Listened to the builders sanding the window frames and front door all day. Like someone scratching their nails down a blackboard. Again, with three dogs staring at me making me want to die on the spot. Getting there though.
Good to see he hasn't lost his sense of priority Has he got a dog in that particular fight? Best wishes for a full recovery, I will think of him when we are there tomorrow
Went to Fowlers today to stuff my face with a breakfast roll. AND Although I am committed to buy the BSA Gold Star, i wanted another look. The reviews say that the suspension is crap and the switchgear is pants. I never noticed this, so | must be an idiot. All looks fine to me. Of course, I have not yet ridden it, but my suspicion is that road test reviews are bollox. Could be just me. The bike is as cheap as chips and I am not expecting it to be perfect, but really.... The switchgear is quite old school and simple. There are no buttons to make telephone calls whilst riding, do an Elon Musk and communicate with SpaceX, or navigate to the moon, if that is what people strive for. Just indicator button and lights button and a kill switch exactly where you would expect it to be. Looks fine to me. I am contemplating getting a Beeline device for it as it can just clip on the handlebars and is quite small. The phone in my pocket does the navigation work, which is fine by me.
when I read the first line I thought he’s been walking the peaks with his sons or doing archery with you ( picking up the arrows and you didn’t know or did ) Sorry to hear he’s having a very very hard time at the moment and I hope he pulls through and makes the best possible recovery he can.
Yesterday but I returned the old evinrude outboard I fixed to the chap who owns it and he then proceeded to yank the pull start so hard he snapped the end off the return spring inside, two and a half hours later I managed to repair it which he was amazed at… so amazed he didn’t offer me a penny for doing it. I never learn.
Hung out with my son. Went shopping. Watched my cricket club mates get beaten. Drank G&T with said club mates. Went back home and immediately set myself a Krypton Factor style challenge by managing to both lock myself out of my house while also locking myself into my yard. I was also phoneless and barefoot. I unlocked this puzzle by climbing over an 8ft high wall into my neighbour’s yard, then walking to the cricket ground, remembering the combination to the key safe, borrowing a ladder from the shed, walking back to my neighbour’s yard, climbing the wall and pulling the ladder up behind me, setting the ladder against the back wall of my house, scaling the ladder, pushing up the bottom sash of my bedroom window and secondary glazing from the outside, pulling myself up onto the sill (despite having a fractured little finger!) and being a a mere slender slip of a girl, I was able to shimmy through the gap. The only snag (literally) was the Leatherman which I’d forgotten was clipped onto a belt loop got stuck on the lip of the secondary glazing so I was unable to go any further in and couldn’t lower myself back down either as the top of the ladder was too far away and I couldn’t see it, so I just had to hang there, half in and half out, until the material gave way.
Yep. But my fault totally as I always check I have keys with me before pulling the door shut. However, on this occasion I forgot that I’d split the bunch when I went to watch the cricket so I didn’t have a huge hard lump in my pants (fnarr fnarr) and when going outside to empty the bin later on, I’d accidentally picked up the bunch which didn’t have the gate and door keys on it anymore. Lesson learned
Bummer but I'd bin it and get a new & better type of lock, so its default is you have to physically put the key in from the outside to lock on your way out... So many times in my yoof I've had to get up to your antics and even having to smash windows because of those fucking idiot stupid lock designs. All it takes is a wee gust of wind if you nip out for some reason and you're locked out.. Nowadays I have these on our doors so don't even need keys, it's connected to the alarm system so coding in deactivates the alarm too - the laugh of it is now I set them to auto-lock after 2 secs haha
Went up to Wembley for the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final and thoroughly enjoyed watching Wigan gubbing HKR 40-10, during which we got a notification that the house alarm had gone off, the garage sensor being the culprit. Came home and received a second notification en route that the garage sensor had been triggered again. Got in & found the suspect trying to make good its exit, so helped it on its way. Then watched Arsenal losing the Champions League Final in the most painful way imaginable.
Was out with some friends yesterday in Newcastle..........one even brought her own helicopter landing pad with her
