What have you done today thread?

[Horse]

'Emphasising other job opportunities during redundancies'. Fuck me, HR dept, read your own memos on confidentiality.

Place I worked, if the lights were on in HR late into the evening ...

Either that, or the security guard told us what they left on their desks

[asmethurst99]

Bought far too much MDF ….

[Sadlonelygit]

Not today, but 21 years ago today I jacked in the evil weed

[Noggin]

I'd had a plan to have a really long lie in (sleeping, not just lying in bed!). But, cos I've been up early for the last few weeks, I was awake about 6.30 By a bit after 7.30 I was just bored lying in bed thinking that I wanted to be asleep!

So I got up and pyjama's on and started doing 'stuff' in the apartment. I'd made a list last night - crossed off about half and then I get a call from my boss a bit before 10am. I was thinking he was checking on where his minibus was and I needed to move it elsewhere. But no! He just said, are you in La Plagne? Yes. Can you do a transfer now? yes. great I'll send the number of the customer.

I had to check he meant actually ''now" - he did! So I had to say, give me ten mins, gotta get dressed!!

Luckily I'd parked right next to the bus station and got the customer down to the train station on time

But also meant I could grab some potatoes, carrots and onions at a MUCH reduced price to getting a couple of each at the Spar up here!


So, since I've been back I've been cooking and have a load of 'sort of cottage pie' for the freezer and some chicken chow mein Some fish and fish stuff in the fridge defrosting for me to make fish pie tomorrow

Forget to get cheese, so it'll be lacking that. But it'll be handy to to have some meals in the freezer


And, tonight I'm walking down to the next village to top up on Rum cos I've needed a BIG glass of that since Tuesday! Some of my english friends that live down there have returned from holidays/uk, so it'll be fab to catch up

[Ditchfinder]

Bumped into our old gardener in the pub last night. He's not been well for a while but he's on the mend now.

He used to be a fairly handy enduro rider and he's agreed to give me some training riding off road in exchange for me dragging him out on the emtb to help him get his fitness up

[Skub]

Bumped into our old gardener in the pub last night. He's not been well for a while but he's on the mend now.

He used to be a fairly handy enduro rider and he's agreed to give me some training riding off road in exchange for me dragging him out on the emtb to help him get his fitness up

That sounds like you are punishing him for helping.

[Ditchfinder]

Nah he's under doctors orders to go out more often but he finds it hard to be motivated to go out on his own

[Wscad]

Not a good start to the day. Set the hydraulic log splitter up and one bit shot off and shattered a pane of glass on the the greenhouse

Better start than if you'd got it in the face instead of the greenhouse

A good point and I did get one bit across my forehead. I now wear a full face guard when splitting logs

[Skub]

Today's top tip,hard won by the life lessons dept.

Before you take time and carefully install and fill to the gunnels your two freezers,getting them level and just so,don't forget the malevolent manufacturers have put the sticker with the serial number you'll need for warranty registration....on the back of the units.

Failure to take a pic/note of said serial number prior to installation may result in a temporary loss of 'will to live' by the person involved.

White goods packed by the schadenfreude dept.

[Rockburner]

Found a source for the levers* on a Ryobi mower as a spare part. Win!

AND - the same place does the clutch cable for the Mountfield! Double Win!


Said parts both failed within minutes of each other on Saturday afternoon. The lawn still got cut though!



* Said levers are cleverly** designed to fail very easily.....


** well.. not so much "cleverly" as pretty damned obviously once you look at them tbh...

[Noggin]

Cooked stuff, sorted stuff, moved the minibus into the garage, got the bike out!!

Packed up cake and my stuff onto bike and headed to see some mates. Left a bit late and got to the hotel bloody freezing!!! Hey ho!

Now doing some paperwork to drop off at school tomorrow after my appointment in town.

The road down from resort has persuaded me to drop off the bike at my mates asap! It was frosty in a few places and we have snow forecast maybe tonight but definitely over the weekend. Not worth the risk on the top heavy old CBF!! If I had a 390 Duke I'd be riding till there was actual snow staying on the roads!!

[Horse]

Not a good start to the day. Set the hydraulic log splitter up and one bit shot off and shattered a pane of glass on the the greenhouse

Better start than if you'd got it in the face instead of the greenhouse

A good point and I did get one bit across my forehead. I now wear a full face guard when splitting logs

Few years ago a chap was erecting a fence for me (as in 'in my garden', not 'to fence me in').

Using a nail gun, not wearing eye protection.

I took him a pair of safety glasses.

"I've got some at home" he said.

Next day, no glasses. So that's two pairs at home

[Cousin Jack]

I've been out to play on the bike.

[Noggin]

Not sure how I forgot to post this. But, there generally isn't a Memorial Service up in resort, there's always one at the actual Memorial statue in Macot at the bottom of the mountain, but the memorial statue in resort is for the air drops and the resistance (there's a memorial ceremony in August for that).

However, I have never made it to the one in Macot - lack of transport mostly. And I had to ride down this afternoon, two trip in one day is a bit of risk on possibly frosty roads!

So, I have tried to get into a habit of going to the memorial statue in resort at 11am on the 11th November. Haven't always made it But did today I don't put a shout out to anyone else cos mostly people that are around are busy or disinterested. And yes, I'm a bit selfish in that I use the time to remember friends and family lost as well as service people. (Although the family are all ex forces and most friends have been in one of the services/forces)

Anyway - the memorial statue in it's autumnal glory -




If you scroll in a bit, you can see a little bit of red - I left a poppy on the statue. Next year I'm going to try and get a posy of poppys and cornflowers (I think the cornflower is what the French use for remembrance?) to leave at the base




And, a couple of gratuitous shots pre snow! Lots of autumn colouring, but snow due from tomorrow

[Noggin]

Today started a bit sad and then a bit stressful!! I got stood up last night (apparently an urgent dentist appointment meant his phone didn't work either )

And then this morning I got to the CT place to find my mate hadn't left the actual registration document for the bike with the bike - he'd put a copy in the folder FFS, the CT (MOT) place won't do the test without the original.

Hey ho! Rode back to the town in the valley (and froze a bit!!) to make some appointments for scans n stuff - girly squishy stuff and a bone density test - to find out that they can't do the squishy test till end of december and they don't do the bone density test Have to make appointments a lot further away and try and borrow a car.

Then waited in the sunshine for a mate to be free to drive me home cos I bottled riding the bike up (up wouldn't have been an issue I think, but I'm a bit wary of dropping someone else's 200+kg bike on ice that I can't see on the way down!!). In the wait I found out I'd passed the last exam (they do consider me to be professional!!) and have spent most of the evening chatting to various friends and family about it!!

Chuffed to bits But still a bit cold! LOL

[gremlin]

Got a message from a mate who's laid up after an op on his dodgy trotter. Short story, if I'm WFH, could I take him to a local mobility shop to pick up an electric scooter that he's hiring so that he can get about?

OK, meant to be working, but I'll take my lunch and drop him down there.

On the way, we get stuck in horrendous traffic at the local train station due to roadworks.

We park up at the back of the store and go in. There's several on offer and he tries them out. By this time I'm looking at my watch as I really should be working.

He chooses one, then the paperwork has to be done. Out we go and I then have to be shown how the fecking thing comes apart and how to put it back together so it fits in the car. Simple enough, but takes ten minutes or so.

I man-handle my mate on his crutches back into the car. Run round to the driver's side and in another parking bay there's an old girl in Micra with a flat rear tyre. I go tell her and find she's all a bit stressed saying the breakdown people want £165 to put a new tyre on. Fuck that, I say (not literally) and offer to change her tyre through gritted teeth. Get her shopping out, out come the spare wheel and jack. 'Where's your wheel brace, love?' Blank look. Onlooker offers hers, which take 5 mins to fish out. Doesn't fit.

I'm now faced with taking the dismantled mobility scooter out of my car, getting the compressor, spending 10 mins inflating her tyre and putting her shopping back, just to get her home. Finally done. Now I'm taking the piss with time.

I get all the shite back in my car, this time trapping my finger between the constituent parts of this fecking scooter. Away we go.

'Don't go back past the station', reminds my mate, before adding, 'But if we go via Petts Wood, would you mind stopping at the pharmacy to get my painkillers?'

I then have to drop him home and demonstrate to his missus how the scooter comes apart and reassembles.

3 hours...3 bloody hours!