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The room is tiled which will make it even harder! I don't want to remove them!! But i want to sell the house next year and can't do that with a cracked bath.
If its just a crack on the drop edge i would leave it be, who ever buys it may well rip it all out anyway, cheaper just to knock a few hundred quid of the asking price, i have swapped out baths from under the tiles but it is a pig of a job if the bath is within three walls and tiled round the edges, if you have spare tiles its easy.
 
If its just a crack on the drop edge i would leave it be, who ever buys it may well rip it all out anyway, cheaper just to knock a few hundred quid of the asking price, i have swapped out baths from under the tiles but it is a pig of a job if the bath is within three walls and tiled round the edges, if you have spare tiles its easy.
Fair point!
 
Pontüche Method or commonly known as Parking a disputed subject.
A recent personnel meeting, which was getting heated on the subject of packing labels, for live gerbils from Amazon jungle tribes. Resulted in the use of the Pontüche Method that stopped the subject dead in the water. This allowed other concerning subjects to brought forward.
The origin of Pontüche Method dates to a German Naval Rating
Kurt Swarbdekken Who was faced under fire during the Jutland battle, a decision when his forward gun position stuck to the right.
The hand signals to inform the captain about the predicament was to raise both arms and hands halfway straight ahead, then swinging right and hard down.
See from the released German Naval WW1 image diagram below:
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Yet to hear back from W as to how the visit went.
Don't bode well methinks. :(

And at this end things have really gone poop.😢😢😢

Found that the bloke who fitted the septic tank made a right cheap job of it. The exit from the tank is a right angled bit of drain pipe, one end goes into the tank, the other end goes DOWN. Well, fiddling about with it in a small ditch I had to dig to try and clear the overflow away I realised that the down pipe ended about 18" down and was supposed to be connected to yet another pipe that went even further down, presumably until it was/is nearly at the bottom of the outside of the tank. The barstaff who fitted it never glued hardly any of the pipes together, apparently it is straditional not to do so over here. So this pipe will be nearly 2 metres long. So most of it is buried and most of it is full of sludge. I rammed a mining bar down it to see if I could clear it, the bar kept feeling like it was hitting concrete then it was suddenly go through but only up to another bit of solid. The bar isn't long enough and it doesn't move from side to side at all, so whatever is down there is flipping tough stuff.
I need a longer mining bar for a start and to clear all the waste "water" from the pipe so I can chuck powerful drain cleaner down. I don't have a sludge pump so all I can think of at the mo is to fabricate some sort of a syphon out of old swimming pool pipe or watering hose, But I won't be sucking on the end of that to start it off!

Hope your days are going better.;)
 
Yet to hear back from W as to how the visit went.
Don't bode well methinks. :(

And at this end things have really gone poop.😢😢😢

Found that the bloke who fitted the septic tank made a right cheap job of it. The exit from the tank is a right angled bit of drain pipe, one end goes into the tank, the other end goes DOWN. Well, fiddling about with it in a small ditch I had to dig to try and clear the overflow away I realised that the down pipe ended about 18" down and was supposed to be connected to yet another pipe that went even further down, presumably until it was/is nearly at the bottom of the outside of the tank. The barstaff who fitted it never glued hardly any of the pipes together, apparently it is straditional not to do so over here. So this pipe will be nearly 2 metres long. So most of it is buried and most of it is full of sludge. I rammed a mining bar down it to see if I could clear it, the bar kept feeling like it was hitting concrete then it was suddenly go through but only up to another bit of solid. The bar isn't long enough and it doesn't move from side to side at all, so whatever is down there is flipping tough stuff.
I need a longer mining bar for a start and to clear all the waste "water" from the pipe so I can chuck powerful drain cleaner down. I don't have a sludge pump so all I can think of at the mo is to fabricate some sort of a syphon out of old swimming pool pipe or watering hose, But I won't be sucking on the end of that to start it off!

Hope your days are going better.;)
Powerwasher to jet it out?
 
Anyway heard back from W. She is pretty chipper.
The surgeon didn't really tell her much we didn't already know and basically it will start with a keyhole job to see what can be done and if that don't work things will get progressively more serious.
Worst case scenario - stoma bag. which she knew anyway.
Sun's out now, really nice day!
Shame I am up to my elbows in poopy stuff!
Seeyez!:):):)
 
Well amazingly the really long syphon made from watering hose worked!
So now I have something a bit more solid to try and shift with a lot of drain cleaner stuff!
No fun having to wash oneself in a plassy washing up bowl then chuck it outdoors. Just like when we first got here until connected up the little basin in the downstairs loo!
 
Well amazingly the really long syphon made from watering hose worked!
So now I have something a bit more solid to try and shift with a lot of drain cleaner stuff!
No fun having to wash oneself in a plassy washing up bowl then chuck it outdoors. Just like when we first got here until connected up the little basin in the downstairs loo!
An over-simplified approach maybe.
 
Anyway heard back from W. She is pretty chipper.
The surgeon didn't really tell her much we didn't already know and basically it will start with a keyhole job to see what can be done and if that don't work things will get progressively more serious.
Worst case scenario - stoma bag. which she knew anyway.
Sun's out now, really nice day!
Shame I am up to my elbows in poopy stuff!
Seeyez!:):):)
M&s now do knickers for stoma bags wearers now
 
I agree, that always struck me too, but then "tonto" is eSpanish for "silly, fool or foolish" which I think you know cos you spikadalingo!!
As for the rest of your post, well What can I say? :stars: :stars: :stars: :stars:
Have read in other places that in Apache, kemosabe translates as "idiot", which would be fitting. Other interpretations include 'one who dresses in white', 'white person' or 'trusty scout'
My preferred version is the Navajo "soggy shrub" (or "damp bush") which is much more fun. Hence the following:
< On a 1969 episode of The Johnny Carson Show, Carson did a sketch in which he interviewed Jay Silverheels—who portrayed Tonto on the Lone Ranger TV series—in character, for a new job at NBC. “I work 30 years as faithful sidekick for kemosabe,” Silverheels tells Carson in the bit. “Hunt, fish, make food, sew clothes, sweep up, stay awake all night, listen for enemies for kemosabe. Risk life for kemosabe. Thirty lousy years.” When Carson wonders why Tonto’s former employer let him go, the once-faithful sidekick replies, “Him find out what kemosabe mean.” >

Night all...
 
"The word "how" is a pop culture anglicization of the Lakota word háu, a Lakota language greeting by men to men.[1] The term how is often found in stereotypical and outdated depictions of Native Americans, made by non-Natives, in some Hollywood movies and various novels, e.g. those of James Fenimore Cooper or Karl May."

Further reading.

Anybody else remember the teevee show of the same name with Fred Dinenage et al? Was only ony down ere praps... I loved it.
They even did the hand thing.
 
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