Tell us something really trivial about your life Volume 40
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Byker28i said:
Can I speak from experience of having the on suite, main bathroom and downstairs loo done, that they don't rip all three out at the same time. "Oh but we can put it all in the same one skip"
We took a wall down in the main bathroom and moved the soil pipe because it was taking up around 2 foot of empty space, used to form an arch. We got an extra big bathroom for no cost to the other rooms, but it meant a huge mess.
Even so, a week for that, a week for the ensuite as again everything came out and new stuff was relocated, and 2-3 days for the downstairs loo.
Exactly, bathroom and downstairs loo first an in parallel (once main suite is reconnected in bathroom), then en suite. We're moving some of the stuff around in the bathroom, but fewer plumbed items going back in. I really struggle to see how it'll be 4 weeks.We took a wall down in the main bathroom and moved the soil pipe because it was taking up around 2 foot of empty space, used to form an arch. We got an extra big bathroom for no cost to the other rooms, but it meant a huge mess.
Even so, a week for that, a week for the ensuite as again everything came out and new stuff was relocated, and 2-3 days for the downstairs loo.
Edited by Byker28i on Tuesday 7th May 08:13
Although they're already 11 minutes late, so if that adds up each day...
hammo19 said:
Today I start preparations for my Isle of Skye expedition. 3 of us ‘boys” are headed for the island on Friday. We have an overnight stop in an Airbnb west of Sterling and then off to Skye via the Mallaig ferry on Saturday until Wednesday next week.
We are staying in Uig at the top of the island and are spending the time birding and landscape photographing. One of my friends is a professional photographer. The other an expert birder, so I will be in good company. Me, well I am an expert plane spotter.
Today it’s prep the guest room and guest bathroom ready for my friends overnight stay on Thursday, he’s coming up from Kent, do the weekly and holiday shop, lay out my gear ready for packing. Tomorrow it’s prep the Kroc ready for its epic journey.
I will endeavour to post a daily Snoopy but will depend on connectivity.
Happy hollibobs Hammo.We are staying in Uig at the top of the island and are spending the time birding and landscape photographing. One of my friends is a professional photographer. The other an expert birder, so I will be in good company. Me, well I am an expert plane spotter.
Today it’s prep the guest room and guest bathroom ready for my friends overnight stay on Thursday, he’s coming up from Kent, do the weekly and holiday shop, lay out my gear ready for packing. Tomorrow it’s prep the Kroc ready for its epic journey.
I will endeavour to post a daily Snoopy but will depend on connectivity.
By the bye, sorry to be pedantic but it's Stirling. Don't spend too much time looking for Sterling.
I'm a bit of a plane spotter too, on the quiet. I spotted this beauty on eBay. The little known Stanley Bailey No.7.
Bit of a brute it is, but I have learned to love it.
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Happy hollibobs Hammo.
By the bye, sorry to be pedantic but it's Stirling. Don't spend too much time looking for Sterling.
I'm a bit of a plane spotter too, on the quiet. I spotted this beauty on eBay. The little known Stanley Bailey No.7.
Bit of a brute it is, but I have learned to love it.
A Jack Plane IIRC By the bye, sorry to be pedantic but it's Stirling. Don't spend too much time looking for Sterling.
I'm a bit of a plane spotter too, on the quiet. I spotted this beauty on eBay. The little known Stanley Bailey No.7.
Bit of a brute it is, but I have learned to love it.
Byker28i said:
The butchers are out of eggs
No scrambled eggs for breakfast.
I also forgot I'm on a wood turning course tonight, 2 hour introduction
I'm not very keen on butchers' eggs:No scrambled eggs for breakfast.
I also forgot I'm on a wood turning course tonight, 2 hour introduction
The cow ones are too runny and sticky,
the piggy ones are not at all nice,
and the sheep ones come in small clumps.
And they all taste like s
t.Have you tried chicken eggs from the dairy? Much more palatable IMHO.
Gude Moaneve Triveryone
Today is the first day of the rest of my hectic retirement schedule, so I shall walk the 3/4 mile to the GP Surgery to submit a repeat repeat prescription request because the Farmer C say they have not received an order, despite me submitting it on 25th of April.
And in the intervening interval I have run out of those two Haribo varieties, and I'm now getting low on two others.
Ho hum. The system is so infallible, they won't let me order stuff any more than a week and a bit before I'm due to run out.
Bobbers, welcome back to the land of the semi-comatose.
Have a lovely day, I'm sure it will fly past as you wade into the backlog they have been saving especially for you.
Ooh, I thought of Kylie just then!
Good luck with the barf rooms Byker, sounds like a lot of upheaval, even more than spikey's new wall droves.
Happy packing, Hammo, sounds like a good trip: don't overdo it with the sherry.
Ah well, I must away.
Sithee later
I may be some time, as I intend to hop on/in a bus and venture into town to attend to some matters.
Byeeee
GRout.
Edited by glenrobbo on Tuesday 7th May 10:21
Good morning, all!
And it's a very good morning down here in the Deep Sarf, the sun is splitting the paving stones as dear old Terry Wogan used to say. Several of the young ladies of the parish are out and about, dressed for summer, so i'm just having a refreshment break in between perambulations, I'm aiming for 15,000 steps before lunch, then i might have a relaxing afternoon.
Good to hear that you're restored to (almost) full working order, Bobbers. Shame you have to go back to work on such a lovely day, [Carry on Matron] but at least you're feeling yourself again [/Carry on Matron]
Right. I shall return to the Great Outdoors. Behave yourselves while I'm gone.
And it's a very good morning down here in the Deep Sarf, the sun is splitting the paving stones as dear old Terry Wogan used to say. Several of the young ladies of the parish are out and about, dressed for summer, so i'm just having a refreshment break in between perambulations, I'm aiming for 15,000 steps before lunch, then i might have a relaxing afternoon.
Good to hear that you're restored to (almost) full working order, Bobbers. Shame you have to go back to work on such a lovely day, [Carry on Matron] but at least you're feeling yourself again [/Carry on Matron]
Right. I shall return to the Great Outdoors. Behave yourselves while I'm gone.
Oh what fun!!!!
Whoever it was that said they'd been saving stuff up for my return, 10 virtual points!!!
Already had one meeting, and had to review a process as no one else had a clue what it was about, have an FRB and a prove out this afternoon!!!
Good luck with the bogs Still Mulling.
Good luck with the farms C glenrobbo.
Good luck with your run spikeyhead.
Good luck with your perambulations Dermot O'Logical.
Keep getting better Byker.
The rest of you, behave yourselves!!!
Whoever it was that said they'd been saving stuff up for my return, 10 virtual points!!!
Already had one meeting, and had to review a process as no one else had a clue what it was about, have an FRB and a prove out this afternoon!!!
Good luck with the bogs Still Mulling.
Good luck with the farms C glenrobbo.
Good luck with your run spikeyhead.
Good luck with your perambulations Dermot O'Logical.
Keep getting better Byker.
The rest of you, behave yourselves!!!
DickyC said:
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A Jack Plane IIRC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcKyWIie3Oc&ab...
DickyC said:
A Jack Plane IIRC
I expect you're right Dicky, it could certainly be used as a jack plane but I think it's a bit on the hefty side. I'm not a proper woodworker - I'm just an enthusiastic wood butcher - but my understanding is jack planes are for basic sizing and squaring timber ready for fine truing and jointing. The No.7 is more what I would call a jointer plane. It's just too heavy for rough work, it's almost two feet long.
Here's an example, a blanket chest I made for a lady friend called Gail. The sides are made of three (3) pieces each of pine tongue and groove and the No7 flattened them down so that the joints all but disappeared.
Much better than I could do it by sanding.
And an afternoon swinging a No.7 is a splendid workout!
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I expect you're right Dicky, it could certainly be used as a jack plane but I think it's a bit on the hefty side. I'm not a proper woodworker - I'm just an enthusiastic wood butcher - but my understanding is jack planes are for basic sizing and squaring timber ready for fine truing and jointing.
The No.7 is more what I would call a jointer plane. It's just too heavy for rough work, it's almost two feet long.
Here's an example, a blanket chest I made for a lady friend called Gail. The sides are made of three (3) pieces each of pine tongue and groove and the No7 flattened them down so that the joints all but disappeared.
Much better than I could do it by sanding.
And an afternoon swinging a No.7 is a splendid workout!
Nice work!The No.7 is more what I would call a jointer plane. It's just too heavy for rough work, it's almost two feet long.
Here's an example, a blanket chest I made for a lady friend called Gail. The sides are made of three (3) pieces each of pine tongue and groove and the No7 flattened them down so that the joints all but disappeared.
Much better than I could do it by sanding.
And an afternoon swinging a No.7 is a splendid workout!
We had a nother bat. Or rather Charlie (fkoffyoulittlett) found one and was guarding it. It seemed unharmed but not too keen on the attentions of a cat. Only about half grown and too small to fly yet.
But then I found the hole in the plaster where they have been getting in. Above the boiler where the flue pipe goes through.
There was a lot of chitter chatter going on the other side of the hole and the little bat readily crawled back through when I held it up to the hole. Hopefully it's back with the family and will be okay. Hopefully.
I've now stopped the hole with a bit of scrap gyproc and some patching plaster.
I'll let you know who wins.
t) found one and was guarding it. It seemed unharmed but not too keen on the attentions of a cat. Only about half grown and too small to fly yet. But then I found the hole in the plaster where they have been getting in. Above the boiler where the flue pipe goes through.
There was a lot of chitter chatter going on the other side of the hole and the little bat readily crawled back through when I held it up to the hole. Hopefully it's back with the family and will be okay. Hopefully.
I've now stopped the hole with a bit of scrap gyproc and some patching plaster.
I'll let you know who wins.
Error_404_Username_not_found said:
We had a nother bat. Or rather Charlie (fkoffyoulittlett) found one and was guarding it. It seemed unharmed but not too keen on the attentions of a cat. Only about half grown and too small to fly yet.
But then I found the hole in the plaster where they have been getting in. Above the boiler where the flue pipe goes through.
There was a lot of chitter chatter going on the other side of the hole and the little bat readily crawled back through when I held it up to the hole. Hopefully it's back with the family and will be okay. Hopefully.
I've now stopped the hole with a bit of scrap gyproc and some patching plaster.
I'll let you know who wins.
It made me laugh yesterday and again today, thanks 404!! t) found one and was guarding it. It seemed unharmed but not too keen on the attentions of a cat. Only about half grown and too small to fly yet. But then I found the hole in the plaster where they have been getting in. Above the boiler where the flue pipe goes through.
There was a lot of chitter chatter going on the other side of the hole and the little bat readily crawled back through when I held it up to the hole. Hopefully it's back with the family and will be okay. Hopefully.
I've now stopped the hole with a bit of scrap gyproc and some patching plaster.
I'll let you know who wins.
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