The Retirement Thread

[Exlaser2]

Morning all from a cooler and windy Coventry. On my second proper coffee thinking we will leave the bikes in the shed and go for a walk this afternoon after the virtual sailing of course . 😀

 

[PaulSB]

@Dave7 hope you can see from this image how I grow my tomatoes. The canes are secured to a wire running along the apex of the greenhouse roof. In your situation an A frame would probably be better.

The newspaper I use for covering plants outside if there is a frost danger.

 

[Dave7]

@Dave7 hope you can see from this image how I grow my tomatoes. The canes are secured to a wire running along the apex of the greenhouse roof. In your situation an A frame would probably be better.

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The newspaper I use for covering plants outside if there is a frost danger.

Looks a bit technical for me .
Can I not just put a cane in the pot and tie the plant to it ?

 

[Dave7]

Blinkin blumin flippin ecky thump......its cold out there.
Daughter has just been to bring a few bits. She let herself in to the side garden and we sat well apart. We all had blankets around us, it is sooooo cold.

 

[PaulSB]

Looks a bit technical for me .
Can I not just put a cane in the pot and tie the plant to it ?

You'll get support with an A frame. Tomatoes get very leafy and in windy weather might blow over.

Stick a cane in on opposite sides of your pot. Bend them together at the top and tie together. If you want put in a cross piece to make the A.

Go on Dave you know you can do it

 

[classic33]

You'll get support with an A frame. Tomatoes get very leafy and in windy weather might blow over.

Stick a cane in on opposite sides of your pot. Bend them together at the top and the together. If you want put in a cross piece to make the A.

Go on Dave you know you can do it

Maybe he'll advance onto a tripod!

 

[PaulSB]

Adam delivered my new washing machine drain pump between 9.35 and 10.35. Very good of him......... except I'd planned to fit it tomorrow when it was meant to arrive.

I have fitted said pump. Would you all please gather in a circle, link hands, chanting "Oh mighty Lord of all white goods grant unto Paul great good fortune in acknowledgement of his labours. Let him reap the reward he so justly deserves."


If you hear a loud bang............

 

[Paulus]

I have both on my kindle. Tim Moore is undoubtedly mad but interesting and the other has harrowing accounts of the first cycle race in the immediate aftermath of WW1.

I have read his latest book about going coast to coast across America in a 1927 Model T Ford following the states that voted for Trump.

It is a very good and funny book.

 

[classic33]

Adam delivered my new washing machine drain pump between 9.35 and 10.35. Very good of him......... except I'd planned to fit it tomorrow when it was meant to arrive.

I have fitted said pump. Would you all please gather in a circle, link hands, chanting "Oh mighty Lord of all white goods grant unto Paul great good fortune in acknowledgement of his labours. Let him reap the reward he so justly deserves."


If you hear a loud bang............

And I've a feeling it was only the impeller that actually required replacing.

You still there, street still got power?

 

[PaulSB]

OK. Own up. Who didn't chant? Mouthing the words is not acceptable.

Feck it

I have a leak. I know where but hoped an extra jubilee clip would work. There is a crack in the small pipe which the water drains from.

Feck! Feck! Feck!

 

[numbnuts]

Is it time to go to bed yet

 

[screenman]

View attachment 521309 Is it time to go to bed yet

Are you in Sydney?

 

[12boy]

had to go south to n we Mexico for a couple of weeks

 

[PaulSB]

And I've a feeling it was only the impeller that actually required replacing.

You still there, street still got power?

The impeller is integral to the pump but you could have been correct. Unfortunately I've discovered something else..........................

There is an assembly fitted at the bottom of the machine which contains the fluff filter. Behind the casing of the machine this assembly also carries the drain pump and has two 3cm plastic tubes as part of its moulding. One of these tubes is connected to the drum by a flexible hose for draining. I have discovered the internal diameter of this plastic tube is EXACTLY, neigh PRECISELY, the same as the outer diameter of a 2p piece. This I think was the cause of the draining problem!!!!!!!! The other plastic tube which to which is attached a second flexible hose has a crack in it and is leaking when under pressure.

Why can't the Germans make washing machines which fit their copins and not ours 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

On the plus side I am now 52p better off..........................the 2p that was blocking the pipe and a 50p I found just behind it.

 

[BoldonLad]

The impeller is integral to the pump but you could have been correct. Unfortunately I've discovered something else..........................

There is an assembly fitted at the bottom of the machine which contains the fluff filter. Behind the casing of the machine this assembly also carries the drain pump and has two 3cm plastic tubes as part of its moulding. One of these tubes is connected to the drum by a flexible hose for draining. I have discovered the internal diameter of this plastic tube is EXACTLY, neigh PRECISELY, the same as the outer diameter of a 2p piece. This I think was the cause of the draining problem!!!!!!!! The other plastic tube which to which is attached a second flexible hose has a crack in it and is leaking when under pressure.

Why can't the Germans make washing machines which fit their copins and not ours 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

On the plus side I am now 52p better off..........................the 2p that was blocking the pipe and a 50p I found just behind it.

In my experience, amazing what you find in the pipes of a washing machine, coins, keys, lipsticks, bits of bra,.... the list goes on.