Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
In London until Friday having been invited to display a car at a show down here.

Car offloaded at the event site and all covered and snug for the night. Tow car and trailer safely into a secure car park for the duration as our hotel is a four minute walk from the event. Oddly, the current Mrs p and my bookkeeper will be on duty tomorrow as the first day is ladies day, so me and her husband can spend the day getting Brahms & Liszt and stuffing ourselves with grub.

Bumped into some friends staying in the same hotel earlier, so off to the bar now for cocktails and then a damn good feed, hopefully.
 
Raven

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proactive said:
In London until Friday having been invited to display a car at a show down here.

Car offloaded at the event site and all covered and snug for the night. Tow car and trailer safely into a secure car park for the duration as our hotel is a four minute walk from the event. Oddly, the current Mrs p and my bookkeeper will be on duty tomorrow as the first day is ladies day, so me and her husband can spend the day getting Brahms & Liszt and stuffing ourselves with grub.

Bumped into some friends staying in the same hotel earlier, so off to the bar now for cocktails and then a damn good feed, hopefully.
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Oh how wonderful to have “cocktails” with your pretentious friends (and the clique members liking anything you post)
LOL wake up you halfwits (clique members) as he is taking the ”P”
 
Thehooperman

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Raven said:
Oh how wonderful to have “cocktails” with your pretentious friends (and the clique members liking anything you post)
LOL wake up you halfwits (clique members) as he is taking the ”P”
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Constructive comments as usual.

Ever thought of changing your avatar to the different type of bird that you're acting like?
 
tek-monkey

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Raven said:
Oh how wonderful to have “cocktails” with your pretentious friends (and the clique members liking anything you post)
LOL wake up you halfwits (clique members) as he is taking the ”P”
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How is he taking the P? You think people don't have cocktails, or food? Or you think people don't really go to car shows?
 
Gramaisc

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Tonight's journey along the dual carriageway was a struggle into the glare of the Sun.

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I did consider that my perception of any oncoming traffic might be compromised, although it's not generally a busy route.

A couple of minutes later, I did meet a tractor with a silage trailer of sufficient size to eclipse the Sun, so I was able to safely sneak down the side of it and we could both carry on with our allotted tasks.
 
staffordjas

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5am wake up call by one of the smoke alarms screeching away (. not the low battery beep). After investigating , can't see why ..
 
Gadget

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staffordjas said:
5am wake up call by one of the smoke alarms screeching away (. not the low battery beep). After investigating , can't see why ..
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A spider/spider web, some dust or it's feeling suicidal. I had one that would not stop and (crappily installed) could not be gotten down to stop so a 4:30am it was mended a la Fix it Felix. We did get a new one next day.
Try giving it a thorough hoovering today.
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Gramaisc

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Gadget said:
A spider/spider web, some dust or it's feeling suicidal. I had one that would not stop and (crappily installed) could not be gotten down to stop so a 4:30am it was mended a la Fix it Felix. We did get a new one next day.
Try giving it a thorough hoovering today.
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Years ago, the firemen put one in in a bungalow for a friend of mine. He was told that it was meant to last ten years, but it started going off uncontrollably after a few weeks. He asked me to take the battery out, so that he could actually sleep in the building. It proved impossible to open it, so I had to resort to an impact dismantling procedure. It then proved impossible to even get the remaining back plate off the ceiling. Rather than risk a fall from height by going up two steps to screw it to the papered ceiling, they had put it in place with a short stick, from ground level, having smeared "No Nails" all over the back of it.

I managed to break it up enough to hide the evidence by screwing a normal alarm back over the site.

I did this without falling from height.
 
staffordjas

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Water gods really don't like us! Plumber came back to look at non working new cistern he'd put in a while ago....apparently whoever put original plumbing in hadn't attached something to the wall to stop the whole lot behind moving and disconnecting the pipe from the loo ...

Water water everywhere, airing cupboard full of towels slung down to stop it going through ceiling , his apprentice racing to the van to grab more towels. Me racing to turn stop tap off under the sink :o

Plumber learnt me some swear words , saying he HATED his job.

He says he's coming back Friday to silicone and make sure its still working. Not paid him yet , in hope he will..
 
staffordjas

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Gadget said:
A spider/spider web, some dust or it's feeling suicidal. I had one that would not stop and (crappily installed) could not be gotten down to stop so a 4:30am it was mended a la Fix it Felix. We did get a new one next day.
Try giving it a thorough hoovering today.
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Reading your post :up:, I rescued the battery from it's place on the side , ready to find a shop that's got a battery recycling box . Blew the smoke alarm vents out with the hairdryer and tried the battery again. It did the 'beep' and lit up to say it was functioning afterwards.
Back on the landing now , silent so far......

Now off to find my new 'harder and faster' zumba class in pastures new. Walked the little streetview man down the route so many times today , so hopefully won't get hopelessly lost and can find a parking space in the small looking carpark. Otherwise I'll just drive back home again. 😂
 
Gramaisc

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Noah said:
From what firemen have told me that is pretty much standard procedure when they install them. The reason why I've never allowed the Fire Service to install smoke alarms.
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Ludicrous cowboy behaviour - I'm glad that I also avoided them.
 
staffordjas

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Noah said:
From what firemen have told me that is pretty much standard procedure when they install them. The reason why I've never allowed the Fire Service to install smoke alarms.
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Glad we haven't heard anything after a fireman wrote our number on the back of his hand , whilst doing next doors checks, so that they could come & check ours.
 
staffordjas

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Todays bird stations re-stocking was being supervised by this little one hopping around my feet . .Earlier he had landed on my bare flip-flopped foot and scared the life out of me. Thought it was a mouse 😂. He/she wasn't fazed in the least by my scream , just started tucking in to the seeds that had been catapulted onto it's head as I jumped. Went and sat on the fence while I was fetching my camera. As I was chatting away to it , it was cocking it's head from side to side and posing for the camera. 😍

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proactive

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Enjoying a drop of red.
staffordjas said:
Todays bird stations re-stocking was being supervised by this little one hopping around my feet . .Earlier he had landed on my bare flip-flopped foot and scared the life out of me. Thought it was a mouse 😂. He/she wasn't fazed in the least by my scream , just started tucking in to the seeds that had been catapulted onto it's head as I jumped. Went and sat on the fence while I was fetching my camera. As I was chatting away to it , it was cocking it's head from side to side and posing for the camera. 😍

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Maybe the bird is staring at you thinking 'how can one person have so much bad luck?'
 
staffordjas

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proactive said:
Maybe the bird is staring at you thinking 'how can one person have so much bad luck?'
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Probably trying to warn me that the 'simple' plumbing job earlier today , after wednesdays disaster , might go horribly wrong and asking if it could come and make use of the swimming pool which might appear again in the ensuite :rolleyes:
 
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