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Mar 29, 2020 12:29:46 GMT
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I have now found a use for the old wheels and tyres kicking round here, putting them on the roof to hold the sheeting on It’s now a balancing act to get enough weight to hold the roof sheets down, without putting so much weight up there so the rotten joists can’t cope🤔
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Rich
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Mar 29, 2020 12:33:39 GMT
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Last Edit: Mar 29, 2020 12:36:37 GMT by Rich
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Mar 29, 2020 12:44:14 GMT
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I like model cars
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Rich
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Mar 29, 2020 12:44:49 GMT
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I like model cars Who doesn’t! That’s a mighty fine collection your have there! Good work!
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Mar 29, 2020 12:46:48 GMT
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Thanks. Flaming cabinet is so big & heavy we had to dismantle it to get it in the house Old house = low small doors 🙄
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Rich
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Mar 29, 2020 12:52:55 GMT
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Thanks. Flaming cabinet is so big & heavy we had to dismantle it to get it in the house Old house = low small doors 🙄 Again, if your cabinet is too big to go through doors you are doing it right!
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Mar 29, 2020 17:22:49 GMT
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That sure is a fine example of a display cabinet, makes mine look pathetic! Something I got done today was tidying the garage. Nothing unusual in that, but it reminded me that I had a couple of trestle table legs that needed looking at. These things have seen more autojumbles than ive had hot dinners, and were incredibly useful until the rope broke on one of them. I bodged it by tying another knot in it, but it made the rope shorter, which made that trestle higher, which in turn made them pretty useless. The only time I got reminded of the problem was when I went to use them, by which point I was more interested in doing whatever I was doing rather than sorting them out. Seeing as I wouldn't be going anywhere or being randomly interrupted by anyone, I had a look for another bit of rope, but I didn't have one, but what I did have was a length of chain Got the Dremel out, chopped them into 2 matching lengths, and bolted them on, after tightening all the screws making them nice and ridged. I even considered getting the wirewoll out and some wood oil, but that seemed a step too far. That can wait until I'm really bored.
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Mar 29, 2020 17:27:26 GMT
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Well when I bought that cabinet, it was an eBay purchase I had to go to collect it twice, because the dopey seller didn’t know the difference between centimetres and inches! I realised there was no way that was going in the back of the car
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Mar 29, 2020 17:35:57 GMT
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Well when I bought that cabinet, it was an eBay purchase I had to go to collect it twice, because the dopey seller didn’t know the difference between centimetres and inches! I realised there was no way that was going in the back of the car That's nothing, a couple of weeks ago I asked someone if I should use a 1.5m or 2m pallet. Their reply was 'whats the difference?' I had no words.
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Last Edit: Mar 29, 2020 17:36:43 GMT by bmcnut
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Mar 29, 2020 17:54:53 GMT
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I know what you mean, the cabinet was advertised as 50cm square! I guess you heard about the mars probe where they mixed imperial and metric measurements and slammed into the surface at 1000mph?😱
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Mar 29, 2020 18:09:30 GMT
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No, I hadn't heared about that, so I guess if they can get it wrong, anyone can. I find it easy to work in both metric and Imperial, I guess years of mixing them up when working on old stuff means I'm used to it. Its easy to forget that when talking to others in both inches and cm, they get completely scrambled whilst I manage to keep it organised, and I'm not a very organised person at the best of times! It must seem like some sort of black magic lol
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Last Edit: Mar 29, 2020 18:09:48 GMT by bmcnut
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Mar 29, 2020 18:26:44 GMT
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I've decorated the little monkeys bedroom, she hadn't had it done since she was 3, she's 8 now. Also managed to finish the patio off around our conservatory which was put off because of the noise of the whizzer cutting the slabs. Next on the list (apparently before I detail some of the cars) is to remedy the pigeons nesting under our solar panels, little does she know that will involve my .22 and a bit of camouflage netting. I'll make a few pies with the birds. B&Q and Wickes are doing click and collect for most building, electrical and plumbing stuff. I had some sharp sand click and collect today from Wickes, worked fine for us.
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Mar 29, 2020 19:00:42 GMT
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It was a bit cool on the east coast today so the remaining pallets from the greenhouse construction got recycled for the wood burner, hopefully to stretch the oil out a bit longer! A big mile stone, 6 days after planting the 1st seedling has popped its head up! at least were hoping its not a weed!
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Mar 29, 2020 19:46:07 GMT
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A big mile stone, 6 days after planting the 1st seedling has popped its head up! at least were hoping its not a weed! Nice. What have you planted? Last week I planted 6 beef tomato seeds, and 6 naga chilli seeds. I grew the tomatoes last year and they are highly recommended with a steak!
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That’s exactly what we do, old Rayburn linked into the heating system, best £50 I’ve ever spent, and happily burns anything, which will be useful since they’re fazing out coal Swombo has been planting things, I’m as green fingered as Exxon, so that’s all left to her, apart from ‘dig the hole here’
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I could achieve an awful lot more if our gaff would shut up shop!!! Probably got a months worth of tidying in the garage alone.
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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A big mile stone, 6 days after planting the 1st seedling has popped its head up! at least were hoping its not a weed! Nice. What have you planted? Last week I planted 6 beef tomato seeds, and 6 naga chilli seeds. I grew the tomatoes last year and they are highly recommended with a steak! I think it was about 250 seeds, a mixture of sweet pepper, chilli pepper and tomatoes, all well out of date but if a 10th of it comes up we will be happy! we are not green fingered by any stretch of the imagination but it cant be that hard can it?!!
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Mar 30, 2020 10:25:23 GMT
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I could achieve an awful lot more if our gaff would shut up shop!!! Probably got a months worth of tidying in the garage alone. Come on strikey, you know you love getting up at crack of sparrows fart and telling all the grockles to ‘s@d off home!’😀
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Mar 30, 2020 10:27:41 GMT
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I'm not greenfingered either, I started with chillis to see if the taste was any better if they were grown 100% organicly (i don't do organic food). I think they do taste better, as do tomatoes. I recommend using a bit of fish blood and bone in the soil, not too much otherwise the plants will go mental.
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Mar 30, 2020 10:34:36 GMT
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I could achieve an awful lot more if our gaff would shut up shop!!! Probably got a months worth of tidying in the garage alone. Come on strikey, you know you love getting up at crack of sparrows fart and telling all the grockles to ‘s@d off home!’😀 Just to correct you its "emmets"...and i wish they would. The majority of confirmed cases in the county have been from tusses coming down on holiday to self isolate. Between that and them taking themselves off to our many and wonderful beauty spots for their daily "exercise" , I'm sure you will understand that tensions are running a little high in that regard!
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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