Avalyn is cute... xxx

I like your girl names a lot Ember is really cute too... but with already Ginger dogs I can't have Ember, Scarlett or anything like that as half the tollers are named those names when we go to a roller meeting!
My mum said she went with my dad hunting and one of the dog was called Elliott and asked me if it was a popular dog name???
BTW, how do you girls spell Elliot/Elliott/Eliott/Eliot??

I am getting worried we are choosing one of those names that people will just get wrong all the time!!

Friend at school was Elliot. I think!

Danny's parents STILL write SammuAl... FFS it's Sammuel I even replied to an email to tell them! I think they like pissing me off!

Elliot could easily be spelt wrong but most people will prob get it right. Depends if it annoys you!

X x x

I would spell it "Elliot" if it was a first name and "Elliott" as a surname.

I can't see past "Piper" being my labrador's name- but saying that my last dog was called "Ben"

Good point about first name and surname... I think that's how I like it too
So Elliot it is!

It's a lovely name V. It was on my shortlist too but Ste vetoed it cos he has a friend called "Elliott" (it's his surname but we all call him Elliott as a nickname) x

Arrgggggg...... did I say I expected problem with SIL's fiancé doing our extraction fan for the bathroom....
We asked him a while ago and after months of chasing he came today. Several times he said it was fine to extract the humidity into the loft but that it was also possible to have it go out of the roof outside... I never liked the idea of the humidity in the loft as we store things there and the roof is made of wooden beam so said several times.. I'd rather the humidity went out of the roof....
Anyway... he shows up today with the cheapest (and it turns loudest) of extraction fans (we didn't ask for anything cheap) and he just installed it going into the loft.
So I come back and ask OH what he did and he says (OH had no idea I said i wanted it out but was not asked today and just trusted him to do the job.. after all he is an electrician!)
and when I said to him I was not happy, he says he is sure it is fine.
I google the whole thing on the internet, and it is part of building regulations for the humidity to go out... and everyone on every blog said that you should sack anyone that would suggest doing it in the loft as they are basically rogue traders cutting corners...
Now he has asked £60 for it... (£45 for the fan and £15 for other bits and bobs to put it in)... while we train his fiancé FOC every week (we normally charge £50./hour)... and it turns out we have a shit noisy fan that is not even installed properly and probably going to have to pay a proper electrician to fix it....

Grrr V I'd be so pissed off!!! Can you make him sort it? What an idiot...
Surely though the damp can't literally just go into the loft - it must be vented out through the roof??

Lou stop ruining the name piper for me!!!

X x x

Hey what you saying about my beautiful dog Suz? Are you saying he's not good enough for your baby to be named after??


V- sorry He sounds like an idiot!! I'd be getting OH to sort it out.....

I am so mad, I feel like crying....
How do you tell your SIL her boyfriend is a rogue trader.... OH went up and he had left all is crap there including 2 screwdrivers... he had not put the insulation back, the cabling looks messy so now I am worried to leave the house at anytime in case it starts a fire...
I am having an electrician up there tomorrow to check it and quote us for put it right....

What we will do about the fact that we always help and are so generous to them when it feels we only get crap from them.... I have no idea... he is supposed to wire our garage.... but i do not trust him, it's the second botch job he has done for us... I've had enough and I feel like crying now...

I just wish I was in France, my BIL is an electrician and a great one, he would sort us out and do our garage and all... I just miss my family... I really have enough of the ILs now...