Mundane News

[PeteXXX]

Weather unimportant..

We have Sunday morning Jenga

 

[midlife]

That jenga set looks huge!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

That jenga set looks huge!

It could be just a very small house.

 

[PeteXXX]

Don't get in the way when it topples

 

[Lullabelle]

Warm and sunny here today

 

[raleighnut]

My 3 colleagues put the tree up in the office and various other decorations, unfortunately I had to endure Wham's Last Christmas

I'd need a drink to cope with that.

 

[raleighnut]

Dinning room update, all painting done and the carpet has come up pretty well after shampooing it (with a Bissel 'Pro' machine) starting to clean all the furniture/HiFi/records tapes and CDs and replacing them in the room but at least I've got a minimal music system working in there now.

2nd Poweramp boxed up and ready to go off to Quad to be serviced/fixed (probably a dried out capacitor) so I've had to put the 'shorting bars' back onto the speakers and I'm using 1st Poweramp running stereo with just a single set of speaker cables, it still sounds good but not as nice as running the 2 Amps with each getting it's own channel to play with.

 

[classic33]

Dinning room update, all painting done and the carpet has come up pretty well after shampooing it (with a Bissel 'Pro' machine) starting to clean all the furniture/HiFi/records tapes and CDs and replacing them in the room but at least I've got a minimal music system working in there now.

2nd Poweramp boxed up and ready to go off to Quad to be serviced/fixed (probably a dried out capacitor) so I've had to put the 'shorting bars' back onto the speakers and I'm using 1st Poweramp running stereo with just a single set of speaker cables, it still sounds good but not as nice as running the 2 Amps with each getting it's own channel to play with.

English only allowed for posts!

 

[raleighnut]

English only allowed for posts!

I'll post some pictures in a while.

 

[classic33]

I'll post some pictures in a while.

Will they be in "Double Dutch"?

 

[raleighnut]

Will they be in "Double Dutch"?

This may help,


Schematic of my normal set up

 

[raleighnut]

 

[Salty seadog]

not mundane at all....touching.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b08ktnwk

 

[Speicher]

The knitted Christmas trees are progressing. I could not work out to attach the baubles (very small shiny buttons) in place, and then be able to move them about, as you do with a full-size tree. Sewing them would mean that to move one, I would have to unstitch lots of others, and stitching them in place individually would be very fiddley.

A ha! thought I. In the kitchen drawer with the miscellaneous freezer bags are lots of tiny twist ties. These will provisionally place the baubles in position, but will be easy to re-arrange them if required. I have divided up the buttons into colour "themes" - red, goldy shiny, white shiny, and the sort of buttons with a diamond effect etched in the plastic. They are mostly the buttons that I inherited from an elderly relative. Some of them are tiny ones, which look as if they would have been on a wedding dress.

Now what about tinsel? Do you put tinsel on your tree? The larger of my knitted trees is about 12 inches tall, therefore about one sixth scale. So if tinsel is about 1.5 inches, then my knitted tinsel needs to be about ….. 0.25 inches. The twinkly wool that looks best, imo, is 0.5 inches. What does the panel think about the relativity of size of tinsel to knitted trees?

 

[Supersuperleeds]

The knitted Christmas trees are progressing. I could not work out to attach the baubles (very small shiny buttons) in place, and then be able to move them about, as you do with a full-size tree. Sewing them would mean that to move one, I would have to unstitch lots of others, and stitching them in place individually would be very fiddley.

A ha! thought I. In the kitchen drawer with the miscellaneous freezer bags are lots of tiny twist ties. These will provisionally place the baubles in position, but will be easy to re-arrange them if required. I have divided up the buttons into colour "themes" - red, goldy shiny, white shiny, and the sort of buttons with a diamond effect etched in the plastic. They are mostly the buttons that I inherited from an elderly relative. Some of them are tiny ones, which look as if they would have been on a wedding dress.

Now what about tinsel? Do you put tinsel on your tree? The larger of my knitted trees is about 12 inches tall, therefore about one sixth scale. So if tinsel is about 1.5 inches, then my knitted tinsel needs to be about ….. 0.25 inches. The twinkly wool that looks best, imo, is 0.5 inches. What does the panel think about the relativity of size of tinsel to knitted trees?

Could you stitch the buttons onto elastic (sort of stuff you get in elasticated waistbands)

For tinsel, what about lametta instead, you can cut it to whatever length you want