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Do you ever get the feeling you're cursed? Well I seem to feel that way whenever it comes to moving into a new flat. Some of you may remember all the crap we went through when we last moved, (our landlord ignoring us and having no gas or electric). Well, we have just moved into a new flat and the short version of the story is that we have no heating, hot water, lights, gas or anywhere to cook. The ceiling also leaks in the bathroom and there is a minimum 50volt current going through the gas main. It has been designated unsafe to live in and could take weeks to sort out. Our "landlord" is being investigated because it looks like they've been stealing gas. We are finding it hard to get hold of our landlord because they are a large company and we always connect to a receptionist who says we'll be called back, but we never are. We paid out over £1000 for this place and are unable to live there. We'll be trying to get our money back while looking for somewhere else to live, which will be a nice lot of stress.

On the plus side for me at the moment, work is great. I spent last week going up and down lots of ladders including one which was pitched to the forth floor of the building. It reaches about a foot beneath the window sill, so you have to climb the last bit holding onto the wall and just moving your feet up, which is quite a brown trouser moment considering how high you are and that you have nothing holding you on to the building other then yourself. It was a windy rainy day too, which made it even more fun. I had a big lump of a guy following me up the ladder, which makes it bounce around more then usual, (the head of the ladder actually comes away from the wall a bit if you go up quickly enough).

How are we all?

Pandemic wrote:
> there is a minimum 50volt current going through the gas main.

Now that's just a little bit worrying...

Oh well, hopefully it will get sorted and you'll find a nicer place to live as well.

If you don't get your money, you can always go on Watchdog... :D

Very_Metal wrote:

> anyone remember that episode of Bottom where they were stealing
> gas? :D

Yeah it was great sellotaping the burglar to the ceiling and getting him to drink the poisoned tea :D

Also had that wrestler turned actor in it as the next door neighbour (can't remember his name?)

Smedlos wrote:
> Very_Metal wrote:
>
> anyone remember that episode of Bottom where they were stealing
> gas? :D
>
> Yeah it was great sellotaping the burglar to the ceiling and
> getting him to drink the poisoned tea :D

Nah it was the gas man that was taped to the ceiling.

The burglar was in another episode and he was tied/taped to a chair.

Goddamn Bottom noob! ;D

Smedlos wrote:
>
> Also had that wrestler turned actor in it as the next door
> neighbour (can't remember his name?)

He looked a bit like George 'The animal' Steel (sp?) but I doubt it was him.

Brian Glover
he did voices for the tetley tea ads as well.

are you SURE it was the gas man on the ceiling??

i`m convinced it was the burglar as they stayed using the sellotape. they taped him to the chair and then when the policeman came round (because richie had called previously) they taped him to the ceiling so the copper didn`t see him.

Very_Metal wrote:
> Brian Glover
> he did voices for the tetley tea ads as well.

He was great, think he died just after filming Up n Under.

he was good as the PE teacher in "english lit teachers fave" - Kes

Just a quick update for you. The flat has been designated unsafe by environmental health people from the council, the landlords did not have planning permission to make the house into two flats and so an order has been placed on them.

On the plus side I had my first major exam the other day, (in which I got 100%), and I also passed all my practical assessments. I now have breathing apparatus for the next 3 weeks. I have finished my work in Harrow, (thank god), and am now to train back in central London, which means no more 4-hours of journeys every day. Yey!