• Hippo
    Hippo reacted to kevstar's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    Ive got a riveted craft to scrap, under the water line is rotten & some of the rivets are leaking. It had a survey to get it coded but no chance of that happening.
    May 30, 2025
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    Our whole village is inundated with ants, right old pain. :(
    May 30, 2025
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    Me bugs came back so eye sprayed them again tonight. They is green fly. Some av wings which is how eye recognised them.
    May 28, 2025
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    Hippo reacted to DanClarke's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    The MIL has been visited, she says she is not in any great pain, but she is on IV meds and hydration. :) Thinks she ought to be allowed home now but the medics cannot let her go. She has some way to go before they can decide on the right...
    May 28, 2025
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    And you'd have to tell his Mum ...
    May 28, 2025
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    Hope you had a lovely day :). J
    May 28, 2025
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    Thats a cheap way to wash it :D. J
    May 28, 2025
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    Stay alert, it might be a locomotive headlamp 😁
    May 28, 2025
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    Sunny here! W putting a new summer dress on! Off to lunch in a few mins All the best for the rest of the day! :):):)
    May 28, 2025
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    I don't think I have ever seen one. Maybe if you started the cut with another saw then carried on with the double cut? Yet more faff.
    May 28, 2025
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    Having lost the tip off one finger, I draw back against my thumb but further back and higher up the blade so it cannot do damage. ex sil, an extremely good and experienced wood-worker, once cut through the tendons on his left thumb while sawing...
    May 28, 2025
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    Mornin Sun is shining Sorting paperwork today, needs to be done. Stay busy all :)
    May 28, 2025
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    Thanks mate! It's been a tough old year and this one ain't being a lot better. We keep hoping there is light around the bend in the tunnel. ;)
    May 28, 2025
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    .... which is more or less what he said... which is why if you made them today like older craft, they'd cost much more and take longer to build by proper shipwrights/boatbuilders. All Teak and Brass. Larvely!! Or proper welded steel. Or do you...
    May 28, 2025
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    Oh, a "Sawing" tip from me (don't laugh). Beware the "Double-Cut" jack saws because if you do the usual pull backwards against your thumbnail to get started on your perfect line they saw your thumbnail off. Because they are double-cut and they...
    May 28, 2025
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    Morning All. :D Another blustery sunny day ATM. :) Have a great day.:D
    May 28, 2025
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    Congrats! :D
    May 28, 2025
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    Edgar can soak up about 2L per day from his sourcer. Last night eye jet washed the deadded bugs oft me lupins. Not sure if they will return.
    May 28, 2025
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    Now you need to calculate each individual plant spices water requirements?
    May 28, 2025
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    Probably up to his waist in water
    May 28, 2025
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    Just bin watching wot eye finks is a squirrel. He were checking out me new pipe running along me garage. Interested in me meal wurm feeder but stayed on the roof. Watched a burd come to feed en go. Moved to the support pillar to view it from a...
    May 28, 2025
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    No rain over night burreye has had squirrels visit so not all bad. Talk ov rain later int week. Might wash ma hippo if this continues.
    May 28, 2025
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    Quality 🤣🤣 sunseeker really means skip seeker, bayliner= binliner.. If I show you the machines going through these floating caravans youd see how weak these are. Its shocking tbh. Older crafts are much stronger & safer.
    May 28, 2025
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    Happy anniversary...... Can you pass this gold medal on to the misses she deserves it for putting up with you 🤣 🤣
    May 28, 2025
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    Funnily he works for Sunseeker, so he knows quality when he sees it!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 Although he tells me that they are all show on the surface and not so hot behind panels and stuff!! Do you ever get them up in your neck of the woods or are they...
    May 28, 2025
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    Is this yer neebs...........
    May 28, 2025
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    Well, Been busy today, lots of stuff for W's gardening, putting together a tin raised bed that she has had in the poly tunnel in its box for about 5 years among other things. But tomoz we will be celebrating 26 yrs married. A day early as the...
    May 28, 2025
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    I know you are just winding me up, but, no, it is finished. It is the utility that is long drawn out!! The opposite (new) neighbours actually complimented me on the kitching, then laughed at the mess in the ute!! 🤣 🤣 🤣
    May 28, 2025
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