Yes, I am free as a bird and what a great time we've been having! Yubba yubba dubba dubba! Read on and I bet you'll be chucklng at the end of this post!
Monday was, as you know, the day she was rescuing me from behind bars. But first, there was the meeting with the environmental health officer, who is thorough to say the least and who found the damp floor underneath the basin in the bathroom.
He told her how to word it in an email to the landlord and to cc it to him as it is a new area therefore a new case.. heehee. And he said "your boiler must be made to work properly, tell him to get it serviced immediately or get his plumber to come and rectify the fault". She tapped out an email and he said "that's good, I'll wait for his reply".
She came to collect me in the afternoon.. such kisses were kissed, such squeaks were squeaked.. Oh, to be able to fly about and play the fool. She and I played for the rest of the day, ate human food and went to bed at a very sensible hour.
Tuesday, she spent the whole day at home and there weren't many moments when she was out of my sight! However, after being in jail for three solid weeks, I am now used to going to bed early and I start to flag at about seven o'clock so she put me to be bed between seven and eight and closed my curtain! New routines are in place!
She woke up early this morning, Wednesday, because Richard, the landlord's builder, plumber and electrician was due to come to see to the boiler and look at the wet flooring, he came this morning on the dot of 09.00 and said "ok, let's have a look at the boiler first".
He opened it up, roared with laughter and said "did those posh builders take a radiator off by any chance?". She replied in the affirmative and his response was just wonderful.. wait for this!
"Well, they forgot to put the water back into the system, no wonder it wouldn't start, the safety valve mechanism is in place and it shut down, I'll tell the landlord that it is indeed NOT working as you so correctly put in your email because the posh builders didn't check that everything was working before they left!"
And the two of them squealed with laughter! Richard had had his nose 'slightly' put out of joint when the 'posh' builders.. whom she called the slugs aka thugs in suits.. were used instead of his team who would have done just as good a job.
And, lookie lookie, the landlord is now going to send the slugs Richard's bill because it was their fault the boiler wasn't working. Oh, God does work in very mysterious ways, does he not?
Then onto the subject of the WET floor! He said "Blimey, it's sopping wet, a pipe has burst in the floor and it goes all the way through to the back of the room and all along the skirting board! It means that I'll have to put in a new floor, do you want anything different in here whilst I am doing it?"
She told him what she wanted and he said "That's brilliant, I'll surface mount the new pipes along the back wall, which means your hot water won't have to go under cold concrete and I'll give you a new hand basin unit and cupboard, I'll tell him that this way it is going to be A. cheaper, which is will be and B. much quicker which it will be as well, you know how he hates to spend money!"
They smiled at each other in their conspiracy, they have known each other for over forty years! And it's going to be a winwin situation, yes, there will be a bit of mess for a few days but at the end of it, probably by the end of October, she'll have her bathroom exactly as she wants it and then he said "you know Milford, my chippy, when I've done the plumbing, just tell him what cabinets you want and he'll do them for you."
"And this flooring has to be changed as it has to come out, get yourself off up to John Lewis and chose a new one, get them to come and measure now and tell them that it needs to be laid when the plumbing is in but before the cabinets are done so that the floor is properly covered and whilst we are doing that, we'll raise the washing machine up on blocks so that you can get at the filter properly".
Why John Lewis for lino? Ah, well, not many people know that the John Lewis carpet and lino fitters are the very best in the business! Clever smart decorators with expensive carpets will only employ fitters that have been trained by the John Lewis Partnership.
Tomorrow is a busy day for her, she wants to get that sorted, then she is seeing Lebanese friends for a late lunch followed by tea with an extremely old client whom she met up in Kensington when she collected me on Monday, she heard this squeaky voice calling her name and there she was!
She has been bidden for tea and gossip, there'll be lots of that but in the meantime, she's rocking with laughter and wishes that she could see the slugs face when they receive Richard's bill. Don't you love it? We do!
Oh, it's SO good to be home again. We are both very full of chirp!
GeeGee Parrot.
September 14th, 2016.
Monday was, as you know, the day she was rescuing me from behind bars. But first, there was the meeting with the environmental health officer, who is thorough to say the least and who found the damp floor underneath the basin in the bathroom.
He told her how to word it in an email to the landlord and to cc it to him as it is a new area therefore a new case.. heehee. And he said "your boiler must be made to work properly, tell him to get it serviced immediately or get his plumber to come and rectify the fault". She tapped out an email and he said "that's good, I'll wait for his reply".
She came to collect me in the afternoon.. such kisses were kissed, such squeaks were squeaked.. Oh, to be able to fly about and play the fool. She and I played for the rest of the day, ate human food and went to bed at a very sensible hour.
Tuesday, she spent the whole day at home and there weren't many moments when she was out of my sight! However, after being in jail for three solid weeks, I am now used to going to bed early and I start to flag at about seven o'clock so she put me to be bed between seven and eight and closed my curtain! New routines are in place!
She woke up early this morning, Wednesday, because Richard, the landlord's builder, plumber and electrician was due to come to see to the boiler and look at the wet flooring, he came this morning on the dot of 09.00 and said "ok, let's have a look at the boiler first".
He opened it up, roared with laughter and said "did those posh builders take a radiator off by any chance?". She replied in the affirmative and his response was just wonderful.. wait for this!
"Well, they forgot to put the water back into the system, no wonder it wouldn't start, the safety valve mechanism is in place and it shut down, I'll tell the landlord that it is indeed NOT working as you so correctly put in your email because the posh builders didn't check that everything was working before they left!"
And the two of them squealed with laughter! Richard had had his nose 'slightly' put out of joint when the 'posh' builders.. whom she called the slugs aka thugs in suits.. were used instead of his team who would have done just as good a job.
And, lookie lookie, the landlord is now going to send the slugs Richard's bill because it was their fault the boiler wasn't working. Oh, God does work in very mysterious ways, does he not?
Then onto the subject of the WET floor! He said "Blimey, it's sopping wet, a pipe has burst in the floor and it goes all the way through to the back of the room and all along the skirting board! It means that I'll have to put in a new floor, do you want anything different in here whilst I am doing it?"
She told him what she wanted and he said "That's brilliant, I'll surface mount the new pipes along the back wall, which means your hot water won't have to go under cold concrete and I'll give you a new hand basin unit and cupboard, I'll tell him that this way it is going to be A. cheaper, which is will be and B. much quicker which it will be as well, you know how he hates to spend money!"
They smiled at each other in their conspiracy, they have known each other for over forty years! And it's going to be a winwin situation, yes, there will be a bit of mess for a few days but at the end of it, probably by the end of October, she'll have her bathroom exactly as she wants it and then he said "you know Milford, my chippy, when I've done the plumbing, just tell him what cabinets you want and he'll do them for you."
"And this flooring has to be changed as it has to come out, get yourself off up to John Lewis and chose a new one, get them to come and measure now and tell them that it needs to be laid when the plumbing is in but before the cabinets are done so that the floor is properly covered and whilst we are doing that, we'll raise the washing machine up on blocks so that you can get at the filter properly".
Why John Lewis for lino? Ah, well, not many people know that the John Lewis carpet and lino fitters are the very best in the business! Clever smart decorators with expensive carpets will only employ fitters that have been trained by the John Lewis Partnership.
Tomorrow is a busy day for her, she wants to get that sorted, then she is seeing Lebanese friends for a late lunch followed by tea with an extremely old client whom she met up in Kensington when she collected me on Monday, she heard this squeaky voice calling her name and there she was!
She has been bidden for tea and gossip, there'll be lots of that but in the meantime, she's rocking with laughter and wishes that she could see the slugs face when they receive Richard's bill. Don't you love it? We do!
Oh, it's SO good to be home again. We are both very full of chirp!
GeeGee Parrot.
September 14th, 2016.
Congratulations to you both! I don't know how you two lasted through all those crises with such good spirits! Have fun!
ReplyDeleteDear Miz Pegeen. Well, if the truth is told, as it always should be, I am a 'bit' deficient in feathers, they were left, like dirty clothes, on the floor of the jail floor. But, I am back home eating human food and you know how much I love that! Who, in their right mind, would eat dry seeds when you could eat chicken, boiled egg, or my very favourite, goaty curd? All high in protein with 'good' fats or oils and cooked with garlic and herbs. Slurp is the word that comes to mind! And now.. we are going to have a 'new' bathroom! So good things are happening here and we hope they are with you too? Are you rubbing your knee with the Black Seed Oil? And if not, why not? We send you many chirps and thank you for being a very Dear Reader. GeeGee.
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