The Self-Filling Bath
I am refitting my bathroom in the next few weeks, as the current bath is one of Gerry’s El Cheapo specials, which is actually dangerous to get in and out of. It also has taps that work on a hot-one way, cold the other basis. There’s a video here.
I’m fitting a whirlpool bath and whilst talking to the saleslady, I thought it would be nice to have an self-filling option. I was told she’d never seen one. On the other hand you can get taps that set the temperature.
I searched the Internet and haven’t found a system.
I wonder why not! It’s a dream for a farmer, a builder or someone who works outside in the cold, wet and filth. Imagine you’re just coming to the end of a hard working day and are walking home or just about to get in your vehicle to drive there. You bring up an app on your smart phone or send a text from your Nokia 6310i to tell the bath to get itself ready in fifteen minutes say. It then fills itself to your required level and temperature, a couple of minutes before you get home.
The logic for the self filling bath is overwhelming. Even in my situation here, I would love to be able to set it off and then perhaps finish a post on my blog or a bit of cooking, whilst it was filling. After all,most of us just hang around in the bathroom, whilst waiting for the water to get to the required level and temperature.
It’s not that the technology is at all difficult. In my view, you wouldn’t actually measure the depth of water directly, but probably by weighing the bath with a simple load cell.
It’s just straightforward automation, that’s been around for years.
What I can’t understand, is why it is not commonplace? But then there are other simple pieces of automation that aren’t either.
Would You Disclose Your Name On Zopa?
Or any other financial site, that gave loans?
Zopa allows me to see who I have lent money to, their payment history and a few other details. Normally, the person is only identified by a code name. So you could lend to someone called MickeyMouse or Graham171.
In two cases though, I’ve been able to identify the borrower. One was actually someone, that I knew and the other is a reputable professional living and working in London.
Both incidentally, have had immaculate payment records, so they have nothing to hide.
But I do find it strange that someone would join a financial site and make it possible to identify them.
An Interesting Take On American Sports
I just found this article entitled US Sports Going The Way Of The Gladiator, on CNN’s web site.
These are the first two paragraphs.
Are American sports fans turning into the citizens of ancient Rome, turning up to sports events to see mayhem akin to gladiators fighting for their very lives?
Stars in two of the country’s most prominent sports were asking those kinds of questions Sunday.
Here in the UK, we’ve made our sports a lot safer. Cricketers now wear helmets and even our footballers wear protection on their lower legs.
But after reading the article on CNN, it might appear that the United States is going the other way. Read the article and the comments and draw your own conclusions.
The Bus Windows Aren’t Steamed Up!
It was a filthy wet night, as I came back from supper with my son. But the bus windows aren’t steamed up.
The Bus Windows Aren’t Steamed Up!
Two years ago on a similar day in Cambridge, the bus to Haverhill was steamed up inside and nothing could be seen through it.
It could have been the weather was worse, or that the London buses have better air circulation.
Meet Frank!
This is a dachshund, I met on a 38 bus.
Meet Frank!
You really do meet a good class of dog on that route.
A Cafe For Legal Henrys
I saw this cafe in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
A Cafe For Legal Henrys
What is the plural of Henry, by the way?
A Fountain In Primrose Hill
I saw this fountain in Primrose Hill yesterday.
Sadly, I don’t think it was working. My dietician told me I must drink more water.
Dalston’s Diagonal Crossing
Oxford Circus may have the latest X crossing, but here in Dalston, we’ve got a simple diagonal one.
Dalston’s Diagonal Crossing
Time will tell, if it works or not. It could certainly do with a countdown number for the green. But then like the other stroke of the cross, lights is extra. I suppose though, if you do get knocked over, you haven’t far to go to get help from a solicitor.
Safety isn’t helped at the junction as the bus stop has been removed, prior to relocation.
Wot No Bus Stop!
People coming out of the Overground at Dalston Junction station get completely lost looking for a bus.
Best Turkish Barber In
This sign made me laugh!
Best Turkish Barber In
It also reminded me of the limerick.
There was a man called Lime
Who tried to make up a rhyme
Things all went fine
To the very last line
Where he had far far too many words to fit into the space available.
Back To The Fleet Street Clinic
C and myself used to go here, for our annual flu jabs.
About three years ago, I was unhappy about my cholesterol and went to a private dietician in Ipswich to see if they could help me. They could and did, but sadly they no longer practice at that address.
As a coeliac, I do like to see if I’m doing things right, and as I’d found that the Fleet Street clinic had a dietician, I arranged an appointment for this morning with their private dietician; Ruth Kander.
As I suspected on past experience of the clinic and dieticians in general, I received the quality of professional advice, that I expected.
The Anonymous Widower 