What have you done today thread?

[Taipan]

Reignited my love for IL4s!

[636mick]

Closed a bit of the A42 following an accident. Got a bit wet, got very sweaty due to the humidity while I cleaned up but as a bonus I got to watch a brilliant thunder storm. Massive flashes of lightning but not a lot of thunder.
Can’t beat nature doing its thing.
Now home albeit a bit late, cuppa, Frosties, shower cos I sweated, then bed.
Mick, aged 63 and 11/12ths.

[Mussels]

I went to a function last night at a rather nice hotel near Battle, whilst there I saw a peacock drop out of the tree my car was parked under.
I spent the rest of the evening wondering what damage peacock shit would do to my paintwork.

[MingtheMerciless]

Cooked a roast at work.

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[Trinity765]

Sat looking at the rain in amazement as I've not seen any for a long time - it stinks aka petrichor.

I've set up my new Sena intercom for my trip and made some soup. Done lots of pottering about so as not to leave anything undone before I leave next weekend.

[ZRX61]

Got up, 3x S'd.
Bike was pre-flighted yesterday so all I have to do it fire it up & bugger off down the hill.

It's that time of year when I have to deal with changing weather...
So jacket liner here in the desert, but it's hot here.. but cold/foggy down the hill.
Liner will probably come out at the 2nd gas stop.

Step-dad chose fathers day to pop his clogs. He's been ailing for years with COPD & emphysema so not unexpected. Fainted on the sofa, didn't wake up. We didn't always see eye to eye, but him & mum made each other laugh all the time over the past 50 years. At least he got to see my daughters wedding pics from last week. Grew up on a farm in Yorkshire, then RN, followed by Inland Revenue & he was a tough bugger. 86yo.
He rode a few of my Z's during different visits (KZ900, Z1-B & KZ1000) His last bike was a Honda ST11, before that he has a '75 T160V. First bike was a BSA Model B with the round gastank.

[Count Steer]

Done the second half of a village 'open gardens' event. My word there's a bit of money around. The last house (with tea and cake ) was the size of an ocean liner. They'd had it built in the garden/land of their old house, which you couldn't even see from the new one...which had a decent sized bit of land around it.

The nicest bit was actually a circle of retirement bungalows built on church land. The circle round the back of the bungalows (which you never normally get to see) is a veritable oasis of little gardens. It's amazing what a little effort and ingenuity can do with a small space. The fronts are all just grass and give no inkling of what's round the back.

Got home and now it's raining properly - hallelujah! The smell is (Haven't had a drop for over a month).

[formula400]

Finally got round to fitting the hugger extender for the MY07

[MrLongbeard]

BBQed in the middle of a thunder storm, bastard weather guessers all deserve to be sacked.

[ZRX61]

New seat on the ZRX11 is a win. Found myself covering 40 miles in about 20 minutes. I guess the Dibble had the day off.

[the_priest]

Road down into Kent and spent morning visiting three churches and viewing a rectory. Going to be interviewed for the post tomorrow. Home to sort a few things out and will collect my wife from work in an hour and tell her about it all. I liked the churches, very beautiful area and there is much that can be done in ministry.

[cheb]

Shifted just over a tonne of plasterboard offcuts to the tip. Slightly cheaper than it might have been, I managed to get a fat bastard discount by stepping out of the van when they weighed it on the way in and staying in it on the way out.

[Noggin]

Walked to a mates house early to get a lift to the valley. Walked around Moutiers for a bit before being brave and trying some coffee!! Then to the unemployment office.

Bit stressy until she realised I've been signed off sick for 3 weeks. She also didn't realise that their system hadn't accepted my address so she thought I lived in the valley Future meetings will be online as I have no transport!!

Was going to meet friends and then get the train back to the bottom of my mountain, but she had an emergency so I decided that, rather than sit and wait for the train (about an hour and a half!), I'd see if I could hitch from Moutiers to Aime and then walk the same route as the other week and hitch up the mountain.

When someone eventually stopped, she was a sweetheart and drove me to the roundabout at the bottom of the mountain Downside was I only got a lift after 1.5kms walking up a steep road/about 12 cars and then only cos it was some people I know quite well!!

Note to self - do NOT hitchhike over lunchtime!


One thing that came out of the meeting was that it seems that the accountant for the company I worked for may have made an error in the figures of holiday pay (they've put that I had almost a months holiday pay, which I didn't, and it's not reflected in the payslip), which is why I've not been able to claim any benefits

So tomorrow I have to get a friend to go through the paperwork with me and then go speak to my ex-colleague in the office if it is an error!! (Pretty sure it is!)

Soooo, more hassle to sort that out, if it can be sorted out


But, a pretty good day Heading out early morrow to try and walk another 5kms. Will be a bit steeper downhill than I walked today, but, I'm being positive cos the knee isn't grumping at me

[Horse]

Let my slightly autistic side out for a field trip

Edit: picture lightened so you can see the train!

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[the_priest]

Wife to work, horrendous traffic due to road works. Bus would have taken years. She had school sports day as well, so an exhausting day.

I found out that I did not get the post I applied for, but am content, the right person gets it. Apparently I interview well and came across very well, but did not have the specific quality they had in a preferred candidate. No rush, I will get the right church and community in time. God's timing is perfect.

Back to church in the afternoon to help with a memorial service. Then fetched wife. Currently cooking the dinner.

[Mussels]

I'm wondering how ventilation companies calculate noise levels. I fitted an 'Explair Simply Silent' extractor that stated 40dB and I found it was comparible to standing next to a motorbike running about 9k revs, today I swapped it for an inline extractor with a stated 30dB and it's about the same as a noisy fridge.
Anyway, I now have an effective ventilation system for those hot still nights so I'm hoping everyone will be a little better tempered in the summer evenings.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Bit surprised that Trombone rates higher than a Helicopter.

[Count Steer]

Bit surprised that Trombone rates higher than a Helicopter.

The diagram needs some sense of distance. You wouldn't want to be in the same room as me when I was learning tenor sax but you're unlikely to be in the same sized room with a helicopter.

[Noggin]

Bit surprised that Trombone rates higher than a Helicopter.

I'm surprised they've labelled something that shape a trombone!

[KungFooBob]

Whoever put rain that low down has never been in my conservatory.