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    #11
    Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
    I had much the same thing once over Christmas week. I think I just stuck it out and let myself get smelly.

    Boil lots of water on the stove, put it in a jug and use that to wash. It's what people used to do in the olden days.
    Boudica is ill anyway.

    If you really have flu you will not notice not washing for 3 days as you will just be able to get out of bed to go to toilet about once. If you can get out of bed to shower then you don't have flu and just have a nasty nasty cold.
    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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      #12
      Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
      I had much the same thing once over Christmas week. I think I just stuck it out and let myself get smelly.

      Boil lots of water on the stove, put it in a jug and use that to wash. It's what people used to do in the olden days.
      Exactly what I said, but do they believe you? No.

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        #13
        Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
        Exactly what I said, but do they believe you? No.
        Wot!

        "I just stuck it out and let myself get smelly".
        Confusion is a natural state of being

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          #14
          Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
          Boudica is ill anyway.

          If you really have flu you will not notice not washing for 3 days as you will just be able to get out of bed to go to toilet about once. If you can get out of bed to shower then you don't have flu and just have a nasty nasty cold.

          but it feels like flu, i'm terrible when i'm ill, but i do like to wash, i could even have piggy flu, been vomiting etc etc and you definitely do need to wash when the downstairs stuff is going on!!!

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            #15
            Originally posted by Boudica View Post
            but it feels like flu, i'm terrible when i'm ill, but i do like to wash, i could even have piggy flu, been vomiting etc etc and you definitely do need to wash when the downstairs stuff is going on!!!
            Too much detail, Way way too much
            Confusion is a natural state of being

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              #16
              Originally posted by Diver View Post
              Wot!

              "I just stuck it out and let myself get smelly".
              Did I say that? Bejasus, I keep forgetting who I'm logged in as.

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                #17
                Originally posted by Diver View Post
                Too much detail, Way way too much
                sorry

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by Diver View Post
                  Too much detail, Way way too much
                  I reckon a visit to the EA office, vomiting in their office and then leaving their toilet in a state may yield better results. You can also faint after you have done that.......

                  Though the only time I did that I was a school. My mum and sister didn't believe I was sick so made me go to school. A few hours later I caused a mess and my mum had to come and take me home.

                  Then I got told off for going to school as I should have been old enough to know better.
                  "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
                    What's that smell

                    Hang on, has HAB got a spare room? You might be in time to join him for his weekly bath.
                    HAB is not feeling well either. No throwing up or things like that. Just feeling low and got a wicked headache. (not a hangover)

                    However, my heating and hot water is working just fine.
                    How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by Boudica View Post
                      hello everyone

                      i'd be grateful for some experiences/opinions...i'm in a rented flat without double glazing and the boiler has died. the letting agents have arranged for a heating 'engineer' to turn up sometime today, they have already told me on the phone that if the boiler needs replacing it couldn't happen untill monday at the earliest.

                      i'm wondering if the boiler can't be fixed what am i entitled to do eg. go to a hotel or something, i have a small electric heater, but it's about 15 degrees in here today and i have a horrid flu and i'm not sure i can cope for four days with no shower...

                      It may be the colder weather has resulted in the pressure drop in the water and the boiler has gone into safe mode, so to speak.

                      Look for a gauge that shows pressure it should be around the 12 O' Clock position, where is it at?
                      "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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