What Did You Do Today (2017)

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 26/05/2017 20:02:44:

Those with lots of "stuff" might like this: **LINK**

http://www.leejohnphillips.com/phone/index.html

[found by my Daughter]

MichaelG.

He'll be 'mildly upset' if he loses his place and has to start again…

Neil

[thaiguzziParticipant @thaiguzzi]

Posted by Mike on 26/05/2017 17:36:49:

Too hot for the workshop today – bright sunshine and 28 degrees this morning here on the Moray Firth in the north of Scotland. Can anyone beat that?

Er, yes. Day in, day out.

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

last evening, 32 degrees outside and the bedroom quite cool at 25 degrees, just had breakfast on the patio and its a lovely 18 degrees. Bob – SW France

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Half an inch of rain overnight, visibility now 500yds but off to build the shed all day so must remember the sunscreen 'cos it IS going to get better for a bank Holiday weekend.

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

I got the call from the Vet to pick up the Airedale and duly went down and was given sheets of paper and pills for her, then to get her in the boot of the Passat. She was a bit woozy but totally aware.

First thing was a pee out the back, she must have been holding it as she took a long time to clear.

They supplied three tins of High electrolyte dog food, so i gave a small portion and she settled down. In the cool of the evening she was out on the grass zooming about as if nothing happened.

A short walk this morning when I am ready and as she is still on three meals a day she will be ravenous by 1200 hrs.

Clive,  I have added two pics.

Edited By Clive Hartland on 27/05/2017 08:53:13

Edited By Clive Hartland on 27/05/2017 08:53:50

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Clive,

What I delightful little pup !!

I trust you are both recovered.

… 'though obviously, she will never be what she was.

MichaelG.

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

Hang on to that weather, please, Speedy Builder5. My wife and I are holidaying in your area in early September.

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Her look says it all… ' Not sure what it is but something's missing, & when I find out you'd better watch out! '…

George.

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

George, you have summed that up exactly, she has to date destroyed two door mats, chewed the corners of a carpet. Eaten her way through the middle of an ornamental hedge and ate ALL the stems and figs off the fig tree. Also eaten two letters so far, I have a cage on the letter box now.

She eats clover off the lawn and any emerging plant is not safe. Now she is up on her hind legs eating green plums off the plum tree.

Wednesday last week she suddenly crossed from my left to right and tipped me over which resulted in me hitting the pavement and sustaining a laceration on my left hand and my glasses gouging into my eyebrow and under the eye orbit, lots of blood and a passer by called an ambo. so i had to wait 30 minutes for it to come. They did not bother with the cuts but did a heart lead test (OK) and BP and asked lots of questions. Obviously my BP was up and I have had delayed shock symptoms.

A new pair of glasses £350. as the plastic lenses were gouged by the gravel.

She Tess is the fourth Airedale in my life, the first I had when I was 7 during the war years. Then 2 more as I served in the army and then this one.

Clive, I still love her and boy does she roar when she barks.

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

We looked after our daughter's male doberman for a bit – about 18 months old. He ate anything, disposable razors (Which he passed without problems), soap, opened the fridge and ate 2 big blocks of cheese, a pack of camembert – box and all, swung on the coat hooks until they broke and chewed jackets, fishing rods and an air gun butt. Chased after a lady on a bike, bit her bum and punctured a tyre (She was a deaf mute and it took some explaining)! Would charge at you and try to bowl you over. I would "walk" him on a bike for 2 hours a day to try to wear him out so he would sleep – without much success. Dogs, you just love em !
BobH

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Friday actually. Thought I'd suss out a couple of possible stockholders and in the process acquire some 1" x 5" bar stock (or metric equivalent), perhaps 1m or so and a short length of 4" dia. On a good day I'd also get to rummage through a cut-offs bin.

There's a local-ish steel stockholder in Preston that proclaims "your steel cut while you wait – trade or public – call into your local depot". The helpful guy behind the desk said they had a minimum length of 6m – or 7.5m in some cases. They wanted to avoid ending up with offcuts. Asked him what they were on about with the public / cutting lark and he said they would happily cut off a piece for you – but would have to charge for the whole length. I suggested not many members of the public or even small businesses would have call for such long lengths and he said "I might be making a trailer or something". Right. With 1" x 5" and 4" round. What a clown.

The other candidate didn't answer his phone for 2 days and when I called in the business was locked up. Perhaps he had been too.

I guess I'll be doing this job at a later date.

Murray

[Anonymous]

Posted by Muzzer on 28/05/2017 12:14:37:

There's a local-ish steel stockholder in Preston that proclaims "your steel cut while you wait – trade or public – call into your local depot". The helpful guy behind the desk said they had a minimum length of 6m – or 7.5m in some cases. They wanted to avoid ending up with offcuts. Asked him what they were on about with the public / cutting lark and he said they would happily cut off a piece for you – but would have to charge for the whole length. I suggested not many members of the public or even small businesses would have call for such long lengths and he said "I might be making a trailer or something". Right. With 1" x 5" and 4" round. What a clown.

The "rules" at my local steel stockholder seem to be as follows. If the material is bright drawn then a length less than the standard (~3-4m) is charged close to proportional with a full length. Having said that, for anything much under 2" or so you might as well buy the whole length, as it'll come in handy. For hot rolled steel anything less that the full length (~6m) is more expensive than the full length. That's why I have a good selection of hot rolled steel.

Andrew

[HacksawParticipant @hacksaw]

Dad got a Suffolk Colt with his Embassy fag coupons in 1969 ..

I loved that old mower ..and playing in the huge pile of grass cuttings on a Sunday afternoon ..The pile would get hot and start to go yellow before all the grass was cut…Happy days ..Restoration time ! My 500cc Dennis 36 " is next.. Now ,where's me Whitworth spanners??

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Today … I drooled over this : **LINK**

But yesterday, I did NOT win the Lottery

… So someone else will have to buy it

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nikon-Fisheye-Nikkor-6mm-F2-8-Lens-Ultra-Rare-220-Degree-View-Nikon-SLR-Fit-/352070623540

MichaelG.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Hacksaw on 28/05/2017 15:09:36:

Dad got a Suffolk Colt with his Embassy fag coupons in 1969 ..

I have a Suffolk engine just like that rescued from the tip sans coupeau, now mounted on a wooden sled.

…

I see the Met Office have issued a warning of 'yellow rain', are they taking the P?

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

“I see the Met Office have issued a warning of ‘yellow rain’, are they taking the P?! ” probably just an acceptance that the air around the SE is way beyond EU limits for pollution.

[Adrian GilesParticipant @adriangiles39248]

That Suffolk 75G engine will go on for years after the ally chassis has disintegrated. When I started work, one of those engines cost £21.00, the whole mower cost £19.19.6 ! When you added up all the spare parts it came to over £40!!

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Posted by Frances IoM on 28/05/2017 22:22:05:
"I see the Met Office have issued a warning of 'yellow rain', are they taking the P?! " probably just an acceptance that the air around the SE is way beyond EU limits for pollution.

I will never forget the thick greeny/yellow smogs while living in London during my childhood, perhaps we have yellow rain instead now.

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

As Hacksaw has got us onto lawnmowers, he might like to visit the British Lawnmower Museum (I kid you not) in Southport

**LINK**

[HacksawParticipant @hacksaw]

Oh..Did i say … I've got just a Dennis Z ?? A year older than me ! I'm a mower twat ,i know.. I'd love an Allett Reliant too . Just google Allett -pendine sands

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Nice work on the mower. I think we scrapped something similar from the cricket club graveyard over the winter. I've got a Punch from the early '60s in the shed. I'd like to get back to using a reel mower on the lawn but will need a lot of rolling and tlc first. My latest rotary B&S motor has an all plastic carb devoid of adjusting screws but they have gone back to the float style after years of the nicely self contained carb over fuel tank design. Funny thing about the cricket club is people are always offering their old mowers that 'just need a little attention' – 2 more appeared this spring.

[HacksawParticipant @hacksaw]

Any Wolf Sachs wankels? I'll have them !!! Gawd i'm a sucker for a mower

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

RIP John Noakes.

A huge part of my childhood!

Neil

[modeng2000Participant @modeng2000]

Having the same name as John, I was really sad to hear this. I used to work at Television Centre and many times our paths crossed even though I was in tv engineering. It was not unknown that occasionally John's trophies for the exploits he got up to for Blue Peter would end up on my desk! Incidentally he sometimes received invoices that should have been mine.

A really nice bloke and sadly missed.

[Phil H1Participant @philh196021]

A megastar in my book. Nobody since has come even remotely close to matching him.

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