Three days without water ...

[scottishlass]

Yeap you read right, from this morning on we will have no water whatsoever for the next three days. We are getting a new boiler installed in the cellar for the whole house and although they try to provide water (only cold) in the evening and night, it isn't sure we will have water at all :( I filled the tub for flushing and we will have still water for coffee and tea. *sigh* I hate when things like this happen AND those assholes already have raised the rent because we get a new boiler. Bastards!

The past week passed a bit better than the one before last and His Hubbiness™ and I didn't clash words so often as we did before. Good thing is school starts today again and we will have 2 1/2 more months till the next vacation.

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I almost have all eps together of SMAPxSMAP from 2005. :D Slowly but surely my special DVD folder is filling up with SMAPxSMAP :)

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And insanity rules as I have bought myself a hand bag (purse for the Americans among us). A HAAAAND BAAAG, You say? Yup a hand bag. It is of the softest leather, a light to mid brown and very lady like. I have no idea when I'll be using it (my outfits normally call for the EastPak backpacks and messenger bags) but I will find a way, and only if I have to put on real nice lady like clothes for shopping in order to use it :)
photographic proof

Comments

[little-witch27.livejournal.com]

And insanity rules as I have bought myself a hand bag

LOL - I know the insanity factor! My moments of girlishness are so few that I always have to make a big announcement when I buy something like eyeshadow or, God help me, a HAAAND BAAAG! :) It looks really soft! Go you! Huggles :)

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

It is soft. It was on one of those tables for reduced goods and it just stood there and I knew it is mine :)
And i liek the classic look of it .. it is big enough to hold a folder but not too big, and classy enough not to be seen as a taste-less tomboy in men's clothes :)

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeeee! Hand bag! :) I think it'll suit you well, Una. Perhaps when you're in a more feminine mood. My handbags are usually those types. More girly, even ^^

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Well I tried to stay off the girly path. I like the more professional, business like look anyway. But I was shocked when I stood at the cashier with this hand bag in hand LOL

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

It seems like 3 days is quite a long time to install a boiler - we had new boiler installed this year and the plumber (to say the truth we know this guy very well) did everything in 12 hours which was a bliss, really. He started early morning and finished around 20.00. I was so happy - I came back from work and could get water!!

I loooove the bad - you are getting quite girly!

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

The way I see it it is just pay back from the renting company. We got a very high maintenance bill for 2006 in September (maintenance is always paid a year back). Most prices for oil, electricity etc were taken from 2007 where oil and electricity rose a lot. All tenants complained and we all didn't get a reply. I guess this is their reply now. The workers have already installed the boiler, with no real pipes etc to replace, water should work now :(
This used to be such a pleasant place to live. Until 4 years ago when a new building was built two doors down. Our street is of mixed origin. A lot of older ppl both of German and Turkish descent who all come together for street festivals and also for Sugar Festival for the kids (after Ramadan) and St. Martin (some kind of German Halloweenish custom of sing and treat in early November). Unfortunately, the city council put families of low income and/or on social services into the new house. They thought we could actually take it as we are already such a multi-cultural area/street. There are mostly Morrocan families there but ever since then all hell broke loose.
Turkish families (esp. those of the second and third generation) were the first to complain about some incidents. Ever since we had break-ins both into garages, apartments, cars and letterboxes. Every other day the police is patrolling our area because of drug dealings and since that house has been built our area has gone down the drain. For over two years we haven't had a street festival anymore because city council forbid it after the last two ending up in a nasty brawl between old residents (both German and Turkish) and new ones (Marrocan). Even last night at midnight when I was out the last time with the dogs a police car came and brought a delinquent home and guess what, yeah he lives in the new house.
Anyway, our rental company stil believes this is a high quality area of living which is not true anymore. I am willing to pay high rent if I live in a surrounding that is save and peaceful, but the quality of living is going down the drain. If you have to wait a month till the letterboxes or a door is fixed because the handimen don't like to come here anymore in fear of having their car broken into ... you cannot speak of high quality living anymore :( Even outsiders say that the rent is too high considering the social downward spiral of the street.

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

Wow! What a depressing story. =( This is really a problem. I'm really sorry to hear about.

I lived in such kind of quarter when I spent some months in Paris suburb (Montreuil)in mid 90-s. I don't know how it is now, but at that time it was quite a dangerous place - because of immigrants from Africa of low income or no job. The old (French) residents (who remembered that area nice and quiet) lived there behind the walls, with a lot of locks at the doors/// But anyway, every week there were some robberies, takeins, drug incidents, ets. Always police around, but it didn't help a lot. The house of my boy-friend (where I lived), was robbed, too - thieves not only stole some things, but also broke almost everything in the house that could be broken. :( There was so frightening and depressing experience for me... I never lived in that kind of environment at home.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry to hear this - I also know some areas here in Wakefield and Leeds where people have to stay inside the houses in fear of break-ins. These are mostly council estates. The lucky thing is that you don't own the property - is it possible for you to move?

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

The handbag looks very nice. and SO SOFT! When I look at the pic, I immediately want to touch it! :) But personally I rarely purchase this kind of "lady style" stuff. I'm not a "lady type" myself, and prefer backpacks.

My real sympathy about that mess with a water! =/ 3 days without ANY water in the house - it's a bit too much for the modern city life. I experienced it once - also for 3 days, about 10 years ago, when it was big failure at the water supply system in my neighborhood. The emergency service brought tank cars with water 2 times a day, but it was a real problem anyway, I remember...

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

At least we have cold water now. Though we didn't have it for most of the day yesterday.
I just hope we will have hot water tomorrow. Two days is my personal limit :s

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

Oh, having cold water is already something! =) Not very comfortable, but not catastrophic already.
We here get used to this kind of things. Every summer hot water in houses cuts off for 20 day - for repair of hot water pipe system. Some people now buy small boil systems for their bathrooms to avoid this annual event... But I don't want to spend a lot of money for a thing I will use for only 20 days in a year.