My Old Landy said:
I'm 45 hours into this project, but the eyes are last. They are huge at around 50mm diameter :)
The head is open so no skull or it would take longer!
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Fab!

Is the head open so you can stick the brain in and then tune it? 🤣 🤣 🤣

Jeezo, 45 hours! You could build a kit car in less, well maybe!
Really, REALLY looking forward to seeing a vid of the finished project!:):):)
 
WhiskyLassie said:
I hate having ADHD. Looking for a cable has turned into declutter living room and have got halfway through and lost focus.

Either way I am sure I'll get another burst of energy soon
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One is tempted to say "Take another pill and relax", but that prolly isn't helpful.
W has the problem of going off track so sometimes I ask her "Is this a job or a "just" ".
As so often I ask her what she is doing and why isn't she doing what she said she would be, and is not coming in for dinner or whatever, and she answers "I'm just.........." doing something she came across while doing, (in fact not doing) the thing she set out to do!
It leads to her getting frustrated at not achieveing stuff, so I intervene whereas previously I wouldn't. :(
 
Stanleysteamer said:
One is tempted to say "Take another pill and relax", but that prolly isn't helpful.
W has the problem of going off track so sometimes I ask her "Is this a job or a "just" ".
As so often I ask her what she is doing and why isn't she doing what she said she would be, and is not coming in for dinner or whatever, and she answers "I'm just.........." doing something she came across while doing, (in fact not doing) the thing she set out to do!
It leads to her getting frustrated at not achieveing stuff, so I intervene whereas previously I wouldn't. :(
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I can get overwhelmed and struggle to see the end of the job.
 
WhiskyLassie said:
I can get overwhelmed and struggle to see the end of the job.
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Me too sometimes.
Especially if the job is a big one.
So I learned to break every job into much smaller, "bite sized" jobs that once achieved can each give me a sense of satisfaction, and the right to a break or even a celebration. Like a cup of tea.
It can be something as small as "buy some screws" or "drill a line of holes".
(But this may be a bit easier if you are retired with fewer time constraints.)

I have managed to convince W that she doesn't have to, for instance, clean the whole living room in one go, which knackers her. So now she hoovers it one day and dusts and polishes it the next. (Being disabled doesn't help.) We have decided I am not going to do all the domestics, she needs to feel she is contributing, so she does, my job being to rein her in if she is overdoing things.
Best of luck with it!
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Me too sometimes.
Especially if the job is a big one.
So I learned to break every job into much smaller, "bite sized" jobs that once achieved can each give me a sense of satisfaction, and the right to a break or even a celebration. Like a cup of tea.
It can be something as small as "buy some screws" or "drill a line of holes".
(But this may be a bit easier if you are retired with fewer time constraints.)

I have managed to convince W that she doesn't have to, for instance, clean the whole living room in one go, which knackers her. So now she hoovers it one day and dusts and polishes it the next. (Being disabled doesn't help.) We have decided I am not going to do all the domestics, she needs to feel she is contributing, so she does, my job being to rein her in if she is overdoing things.
Best of luck with it!
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I caked a few skeins of yarn up and put them in a box making it look neater. My weird way of working drives MrWL mental sometimes but he understands it's something I cannot control.
 
It has been a while since I let lathe-boy out of his "gimp-crate".

I have been busy on all sorts of not trike/bike stuff but I returned to the manufacturing of the SA drum hub parts this week as it has been raining and just not fun out of doors.

Here are two SA QR back plate mounts that I made as a copy of an original.

The top one want a little bit of "tidy-up" on that LH face where you can see it has a slope instead of a flat.

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Here is one of my "home-made" parts wearing the shop-bought accompanying bits from an SA original. :)

Same, but slightly different. I need to put the "flats" on mine as you have to tighten all the parts up against each other when you mount the backplates to your bike/trike.
Instead of an expensive (£40 each) QR pin, I shall make some adjustable silver steel pins with an "R-Clip" hole on the inside end.

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More fun that making pro-tem sliding doors in the rain, and not so painful on the back either.
 
Brown said:
I should be off to Wales later today, all being well. I shall see if there's much weather damage. I keep an eye on weather stations near my place via weathercloud (https://app.weathercloud.net/map the URL dumps you somewhere in north Africa but scroll north to the British Isles) and I can't see that anything out of the ordinary has happened. Even the gusts have only been 11 m/s (or about 25 mph). Interestingly enough, if you look at weather stations on the south coast, many of them also don't show anything special - wind gust peaks of about 16-18 m/s seem fairly typical.

I don't bother with the news any more as a source of information. It's OK as a sort of horror pantomime, but to keep an eye on what's going on I'd much rather find some actual data.
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👍👍👍
 
Hippo said:
Went sainsberrys last night. Shreddies 4.5 sovs. 4 wiv a nectar card but still charging full price so eye teld em and gottid me arf sov back. Tis the principle. Gottid meself a stake. Stake night tonight.

We has had lots of rain but nowt heavy. Last night eye found 5 slugs in me hedgehog food dish so eye cleaned em oot. Orrible fings.
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but thay love them it's their natural food
 
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