do i have to leave my heating on today?

[Strawbs]

when i go out i.e. will my pipes freeze? you will have to excuse me if that seems a silly question but ive not been in a big snowfall like this before (im foreign!!).. xxx

[*Bob*]

It's only minus one.

What did you do a couple of weeks back when it was six below?

[Strawbs]

i was probably indoors with the heating on!! I will take that as a no.. sarcasm not required.. thanks!

[*Bob*]

Twasn't sarcastic.. I'm hurt.

If you didn't leave it on all the time then and your pipes didn't burst over those few days then they won't burst now.

[????]

Strawbs....WHATEVER YOU DO.....don't eat yellow snow..I'm an old hat at this snow malarkey

[Strawbs]

???? Wrote:

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> Strawbs....WHATEVER YOU DO.....don't eat yellow

> snow..I'm an old hat at this snow malarkey

ha ha ha ha ok quids I promise I will give it a wide berth! x

[*Bob*]

SHIT MY PIPES HAVE JUST BURST

[LegalEagle-ish]

Best call an ambulance quick.

[SeanMacGabhann]

if I was going out for a couple of hours this afternoon I would leave my heating on - not because of worry about the pipes.. but because I wouldn't want to come home to a freezing house. Is that "waste"? I don't think so...

[Ted Max]

I'd go the extra yard and pay someone ?10 an hour to come round to sit in your flat and make sure your heating stays on.

[Jah Lush]

Mine's been on all weekend and I still haven't got home yet so it'll be warm as toast when I finally do make it back.

[dukesdenver]

More efficient to leave it on for a couple of hours than to warm up the house from scratch again, surely?

[????]

Mine's been on since December 20th

[Ted Max]

I like to think I'm doing my bit for the community by having the heating on full and the windows open. Melts the snow outside a treat.

[*Bob*]

Mine's been on since 2003

[HonaloochieB]

In order to offset *Bob* and Ted's profligate ways I am sitting here in a pair of plaid flannel lounging pyjamas, covered with a pair of 'jogging' (sorry always makes me chuckle that) pants, a vest, an Ian Hunter tour T shirt, a fleece, thermal socks, fleecy mocassins and an enormous fleecy dressing gown. No heating required.

So carry on chaps it'll all come out evens in the end.

[HonaloochieB]

So *Bob* and Ted, have you met Carol and Alice?

[*Bob*]

But of course.

We double dated back in '68.

I like to think I got 'the good one'.

[Jah Lush]

That was *Bob* And Ted's Big Adventure.

[Ted Max]

Even to this day, when *Bob* is in the kitchen helping Alice top up the Cinzano and Sodas, Carol still tends to give my knee a little squeeze and refer to me as "the one that got away". It's all a little awkward, really.

[*Bob*]

'Topping-up the Cinzano and Sodas', you say?

Alice always said you weren't the sharpest tool in the box.

[Ted Max]

Oh I've had no doubts about you and Alice since Gran Canaria 1975. Though she tells me these days a cuddle and a chat is about all you're after. It's Carol I feel sorry for - such a sadness in her eyes. She should have stuck with that bookmaker from Orpington - I hear he's done well for himself.

[HonaloochieB]

Ted Max Wrote:

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> Oh I've had no doubts about you and Alice since

> Gran Canaria 1975. Though she tells me these days

> a cuddle and a chat is about all you're after.

> It's Carol I feel sorry for - such a sadness in

> her eyes. She should have stuck with that

> bookmaker from Orpington - I hear he's done well

> for himself.

Oh, now I wish I'd never brought it up.

I hoped you'd have the discretion to keep ????s out of this.

[????]

I've ruined her for other men...it's like that with me

[HonaloochieB]

Hence that well known piece of wisdom the ladies pass to each other, 'You've been with the Quids, you know you've been did'

Or so I'm lead to believe.