Comments on: The gasman cometh

By: Barbara @ Travel With Hole In The Donut

Barbara @ Travel With Hole In The Donut — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:02:42 +0000

Oh my God! What a hoot.

By: Nuts & Mutton » I’m from the Gas Board

Nuts & Mutton » I’m from the Gas Board — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:52:54 +0000

[...] has posted a very funny tale about her experience of waiting for the Gas company to deliver and wire up a cooker (that’s a [...]

By: Duchess

Duchess — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:23:40 +0000

I knew Jane would back me up…

Ah, MLS, how little you know! We still have fuses here. When they blow you unravel wire and rethread it through. The fuse for my cooker is perfectly adequate. But I do have a circuit breaker, unusually. That’s because I am an American and I thought a circuit breaker was a good idea so I had it installed. There is ONE. It covers the entire house.

Twenty-four: yes, a cooker is a hob and an oven combined. That’s what I thought a stove was! Do Americans have a different word for the all in one object? I must have forgotten it.

Liz, your wait is more crazy making than any I have had, of course. I waited only weeks for cookers. The requisite nine months for each of my four children.

Jan, except for Godfather 2 the sequels never live up to the promise of the original.

Did anyone watch the Monty Python video? Please watch. It is one of my favourites, because of the grim journalistic realism.

By: ByJane

ByJane — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:09:23 +0000

The Duchess doth not lie–or even exaggerate the teesiest bit. I was there in the 70s and I KNOW FROM WHENCE SHE SPEAKS!!!

By: Midlife Slices

Midlife Slices — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:42:53 +0000

Sounds like you have as big a problem with government bureaucracy as here in the USA. Grrrr……

Won’t you need a bigger breaker for the bigger amps? Or is that just a USA thing too?

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:24:46 +0000

I love reading your stuff - it all sounds so, well, arcane - but you’re just going to leave us hanging with you holding two feet of 6mm core wire?

I surely hope there’s a sequel in the works.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:02:48 +0000

Maybe we should make a bet, will I get my child before you get your cooker? It sounds like just about the same kind of crazy-making waiting!

By: Twenty Four At Heart

Twenty Four At Heart — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:38:46 +0000

A cooker is a stove. Is it also an oven? Is a cooker a combination of both stove and oven? I can’t believe you had to go thru all that just to get one hooked up or disconnected! Wow!