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Morning all, after a hectic weekend of two craft fairs, having a relaxing couple of days just enjoying life 
Have a great week!
Have a great week!
I hope it is going well Brian. Can I ask which laser engraver you got?Morning all, after a hectic weekend of two craft fairs, having a relaxing couple of days just enjoying life
Have a great week!
At one changeover of tenants in a house we used to let out, the new tenants discovered that the previous ones had discarded the gas cooker we left them and installed an electric one. ( The previous ones moved out and the new ones moved in on the same day, we were nowhere near, might even have been on holiday!). They immediately installed a proper single feed for the cooker.
One thing, the previous peeps put it where the fridge used to be and just made up a 3 pin plug to plug it in with.
Other thing, when we got to it we discovered that for some reason, and this happened long before we took over the property, the fridge plug was not on a plug ring main, but on a lighting ring main!
Yet it still worked!!!
I heard that they were only grounded because only the older techies knew how to maintain their ancient computerised systems.
In fact I think I saw a prog where the last capable tech was actually working on one.
Such a shame.
So....
the predicted storms yessdi, which caused us to switch the internet off, never materialised.
W spent a lot of time cooking up a superb plum and apple crumble and a chicken and mushroom pie, which was lush!
It was only during the middle of the night that I remembered that we had booked to go to a local restaurant, just under new management, for lunch.
Last Sunday of the summer hols, we must have been popular!
We'll have to go back up there have a meal and apologise. Tis very near us, on the edge of a lake so we don't want to dirty our patch.
Orange tech came this morning and yep the fault was on the line 110 metres from our place so it cost us nothing to get it fixed.
They did communicate with me via the noo SIM in the old phone so that's all right.
Sunshine again today, yessdi was mis all day.
Have a good one folks!
the predicted storms yessdi, which caused us to switch the internet off, never materialised.
W spent a lot of time cooking up a superb plum and apple crumble and a chicken and mushroom pie, which was lush!
It was only during the middle of the night that I remembered that we had booked to go to a local restaurant, just under new management, for lunch.
Last Sunday of the summer hols, we must have been popular!
We'll have to go back up there have a meal and apologise. Tis very near us, on the edge of a lake so we don't want to dirty our patch.
Orange tech came this morning and yep the fault was on the line 110 metres from our place so it cost us nothing to get it fixed.
They did communicate with me via the noo SIM in the old phone so that's all right.
Sunshine again today, yessdi was mis all day.
Have a good one folks!
...that I have been up to the MIL's to meet the gardener who is razing everything to the ground for £240.
He has quoted the gardening co 6 hours, but says it may take less. But its a fixed price so I don't care.
As long as we don't have to do it anymore this year that's fine. He will give us a call when he is done so we can go see the result.
I just hope the old bat doesn't make a nuisance of herself. She's an incorrigible old flirt.
He has quoted the gardening co 6 hours, but says it may take less. But its a fixed price so I don't care.
As long as we don't have to do it anymore this year that's fine. He will give us a call when he is done so we can go see the result.
I just hope the old bat doesn't make a nuisance of herself. She's an incorrigible old flirt.
Obviously missing the scaffing.
Is there no mileage in putting some up inside the garage and then passing them through until you get to the top or do you have covering you don't want to disturb? Thinking about it, the answer to that is "yep".
Just trying to think outside the box.
Pass them through where if theres a hole in the roof ive done it all wrong.
I was joking really.Pass them through where if theres a hole in the roof ive done it all wrong.
But it reminded me of a Noddy story my dad read to me as a wee wean.
It was where Noddy and Big Ears were building a house and Noddy asked Big Ears, "Why don't we build the roof first then we will be in the dry when we put up the walls"!!!!
6pot
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Now that's an issue and part of the reason for so many dishes. When they launched the new Astra 2 satellites we lost the UK beam, since the new sats have a deliberately very steep drop off in signal outside the footprint. Since then every now and then another channel moves from the southern beam to the UK beam which is annoying but for now it is still worth the Sky subscription and the 1.35m dish.
At the time I did some research and found out about the Intelsat 907 option at 27.5° west and sourced the correct receiver with a second hand dish and used that for the terrestrial channels which were available on it. If you know about that you will know that it too went defunct this April when the signal was moved to Telstar 12. Intelsat lasted about 11 years which was more than I expected but Telstar is unobtainable because while the North Sea beam is theoretically receivable this far south, they have put the BBC signal on a frequency very close to another transponder on the southern beam, so it is drowned out outside the Northern footprint.
Now we are using a service called Kabelio for BBC/ITV/CH4 & 5 etc, which is quite good because it also has a selection of French, German, Swiss, Austrian and Italian channels which can be interesting if you are in an international frame of mind! This requires another dish but smallish because it is on Eutelsat 13 at 13° east which is aimed at this area and that is the dish I was setting up when we arrived. I don't leave it up all the time because of the number of dishes being a bit ugly and it's only on a fence pole which is not quite steady enough in the wind.
The plan is to get a multi LNB holder and get this plus Sky and Astra 1 all from the big dish to reduce the overall number - I also have a subscription to NOS in Portugal which is on Hispasat 30° west, facing completely the other way to Sky and also we have satellite Internet on yet another dish. This has a built in VPN so we can use the Sky+ box for downloads and watch them when we want which is better than streaming, although the Amazon fire stick does work and we use that occasionally.
Stone56
Well-Known Member
Would a motorized dish not be better ?
... the old bat's garden has been blitzed (only word for it).
Mostly cut down to mulch-covered earth from the overgrown mess that it was.
All lawns mowed, shrubbery "shaped & trimmed" as appropriate.
What did the ungrateful old soul have to say?
"Where's all my plants and flowers?" i.e. the ones that she doesn't tend or do anything with and that the weeds had killed off and covered over months ago .
All the Roses are still there, the hebes are still there, but the briar and other invasive stuff is GONE.
Wife's happy, I'm happy that the wife's happy. Result!
And where was the old bat's loving son in all this? Nowhere.
Mostly cut down to mulch-covered earth from the overgrown mess that it was.
All lawns mowed, shrubbery "shaped & trimmed" as appropriate.
What did the ungrateful old soul have to say?
"Where's all my plants and flowers?" i.e. the ones that she doesn't tend or do anything with and that the weeds had killed off and covered over months ago .
All the Roses are still there, the hebes are still there, but the briar and other invasive stuff is GONE.
Wife's happy, I'm happy that the wife's happy. Result!
And where was the old bat's loving son in all this? Nowhere.
WhiskyLassie
Well-Known Member
Well she is spending that money for a young man to thrash her bushes about...that I have been up to the MIL's to meet the gardener who is razing everything to the ground for £240.
He has quoted the gardening co 6 hours, but says it may take less. But its a fixed price so I don't care.
As long as we don't have to do it anymore this year that's fine. He will give us a call when he is done so we can go see the result.
I just hope the old bat doesn't make a nuisance of herself. She's an incorrigible old flirt.
There's no answer to that (this side of AG)
She also asked him for a double entendre.... So he gave her one!
I have the xTool S1 and the F1 for the craft fairs. I think they are worth the money as they are class one enclosed. I do have an open frame one but don't use it since getting the new ones.
