I would just like to say

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Morning All :D
Shocking the price of energy! Just got another request from my supplier to up the DD to £350/Month. That's more than doubled in this year so far.
How are people on low/fixed incomes meant to cope? Government was asleep at the wheel and too busy spending money on things no-one needs like HS2 instead of Nuclear Power Stations. :mad:
7° and not raining at least. :)
Have a good day. :D
 
The crops in the fields behind Wimblowdriver Towers are suffering badly from wood pigeon and crow damage. The bird population has increased significantly over the last couple of years - probably due to them being better protected by law. The farmer has been using gas fired bangers on timers, fireworks (which seem to fail after the first bang), flags and spinning brightly coloured things which look like big eyes to scare them. With some but not full effectiveness. Yesterday I spotted the farmer driving up the trackway, he got out and gave a solitary pigeon both barrels of his shotgun. That worked :eek:
 
My Old Landy said:
Ah that is a blow! Sorry to hear this, I hope you can get a new booking sorted in time :(
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Miraculously, after continuously calling them and getting hung up on for 25 minutes they rang us and arranged an overnight crossing the same night to St Malo. So. not bad at all really!!
Huge relief!
We are actually sitting here sipping small cognacs, to calm our nerves.;) This was at about 9:30, we've been too busy since for me to finish this post!)
so "Morning folks"
Hope all are well.
Back to the dog groomer etc!!:):):)
 
DanClarke said:
Morning All :D
Shocking the price of energy! Just got another request from my supplier to up the DD to £350/Month. That's more than doubled in this year so far.
How are people on low/fixed incomes meant to cope? Government was asleep at the wheel and too busy spending money on things no-one needs like HS2 instead of Nuclear Power Stations. :mad:
7° and not raining at least. :)
Have a good day. :D
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That amount is totally insane, :eek:unless you've got a huge deficit. Ours with Octopus is staying at £90, for both gas and electric. Mind you they know we are going away for a long spell. ;)
But yes, that is over half my state pension. :eek:
 
Stanleysteamer said:
That amount is totally insane, :eek:unless you've got a huge deficit. Ours with Octopus is staying at £90, for both gas and electric. Mind you they know we are going away for a long spell. ;)
But yes, that is over half my state pension. :eek:
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Well the increase reflects the same Kwh consumption but higher per Kwh rates AND to add insult to injury the "Admin Charges" have more than doubled as well!!!
 
Wimblowdriver said:
The crops in the fields behind Wimblowdriver Towers are suffering badly from wood pigeon and crow damage. The bird population has increased significantly over the last couple of years - probably due to them being better protected by law. The farmer has been using gas fired bangers on timers, fireworks (which seem to fail after the first bang), flags and spinning brightly coloured things which look like big eyes to scare them. With some but not full effectiveness. Yesterday I spotted the farmer driving up the trackway, he got out and gave a solitary pigeon both barrels of his shotgun. That worked :eek:
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It sounds like Beirut round here dusk and dawn - bloody crop bangers. One went off last eve and I nearly sharted. There are too many pest species to control now :mad:
 
... that I must be getting slightly better at this machining malarkey :)
I managed to part off a 60mm OD x 2mm walled tube today, not only that but the lathe was running in fwd and the parting tool up the right way. :D
Normally, for rigidity reasons I part with the lathe in reverse and the parting tool upside down. :(
Normally I would face one end, cut it over-length with a grinder and then turn it round and face the newly cut end.
Today I managed to part the ruddy thing in situ. Being a big thin-walled tube it was hard to centre up as the wall of the tube can get squashed.
But I went nice and slow and it all happened as it should. A bit of chatter and vibration, but a clean cut. Very pleased I am. :D
 
DanClarke said:
... that I must be getting slightly better at this machining malarkey :)
I managed to part off a 60mm OD x 2mm walled tube today, not only that but the lathe was running in fwd and the parting tool up the right way. :D
Normally, for rigidity reasons I part with the lathe in reverse and the parting tool upside down. :(
Normally I would face one end, cut it over-length with a grinder and then turn it round and face the newly cut end.
Today I managed to part the ruddy thing in situ. Being a big thin-walled tube it was hard to centre up as the wall of the tube can get squashed.
But I went nice and slow and it all happened as it should. A bit of chatter and vibration, but a clean cut. Very pleased I am. :D
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Well done.
nice to see someone mastering new skills!! Or maybe a new machine.:):):)
 
DanClarke said:
... that I must be getting slightly better at this machining malarkey :)
I managed to part off a 60mm OD x 2mm walled tube today, not only that but the lathe was running in fwd and the parting tool up the right way. :D
Normally, for rigidity reasons I part with the lathe in reverse and the parting tool upside down. :(
Normally I would face one end, cut it over-length with a grinder and then turn it round and face the newly cut end.
Today I managed to part the ruddy thing in situ. Being a big thin-walled tube it was hard to centre up as the wall of the tube can get squashed.
But I went nice and slow and it all happened as it should. A bit of chatter and vibration, but a clean cut. Very pleased I am. :D
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Brilliant! You are certainly improving at a great rate :)
 
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