Yeah, told me there was no need to wait 15 minutes anymore but did advise me against driving for 15 minutes. I just sat in my car for a while.
What have you been doing today?
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Got the students servicing my A3 today. When they took the engine undertray down, a bolt that had been laying on it fell down. This one:
Worrying! I searched high and low to find where it had come from. Eventually it clicked. A month or so ago I changed the cam belt kit. I still had the old parts lying about. In the kit you get new bolts for the tensioner, jockey pulley and crank pulley. I checked them and one was missing. Pretty sure it’s the old tensioner pulley bolt. Well, I’m hoping it is!
It seems the right size and length.
Worrying! I searched high and low to find where it had come from. Eventually it clicked. A month or so ago I changed the cam belt kit. I still had the old parts lying about. In the kit you get new bolts for the tensioner, jockey pulley and crank pulley. I checked them and one was missing. Pretty sure it’s the old tensioner pulley bolt. Well, I’m hoping it is!
It seems the right size and length.
Told one of the students to check my tyres. He told me the rears were illegal. I showed him how to check them properly and they were……illegal! I’ve never run an illegal tyre in my life and usually change them well before they are due. Oh well, I won’t **** about, 4 new tyres to be ordered for next week.
And so, the torch is passed to the next generation.........
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Very true. I've had enough of this. When these kids have passed, I'm out of here. Christmas is my planned finish date and then I'll rent the place out or sell up.And so, the torch is passed to the next generation.........
Hearing me relate about how we had recovered an abandoned bike, which I had sorted out - late last week g/son offered to drop off two more push-bikes, that he was going to take to the dump. Drop them off, next time he was down here - this morning. One was only useful for spares, the other I set about to repair up. Both gear change links seized, chain a bit stiff, both through lack of lube, back brake none functional.
The first one donated some better parts for Avril's bike, the second one I managed to repair up. Next trick, is to decide what to do with that one?
Yesterday, I was due a telephone appointment from the hospital nephrology consultant, to discuss my latest blood tests in regard to my kidneys. Instead of the expected consultant, it was the specialist nurse who rang - possibly due to the consultant strike, to ask how I was doing, and relay my results. She said I was remaining fairly stable..
The first one donated some better parts for Avril's bike, the second one I managed to repair up. Next trick, is to decide what to do with that one?
Yesterday, I was due a telephone appointment from the hospital nephrology consultant, to discuss my latest blood tests in regard to my kidneys. Instead of the expected consultant, it was the specialist nurse who rang - possibly due to the consultant strike, to ask how I was doing, and relay my results. She said I was remaining fairly stable..
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An old mate of mine retired from a very lucrative career of fettling high powered race motorcycles & thought that his life would now be so much less stressful.
I don't think anyone really knows or understands exactly how it happened, but he is now the 'goto' man if anyone from age 6 to 65 within a 5ml radius needs their bicycle fixing.
Be carefull of what you wish for . . . . . !
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Went to Stockport town centre this afternoon and took a few pictures.
This is quite an interesting building. I last remember it being in use in the 70s as a pub/ club.
Derelict now, it is built at the side of a bridge on the A6, with two storeys above and two below the level of the A6.
I have no idea who owns the building but I'm amazed it has been laid to waste for so long.
Just over the road (at the lowest level of the derelict building) is the Plaza cinema and theatre. Looks impressive at night all lit up.
Below are steps leading up from the right hand side of the Plaza where I took the picture of the derelict building. Graffiti dog a bone-us!
Looking across to the major developments around the bus station. The area around the bus station was just open ground where old cars were dumped up to the late 70s when they started developing it into the bus station Mk2, the first one being a series of stands outside the Plaza. The second bus station opened in 1981 and now the area is being redeveloped again with a high rise block of flats and a new "transport interchange" that will look like a doughnut, with buses underneath and a fancy garden on the roof. They are also building a new bridge across the Mersey for buses, taxis, bikes and pedestrians.
There's a lot of redevelopment going on in the town centre.
In the RHS of the picture you can just make out Stockport's famous viaduct.
It took 1 year and 9 months and over 11 million bricks to complete, quite a feat considering it is one of the largest brick structures in the world. It was the world's largest viaduct when it was built.
I wish I'd got a proper picture of the viaduct, but I ran out of time.
The shopping precinct in the town centre was completed in 1965. Again, it's another interesting construction. The main run of the shopping centre is built over the river Mersey. Prior to the shopping centre, the A560 was built over the river, being completed in 1939.
There were once ideas to develop the river banks in the town centre with the river uncovered and key buildings like clinics, library and law court on its banks. But those plans were dropped.
Part of me thinks the Council were short-sighted and just wanted the stinky river out of sight and out of mind.
The precinct used to have open-air escalators up to a second level of walkways and shops and a bridge from one side to the other that housed a restaurant. There were also subterranean toilets. No wonder the river stank....
This is the old Stockport Infirmary, which I think opened in 179? and closed in 1996.
It was built by public subscription, then obviously the NHS came along. It was sold to a developer who just kept the façade and made it into offices for the DWPs pension service. The cynic in me wonders who made a nice fat profit from that building funded by the people of Stockport.
Stockport town hall, nicknamed "the wedding cake".
I didn't get time to go there, but Hopes Carr was the site of Stockport's plane crash, in 1967. The pilot did his best to try and get the plane to crash-land there as it was sparsely developed. The crash was caused by fuel starvation in one of the engines. Other pilots had issues with this but nobody reported it to the manufacturer. The fuel valves in the cockpit were poorly placed and difficult to understand.
To be continued...
This is quite an interesting building. I last remember it being in use in the 70s as a pub/ club.
Derelict now, it is built at the side of a bridge on the A6, with two storeys above and two below the level of the A6.
I have no idea who owns the building but I'm amazed it has been laid to waste for so long.
Just over the road (at the lowest level of the derelict building) is the Plaza cinema and theatre. Looks impressive at night all lit up.
Below are steps leading up from the right hand side of the Plaza where I took the picture of the derelict building. Graffiti dog a bone-us!
Looking across to the major developments around the bus station. The area around the bus station was just open ground where old cars were dumped up to the late 70s when they started developing it into the bus station Mk2, the first one being a series of stands outside the Plaza. The second bus station opened in 1981 and now the area is being redeveloped again with a high rise block of flats and a new "transport interchange" that will look like a doughnut, with buses underneath and a fancy garden on the roof. They are also building a new bridge across the Mersey for buses, taxis, bikes and pedestrians.
There's a lot of redevelopment going on in the town centre.
In the RHS of the picture you can just make out Stockport's famous viaduct.
It took 1 year and 9 months and over 11 million bricks to complete, quite a feat considering it is one of the largest brick structures in the world. It was the world's largest viaduct when it was built.
I wish I'd got a proper picture of the viaduct, but I ran out of time.
The shopping precinct in the town centre was completed in 1965. Again, it's another interesting construction. The main run of the shopping centre is built over the river Mersey. Prior to the shopping centre, the A560 was built over the river, being completed in 1939.
There were once ideas to develop the river banks in the town centre with the river uncovered and key buildings like clinics, library and law court on its banks. But those plans were dropped.
Part of me thinks the Council were short-sighted and just wanted the stinky river out of sight and out of mind.
The precinct used to have open-air escalators up to a second level of walkways and shops and a bridge from one side to the other that housed a restaurant. There were also subterranean toilets. No wonder the river stank....
This is the old Stockport Infirmary, which I think opened in 179? and closed in 1996.
It was built by public subscription, then obviously the NHS came along. It was sold to a developer who just kept the façade and made it into offices for the DWPs pension service. The cynic in me wonders who made a nice fat profit from that building funded by the people of Stockport.
Stockport town hall, nicknamed "the wedding cake".
I didn't get time to go there, but Hopes Carr was the site of Stockport's plane crash, in 1967. The pilot did his best to try and get the plane to crash-land there as it was sparsely developed. The crash was caused by fuel starvation in one of the engines. Other pilots had issues with this but nobody reported it to the manufacturer. The fuel valves in the cockpit were poorly placed and difficult to understand.
To be continued...
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Continued.....
This is the war memorial art gallery.
Part of Stockport College's old buildings on the A6. Yours truly did his C & G 2391 there in the 80s. It's disused now and they've built a new building next door.
The old buildings have been sold to a developer but the council did not stipulate when the work must start. Consequently the buildings have been vandalised and look dreadful.
This is statue in memory to James Conway, one of the Cockleshell Heros.
Found a rendering of how the new travel interchange will look.
A photo of the famous viaduct from the M63.
Found some pictures of the shopping precinct, showing the upper walkways, the escalators and the "bridge" restaurant.
This is the war memorial art gallery.
Part of Stockport College's old buildings on the A6. Yours truly did his C & G 2391 there in the 80s. It's disused now and they've built a new building next door.
The old buildings have been sold to a developer but the council did not stipulate when the work must start. Consequently the buildings have been vandalised and look dreadful.
This is statue in memory to James Conway, one of the Cockleshell Heros.
Found a rendering of how the new travel interchange will look.
A photo of the famous viaduct from the M63.
Found some pictures of the shopping precinct, showing the upper walkways, the escalators and the "bridge" restaurant.
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I’m over the allotment at the moment and I’ve just been stung by a bee. The bloody thing kept buzzing around my head, trying to fly in my ear and down the back of my shirt and despite running from one side of the plot to the other, it kept following me. When I finally thought it had gone it came out of nowhere and stung me on my lip! The lady in the adjacent plot plucked the pulsating stinger out of my lip for me. Someone else got stung today as well. Two plot holders have beehives on their plot so it must have been one of theirs but one of them gave me an antihistamine tablet. It didn’t half hurt and it’s still hurting now and the numbness has travelled to my top gum and a couple of teeth!
That's unbeelievable!
Parked up in a coop store this morning, it’s on a slight slope. The sign in the parking bays said something along these lines : would customers please apply their handbrake before leaving their vehicle. Health and safety advice or practical experience I asked myself
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Owned a BX and a Xantia. Both handbrakes gave out.
Once I came home with my BX, parked on my slope drive and came out to find it blocking the road. Just thought I'd not put the handbrake on fully.
We went on a weekend to London, parked the Xantia outside on a hill.
Went in the front room and started chatting. The person we were visiting asked which car we had come in. "The white one", I replied.
"What," she said, "The one that's rolling down the hill?"
It ran quite a way before knocking into a car much further down the hill, but there was no visible damage that I could see to either car. I even took photos of the other car. Bumper in perfect nick and ditto the plate. I reckon the handbrake wasn't fully off.
Come the insurance repair, apparently the bumper was wrecked and the number plate too, plus damage behind.
I complained bitterly to the insurance company and sent them the pictures, but they approved the repairs.
Definite rip-off.
These days, they'd investigate carefully if one drivers description of the damage did not match the other.
I also told the insurance company that I had done some research after the Xantia incident, finding out there was a design fault in the handbrake mechanism whereby the system would cool down and as it cooled, the grip on them by the mechanism would release.
All they did was phone the dealer who serviced it, checked that they had followed the correct procedures, then blamed me for not putting the handbrake on properly.
After that, I always left the car in gear, which ****ed Mrs S off....
Once I came home with my BX, parked on my slope drive and came out to find it blocking the road. Just thought I'd not put the handbrake on fully.
We went on a weekend to London, parked the Xantia outside on a hill.
Went in the front room and started chatting. The person we were visiting asked which car we had come in. "The white one", I replied.
"What," she said, "The one that's rolling down the hill?"
It ran quite a way before knocking into a car much further down the hill, but there was no visible damage that I could see to either car. I even took photos of the other car. Bumper in perfect nick and ditto the plate. I reckon the handbrake wasn't fully off.
Come the insurance repair, apparently the bumper was wrecked and the number plate too, plus damage behind.
I complained bitterly to the insurance company and sent them the pictures, but they approved the repairs.
Definite rip-off.
These days, they'd investigate carefully if one drivers description of the damage did not match the other.
I also told the insurance company that I had done some research after the Xantia incident, finding out there was a design fault in the handbrake mechanism whereby the system would cool down and as it cooled, the grip on them by the mechanism would release.
All they did was phone the dealer who serviced it, checked that they had followed the correct procedures, then blamed me for not putting the handbrake on properly.
After that, I always left the car in gear, which ****ed Mrs S off....
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Wife was working today and her parents (who are staying until Monday) were planning to get a lift into Belfast with her so they could do some shopping and wander around. I’d planned to do some DIY tasks, just little things I hadn’t had a chance to do during the week. Wife and her parents were getting ready to leave and I was in the living room when we heard an unholy crash from the living room. Came in to discover that the wall-mounted cabinet, filled with glasses and crockery, had fallen off the wall! Glass and broken crockery everywhere! Wife was very shaken as was mother in law as she’d been in the dining room seconds before it fell.
I went out and got some industrial strength bin bags and called a colleague to come and give me a hand. We got all the rubble cleared away and threw out everything that was smashed or too badly damaged to keep.
Went down to IKEA this evening and got a replacement cabinet - a freestanding one this time. I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow now.
Funnily enough my wife and father in law both said they weren’t happy with how the cabinet looked and were worried it was going to fall!
Oh and I did get my DIY done, just later than planned!
I went out and got some industrial strength bin bags and called a colleague to come and give me a hand. We got all the rubble cleared away and threw out everything that was smashed or too badly damaged to keep.
Went down to IKEA this evening and got a replacement cabinet - a freestanding one this time. I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow now.
Funnily enough my wife and father in law both said they weren’t happy with how the cabinet looked and were worried it was going to fall!
Oh and I did get my DIY done, just later than planned!
Reminds me of a handyman my company used to employ.
Nickname of "Spirit level", because he could have done with one......
Accounts lady asked him to put some shelves up, for her filing.
Minutes after putting said files onto the shelves, the lot came crashing down.
Spirit level: "I didn't think they looked strong enough to start with.".....
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