Stanleysteamer said:
Larst night, sitting here at my pooter in the quiet once W had gone to bed, heard a bit of a crash in the kitchen/utility. A bag of recycling, bottles, had fallen over. Saw it without putting the lights on, did nuffin about it.
Went back to the pooter.
Then a little while later heard a dull sort of thud, again from the kitchen.
Went and had a look.
A melon that W had left on top of summat on the worktop had managed to get itself off the summat and roll off the work top.
So i put it back up and told it to go back to sleep.
This a.m. got up, went to get a tray for betfuss and found the bottle bag had let an Armagnac bottle out which had bruk.
So spent a while keeping the dogs out while I cleaned all the bruk glass up, AGAIN! Tiled floors are as unforgiving as a hard worktop.:mad:
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You got a poltergeist? :eek:
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Larst night, sitting here at my pooter in the quiet once W had gone to bed, heard a bit of a crash in the kitchen/utility. A bag of recycling, bottles, had fallen over. Saw it without putting the lights on, did nuffin about it.
Went back to the pooter.
Then a little while later heard a dull sort of thud, again from the kitchen.
Went and had a look.
A melon that W had left on top of summat on the worktop had managed to get itself off the summat and roll off the work top.
So i put it back up and told it to go back to sleep.
This a.m. got up, went to get a tray for betfuss and found the bottle bag had let an Armagnac bottle out which had bruk.
So spent a while keeping the dogs out while I cleaned all the bruk glass up, AGAIN! Tiled floors are as unforgiving as a hard worktop.:mad:
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Visitors???:)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Larst night, sitting here at my pooter in the quiet once W had gone to bed, heard a bit of a crash in the kitchen/utility. A bag of recycling, bottles, had fallen over. Saw it without putting the lights on, did nuffin about it.
Went back to the pooter.
Then a little while later heard a dull sort of thud, again from the kitchen.
Went and had a look.
A melon that W had left on top of summat on the worktop had managed to get itself off the summat and roll off the work top.
So i put it back up and told it to go back to sleep.
This a.m. got up, went to get a tray for betfuss and found the bottle bag had let an Armagnac bottle out which had bruk.
So spent a while keeping the dogs out while I cleaned all the bruk glass up, AGAIN! Tiled floors are as unforgiving as a hard worktop.:mad:
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Colic? :rolleyes:
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Wish we had one here. A dustbin day, I mean.
For household waste we have to carry the bin bags to a big type wheelie bin on the local playing field about 200-300 yds each way.
But bottles and other recyclables I have to put in the car and drive into the village.
Which I will be doing in a little while.:rolleyes:
Still it'll be a start on warming the car up so I can research into why it is losing more coolant than I'd like. :rolleyes:
Have a good day folks!:):):)
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Might be a pressure thing, a pinhole that only shows up when hot
 
derwendolly said:
Visitors???:)
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The bottles in the bag were just sort of badly balanced on another old mop bucket that we also use to store dead bottles, I think it just slipped a bit, or a bottle or two inside it did.
The melon prolly just got a bit riper and what it was resting on no longer supported it as its centre of gravity had moved in the maturing process and the skin getting softer. I have noticed that when trying to make a melon sit upright, it often won't do so.;)
 
Am stuck into trying to see where the Disco is loosing its coolant.:rolleyes:
W even came out to offer a cup of something and even helped a bit.:eek::eek::eek::eek:
She's on a zoom and I am looking at Haynes, having found a few drops of coolant under the nearside front of the engine.
I am learning all the time.
Thort the coolant pump would be on the back of the fan pulley.
OH NO! That is too old skool, Stan! Norty boy!
It is in fact.........well I won't bore you with the details but yes it is above where I found the drops, in a cleft between the block and a strut thingy holding something on to the block. Ther is also a coolant sensor there. so if this IS the problem, either or both could be leaking. But it is a real sh!t to both get to and check for leaks, i.e. to even see it!
Have to remove the centrifugal oil filter housing and the turbo and move the air con pump to one side.
Still the serpentine belt needs changing anyway and I have got one of those.
My dream is that I find one or a few bolts just need tightening.
But that is unlikely. Such things don't happen to me often. It'll need replacing or at least new gaskets and seals.
IF that is the problem.
It looks like rain otherwise I'd thrash it around the mountaings here to get it right up to temp then see if I can see it.
Don't FINK it's the head gasket. Oil cap no emulsion. No increase in oil level, no bubbles in the coolant header tank, at least not at the mo, but getting it real hot I can check again. Or I'll have to get one of those kits that tell you if your coolant has burnt gases in it.
Typical, I have one in the UK, although the liquid is out of date! Don't even know if you can get a cheapo one over here!:rolleyes:
All NOT good fun, with only one car and us needing it to get back to Blighty by the end of the month to pick up a trailer etc etc.:(:(:(
 
Brown said:
We can get pretty much anything taken away if it'll fit in a wheelie bin. I was even told this by a council employee, some years ago when I phoned them to arrange a bulky refuse collection - that if the said items could be broken up and put in a wheelie bin then I should do so rather than request a separate collection. We have a great many wheelie bins in this neighbourhood due to the large number of burglars who live round here. Apparently, some time ago burglars stopped carrying large bags marked 'Swag' and began using wheelie bins instead. That way, in the very unlikely event that the police cruise by, you can merely let go of the wheelie bin and look innocent. Plus, if your ill-gotten gains weigh more than 25kg you're not allowed to lift them single handed as a result of changes in health and safety legislation. So we have loads of wheelie bins. Often with writing on them proclaiming their former homes elsewhere in the city. Indeed, we have so many that when I visit friends in areas with more stringent recycling policies I bring their rubbish home with me to put in the bins round here.
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Years ago while doing just what you said, i.e. breaking up a huge and heavy TV, colour but from the days before remotes that i nearly killed myself. Not knowing what i was doing, I cut the lead going from a feck off big capacitor to the back of the tube! Thort I'd had a heart attack! (Well not really but it felt like it might feel if you see what I mean!)
Anyway the whole big thing, frame and wooden casing etc all went into the said bin and was never seen again! (The TV I mean, I got the bin back!)
I did also cut a whole load of turf off my front garden in my previous house as I was going to gravel it to turn it into a parking spot. Put all that in the wheelie bin, the bloke came to move it and nearly had a hernia! We just laughed as he slapped a "this is too feckin heavy" notice on it!!
 
Stanleysteamer said:
The bottles in the bag were just sort of badly balanced on another old mop bucket that we also use to store dead bottles, I think it just slipped a bit, or a bottle or two inside it did.
The melon prolly just got a bit riper and what it was resting on no longer supported it as its centre of gravity had moved in the maturing process and the skin getting softer. I have noticed that when trying to make a melon sit upright, it often won't do so.;)
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Excuses, excuses, excuses. :)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
The bottles in the bag were just sort of badly balanced on another old mop bucket that we also use to store dead bottles, I think it just slipped a bit, or a bottle or two inside it did.
The melon prolly just got a bit riper and what it was resting on no longer supported it as its centre of gravity had moved in the maturing process and the skin getting softer. I have noticed that when trying to make a melon sit upright, it often won't do so.;)
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You are in denial. You've got a poltergeist. Best sleep with the light on tonight and with ear plugs in yer lugs :D:D:D
 
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