Today.

[BorderReiver]

I've just been to the tip, an incredibly mixed load to the point I wrote down the order of the skips and filled the car in reverse, normally you can just wing it.

On the way home I almost broadsided a doddery old fool in a Citroen C1, the classic fail to give way to the right at a roundabout and then open realising your mistake, coming to a stop rather than clear the junction. The brakes on the Landy are surprisingly good when you bury the pedal.

The usual trick round here with roundabouts is to drive up in the left hand lane when going straight on, then going straight on whilst ignoring you in the inside lane intending to turn right. The laugh is that the buggers glare at you when you sound the horn to stop them sideswiping you.

 

[BorderReiver]

I’m there!

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I am at the blue dot on the lower left hand corner; top right is the river, about 20-30 miles long but at this point it’s mostly sea water (hence why it’s so wide. The quadrangular patches north of me are claires, oyster parcs where the shells are left to feast on the type of blue algae that grow there.

What an interesting landscape.

 

[bushwacker]

the blue/green oyster cult

 

[noddy]

Found half of this a couple of years ago and just tripped over part 2.

Might see if I can find Carleton Browne of the FO

 

[ElThomsono]

I'm at a curry house, I'm overnighting in Plymouth and it's against a project so why not. I gambled on the house special, a chicken curry cooked through with beef mince. What was I thinking? It was passable but frankly just not right.

Best of all they're trying to overhaul our expense system, used to be pretty fair and liberal, now they are trying to put a £25 cap on meals (have you bought food recently, the price has gone up). There was an online meeting about it, which I didn't attend, during the questions at the end one of our engineers lambasted the £25 cap and the management response was "where is everyone getting this £25 figure from?"

"from the slides attached to this meeting"

Seems the shut it down quick, fuck knows what was going on, whether it was a miscommunication or they were actually ignorant of the policy they were just presenting. We'll see when I put in a £40 bill for one meal.

 

[Winnet]

Putting the radiator back into the dining room and it doesn't quite line up. The plumber has drilled the hole in slightly the wrong place so the connection is at an angle. Busy trying to see how to fix it without having to get him back.

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[MaC]

For a plumber that's pretty good.....you do not want to see the Jodrell Bank snarl of copper pipes in my hall cupboard
An elderly plumber (bother's faither in law) visited, looked at it and tied himself in a granny knot laughing
One pipe at 2cm angle is pretty much gold standard these days :sigh:

It drives me nuts how careless, etc.,

 

[noddy]

a chicken curry cooked through with beef mince.

Does that mean leftovers?

 

[Winnet]

For a plumber that's pretty good.....you do not want to see the Jodrell Bank snarl of copper pipes in my hall cupboard
An elderly plumber (bother's faither in law) visited, looked at it and tied himself in a granny knot laughing
One pipe at 2cm angle is pretty much gold standard these days :sigh:

It drives me nuts how careless, etc.,

I wouldn't like to be a plumber I will admit. They used a mixture of plastic and copper which reminds me I need to check they have put lagging on the pipes. I'm happy that I have the ability to fettle their work to get it sorted.

G

 

[Stew]

Putting the radiator back into the dining room and it doesn't quite line up. The plumber has drilled the hole in slightly the wrong place so the connection is at an angle. Busy trying to see how to fix it without having to get him back.

G

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If it makes you feel better, I’m at a holiday house with friends and someone’s kid put a dart into one of the rads last night. I’m not too impressed and debating on whether to fix it or just leave them to pay the bill.

Made for a bit of drama with hot water pissing out!!

 

[Saint-Just]

If it makes you feel better, I’m at a holiday house with friends and someone’s kid put a dart into one of the rads last night. I’m not too impressed and debating on whether to fix it or just leave them to pay the bill.

Made for a bit of drama with hot water pissing out!!

I seem to remember someone mentioning a product to fix radiator leaks. I also think I remember it didn’t go down well

 

[Winnet]

If it makes you feel better, I’m at a holiday house with friends and someone’s kid put a dart into one of the rads last night. I’m not too impressed and debating on whether to fix it or just leave them to pay the bill.

Made for a bit of drama with hot water pissing out!!

That must have been some dart throw.

G

 

[Stew]

I seem to remember someone mentioning a product to fix radiator leaks. I also think I remember it didn’t go down well

Oh yes!

 

[Stew]

That must have been some dart throw.

G

The dart fits the hole perfectly to lock it in place still!

 

[noddy]

Putting the radiator back into the dining room and it doesn't quite line up. The plumber has drilled the hole in slightly the wrong place so the connection is at an angle. Busy trying to see how to fix it without having to get him back.

G

View attachment 1991

Get him back just tell him what a prick he's been; whether he repairs it or not.

 

[Renton]

If it makes you feel better, I’m at a holiday house with friends and someone’s kid put a dart into one of the rads last night. I’m not too impressed and debating on whether to fix it or just leave them to pay the bill.

Made for a bit of drama with hot water pissing out!!

We went on a group holiday last year to Center Parcs (if you've never been, you can only take your car to the accomodation at certain points and park miles away the rest of the time) and someone pulled a cupboard door off in the kitchen, cue everyone talking about whether they had tools in their cars.

I grabbed a pouch with a few basic tools from my bag next door only to be asked why I had tools with me in the chalet?

 

[MaC]

We went on a group holiday last year to Center Parcs (if you've never been, you can only take your car to the accomodation at certain points and park miles away the rest of the time) and someone pulled a cupboard door off in the kitchen, cue everyone talking about whether they had tools in their cars.

I grabbed a pouch with a few basic tools from my bag next door only to be asked why I had tools with me in the chalet?

Some people just don't live practical lives.

 

[Greg]

Feel very slow today, the low cloud and the rain just don't encourage me to feel active. I have managed to get in a couple of short walks when the rain hasn't been bouncing off the pavement.

 

[ElThomsono]

I'm back from Plymouth, as it panned out I somehow didn't eat all day, I got back past 4pm and Laura's friend was there with her two kids. I'd forgotten that was happening. The house was bedlam but she'd brought me a dozen Welsh cakes, last time she visited she brought six for us to share and I'd eaten five before the kettle had boiled 😯

The kids are all in bed now so I've nipped down the pub to get out of their hair, there's so much sunlight it feels like I should still be in the office.

The drive back was easy enough, but there were a few short dual carriageway stretches where I got past the caravans that had been holding me up. I normally spend 90% of my time just wafting about on the electric motor, but when I'm burning petrol it changes my mood to "I've paid for it so I'm going to use it" 😅

 

[Greg]

Did you fix the problem?

I long for the driving standards of the UK, which are well known for being... not great. Driving on the highways here is absolute insanity. The road designs are flat out dangerous - the intersections are designed in such a way that the people joining and people leaving have to swap paces in relatively short stretches. For example there is one here which diverges into East and West. At the point is diverges I think it is 8 lanes across, not long before that, 4 lanes join it from the right hand side. So potentially someone wanting to go West from the far right hand lane needs to cross at least 4 lanes of traffic, and someone wanting to go East from the far left hand lane needs to do the same.

Immediately when they merge, there are people who want to do this as quickly as possible which is dicey as it is easy for them to decide to swap at the same time and not notice each other. Even worse though is the person who doesn't notice until the last moment and darts across how ever many lanes.

Something as simple as the typical UK or European junction design would make a huge difference to accident rates here. I believe there are a couple of 4 leaf clover type junctions in the UK but they were abandoned as a standard because of how dangerous they are.

 

[ElThomsono]

Actually, yes!

Our field engineer has fitted some of the routers today, in and out of the rain, and we've already migrated two of the four clusters and they're replying correctly. It was just one of those situations where doing it solo you'd be walking back and forth between junctions while unplugging stuff and looking at LEDs, with two heads it goes a lot faster and that's even before you consider bouncing ideas off each other.

 

[Oldtimer]

Two heads are better than one, unless one is a head of lettuce. As my Grandma used to say.

 

[MaC]

I'm just home from East Kilbride....getting there means navigating the Raith interchange....which joins up the M8 and the M74 access ramps/ and the traffic coming down from the M8 to get onto the M74, or go to East Kilbride, to get onto the express way to EK. Then the traffic from Motherwell and Hamilton sort of join in the fun.

It was not a fun journey, either way, and my language is atrocious !

 

[ElThomsono]

We're going to Centre Parks in Belgium in two months, including the travel costs it's half the price of the UK and that's before you factor in the cheap booze. Of course, being a fine upstanding citizen I have a passport, but the other three don't. After sorting photos (harrowing) we're about to submit paperwork, both children's birth certificates and the marriage certificate as Laura has a new surname. Birth certificates in the safe as should be, marriage certificate missing. I'm normally very regimented with this so I don't know how it's gone missing. Last known location was with social services for our DBS checks, did they give it back? Unclear.

There's a slim chance it's in my desk and I've just never noticed it (doubt), but I can't check as Laura's friend's kids are sleeping in that room.

I deffo got married as I remember waiting for her to arrive, taking a belt of cask strength from a hip flask.

Urgh, where could it be? Filing cabinet came up empty, but I did find the manual for my 16 speed drill press.

 

[Winnet]

It is somewhere safe.

G