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What have you been doing today?

Plumbing is child’s play nowadays.

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More digging, weeding and shìt spreading over the allotment today. Also, I took on another plot! Not for myself though, I have enough with the one I have but my bro-in-law, a mad keen perfectionist gardener wanted a plot. Long, long waiting queue for a plot but a word in the right ear allowed me to sign up for another plot with him as my joint plot partner. ;) Next year I can drop off the lease and he will be an existing member so he can take it over in his own name. Might start an argument though as the person that lives in the house that backs on to the new plot, used to have a plot years ago and had a gate made in his back fence to access his allotment but apparently he sometimes lets his dogs out to roam the allotment at night when nobody is about. Well he can feck off - I’ve stuck a big wire mesh panel across the gate on my side so he can’t get on to the allotment any more. Should be fun - I have plenty of scaffold poles on my plot if he starts getting all monkey about it. :mrgreen:
 
New bathroom vanity cabinet finished. Had the day off as was out on call last night. But pleased with the fit and finish. Total project under £500 so pretty chuffed.
 
OMG. The drawers was the hardest part to fit. I was at the point of giving up. Soft closures etc a totally over engineered drawer runner that needed someone like me to work out.

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Left Lena to clear the devastation as per usual. Stops her asking me to do so many jobs around the house that way.
 
Hospital taxi service, collected us both this morning, for our two appointments, which happened to be at the same hospital, same day, neatly spaced times, at departments quite close to each other. Me for a three f2f renal appointments, I was dreading, bloods, a three-hour wait, then specialist nurse, finally the consultant. Last month, I had misunderstood, what they had said, in that my next appoint in a month would be it - I would be having the pipe insertion op, and starting dialysis.

Not so, today they were saying I still have a way to go, they are just preparing me for the day. Av went to her appointment, I had my bloods done, then three hours to kill, whilst the analysed, ready for the nurse, so we went looking for some lunch. A massive, university hospital site, prices were just extortionate, and for pathetic food, so we took a walk off site, and found a McD.
 
Was at a similar large regional hospital years ago, the canteen/restaurant was a series of fast food franchises designed to maximise income but smoking outside the hospital was banned.
 
blup said:
Was at a similar large regional hospital years ago, the canteen/restaurant was a series of fast food franchises designed to maximise income but smoking outside the hospital was banned.
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I'm a bit limited for walking distance, so Av was having to do the scouting ahead of me. All we could find was endless Costas, and baked potatoes at ridiculous prices. Rushed in, a fee years ago, I was kept in for two days, but the food was so poor, I'd been unable to eat most of it. I'd prowled around most of the place, looking for anywhere selling some decent proper food, and found nowt. On the second day, they came round and said it was planned to send me home, but the sending just wasn't happening fast enough - In the end, I just wrote a note, 'Gone home', signed it, and left just to get a decent meal inside me.

I noticed some patients, getting take-aways delivered to them, but I had no idea then, how to organise that.
 
Had a little trip up to the Tower of London with Mrs Mottie to view the poppies. They were inside this time so we bought an annual membership to historic palaces which was only about 30 quid more than a single entry for the pair of us. I think, despite it being less than half an hour by train from our house, it's the first time I've been inside there. Bloody interesting it was, it’s a lot bigger than you think - it’s like a small village inside. Plenty of stuff to see, especially the Crown Jewels. A few pics.

A suit of armour to protect this chaps crown jewels.

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The obligatory tame ravens.

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A long drop crapper!

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Traitors gate.

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Some more poppies.

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I went over the Skechers store in Lakeside today to get another pair of 'slip-ins' to add to my collection. These ones:

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Slip-ins? They had laces and you had to tie the bastards up! Once I'd done that, I couldn’t even slip out of them. I managed to get one foot out of them but there was no way I could slip back into it so I gave up and came home empty handed. The sales assistant tried to tell me they would loosen up with use. Nah, no way are they slip-ins.
 
What? You mean you’d have to tie your shoes laces every time you put the shoes on?!? The horror, the horror! :LOL:
 
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