ago, kalos said: Glad you saw the light in the end 😉 Glad you got your power back on . Every time we get a power cut I feel so......powerless. I think I need to pop to the shops for some candles. Anyone know how many I should ask for?. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majortom10 Posted October 19, 2022 #39135 Share Posted October 19, 2022 5 minutes ago, zap99 said: I think I need to pop to the shops for some candles. Anyone know how many I should ask for?. 3 or 5 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodaxe Posted October 19, 2022 #39136 Share Posted October 19, 2022 41 minutes ago, wowzz said: Worth remembering that in a full scale regional power cut, the mobile phone network will not be operational. Also, if you have a cordless landline phone, that also will not work. We keep a old type landline phone for just such an emergency, have only needed it once in years. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalos Posted October 19, 2022 #39137 Share Posted October 19, 2022 35 minutes ago, zap99 said: I think I need to pop to the shops for some candles. Anyone know how many I should ask for?. We have a lady who makes our candles ,we asked for four 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lincslady Posted October 19, 2022 #39138 Share Posted October 19, 2022 Just to mention my fridge again (boring, I know) - there was only one suitable for under a high placed cupboard - no more than136 cm. - and it was from Currys. Came promptly, efficient chaps, but it was higher than their measurements, and went in by only about 2 cms.! If it had not they would have had to take it away. Food delivery came later, by which time it was pretty cold. A big relief, as I prefer not to have to do things like this in a hurry. Another nice but breezy day here. I'm avoiding the TV news, too sad and depressing for various reasons. Hope all you regulars are well and cheerful; it is good for our morale to read nice upbeat news. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zap99 Posted October 19, 2022 #39139 Share Posted October 19, 2022 12 minutes ago, Bloodaxe said: We keep a old type landline phone for just such an emergency, have only needed it once in years. If you're the only person with a working phone during the apparent imminent armagedon...........who you gonna call?.🤔 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zap99 Posted October 19, 2022 #39140 Share Posted October 19, 2022 6 minutes ago, lincslady said: Just to mention my fridge again (boring, I know) - there was only one suitable for under a high placed cupboard - no more than136 cm. - and it was from Currys. Came promptly, efficient chaps, but it was higher than their measurements, and went in by only about 2 cms.! If it had not they would have had to take it away. Food delivery came later, by which time it was pretty cold. A big relief, as I prefer not to have to do things like this in a hurry. Another nice but breezy day here. I'm avoiding the TV news, too sad and depressing for various reasons. Hope all you regulars are well and cheerful; it is good for our morale to read nice upbeat news. Best to avoid all the sad and depressing news. Any tips on how to reheat gruel without any power. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalos Posted October 19, 2022 #39141 Share Posted October 19, 2022 2 minutes ago, zap99 said: If you're the only person with a working phone during the apparent imminent armagedon...........who you gonna call?.🤔 🎶GHOST BUSTERS ! 🎶 Sorry couldn't resist ☺️ 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lincslady Posted October 19, 2022 #39142 Share Posted October 19, 2022 You can call me - or my children or quite a few of my friends. Some of us only have pay as you go mobiles, as we don't use them a lot, and included calls on the landline. In fact, thinking about it, pretty much everyone in my village has a landline, and they are not all ancient. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zap99 Posted October 19, 2022 #39143 Share Posted October 19, 2022 17 minutes ago, lincslady said: You can call me - or my children or quite a few of my friends. Some of us only have pay as you go mobiles, as we don't use them a lot, and included calls on the landline. In fact, thinking about it, pretty much everyone in my village has a landline, and they are not all ancient. Cordless handsets won't work. If the mobile networks go down, so will pay as you go. But as this is lighthearted banter it doesn't matter as most folk have manual corkscrews, so can have a few warming beverages until the leccy comes back on. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian1 Posted October 19, 2022 #39144 Share Posted October 19, 2022 40 minutes ago, zap99 said: If you're the only person with a working phone during the apparent imminent armagedon...........who you gonna call?.🤔 If the phone's that old, Whitehall 1212. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zap99 Posted October 19, 2022 #39145 Share Posted October 19, 2022 2 minutes ago, brian1 said: If the phone's that old, Whitehall 1212. Allo,allo,allo. Dixon ere. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodaxe Posted October 19, 2022 #39146 Share Posted October 19, 2022 (edited) 51 minutes ago, zap99 said: If you're the only person with a working phone during the apparent imminent armagedon...........who you gonna call?.🤔 Hopefully if power cuts happen they will. be rotated like in the 1970s, this reminds me of an incident that happened then. I worked in the Power Industry at that time, our small estate had two different supp!y lines, sometimes only some houses had power. One night a knock came at our door, a neighbour stood there saying you have power and ours is off, I bet it's because you work for the Generating Board. I said actually I bring home a bucket full every night. Edited October 19, 2022 by Bloodaxe 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Peterson Posted October 19, 2022 #39147 Share Posted October 19, 2022 2 hours ago, kalos said: I think they were sold recently and got new jobs. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Peterson Posted October 19, 2022 #39148 Share Posted October 19, 2022 1 hour ago, wowzz said: Worth remembering that in a full scale regional power cut, the mobile phone network will not be operational. Also, if you have a cordless landline phone, that also will not work. And if you’ve been switched over to Digital Voice for your landline, and that’s soon going to be all of us (even rural Lincolnshire!), even the main landline phone won’t work because it relies on a mains router. BT’s approach is that you’ll still be able to make emergency calls from a mobile, but round here when the power goes down (not infrequently), so do the mobile transmitters! https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/broadband/article/digital-voice-and-the-landline-phone-switch-off-what-it-means-for-you-aPSOH8k1i6Vv 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Peterson Posted October 19, 2022 #39149 Share Posted October 19, 2022 15 hours ago, AndyMichelle said: Up close and personal with Arcadia whilst on the IOW ferry today. Very jealous of all the smiling passengers on their way out to sea... Andy Good to hear from you, Andy. Hope you’re both well, and business, of course. Harry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lincslady Posted October 19, 2022 #39150 Share Posted October 19, 2022 Silly me - of course the cordless landline will not work for long. I have got one old fashioned one plus two cordless. A good idea when you are older, to have one fairly near you all the time. I suppose most people now only have cordless. Don't like the sound of digital voice or understand what it is about. Some kind person will no doubt explain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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