What have you been doing today?

[Mottie]

Owned a BX and a Xantia. Both handbrakes gave out.

I parked our Golf in a side street with a slight slope once and me and Mrs Mottie went into a restaurant for a meal. We'd just received our starters and I had a call from my neighbour telling me the police were knocking on my door as our car was blocking traffic. I went outside the restaurant and saw that it had rolled backwards down the hill, gone across a main road and came to a stop against the pavement. No damage done. The copper directing traffic around the car said I should get my handbrake looked at by a garage!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

The copper directing traffic around the car said I should get my handbrake looked at by a garage!

I've always been keen on having a first-rate handbrake.

 

[securespark]

Then don't buy a Citroen!

 

[Mottie]

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!

It ain’t getting any better. Woke up at 4.00 and reached for a drink of water. You know when you’ve been to the dentists for a filling and when he tells you to have a rinse with that glass blue water, you can’t control your lips because they are still numb from the injection? Well, it was like that. I had to go to the bathroom to have a look. Fook me! I had to wake Mrs Mottie up to show her. She laughed and said some women would pay good money to get 'duck lips' like that. It’s just getting bigger and bigger. Might have to go to the pharmacy when they open to get something for it. If it doesn’t go down, I might have to change my forum name to Duckie!

Naturally, I’ve consulted Dr Google. He tells me this;

Swelling can increase for 48 hours after the sting? It’s only been about 18 so far, look at the size of it!

 

[Nope]

It ain’t getting any better. Woke up at 4.00 and reached for a drink of water. You know when you’ve been to the dentists for a filling and when he tells you to have a rinse with that glass blue water, you can’t control your lips because they are still numb from the injection? Well, it was like that. I had to go to the bathroom to have a look. Fook me! I had to wake Mrs Mottie up to show her. She laughed and said some women would pay good money to get 'duck lips' like that. It’s just getting bigger and bigger. Might have to go to the pharmacy when they open to get something for it. If it doesn’t go down, I might have to change my forum name to Duckie!

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Naturally, I’ve consulted Dr Google. He tells me this;

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Swelling can increase for 48 hours after the sting? It’s only been about 18 so far, look at the size of it!

I’m sure that’s unpleasant!

 

[Brigadier]

Did a GCN workout on the ol' smart trainer.

Decided then, to dismantle and clean out the drain and overflow under the kitchen sink.

Daisy-fresh now

Mowed the lawn.

Cleaned the car.

Measured up, so I know which length of Christmas lights to buy......

It'll soon be here.....

 

[Nope]

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[securespark]

Went for a stroll at Styal Mill.

Washed, dried and polished the new motor.

Then of course, you know what happened next!

 

[fillyboy]

Went for a stroll at Styal Mill.

Washed, dried and polished the new motor.

Then of course, you know what happened next!

 

[Mottie]

 

[securespark]

Yup. Then it started raining!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

A couple of recent reports of the garage electric roller door, being found open, when it had been previously closed. So I thought to ignore it for the time being, and see what developed...

In other reports, Avril was saying there was a draft from the bay window, when the wind blows. The bay faces the westerlies, and the draft appears to come from between the internal timber sill, and the top of the plastered wall. The gap is very narrow, so not sure how to deal with it on the inside. We have CWI.

Checking the outside of the bay, there are three brick sized cavity vents along that front wall, two levels up from the DPC - one of which is in the middle of the bay. As a trial, for the next time the wind blows, I've cut a brick sized sheet of alloy, which I have stuck over the bay vent, to see if that helps.

Whilst on with that, I caught the garage roller door opening up, all by itself, several times. It has two radio remotes, and a wired remote. The controller was flashing one of it's LED, as if it was getting some sort of signal, to do something, so probably a job to investigate tomorrow. For now, close it and switch the power off..

 

[fillyboy]

A couple of recent reports of the garage electric roller door, being found open, when it had been previously closed. So I thought to ignore it for the time being, and see what developed...

In other reports, Avril was saying there was a draft from the bay window, when the wind blows. The bay faces the westerlies, and the draft appears to come from between the internal timber sill, and the top of the plastered wall. The gap is very narrow, so not sure how to deal with it on the inside. We have CWI.

Checking the outside of the bay, there are three brick sized cavity vents along that front wall, two levels up from the DPC - one of which is in the middle of the bay. As a trial, for the next time the wind blows, I've cut a brick sized sheet of alloy, which I have stuck over the bay vent, to see if that helps.

Whilst on with that, I caught the garage roller door opening up, all by itself, several times. It has two radio remotes, and a wired remote. The controller was flashing one of it's LED, as if it was getting some sort of signal, to do something, so probably a job to investigate tomorrow. For now, close it and switch the power off..

Friend of mine many years ago had a garage door that opened on it's own, he eventually pinned it down to it opening every time an ambulance went past,

His had something on the controller that he adjusted to lessen the signal distance.

 

[Mottie]

Went over the allotment to try to finish off what I had started on Saturday before the bee sting but again, had a couple of bees 'showing interest' in me so I packed up and came home. I was digging and sifting soil which was hot, sweaty work. I’ve read that bees can be attracted by sweat.

Over the past two days, I’ve had a cluster of mushrooms/toadstools appear in my lawn. Never had them before but I’m assuming it may be due to a possible dead/rotting tree root in the ground from the apple tree we had removed last year. Quite a cluster. I pulled them up - filled a bucket with them.

 

[Odds]

Went over the allotment to try to finish off what I had started on Saturday before the bee sting but again, had a couple of bees 'showing interest' in me so I packed up and came home. I was digging and sifting soil which was hot, sweaty work. I’ve read that bees can be attracted by sweat.

Over the past two days, I’ve had a cluster of mushrooms/toadstools appear in my lawn. Never had them before but I’m assuming it may be due to a possible dead/rotting tree root in the ground from the apple tree we had removed last year. Quite a cluster. I pulled them up - filled a bucket with them.

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That's a cool crop - like a mini forest in the lawn.
Have you seen many ladybirds in the mot-plot?
I've been havoc'd by the dratted things all afternoon, out tidying up a garden.
Beautiful day, though; a last breath of Autumn before the weather turns chilly next week.