The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
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The gods are widdling on Edinbugger again, so I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to be useful around the house as (a) I can't get anything done in the garden and (b) SWMBO is granddottirwatching. I'll try hoovering; that generally earns brownie points.
My latest attempt at sourdough bread has also gone mutant. I'm going to persist.
My latest attempt at sourdough bread has also gone mutant. I'm going to persist.
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Morning all,
cool earlier, 18 or so, just passing 22, high light cloud.
SM to Doc/Nursey for further leg work, they is not happy with it at all.
I'm off to the groper in a bit for Knee work, as I have been quite sore since Sunday she will probably hurt me.
Gives her something to laugh about.
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cool earlier, 18 or so, just passing 22, high light cloud.
SM to Doc/Nursey for further leg work, they is not happy with it at all.
I'm off to the groper in a bit for Knee work, as I have been quite sore since Sunday she will probably hurt me.
Gives her something to laugh about.
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What a pleasant change. Every 10 minutes I have a frog passing my Chair usually lost. Just picked up the Irish accent of two ladies lost. Put them on track. Just had one frog b@stard photograph us. Should have demanded the card and deleted everything.
Dunno what is for lunch yet. Need to speak with chef.
Owner's wife was screaming at someone this morning. No idea who I kept my head down in case I was next.
Dunno what is for lunch yet. Need to speak with chef.
Owner's wife was screaming at someone this morning. No idea who I kept my head down in case I was next.
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Just bought 25m of 10bar piping, 25mm, to replace existing water feed down the mountain into house. Trouble is its sold coiled up, so when package tape slit it's still in a spiral. Needs to be straight to be fed into duct. How do I get the twist out of it ? Whatever, can't be done in sunlight as rubbish Spanish hose pinholes under UV.
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Just had the same problem. I had some 37mm and 51mm abs drain piping, 3m each. So I slid it inside there 6m at a time and left it for about a quarter hour. You may need to repeat the process if it it can't be exposed to sunlight to heat it. This got it straight enough to be threaded, with a bit of extra hand-bending of the end. It's important not to kink it, so do the bending in several small stages. ABS piping is cheap, so you could buy it just for this job. Maybe even take it back to the shop afterwards as it won't be damaged, if they do that over there.
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It won't need direct sunlight - merely somewhere warm - one suggestion is to immerse the coils in warm water or leave it somewhere warm (indoors?) until it softens.
Another idea is to shield it from sunlight under a metal sheet or any other cover.
Another idea is to shield it from sunlight under a metal sheet or any other cover.
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Just back from delivering senior daughter to Manchester airport so she can go on her annual sojourn to somewhere warm. Even found a car park space straight away - signs up that they now charge for drop-offs.
Set orf in heavy rain which had all but stopped by the time we got to Handsfree's bailiwick. Manchester was (almost, but not quite) positively tropical by comparison.
Road signs in HF's kingdom indicate that the East Midlands version of Glastonbury is taking place this weekend. One suspects the similarity will extend to the mud.
Set orf in heavy rain which had all but stopped by the time we got to Handsfree's bailiwick. Manchester was (almost, but not quite) positively tropical by comparison.
Road signs in HF's kingdom indicate that the East Midlands version of Glastonbury is taking place this weekend. One suspects the similarity will extend to the mud.
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Oh yes, 4mastacker, we have lots and lots and lots of mud here.
I've not had sight of any of the Mud People yet but they'll be around somewhere - probably
sheltering in the Coop.
I've not had sight of any of the Mud People yet but they'll be around somewhere - probably
sheltering in the Coop.
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Good idea that, pushing a little in at a time, with recuperation between sessions, and then thrusting a bit more in.. Reminds me of something similar from my teenage years but 60 years later danged if I can remember what.....
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Evening. 2220L in Honkers. Show time at the sim is 0001. Expect to finish at 0800. Long night. I rejoin my 2 original kids - Lee and Park. Tonight is Hydraulics and Pneumatics. Should run smoothly.
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Knew Fox would come up with an answer. Just moving up the village to raki place. Popped into a pub half way. No one here apart from owner asleep in front of the TV. Did self service. He will appreciate not being woken up. Phone has just gone and woken him up. He is not happy.
Just phoned Bots, well not everyone just a friend. Winter has yet to arrive so still not cold. Rivers dry and no sign of water from up north. We are going to get back to a dry cold place next month.
Bloody hell Capt that takes me back to my Berlin SIM nights. Think we only did 4 hours though but it was refresher training. One training Capt did debrief in his hotel room with a beer and porn movies on his TV.
Just phoned Bots, well not everyone just a friend. Winter has yet to arrive so still not cold. Rivers dry and no sign of water from up north. We are going to get back to a dry cold place next month.
Bloody hell Capt that takes me back to my Berlin SIM nights. Think we only did 4 hours though but it was refresher training. One training Capt did debrief in his hotel room with a beer and porn movies on his TV.
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Here you go Capt this is a way to spice up your moonshine.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/shortc ... -toe-in-it
https://www.theguardian.com/food/shortc ... -toe-in-it
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It was my enormous privelige to meet Jan Baalsrud in person, by arrangement, at a garden party in the inland outskirts of Alesund, circa 1973.
He had an unusual gait as he tipsytoed across the lawn with outsrtreched hand to greet me.
He'd chopped off his own toes during a remarkable transit from Norway to Sweden. #
An extraordrinary story, by any standards.
He had an unusual gait as he tipsytoed across the lawn with outsrtreched hand to greet me.
He'd chopped off his own toes during a remarkable transit from Norway to Sweden. #
An extraordrinary story, by any standards.
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Bit difficult warming up 75 foot of coily hose in the bath. Did think of chucking it in the indoor pool but chlorine is nasty stuff. Maybe jury-rig a connection to one of the hot water tanks. None of this will happen until back in Spain six weeks ahead.....
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You could always breathe warm air through it . . .
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MrsP bought a curly garden hose. Excellent for wandering about with, as it's easy to put away, but bloody useless for the sprinkler as it contracts if you leave it alone. Wimmin!
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Yes, and our guaranteed self-contracting hose developed a leak 366 days after purchase....
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Having a jimmish ponder just now. Drip-feed watering system now up and working - pity about the weather - so on to the next stage: an automatic liquid-fertiliser feeder.
I know, sez I, I'll knock up a small venturi in the workshop. Shouldn't take more than a year or two. Then, browsing the South American river site, saw an advert for a venturi fertiliser dispenser. Just the job.
Now added to the circuit, and commissioned today. Except...
The flow isn't fast enough in the drip-feed circuit for the venturi to work. Take the microbore pipe off, and works a treat.
So, as I say, I'm having a ponder. Find a miniature pump for the liquid? Maybe - but that means a psu of some sort. Raise the reservoir? Maybe - but would the thing self-prime?
To be continued.
Oh, and yes, HF's festival is likely to be called off: lots of people leaving already; one bloke slipped & dislocated his back acc to the BBC. The Download Festival has become the Mudslide Festival.
I know, sez I, I'll knock up a small venturi in the workshop. Shouldn't take more than a year or two. Then, browsing the South American river site, saw an advert for a venturi fertiliser dispenser. Just the job.
Now added to the circuit, and commissioned today. Except...
The flow isn't fast enough in the drip-feed circuit for the venturi to work. Take the microbore pipe off, and works a treat.
So, as I say, I'm having a ponder. Find a miniature pump for the liquid? Maybe - but that means a psu of some sort. Raise the reservoir? Maybe - but would the thing self-prime?
To be continued.
Oh, and yes, HF's festival is likely to be called off: lots of people leaving already; one bloke slipped & dislocated his back acc to the BBC. The Download Festival has become the Mudslide Festival.
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Christina really hurt my knee, one is in much pain.
Seems Nursey is pleased with SM's leg.
So passeth another day.
Seems Nursey is pleased with SM's leg.
So passeth another day.
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Dipsticks!pushing a little in at a time, with recuperation between sessions, and then thrusting a bit more in.. Reminds me of something similar from my teenage years
My F150 is a pain...a little bit of twist helps.
Completely new house plumbing system now in operation. I emerge, blinking, into the daylight from the depths of crawlspaces and under kitchen sinks to discover it's suddenly summer.