What have you done today thread?

[Count Steer]

Jealous! I love Midhurst! I took the wife there for the weekend and stayed at the Spread Eagle. She never used the Spa and we never ate or drank in there, apart from breakfast. I did have a nice chat with John Stapleton on the terrace though...

There's only one real thing wrong with Midhurst.....traffic. It needs a by-pass. I suppose the other thing is it seems to be in thrall to the Cowdray estate. All those buildings with orange window frames. If you mooch about there in the evening, so many of the nice looking homes are unlit and I suspect they're AirBnB for the 'polo and Goodwood set'.

Stayed at the Spread Eagle quite a few times. We even did Christmas there once. The food is good but the missus did give a on their poached eggs at breakfast. We did a sort of feature weekend there where the head chef took us foraging for 'shrooms. The final meal was all fungi based. He didn't use anything we found and the mate we took with us appeared to be a bit poorly having fondled the toadstools he claimed were mushrooms.

We went in the Wheatsheaf and the bloke ruiing it used to run a place I used in Leigh-on-Sea! Small world. Just along from there is a shop stuffed with a lovely bike collection. No signs or names on it, just a shop in road full of bikes?!

Yeah. That's totally odd. As I understand it, none of them were for sale, it's just somewhere that the bloke uses to store them...but it looks like a showroom. I've had my nose pressed up against the window a few times but haven't ventured down that bit for a while.

[MingtheMerciless]

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Rode home from work in freezing fog, not pleasant

[KungFooBob]

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Rode home from work in freezing fog, not pleasant

Any you've still not read that text message.

[Buckaroo]

Went out with my son for a short, 40 miles, bike ride. Got soaked and frozen. Wasn't the best ride for sure. Glad to be home now.

Note to self: don't believe the weather forecast.

[the_priest]

Taken two services in my own churches! What a lovely way to begin Advent season.

[KungFooBob]

Bought a bottle of Advocaat and some lemonade.

I'm on my third snowball

[Potter]

Went food shopping at Morrisons, visited an antiques place, popped in to say hello to some family and then spent the rest of the day catching up on my newspapers and online reading.

Now I'm finishing off cooking a Sunday roast, then a family movie on the sofa with nibbles as we've got our boy home for the weekend and eldest visiting for the night. I'll probably be asleep in my chair by 7.30pm.

[Cousin Jack]

Went into town centre car park. Lifts are slow, so walked up the stairs, 6 flights of quite steep stairs. Had to slow down at the top,, an old dear with a walking stick was a bit slow over the last few steps. Her companion, a bloke about my age apologised for his Mum holding us up and explained she was 99!

I hope I am doing as well when (if) I get to 99.

[Count Steer]

Did the Monday walk a day early, which meant that the café at the Sports Ground was open so started and finished there. The little uns were training when we started and there was an adult footy match on when we got back, so had a coffee and a bite to eat and watched the game for a while*. I think we were the only people in the café that didn't have a dog or two. No snow and didn't need waterproofs.

* It was entertaining, but not because the teams were v good.

[asmethurst99]

Started packing for our move next Friday .
I could go on at length about duplicitous estate agents and entitled buyers …
Fuck me we have accumulated some stuff in 20 years -
It’ll be worth it (I keep telling myself)
I will treat myself to a shed once we have moved in

[cheb]

Stripped and rebuilt the strimmer, it now runs properly so i treated it to an oil change.
Finished building one of a pair of bookcases.
Stripped a pressure washer to put a new flex on it, I'll swipe one off a vacuum cleaner on my next trip to the skips.
Shifted a dead outboard to a mate.

And some other uninteresting stuff too.

[Count Steer]

Started packing for our move next Friday .
I could go on at length about duplicitous estate agents and entitled buyers …

Ooh...do tell.

[Noggin]

I can't remember the last time I had an actual lie in - so I really enjoyed it this morning! LOL Basically mostly just chilled out today. I did decide to try out the camera bag and see how well I could use the camera - left it a bit late as the sun had gone over the mountain, so it wasn't particularly photogenic

But, had a nice walk, there's enough piste I reckon to go attempt some ski touring before work tomorrow - except that I'm not working in the office tomorrow and am leaving for a transfer at about 6.45am! Soooo, Wednesday I'm off and I WILL go for a ski tour!! LOL

Now catching up on Strictly from last night - gutted that the gorgeous man is out But, it's still cool watching the dancing anyway

[Yorick]

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[the_priest]

Adding to what I've done, two cats and a dog have been given their de-wormer tablets. Disgusted looks from three beasts and treats given out to mollify them and keep the tablets down. Cat nicked part of the dogs sausage as well! And I still have all my fingers!

[MingtheMerciless]

12Hr day at work, which was pretty quiet, reconfigured our HV network and turned off a 33000V Feeder cable so the staff on site could Isolate and Earth it before perform a cut and divert to alter its route along with the "pilot" cable carrying the control and feeder protection systems. Cable was then "HV pressure" tested along with phase ID checks and then pilot cable continuity checks. Didn't get around to putting it back into service as a blown fuse in a piece of test kit prevented the staff doing testing work from completing the protection systems testing until just before I left.

Also ate a rather hot chicken kebab.

[the_priest]

ested along with phase ID checks and then pilot cable continuity checks. Didn't get around to putting it back into service as a blown fuse in a piece of test kit prevented the staff doing testing work from completing the protection systems testing until just before I left.

Also ate a rather hot chicken kebab.

@MingtheMerciless My wife uses trains for her commute. I am always gladdened to see it is people like you who ensure the safety of the workers maintaining the systems and ensuring the safety of our rail network. Many thanks for your diligence and care, professionalism and expertise.

[Yorick]

Bellends. Sorry, Belens

Belens are a tradition here where villages create huge models of the islands famous bits. Biggest is this one in Yaiza. 260m3
The detail is stunning and we were trying to match each bit to a part of the island.

Just as we'd done there was a total blackout. We thought it was local, but the whole island was down for 10 minutes. By 'ell, it was dark


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[Yorick]

[Taipan]

Bellends. Sorry, Belens

Belens are a tradition here where villages create huge models of the islands famous bits. Biggest is this one in Yaiza. 260m3
The detail is stunning and we were trying to match each bit to a part of the island.

Just as we'd done there was a total blackout. We thought it was local, but the whole island was down for 10 minutes. By 'ell, it was dark


https://gazettelife.com/news/yaiza-bele ... ly-opened/

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Belens, so good they named it twice!