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Morning All :D
Lovely day here again. :)
All my morning jobs are jobbed, Bacon-n-Egg consumed and Coffee x 2 slurped. ;)
Now what?:rolleyes:
I will check in on the house of doom to see what's occurring I guess.
Other than that, I have my old shed to re-roof (rubber-roof kit on its way), so some prep could be done I guess.
Have a great day y'all :D:D
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Please, please, PLEASE tell us about your midge machine, as wifey suffers real bad with mossy bites!:):):):):):):):):)


Cold here in the Frog mountains and wifey making the sort of "I'm chilly, it's chilly" noises that mean I'll have to get the log burner going soon. Only trouble, don't think I have any dry kindlin, although loads of logs cut and indoors. But maybe I have. Can't remember as did it near on 12 month ago.
Immersion playing up too. Water in tank getting cooler as we have had three days with no sun, so may need to sort that out. Power to it Ok, tis the thermostat/switch which is orl rusty. (Condensation that happens in the cupboard during the winter, must be to do with 300 litres of water in tank only getting up to 10 degrees when we are away.
Still, they have our freezer in, down in Carcassonne! My phone call of Saturday must have got them going, for once. Debating whether to drag a mate with me to help load it, though hoping either I can do it on me own or someone there will lend a hand!
Will get it after lunch.
Still, weather supposed to be improving back up to 27 degrees after today!
Have a good day all!:):):):):)
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Hey Stan how's tricks I hope yous are enjoying your time away. (lucky buggers) :D
Ref the midge machine we have one similar to to one in the link....
https://midgetech.co.uk/mosquito-magnet-pioneer/4086/657/116/
Plus one of these.....well two, we got a spare new one as the original was damaged & they sent a
replacement but did not want the damaged one back so I repaired it.
https://midgesnomore.wordpress.com/
The first one is amazing runs off propane & takes a square attractant tablet uses about
13k of gas between 30/40 days we have had about 7 full bags of the little biting fkrs.
Takes a rechargeable battery should last the season with one charge.

The second one is electric also takes an attractant 7 quid a pop lasts a month.
It also has an ultraviolet light which seams to attract the moths here it might be
better with mozzies?? We got this one from amazon for 50 quid just to try it.
Not near as good as the gas one but still works.

Now the daddy of the machines is the predator & dealer is in Dunoon not too far from us.....
https://www.midgebusters.com/
We got a cracking deal on our gas one so we could buy two for the price of one of the predators.
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Stanleysteamer said:
No I is not a Roger. Not a name one comes across that often nowadays. Though I knew a few when I was a lad and loads of Nigels. Who calls their kid Nigel nowadays?!:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
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Funny you should say that I have a neighbour called Rodger he got his hand minced & 3 fingers
chopped off by a propshaft that shat itself & came through the floor of a car :eek:
The surgeon that worked on him for a few years works on blast victims you would never know
he'd had his had re-built apart from some scarring, amazing really. :)

Now moving on to Nigel lol The yard manager we had was a right t!t called Neil but I called him
Nigel one day in error it stuck from then on haha he fkn hated it ha fkn ha (still laughing) :D:D
 
Morning all.....
Ive done nowt today apart from make tea & light the fire.:oops:
The misses has got a big day today..first hair job since before lockdown lol
Im the designated driver so a wee drive in the D1 me thinks :D:D
Taking the pooch think il go over to Loch Lomond for a walk along the bonny banks.
Tis over cast an a chill in the air not looking to good, never can tell what the weather
will do here. :rolleyes:

njoy yer day ya'll :)
 
Got up late and decided to tackle my electric meter.
You'll remember the issue with the RCD?
Well it took me a good 20 mins to get the fecker open, after driving the 800 metres it takes to get to it. Once open it is obvious the meter hasn't been read for eons, so photographed the readings then the RCD in the box. Readings a mile below the estimated ones on the bill.
Went back to house, photographed the RCD there too, tried to follow the stuff on Enedis's sh!te website, couldn't make it do what it needed to do, no way to contact them from the site etc, etc as per fu ckin usual in frogland.
Luckily had an Eaddress i'd had to use before so sent them the pics and a letter.
Then tried to update my meter readings on the EDF site, which is so full of useless sh!t about how you can save electricity, etc, etc. Obvs couldn't find where to enter meter readings, they obvs don't want you to, unlike all the Brit ones I've used, (With our latest one we have to do it once a month!).
So again, snotty letter to EDF refusing to pay the bill until they send me a new one, or a person to read the meter, (Who won't be able to find it as they never can!!!)
So on the forum until I can calm down and get on wiv making matching shelves to our other kitchen/utility cabinets to put over the new freezer! Lots of stupid sawing of sh!tboard which I'll have to reinforce, but at least it'll look at least a bit intended!
At least the weather is perking up!
Have a nice day folks!:):):):)
 
kevstar said:
Hey Stan how's tricks I hope yous are enjoying your time away. (lucky buggers) :D
Ref the midge machine we have one similar to to one in the link....
https://midgetech.co.uk/mosquito-magnet-pioneer/4086/657/116/
Plus one of these.....well two, we got a spare new one as the original was damaged & they sent a
replacement but did not want the damaged one back so I repaired it.
https://midgesnomore.wordpress.com/
The first one is amazing runs off propane & takes a square attractant tablet uses about
13k of gas between 30/40 days we have had about 7 full bags of the little biting fkrs.
Takes a rechargeable battery should last the season with one charge.

The second one is electric also takes an attractant 7 quid a pop lasts a month.
It also has an ultraviolet light which seams to attract the moths here it might be
better with mozzies?? We got this one from amazon for 50 quid just to try it.
Not near as good as the gas one but still works.

Now the daddy of the machines is the predator & dealer is in Dunoon not too far from us.....
https://www.midgebusters.com/
We got a cracking deal on our gas one so we could buy two for the price of one of the predators.
d12e7e2615692179846a4e20278aff00.jpg
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Cheers matey! Will have a look at these in due course with wifey on hand. Without even looking at the links they do sound like they mean business!
We have had one or two of the electric things with the blue light and the zapper but they never worked for more than five minutes.
but if they have tablets and use gas and such they must be much more sophisticated.
Will let you know.
Cheers again!
:):):):):):):):):)
 
Dippypud said:
Can't you take photos / vid on yer phone then go back to compare with their shots ?
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As you'll see, I just posted the fact that I had to take pics and then send em off. I don't have a camera on my phone, which sadly i dropped on our tiled floor this a.m and am anxiously waiting to see if it will ever function again. It is an old friend and very reliable. An old Motorola V171. Whooppee! Just tested it and it seems to just have been a flat battery!:):):)
So all pics i take are with my digital SLR and all the cr@p that entails, processing the pics, saving them uploading them after editing etc.:(:(:(
 
Weather a lot better over here, actually opened up the pool to heat it up a bit.
Spent the rest of affo apple harvesting. We already have enough for 50 litres of apple juice and so many more trees to harvest.
At this rate we really will have to contemplate selling it!
Wifey decided to make some damsons into stewed fruit. Fine. It is lovely.:):):):)
Then she decided to bottle some of it. So she did another batch and put it in the equivalent to Kilner jars, the sort with wire clippy things and big orange rubber sealing rings.
Hmmmm!
Some have sprouted a little bit of mould on the top.
Some have started bubbling and pushing bits of liquid out. We think they have gone alcoholic!!
Will have to decide what we are going to do about all this. (She never checked it out on tinternet nor nuffin!)
We also made a load of jam with some, (we have jam going back three years now.) About 15 jars.
Harvest time is so bloody busy! "Holiday home" , my left buttock!
 
kevstar said:
Morning all.....
Ive done nowt today apart from make tea & light the fire.:oops:
The misses has got a big day today..first hair job since before lockdown lol
Im the designated driver so a wee drive in the D1 me thinks :D:D
Taking the pooch think il go over to Loch Lomond for a walk along the bonny banks.
Tis over cast an a chill in the air not looking to good, never can tell what the weather
will do here. :rolleyes:

njoy yer day ya'll :)
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"go over to" thourt you lived on the Bonny banks? Or have you moved?:confused:
 
kevstar said:
Hey Stan how's tricks I hope yous are enjoying your time away. (lucky buggers) :D
Ref the midge machine we have one similar to to one in the link....
https://midgetech.co.uk/mosquito-magnet-pioneer/4086/657/116/
Plus one of these.....well two, we got a spare new one as the original was damaged & they sent a
replacement but did not want the damaged one back so I repaired it.
https://midgesnomore.wordpress.com/
The first one is amazing runs off propane & takes a square attractant tablet uses about
13k of gas between 30/40 days we have had about 7 full bags of the little biting fkrs.
Takes a rechargeable battery should last the season with one charge.

The second one is electric also takes an attractant 7 quid a pop lasts a month.
It also has an ultraviolet light which seams to attract the moths here it might be
better with mozzies?? We got this one from amazon for 50 quid just to try it.
Not near as good as the gas one but still works.

Now the daddy of the machines is the predator & dealer is in Dunoon not too far from us.....
https://www.midgebusters.com/
We got a cracking deal on our gas one so we could buy two for the price of one of the predators.
d12e7e2615692179846a4e20278aff00.jpg
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Right had a look at this lot.Wifey is prepared to spend anything to keep off the midges.
We had a look and even the most expensive ones are sold out, so we'll have another look once we get back to blighty.
But thanks again mate!
Anything that would allow us to enjoy the outdoor life a bit more over here would be brill!
Cheers
Stan
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Weather a lot better over here, actually opened up the pool to heat it up a bit.
Spent the rest of affo apple harvesting. We already have enough for 50 litres of apple juice and so many more trees to harvest.
At this rate we really will have to contemplate selling it!
Wifey decided to make some damsons into stewed fruit. Fine. It is lovely.:):):):)
Then she decided to bottle some of it. So she did another batch and put it in the equivalent to Kilner jars, the sort with wire clippy things and big orange rubber sealing rings.
Hmmmm!
Some have sprouted a little bit of mould on the top.
Some have started bubbling and pushing bits of liquid out. We think they have gone alcoholic!!
Will have to decide what we are going to do about all this. (She never checked it out on tinternet nor nuffin!)
We also made a load of jam with some, (we have jam going back three years now.) About 15 jars.
Harvest time is so bloody busy! "Holiday home" , my left buttock!
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If you bottle it, you have to sterri lize the jars and seals and cook the fruit, a bit like making jam ...
 
Dippypud said:
If you bottle it, you have to sterri lize the jars and seals and cook the fruit, a bit like making jam ...
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Which is more or less what she did, I think. We are experienced jam makers and sterilisation etc is second nature to us. She did also cook the fruit, and added a bit of honey and brown sugar to it. So I have no idea.
We are thinking of opening the jars, taking all the metal bits off and putting them in the microwave for a bit, to reheat the stewed fruit and pasturise it, as it were, before putting the lids, seals, etc back on.
Or we might just empty the whole lot back into a pan, rewash and sterilise the jars, reheat the mixture, and start bottling again.
We shall see!
 
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