Originally Posted by Greg Pope (Post 745063)

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 745167)

I trust that United Utilities will also get their act togeather with BT, so if there is another power cut it does not also take out the phone lines for half of Curlew/Merlin; last time this happened - about six months ago - I had to kick some serious BT arse on a late friday night to get the land lines back in order after six days down time.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 794200)

Jaysay, My Mum has been plagued with power cuts for something in the region of 15 months......her power goes off for anything up to 14 hours......and it went off during the very cold spell, meaning that she had no heating......and it when it did come back on her timing clock for the central heating was all to cock, and the heating was coming on in the middle of the night.......I had spoken with United Utilities and got precisely nowhere.

Ma is in her 80's has arthritis, very poor mobility and is a cancer survivor......I rang them again recently because the power went off yet again twice in one day for 4 hours and then two hours after dark(this is very dangerous for Ma as she can't see very well in low light, and I was scared that she might fall down the stairs and wake up dead:))......anyway, this time I spoke with a very helpful lady and she has made a case file for Ma, and given me a direct line number so that I can speak to someone who knows all about the situation.

I am hoping that things get better very soon and that I won't have to resort to calling them again, but I'm not holding my breath.

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 794275)

I do hope that the new cabling that is laid down is somewhat better than the trench work that was cut out to take the stuff; I was up there last saturday morning and the place was a Health and Safety Disaster zone, There was unprotected trench work everywhere around Curlew/Merlin - barriers lying on their side and nowt put across the gaps. Anyone could have fallen in the holes and broken their leg and even worse.

Now, I don't know why that trenchwork was unprotected - yobs pulling the barriers down, wind blowing them down or whatever - but I do know that any reasonable contractor would have ensured everything was in order. I saw no workmen on site - maybe they don't work on a saturday - so the only conclusion I can reach is that this has been a cowboy job and as such, Jaysay, I would have very little confidence in the rest of the work being up to scratch. Don't be surprised to get more cuts in the future.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 794381)

given the weather we've had and the vandals who roam around here

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 794385)

I think you need to get out more, we don't have packs of vandals roaming around looking for warning signs to beat up. We don't really have a big vandal issue in town that I am aware of. We get some damage in the park but it is infrequent.

You are making Ossy sound like Church :mad: :rolleyes::D

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 794397)

Well I wonder why these fences were thrown in the trenches Nealy every night, as for getting out more the bloody oxygen tube ain't long enough:D

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 794514)

Excuse me but it is spelt Neily :p:D

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 794747)

Its not the keyboard at fault, it the fat sausage fingers stabbing at it

When is your birthday? I will get you one of these :p :D


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