What have you done today thread?

[irie]

Collected Mrs irie from the garage after she took her A3 in for a service. On the 5 minute journey back home the L200 engine just stopped so I immediately put it into neutral and coasted onto the verge.

Couldn't restart the engine so got a recovery early afternoon. Got a call later on today to say that all the coolant was gone and the engine had seized and it's a write off. 10 years old and 128,000 miles. Shit.

Gotta buy some new wheels tomorrow. Bummer.

Could have been worse, could have been a D22 Nissan. That might have managed 3 years and 10k.

What you gonna buy?

Probably a 2-3 year old Ford Kuga that will:

1. Get serviced within walking distance.

2. Carry my kitesurfing gear.

3. Carry my mtb.

4. Carry garden waste.

5. Pull a caravan.

and other equally mundane things.

[KungFooBob]

I've just been looking at cheap(ish and 2nd hand) 4X4's including the Kuga, but I think I prefer the Rav4.

[DEADPOOL]

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[Taipan]

Collected Mrs irie from the garage after she took her A3 in for a service. On the 5 minute journey back home the L200 engine just stopped so I immediately put it into neutral and coasted onto the verge.

Couldn't restart the engine so got a recovery early afternoon. Got a call later on today to say that all the coolant was gone and the engine had seized and it's a write off. 10 years old and 128,000 miles. Shit.

Gotta buy some new wheels tomorrow. Bummer.

Could have been worse, could have been a D22 Nissan. That might have managed 3 years and 10k.

What you gonna buy?

Probably a 2-3 year old Ford Kuga that will:

1. Get serviced within walking distance.

2. Carry my kitesurfing gear.

3. Carry my mtb.

4. Carry garden waste.

5. Pull a caravan.

and other equally mundane things.

Drive one first. I had one a few years ago and the turbo diesels suffer from a really bad dead throttle. E/G? Waiting at a roundabout, see a gap, floor it and nothing happens! Maybe they've cured it on later models but my Sons 2016 Transit Connect still does it.

[Nidge]

Moved house and gained some garage space

[Taipan]

Moved house and gained some garage space

Wow, nice gaff! Congratulations and happy new home day!

[Noggin]

Moved house and gained some garage space

I have garage envy!!! (My apartment would fit in there with room to spare!! LOL)

Nice house too

[Skub]

Moved house and gained some garage space

Very swish. Your good health to enjoy Nidge.

[cheb]

Plenty space for machine tools. Wanna buy a pillar drill guv?

[Noggin]

Been continuing on the 'sorting of stuff'!! Damn I've kept a lot of random things. Trouble is that, if (when?) I manage to get a bigger place, then a lot of it will be useful (photos, pictures, nicnacks). So I don't want to get rid!

I have found a massive folder of recipe cuttings - from before we all used google!! So I've been through and thrown loads away, filed some in clear wallets to go in a recipe file. Also sorted some cook books to get rid of ( rarely do that, but these I won't ever use!)

That made me feel good


The bit that didn't make me feel good was realising that a box of photos and books were stored somewhere damp at some point Cue a lots of wallets of photos that are now a block of photos and a couple of very old books that aren't in a block, but the pages aren't all loose

[formula400]

Bought my first angle grinder, not going out robbing though.

[Wreckless Rat]

Just eaten a big ol’ curry.

[irie]

Ordered a car yesterday, sorting out the money 'n stuff today.

[Bwana]

Employee stuff

Damn Bwana. That sux sooo much. I never understand why employees fuck over their employer when they are on a good thing. But so many do

Crossing everything for your sister

Huge hugs xxx

My sister is doing well!

THanks to all with the well wishes.

2021 has had a few bumps but business is looking better. my new receptionist is awesome. My assistant has beenoff work for morethan she's been on. Running a fever at first and feeling shitty but fine now. STill waiting for her COVID test results before I let her back in the building. She's been a joy to work with, atleast when she's been at work. I'm back up to more of a full time schedule. Sort of, four 10 hour days. Three day weekends are nice.

[ZRX61]

Used my spiffy new Gallo gun to clean out the overflow line from the pool. 800psi of CO2 resulted in an eruption of mud & then water from the other end of the line next to the lawn. Had no idea where the other end was before this. Quite a flow of water for a while & pool level dropped an inch in fairly short order.
Literally took less than a minute start to finish for the job, can't believe the fucking pool guy wanted $200 to do this.

[David]

Used my spiffy new Gallo gun to clean out the overflow line from the pool. 800psi of CO2 resulted in an eruption of mud & then water from the other end of the line next to the lawn. Had no idea where the other end was before this. Quite a flow of water for a while & pool level dropped an inch in fairly short order.
Literally took less than a minute start to finish for the job, can't believe the fucking pool guy wanted $200 to do this.

It's knowing what to hit things with that gets expensive

[slowsider]

Used my spiffy new Gallo gun to clean out the overflow line from the pool. 800psi of CO2 resulted in an eruption of mud & then water from the other end of the line next to the lawn. Had no idea where the other end was before this. Quite a flow of water for a while & pool level dropped an inch in fairly short order.
Literally took less than a minute start to finish for the job, can't believe the fucking pool guy wanted $200 to do this.

It's knowing what to hit things with that gets expensive

Plus the insurance for hitting the wrong thing

[the_priest]

Led a service through prerecorded YouTube recording. Odd looking at myself leading.... Taped up the front door for another coat of "Buttercup Yellow". You won't be able to miss our front door for sure. No excuse for the delivery people as not other family in our neighbourhood is mad enough to go with this colour. Opened Holly's Blend and made inroads, nice nice nice nice. Logging into Zoom now for "after Church" meeting and fellowship.

[MingtheMerciless]

Cleaned the car, twice (I'd left it a bit long and it looked like it'd been rallying for about a month)

[Noggin]

Been out to do an errand for a friend. She lives in Indonesia but has an apartment here and wanted some measurements taken so she can get a set of stairs built to get to a mezzanine floor (current stairs don't fit well)

Bonus was I got to go for a walk in the snow! Downside was that the buses are only running every 1hr 20mins. I was worried I'd miss the next bus so walked as fast as I dared on the snow (not very!) - its about 10 mins each way from the bus stop to the building. And had to get and drop off a key for the outside door en route

Only finished and got back 40 mins before the next bus So I could stand in the cold for 40 mins or I could walk home. I walked home!! So I've done about 2kms uphill on not very grippy surface!! Now sitting here working out if I can fit a 'disabled' bath in my tiny shower room (instead of a shower, well, with a shower over the top!!)

But

In the apartment, her ex built a spiral staircase to get from the main room up to the bedrooms. I'm kinda wondering if he wanted to be ex but without the hassle of a divorce!!! Bloody hell those stairs are scary. To fit he's cut away part of each step to make room. He's tall and seriously skinny so probably ok for him. I know one of his sons is broader than I am, so no idea how he gets up and down them. For the FUF it just made me feel sick, going up and coming back down!!! Can't believe they are legal - even in France!!!