What have you been doing today?

[Mottie]

It does actually use GPS for locking for its position and for take off and landing points

Yeah, if you lose sight of it you have a 'return to base' button or of the battery is getting low or there’s a loss of communication, it returns to where you took off from as long as you have waited until it’s locked on to about 13 satellites before taking off. It tells you when it’s locked on and safe to take off too. If you are moving about say, following it, you can set it to return to the controller instead if you don’t want it to return to its original takeoff point.

 

[fillyboy]

Yeah, if you lose sight of it you have a 'return to base' button or of the battery is getting low or there’s a loss of communication, it returns to where you took off from as long as you have waited until it’s locked on to about 13 satellites before taking off. It tells you when it’s locked on and safe to take off too. If you are moving about say, following it, you can set it to return to the controller instead if you don’t want it to return to its original takeoff point.

I think the missus has something similar installed in me.

 

[Mottie]

I think the missus has something similar installed in me.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

We took a bus trip to the coast...

One very early bus to the citty centre, a Coastliner, to Whitby, lunch of F&C's there, then on a normal service bus, down to Scarborough, to catch a second Coastliner, then a bus a back home. Although it had been raining, but had stopped before dawn, the first Coastliner, a double-decker, must have had a leaky roof seal. Rain water had collected in the roof panels, and at each tight bend it would slop over, soaking several seats, with odd drips, falling on passengers. I tried to advise the driver, on arrival at Whitby, but he seemed uninterested.

Why do fish & chips get more expensive, the nearer you get to the source of the fish? These were well over double, what we would pay at home.

 

[Murdochcat]

Volunteering at the local common wealth graves cemetery

 

[Highway Man]

Volunteering at the local common wealth graves cemetery

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Which one is that mate?

 

[Mottie]

The difference between a hammer drill and sds is unbelievable.

Yeah, my mate drilled the holes in about 4 seconds flat with his SDS drill.

 

[Murdochcat]

Which one is that mate?

Brookwood

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Yeah, my mate drilled the holes in about 4 seconds flat with his SDS drill.

Lidl/Parkside, sell a quite useful battery sds, which is fine for the smaller sizes of fixings, in hard surfaces.

 

[Justin Passing]

Cutting my hair. . Never tried before really. It gets long quickly and I can't bloody see. I cut straight across and it looked silly, as expected, but a couple of minutes doing the layering and zigging and crunching with toothed scissors, and using a cat fur trimmer with my fingers as a depth gauge, and it'll do.
Saved a tenner. or put it off at least

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Cutting my hair. . Never tried before really. It gets long quickly and I can't bloody see. I cut straight across and it looked silly, as expected, but a couple of minutes doing the layering and zigging and crunching with toothed scissors, and using a cat fur trimmer with my fingers as a depth gauge, and it'll do.
Saved a tenner. or put it off at least

I'm not so fussed about my hair, so long as it is tidy, and not too long these days. I've always hated the fuss of going to the barbers, and them asking how I want it - I just want it cut, they're supposed to be the experts. I've never had the courage to tackle it myself, but I bought a Lidl rechargeable hair trimmer kit, with various depth guides. Avril makes use of that, every month or so, and manages to make a tidy enough job of it, using the cutting depth guides.

 

[Deleted member 317777]

Yeah, my mate drilled the holes in about 4 seconds flat with his SDS drill.

It’s amazing we used hammer drills for so long!

My new Milwaukee sds is the dogs plums

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

It’s amazing we used hammer drills for so long!

..and hammer drills were the dogs, when they first appeared, replacing rawl drills.

 

[kingandy2nd]

Cutting my hair. . Never tried before really. It gets long quickly and I can't bloody see. I cut straight across and it looked silly, as expected, but a couple of minutes doing the layering and zigging and crunching with toothed scissors, and using a cat fur trimmer with my fingers as a depth gauge, and it'll do.
Saved a tenner. or put it off at least

Need pictures of the results

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

A Blue Peter day - turning empty washing up liquid bottles, and salvaged pieces of stainless steel pipe, into automatic flower pot waterers.