So you bought this stuff of a Merkin then? Nothing like paying in Greenbacks!!!Got my phone fixed it needed a noo screen, chap said am I paying cash this time an gave me the look....you know the
cash going into his pocket look.
New screen & a tempered glass protector plus a new cover for the misses phone for 40 bucks.
That would get you started.
The case opener that uses three tips comes with a box of replaceable tips cos not one type fits everything. (round box)
The blue thing is to help you hold a bracelet and push the pins out so you can shorten or lengthen one, the black thing is basically a movement or a case holder, the range of screwdrivers isn't very wide, as usual the case opening knife will be about as much use as a chocolate teapot, I usually end up using a craft knife, the double ended tool is for removing spring loaded pins that sit top and bottom on a watch, they can break at the tip quite easily(!). Etc etc. At least they seem to give you a few spring loaded bars. so yup, you could replace batts with it, and straps and adjust bracelet length.
Good luck with it!
Well M'lud, sounds like your hoperation has effected your perception of life in your castle!!!
Have a good one!
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Well if we are going to do watches and clocks, I'll have to get out the ones I took for insurance purposes, but there are couple of clocks over here I could put up. Later though, got to arrange voting int election fust!
Cheeky person that you are!Yeah, that technology stuff you hate is really awful isn't it Mr. Luddite?
No, don't get me wrong!
I love my lappy and use it every day, you may remember I wrote my books on it and use it for loads of stuff, spreadsheets for the cellars, google maps, etc etc etc, as well as chatting to you lot.
All my pics are stored on it, (And a back up thingy when in the UK).
So no, I am not knocking tech as such, TBH, I'm knocking the barstaff who run it and change stuff once you've bought it and got used to it, just to make money. And mostly for me this is to do with phones.
And as you are pointing out, it can do surprisingly good stuff. But again, I was sort of relying on the compass in the phone, tech again, yet it let me down.
(W you can put the humble pie back in the fridge now, only eaten a tiny portion.)
This Luddite has just used his lappy to register for a proxy vote int election and to let her (my proxy) know that I have sent it off.
I am so tech
I am so tech
And.......
Well.......
It's gone wrong.........
No, the local election bods have taken the applications and presumably will be processing them.
Just hope they don't try to contact our daughter by email, (tech again) as the address we think she gave us isn't actually valid!
It contains her new married name, which out of respect as much as anything else, we put on the form. Turns out it ain't working so we think she might still be using the one with her ex's name in it!!!
Barmy, but there you go.
Only found out cos I used the wrong adress to tell her what we had done.
Why didn't we know this before? Cos we had to put in an email address and we normally contact her by Whatsapp.
Waiting now for her to confirm or give us the right address!!
wot larks, eh Pip?
Well.......
It's gone wrong.........
No, the local election bods have taken the applications and presumably will be processing them.
Just hope they don't try to contact our daughter by email, (tech again) as the address we think she gave us isn't actually valid!
It contains her new married name, which out of respect as much as anything else, we put on the form. Turns out it ain't working so we think she might still be using the one with her ex's name in it!!!
Barmy, but there you go.
Only found out cos I used the wrong adress to tell her what we had done.
Why didn't we know this before? Cos we had to put in an email address and we normally contact her by Whatsapp.
Waiting now for her to confirm or give us the right address!!
wot larks, eh Pip?
DOn't waste yer vote, vote loonie.Later though, got to arrange voting int election fust!
Got to arrange a Proxy vote afore we can vote for anyone.DOn't waste yer vote, vote loonie.
And I doubt I'll discuss my voting intentions on here.
This is a NICE thread.
There are plenty of other not so nice ones where politics is discussed in AG.
Since a while back dottir has got on and told us her correck address so I've contacted the relevant place and told em.
Just hope we haven't flipped it all up and it'll all be working in time.
So you bought this stuff of a Merkin then? Nothing like paying in Greenbacks!!!
That would get you started.
The case opener that uses three tips comes with a box of replaceable tips cos not one type fits everything. (round box)
The blue thing is to help you hold a bracelet and push the pins out so you can shorten or lengthen one, the black thing is basically a movement or a case holder, the range of screwdrivers isn't very wide, as usual the case opening knife will be about as much use as a chocolate teapot, I usually end up using a craft knife, the double ended tool is for removing spring loaded pins that sit top and bottom on a watch, they can break at the tip quite easily(!). Etc etc. At least they seem to give you a few spring loaded bars. so yup, you could replace batts with it, and straps and adjust bracelet length.
Good luck with it!
Well M'lud, sounds like your hoperation has effected your perception of life in your castle!!!
Have a good one!
Merkin is a pubic wig
OK, OK, I've just goggled it. Funny how so many of us use it when talking about our freinds from the US of A.Merkin is a pubic wig
So, still, you paid in Greenbacks did you?
Back to the watches, just found a pic
Left to right. Gold watch awarded to the manager of the Bolton-Paul factory in or just after the war, Famous aircraft factory, google the Bolton-Paul Defiant if you want a laugh! A watch made from the watch/clock attached to the instrument panel of a WW1 fighter aircraft like a Camel or an SE5, has no paint as the vibrations made it fall off! Done by cutting out layers of stuff. (Often pinched by ACs so the officer was made responsible for it and had to remove it every time he landed.)
Then a Art Deco French watch, bought in a Broquante, Then a WD issue watch noticeable that the crown is larger than usual to make it easier to wind or adjust with cold hands, then finally a gold dress watch given to me by W, once belonged to her ex. EXTREMELY thin, very good movment.
Just a little selection photographed for insurance purposes.
Oh and the tortoiseshell pocket knife which just feels so nice in the hand. Beautifully made, sharp as heck, bought in an auction or at a grandma's attic type sale, forget which.
Left to right. Gold watch awarded to the manager of the Bolton-Paul factory in or just after the war, Famous aircraft factory, google the Bolton-Paul Defiant if you want a laugh! A watch made from the watch/clock attached to the instrument panel of a WW1 fighter aircraft like a Camel or an SE5, has no paint as the vibrations made it fall off! Done by cutting out layers of stuff. (Often pinched by ACs so the officer was made responsible for it and had to remove it every time he landed.)
Then a Art Deco French watch, bought in a Broquante, Then a WD issue watch noticeable that the crown is larger than usual to make it easier to wind or adjust with cold hands, then finally a gold dress watch given to me by W, once belonged to her ex. EXTREMELY thin, very good movment.
Just a little selection photographed for insurance purposes.
Oh and the tortoiseshell pocket knife which just feels so nice in the hand. Beautifully made, sharp as heck, bought in an auction or at a grandma's attic type sale, forget which.
Well today was different!
I have to draw up a contract for this loan of land for the neighbour with the hoss.
Part of it obvs is a description of the land and that was the problem. It is an odd shape basically triangular on tow sides but irregular down the other side. I started off by going out with my PHONE, yes you read that right, to see if I could use the compass app, to take bearings so I could make a map of it.
What a flipping waste of time that was, it was SO inaccurate and wouldn't even replicate itself.
I have the surveyor's plan of the house in the land and that, obvs, is accurate, but it doesn't show the boundary where we fenced it off.
It is covered in weeds my height and particularly brambles, so I was avoiding trying to measure it physically, especially as having no working compass I couldn't measure angles, except by flipping around with bits of wood and nails etc.
So I went back in the house after spending an hour and a half hacking through undergrowth etc to even be able to make contact with the blamed fence to take some measurements off it to relate to other stuff which sadly isn't on the plan either.
In the end I had a genius moment, I went to look on Google earth just to get an idea of the shape of the fence when, lo and behold I found you could click on points around an area and it would give you perimeter measurements and surface area.
WOWWWWWWWWW!!!
So it did the job for me! With a bit of fiddling around I was able to print pics off with the boundary etc marked on it.
So I now know that of our 6000 sq metres, we only use a fraction over half of it! Which was not a shock but deffo makes you think.
So then I spent the rest of the day drawing up the contract using a couple of sources to ensure I included everything it needed to make sure it is fair to both us and them and we can't get legally stuck in anyway. That was quite satisfying. Not often nowadays I have to type a lot of stuff in French!
So by the end of the day my back ached simply from sitting at a table drawing plans and typing on the lappy!
Still, job more or less done, just have to get blokey to OK it. He told me last week that I could do it all and he'd sign it, so he trusts me, or he is desperate.
Should meet his daughter the horse's owner this week as she is down staying with them. Did I mention she is a vet?
Anyway, onwards and upwards!
Here's a copy of what I mean.
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Fun, ain't it!!
Sleep well folks!
Its a good thing in the right hands
.That's a lot of land, have you restricted the amount of orses/animals? That could take 2-3 easy, then they would want a shelter.
Water?
Access ?
J
All of them broke, none are telling the right timeBack to the watches, just found a pic
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Left to right. Gold watch awarded to the manager of the Bolton-Paul factory in or just after the war, Famous aircraft factory, google the Bolton-Paul Defiant if you want a laugh! A watch made from the watch/clock attached to the instrument panel of a WW1 fighter aircraft like a Camel or an SE5, has no paint as the vibrations made it fall off! Done by cutting out layers of stuff. (Often pinched by ACs so the officer was made responsible for it and had to remove it every time he landed.)
Then a Art Deco French watch, bought in a Broquante, Then a WD issue watch noticeable that the crown is larger than usual to make it easier to wind or adjust with cold hands, then finally a gold dress watch given to me by W, once belonged to her ex. EXTREMELY thin, very good movment.
Just a little selection photographed for insurance purposes.
Oh and the tortoiseshell pocket knife which just feels so nice in the hand. Beautifully made, sharp as heck, bought in an auction or at a grandma's attic type sale, forget which.
.J
Very cheeky, all of them work, but I don't keep them wound up all the time.All of them broke, none are telling the right time
J
Seriously? You think I haven't thought of that?Its a good thing in the right hands
That's a lot of land, have you restricted the amount of orses/animals? That could take 2-3 easy, then they would want a shelter.
Water?
Access ?
J
For a start this isn't the first time we have done it, previously a bloke used to put donkeys on there.
The new people, well, it'll be just one horse, the owner is blokey's daughter, a vet, who brought the horse into the world.
They will be providing food, if nec, water and a removable shelter, access is from the top corner of the field.
As he couldn't find anyone else willing to do it, I doubt he'll mess me around. Don't know how he could really, and he can be chucked off with a notice period according to the tems of the contract.
I know I won't be the only one who could help. Having been through it and known a few others who have, like W.Looks like I'm getting divorced, got letter though the post today, any advice ?
So tell us your problems, worries etc and we'll see what we can do.
But the main advice from me would straightaway be to get as little involved with lawyers as possible cos they take the money hand over fist.
Secondly don't be tempted to throw your money at her to get her out of your hair. Keep a tight hold on your wallet!
Best of luck mate!
Well yes.
somebody’s had a hard day or got out of the wrong side of the bed.
As none of us know what the laws are, but you keep saying they can be really difficult, I was just asking.
“I doubt he will mess me around” oh how many times I have heard that from a “gentleman’s agreement “
Even a somewhat legal 1 on paper.
J
