On 19/05/2022 08:12, Tim Lamb wrote:
> In message <59eaa081f8charles@candehope.me.uk>, charles
> <charles@candehope.me.uk> writes
>> In article <t62j7d$5qs$1@gioia.aioe.org>,
>>   Andrew <Andrew97d-junk@mybtinternet.com> wrote:
>>> On 18/05/2022 09:20, Colin Bignell wrote:
>>
>>> > I have an HMSO 1943 publication on Britain's air defences that cost
>>> half
>>> > that. I also remember petrol at 2/6d a gallon, about 2.75p/litre.
>>> >
>>
>>> But can you remember how much you earned every week when petrol was
>>> that price ?.
>>
>>
>> I, too, remember petrol at about that price, but my father was buying it.
>> By the time I had a car and buying for myself,it was 4/11d a gallon.
>
> As an apprentice, I earned £4.8/- per week. Petrol was 4/6p. 1962
>>

about 130 pence per litre in today's money.

and you were paid in 1962 the price of 20 gallons a week. With petrol
at 170p/litre you'd need to be paid £150 - 31 hours a week for a 16/17
year old on NMW. All of course ignoring tax, NI, the price of fags,...

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Latest is the insurance company have had installed some form of temporary
electricity supply. A box which buzzes. But not for the house owner to
use. Just for the workmen who are going to dry out the cellar. But of
course being some three weeks later, it is only now just damp - the water
having drained out through the floor, etc. And they've insisted the cellar
is cleared out first - at the owner's expense.

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On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 at 15:01:04 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
> In article <f1ce3e19-cbd2-49a8...@googlegroups.com>,
> John J <johnje...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This story has rumbled on and on. Surely it would have been simple to
> > beg, borrow, hire or even buy a cheap submersible pump and a roll of
> > layflat or better hose from ebay and simply pump the cellar out already
> > using an extension lead from next door? Once empty the remaining
> > problems could be addressed in a timely and sensible manner. We are
> > supposed to be a d-i-y group after all.
>
> Thanks for not reading my post.
>
> If the decisions were just mine I'd have asked for advice on specific
> points.
>
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> Dave Plowman da...@davenoise.co.uk London SW
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I read your post alright. My point was the whole shebang might have been avoided by getting a pump in right at the beginning and lowering the water level BEFORE it all went. South

On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 15:00:30 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
> Latest is the insurance company have had installed some form of temporary
> electricity supply. A box which buzzes. But not for the house owner to
> use. Just for the workmen who are going to dry out the cellar. But of
> course being some three weeks later, it is only now just damp - the water
> having drained out through the floor, etc. And they've insisted the cellar
> is cleared out first - at the owner's expense.
> The expression clusterfuck springs to mind. Which insurance company is in olved - just so I know which to stay well clear of.
> --
> *Don't worry; it only seems kinky the first time.*
> Dave Plowman da...@davenoise.co.uk London SW
> To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 16:52:17 UTC+1, johnje...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 15:00:30 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
> > Latest is the insurance company have had installed some form of temporary
> > electricity supply. A box which buzzes. But not for the house owner to
> > use. Just for the workmen who are going to dry out the cellar. But of
> > course being some three weeks later, it is only now just damp - the water
> > having drained out through the floor, etc. And they've insisted the cellar
> > is cleared out first - at the owner's expense.
> > The expression clusterfuck springs to mind. Which insurance company is in olved - just so I know which to stay well clear of.

It's one of the many downsides of insurance. Remember the big floods in louisiana years ago? The actions of insurance companies directly resulted in destruction of numerous houses that could have been made habitable if owners had got on wih it themselves.

In article <e7f3c405-297e-40eb-8c50-3b25bf0cef0cn@googlegroups.com>,
John J <johnjessop46@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 at 15:01:04 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
> > In article <f1ce3e19-cbd2-49a8...@googlegroups.com>,
> > John J <johnje...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > This story has rumbled on and on. Surely it would have been simple
> > > to beg, borrow, hire or even buy a cheap submersible pump and a
> > > roll of layflat or better hose from ebay and simply pump the cellar
> > > out already using an extension lead from next door? Once empty the
> > > remaining problems could be addressed in a timely and sensible
> > > manner. We are supposed to be a d-i-y group after all.
> >
> > Thanks for not reading my post.
> >
> > If the decisions were just mine I'd have asked for advice on specific
> > points.
> >
> > --
> > *Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have *
> > Dave Plowman da...@davenoise.co.uk London SW
> > To e-mail, change noise into sound.
> I read your post alright. My point was the whole shebang might have
> been avoided by getting a pump in right at the beginning and lowering
> the water level BEFORE it all went. South

Suck. Eggs. Grandmother. Rearrange into a phrase you can read and
understand.

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