Stanleysteamer · Oct 23, 2023

Morning all, up late again but not quite as late as yessdi or Satdi.
Got to sleep very late as finished "The first overland" at 0230.
What a fantastic book. What the first Tratters could do was amazing.
If you've not read it get your other halves to get it you for Xmas, or just get it yourself.

I now have "The last overland" to read which, because of the hype on the book jacket, is leading me to think will be a much more modernish thing. But I am trying not to judge it by the cover, as they say!

Apparently there are/were progs on it ont telly which I could watch via catch up. Well maybe I will and maybe I won't.

Have a good day folks!

kevstar · Oct 23, 2023

derwendolly said:
Damp but not raining 'ere.
Traditional Monday washing day for me. for you?

Assuming clothes errr I dont do any washing cause I make everything blue, I though her white tops looked nice with a hint of blue

kevstar · Oct 23, 2023

Ok I just bought the white honda, well ive put a deposit on it.

kevstar · Oct 23, 2023

Ordered rear discs n pads for the tranny so that will be tonights job once ive finished.

derwendolly · Oct 23, 2023

kevstar said:
Assuming clothes errr I dont do any washing cause I make everything blue, I though her white tops looked nice with a hint of blue

Clothes yes, but also bed linen etc.. In days gone by when all the family dirty washing had to be done in the tub with a dolly-legs, rubbing board and a mangle then Monday was traditionally the day when all this washing was done - the weekly wash. It took all day and was a full-on job and because there was no time for cooking then the remains of the Sunday roast was eaten as a cold meal. So, Monday was always know as 'Wash Day'. Then someone released a woman from a big chore by inventing a washing machine!

Tuesday was then Ironing Day.

Education time now finished.

DanClarke · Oct 23, 2023

Stanleysteamer said:
Sorry to be thick but who are B&M?

These people.

B&M | Discount Retail Store | Garden, Home, Toys & More

One of the UK's fastest-growing variety retailers, with over 3 million shoppers per week, B&M believes in selling Big Brands at sensational prices.

www.bmstores.co.uk

DanClarke · Oct 23, 2023

Losing the will to live.
Struggling to get my new Logitech X52Pro H.O.T.A.S to work properly and "as advertised".
Logitech support is about as useless as can be. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....

landowner · Oct 23, 2023

Well the lunch with family was average, still hungry after small expensive designer dinner

But the Yeti passed it's mot, 226k and no advisories :banana:

derwendolly · Oct 23, 2023

landowner said:
Well the lunch with family was average, still hungry after small expensive designer dinner

But the Yeti passed it's mot, 226k and no advisories

..... and that's why I always decline the offer of a FREE upmarket nosh. Pretentious con imo.

But the Yeti news more than makes up for the food disappointment.

My Old Landy · Oct 23, 2023

I have booked the Shogun in to have the silly gearbox warning lamp fixed. It is a simple matter of pulling the plugs and cleaning them. As they are on the side of the gearbox under the car, I have opted for the 'throw money at it' approach as I just can't get under there anymore!!

derwendolly · Oct 23, 2023

My Old Landy said:
I have booked the Shogun in to have the silly gearbox warning lamp fixed. It is a simple matter of pulling the plugs and cleaning them. As they are on the side of the gearbox under the car, I have opted for the 'throw money at it' approach as I just can't get under there anymore!!

But I do know what you mean.

Stanleysteamer · Oct 23, 2023

kevstar said:
Assuming clothes errr I dont do any washing cause I make everything blue, I though her white tops looked nice with a hint of blue

Crafty Kevvy! "How to get out of having to use the washing machine!"

Stanleysteamer · Oct 23, 2023

kevstar said:
Ok I just bought the white honda, well ive put a deposit on it.
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So you've bortid the rust bucket?
You sure is a glutton for punishment!!!

Stanleysteamer · Oct 23, 2023

derwendolly said:
Clothes yes, but also bed linen etc.. In days gone by when all the family dirty washing had to be done in the tub with a dolly-legs, rubbing board and a mangle then Monday was traditionally the day when all this washing was done - the weekly wash. It took all day and was a full-on job and because there was no time for cooking then the remains of the Sunday roast was eaten as a cold meal. So, Monday was always know as 'Wash Day'. Then someone released a woman from a big chore by inventing a washing machine!

Tuesday was then Ironing Day.

Education time now finished.

...and , for @kevstar the washing soap bar etc was known as "blue"

Bluing (fabric) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

so our Kev was right although kinda old skool!!
Monday's dins was cold roast and chips. so not quite a cold dins, round my Grans! Her tub looked like and old one but had a vertically mounted swirly thing that swished back and forth electrically.
But I got to turn the handle of the mangle. She did it in what was called "the veranda" i.e. a glassed in area outside the back door, today it'd be called a conservatory!

Stanleysteamer · Oct 23, 2023

DanClarke said:
These people.

B&M | Discount Retail Store | Garden, Home, Toys & More

One of the UK's fastest-growing variety retailers, with over 3 million shoppers per week, B&M believes in selling Big Brands at sensational prices.

www.bmstores.co.uk

Fanks.
Just checked there is one in Poole and one in Bornmuff!

Stanleysteamer · Oct 23, 2023

Here's a thing!
Andy Saunders my MOT garage owner and longtime sort of mate just rang me to tell me he is retiring.

(He sees me as a very loyal customer.)
But he has either sold it to, or taken on as manager, a bloke he has hunted for for 3 years. So the whole lot, lock, stock and barrel, even the staff will be remaining, so I won't have to go looking for some other cowboy outfit! Phew!
The tester will even be the same and he is a decent, fair bloke.
Andy's 60, don't blame him.
He was saying that the job is turning into a nightmare at the moment. He has had a Zafira in with DPF issues. He ran cleaner through it and it was OK for a while but it needs a new DPF. Cannot get one anywhere in the UK or europe, unless you pay Vauxhall prices, at which you might as well buy another car. So I really don't blame him for ceding his biz.

Funny call to get though. shows how many cars I put through his place over the past 35 years!

WhiskyLassie · Oct 23, 2023

derwendolly said:
Damp but not raining 'ere.
Traditional Monday washing day for me. for you?

Haha very traditional, from what I remember Monday wash days was because there wasn't as much smoke in the air from the factories so you could hang washing out without them being dirty as you couldn't wash on a church day.

WhiskyLassie · Oct 23, 2023

Stanleysteamer said:
Sorry to be thick but who are B&M?

Place where yummy mummies buy all sorts of cheap tat to put in their home and shout at their kids called Jayden/Aiden/Ava/crystal etc

Turktowner · Oct 23, 2023

@Stanleysteamer .
Ma Turk had a twin tub wif agitator, the threaded cap that stopped it riding up was bust, guess who had to stand there and hold it down?
Jeez I was a very good lad!
Or fick, my lidl bruv used to do things so badly he was never asked to do them again..
:vb-doh:

Def90man · Oct 23, 2023

WhiskyLassie said:
Place where yummy mummies buy all sorts of cheap tat to put in their home and shout at their kids called Jayden/Aiden/Ava/crystal etc

I‘ve been in the one at Linwood many times but I’m still to see a ‘yummy mummy

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