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staffordjas

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Today I learnt that I am fast becoming a plumber. Not a very good one, but one that gets by.
For the 4th time this year I have managed to unblock the waste pipe of the washing machine, it had become full of cat hair, human hair and of all things, 2 bits of white velcro! Gawd knows where they came from, all ours is black.

I can hear the collective sigh right now, it int that hard do!!!! It is when you are riddled with arthritis and appear to have a glass back at times.
For 2 people, our washer is on a lot, I had rely on the goodwill of folk last time it went tits up.
Well done @Glam .

Ours stopped working the other week, so in the absence of our regular washing machine guy who's shielding, got another who put a new pump in. Still didn't work and turned out to be the waste pipe clogged up.

Will know we could check that first now if I stops again , but a fiddly job where it's positioned and we aren't much use at DIY . You did well @Glam .
 

Glam

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Well done @Glam .

Ours stopped working the other week, so in the absence of our regular washing machine guy who's shielding, got another who put a new pump in. Still didn't work and turned out to be the waste pipe clogged up.

Will know we could check that first now if I stops again , but a fiddly job where it's positioned and we aren't much use at DIY . You did well @Glam .
Thank you babb. I only knew what do because the last two times I've got the engineer out, the pipe to the pump has been clogged up with hair and bobbles.
Biggest problem is moving the thing out from under the worktop, fiddly and heavy. xx
 
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tek-monkey

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Apart from cooking, furloughed husbands apparently can do no other jobs around the house, as they don't exist. Clearly I do nothing but work & cook, no cleaning takes place at all (well, not in my car).

This is the thing..... today after being furloughed for months and doing all the cooking, the husband (carer*) was back at work.

He finished at 5pm, I finished at 6pm, we both worked the same amount of hours. Yet it was my job to cook tea 'as he was back at work' even though I thought he should cook as he finished earlier! Go figure!

*he's not my carer, it's an affectionate term as I'm older than him...
My arrangement with a previous OH was that whoever cooks the other washes up, as I finished an hour before her it made sense that I normally did the cooking.
 

BobClay

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Was in Bude today for a supply run when I noticed in B & M they were doing 500 ml cans of Banks Mild at 4 for a fiver. Been years since I've even seen that stuff on a sign !!! So I got a pack and will see if it's how I remember it.
Probably means I'll have to talk to Alexa in a Black Country accent.

"Hey Alexa are keeed. Yowm alroight ?" :roll:
 
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Mudgie

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Was in Bude today for a supply run when I noticed in B & M they were doing 500 ml cans of Banks Mild at 4 for a fiver. Been years since I've even seen that stuff on a sign !!! So I got a pack and will see if it's how I remember it.
Probably means I'll have to talk to Alex in a Black Country accent.

"Hey Alexa are keeed. Yowm alroight ?" :roll:
£1.43 a pint.
 

littleme

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Today I bought a new garden bench, after much wrestling I got it in the car and home, plonked it right where the carer stands to smoke, so far he's been outside twice and not noticed* it!

*maybe he has noticed it, and is playing the long game of pretending he hasn't... :lorks:
 

Lucy

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Friends have run a zoom quiz on a Friday night for the last year. Today was the last one. I feel bereft.
 

BobClay

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When I started a new course of medication a couple of weeks ago the Oncologist told me to take my blood pressure twice a day and let her know if it went above 140 or 90 (Systolic or Diastolic) or any wild variations that occurred. (Like being dead !! :P)

So I started an Excel Spreadsheet and have put in all the readings, but it's just a table of numbers. Not particularly easy to see any trends. I thought a graph might be an improvement and I know Excel can do this and much more. I have installed Microsoft Office on hundreds of machines during my school work, but I am certainly no expert on Excel, which has capabilities far beyond a mere table. Then I thought about Googling a Blood Pressure Spreadsheet (it had never occurred to me before) and was surprised to see dozens of layouts available to download for free.

So I dropped one in, fiddled with it and filled it in alongside my own basic table. Not only is more pretty, but the graph gives you an instant pix to see if you're dead or not !! :eek: The only thing is that graph is going to get wider and wider so I'm contemplating a major fiddle, maybe a second graph with a later date range. If there are any Excel experts out there any tips would be appreciated.

It looks a bit squashed below but I zoomed out for the screenshot:

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BobClay

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UPDATE

Might have cracked it. I'd like to say by creating new formulas and rules, but sod that. I just used the old surgical 'cut and paste' entire blocks and adjusted the axis ranges. This is what it looks like so far ... (it's an experimental version of the main file.) A new graph related to a new table (again just cut and paste then delete what I didn't want.)
If there are any Excel experts out there they're probably appalled !!! In which case I'm sorry. I'm a plumber performing brain surgery here ... :heyhey:

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BobClay

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All I really wanted was the graph. That way in the course of a month, I can see any trends. I've noticed with my experimental sheet, that the averages (bottom line of the Data Entry table) will only cover the table it's in. So the average for the new table doesn't include the upper table. I thought about fiddling with this, but then realised it was a good thing. I'll see an average for every month if I make each table a month (or 30 days) long and if there's a marked variation there, it'll show up.

Thanks for asking @Lucy, much appreciated. I'm trying to avoid meddling with the formulas for each cell range because I don't know the Excel formatting code. I could either do the course or Google it all but that would waste the time I could spend watching Battlestar Galactica. :eek:
 

Lucy

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If you only want a month at a time in your graph could you potentially link that to a table that dynamically pulls your last 30 days of data through from your dataset, where I assume you're just appending each entry to the bottom.
 

BobClay

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Right I hadn't cracked it. I don't want just a month, but the whole time split into monthly graphs so I don't have to buy a super Cinerama monitor. What I found is that when cutting and pasting there are strings attached with regards to the ranges. I think I've got them figured out, (sunny outside, walk cancelled due to bloody sitting in front of Excel and grinding my teeth ... the course might have been easier.)

It's sort of intuitive after you've pounded a few keyboards to bits and strangled a few innocent passers by in a rage. :grr:

I shall partake in a relaxation. :pint::pint::pint::pint:
 

littleme

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Trying to book a haircut online, nightmare.
Today's mood is tgat if I managed to book an appointment I'd end up having the lot shaved off.
 

Carole

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Yesterday the husband spent a large proportion of the afternoon getting the motorhome ready for the season.
I watched with interest as he surrounded himself with various pipes and tubes of varying shapes and sizes and numerous bottles of different coloured solutions.

I said “If I’d had any thoughts of leaving you and running away to travel the world in the motorhome, I’d have to think again. I’d never remember what went where”.

“Well” he said “I could always write down detailed instructions”.

:|
 
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