What have you done today thread?
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Did a lot of swearing at the pressure valve on the bottom of the immersion heater.
Got the valve on no problems, but the mains feed pipe didnt want to line up, then, after 30 mins of grunting and swearing, success. Nipped it up with the stilsons, turned the water back on, yep, water everywhere.
Took it all apart, dug out my box of fibre washers.........oh you didnt think it would be that easy!
Had to nip into town for more washers.
So, fight with the feed again, only 15mins this time, and we have a non leaky hot water system.
Got the valve on no problems, but the mains feed pipe didnt want to line up, then, after 30 mins of grunting and swearing, success. Nipped it up with the stilsons, turned the water back on, yep, water everywhere.
Took it all apart, dug out my box of fibre washers.........oh you didnt think it would be that easy!
Had to nip into town for more washers.
So, fight with the feed again, only 15mins this time, and we have a non leaky hot water system.
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O.M.G - I do miss a good roast dinner!!!
MingtheMerciless wrote: ↑Sun Sep 11, 2022 5:19 pm Cooked roast dinner for colleagues at work.
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Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
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Arty farty day session, pastels.
Still life took about 2 hours, sea about 1.5, apple about 30 minutes.
Still life took about 2 hours, sea about 1.5, apple about 30 minutes.
Even bland can be a type of character
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This morning led a Holy Communion service with 5 Baptisms. The real joy was I Baptised the baby of someone I Baptised as an adult last year, really special to do the same for her child. 160 people in Church, prayers for HLM and the Royal Family. We sung God save the King at the end of the service. Because of the numbers we had to use the reserve sacraments as well, so I did a short service to consecrate more things afterwards.
Also blessed some water for a lady from Latvia to take home.
Home for a quick lunch at nearly 2pm, then back to church for 4pm service followed by 6.30pm Holy Communion and then prayer for Ukraine.
Back at home now after a fairly long day. Need to work on sermon for Sunday and much more besides.
Also blessed some water for a lady from Latvia to take home.
Home for a quick lunch at nearly 2pm, then back to church for 4pm service followed by 6.30pm Holy Communion and then prayer for Ukraine.
Back at home now after a fairly long day. Need to work on sermon for Sunday and much more besides.
Proverbs 17:9
One who forgives an affront fosters friendship, but one who dwells on disputes will alienate a friend.
One who forgives an affront fosters friendship, but one who dwells on disputes will alienate a friend.
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Not everyone will agree with your faith and your job, but you must get so much joy about helping folk.the_priest wrote: ↑Sun Sep 11, 2022 9:21 pm This morning led a Holy Communion service with 5 Baptisms. The real joy was I Baptised the baby of someone I Baptised as an adult last year, really special to do the same for her child. 160 people in Church, prayers for HLM and the Royal Family. We sung God save the King at the end of the service. Because of the numbers we had to use the reserve sacraments as well, so I did a short service to consecrate more things afterwards.
Also blessed some water for a lady from Latvia to take home.
Home for a quick lunch at nearly 2pm, then back to church for 4pm service followed by 6.30pm Holy Communion and then prayer for Ukraine.
Back at home now after a fairly long day. Need to work on sermon for Sunday and much more besides.
Keep up the good work.
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No..just enthusiasm.
Give me a break, it’s only been like that 3 years. Plenty of time yet.
Actually it’s next doors fault. In spite of it being treated timber and only a few years old they decided to paint which of course encouraged her indoors to suggest we do the same.
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Got up at 0500, drove to Gatwick, got on a flight delayed by an hour, flew to Alicante, picked up hire car and drove some more, went shopping for supplies, had some dinner, few pints at an Irish bar and now finally hope to get some sleep as it’s still very warm
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Went shopping then walked up to Green park to look at Buck House but it was too busy….sad vibe .
Got on a 15 and came home ….
Got on a 15 and came home ….
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Just found a very brief comment in an online paper that both bikers were taken to hospital injured, one seriouslyNoggin wrote: ↑Sun Sep 11, 2022 4:14 pm I went to the valley to see a friend. Chatted for a few hours and saw some other friends whilst I was there. Had the best ride down the mountain to get there that I've had so far. All so positive
Sadly, on the way back, in a bit of road that has been narrowed by a junction due to road works, there'd been a serious accident. Motorbike,huge thing with luggage, so some kind of tourer, couldn't see much as - it was narrow, rider and pillion down, camper blocking one side of the narrowed road and people directing traffic. And, bike was the other side of the concrete barriers separating the road and roadworks section (from the position, very unlikely it had been dragged there by the people who stopped) Not sure why, but there were a couple of cars stopped to the side as well as the camper, so Im guessing there was a car/bike interaction
Now I'm just kicking myself for not stopping to offer some comfort as no one on scene was near the bikers
Need to find some bikers here to find out if that is the norm or just because no one knew what to do??
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Found out the distance between the earth's lowest and highest surface points is only 12.2 miles. I thought it'd be more than that for some reason?
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If the Earth was reduced to the size of a snooker ball, it would be smoother than a snooker ball, or something.
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Today I found out that Japan has longer coastline than Australia despite being only 5% of size in area
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Depends who's figures you use.
World Resources Institute reckons Aus has double the coastline Japan does.
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Took the car to get a new exhaust made for it.
Stripped, inspected and rebuilt the clutch on my Kawasaki.
Stripped, inspected and rebuilt the clutch on my Kawasaki.
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Although Australia has more than 20 times more land area than Japan, Japan actually has a longer coastline according to the World Factbook. The World Factbook, published by the CIA, lists Australia’s coastline at 25,760 km (16,007 miles) and Japan’s at 29,751 km (18,486 miles).KungFooBob wrote: ↑Tue Sep 13, 2022 12:55 pmDepends who's figures you use.
World Resources Institute reckons Aus has double the coastline Japan does.
As you can see in the graphic above, Japan fits comfortably inside of Australia. So, how is it possible that it has a longer coastline?
Australia is mostly one large island (I know it’s not technically an island) with the majority of its land inside the coastal boundary. In comparison, Japan is made up of 6,852 islands and has a wildly meandering coastline. The meandering coastline brings up an interesting challenge when measuring coastlines: they’re not straight lines.
It’s easy to measure straight lines, the length is always the shortest distance from the beginning to the end. Measuring curved lines involved more complicated math. To simplify the problem, the curved lines are broken up into short straight lines that approximately represent the actual shape.
The fewer the lines, the easier the calculation:
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After some thought I've decided to buy a complete set of steel plates, I think my existing ones might be warped, £33 including postage for 8 steel plates, I've got a spare set of new fibre plates.Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: ↑Tue Sep 13, 2022 1:02 pm Took the car to get a new exhaust made for it.
Stripped, inspected and rebuilt the clutch on my Kawasaki.
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Norway knocks 'em both into a cocked hat.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
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And you can thanks Slartibartfast for that, he even won an award for it, and signed his name.
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I assume Lesotho didn't make the top five?Count Steer wrote: ↑Tue Sep 13, 2022 1:54 pmNorway knocks 'em both into a cocked hat.
All aboard the Peckham Pigeon! All aboard!
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And what I have I done today apart from faffing around and prevaricating?
Wasting my life isn't a very flattering answer.
Wasting my life isn't a very flattering answer.