Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

Gadget

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Not needed our heating yet, house is still sitting about 20/21c when we get up in the morning and rises during the day. On a sunny day it gets up to about 26c. I'm not sure what they used as insulation here but it's bloody good stuff.
5th Nov should be consigned to history books now. The dogs are terrified, we still have our odd PTSD moment after last year. But thank the Gods we won't need the fireproof letterbox cover and stand minimal chance of getting blown up. How anyone can afford to literally explode huge sums of money with fireworks is a mystery to me.
 
staffordjas

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Finally invested in a dash cam , which I've got son to order for me and to fit when it arrives.

After watching Motorway Cop programs advising the benefits, and getting rather paranoid the other day with everyone seemingly out to get me (pretty sure most around here haven't even taken lessons , never mind passed their test , seems a bit of a free-for -all .Even the many driving school cars , with the test centre being nearby, are doing some bloody crazy suicidal manoeuvres...) seems like a wise decision incase of an incident.
 
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BobClay

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Been driving with a dashcam for a few years now. It's a truly brilliant idea, and believe it or not I was put onto it by that huge meteor than came down over a Russia some years back. With the gathered footage (built in GPS recording time, date, speed position) scientists were able to work out the trajectory of the object. Apparently the Russians are heavily into them as their insurance claims often end up imitating the Battle for Stalingrad.

One warning though, having driven down a motorway for a few hours and taking it out of the car for a test to see it was working ok, I fed it into the computer ... and ended up driving the same f***ing boring journey down the M5 I'd done the day before. It sort of lures you into a trance, gawping at the screen like someone transfixed by a Motorway demon.
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BobClay

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Quite some years ago now my Uncle Alan Clay (also from Sheridan St, Stafford) used to visit with family down this way every year (90's/early noughties.) He was getting on a bit (80's) so I fitted grab rails on all three sides of my bath (includes the shower) and along the adjacent walls so it would be easier for him to manoeuvre in and out.

With this current batch of chemo one side effect of 'cabazitaxel' is aching muscles, and I mean severely aching muscles. I've just spent an hour in a hot water soak in the bath and I gotta tell yer ... those grab rails ... am I ever glad they are there.
Move over Joe Brown, Bob Clay is on a traverse of the North Face of the Eiger. :eek::P:P:P:embarrass::roll:
 
Gramaisc

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BobClay said:
Quite some years ago now my Uncle Alan Clay (also from Sheridan St, Stafford) used to visit with family down this way every year (90's/early noughties.) He was getting on a bit (80's) so I fitted grab rails on all three sides of my bath (includes the shower) and along the adjacent walls so it would be easier for him to manoeuvre in and out.

With this current batch of chemo one side effect of 'cabazitaxel' is aching muscles, and I mean severely aching muscles. I've just spent an hour in a hot water soak in the bath and I gotta tell yer ... those grab rails ... am I ever glad they are there.
Move over Joe Brown, Bob Clay is on a traverse of the North Face of the Eiger. :eek::P:P:P:embarrass::roll:
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I put a few up on the house in Ireland - I like to think that I don't need them, yet, but I would miss a few now, if I took them down.

Being a bungalow situation, the only steps that were encountered were at the various entrance doors.

The first one that I put up was this one on the Shed, after an 'incident' a good few years ago.

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It's very handy for 'swinging round the corner' on the way in - I really would miss that one, the others, less so - so far, anyway.

There are various forms of handle - they all have their specific features.

The white enamelled steel ones are cheap, robust and unobtrusive, visually, which is not always a good thing, of course.

The stainless steel ones are much more corrosion resistant and, usually, easier to see.

The plastic ones are generally also white, but the grip on them, especially in the wet, is greatly superior to the other two basic forms. There may be UV degradation issues with them, when used outside, but that one on the Shed has been there about six years, with only a very little discolouration so far.
 
staffordjas

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My dash cam has just arrived , no bloody idea how to work it as instructions are double dutch to me. Sons coming to take us out for a meal soon "I'll set it up when I pick you up before we go" . It's dark outside, instructions say needs charging for half and hour by plugging in , setting this, setting that, switching off, plugging in again blah blah blah.....I can see it staying in the box!
 
littleme

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Gramaisc said:
I put a few up on the house in Ireland - I like to think that I don't need them, yet, but I would miss a few now, if I took them down.

Being a bungalow situation, the only steps that were encountered were at the various entrance doors.

The first one that I put up was this one on the Shed, after an 'incident' a good few years ago.

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It's very handy for 'swinging round the corner' on the way in - I really would miss that one, the others, less so - so far, anyway.

There are various forms of handle - they all have their specific features.

The white enamelled steel ones are cheap, robust and unobtrusive, visually, which is not always a good thing, of course.

The stainless steel ones are much more corrosion resistant and, usually, easier to see.

The plastic ones are generally also white, but the grip on them, especially in the wet, is greatly superior to the other two basic forms. There may be UV degradation issues with them, when used outside, but that one on the Shed has been there about six years, with only a very little discolouration so far.
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I bought one for the bath last summer (last year) when i was really struggling after hurting my back badly.....I'm still waiting for the carer to install it.
 
Gramaisc

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I had my front wheel alignment checked and adjusted today - it was 'OK', but it's had the front suspension apart and back together again recently, resulting in the steering wheel being 'a bit to the right' when going in a straight line. This, plus the potential to be scrubbing the tyres, made me feel it was worth doing.

It also gave me the opportunity to say, on today of all days, "Left hand down a bit".

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But, I didn't crash into any docksides on the way back home.
 
littleme

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Started getting a few bits and bobs for christmas. Bought a small christmas cake, Within 5 minutes of getting home with it , hubby cut a big slice off to have with his cuppa. :rolleyes:
Tomorrows walk out now planned.....buy another christmas cake , and find a good hiding place!
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The carer bought loads of lovely foodie stuff 'for chistmas' last week, I was gutted when he hid it & wouldn't let me eat it.......I should have been quicker...
 
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