LOL I haven't done that one. But I practically always will turn on a light switch when the power is off. Once I was at my mothers and her uncle and aunt were coming. We had a power outage, he had health problems, and I wanted the house to be nice and warm for them. So....I lined the back of the fireplace with aluminum foil to reflect the heat. It took me quite a while to do the job, got done and then took us a while to find the fan (to blow the heat out into the room) and then went to plug the fan in when it hit.....DUH....there IS no power. We about laughed ourselves silly. I probably spent 30 minutes on that project. LOL

Sorry Caroline I am sitting here laughing my fool head off. Of course I am also glad it happened to you and not to me. If anyone could pull this off it is you. Your bathroom woes brings back memories of my own remodeling problems with my so called contractor. Just think in a few weeks (if your lucky) you will have a beautiful bathroom to relax in. Just be careful climbing into that tub in the meantime. lol

Pardon me while I crash this thread to vent. Today's main vent is tangentially related to kitchens: we designed an eat-in kitchen in our remodel, so our formal dining room is now a guest room, and the workman I'm venting about is doing finish carpentry in that area. He's taking two days to do what should be about a four-hour job, he's been over two hours late each day, and he's pushing me to pay the balance of the job in cash due to some income restriction/tax dodge that's, frankly, not my business OR my problem. I was mildly sympathetic to his plea, but when he emailed at 9.50am for our 10am appointment to say he'd be here at 11am IF he could find parking; then emailed at noon to whine about not being able to find a spot.....let's just say my sympathy dried right up. Today's minor vent: we've been at substantial completion on our kitchen-plus job since December 2014, GC has done about half the punchlist and the longer he waits to do the rest (and get paid his retainer), the more problems crop up: a tile might be lifting off the bathroom floor, a kitchen cabinet door is hanging improperly, we suspect the bathroom vent is not quite doing its job because there's a musty smell that takes a while to build up but is definitely there. Will this danged job EVER end???????

The UN High Commishioner for Refugees said this week that the mass movement into Europe over recent weeks months and years is primarily due to the fact that the millions of refugees in the camps believe the international community has forgotten and abandoned them. UNHCR is the first responder on the ground providing often life changing logistical services to refugees. They have been grossly underfunded despite years of alarm ringing about this crisis. UNHCR cannot help the way they are capable of because donor countries haven't been stepping up. Earlier this year or in 2014 the World Food Program cuts its services by a third because of lack of funds. Turkey, Lebanon and Jordon cannot sustain the camps on their own, nor should they. The vast majority got into boats because they saw/felt the apathy of the world, the intractability of the war and they are desperate. Kswl, I understand and agree with your posts. What Oliver did is not activism, but it does start important conversations and there is some value in that. And the situation is incredibly complex. I could talk for hours about the impact of the diplomacy (or the lack thereof), the political posturing, the role of Russia and other major international players in the conflict in Syria. I wish more people were having these conversations. But the reality is people in developed countries like ours aren't interested, their attention span isn't long enough, the media is failing in their jobs ... I don't know, but it isn't happening. In my country the outcry since seeing that photo of Alan Kurdi has been incredible. There has been a grass roots movement to bring more refugees here. Community groups, schools, churches etc., can privately sponsor refugee families and our Government facilitates the matching (working with UNHCR). Thousands and thousands of these groups, including my neighbourhood community group, have started the process to sponsor a family. Mayors of virtually all our cities are faciliting this. It is a wonderful thing. Although sensational, that photo woke people up here and many lives will be saved and refugees will be resettled out of those camps as a result. Maybe the Oliver piece will help in yes a small, narrow way to further the dialogue. Maybe it will prompt someone to donate to UNHCR. Maybe it will prompt someone to sponsor a refugee. Maybe it will make people put pressure on their Governments. I welcome any of it. And after a terribly bleak week in Geneva working on these issues, I'll welcome whatever attention and results we can get.