What have you been doing today?
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Yes, the angle of the slope in degrees. Should be obvious in the picture. (That was a clue).
Finally got it
I have just had our new Labour MP on the doorstep. This area is normally rock solid Tory. She was actually extremely nice, but clearly in a bit of a rush. Still, she stayed for a good chat. And at the end she joked that she "wasn't used to being grilled in such detail" by constituents.
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Bit odd for an MP don't you think? You would think that is part of the job.
I edited to clarify. She meant by constituents on the doorstep, not in general.
I did try to fit a lot in to ten minutes. The history of the constituency, the history of the West since the end of the Cold War, the changes to the NHS since 2001, the difficulty of increasing the tax take when money is so mobile, the general malaise facing the West.
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Oh well yes I can see what she meant then.
I've just looked her up. She actually has an extremely impressive resume. It did feel like a meeting of minds. She understood everything I was saying straight away, even in that truncated discussion.
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I find females make better politicians than men do, same as I find women Prime ministers better, they are more level headed.
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And finally, I spot it. Cafe 42Had to pop over the velodrome today for a bit of quality control work. Had my lunch watching people go round and round. I took this photo:
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No prizes, just for fun, who can work out the angle of the bends by studying the photo. Show your workings too.
Locks, locks, and more locks. The replacement lock/gearbox for our side/back door arrived today, as did a replacement spring cassette for the handle, so time to make the dog happy(er) and restore use of the door. Since it was freed, earlier in the week , I've been jamming the door shut, with a piece of timber, wedged against the wall opposite. Dog habitually goes out the front door, comes in via the back. Despite the door being out of operation, she has insisted on coming in that way, and no other....
Got the new gearbox onto the multipoint rack, found a couple of rivetted on bits, which had come adrift, and eventually decided they were none essentials just there to keep the rack together, before it was fitted, so cracked on with fitting. I tested it retracted numerous times, locked and unlocked, before chancing actually closing the door and testing it. All worked fine, so then it came to fitting the handles. One of the spring cassettes had a snapped metal centre, so I'd ordered the nearest I could find, but it wasn't near enough, it just didn't fit at all. Then I got bright idea, to see if I could rob it of the metal centre, and just transfer that in place of the faulty part. That worked perfectly - job done, onto the next one...
I've cleared space in my workshop, just to the rear of my garage where I used to park my VFR, which has it's own nice wide access door, in a straight line with my drive. Since I got the new mobility scooter, I've been struggling doing a multipoint U turn, squeezing through a narrow gap between garage and hut, then in and out of a narrow door gap into the hut door. Space cleared, it now drives straight into the workshop, except I had to go in via a third small door at the far side, which has a code lock, just to release the two bolts on that wider door. I decided to order a second code lock for that wider door, I have that lock to install this afternoon.
Got the new gearbox onto the multipoint rack, found a couple of rivetted on bits, which had come adrift, and eventually decided they were none essentials just there to keep the rack together, before it was fitted, so cracked on with fitting. I tested it retracted numerous times, locked and unlocked, before chancing actually closing the door and testing it. All worked fine, so then it came to fitting the handles. One of the spring cassettes had a snapped metal centre, so I'd ordered the nearest I could find, but it wasn't near enough, it just didn't fit at all. Then I got bright idea, to see if I could rob it of the metal centre, and just transfer that in place of the faulty part. That worked perfectly - job done, onto the next one...
I've cleared space in my workshop, just to the rear of my garage where I used to park my VFR, which has it's own nice wide access door, in a straight line with my drive. Since I got the new mobility scooter, I've been struggling doing a multipoint U turn, squeezing through a narrow gap between garage and hut, then in and out of a narrow door gap into the hut door. Space cleared, it now drives straight into the workshop, except I had to go in via a third small door at the far side, which has a code lock, just to release the two bolts on that wider door. I decided to order a second code lock for that wider door, I have that lock to install this afternoon.
Spent the morning over the allotment, weeding my garlic, onion and flower beds and planting some carrot seeds. Spent the afternoon removing some conifer type bushes from the front garden. Planted 25 years ago but now as thick as my thigh at the base and up tight against the front wall. Was worried that they would cause damage to the wall. Chopped/sawed the branches off and literally filled the Golf to the roof. So far I've made two runs to the local tip. Might get away with just one more trip tomorrow but then I’ll have the main trunk/roots to get out of the ground. Four of them. Going to replace with Red Robins or similar evergreens.
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Today I finished replacing the middle frame of a work colleagues DJI Mini 2 4K drone, boy are these things small inside!
Took me about 5+ hours in dissasembly t'other weekend and likely similar to put it together again, but it flies so methinks I did it OK.
As much as I have learnt how to repair these, I doubt I'll be doing it again for anyone else
Took me about 5+ hours in dissasembly t'other weekend and likely similar to put it together again, but it flies so methinks I did it OK.
As much as I have learnt how to repair these, I doubt I'll be doing it again for anyone else
A good example why delving under the bonnet of a car is never a good idea for some folk (especially me).
I'd imagine at its steepest 57 degrees?Had to pop over the velodrome today for a bit of quality control work. Had my lunch watching people go round and round. I took this photo:
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No prizes, just for fun, who can work out the angle of the bends by studying the photo. Show your workings too.
