What have you done today thread?

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You have a shed in the back of your car?
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Half day so rode home in the rain In good mood - east London traffic not too mental .
Went and waited at the post office for an hour to post parcels .
Then went to the lock up and was reminded of the need to bloody measure things before pressing buy on eBay - new one won't arrive until 29th .
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Skub wrote: Mon Dec 21, 2020 2:21 pm Allowed a visit with my Dad today. His nurses laid on an Xmas party for the inmates and I asked him how it went.

He said he didn't go down,because it was full of old wimmin. :lol:

He's 93.
To be fair, I wouldn't go down on old women either. :silent:
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Completed my Timothy Barton book collection (Metalshaping, The Lost Sheet Metal Machines, look em up). Already bought books #1-4 when they were first published, then the silly bugger went & died before he published #5-7.
https://www.tinmantech.com/products/boo ... chines.php
(Click *more photos* tab for contents of #3-7)

A while back someone sorted a deal with his family to get the last three books out & I'd been dithering about buying them for a while ($70 each). Thanks to that nice Mr Trump sending people some $$$ I finally bit the bullet & splurged. :thumbup: Postie just delivered them


Book #5 Covers every hammer, dolly & related tools (stakes etc) you can imagine & then some, plus how to make yourself a suit of armour.
Book #6 is 270 pages on how to scratch build a car body
Book #7 covers a few topics, but includes building micro car bodies & pedal cars.

Well impressed. 8-)
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Was just putting the trash cans out & the regular postie showed up (almost 4 hours late)

Got a letter from Donald Trump 8-)

Starts off "My Fellow American".. :eh:
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Shopping with the wife at 6am so we don’t need to go again until January
Then 8km run.
Then cleaned the bike.
Now for a bit of call of duty.
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Made mince pies (well, tarts really) again - giving them away as pressies, so one more batch to do

attempted another stollen. I'm going to stop at Lidl tomorrow and JFBuy one :roll:

Made a cheesy quiche - which is nice!


Now got to find room in the freezer for some of the quiche and most of the flat, rock cake like stollen to be turned into bread and butter pudding or something at a later date!!
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Had a coffee with the lovely M and fitted a new tap on her kitchen sink. She should have been in the UK now but was sitting at the airport in Istanbul when the Turks decided to stop flights from the UK. Turkish Airlines took the opportunity to immediately cancel any flights going to the UK so they wouldn't have to return empty. At least she'll not be in isolation here for 10 days and will get a better Christmas. :thumbup:

Personal stuff out of the way I made a template for some big holes I have to cut later on and made some doublers, using said template. Into Marmaris tomorrow with the other M for a load of supplies - epoxy and assorted paraphernalia.
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Yambo wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:35 pm Had a coffee with the lovely M and fitted a new tap on her kitchen sink.
Uh huh,one thing leads to another very quickly.... ;)
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Skub wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 4:07 pm
Yambo wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:35 pm Had a coffee with the lovely M and fitted a new tap on her kitchen sink.
Uh huh,one thing leads to another very quickly.... ;)
'Whipping out the sink plunger', eh?
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Dealt with the fall out from a toxic relationship. Emotional abuse, manipulation etc. Kids involved. Poor girl had a breakdown, authorities called etc. Wife and another friend had to have a 5 hour intervention. What I'd give for 5 mins in a locked room with that cunt.
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Yambo wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:35 pm Had a coffee with the lovely M and fitted a new tap on her kitchen sink.
I warned you.

It starts off where you sink into their arms and ends up with your arms in the sink. 8-)
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wheelnut wrote: Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:57 pm
Yambo wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:35 pm Had a coffee with the lovely M and fitted a new tap on her kitchen sink.
I warned you.

It starts off where you sink into their arms and ends up with your arms in the sink. 8-)
The sewer rods I have say it doesn't end at the sink.
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Checked the tyres pressures on the car.

They were all at 2.0 bar, so set them to 2.7 bar (as per the sticker in the drivers door shut).

I have no idea what a bar is, BMW don't put PSI on the sticker, but the digital gauge changes on the button.
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Took the mighty Duster for a service and they gave us a Renault Zoe leccy job. It's quite fun to drive and has some proper waft :)

But there's a bloody annoying noise below 20mph like summat from a Sci-fi film. I've let her use it all day ;)
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That's probably the artificial noise generator...seriously.

Electric cars have to make a noise at low speeds so pedestrians and guide dogs can hear them. Since virtually all of them are silent they add the noise with speakers behind the grill.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:23 pm That's probably the artificial noise generator...seriously.

Electric cars have to make a noise at low speeds so pedestrians and guide dogs can hear them. Since virtually all of them are silent they add the noise with speakers behind the grill.
Aha, it sounds as though it's inside the car. I'll have a listen when we take it back tmrw :)
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:23 pm That's probably the artificial noise generator...seriously.

Electric cars have to make a noise at low speeds so pedestrians and guide dogs can hear them. Since virtually all of them are silent they add the noise with speakers behind the grill.
Our Beemer doesn't ....it's one of the knacks of driving it that you need to be aware .
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KungFooBob wrote: Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:14 pm Checked the tyres pressures on the car.

They were all at 2.0 bar, so set them to 2.7 bar (as per the sticker in the drivers door shut).

I have no idea what a bar is, BMW don't put PSI on the sticker, but the digital gauge changes on the button.
39 psi
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asmethurst99 wrote: Wed Dec 23, 2020 9:09 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:23 pm That's probably the artificial noise generator...seriously.

Electric cars have to make a noise at low speeds so pedestrians and guide dogs can hear them. Since virtually all of them are silent they add the noise with speakers behind the grill.
Our Beemer doesn't ....it's one of the knacks of driving it that you need to be aware .
How old is it?

The rule was only introduced in mid 2019.