SketchyMagpie
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Well this aged badly...
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Now I know I don't have you on my Farcical Book. But I posted Tongue Tied up earlier on there.
Was it just for a general inquiry or are you planning something and depending on who you have in mind do you need donations?*Sunday morning thicko moment: couldn't remember the job title of somebody who kills other people for money and so ACTUALLY GOOGLED "what is someone who does assassinations called?"
I have averted the potential for doing all that again^I have managed to resolve a mystery that I was involved in, but I was the only one who didn't know it was a mystery...
At Christmas, I pruned a new hedge for someone who was concerned that he might knacker it, if he did it himself. This ended up with me going home with his inflatable snowman, which had failed to inflate for a few days. I managed to fix it and it was picked up a few days later.
Simple - so far.
Last week, I found a small, animated snowman, with adjacent snowstorm in a spherical 'dome' - he was in a clear plastic box at the back door. This snowman was about 15" high, not 'life'-sized, as with the inflatable one. Investigations revealed that the blower which should animate the polystyrene 'snow' was turning feebly, due to its separate power supply having largely failed. I moved the connection to the supply for the arm-waving motor and all seemed reasonably well. I ran it for an hour and that supply seemed to cope with both motors.
I strapped the box to the bike and set off, through the town, to deliver it.
There was nobody in, so I left it on the table under the covered section of the patio at the back and came home - job done. I would probably see one of them about once a month and Christmas is a long way away, so I left it at that. No rush.
Last night, in the pub in the next village, about five miles from their house, I was asked "Have you found any snowmen lately?", I took this to be a comment resulting from my delivery run having been observed, but, after some confused conversation, I realised that the questioner was actually the real owner of the second snowman.
I have just been round to the home of the first snowman, to confess what had happened - they had returned from a weekend away, to find an unknown, possibly Trojan, snowman, lurking on their patio. I felt an urge to sort it out as soon as possible, as they are recent incomers from the city and might have felt that this was some sort of veiled threat, along the lines of finding a horse's head in their bed.
I know that her sister lives about half a mile past the real home of this snowman, so she will drop him off in a couple of days.
Like an episode of Father Ted, written by Stephen King.
Your supposed to keep the jump starter in the car!Sitting in the leisure centre car park with a dead battery. Used the key to get in, and son on the way to use my quick charger hopefully . What an end to a good zumba session.
It was in the boot & I couldn't get into the boot with it locked. (never thought of climbing over into the back seat and try pulling that down to get to boot in my panic in the dark ) Son used his jump leads .Your supposed to keep the jump starter in the car!
It was in the boot & I couldn't get into the boot with it locked. (never thought of climbing over into the back seat and try pulling that down to get to boot in my panic in the dark ) Son used his jump leads .
Definitely checked that the lights were off when I left it. Was wondering whether someone tried the car and the alarm was going all the time while I was inside and wore the battery down???? As soon as the power got to the battery the alarms started going off.
Wasn't enough power to even unlock the doors. Thought I was trying the wrong car at first!
Got breakdown cover , but son was the quickest option ( feeling a bit guilty about bothering him though as he'd gone to bed feeling fluish ).
Messaged hubby because he wasn't answering his phone. Told him the car won't start and I was sat there in a dark deserted carpark on my own....
his reply...."OK"
Apart from that I enjoyed my first go at Aqua Zumba
It's there now.Keep it in the footwell behind the driver’s seat.
How old is the car? My 2011 Fiesta was losing its battery by the time I traded it in (2018) and my Leaf which is currently sat idle on the driveway keeps losing the 12V as their battery top-up tech is a little bit lacking
It's there now.
Standing outside Halfords at the moment having a new battery fitted. He did a check on my 8 Yr old battery and its knackered..
( nearest place to me, and holding g my breathe all the way incase it conked out in traffic)
I was reving like a boy racer , and taking more chances than I would normally ( safe though) at roundabouts. Luckily the 9am traffic from our house to the Halfords in retail park wasn't too bad.Oh yeah, 8 years is veeeeery old for a 12V. It’s very unlikely it’d conk out in traffic until you had a stop/start, could be screwed if it stalled though
If your battery is 8 years old it owes you nothing.It's there now.
Standing outside Halfords at the moment having a new battery fitted. He did a check on my 8 Yr old battery and its knackered..
( nearest place to me, and holding g my breathe all the way incase it conked out in traffic. )
Thinking back to years ago when we had to keep topping up with distilled water & charging most weeks, these batteries are rather good now.If your battery is 8 years old it owes you nothing.
That is OK. It can be worth realising that Stage 4 can result in a spark as you make the connection - some people will prefer to connect that to an unpainted location away from the battery, rather than the negative terminal itself, but that may be belt, braces and an overcoat.Have I got this in right order for future jump starts and incase sons car goes while I'm driving it?....
1) red to working car
2)red to flat car
3)black to working car
4)black to flat car
Then off again..
5)black off flat car
6)black off working car
7)red off working car
8)red off flat car
It's 7 & 8 I'm not sure of...
Correct.Have I got this in right order for future jump starts and incase sons car goes while I'm driving it?....
1) red to working car
2)red to flat car
3)black to working car
4)black to flat car
Then off again..
5)black off flat car
6)black off working car
7)red off working car
8)red off flat car
It's 7 & 8 I'm not sure of...