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[reb]

I'm learning new things today!

[spike60]

1 hour ago, paulplom said:

Nice to watch the idiots without their seat belts on!

If it was filmed in 1970 a lot of the cars probably didn't have belts. I think they'd only arrived in F1 a couple of years before.

[spike60]

59 minutes ago, reb said:

I'm learning new things today!

You'll have to let us know how you get on, I have an old system that uses clamps on the wheels and a cord between them but it's a monumental faff. 

[reb]

1 hour ago, spike60 said:

You'll have to let us know how you get on, I have an old system that uses clamps on the wheels and a cord between them but it's a monumental faff. 

I had a look at the manual yesterday afternoon, it seems straightforward enough, very well documented!

[egg]

Just opened the box the pressure washer lives in. Also found the sodding mouse nest...:-(

 

[New POD]

8 hours ago, paulplom said:

Nice to watch the idiots without their seat belts on!

1min 38seconds someone comes out of the door. 

[brownnova]

Who let you out of your garage???

[paulplom]

Washed the fleet today.

Van, bini and saab all shiny.

They're all covered in scratches (not from washing) but at least they're clean. I was knackered by the time I was finished.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bren]

My comment was removed from BBC have your say - presumably because it had the word gammon in it.

The BBC is now dumbed down rubbish.

[egg]

the eggfather has suggested putting an inline connector in the pressure washer cord. Like this. Seems legit?

Also just discovered a brown patch on the ceiling (water leak) - yay! ?

[Asimo]

22 minutes ago, egg said:

the eggfather has suggested putting an inline connector in the pressure washer cord. Like this. Seems legit?

Also just discovered a brown patch on the ceiling (water leak) - yay! ?

No, just open the washer up and re connect the slightly shorter cable.

At the beginning of lock-in we discovered  a winter's worth of mouse damage in the shed. No munched wiring thankfully!

 Mouse incontinence has triggered a huge re-work of the junk storage "system". Burning old furniture was the best bit. Nothing like mouse piss stains to make chucking something an easy decision

[New POD]

16 minutes ago, egg said:

the eggfather has suggested putting an inline connector in the pressure washer cord. Like this. Seems legit?

Also just discovered a brown patch on the ceiling (water leak) - yay! ?

I'm no expert (although the letters after my qualifications might suggest the opposite - MIET )

But when my son decided as a teenager to attack the cable on my jigsaw I got the biggest chocolate block connector, and using three of them fixed it, before covering it in (quite a lot) a few layers of consultation tape. 

My mum used to run the cable of the mower (alot) and my dad used soldering and heat shrink. Nobody died. 

I'd probably wrap that in insulation tape to make it look more like a bodge. 

[busmansholiday]

21 minutes ago, egg said:

the eggfather has suggested putting an inline connector in the pressure washer cord. Like this. Seems legit?

Also just discovered a brown patch on the ceiling (water leak) - yay! ?

I'd guess you'd need an IP67 rated one given you're outside with water around you. Personally I'd open the washer as suggested and shorten the cable.

[egg]

thanks chaps, I'll see if I can get it open tomorrow. Cheap B&Q effort that I picked up used, so not the end of the world if I mess it up.

[LightBulbFun]

yeah as others have said, id open up the device remove the flex, cut off the damaged bit of flex, and just reattach it  

(flex is the term for the floppy type cable that most plug in things have, as opposed to something like the ridgid twin and earth inside the walls of yer house)

[High Jetter]

22 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

(flex is the term for the floppy type cable that most plug in things have, as opposed to something like the ridgid twin and earth inside the walls of yer house)

Yes, and believe it or not, it's short for flexible. Cable is the pattern on the jumpers your granny used to knit.

[vulgalour]

It's always better to ask forgiveness than permission.  I just got this rule the wrong way around and will probably not be purchasing a rotten pre-war project.  Foolish.  FOOLISH!  I only asked permission because I'm buying it for the other half more than for me because it's a model they like more than I do, would've been an AWESOME present.  Might still buy it anyway because I mean, what're they going to do, tell me take it back?  Make me live in the car?  Stop cooking delicious food?  Actually, now I say that it's probably not worth the risk.

[loserone]

GIB dude

[vulgalour]

Good point, well made.

[danthecapriman]

Where I live there’s a strip of land next door instead of another house. It’s basically the same size as our house and garden but it’s empty. There used to be a small bungalow there which an old lady lived in but when she died the house and land was left in trust to the school over the back of all the houses on our road to be cleared and left for use by the school as a nature woodland area for the kids. It was like this since the 60’s.

Its a lovely bit of open space and had loads of big mature trees on it, all British native species, which made it great for wildlife as well as meaning we had lots of privacy in our garden and house...

...you know what’s coming next!

Yes, the fucking wankers at the council have decided to make a fast buck and sold it for development! Shame on you Hampshire county council! Last week a good 100 or so big trees and many many smaller shrubs have all been cut down and the site cleared for some greedy little fuck stick developer to completely ruin, and piss off us and all our neighbours. It’s a crying shame and I hope some nasty karma comes for the cunts responsible. So much for keeping green spaces and keeping trees eh!? Fuck the climate and environment when there’s profit to be made.

 

So, there’s sweet FA we can do about it as it’s his land, but what I can do is be incredibly unhelpful from here on! Plus, I can do wtf ever I want in my own land. So over the last few days our household have been giving the planet a little helping hand by planting some trees in our garden along the border and back border against the school in an effort to replace some of those ones lost. We can’t equal the numbers lost but something is better than nothing, and the trees also help soaking up rainwater in an otherwise very wet bit of space (something else that doesn’t get much mention when it comes to flooding and the environment!).

So far we’ve got an apple and plum tree, two chestnut trees (grown from seeds from the trees that were just chopped down) and a Rowan. Not a bad effort, but I’m a go big or go home type arse hole...

So, I’ve just ordered 3 big ‘proper’ trees for delivery on Friday! 1x Beech, 1x Copper beech, 1x Lime. They should grow nice and big! Add to that I’ve got a Horse chestnut (Conker) tree in a pot that I grew from a conker a few years back. Well, now that’s going into the ground to join it’s two siblings at the end of the garden already! Those two I grew some years ago from conkers I found and are probably getting on for 15-20ft in height now.

Nobody can accuse me of not doing my bit for the environment now! I can’t wait to get the Beech, lovely looking trees! I suppose it offsets the carbon footprint of my car collection.

[St.Jude]

22 hours ago, Bren said:

My comment was removed from BBC have your say - presumably because it had the word gammon in it.

The BBC is now dumbed down rubbish.

You sure they just haven't gone vegan?

[Kiltox]

3 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Where I live there’s a strip of land next door instead of another house. It’s basically the same size as our house and garden but it’s empty. There used to be a small bungalow there which an old lady lived in but when she died the house and land was left in trust to the school over the back of all the houses on our road to be cleared and left for use by the school as a nature woodland area for the kids. It was like this since the 60’s.

Its a lovely bit of open space and had loads of big mature trees on it, all British native species, which made it great for wildlife as well as meaning we had lots of privacy in our garden and house...

...you know what’s coming next!

Yes, the fucking wankers at the council have decided to make a fast buck and sold it for development! Shame on you Hampshire county council! Last week a good 100 or so big trees and many many smaller shrubs have all been cut down and the site cleared for some greedy little fuck stick developer to completely ruin, and piss off us and all our neighbours. It’s a crying shame and I hope some nasty karma comes for the cunts responsible. So much for keeping green spaces and keeping trees eh!? Fuck the climate and environment when there’s profit to be made.

 

So, there’s sweet FA we can do about it as it’s his land, but what I can do is be incredibly unhelpful from here on! Plus, I can do wtf ever I want in my own land. So over the last few days our household have been giving the planet a little helping hand by planting some trees in our garden along the border and back border against the school in an effort to replace some of those ones lost. We can’t equal the numbers lost but something is better than nothing, and the trees also help soaking up rainwater in an otherwise very wet bit of space (something else that doesn’t get much mention when it comes to flooding and the environment!).

So far we’ve got an apple and plum tree, two chestnut trees (grown from seeds from the trees that were just chopped down) and a Rowan. Not a bad effort, but I’m a go big or go home type arse hole...

So, I’ve just ordered 3 big ‘proper’ trees for delivery on Friday! 1x Beech, 1x Copper beech, 1x Lime. They should grow nice and big! Add to that I’ve got a Horse chestnut (Conker) tree in a pot that I grew from a conker a few years back. Well, now that’s going into the ground to join it’s two siblings at the end of the garden already! Those two I grew some years ago from conkers I found and are probably getting on for 15-20ft in height now.

Nobody can accuse me of not doing my bit for the environment now! I can’t wait to get the Beech, lovely looking trees! I suppose it offsets the carbon footprint of my car collection.

..... so there used to be a house there, there are houses next to it and you’re getting in a strop because someone’s going to build on it?!

Okay, then. 

[catsinthewelder]

With it being left in trust to the school as a nature area I can see why you're pissed off that they've completely gone against her wishes.  Well done for getting the trees in ?

[egg]

Water leak in the house....cannot be identified.

Stain on the ceiling downstairs, trusted plumber came in today (covid risk agh!) and got the floor upstairs up. All pipes in that area bone dry. Nothing. No sign of water coming through the floor from the top. Complete mystery.  floor insulation was wet, so that has been removed and maybe the area will dry out. But actual source of the leak - no idea...

That's cost me his time as well.

[danthecapriman]

 

39 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

..... so there used to be a house there, there are houses next to it and you’re getting in a strop because someone’s going to build on it?!

Okay, then. 

There’s a lot placed on schools having areas like that nowadays and it’s just been taken away for some twat to make a few quid. The trees there were big too, it’s taken a lifetime for some of them to grow and now they’re all gone. There’s also a huge impact on the wildlife that used to live and feed from that area.

Theres so much space down here being developed nowadays we should be protecting the little bits that are left not destroying it and concreting over it instead.

Trouble is, it’s not going to be developed into a single house like it was many years ago or like all the neighbouring properties, they’re trying to do 2 or 3 crammed into the same space.

30 minutes ago, catsinthewelder said:

With it being left in trust to the school as a nature area I can see why you're pissed off that they've completely gone against her wishes.  Well done for getting the trees in ?

Thanks! I like green space and wildlife, so it wasn’t pleasant seeing all that get destroyed. Such a waste.

It'll take a while for the new ones to get as big as the old ones but they will get there eventually. They’re all grown from British seeds and growers sustainably or Ive grown them myself. The Rowan tree actually came from a sapling from the Woodland trust a few years ago, they gave them out for free to members to encourage people to put trees in their gardens.

Theres another tree at the bottom of the garden I grew from a seed from a pine cone. I’ve got no idea wtf species it actually is but the tree it came from is still there in a local wildlife park. It’s absolutely enormous! Like a giant redwood type thing, though not that big. Be interesting to see how big that will get.

[richardmorris]

49 minutes ago, catsinthewelder said:

With it being left in trust to the school as a nature area I can see why you're pissed off that they've completely gone against her wishes.  Well done for getting the trees in ?

I think there was an edict from central government that local education authorities had to utilise all land sales before they could go cap in hand asking for money ( paraphrased). Obviously isn’t right environmentally or educationally for the children.  But well done for planting trees. Rowan is a rarity now too I think ( at least near me).

[New POD]

1 hour ago, Kiltox said:

..... so there used to be a house there, there are houses next to it and you’re getting in a strop because someone’s going to build on it?!

Okay, then. 

I'd be asking to see the exact terms of the trust and seeing if they are allowed to sell it. 

 

[Zelandeth]

One of the good things in Milton Keynes is that all the park land (there is a lot!) is owned by the Parks Trust, and they're not allowed to sell it off for development.

...Or so we're told.  Didn't stop them from tearing up one of the wild meadows just outside Linford Wood last year and plonking yet another set of office buildings in there.  No idea why given there's absolutely no shortage of office space just now... there's an entire neighborhood down five minutes from the station that's been empty since we moved in, and they tore down and rebuilt a huge block just round the corner from this new one about three years ago...as far as I'm aware not a single unit has been occupied yet...

So it's blatantly obviously someone out to make a quick buck.  No other reason it would have been granted planning permission...I can also say categorically that there were absolutely no notices posted prior to the day the bulldozers moved in.  ...I spent eight and a half years working in a local authority so do notice things like that when they appear!

[danthecapriman]

13 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I think there was an edict from central government that local education authorities had to utilise all land sales before they could go cap in hand asking for money ( paraphrased). Obviously isn’t right environmentally or educationally for the children.  But well done for planting trees. Rowan is a rarity now too I think ( at least near me).

I’ve no idea tbh regarding how/if land can/should be sold and used, I just think it’s wrong from the perspective of the school and the nature it’s destroyed. I know we do need more homes building but there’s no shortage of places that are left derelict that could be used instead without chopping woodland down. We hear so much now about climate change and air quality and the one thing that’d help no end with this is keeping the trees we already have.

Im not a keen gardener if I’m honest, but I do enjoy green space and trees, hence my action to replace them. The Rowan tree, I didn’t actually realise is also called a ‘mountain ash’, despite not being related in any way to the Ash tree!

I think I must be getting old!!

[Christine]

Find a non covid  19 bat....or a crested newt....?