Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 32)

Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 32)

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DickyC

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49,541 posts

197 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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Today I will make the excuse of it being too everything to do anything and will get nothing done. 
It’s my therapy so I’ll be like a tired leaf-spring on the easy gradient of a long-fused slack-rope.

Scrump

21,886 posts

157 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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Good morning all,
Last night I finished season 1 of Better Call Saul. I started watching it on Friday night.
Mrs Scrump and the young Scrumps have gone away for a girly break and left me on my own.

There are 3 seasons left to watch but the girls are back in 3 days.
I know I should continue at the season 1 pace and get one more season watched before they return but it is tempting to go all out and watch a season per day scratchchin

DickyC

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49,541 posts

197 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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A splinter in my finger. But not any splinter. A glass splinter. Kinell.

Step Daughter #2 is in a rented house owned by a couple with grand ideas and tight purse strings. The house had a four poster bath with a built in ceiling, sliding doors, a shower, a jacuzzi and, so help me, a radio. Why? I don't know. It didn't work. To be more precise, the bath didn't drain. I had several goes at it but the drain had an uphill section that banjaxed the whole thing. The whole thing was just shockingly poor quality. The landlord was summoned repeatedly. "Does the radio still work?" "Nothing works." "We'll get that sorted out." Nothing happened. A year with no bath and her little girl talking about "having a sink" instead of "having a bath." She is tiny though. SD #2 felt unable to press the landlord too hard as the rent is good but right on her limit and she didn't want to give him an excuse to put the rent up. Eventually after another tentative complaint he arrived with talk of fitting a conventional bath. He took time to admire the old bath. "Does the radio still work?" "Nothing works." "Right, we'll get rid of it and put in a P bath with a glass partition and one of those thermostatically controlled showers and retile the floor and walls." "Just being able to have a bath would be nice."

Long story short, I got rid of the old shower. Three trips to the tip using an A4 estate. There was so much of it. Jeez. I dropped one of the doors. It was poor quality safety glass. So much blood. Dripping blood I was at one point. Anyway, ended up with a glass splinter in my finger. Poked about with a needle and got it out. But why was it still painful two days later? Thinks. I had broken the tip off and it was still in there. Bolleaux.



It was tiny. A big magnifying glass was used.

How tiny is tiny?

That's a big needle.



That's a 5 pence piece for scale. I doubt the splinter was half a millimetre long. But cor blimey it was painful.

New bath in place but not functioning yet.

It is more in proportion with the house though.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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By sheer coincidence I have also been banjaxed by my own desire to get stuff done before it gets to 30 degrees.

Recalcitrant bolts.

ApOrbital

9,939 posts

117 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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Morning long drive home today then trying to fix the spitfire.

Bobberoo99

38,362 posts

97 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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wavey
We've only just woken up!!!! smile
It's the first time I can actually remember that Mrs Bobbers has slept past 9am!!!
We're off for a stroll around Mottisfont Abbey, which is no longer an abbey but a large home in the hands of the National Trust, and a picnic in the grounds!!!

ApOrbital

9,939 posts

117 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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Outstanding Mr roo enjoy your fodder smile

DickyC

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49,541 posts

197 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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ApOrbital said:
Morning long drive home today then trying to fix the spitfire.


We're with you in spirit, ApO.

Scrump

21,886 posts

157 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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That looks less complex than Bobbers latest extreme Lego challenge.

Bobberoo99

38,362 posts

97 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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It certainly felt like that picture at times scrump!!
Good luck with your Spitfire ApO I'll keep an eye out for you buzzing the control tower, you'll have to let us know if it's the old or the new control tower or we may be looking the wrong way!!!!

ApOrbital

9,939 posts

117 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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Thanks Mr dicky but mine is more like Erics models.

P5BNij

15,764 posts

105 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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I was all set to celebrate today's 60th anniversary of the Mini by indulging in some tinkering with the Cooper S when inertia suddenly set in. The appearance of an alcoholic beverage in my sticky mitt may have had something to do with this momentous decision... drink

Bobberoo99

38,362 posts

97 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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Oh dear, we seem to be having another day of changing our minds, we walk outside to get in the car and Mrs Bobbers stands there squinting and pulling faces, so I ask "I take it you've changed your mind about Mottisfont?"
"Yeah it's too hot, I don't want to be walking around in it!!"
So we have a picnic style lunch set up in the hobby room, the windows are open and the fan is running, at least it looks like I'll get project Extreme Adventure truck finished!!!!!

Scrump

21,886 posts

157 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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After getting rid of the motorbike I decided to give the garage a good clean out and see if I could make enough space to keep a car in there. (If I can’t then at least I will have a much tidier garage).

The streamlining of garage storage released 3 large steel industrial storage racks. They are heavy and probably worth something in scrap, but they are also very strong so may be of use to someone so I posted an advert on freecycle this morning.

I am now getting inundated with messages asking detailed questions about them. A couple of people have arranged times to come and collect them but then not turned up. Waste of a day so far!


Norfolkit

2,394 posts

189 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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I've just broken my anvil loppers and I'm only half way through showing the privet hedge who's the boss.

Bobberoo99

38,362 posts

97 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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That's a very reasonable 7.996 on the new and improved, hand made, seasonally adjusted Triv-O-Meter Norfokit!!!

magooagain

9,908 posts

169 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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I have collected about two cubic meters of free oak firewood this morning.

DickyC

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49,541 posts

197 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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Keen to be ahead of the game, at noon today I looked to see what New Year's Day 2020 had in store. I'm so glad I did.



New Year's Day 2020 will be All day.

Bobberoo99

38,362 posts

97 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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It's reassuring to know that it'll be all day as opposed to having to set an alarm so we know when it stops being New Years day!!!!

Bobberoo99

38,362 posts

97 months

Monday 26th August 2019
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Well it's finally finished, and it's huge!!!




Moved some of my others around to make space, and now it's up with the others!!!

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