What have you been doing today?

[denso13]

Danny

DeVito, Dyer?

 

[crystal ball]

Stripping out old central heating pipes, found a dry joint under bedroom floor, been there 40+ years and never leaked

 

[Stivino]

I've been making bread today.

 

[Mottie]

I've been making bread today.
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Hand kneaded and oven baked or breadmaker?

 

[Mottie]

Over the allotment with mrs Mottie. She planted out some flowers that we raised from seed - Cosmos, Zinnia and Asters. Loaded the car boot up with ten of each to plant out at home. Still go loads left and I’ve already given ten of each to a neighbouring plot holder and ten of each to the ladies down my street who plant up and look after a communal space at the entrance to our estate. Mrs Mottie also weeded the potato, onion, garlic and asparagus beds. I harvested some more asparagus and planted out my dwarf French beans and my golden courgettes. Just got too hot to stay over there so we packed up and came home.

 

[Stivino]

Hand kneaded and oven baked or breadmaker?

I use the breadmaker to knead it. Then I take it out of the machine, knock it back, put it in a bread tin, let it rise again and, bake it in the oven.
If I knead it, my arthritis gives me jip.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Regreasing and attaching yet another ear type retaining clip to the outer CV boot on my van that two different mechanics from two different garages botched. Why is it so difficult to get right? First clip lasted 9 months after first garage replaced the boot. THe original boot and it's two clips had been on the van from new for approx 17 years.

Then when the van was in for something else at another garage I asked them to put a new clip on as the first new replacement one had disappeared. This second clip lasted exactly 6 months before it too disappeared. Hopefully it's third time lucky as it's a messy job. Not just getting some new CV grease into the joint, but cleaning off all the old grease that was flung onto the suspension, hub, wheelarch, inside of wheel, etc, etc each time the two previous clips went AWOL. Luckily I had an old blanket to wipe off the grease from inside wheel arch and components near the boot. Ideal, because I've now found that it's not just sh*t that sticks to a blanket.

If you want a job doing properly..............

 

[Mottie]

Been crabbing over Promenade park in Maldon with my grandson. We caught loads of them.

 

[Stivino]

Is that fresh water or sea water?

 

[Mottie]

Is that fresh water or sea water?

I didn’t taste it but I assume it’s a bit of both. We were at promenade park in Maldon, probably 10 metres away from the tidal bit of the river Chelmer on the Blackwater estuary. We caught about a dozen of them using……bacon!

 

[Justin Passing]

Well there was a street party. They closed that part of the road. So we dutifully turned up, with 9 gross of supermarket pigs in blankets all warm, and a dozen Jerusalems of Premiere Grand Cru low cal no taste Shloer.
Driving around the patriotic obstructive bunting, because it was too far to walk, immediately achieved objective #1; I will now be recognized, even if it's as that entitled tw@t from down the road.
The circle of blokes were collectively as useless as they'd been last time at lighting the pretentious jumbo barbecue, so they were glad to have something warm to eat. And dissipate their embarrassing kids. And dogs. Then back to the car for the blowlamp, to stick in the cold coals they were trying to light with matches. Kids heard the roar and returned to ask their dads awkward embarrassing questions again. One dad sparked up,
"Oi Jimmy Saville, can you fix us up some of them drones?"
Hey, they've got a name for me, now.

 

[JP_]

Sounds lovely!

There was a "street party" event outside one of my sons friends houses. My wife picked him up, and came home to tell me about the strange men that just stared at her. We assumed the usual xenophobic stares. But then I returned the boys to the house a couple of hours later, and I got the stares too. Party looked very boring, just 3-4 blokes standing under a gazebo drinking lager, and staring menacingly at anybody daring to enter. Glad I don't live on that street!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Fed up of checking on the council website, which colour bin was supposed to be put out, on a Monday and often forgetting to put any bin out - I have finally worked out how to set Alexa to remind me to put the bin out and which bin is due to go out. Each week it alternates, between black and green, with a brown bin collection the day before the black one - I simply didn't know that Alexa could be set to remind alternate weeks. Ideally, I would prefer the reminders to be made at dusk, but they seem to be restricted to an actual set time of day.

 

[Mottie]

Came home to find that the Thames Water contractors were hard at it. Mini diggers, dumpers, kango's, petrol cutters. Same going on at the other end of the street. They’ve broken into our drain and said it’s a lot shallower than they were told - it’s only about a foot down! I could have told them that - our street runs downhill and the direction of flow is towards the higher part of the street so it would have to be pretty shallow at our end to fall down to the manhole in the drive three doors down! They recon we can just use the toilet/bath/sink as normal and it will empty into the big hole which they will pump out each day - is that normal? They’ve boarded over my neighbours front lawn and are dumping the spoil on there. They asked if they could put a portaloo on our front drive and I told them no. Probably given them the hump.….

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

They asked if they could put a portaloo on our front drive and I told them no.

Put some reeds and ivy growing round it, to hide it