What have you been doing today?

[Deleted member 294929]

Well, we have her on camera so if it turns out she wasn’t a genuine charity collector, we will be passing it on to the police.

One way or another I hope you get her.
I love cameras.

I see on CCTV some fella once chase another fella with a scaffold pole.

He was crazy

 

[Mottie]

One way or another I hope you get her.
I love cameras.

I see on CCTV some fella once chase another fella with a scaffold pole.

He was crazy

That was 9 years ago now but guess what, the other fella and his mate never came back for another go at nicking his bike.

 

[Deleted member 294929]

That was 9 years ago now but guess what, the other fella and his mate never came back for another go at nicking his bike.

Neither would I.

I like crazy Fellas like that that. I wish there where more.

 

[Brigadier]

Bunch of feckers these kinds. Really makes your blood boil, don't they ever think someone might do that to their nearest and dearest!

Not a serving Tory MP, was she?

 

[JonathanM]

There's a story in the Times tonight about the underhand tactics used by chuggers from GOSH.

‘Emotional blackmail’: inside the agencies raising millions for GOSH

The charity has almost doubled its money with a big fundraising drive — but complaints have doubled too

www.thetimes.co.uk

I came home to Mrs Mottie having words with someone on the phone which is most unlike her. Apparently, her mother (who has dementia) had phoned her up earlier to ask her what her own phone number was! When Mrs Mottie asked her why, she said she was filling a form in. When questioned further, she said it was "for the blind". Mrs Mottie said to leave it and she'd help her with the form when she comes down on Friday but her mum said "they’re here now". Turned out it was a doorstep chugger for GOSH getting her mum to sign up for a regular donation so Mrs Mottie asked to speak to her and politely asked her to leave some literature and she would speak to her mother when she came down. The chugger said okay. I came in about 10 minutes after that but Mrs Mottie had logged in to a camera in the lounge five minute after being told that she was leaving and the fùcker was still there trying to get her mum to sign up. She phoned her mum straight back up and asked for them to be put back on and when I walked in she was having a go at her and told her if she didn’t leave her mums house immediately, she'd phone her mums neighbour up and get her husband to throw her out of the house. She went, but not before telling Mrs Mottie to "enjoy the rest of your day". Cheeky fùcker. Mrs Mottie was fuming and will be phoning them up tomorrow to make a complaint. Looking online at their doorstep collectors code of conduct, she's broken it on almost every level. We’re not even sure she was genuine so Mrs Motties sister froze her mums cards.

 

[Mottie]

There's a story in the Times tonight about the underhand tactics used by chuggers from GOSH.

‘Emotional blackmail’: inside the agencies raising millions for GOSH

The charity has almost doubled its money with a big fundraising drive — but complaints have doubled too

www.thetimes.co.uk

Looks interesting but I’m not a subscriber.

 

[timbo46]

Went to see barrels being made today,

They make large ones too

 

[crystal ball]

Watching our local cat stalking what was probably a mouse under our wheelie bin, it spent a full hour waiting to pounce, missed the outcome due to a loo stop

 

[JonathanM]

It looks like the cricket's getting tasty.

 

[JonathanM]

Went to see barrels being made today,

What are these barrels used for?

 

[crystal ball]

Watching our local cat stalking what was probably a mouse under our wheelie bin, it spent a full hour waiting to pounce, missed the outcome due to a loo stop

Update, cat came back, spent 30 mins ready to pounce, jumped in and head butted the bin, ran of with mouse in its jaws, persistence paid off

 

[Deleted member 294929]

Doing a sourdough course this morning. I think I'm within the youngest 2.

Should be a 4 hour class.

 

[Brigadier]

What are these barrels used for?

Putting idiots in, to roll them down hills would be good

 

[Mottie]

Finished painting the workshop walls and made a start on the workshop floor. I washed as much oil off as I could last week and then pressure washed it. Today I've moved all my toolbox's, benches etc into the middle and I'm painting round it all. I'll come back Monday, move all the stuff to the edges and then paint myself out of the door. I'll then leave that to harden while Mrs M and I have a long weekend away with the dog in a cottage in the Forest of Dean. When I come back, I'll strip out everything from the office, decorate that and fit new carpet tiles and then put it up for rent and see if there are any takers. No rush though - I'd rather take my time and get the right tenant. All I've had so far are chancers that either want to break cars or motorcycles even though I said no motor trade. Mind you, the previous photos did show a fully fitted out garage. Motor mechanics are generally a dirty, messy, noisy lot and being in a residential area, I wouldn't want to inflict that on neighbours that I have had over the last 40 years.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Fixing the replacement water inlet socket, on the caravan. It's plastic, with a pair of contacts to supply the pump, a connection for the water inlet, and a NRV. The hinged cover flap, retains the plug in place, against the water pressure, except the hinge was beginning to split.

There are at least three versions of the inlet, cheapest lacking the contact and NRV, most expensive includes a pressure switch, then the one I needed in the middle cost wise. From photos, it looked as if they all used the very same main plastic moulding, and that was all that was damaged on mine, the hinge, so I took a chance on being able to swap bits over, to save £20 - and ordered up the cheaper one.

I just got around to fitting it today, and yes, I was able to swap the bits over.

In the process of doing that, I had to manoeuvrer the caravan away from the fence, so I tried to make use of the mover. That, I found, is misbehaving - master relay clicking on and off, when no buttons are being pressed, and when a button is pressed to move it, the movement is jerky, as the master continues to switch on and off. It's not the leisure battery, nor the remote control, nor a poor main 12v connection. It's not an out of range problem, because when out of range it just stops - so I need to give that some thought.