What have you been doing today?

[Harry Bloomfield]

Trying to fix the stair lift. It stopped half way up, yesterday evening, and been getting sluggish anyway, on the final few feet. One of the two 12v batteries was showing zero volts, I've just swapped it out, for one with 12.69v across it, but still no movement. Not sure if it's an interlock, because it's covers are off, or what yet..

[EDIT] Sorted - It just needed to be switched off at the back of the seat, to reboot it.

I wrecked one of it's two batteries, following advice, as it was originally sat for months unused, to switch it off, at the arm, and turn the mains off - except the control system continued to be consuming power, from one of the two batteries and wrecked that single battery. I'd replaced it, with a poor one, to get it going, and yesterday, it gave up the ghost.

 

[securespark]

Cleaning the cooker. A change from my rock 'n roll lifestyle but an incident involving a pan of boiling apple juice, a plastic spoon and a pleasant distraction caused a major spillage on the hob that needed attention.

Can we all take it in turns to guess the "pleasant distraction"?

 

[securespark]

Stripping wallpaper in the lounge.

The lounge we were renovating before I broke my ankle in November.....

Mrs S wants us to be in at Christmas. But the speed I'm going, I'm not sure....

I'm burgered if I'm going to strip the ceiling for a strip over the picture window where the steel went in. The decorator can find something to match surely, and just put a length in?

 

[Brigadier]

Sitting in the sunshine

 

[Mottie]

Popped over the allotment to get some veg for our Sunday roast. Picked some kale and pulled some rainbow carrots, which I am going to roast whole.

Also found a rogue strawberry that I must have missed. The sweetest of the lot.

Currently cooking the roast beef and spuds and I’m just about to knock up some gluten free Yorkshire puddings.

 

[Odds]

Can we all take it in turns to guess the "pleasant distraction"?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Measuring up our radiators, the ones mounted on outside walls, to fit some radiator heat reflective foil.

The next trick, is to work out how to clean the dust and fluff out of the radiators?

 

[Mottie]

The next trick, is to work out how to clean the dust and fluff out of the radiators?

 

[Mottie]

Digging, weeding, digging, weeding, digging, weeding, digging, weeding, aching like a bastard.

 

[Mottie]

Tidying up Mrs Motties bush! Rosemary bush over the allotment.

It’s 75p a sachet for Rosemary in Sainsbury’s- I must have chucked three hundred quids worth away.

A bit more weeding over the allotment. Came across these Aubergines amongst the weeds so lamb moussaka later in the week.

Noticed that some bees from the hives had started to swarm on the back of someone’s car - with my history with bees, I kept well away.

Took a full load of weeds up to the tip. In front of me was a St Francis charity Luton van. They had about a dozen of those large builders sack in the back, the ones you get a ton of sand delivered in. They were full of CD's. and they were just binning them. I looked at the blokes tipping them and they said we just can’t sell 'em.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

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That is the very same thing, Av decided to order yesterday. Arrived here, an hour ago.

The hole in the wooden handle, had a loop of string around it, which she was using to pull the handle back out with, but she managed to slice through the string on one of the fins, leaving the entire length of the brush, tightly jammed/buried behind the fin. It was quite job to extract it!

 

[Munroast]

fed up of this collet set rattling around in an old baccy tin with bog paper,

decided to make something proper, so designed it up

Printed it out

That's better

But really need a tin that says 'Perfect Cut' - I don't do rough stuff...

pleased with this design feature for the Pointer - push down on the left hand side, the other side pops up and can be easily lifted out - and it works, although the well should have been deeper

 

[Deleted member 317777]

Measuring up our radiators, the ones mounted on outside walls, to fit some radiator heat reflective foil.

The next trick, is to work out how to clean the dust and fluff out of the radiators?

Put a tray underneath and pour water down. Or blow it out if you’ve a hoover that can reverse

 

[Mottie]

My day's turned to shìt! Got a call from the DiL - her car was running terribly and had broken down. Garage diagnosed it as a cam belt. And an auxiliary belt. And a set of spark plugs. I fitted a cam belt kit and a water pump on it a couple of thousand miles ago. Got to go over to Chelmsford tomorrow and get it back to my house using my AA card. Of course, I've got to drop the Golf to her to use until whenever so after my trip to the tip I’ve had to clean it all out. Then I had to swap the child seats from the Tucson into it. Did all that, came indoors, lifted the front door handle to lock the front door and the mechanism fell to bits. Bollux!!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Put a tray underneath and pour water down. Or blow it out if you’ve a hoover that can reverse

I used the water method, years ago, very effective, but it was a bit messy and cumbersome carrying the water about. We done the downstairs now, using a combination of the rad brushes, Av ordered, and a small Dewalt vac I had, which is able to both suck and blow.