It's the caravan that needs the cuddle!
I have nearly finished the house referb so I am starting to relax into being a layaboutI’m sat at Bristol. was in a queue for 40 mins only to be told wrong queue.
well it’s been over 12months since I was last here.
Think I’m local(ish) today.
hows retirement feeling? @My Old Landy
One of the reasons I gave up was the commute! I still get up at stupid o'clock but I don't have to go anywhere!Guid morning
Back in the office after furlough
Enjoyed getting up at 05:15 and my 70 mile commute.....not !
Awaiting my restart medical and Drug and Alcohol test, mmm perhaps I shouldn't of had the Isle of Jura last nigh.
Enjoy the Level 2 freedom all
Good luck with your first day back and the changes with your job
I have found my glasses after loosing them 2 weeks ago! Been using my old pair and struggling a bit. This morning I was looking for something else and happened upon them
Always the way I suppose!
Always the way I suppose!
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Pulled some weeds oat me path and drive. Removed the small ones from edgar's pot. He weren't appy but its for the best. Put some more flower buds back un put carpet back. Found a copper gas pipe going towards me living room so they must have had a gas fing int there int past. Not there any more but eye want that removed. Washed ma hippo's wheels wiv cleaner and watta butt watta. Not much done but little steps.
£52 sovs ferra take away.
£52 sovs ferra take away.
I can report that it is a lovely sunny day here. Can't remember the last time I was able to say that.
I hope you all get to enjoy similar.
Can't remember the last time I was able to say that.I hope you all get to enjoy similar.
Posh git prolly thinks it counts as outside catering for his dinner party£52 sovs ferra take away.
Hippo
Lord Hippo
He's gorra disco. He'll buy anyfink.Posh git prolly thinks it counts as outside catering for his dinner party
...that I wish purveyors of paint would stop changing their ruddy colour range.
The whole $odding house has "Moonlight" vinyl matt everywhere and so this was required for the walls & ceiling of the mini-barn.
We had some already and I bought another 2.5L tin(well, plastic) online some time ago because I could no longer find the colour stocked where I had bought it; and its not going to be enough.
I go online to get more and.... guess what? No longer carried as a pallete colour in our arty-farty "latest craze" ranges.
I am going to have to get my local man to try and colour-match with a sample swatch/piece of painted card.
Why can't all paint manufacturers declare the RAL/PANTONE code for their paints so you do not get left in the lurch for repairs etc.
The whole $odding house has "Moonlight" vinyl matt everywhere and so this was required for the walls & ceiling of the mini-barn.
We had some already and I bought another 2.5L tin(well, plastic) online some time ago because I could no longer find the colour stocked where I had bought it; and its not going to be enough.
I go online to get more and.... guess what? No longer carried as a pallete colour in our arty-farty "latest craze" ranges.
I am going to have to get my local man to try and colour-match with a sample swatch/piece of painted card.
Why can't all paint manufacturers declare the RAL/PANTONE code for their paints so you do not get left in the lurch for repairs etc.
Hicap phill
Well-Known Member
Good evening from thrapston.
It’s been a day of waiting around which makes the day drag.
Had a 3rd phone call regarding a job offer. Now it must be bad if they are ringing me to offer a job.they won’t commit to my pay demands so I expect a 4th call soon from higher up the ladder.
Stay safe every one & safe hugs to you all
It’s been a day of waiting around which makes the day drag.
Had a 3rd phone call regarding a job offer. Now it must be bad if they are ringing me to offer a job.they won’t commit to my pay demands so I expect a 4th call soon from higher up the ladder.
Stay safe every one & safe hugs to you all
It's the difference between a restaurant that also usually operates a takeaway, like our chinese place which charges more for you to sit down and eat it, (same type of meal, two starters two mains plus veg would work out at £20 to £25, as a Takeaway), and a restaurant that never did takeaway, so charges normal menu prices then doesn't do takeaway very well, to put it mildly.Posh git prolly thinks it counts as outside catering for his dinner party
The food was cold, anything that had been battered was mushy, eg the whitebait, the veg was tasteless and the veal was tough.
This is a restaurant we go to in normal times and the food is not only good but they cater properly for the gluten intolerant among us.
They just have no idea of how to cook to timings that involve a delivery, altho I collected it. They'd obviously cooked it too far in advance and stored it in a plce that didn't keep it warm enough.
Won't be doing it again!
altho the dogs liked it.
We thought we were paying extra for an extra good service. More fool us!
Agree totally, but at least they do colour matching nowadays. I can remember the days when the technology just wasn't there....that I wish purveyors of paint would stop changing their ruddy colour range.
The whole $odding house has "Moonlight" vinyl matt everywhere and so this was required for the walls & ceiling of the mini-barn.
We had some already and I bought another 2.5L tin(well, plastic) online some time ago because I could no longer find the colour stocked where I had bought it; and its not going to be enough.
I go online to get more and.... guess what? No longer carried as a pallete colour in our arty-farty "latest craze" ranges.
I am going to have to get my local man to try and colour-match with a sample swatch/piece of painted card.
Why can't all paint manufacturers declare the RAL/PANTONE code for their paints so you do not get left in the lurch for repairs etc.
Mind you it may happen that he scans the painted card and goes, "Oh that's "Midnight Blue", loads of tins on the shelf." This has happened to us in the past.
Best of luck!
Shimsteriom
Master Procrastinator
You'll find that to be a very easy task.so I am starting to relax into being a layabout
Shimsteriom
Master Procrastinator
The toilet maybe?
Well my day has been pretty sh!t.
This bug has not left me, struggling for breath so went to bed until teatime.
Bit better now but chest still stupid tight. Wifey has a bug too so think we both got it at the same time. all this staying indoors doesn't do our resistance any good.
@derwendolly I read an eight page thread on a towing site about the problems with over-run brakes and reversing same, as I too have problems. The bloke in question was trying to reverse his twin axle boat trailer up a very slight incline. He went everywhere to try and find someone who could work out what was going wrong and locking his brakes up. For years his rig had reversed fine prior to this. Even the trailer and brakes manufacturers couldn't find the fault. If he disconnected the brakes from the drawbar, it reversed like a dream. So in the end he made a slight modification so that he could insert a short bolt, not into the drawbar itself, but into part of it's housing, to prevent the drawbar activating the brakes when reversing. Basic cure but efficacious so I think I will look to do the same.
Don't know if this has any connection to your problem as at least part of it is to do with the "mover".
But reversing up hill and/or on a surface that it not tarmac seems to be when problems raise their heads, with auto-reverse on overrun brakes.
This bug has not left me, struggling for breath so went to bed until teatime.
Bit better now but chest still stupid tight. Wifey has a bug too so think we both got it at the same time. all this staying indoors doesn't do our resistance any good.
@derwendolly I read an eight page thread on a towing site about the problems with over-run brakes and reversing same, as I too have problems. The bloke in question was trying to reverse his twin axle boat trailer up a very slight incline. He went everywhere to try and find someone who could work out what was going wrong and locking his brakes up. For years his rig had reversed fine prior to this. Even the trailer and brakes manufacturers couldn't find the fault. If he disconnected the brakes from the drawbar, it reversed like a dream. So in the end he made a slight modification so that he could insert a short bolt, not into the drawbar itself, but into part of it's housing, to prevent the drawbar activating the brakes when reversing. Basic cure but efficacious so I think I will look to do the same.
Don't know if this has any connection to your problem as at least part of it is to do with the "mover".
But reversing up hill and/or on a surface that it not tarmac seems to be when problems raise their heads, with auto-reverse on overrun brakes.
Thanks for that BUT ..... It was always going forward! I have not tried to reverse it yet.Well my day has been pretty sh!t.
This bug has not left me, struggling for breath so went to bed until teatime.
Bit better now but chest still stupid tight. Wifey has a bug too so think we both got it at the same time. all this staying indoors doesn't do our resistance any good.
@derwendolly I read an eight page thread on a towing site about the problems with over-run brakes and reversing same, as I too have problems. The bloke in question was trying to reverse his twin axle boat trailer up a very slight incline. He went everywhere to try and find someone who could work out what was going wrong and locking his brakes up. For years his rig had reversed fine prior to this. Even the trailer and brakes manufacturers couldn't find the fault. If he disconnected the brakes from the drawbar, it reversed like a dream. So in the end he made a slight modification so that he could insert a short bolt, not into the drawbar itself, but into part of it's housing, to prevent the drawbar activating the brakes when reversing. Basic cure but efficacious so I think I will look to do the same.
Don't know if this has any connection to your problem as at least part of it is to do with the "mover".
But reversing up hill and/or on a surface that it not tarmac seems to be when problems raise their heads, with auto-reverse on overrun brakes.
I got part way up the drive, unhitched and got rid of the car as I can not get it out If I go up attached to the van. Then with van alone, I engaged the mover, it did a about 10 metres fine and then the rear mover on the offside just failed to do any gripping on that tyre. As it was only a short way up the slope, I got the car and drove it up forward as far up as I could dare ( I knew I had to extricate the car ), three of us then pushed it up the rest of the way using just the mover on the front wheels ( we disengaged the rear ones). This was not easy as the single mover had a tendency to pull the van off to one side (?).
When this chap came he said that the rear offside wheel was locked-on, it was, BUT, thinking about it afterwards, it certainly wasn't locked on when we had to push it - two elderly gents and one ancient lady would never have been able to push it up an incline if it had been, I think we just might have noticed!.
Last edited:
