Date   : Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:53:57 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Leccy @ Acorn World '09

Rob wrote:

> Took this particular one off the wall, cut the cable behind it,
 > and BANG.  Light went out.

Wow - I bet that gave you a few white hairs!


> Looked like the sort of thin stuff you use for doorbells, and it was live!

What, just sticking out of the wall?!?

We have something similar to a tiny socket, no doubt for much the same 
reason - a clock. Sadly it was for a time the only live socket in the 
bedrooms so the builder insisted on putting his power tools into it (too 
lazy to roll out his extension cable). Thankfully here we have two sizes 
of socket - and the big chunky plugs physically won't fit in the little 
sockets. So a couple of euros poorer in the supermarket gave me a socket 
into which power tools wouldn't fit.


> found the upstairs ring main cables, bared back and with this stuff
 > twisted around them!

Aaaargh!


> Yuck.. but a fascinating read..

I oughta post a photo of our meter box sometime.


> I was forever having to let meter readers in!!  You'd think they could
> do them all at the same time ...

Nah. It's like when I used to be signed up with the ANPE (like 
jobcentre), I would receive my junkmail from up the road PLUS a copy of 
it from Paris. Sometimes also a copy from Rennes. All saying exactly the 
same thing.
We are in the process of buying a newer car. Oh, the paperwork! It'll 
turn up on my b.log sometime soon.
Never forget, all these beaurocratic oddities help keep a million people 
in employment...


> Dunno ... but you could always just record all the faults and report
> them to whomever they are licenced by...

There's probably some involved "arbitration procedure"...


Best wishes,

Rick.

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