General Chat

I think the weather should be front page, or Hayley in Corrie, Dermot. So much more worrying than Kiev or Homs. :-(

Nobody seems to understand that the Prime Minister must have at least 3 homes (Chipping Norton juxta Clarkson), Chequers, No 10. He cannot have staff who know where stopcocks and fuse boxes are in every home - and he probably gave his estate maintenance staff the Bank Holiday off. Had he made them work, there would have been more of an oikish campaign in the press. Poor chap cannot win.

Now where is my fuse box? And my stop cock? And are they linked to my folly which is half a mile from my main house :-S

This discussion excites me almost as much as one national newspaper's headline story of a child's missing teddy bear being reunited with its infant owner as a direct result of a countrywide internet appeal by the parents.

Happy parents; ecstatic child - but still not really front page news.

He is wealthier than many of us. And less practical than most. And more intelligent than almost all of us (if you consider a Double First at Oxbridge to be intelligent, which I do).

I am very impressed with all 3 main leaders personally (Miliband, Clegg and Cameron). They are all young, personable and capable. Whether they understand our problems and whether they have the best teams round them and the best answers is a value judgment. I think it is high time that Balls, Cable and Clarke were substituted on grounds of age, incompetence or both (but only an opinion).

Thank goodness we live in a free society where clowns who are oiks can call our leaders clowns. :-D ;-) Long may our freedom and liberty continue.

Even when there have been power outages in my area, I have only contacted my supplier after I had checked my fuse box was not the problem - maybe I live in a different world.

Sorry but that proves nothing, His power went off he made a call to his supplier who responded,

The fact that his supplier diverted two engineer to fix the problem is no proof that he lives in a different world,

If you were aware that power in your area was cut off and yours also went off would you not contact your suppleir?

Storm in a tea cup

He must be doing something right when media have to sensationalise none stories like that

EDIT, It proves he is like most people who know nothing about his electrics in his home, Just like millions of others in this country and around the rest of the world




Roy

In a report in today's Times newspaper it is alleged that two electrical engineers were diverted from restoring power to thousands of homes so that David Cameron could watch the end of The Sound of Music.

The pair were diverted 17 miles to the Prime Minister’s £2 million family home in Chipping Norton on New Year’s Day after storms left 11,000 homes in Oxfordshire without power, but the problem was solved quickly by flicking the trip switch in the fuse box.

If my electricity goes off the first things I do is to check the fuse box, so when I read this, I just shook my head in disbelief and said to myself idiot - I won't say what word came out before idiot.