Been up my solicitors today signing a contract. Will say what for next Friday. Don't want to jinx anything…..
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8 hours drooping on my PC doing ridiculous amount of work with DIYnot on the tab.
Down the workshop today doing the DiL's car. Full service, rear wheel cylinders, drop links. What part of "I'm retired" don't these youngsters understand? It's cost me well over a ton in parts and I doubt if I'll see any of that! 
Down the workshop today doing the DiL's car. Full service, rear wheel cylinders, drop links. What part of "I'm retired" don't these youngsters understand? It's cost me well over a ton in parts and I doubt if I'll see any of that!
Just buy the parts and get Carman to do it.
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Not for family it isn’t.
What a f*cking day I’ve had! Everything went fine until I went to put the sump plug in and noticed something hanging out of the sump. It was a helicoil inset that someone previously fitted. I couldn’t get it back in and I then noticed that the sump plug was chewed up.
I had nothing to get me out of trouble so I had to get a bus and a train home, Mrs Mottie picked me up from the station, I jumped on my bike and went up to my mates garage and borrowed an 18mm tap and a selection of plugs, biked back up to my workshop, tapped a new larger thread in the sump and fitted the new plug. Job done. Came home. Still got to go back now to pick my bike up.
Even that trip home was eventful. I missed the bus but I noticed it had stopped for some time further along the road at a stop with another bus behind it. When I got to it, some woman was arguing with the driver. Basically, the gist was: she wasn't paying, the bus was going to where she wanted to go anyway and the fare wasn’t going into the drivers pocket so why was he worrying about it. The driver of the bus behind got out and came up and asked her why she thought she didn’t have to pay - he asked her if she was special to which she replied, yeah, I’m special, I’m special, I’m special , you get me blud, I’m special. She then said "I'll knock you out, I’ll knock you out, I’ll knock you out, I’ll knock you out… The driver said the bus wasn’t going anywhere until she paid or got off. She just said "I don’t care, I’m not leaving, I’ll stand here all day if I have to, you WILL let me on". The driver of the bus behind told him to call the police. I asked if he could get his bus past and he said he could if I would direct him back (as he was almost touching the other bus) so I saw him back, jumped on board and along with half the passengers from the first bus, left that bus waiting for the police. The absolute cheek of some people in this country.
Anyway, to sum up, I had nearly a 10 hour day, spent over £130 of my own money (Mrs Mottie said to treat her to the parts) and worked for nothing. It was definitely a Carmen day!
If I have a day when I'm feeling particularly down, or sorry for myself, or things haven't gone well, the cure for me is to pick up my copy of 'A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich', a short book by some Russian bloke about his day as a prisoner in Gulag.
It just drives it home that no matter how bad things get, there's always someone worse off than you.
Your post had a similar effect.
Been collecting for a while, the card tubes, out of toilet rolls. We saw an interesting use for them, as curtain spacers, on curtain poles. Decorative curtains or drapes, which have holes in them for the pole to go through, and a sash cord to pull them back, lower down...
Problem was, they constantly slide back along the pole, to hang vertical in a bunch. We saw this idea, to space the folds out evenly, along the pole, using toilet roll tubes, so we've been collecting them for a while, to have a go. It works very well indeed. The tubes are hidden, by the curtains.
Yesterday, I took a look at a Smart Plug, which had died. My initial check, had wrongly suggested the pcb mount 16a fuse had blown. A more detailed check, suggested a 10 Ohm resistor had split. I replaced that, plugged it in, and the cause of the failure then became obvious - the pcb was tracking carbonised, and arcing across.
Problem was, they constantly slide back along the pole, to hang vertical in a bunch. We saw this idea, to space the folds out evenly, along the pole, using toilet roll tubes, so we've been collecting them for a while, to have a go. It works very well indeed. The tubes are hidden, by the curtains.
Yesterday, I took a look at a Smart Plug, which had died. My initial check, had wrongly suggested the pcb mount 16a fuse had blown. A more detailed check, suggested a 10 Ohm resistor had split. I replaced that, plugged it in, and the cause of the failure then became obvious - the pcb was tracking carbonised, and arcing across.
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I was wondering if you had decorated them with sticky back plastic. But it sounds like you don't need to.
Doing housework and watching the pre season F1 testing
No need, they just slide on the pole, to space the folds which protrude, and are completely hidden.
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The MOT is out on my scooter and my usual place has shut up and gone. Motorcycle test centres are not as numerous as cars but I drove past a newly opened garage the other day that was advertising mot's on vans, cars and bikes on a big sign outside so I just took it down there. I went in reception, asked for a mot on my scooter and he said "not for another 6 months at least - we're waiting to open a testing station"! When I said that he had a sign outside advertising that he did mot's he said "yeah, I know". I asked him what the point was if he can’t test them and he just shrugged his shoulders. I just called him a f'cking tosser and left. I mean, the sign advertised only mots and it was a sign that he must drag out onto the pavement each day. Total w'nker! Got it booked into a main dealer tomorrow now.
