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Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.
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Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Probably all 3. Wait till you get to my age, everything's really started to go by then!
littleme
250,000th poster!
Errr, you know I'm nearly the same age Luvvie. X
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Noah
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Youngsters today!
littleme
250,000th poster!
Well nearly.... ish....... You certainly don't look it!Are you? I'm 60 next year...........
Forum party?
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Are you? I'm 60 next year...........
Awwwwwwwwwww thank you! x
It's on New Years Eve, so why not?
BobClay
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Having recently sold all four of my bikes there was just one problem. I could not find the ignition key for the old Suzuki DR350S trial bike which I bought new in 1991. (Needed a light gutsy bike to go to work on as the workplace was in the middle of nowhere !!!) Searched high and low but no joy.
Uneasy about the idea of the buyer getting a bike without a key (so no ignition, no access to petrol cap) I decided one way might be to pick the lock on the petrol cap to get at the number. You might think this is a long shot, but some years ago I had a bit of experience with lockpicks, so I took the plunge and ordered a lock picking set from Amazon. It duly arrived this afternoon and is shown below. It's rather more sophisticated than the originals I used. I had only a double butterfly (extreme right) and a couple of rakes (zig zaggy keylike) and just one swinger (top row.) There are even a couple of transparent training locks provided you can practice on.
NOW THE IRONY BIT.
This morning I was watching something on the TV and in it there was a scene where somebody opened a small wooden box and took a key out of it. I suddenly remembered I'd had a box like that with keys in it years ago, and I started to search the place for it. I found it on shelf behind the TV (it's almost as if the bloody TV was telling me something.
) Therein were the missing Suzuki keys, with duplicates (you get that with a new bike..)
So I coughed up £25 for nothing !!!
I'm going to have to look around to see if there's some kind of a heist I can pull off !!!
Uneasy about the idea of the buyer getting a bike without a key (so no ignition, no access to petrol cap) I decided one way might be to pick the lock on the petrol cap to get at the number. You might think this is a long shot, but some years ago I had a bit of experience with lockpicks, so I took the plunge and ordered a lock picking set from Amazon. It duly arrived this afternoon and is shown below. It's rather more sophisticated than the originals I used. I had only a double butterfly (extreme right) and a couple of rakes (zig zaggy keylike) and just one swinger (top row.) There are even a couple of transparent training locks provided you can practice on.
NOW THE IRONY BIT.
This morning I was watching something on the TV and in it there was a scene where somebody opened a small wooden box and took a key out of it. I suddenly remembered I'd had a box like that with keys in it years ago, and I started to search the place for it. I found it on shelf behind the TV (it's almost as if the bloody TV was telling me something.
) Therein were the missing Suzuki keys, with duplicates (you get that with a new bike..)So I coughed up £25 for nothing !!!
I'm going to have to look around to see if there's some kind of a heist I can pull off !!!
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
I have a similar set, I've got through the front door with them when practising
staffordjas
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Cured hubby of his fear of heights. Mentioned ringing a guttering man to come and fix a bit of guttering which had come dislodged from the downpipe , and the thought of spending money soon got him up to the top rung of the ladders ! Never seen him move so fast . Job done within minutes ,
staffordjas
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BobClay
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Having cleared away all the bikes in my garage .... 
... I was faced with a clean up of 30+ plus years of rubbish and general crap. Then I found this little clock on the floor buried in detritus from bikes and other gunge. Not working of course. I managed to get it apart to find it's an electro-mechanical movement driven by a tiny battery, long expired.
Picking at it carefully with a dental pick (got a few medical tools in my fine tool kit, they come in very handy,) I got the battery out then rooted about online and for a couple of quid I got a new one and carefully put it in (tiny delicate clips) and away it went. See below, the £2 coin is for size comparison and the old battery is shown on the left.
It is a clock, there are no strap lugs, no nothing on the surface despite chrome and one adjuster knob. Seems to keep good time !! Now to find a use for it, maybe velcro it to the car dashboard, a quick glance at an analogue display could save you a bit of time reading the digits of the inbuilt clock in the instrument cluster. Given it's been on the garage floor for at least 10 years ... it isn't doing badly.
... I was faced with a clean up of 30+ plus years of rubbish and general crap. Then I found this little clock on the floor buried in detritus from bikes and other gunge. Not working of course. I managed to get it apart to find it's an electro-mechanical movement driven by a tiny battery, long expired.Picking at it carefully with a dental pick (got a few medical tools in my fine tool kit, they come in very handy,) I got the battery out then rooted about online and for a couple of quid I got a new one and carefully put it in (tiny delicate clips) and away it went. See below, the £2 coin is for size comparison and the old battery is shown on the left.
It is a clock, there are no strap lugs, no nothing on the surface despite chrome and one adjuster knob. Seems to keep good time !! Now to find a use for it, maybe velcro it to the car dashboard, a quick glance at an analogue display could save you a bit of time reading the digits of the inbuilt clock in the instrument cluster. Given it's been on the garage floor for at least 10 years ... it isn't doing badly.
staffordjas
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Been walking for over 4 hours and just found a hospital which makes Stafford Hospital look so nice and calm , and easy to get into!
Had a walk to Worcester hospital to reccy where to drive to drop hubby off for his scan appointment next week. Absolute chaos in the full carparks and a maze of one way systems . After having to ask someone where the actual entrance into the main hospital was , walked around the hospital roadways for about an hour trying to navigate my way around the one way systems to the drop off area outside it as kept coming to dead ends . The way I'd originally walked in was a one way system coming the other way and couldn't find where it started!
Finally got someone who was dropping off to direct me to a route that was nowhere near where I'd been walking. Apparently had to disappear off up a side road where the ambulances were going, past A&E , around a load more buildings and finally recognised where I'd been walking!
Having a drive around later tonight while it's quiet to show hubby the way......
Had a walk to Worcester hospital to reccy where to drive to drop hubby off for his scan appointment next week. Absolute chaos in the full carparks and a maze of one way systems . After having to ask someone where the actual entrance into the main hospital was , walked around the hospital roadways for about an hour trying to navigate my way around the one way systems to the drop off area outside it as kept coming to dead ends . The way I'd originally walked in was a one way system coming the other way and couldn't find where it started!
Finally got someone who was dropping off to direct me to a route that was nowhere near where I'd been walking. Apparently had to disappear off up a side road where the ambulances were going, past A&E , around a load more buildings and finally recognised where I'd been walking!
Having a drive around later tonight while it's quiet to show hubby the way......
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Coming down the very narrow lane that leads to our place and beyond to a green lane ( GR for Grande Randonnée,as they are called here) on the bike, having been to fill up and buy some microfiber cloths ready to give it a good clean before the wife and I head off on it to Portofino for a few days of exploration and down time.
Had to pull over in order to accommodate approximately 15 off road unicyclists coming the other way! I didn't even realise off road unicycling was a thing, never mind seeing over a dozen of the buggers.
And in this heat, utter madness!
But probably a right laugh.
Had to pull over in order to accommodate approximately 15 off road unicyclists coming the other way! I didn't even realise off road unicycling was a thing, never mind seeing over a dozen of the buggers.
And in this heat, utter madness!
But probably a right laugh.
littleme
250,000th poster!
OK, just how much red wine had you consumed at this point?
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
I feel I should take offence at that comment
Theresa Green
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If you want to freak out your kind mild mannered optometrist
Tell them that
You are left eyed
Right handed
Catch cricket balls easily
Have controlling shares in AmerisourceBergen Corporation
Are actively looking for revenge
littleme
250,000th poster!
Jeasus, you know me so well.
But actually, my dad (in his 80s) is always going on about me being left eyed, right handed, but always catching things with my left hand..... Is this a thing then? I thought he was having some weird kind of Boomer joke...
Wait.... Is that you Dad?!