What have you done today thread?

[Druid]

I have done nothing. I did my last day at work yesterday and I am looking forward to a long retirement spent chatting to the check out girls at Tescos, going to the post office at dinnertime* and telling people how old I will be next year**


* Dinnertime is in the middle of the day, so between 12.00 and 14.00

** I'll be 67 next year you know

Congratulations on your retirement

Any big plans?

Wife is still working so nothing really planned. We're looking at doing a tour of the Canadian Rockies but that won't be till next year. In the meantime she's given me a list of jobs to do around the house...

[Horse]

Very often, retirement = new boss

Congrats

Enjoy

[weeksy]

Congratulations!


I'm sitting on toilet trying not to puke. That was a very very hard indoor cycle race.

Average HR for 40 mins, 170bpm, maximum 182

[Sadlonelygit]

Very often, retirement = new boss

Congrats

Enjoy

Ain't that the truth!

[Sunny]

I have done nothing. I did my last day at work yesterday and I am looking forward to a long retirement spent chatting to the check out girls at Tescos, going to the post office at dinnertime* and telling people how old I will be next year**


* Dinnertime is in the middle of the day, so between 12.00 and 14.00

** I'll be 67 next year you know

Excellent stuff! Enjoy

[Count Steer]

Daily trip to Screwfix.

Bought the guttering for the back of the cabin. They smirked as they slid the 3m lengths across the counter, having seen the car I arrived in.

Not so smirky when I got to the car, whipped out my measure and cut them to the required lengths with my battery Makita saw.

(Bought a pair of Scruff's work pants while I was there...got to look the part eh? ).

[gremlin]

I'm sitting on toilet trying not to puke.

Tried opening the window? Spraying a bit of air freshener?

[ChrisW]

Rolling around on a motorbike, running as many errands as I could to make myself feel I was doing something useful.

The roads in South Cheshire - & especially North Shropshire - were dry & grippy today. And also largely deserted & free of mud etc.

A good day.

[Sunny]

Spent a couple of hours freezing slowly to death in the deceptive sunshine, deciding where to fit my 'dash cams' on the KTM.

Finally decided, spent 10 mins attaching them, and will finish off attaching the wiring, and adjusting the viewing angles tomorrow. Did I mention it was bastard freezing?

[MyLittleStudPony]

Re. quotes and trades, goons, toolies etc, if you have a house which looks nice, you pay the nice-house-owner rate.

[KungFooBob]

Re. quotes and trades, goons, toolies etc, if you have a house which looks nice, you pay the nice-house-owner rate.

No one wants to fit my worktops... they just want to do full kitchens (I've done my own). So fuck it, I'll fit them myself.

This time next year I'll be up to my ears in Sea-doos.

[Count Steer]

Re. quotes and trades, goons, toolies etc, if you have a house which looks nice, you pay the nice-house-owner rate.

No one wants to fit my worktops... they just want to do full kitchens (I've done my own). So fuck it, I'll fit them myself.

This time next year I'll be up to my ears in Sea-doos.

The nice thing about jobs like that is, at the end, you can stand back and admire..........






.....all the new tools you simply had to buy.

[KungFooBob]

Re. quotes and trades, goons, toolies etc, if you have a house which looks nice, you pay the nice-house-owner rate.

No one wants to fit my worktops... they just want to do full kitchens (I've done my own). So fuck it, I'll fit them myself.

This time next year I'll be up to my ears in Sea-doos.

The nice thing about jobs like that is, at the end, you can stand back and admire..........






.....all the new tools you simply had to buy.

After trying to cut a straight line and failing at every attempt with my jigsaw, I bought a circular saw last week. It's so much easier cutting the facia panels!

[MrLongbeard]

This time next year I'll be up to my ears in Sea-doos.

Bullseye is making a comeback?

[Count Steer]

No one wants to fit my worktops... they just want to do full kitchens (I've done my own). So fuck it, I'll fit them myself.

This time next year I'll be up to my ears in Sea-doos.

The nice thing about jobs like that is, at the end, you can stand back and admire..........






.....all the new tools you simply had to buy.

After trying to cut a straight line and failing at every attempt with my jigsaw, I bought a circular saw last week. It's so much easier cutting the facia panels!

If you have to join sections of worktop, a router thingy cuts the groove that you put the clamps in that squeeze the sections together. Very handy....every time you fit a kitchen.

(There ought to be a club where you borrow specialised tools from anyone else that's done the job before ).

[KungFooBob]

The nice thing about jobs like that is, at the end, you can stand back and admire..........






.....all the new tools you simply had to buy.

After trying to cut a straight line and failing at every attempt with my jigsaw, I bought a circular saw last week. It's so much easier cutting the facia panels!

If you have to join sections of worktop, a router thingy cuts the groove that you put the clamps in that squeeze the sections together. Very handy....every time you fit a kitchen.

(There ought to be a club where you borrow specialised tools from anyone else that's done the job before ).

The worktop I just removed had the clamps, it was also cut in such a way that the curved edges met perfectly.

The Ikea worktop is square. All the documentation and youtube guides for the ikea stuff just say butt it up with a bit of silicone and job jobbed!

I've got some plates to hold it together too.

[Mr. Dazzle]

(There ought to be a club where you borrow specialised tools from anyone else that's done the job before ).

There was at Rolls-Royce (Plc., the jet engine guys) when I worked there!

Foreman's club too, but I think that was just a name by that point.

[Mussels]

After trying to cut a straight line and failing at every attempt with my jigsaw, I bought a circular saw last week. It's so much easier cutting the facia panels!

If you have to join sections of worktop, a router thingy cuts the groove that you put the clamps in that squeeze the sections together. Very handy....every time you fit a kitchen.

(There ought to be a club where you borrow specialised tools from anyone else that's done the job before ).

The worktop I just removed had the clamps, it was also cut in such a way that the curved edges met perfectly.

The Ikea worktop is square. All the documentation and youtube guides for the ikea stuff just say butt it up with a bit of silicone and job jobbed!

I've got some plates to hold it together too.

They all come square, then you use a jig to make it curvy and perfectly fitting. It's easy to do but you will spend hours mentally flipping and rotating pieces to make sure it's the right cut happening.

[Taipan]

Packed my camper and i'm ready for the offski!! Of course the wife isn't...

[Count Steer]

They all come square, then you use a jig to make it curvy and perfectly fitting. It's easy to do but you will spend hours mentally flipping and rotating pieces to make sure it's the right cut happening.

Looked at my worktops this am. They have the curve thing. It looks like they've been cut with a scalpel! The edges are incredibly neat the joins are almost invisible. What do they cut them with? Not sure I could get them that neat with a jig-saw, even with a jig and a fine toothed blade.