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What have you been doing today?
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Came out this morning to go on my usual dog walk, started up the Golf to let it warm up, had a kettleful of warm water to defrost the screen, put the wipers on (after making sure they weren’t frozen to the screen and…nothing. No wipers. Wasn’t going to sod about then so I went in the A3. When I came back, I went to check the fuses under the bonnet, pulled the bonnet release cable and didn’t hear the bonnet pop up. When I looked closer, I saw that it was already up. Some cars, Golf’s included, won’t let the wipers work unless the bonnet is latched so that was my problem but looking closer, the battery cover was off so I think someone had tried to pinch my battery in the night and was disturbed. I didn’t use the car yesterday but I remember when Mrs Mottie went to unlock the A3 yesterday morning, she pressed the Golf fob instead of the Audi one (she has both on her key ring that would put a jailer to shame) so it must have been unlocked all night. I’d have been gutted if they had nicked the battery, I’ve not long replaced it!
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£55 for three hours and a van + everything else to pay for, you gotta wonder what she must actually be earning after all that.
That’s what I thought. A fully fitted out dog wash van too. Maybe she spends a bit more time at first to get to know the dog? Just spoke to my mum, she has a different mobile groomer that comes to her and she only takes 45 minutes and charges £45. Mind you, my mum has a dog the size of a rabbit! Her groomer wouldn’t do ours as she says she has a bad back and can only do small dogs!
Pah. Mrs Mottie called in there yesterday and the heating wasn’t on. Useless brother is getting his useless plumber mate to go round and fix it but can’t go till Monday as he's away till then. Mrs Mottie was worried that the pipes are going to freeze and burst so we've just had a 2 hour round trip to give the 3 port valve another whack! While I was there I decided to turn off the water. Two stop cocks under the sink, both seized and when I freed them off, neither of them turned the water off so I turned it off in the street. At least Mrs Mottie won’t be fretting all night!
Tie the lever on the 3 port valve open with an elastic band.
Andy
Andy
The lever is as stiff as f*ck Andy. I’m wondering whether it could be the valve and not the head. I’ll let his mate sort it out.
Trying to make sense of all my LAN cable wiring, installed and much modified over the years, testing and labelling them all up.
Getting some exercise and fresh air on a golf course
My birthday present from Mrs Mottie arrived early today - a DJI mini 4K drone. Spent the evening charging it up, reading up on it, setting it all up, updating firmware etc. took it outside, calibrated it, locked on to the satellites, got the 'Ready to fly' message…..and bottled it! Too dark. I’m allowed one test flight and then it’s got to be wrapped up for my birthday at the end of the month. 
I’m going to wait till I have good weather and take it to an open space - don’t want to lose or crash it on my first outing.
I’m going to wait till I have good weather and take it to an open space - don’t want to lose or crash it on my first outing.
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Up in Lancs to help parents in law to clear out their static. They've decided it's too much to pay every year (£5400) for the reduced use it's getting now.
Plus, the site has changed hands a couple of times since they first moved onto it. Each time, charges have been increased massively.
IDK how these places get away with charging what they do.
Put your 'van on someone else's land and you open yourself up to all sorts of pumped up charges.
You pay a premium for leccy, a premium for gas, a premium for water and sewerage charges, you have to use their approved tradespeople if you want any jobs doing on the 'van.
If you want to take the static off site, they charge thousands.
They want the decking chopped up and removed and if you can't do it, they charge £750.
The van is pretty much worthless as they won't buy it off you and would charge 25% of the selling fee plus the thousands to take it off site if someone else bought it.
To cap it all, the leccy ran out and the smallest card the folks could buy was £20.
So, the thing is being left where it is, with a full gas bottle and nearly £20 quid's worth of leccy.
I wouldn't give them the s*dding keys!
Plus, the site has changed hands a couple of times since they first moved onto it. Each time, charges have been increased massively.
IDK how these places get away with charging what they do.
Put your 'van on someone else's land and you open yourself up to all sorts of pumped up charges.
You pay a premium for leccy, a premium for gas, a premium for water and sewerage charges, you have to use their approved tradespeople if you want any jobs doing on the 'van.
If you want to take the static off site, they charge thousands.
They want the decking chopped up and removed and if you can't do it, they charge £750.
The van is pretty much worthless as they won't buy it off you and would charge 25% of the selling fee plus the thousands to take it off site if someone else bought it.
To cap it all, the leccy ran out and the smallest card the folks could buy was £20.
So, the thing is being left where it is, with a full gas bottle and nearly £20 quid's worth of leccy.
I wouldn't give them the s*dding keys!
My dad was caught out, by the very same racket, decades ago. People retiring to statics are often similarly affected, and it's way past the time the government put rules in place to stop the racket.
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