What I Did This Weekend - In Pictures!

BobClay

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Oh right, sorry. I'll try and cancel the contracts I put out. Might be difficult ..... !!! (some Salop hitmen actually paid me to take the job.) ... :P
(I wouldn't worry too much, most of em of dumber than a particularly dumb brick.)
(Shit, I hope they don't read this.) :heyhey:
 
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Gramaisc

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I was referring to the mass influx from across the yam yam border that seem to have hogged every car park space between Church Stretton and the Welsh border.

Most are just sitting in front of their cars and not venturing very far from them for some reason.
Language barrier?
 

Thehooperman

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And now I've been kidnapped and made to drink Joules blonde in Church Stretton!!!

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staffordjas

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I'd never heard of Hythe , but looked it up and looks a nice place for a few days away for us for a change . :)

Hubbys got loads of hols to take before next April , so would probably be more like a week.
I don't believe this...... we've never heard of Hythe before @Trumpet posts. Been looking for places to book up there over this past week.. Now just seen Hythe featured on a program we recorded tonight (M&S V Waitrose)
 

BobClay

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Made an early start on this weekend job today. Just as well, proved much harder than I thought and I'm getting a bit wobbly for dancing about on rooves and ladders. This aerial seems to have a problem. All these super sensitive receivers I'm using work great on my other receiving aerials, but they seem mightily unimpressed by this Discone. It's been up there a while now so the usual problem is where the feeder connects to the aerial, water or corrosion at that point. Two man job really just to take the weight as you unbolt it, but the U bolts were pretty rusted up and required a bit of persuasion so taking the weight wasn't easy.
Just finished about an hour ago as the Sun was creeping toward the horizon. I'll have a look at the aerial tomorrow but I'm not sure if it's going to go back up there, or perhaps be relocated or even cancelled out. If it does go back I think I'll invest in some stainless steel U bolts. Galvanising just doesn't seem to cut it these days.

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I think I've earned a couple of cold cans after this bloody job. :pint:
 
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BobClay

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Investigation has shown the fault lies within the Discone aerial itself. :( The feeder junction was literally spotless, I had protected it well when I installed it. I ran in a temporary feeder from the Discone with it balanced a bit precariously on the conservatory roof, and yes, it's performance is poor. Something internal has gone 'twang.' It did move in strong winds and we get plenty of that as the sea is only 2 or three miles away and I'm 500 foot up. Probably broken the internal wire.
Ah well, I didn't use it much anyway, and it saves me a roof dance and a couple of somersaults off the ladder followed by a large SPLAT !! :heyhey:
 

Gramaisc

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Some small pieces of retroreflective tape have been applied to the Greenhouse doors and the doors and windows of the Shed, such that they are exposed, if they're not shut.

Standing up at the House, with a light behind you, gives a clear indication of any non-shutness. It's very easy to leave the Greenhouse doors open, particularly. Not the best picture, as the camera was determined to record the full scene, despite the darkness, but you get the main drift.

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It doesn't indicate they they are locked, of course, but it's a start...

I can rely on the Greenhouse windows to shut themselves.
 

Gramaisc

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I now that it seems to theoretically be a Wednesday, but the eighteen month weekend continues.

I noticed that the string that holds a water butt lid on was showing signs of succumbing to the UV after 25 years, so I decided to replace it. This led me to notice that the gap between the greenhouse frames was very close to the size of a couple of offcuts that I have remaining from the greenhouse modifications earlier. Investigations showed that they were almost exactly what was necessary to provide supports for a shelf over the water butt. The top of the butt is used as a shelf a lot of the time, but it is not ideal, knocking things over the back of it is a regular event - a 'proper' shelf would be a lot more suitable.

Removing the old string allowed me to inspect the debris in the butt - for the first time in 25 years, since I first tied it down. It was remarkably clean - for the first five years, it was fed from the glass roofs of the two greenhouses - for the next twenty, it has been fed from the steel roof of the Shed - and it is (now) the fourth barrel in a series of four, so a lot of stuff will settle out before it gets there.

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I wonder how much of that has actually gone in via the gap around the lid.


Anyway, the supports are in place now and I will bodge up a slatted wooden shelf to drop onto them at some point.

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staffordjas

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Yam yams don’t like to leave their cars. Mind you, if I lived in Wolverhampton I wouldn’t leave my car either.
I had my little old mini broken into in Wolverhampton many moons ago ,luckily in the days of good old Krooklocks , so the car remained! . A really sick feeling getting into it to find a bloody great big hole where the 8-track should have been .
 

proactive

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I had my little old mini broken into in Wolverhampton many moons ago ,luckily in the days of good old Krooklocks , so the car remained! . A really sick feeling getting into it to find a bloody great big hole where the 8-track should have been .
I once had an attempted car jacking in Wolverhampton in 1992 outside Beatties. Needless to say I avoid the city now if I possible can. To be fair they've not done anything to it that tempts me to go back.
 

BobClay

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Returning from a hill walking trip in Scotland many moons ago (sleeping in the back of a Humber Sceptre Estate) I stopped and parked the motor in a high rise car park in Glasgow in order to get something to eat. When i got back to the car I noticed it had been broken into with some Scottish finesse, i.e. a brick and a shattered quarter light. They took my SLR camera I'd bought in Japan some years before and a bag of dirty washing that had accumulated over 5 days of clumping about over the highlands.
I mean, come on !!! The camera I can understand, but a bag of dirty washing !!:eek:
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Returning from a hill walking trip in Scotland many moons ago (sleeping in the back of a Humber Sceptre Estate) I stopped and parked the motor in a high rise car park in Glasgow in order to get something to eat. When i got back to the car I noticed it had been broken into with some Scottish finesse, i.e. a brick and a shattered quarter light. They took my SLR camera I'd bought in Japan some years before and a bag of dirty washing that had accumulated over 5 days of clumping about over the highlands.
I mean, come on !!! The camera I can understand, but a bag of dirty washing !!:eek:
One man's dirty washing is obviously a Glaswegian's Sunday best.
 

Gramaisc

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With the construction and installation of the slatted shelf, the inter-greenhouse storage facility is now operational.

The woodwork is not going to be mistaken for a Hepplewhite item, but it will serve the purpose and was very nearly 'free' - in the sense that the only "first use items" in the project were the four aluminium nuts and bolts holding the angles in place and a tablespoon of fence paint. The wood, the woodscrews and the nails were all salvaged from previous structures and the aluminium is off-cuts from earlier greenhouse modifications.

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There are rails on three sides, to reduce the likelihood of items being shoved into the glass or off the back.

The watering can seen there is an interesting item, particularly for those with larger houseplants - the water flow is controlled by the push-button* on the handle, allowing the can to be tilted, when approaching the plant, without water sloshing out in the wrong place. Also handy in the greenhouse, of course.

* Just visible in the picture - Nu-Can is the trade name, should anybody be desperate for one.
 
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