I also have notes on my phone.So just after Xmas I did a list of rides for this year.Starting with the shortest first,Otley.Then each one for further Wetherby,Knaresborough 36 miles,Rufforth 44.Leading up to the biggie Langstrothdale guess what Covid,so they are still in for 2021.Fingers crossed.
The Retirement Thread
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BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
I honestly believed he would drop that bumbling fool act when he got in,and become a real leader.How wrong I was.
Juan Kog
permanently grumpy
He is a bumbling fool, it’s not an act .
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Please!!! enough of this organised perfection
I just use a pen and paper.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
There definitely ARE problems like that. This house has had various bodge jobs done to it over the years. The trouble is it would cost a LOT of money to deal with all of the issues properly. Carpets and floors would have to come up, ceilings would have to come down... Many of the accessible defects HAVE been attended to but other hard-to-reach ones have not been.
For your entertainment, here is a long example of Chez ColinJ electrical bodgery...
My bedroom does not have a light switch! Actually, it DOES - but that switch turns on the bathroom light... There is a second door into the bathroom from the bedroom, which is very handy, and having a switch for that near the doorway makes perfect sense. But why didn't the electrician run another wire round to the same bit of wall and fit a bedroom light switch as well?
The natural way to enter the bedroom is through that bathroom door. But hang on... (at night) the bedroom is in darkness! I would have to go back through the bathroom, out of its other door, and cross the landing to where the bedroom light switch is actually located! Turn the bedroom light on and either go into the bedroom from its other door, or go back through the bathroom again. Get into bed. Read a while. Time to sleep...
Oh bother, no switch... Back out of bed, walk through one door or the other, make my way to the light switch and turn the light off. Now I have to walk across a bedroom floor in the dark, trying not to walk into anything or trip over.
My bed has a wooden surround to it at shin height. I crunched a shin in the dark 3 nights on the trot when I first moved in here and then threw a hissy fit! Fortunately, 'Middle of Lidl' came to my rescue... They had remote-controlled light fittings on offer. I bought and fitted one of those. I now leave the landing switch permanently on and keep the remote bedroom light switch handy near the bathroom door. I can walk in from the bathroom, pick up the remote, and turn the bedroom light on. I go to bed, read/play computer games until I am ready to sleep, then I use the remote to turn the bedroom light off. Super. That works for me...
The landing switch is one of a block of three. A second switch controls the light for the landing. The third switch controls one of three lights in the attic bedroom. I soon discovered that nobody can remember which switch does what so guests operate them at random. That usually meant that my landing switch got turned off unexpectedly by a guest during the night so I could be plunged into darkness while reading, or unable to turn the light back on with my remote without getting out bed, walking across... you get the picture! (Before I added the remote on/off, they would actually turn my light ON in the middle of the night by accident if they paid a night time visit to the bathroom.)
So now I have a strip of duct tape over my bedroom light switch, holding it permanently in the on position and only use the remote to operate the light.
Thinking about it... there is no light switch in THIS room either! The electrician used one of his/her favoured 3-way switch blocks in the hall. One light for the lounge, one for the kitchen, and one for the landing. At least the landing light can be turned on and off from the bottom of the stairs AND from the landing. Hoorah! If the hall light needs to be switched on, there is a separate switch for that. People can't remember which of the 4 switches does what so the wrong lights get switched on and off in random sequences by everybody but me. (I have finally memorised which switch does what.)
One light in the corner of the kitchen ceiling is hidden out of sight behind a structural element. I didn't even realise it was there until I accidentally turned it on when trying to turn the cellar light on. You got it, the corner kitchen light switch is on the other side of the cellar door. Where else would you put it!
There was a mystery switch in the kitchen. In a... block of 3. It took me 2 years to notice that it operated a light in my back yard! I went out one night to put something in the wheelie bin and saw that the exterior light was on so it had quite possibly been on for the whole 2 years.
Speaking of mystery switches... There are two wall lights opposite me, one either side of the chimney breast. It would be nice to be able to switch those on for some mood lighting when watching TV, and then I would turn off the main light in the room. The trouble is that the switches for those lights are so mysterious that AFTER 5 YEARS I STILL HAVE NOT FOUND THEM!
I'm not kidding. I am totally baffled as to how those lights are supposed to be controlled. I am beginning to think that the electrician got halfway through doing the job but then stopped because he couldn't find anywhere useless enough to put the light switches! 
I'm going to get hold of a cable detector to try to see where the wires go. I can see that there are cables at the back of the lights going into the plaster.I like this house. If I had the money I would buy it, but I would spend £5,000-£10,000 extra on sorting out all the stupid problems with it!
classic33
Leg End Member
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" with the electrics then.There definitely ARE problems like that. This house has had various bodge jobs done to it over the years. The trouble is it would cost a LOT of money to deal with all of the issues properly. Carpets and floors would have to come up, ceilings would have to come down... Many of the accessible defects HAVE been attended to but other hard-to-reach ones have not been.
For your entertainment, here is a long example of Chez ColinJ electrical bodgery...
My bedroom does not have a light switch! Actually, it DOES - but that switch turns on the bathroom light... There is a second door into the bathroom from the bedroom, which is very handy, and having a switch for that near the doorway makes perfect sense. But why didn't the electrician run another wire round to the same bit of wall and fit a bedroom light switch as well?
The natural way to enter the bedroom is through that bathroom door. But hang on... (at night) the bedroom is in darkness! I would have to go back through the bathroom, out of its other door, and cross the landing to where the bedroom light switch is actually located! Turn the bedroom light on and either go into the bedroom from its other door, or go back through the bathroom again. Get into bed. Read a while. Time to sleep...
Oh bother, no switch... Back out of bed, walk through one door or the other, make my way to the light switch and turn the light off. Now I have to walk across a bedroom floor in the dark, trying not to walk into anything or trip over.
My bed has a wooden surround to it at shin height. I crunched a shin in the dark 3 nights on the trot when I first moved in here and then threw a hissy fit! Fortunately, 'Middle of Lidl' came to my rescue... They had remote-controlled light fittings on offer. I bought and fitted one of those. I now leave the landing switch permanently on and keep the remote bedroom light switch handy near the bathroom door. I can walk in from the bathroom, pick up the remote, and turn the bedroom light on. I go to bed, read/play computer games until I am ready to sleep, then I use the remote to turn the bedroom light off. Super. That works for me...
The landing switch is one of a block of three. A second switch controls the light for the landing. The third switch controls one of three lights in the attic bedroom. I soon discovered that nobody can remember which switch does what so guests operate them at random. That usually meant that my landing switch got turned off unexpectedly by a guest during the night so I could be plunged into darkness while reading, or unable to turn the light back on with my remote without getting out bed, walking across... you get the picture! (Before I added the remote on/off, they would actually turn my light ON in the middle of the night by accident if they paid a night time visit to the bathroom.)
So now I have a strip of duct tape over my bedroom light switch, holding it permanently in the on position and only use the remote to operate the light.
Thinking about it... there is no light switch in THIS room either! The electrician used one of his/her favoured 3-way switch blocks in the hall. One light for the lounge, one for the kitchen, and one for the landing. At least the landing light can be turned on and off from the bottom of the stairs AND from the landing. Hoorah! If the hall light needs to be switched on, there is a separate switch for that. People can't remember which of the 4 switches does what so the wrong lights get switched on and off in random sequences by everybody but me. (I have finally memorised which switch does what.)
One light in the corner of the kitchen ceiling is hidden out of sight behind a structural element. I didn't even realise it was there until I accidentally turned it on when trying to turn the cellar light on. You got it, the corner kitchen light switch is on the other side of the cellar door. Where else would you put it!
There was a mystery switch in the kitchen. In a... block of 3. It took me 2 years to notice that it operated a light in my back yard! I went out one night to put something in the wheelie bin and saw that the exterior light was on so it had quite possibly been on for the whole 2 years.
Speaking of mystery switches... There are two wall lights opposite me, one either side of the chimney breast. It would be nice to be able to switch those on for some mood lighting when watching TV, and then I would turn off the main light in the room. The trouble is that the switches for those lights are so mysterious that AFTER 5 YEARS I STILL HAVE NOT FOUND THEM!
I like this house. If I had the money I would buy it, but I would spend £5,000-£10,000 extra on sorting out all the stupid problems with it!
Is that the one that appeared on homes under the hammer some years ago?
If it is, there should be a switch in the attic that turns the two lights either side of the chimney, on and off.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
This one, perhaps...?
Who would have thought that the USA would elect someone who made George W. Bush look like an amazing president!
Me too. I write on the back of my previous till receipt.
I plan my shopping using a blackboard painted onto my kitchen wall, near my fridge. That is a rare example of something in this house that I wouldn't have thought of doing, and which actually make sense! Whenever I am running out of something I chalk it onto the list. Just before a trip to the shops I prioritise a selection from what is on the wall and transfer what I will be able to carry onto my paper list.
classic33
Leg End Member
Is tha back yet?
D
Deleted member 1258
Guest
There definitely ARE problems like that. This house has had various bodge jobs done to it over the years. The trouble is it would cost a LOT of money to deal with all of the issues properly. Carpets and floors would have to come up, ceilings would have to come down... Many of the accessible defects HAVE been attended to but other hard-to-reach ones have not been.
For your entertainment, here is a long example of Chez ColinJ electrical bodgery...
My bedroom does not have a light switch! Actually, it DOES - but that switch turns on the bathroom light... There is a second door into the bathroom from the bedroom, which is very handy, and having a switch for that near the doorway makes perfect sense. But why didn't the electrician run another wire round to the same bit of wall and fit a bedroom light switch as well?
The natural way to enter the bedroom is through that bathroom door. But hang on... (at night) the bedroom is in darkness! I would have to go back through the bathroom, out of its other door, and cross the landing to where the bedroom light switch is actually located! Turn the bedroom light on and either go into the bedroom from its other door, or go back through the bathroom again. Get into bed. Read a while. Time to sleep...
Oh bother, no switch... Back out of bed, walk through one door or the other, make my way to the light switch and turn the light off. Now I have to walk across a bedroom floor in the dark, trying not to walk into anything or trip over.
My bed has a wooden surround to it at shin height. I crunched a shin in the dark 3 nights on the trot when I first moved in here and then threw a hissy fit! Fortunately, 'Middle of Lidl' came to my rescue... They had remote-controlled light fittings on offer. I bought and fitted one of those. I now leave the landing switch permanently on and keep the remote bedroom light switch handy near the bathroom door. I can walk in from the bathroom, pick up the remote, and turn the bedroom light on. I go to bed, read/play computer games until I am ready to sleep, then I use the remote to turn the bedroom light off. Super. That works for me...
The landing switch is one of a block of three. A second switch controls the light for the landing. The third switch controls one of three lights in the attic bedroom. I soon discovered that nobody can remember which switch does what so guests operate them at random. That usually meant that my landing switch got turned off unexpectedly by a guest during the night so I could be plunged into darkness while reading, or unable to turn the light back on with my remote without getting out bed, walking across... you get the picture! (Before I added the remote on/off, they would actually turn my light ON in the middle of the night by accident if they paid a night time visit to the bathroom.)
So now I have a strip of duct tape over my bedroom light switch, holding it permanently in the on position and only use the remote to operate the light.
Thinking about it... there is no light switch in THIS room either! The electrician used one of his/her favoured 3-way switch blocks in the hall. One light for the lounge, one for the kitchen, and one for the landing. At least the landing light can be turned on and off from the bottom of the stairs AND from the landing. Hoorah! If the hall light needs to be switched on, there is a separate switch for that. People can't remember which of the 4 switches does what so the wrong lights get switched on and off in random sequences by everybody but me. (I have finally memorised which switch does what.)
One light in the corner of the kitchen ceiling is hidden out of sight behind a structural element. I didn't even realise it was there until I accidentally turned it on when trying to turn the cellar light on. You got it, the corner kitchen light switch is on the other side of the cellar door. Where else would you put it!
There was a mystery switch in the kitchen. In a... block of 3. It took me 2 years to notice that it operated a light in my back yard! I went out one night to put something in the wheelie bin and saw that the exterior light was on so it had quite possibly been on for the whole 2 years.
Speaking of mystery switches... There are two wall lights opposite me, one either side of the chimney breast. It would be nice to be able to switch those on for some mood lighting when watching TV, and then I would turn off the main light in the room. The trouble is that the switches for those lights are so mysterious that AFTER 5 YEARS I STILL HAVE NOT FOUND THEM!
I like this house. If I had the money I would buy it, but I would spend £5,000-£10,000 extra on sorting out all the stupid problems with it!
Flick of the Elbow
less than
- Location
- Pentlands Water of Leith
This is a new one on me, MrsF bought a refill of Rock Rose gin from the supermarket, it comes in a plastic pack that you put in the post, without an envelope or stamp, to return to them. Cool 
Cheque?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
That's how I felt when the sheer daftness of the wiring (etc.) here became clear to me.
I just nipped down into the damp, cobwebby cellar to check out a hunch... I can see wires coming through the cellar ceiling through some insulation just below where the non-functioning lights are. They have either been severed or were ridiculously short to start with. At any rate, they are not connected to anything... I'll go with 'person who started the job did not finish it'!
I might do my own bodge job and run some cables from the light fixtures down the plaster on the sides of the chimney breast. They would be out of sight and easy to get to a wall socket
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Ah yes, I wish. I've spent years of and wasted much breath trying to persuade Mrs P we should have a shared list and calendar. Oh how I wish.
Mrs P has a handwritten calendar on which she sometimes writes things, one on her phone she sometimes uses and then other times she says "I know I'm playing tennis at 10.00 but can't remember who with." She did once go to the wrong tennis courts. 😄😄
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Mrs P has moved G&T time forward. Yesterday it was 5.00pm, today 5.20pm........I'm not sure if I'm confused or p****d 
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