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Tardigrades love Tratters, I have several on board (I expect) . They is well ard.

Don’t get thems over here, have to get me passport stamped and go overseas to the mainland if I want to see one

Seconded.

Nobody likes magpies, nasty baskets.

Know wot yer mean. Eye fink they're just after wuk like all other companies. Easy to shop around. They has gorra lead so following it up. Soon be winter when sales slow down eye guess. Peeps dun't want their house cold when windows are being...

It's a bungalow and I always leave the living room stat fully open because that's where the controller is. I keep hall, bedroom and bathroom at a medium heat and living room an kitchen nice and cosy. All pipes go into the attic and drop down into...

Eye had bin int kitchen all afternoon. Planted me seeds. They is ont kitchen window sill. Made meself anuvva batch of mince and veg. Tis currently cooking int slow cooker. Had me tea at lunch time because eye can. Bin catching up on fings ont web...

Eye is going to try it this year. Eye fink eye recall some make seeds that will wuk. Others dun't. Still going to havva go. Just planted anuvva 19 news seeds

Might do this year Romanian guy next door says to eat em 🙂 (seeds)

Normally the down stairs hall is one ov two rads yer leave stat free wivva good flow, to allow the boilerer to dissipate heat when the rooms are up to temp. It allows the boilerer to expell heat after it switches oft, leaving the leccy pump...

yes, hallway , rad just needs a wet coat on now to finish

21.6mm ov rain over nite. Collected 700 litres. That wuks out at about 32 square meters collection area. This matches some of the results from the larger rain falls we av had previous which is good. Large result like this makes the loss ov rain...

Just spray it with water, if it looks fine then, it's the lacquer/clear coat.

W has just spent time polishing up some dirty silver jewellery that she got from an auction. Just discovered that a kilt pin she bought for £40 is for sale on Etsy for €138.7! Have to admit she is very good at this!

So cokroches and tratterers dun't want freelanders? Worrabout slugs and ear wigs?

Yerbut what @Stone56 was getting at, even the lowest forms of life dunt want a Freelander :p

My 15mm pipe bender doesn't do tight bends, only similar to the one in the picture that's why I thought 10mm pipe would be better, My brake pipe bender does 10mm so pipe should be hidden under the radiator, I'll paint the exposed pipe to match...

Still not sure worrit was. Eye has seen me squirrels ignore most burds. Sat by em. Landing or taking oft by em. Or flying past em. Even biggerer burds like pigwings. But when maggys are about me squirrels leave me garage roof and go int trees or...

Magpies? We have some squizzles near work that are plagued by maggies sometimes ...

Not sure what that valve is there for, temp fitting? while work being done? Personally I would just take it back to the trunking and go from there neatly with 15mm. but then I have a nice pipe bender that could get from the trunking to the rad...

Searched all of the house, all garments, both cars and a lot of outside. Still couldn't find the key to the polytunnel. So had to take the padlock off with bolt cutters. As everyone knows, we'll find it by buying a new padlock. Cool here...

I finished the plastering because it wasn't straight Plumber and joiner fitted skirting and radiator on same morning working together I've since replaced the architrave and now replacing skirting and tidying plumbing up

If yer ain't goranyfink to say, put a post up to tell us. We need to know these fings. ;)

I'm well cheers. I just don't post very often but I do pop by fairly regularly 😀

Orizontal bits get hit wiv more sunshine. So more potentual sun damage.

On my Disco 2, the laquer coat has peeled off massively on the roof. Where I doubt anyone has put any polish on, far too hard to get to. 😜

Gardener.

Plasterer or plumber?

This is the wonderfull job workmen did after plastering the walls 🤔