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Just fixed the pump on my dishwasher. I'll take that as a win.
Changed the headlamp bulbs on my car on Friday - had to take all the trim off and the light units out. Only cracked one connector. Result!
Got the leaves off half the garden.
Changed the headlamp bulbs on my car on Friday – had to take all the trim off and the light units out. Only cracked one connector. Result!
Exactly the sort of shit I'm on about! I had to change a bulb on mine, so I spent 20 minutes freeing the bugger, put it all back together and held it in with one crew, drove to Tesco petrol station to get a new bulb. THEN PROCEEDED TO REMOVE AND REPLACE A HEADLAMP ASSEMBLY IN FRONT OF THE OTHER PUNTERS IN LESS THAN A MINUTE!!! GET THE **** IN!
Fitted a light fitting in our hallway. Not much for most but for a DIY incompetent like me it was a pretty good effort.
And I got a pic of mine featured in BBC midlands.
Sent a letter but didn’t sign it.
Neighbour away along the lane felling some trees. Offered to help, as the decent thing to do.
Said "Well, you won't need firewood once you've got this lot seasoned nicely!"
The reply came, "Oh, we don't have a fire. Not sure what to do with it all, to be honest."
I've got wood.
Wife's birthday tomorrow, so made a simple chocolate sponge birthday cake with my daughter today.
Also went birthday pressie shopping yesterday with no real clue what to buy, but found several gifts that I know she'll really like. It was pretty stress free too, so I took that as a win.
My inlaws came down to visit last weekend. I spent the whole time in the garage making a bike frame and didn't see them once.
I take that as one small and one giant victory.
Painted the garage floor right up to the door, without leaving anything inside the garage that I need to get to that's now impossible to reach because of wet paint. Sometimes I surprise even myself
Painted the garage floor
Was meant to be the ceiling, of course...
Painted the garage floor
I’m sure I’ve seen pictures of your garage and it looked like a major win to have exposed enough floor to paint😀
There is a lot of moving stuff around involved
Held a handstand for 10 seconds, been practicing for 12 months, the Biggie win is my posture has improved and my shoulders are now bullet proof.
I've had a change in working hours, after a brief spell of constipation I've now reprogrammed my body to deficate prior to leaving the house at 7:20am as I don't get much opportunity once working. I'm rather pleased.
I stopped a wood being destroyed for one day (yesterday) by virtualy laying in front of an excavator.
Sadly they are back this morning at 7:30.
The village is most upset.
Wish me luck.
The village is most upset.
I'm sure they are! They wanted that pesky woodland gone! 😁
More seriously, good on you redthunder. Taking woodlands in favour of construction projects is very rarely what I'd call progress.
Taking woodlands in favour of construction projects is very rarely what I’d call progress.
Do you live in a house or other permanent building? Do you work in one? Do your customers/working associates also? Do you buy food or goods in shops distributed from warehouses? All these things take land that was once woodland unfortunately.
Had a great day splitting firewood on Saturday. One of the piles of logs is now about 2 cubic metres of split firewood, so win!
Mind you, we still have three more piles to split from the other trees. And the stack we made on Saturday fell over so we have to re-stack it, but never mind!
Wish me luck
Well if they’re resigned to standing around doing nothing all day, they don’t actually need you there all the time do they?
I got a question right on university challenge once
Got the lawns mowed, hedge trimmed back and cleared up a bunch more windfall apples without being hit by another descending fruit. Mowing the lawn also picked up most of the leaves.
Well if they’re resigned to standing around doing nothing all day, they don’t actually need you there all the time do they?
Spotting a Douglas Adams reference. Wins all round!
Do you live in a house or other permanent building? Do you work in one? Do your customers/working associates also? Do you buy food or goods in shops distributed from warehouses? All these things take land that was once woodland unfortunately.
Yes, all correct, but we should be a bit more environmentally sensative these days and be targeting brownfield and sites of lesser flura and forna habitat value that grubbing up woods.
Anyhow, that's all OT, and I'm pleased to report that the cupboard under the kitchen sinks remain dry a week after I replaced all the wastes.
Painted my daughters nails, first for me, we’ll pleased.
Not sure about alternating pink and green though.
Day off. Sun is out and it’s not raining.
Standing in a packed Parliament Square on Saturday, with the nicest, politest bunch of people ever when the Letwin Amendment result was announced. Even the small number of far-right loonies were treated with dignity and respect.
Oh and a uniformed copper grinned at me and shook my hand too.
Another lawn mowing victory here. I'd been looking at it for about a month...
Well done PJM, went to last one, had the 15 month old with me on my own this time.
Stay of Execution 🙂
It's in the hands of the lawyers now 🙂
I got fed up of having to unplug and plug in and then unplug again the various worktop height sockets in our new kitchen so I removed the two standard double plug sockets and replaced them with double sockets with inbuilt USB connectors thereby doubling the available plug space from four to eight meaning we can leave stuff like the lavazza coffee machine and milk frother plugged in all the time whilst still being able to charge our various communication devices.
Win...
Sold my car to WeBuyAnyCar - they go around the car and make deductions for even the most trivial imperfections, stone chips etc - they missed the 2 creases in the roof caused by me going under a height restriction with a roof rack
Into day 2 of the Mrs being away and all 3 of my children are still alive. Win 🙂
Serviced my rear suspension (Ooo err missus...) & there’s no squeaks!
I got the high score on Donkey Kong at the video games museum yesterday.
Been trying to remove the little porcelain? cold legend on the bath taps on and off for about two years with no joy. Unscrewed it with my big toe whilst having a soak the other day.
All these things take land that was once woodland unfortunately.
Yes, but those were horrible medieval woodlands full of pagans and bandits. These are nice middle class woodlands like the ones in the Matalan adverts.
Held a handstand for 10 seconds, been practicing for 12 months, the Biggie win is my posture has improved and my shoulders are now bullet proof.
How so ?
I got a rubbish left shoulder from an injury a year ago ... I think it's now just about ready to get its strength back
Finally got round to getting some Putoline on the bike, and it really is as good as people say. Griding my drivetrain away was the biggest thing that put me off winter riding; I have done two incredibly wet crappy rides now and had a perfectly smooth silent (incredibly so in fact) drivetrain the whole time; and after both rides just hosed the mud off the bike and put it away without any attention to the chain. Magic.
Ro5ey, improved strength and mobility means less muscle imbalances so less prone to injury. Increased shoulder flexion and thoracic extension are your friend, try to squat below parallel with arms overhead to get an idea how much work is needed.
The Turkish getup is also a great exercise for bullet proofing the shoulders.
We lost 🙁
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Got a TPO on the last surviving OAK 🙂
SO much for Tree Week 🙁
Subaru UK just gave me a short block and fitted it for free. On a 10yr old car with 125k on the clock...
Plugged a in a memory stick the right way up first time.
red thunder - that's shit.
Changed the headlamp bulb on my mondeo....
Cable to release the bonnet snapped and I had to open it via removing the under-tray and going in from below.. replaced cable and put in new bulb ...all took less than 4 hours.
I’ve got wood.
Hot neighbour?
Re-calibrated the electric window on my van. The one-touch raise function stopped working on the passenger side, I assumed it was a dirty switch contact or something. Mentioned it to one of my colleagues who told me about the calibration thing on his VW, (mine is a Ford), 2 minutes of Googling had the reset procedure.
It's a VERY small victory, the simplest thing to do, but as I didn't even know it's a thing I'd have probably put up with it forever.
greased my clutch* up
changed my picture**
* well, the squeaky return spring by my foot, its been driving me nuts
** of my kids, its on my desk at work, the last one was from four years ago or thereabouts
greased my clutch* up
The Prodigy's less succesful follow up single.
Post hernia op recovery, managed to walk more than five minutes without the need to sit down, woohoo!
7 out of 7 on last week's BBC Quiz of the Week's News.
I don't own a TV, rarely listen to the radio, and only read the news online (because, politics...) so it's nice to see I'm not completely out of touch...
A lunchtime meeting was cancelled so I popped out for an hour on the bike, I wasn't as sloppy as I expected and the sun came out towards the end.
Got a couple of this week's Only Connect questions correct that both teams missed.
Managed to get the lid off the pickled beetroot this morning.
This was the fourth attempt, lunchtime salad was greatly improved today!
Just back from a dental check-up - no fillings, gums fine so a good day.
Got a couple of this week’s Only Connect questions correct that both teams missed
Why does this attractive, intelligent lady hang about with all these spods?
Spods are sexy. Obvs.
Spods are sexy
That has, sadly, not been my experience.
Oh, speaking of small victories,
Got the top of the leaderboard in an escape room at the weekend. We win a free game if it lasts till the end of the month.
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They have separate leaderboards for 2, 3, 4 and 5-player teams. We beat all the other ones too. (-:
(Are there any other escapologists in the house?)
Why does this attractive, intelligent lady hang about with all these spods?
It occurs to me that you could equally ask this question of my previous post.
(Before anyone else says it...)
@frankconway
Thanks. It really does smart 🙁
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-50416854
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/acres-woodland-severn-beach-cleared-3535953
Any lawyers on here could look over the 1995 amendment to the 1957 planning conditions?... we have no money 🙁 the developer has billions.
Tree Week 🙂
red thunder – that’s shit.
Yeah, thats like really shit.
After three years of planning and delays (thanks to planning, builders, neighbourhood politics, brexit (yes, really), ineffective engineers and a host of other things completely out of my control), the builders started work adjusting internally and extending externally my house yesterday 🙂
Opened the cup cupboard and two mugs fell out, caught them both 😎
Telly remote volume control was getting iffy so took remote apart and cleaned it. Volume control fine. Number 1 & 2 buttons and a few function buttons now not working. Remote not made any more.🤬
My 14 year old daughter listened to something I said.
Opened the cup cupboard and two mugs fell out, caught them both 😎
I'm really good at stuff like this. My kitchen floor is Victorian earthenware tiles seemingly forged in the fires of Mordor, it's insta-death to anything that hits it. Over the years I've honed ninja-like reactions to catching things with my foot. Wasn't so great the one time I dropped my kitchen knife, mind...
I dropped my phone when stood on the viewing platform at Man O'War Beach. Just as it was sailing towards oblivion I managed to swing a leg and volley it back on to the path (without thought of accidently sending myself over the edge). Skilz 100%, phone now about 50% as the impact with my foot and/or the ground means that alligment of the screen is typically one character off to the right.
Entered my smart season travel card details into a competition to get a full refund on a months travel... I only went and won! Result, and just before Xmas, still have to use Norther Rail though, so not all its cracked up to be
Met the wife for lunch. She was buying Christmas wrapping paper. I snuck in some proper scotch sellotape, no more of the cheap stuff which splits, stretches and has no end.
Tiny, tiny win but oh so pleasing!
Found a deceased laptop in my office cupboard last week.
Thought it must belong to someone
fired it up - my name appears
then remembered it was mine from about 5 years ago...…..
whatever I thought was wrong with it 5 years ago has miraculously cured itself
how weird
but new old laptop - which is nice
New window winder fitted to the van it's bliss not having to get out to pick my parking ticket from the machine 😁 and all for £80
Went on an elective nursing placement at the local Acute Therapy Service.
Got to meet some excellent, inspirational professionals, got paid and a free weeks DBT therapy. 🙂
Bloody marvelous, and I've got two weeks off over Christmas too.
Fings is looking up.
Found out the ADEM my 3yo daughter suffered from over the Summer isn’t the type that develops into MS 😀
Portia Mayhew (name changed to protect the innocent) went out with me AND my mate Gary, at the same time when we were at secondary school. I found out because Gary and I sat next to one another in Maths.
I can't speak for her intellectual development since then, but we've just had an exchange on social media about last week's attack at London Bridge (a stop I routinely use on my way to and from work, no less). I ended up having to politely and very gently explain in single syllable words to Portia why the death penalty may not be a deterrent to suicide attackers and why we can't just execute people without finding them guilty of a crime first.
Twelve year old me dodged a bullet there I can tell you.
jonjones262
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Found out the ADEM my 3yo daughter suffered from over the Summer isn’t the type that develops into MS 😀
That's fantastic news 🙂