Blimey I saw the first Christmas tree of the year today when I walked into the local Howdens Joinery depot :vb-weyes:

Well, sort of. A few connections going back generations, Mrs 6pot's grandparents had a shop in Leigh on Sea and to this day our bank accounts are still at Leigh on Sea branch, even though they closed it and then closed where it was transferred it to... odd situation now where statements say...

Greetings from sunny Southend on Sea. It is 16° as predicted...

16° sounds nice, I'm looking forward to it...

Good news, take it easy and enjoy the pampering :)

Sweltering today, not cooled down much like I thought it might after the rain Sat, which was unusual for early Sep.

Thort I might have a go at a puzzle but there are so many of them at once my head is hurting now :stars:

"Packaging" it would seem...

Thunder today. Saw some lightning but not that nearby. Rain for most of the evening which was good, better than the usual few spots which barely wet the ground.

Are we a bit sloshed? 🤣 🤣

There's been some cork harvesting going on

I meant to say after that pic of the wasps nest you posted that they look like different wasps to the ones we get here. The nests they build are open and have hexagonal compartments. Sounds like your ones 'home' if they are going back to where the nest was, I've never seen them do that here...

Yes its all a compromise really, we persevere with satellite because the internet's not up to streaming full time where we are in either Spain or Portugal, it would be only 4G since there are no copper cables or fibre. The satellite Internet is good and we use it for streaming occasionally, but...

I was slightly surprised that the original oven had a plug/socket and I used the same plug on the replacement oven. The plug said 'max 3680w' on in and the oven is rated 2700w so that seems OK. The socket is on a dedicated breaker. The messing about with cookers by tenants you mention is a...

Ordinarily it would seem like a good idea but the Sky+HD box does not cater for any form of dish pointing, or LNB Diseqc switching for that matter, or extra channels outside the Sky channel line-up in a very user friendly way. Having said that it is the functionality of the Sky box which keeps...

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...

Mornin' (well, ish) Often mucking about with satellite dishes here and have some pole brackets to sort out but otherwise not a lot of dish action. Set up one temporarily on a fence pole the other night, was pleased to get the sat after a couple of minutes, remembering roughly where to point it...

Thanks, fortunately not. There are very strict rules in Portugal regarding care of the land and vegetation within certain distance of a house, due to the fires which have occurred. It's quite cool at night which is a relief, after a hot 5 hour drive, but it was quite sultry and humid this...

Reminds me, there's a screw in one of our tyres... it hasn't gone flat but ought to do something about it.

Igualmente feijão velho! :)