What have you been doing today?

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crystal ball said:
I do not pick apart all your posts I leave that to others, but your original claim is misleading, BAE took over around 2000 AFAIK, that does not make them submarine builders.
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So, are you saying BAE don't make submarines but Vickers Armstrong who no longer exist do?
 
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Odds said:
That's a cruel streak of humour, right there: doesn't the roof get hot in summer?
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Well for years, they used to rip up and destroy the roofing felt. Justice at last.

Roof is timber, roofing felt, then box-section steel. Yes, it can get quite hot on the south facing side.
 
Harry Bloomfield said:
Well for years, they used to rip up and destroy the roofing felt. Justice at last.

Roof is timber, roofing felt, then box-section steel. Yes, it can get quite hot on the south facing side.
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I got around that problem by painting the shed roof with Evercryl. Keeps everything watertight and easily washable after the fat pigeon has had a heavy lunch. I can't do anything about the squirrel scampering along the trellis atop the fence, though. Pigeon spikes would ruin the look, so i put up with his antics, as he treats it as a fun-run, scoffing hazel nuts to his hearts content.
 
Had a knock on my door today - the daughter of my neighbour opposite (who lives in Austria and was only over here for a visit) told me her mum had fallen over in the bathroom and she couldn’t lift her up. I went over and after diverting my eyes, the two of us managed to lift her up but bloody hell, was it hard! She's not a big lady by any stretch of the imagination but she was unable to help us at all and she was a dead weight. Poor old cow - She goes out most nights for a walk using her walking frame and she always says she's got to use it or lose it. Looks like she has lost it now, she's well into her late eighties. Her son has moved back in with her to help out but he's in his sixties and not in the best of health.

After that, I had another knock on the door - the kid next door asked if I could help him with a puncture on his bike. I sorted him out but then his two mates asked if I could sort their bikes out too - adjusted and tightened the seat post, handle bars and brakes on his bike and the brakes on the other one. I was only too glad to help them as that meant they could then pîss off out on their bikes instead of staying in and playing shyte rap type music!

After that, I just binged 'better call Saul' on the stick until Mrs Mottie got back from mummy day care!
 
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My neighbour opposite had me on his call list for emergencies, couple of time he had a fall, I was alone and had to call fire brigade, second time he had added another neighbour on the list, he lifted him in a bear hug onto the bed, I said blimey, he said a lifetime handling cattle was good training
 
Dug a tree out.
That, and three builder bags of arisings to the tip, and I'm knacked.
Caught up with the wimmins'time trial on iplayer, now watching the cricket.
 
Mottie said:
Had a knock on my door today - the daughter of my neighbour opposite (who lives in Austria and was only over here for a visit) told me her mum had fallen over in the bathroom and she couldn’t lift her up. I went over and after diverting my eyes, the two of us managed to lift her up but bloody hell, was it hard! She's not a big lady by any stretch of the imagination but she was unable to help us at all and she was a dead weight. Poor old cow - She goes out most nights for a walk using her walking frame and she always says she's got to use it or lose it. Looks like she has lost it now, she's well into her late eighties. Her son has moved back in with her to help out but he's in his sixties and not in the best of health.

After that, I had another knock on the door - the kid next door asked if I could help him with a puncture on his bike. I sorted him out but then his two mates asked if I could sort their bikes out too - adjusted and tightened the seat post, handle bars and brakes in his bike and the brakes on the other one. I was only too glad to help them as that meant they could then pîss of out on their bikes instead of staying in and playing shyte rap type music!

After that, I just binged 'better call Saul' on the stick until Mrs Mottie got back from mummy day care!
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Should've called the fire brigade. ;)
 
We've been busy sprucing the car and the caravan up, for an outing. Both have been underused, and rather neglected for the past 15 months. I only set out to clean the worst of the muck off, but she insisted on doing a thorough deep clean and detail/polish of both.

On top of that, I've been busy selling surplus items on Facebook - one of the items, a brand new trolley jack, I put on at £35. A guy offered me £20, I said £32 was as low as I would go, he agreed to that, but when arrived, he only had £40, we didn't have the £5 change he decided wanted (?), so he said keep the change, but we managed to pull together £3 as change. Jack was just bought as a back-up a few years ago, to my full size garage jack, but was never needed, never taken out of its carry case.
 
Mottie said:
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After that, I had another knock on the door - the kid next door asked if I could help him with a puncture on his bike. I sorted him out but then his two mates asked if I could sort their bikes out too - adjusted and tightened the seat post, handle bars and brakes in his bike and the brakes on the other one. I was only too glad to help them as that meant they could then pîss of out on their bikes instead of staying in and playing shyte rap type music!
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I hope you showed him/them what to do - from what I see so many people have zero practical skills nowadays. Just what is wrong in this country - doesn't anyone want greasy hands from playing with bicycles before moving onto lawnmowers, motorbike and cars.
At 14 I was 'tuning up' Lawnmowers - well de-coking them really. A source of pocket money - A £5 including spark plug and gasket set. At 16 I was messing around with 2-stroke 'bike motors. De-coked my first car motor at 19 and found out the cylinder head wasn't a mini-cooper one as we had been told when I bought the car.
 
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