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What have you been doing today?

Harry Bloomfield said:
The kit arrived a few minutes ago. The gauge showed in the centre, between white too low - get an engineer, and green, so I went ahead with the process, at 28C ambient, 45 to 50PSI charge. The needle behaved oddly, rose to 45, then fell back to the almost the white, then went up to 50PSI and remained there - guess that was the trinary/ ac clutch kicking in?

Checking the air vent, on 'Low', it showed -2C at first, then settled later at +3C. I'm just letting it run for ten minutes now, the instruction suggest the sealer fluid, needs to be well circulated to work.
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Did it settle down Harry or have you got a leak that’s too big for the sealant to seal?
 
Having a general clear out of the greenhouse over the allotment and instead of composting most of my spare seedlings, I just planted them in a bed that's become free since I harvested my garlic. No idea what they are as I've long lost the labels but apart from a couoke of aubergine plants, they are all brassica's so could be kale, sprouts, cabbage (red or green), cauliflower or broccoli. Time will tell. It’s sink or swim for them, I’m not going to net or feed them and they’ll hardly get watered so if the butterflies get them it’s too bad. I’m using them as a control against my main crops that I am netting, watering feeding and weeding to see how they do.

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Mottie said:
Did it settle down Harry or have you got a leak that’s too big for the sealant to seal?
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We've been away since the early hours, but I quickly rechecked the pressure later yesterday, and it seemed to have settled to mid-the green range. It 'drank' the entire 400 in the can. I'll recheck it in a few days..
 
Today, we took the Sunday only, Leeds to Hawes Dales Bus - two services going out, two coming back. A two and 3/4 hour roller coaster run, of a ride, on the top deck, of a double-decker bus, along roads, many of which I have never seen before, and from a high vantage point, much of it, along too small, back roads. With a F&C, peas, b&b and t or c lunch, in a little chippy in Hawes, for £15 each. The one where all the bikers congregate. The food was absolutely superb :) The driver deserved a medal, for his patience, squeezing past cars he met, and round some of those impossibly tight bends.

We got the 2nd (last) bus out, and the 2nd (last) one back. All the way out, and all the way back, we were chased by an individual wearing a bright red T-shirt, in a little Festa, repeatedly overtaking, parking up and taking photos of the bus, as it progressed along the route, out, then later back. Whether for some official reason, or just some bus nut, who knows, but he put tremendous effort into it. It got to the point on the bus, where the passengers on the bus, all joined in a game of spot the red T-shirt.
 
Fixing our heating and hot water system. It must have packed in sometime after Friday, but only noticed there was no hot water on Saturday evening, when drawing a bath - had to make do with luke-warm. Managed to do a quick bit of investigation after the bath, but didn't have time to finalise, just a good guess that the circulation pump had failed. Not at home yesterday, so further investigation held up until today. Confirmed the pump had failed, bought a replacement, fitted, tested, and set up. Job's a good 'un.

That the longest period, our heating has been off-line, since it was installed in around 1985 :cool:
 
I've been stuck between a bank current account which pays me 1p interest per year, for multi-thousand £, and fiddly accounts, that need you to go through hoops to get anything in the way of interest, or make you tie-up, money for set periods, or insist on certain figure going in per month, or at least a set number of DD's, or you have to go through hoops to draw any money out, or well - you get the idea.

I finally found one, without any hoops, free to use, and they pay you 3.15 interest, with no penalties - just a funny name Kroo. Opened on my mobile, took a few minutes, then a few minutes more to become live. There is an attached ISA account, paying 4.05%.
 
Gone to Czech Republic for a week to see friends in Karvina (far side of CZ near Ostrava) and remember what a pre-diversity country looks like. Got taxi into town from Prague airport - made my train with 2 mins to spare!! That was too bloody close. There was one more train after that but it would miss the connecting train and mean I would have to hang around in Ostrava station until 5am tomorrow for the next one.

At least the train is a nice place to be - complete oposite of BR. Cheap, loads of space and an affordable buffet car serving hot meals and Czech Pilsner all night with waiter service. All this enjoyed while the Czech countryside whizzes past my window. It's the only way to travel.
 
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