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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Just about.

    Ran out of turf last night and all I have to warm me is my collection of Barely Legal Vol I to XVII and National Rampoon's European Lactation.


    Fcuk!! You've just reminded me i set the heating at home to only come on for about half an hour a day when i was leaving. Fcuk it. Frozen or burst pipes for me whenever i manage to get back so :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    alwaysadub wrote: »
    Fcuk!! You've just reminded me i set the heating at home to only come on for about half an hour a day when i was leaving. Fcuk it. Frozen or burst pipes for me whenever i manage to get back so :mad:

    Okay, so let me get this straight.

    When you think of me, you think:

    Hot long pipe that might explode all over you :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,137 ✭✭✭Balfie


    alwaysadub wrote: »
    Fcuk!! You've just reminded me i set the heating at home to only come on for about half an hour a day when i was leaving. Fcuk it. Frozen or burst pipes for me whenever i manage to get back so :mad:

    Is there no one that you can ring or has access to your house?

    Glad your ok Pete, :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Balfie wrote: »
    Is there no one that you can ring or has access to your house?

    Glad your ok Pete, :D

    My landlord has a key, but he's nowhere near the house afaik. And i live in the middle of no where.I've been gone since Friday so could be too late now anyway.

    Ha yeah Pete you wish :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭fakearms123


    If old people stay in their houses over Christmas it means we have 1 or 2 more months of less prune juice, shortcut hairstyles, polyester, cardigans, brown socks, hard candy, Yarn, Jigsaw puzzles, wind chimes, Bird Feeder... :cool::cool::cool::cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Balfie wrote: »
    So with the cold weather, and ice covering most pathways to houses and paths outside, we should all take the time to ask our elderly neighbours if they are in need of things from the shops, be it milk, or bread,. Most elderly people will be afraid to try and walk out in this weather as a risk serious to injury. All I'm saying is try to remember your neighbours in this harsh weather.

    good man you reminded me to ring my aunt ask her does she want anything in the shops


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,137 ✭✭✭Balfie


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    good man you reminded me to ring my aunt ask her does she want anything in the shops

    Your welcome Steddyeddy :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,137 ✭✭✭Balfie


    just a bump for people that may not have seen this,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭up for anything


    My parents live in sort of the middle of nowhere up a big hill. The small supermarket in a village five miles away delivered groceries to them on Tuesday and then went back yesterday to take my mother some important medicine. Each time they had to abandon their van at the bottom of the hill and walk the mile up to them carrying heavy bags. The delivery chaps wouldn't even accept the money for a few drinks from them.

    Kudos to Evans Centra in Kilmacthomas. You did better than good. :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,884 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    And remember folks when you are round the old people's house it would do no harm to check that their will is in order.
    Especially if they have anything of value.............be a shame if they died and an expensive court battle ensued to fight over the legacy.
    Probably better if it was all left to just one kind sole..........you know like the person who calls around to their elderly neighbours when the snow is here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,137 ✭✭✭Balfie


    mfceiling wrote: »
    And remember folks when you are round the old people's house it would do no harm to check that their will is in order.
    Especially if they have anything of value.............be a shame if they died and an expensive court battle ensued to fight over the legacy.
    Probably better if it was all left to just one kind sole..........you know like the person who calls around to their elderly neighbours when the snow is here.

    That is just WOW... I know after hours can be bad at the best of times, but just WOW


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Balfie wrote: »
    That is just WOW... I know after hours can be bad at the best of times, but just WOW

    To be fair...if I was elderly and only one person came to check on me during such weather, I probably would include that person in my will.

    Besides, the post is just black humour and quite harmless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭curlzy


    Just called into 9 separate elderly people on my road, (the area I live in is mature) one needed bread and milk, other than that every one of them were all set. Had a chat and they all seemed in good spirits. Only bad thing is that every one of them invited me in, most hadn't met me before, it was very sweet that they so trusting but at the same time I'm just hoping no one dodgey knocks into them because they'd probably invite them in too:eek:!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    Don't forget to call into your neighbours!

    I called over to my neighbour with a bowl of stew.
    I had made a big pot anyway.

    She was wearing her coat and hat in her house!
    but I've my hat on in my house too! ;)

    Stew gratefully received and she was glad of the visit.

    It is really cold out there and a lot of your neighbours would be very grateful if you knocked to see if they are ok.

    :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭Fart


    foxinsox wrote: »
    Don't forget to call into your neighbours!

    I called over to my neighbour with a bowl of stew.
    I had made a big pot anyway.

    She was wearing her coat and hat in her house!
    but I've my hat on in my house too! ;)

    Stew gratefully received and she was glad of the visit.

    It is really cold out there and a lot of your neighbours would be very grateful if you knocked to see if they are ok.

    :)

    Cool and all, but how much did you charge her for the Stew?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    Fart wrote: »
    Cool and all, but how much did you charge her for the Stew?

    €85 billion.. :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭knird evol


    To be fair...if I was elderly and only one person came to check on me during such weather, I probably would include that person in my will.

    Besides, the post is just black humour and quite harmless.

    Didn't Howard Hughes leave his billions to some guy who gave him a lift when he was a homeless beggar looking to hitch a ride out of the desert. Although the will was successfully contested by family


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,137 ✭✭✭Balfie


    http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1202/claremorris.html
    The body of a 78-year-old man was found outside his home in Claremorris in Mayo this morning.
    Gardaí are seeking to establish whether his death was linked to severe overnight weather conditions which saw temperatures plunge to -9C.
    The body of the pensioner was discovered this morning at 10.30 on the pathway leading to his home in the Lui na Greine housing estate.
    The man lived alone and had been shopping in Claremorris the previous evening.
    He returned home by taxi at around 9pm and was dropped off outside his gateway.
    A relative found the body of the man outside his hall door, which was locked.
    The remains were taken to Mayo General Hospital in Castlebar.
    Gardaí say there was nothing suspicious about the death and they were keeping an open mind pending the outcome of a post mortem.
    Superintendent Padraig O'Toole appealed to the public to check on elderly neighbours living alone during the current freezing weather conditions.

    This story was published today on RTE.ie just try to remember the elderly in your community.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Balfie wrote: »
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1202/claremorris.html



    This story was published today on RTE.ie just try to remember the elderly in your community.

    That's awful :(

    It's terrible but I don't know who my neighbours are or if any of them are elderly


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