Mundane News

[Smithbat]

You've not been here long have you?

Hehehehe

Careful or he will flounce again!

 

[potsy]

Yes, be careful Potsy......

I've got a friend who is in the police.

I have a friend who has their finger on the 'kick member' button

 

[Smithbat]

Now chaps, be nice or I may need to get my whistle out.

 

[potsy]

Sorry Miss

This southern weather is playing havoc with the cat's routine, she keeps having to go in the shade to cool off, most disturbing for us northern gloom dwellers

 

[steveindenmark]

Ive just got my slow cooker out to cook some steaks. I bought the cooker with m from the UK 13 years ago and have never seen one for sale in Denmark.

 

[EltonFrog]

I'm listening to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.


Deal with it.

 

[Smithbat]

Sorry Miss

This southern weather is playing havoc with the cat's routine, she keeps having to go in the shade to cool off, most disturbing for us northern gloom dwellers

Send it back down here then, you have had it for long enough. You northern pasty types will be getting tanned next.

 

[Smithbat]

I'm listening to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.


Deal with it.

Dealt with and moved on.

I am on The Ballad of Lucy Jordan now.

 

[Hill Wimp]

I feel a flounce coming on. You lot are rotten. I try and introduce culture and all you do is take the p1ss. That's no way to treat a highly educated philosopher.

Are you sure about that ?

 

[Hill Wimp]

So, my Saris Bones 2 bike rack arrives on Monday from Wiggle.

I start to put it together on Tuesday only to realise an integral knut is missing. Not a problem i have some great ironmongers and an excellent timber yard here.

I vist said ironmongers on Wednesday they say . I

I go to the Timber Yard today, they have thousands of the bloody things but they say "No love, it's a Yankie bike rack it's all imperial " "Hang on Screwfix up the road do imperial."

I race to Screwfix. Nice lady in Screwfix looks high and low, tries lots of different knuts and then a very nice man called Ed, a regular in the shop pipes up, "Something can be done, don't worry i'll have a look in my van". He returns.

Oblox, the bike is going to have to go in the boot dismantled then

Ed says, " i won't be beaten follow me home and i will sort you out"

I go. At this point i have to say i do not recommend following complete strangers home to their tool sheds but i did and after half an hour Ed a complete stranger who i met in Screwfix had fixed my bike rack and refused point blank to take anything for his time. His answer to this was that someone helped him out one Sunday afternoon when his radiator sprung a leak on the way home from France and he never forgot it.

So Ed thank you so much, you are a star

If anybody is curious, i did ring Wiggle but they wanted the whole thing back and they would send a new one out.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Just off to pick up Jack from the vets. He had to go in this morning to have Xrays under sedation to check how the leg is healing. Apparently he's a little bit stressed by another dog that's in there so they're letting him out early.

for Jack

 

[Smithbat]

So, my Saris Bones 2 bike rack arrives on Monday from Wiggle.

I start to put it together on Tuesday only to realise an integral knut is missing. Not a problem i have some great ironmongers and an excellent timber yard here.

I vist said ironmongers on Wednesday they say . I

I go to the Timber Yard today, they have thousands of the bloody things but they say "No love, it's a Yankie bike rack it's all imperial " "Hang on Screwfix up the road do imperial."

I race to Screwfix. Nice lady in Screwfix looks high and low, tries lots of different knuts and then a very nice man called Ed, a regular in the shop pipes up, "Something can be done, don't worry i'll have a look in my van". He returns.

Oblox, the bike is going to have to go in the boot dismantled then

Ed says, " i won't be beaten follow me home and i will sort you out"

I go. At this point i have to say i do not recommend following complete strangers home to their tool sheds but i did and after half an hour Ed a complete stranger who i met in Screwfix had fixed my bike rack and refused point blank to take anything for his time. His answer to this was that someone helped him out one Sunday afternoon when his radiator sprung a leak on the way home from France and he never forgot it.

So Ed thank you so much, you are a star

If anybody is curious, i did ring Wiggle but they wanted the whole thing back and they would send a new one out.

It is always good to know there are nice people left in this world.

 

[Illaveago]

It is becoming more difficult to find bits that you need to fix things, there used to be little shops that you used to go to if you were desperate for a bit to finish a job, but sadly they are disappearing.

 

[potsy]

What you do is save all the nuts and bolts from when you dismantle anything at all, and store them in a collection of Old Holborn tins. I inherited a fine selection when my dad died, and can't stop myself adding to them ever since.

I have hundreds of nuts/bolts/washers of all shapes and sizes somewhere, the perk of working in engineering for 20 years

 

[Hill Wimp]

What you do is save all the nuts and bolts from when you dismantle anything at all, and store them in a collection of Old Holborn tins. I inherited a fine selection when my dad died, and can't stop myself adding to them ever since.

I do but in quality street tins and i went through all my Dads tins which took and age because his garage is packed to the rafters with useful stuff biuts it's all over the places.