What have you done today thread?

[gremlin]

Made a crib board.

Was that your own idea?

[Yambo]

I think cribbage has been around for about 300 years and the board, probably a bit less than that but it's certainly not an original idea of mine.

It's the way it is because I was limited in the amount and type of wood i had available (the top piece is a bit of sapele out of my model making supplies and the bottom is a bit of pine I think that I rescued from a load of old wood I was going to chop up for firewood. There's a scar on the other side where a nail had been ) I wanted to make two tracks of 40 holes so up down and back up to finish but the sapele wasn't long enough for that and I think 30 holes is more traditional. The two sets of 5 holes in the middle is to count games won.

The little drawer for the pegs was based on me remembering the one we had in the house when I was a kid and started playing the game. It's just a bit of playing with the router to make it. It's a bit slack so I might make another one. The pegs are 25mm long bits of 3mm dia aluminium bar, again from the modelling supplies box.

[Taipan]

Working on the wife's car and one of my neighbours strolls over and starts yakking, as he often does. He asks if I would be interested in, or knew anyone that would be, in his wife's car? I said no and not much is selling at the moment etc. He said he didn't really know what to do with it. I said doesn't your wife want it anymore? He replied, no use to her anymore, she died a couple of days ago! Never known anyone to be so matter of fact about a loved ones death before!

[gremlin]

Trying to see what can be done with half-used, or in one case, unopened, pots of paint. I thought youth clubs, etc might want them, or charities, but apparently not. Tried asking around friends with kids starting out with new homes, but nope.

Just been down the tip for something unrelated* and asked it they had a donation point, which they do for certain items, but nope. Just dump it, is what I was advised. Seems criminally wasteful.




*A huge cardboard box and two of the biggest blocks of polystyrene I've ever seen. We had a sofa delivered. In a cardboard box with two huge polystyrene blocks in the corners. Who delivers a fucking sofa in a cardboard box?

[Skub]

Working on the wife's car and one of my neighbours strolls over and starts yakking, as he often does. He asks if I would be interested in, or knew anyone that would be, in his wife's car? I said no and not much is selling at the moment etc. He said he didn't really know what to do with it. I said doesn't your wife want it anymore? He replied, no use to her anymore, she died a couple of days ago! Never known anyone to be so matter of fact about a loved ones death before!

Maybe she wasn't a loved one,though....

[Taipan]

Trying to see what can be done with half-used, or in one case, unopened, pots of paint. I thought youth clubs, etc might want them, or charities, but apparently not. Tried asking around friends with kids starting out with new homes, but nope.

Just been down the tip for something unrelated* and asked it they had a donation point, which they do for certain items, but nope. Just dump it, is what I was advised. Seems criminally wasteful.




*A huge cardboard box and two of the biggest blocks of polystyrene I've ever seen. We had a sofa delivered. In a cardboard box with two huge polystyrene blocks in the corners. Who delivers a fucking sofa in a cardboard box?

Major piss boiling point round here as bin men wont take them if they see them in the bags and the tip wont take them either. So, nobody knows what to do with them? So its in the public bins with them!

[slowsider]

Trying to see what can be done with half-used, or in one case, unopened, pots of paint. I thought youth clubs, etc might want them, or charities, but apparently not. Tried asking around friends with kids starting out with new homes, but nope.

Just been down the tip for something unrelated* and asked it they had a donation point, which they do for certain items, but nope. Just dump it, is what I was advised. Seems criminally wasteful.




*A huge cardboard box and two of the biggest blocks of polystyrene I've ever seen. We had a sofa delivered. In a cardboard box with two huge polystyrene blocks in the corners. Who delivers a fucking sofa in a cardboard box?

Tried https://communityrepaint.org.uk/ ?

[gremlin]

Major piss boiling point round here as bin men wont take them if they see them in the bags and the tip wont take them either. So, nobody knows what to do with them? So its in the public bins with them!

F-I-L was a binman (man and boy, 'ardest job in the world, etc, etc) and he once told me that paint tins in the bin lorries are bad news as they explode when crushed and either run out in the road, covering cars and leading to claims, etc. or jamming up the mechanisms, so fair play on not putting them in black bags. Bromley, IIRC, will collect them is the tins are left next to the bins as they have a cage on th elorry they can put them in (may have changed, haven't chucked any paint away in years now I'm middle-aged, see above).

But if the tip won't accept them, what are people going to do? Council has sort of made a rod for it's own back.

My piss boiler was the cardboard. I left it out with the cardboard & paper collection boxes, but they left it (granted, it was a fair bit to man-handle), which means I have to get in my car, cause pollution and traffic by queuing at the tip, when their bin lorry was stopped right by my house. I'm tempted, next time I see them, to get a tenner out of my wallet, go to hand it through the window, then put it back saying, 'You could have had it, but I understand you only take paper if it's in the proper box...sorry!'

[Yorick]

Gremmers. Just burn it all

[gremlin]

Tried https://communityrepaint.org.uk/ ?

Looked on there previously. Nearest to me is Southwark, which is a fair poke, and you have to be a resident. Same as all the ones in Essex.

[gremlin]

Gremmers. Just burn it all

Since it's all gone water based even that option is closed.....

[cheb]

I've had a very successful blagging day, a petrol cement mixer, an air compressor, an air receiver, a roller shutter door for a van, an IBC tank, several windscreen crates, a pallet of boat mooring rope, a 12V battery charger and a waterproof fluorescent light.

And laid some concrete pads for an ISO container.

[gremlin]

I've had a very successful blagging day, a petrol cement mixer, an air compressor, an air receiver, a roller shutter door for a van, an IBC tank, several windscreen crates, a pallet of boat mooring rope, a 12V battery charger and a waterproof fluorescent light.

I tell ya what....The Generation Game has gone downhill since Brucie died.....

[Yorick]

I've had a very successful blagging day, a petrol cement mixer, an air compressor, an air receiver, a roller shutter door for a van, an IBC tank, several windscreen crates, a pallet of boat mooring rope, a 12V battery charger and a waterproof fluorescent light.

I tell ya what....The Generation Game has gone downhill since Brucie died.....

You've got enough chins to replace him

[v8-powered]

Have done much head shaking watching a couple of techs trying to remove a seized and snapped M16 bolt in a blind hole.
So far it's been drilled, ez-out, hit, sworn at and heated - it's going nowhere. Told them to call a place with spark erosion kit but no one listening.....

[Asian Boss]

Most household recycling sites will accept paint (IIRC). Some will have an arrangement with a third sector reuse organisation.

Your waste is your waste, your council is obliged to take some of it from you but not all.


I wouldn't fuck around with the bin men too much. It's not their decision / fault what they take, they're probably more pissed off that you and probably harder than you too. And there's probably at least three of them. And they've got a crushing lorry with them.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Most household recycling sites will accept paint (IIRC). Some will have an arrangement with a third sector reuse organisation.

Your waste is your waste, your council is obliged to take some of it from you but not all.

I left a load of mostly (as in 90-95%) empty cans in my garage with the lids off for about 6 months, occasionally stirring them, so that they would set. I was then allowed to put the 'pucks' into bin bags and chuck them in the general waste section at the tip.

On my way out I saw the "Paint" bin

[Asian Boss]

Most household recycling sites will accept paint (IIRC). Some will have an arrangement with a third sector reuse organisation.

Your waste is your waste, your council is obliged to take some of it from you but not all.

I left a load of mostly (as in 90-95%) empty cans in my garage with the lids off for about 6 months, occasionally stirring them, so that they would set. I was then allowed to put the 'pucks' into bin bags and chuck them in the general waste section at the tip.

On my way out I saw the "Paint" bin

I just hoy them all on the golf course at night along with some smashed up MDF units and old porn mags.

[Wreckless Rat]

LOL - what goes in the bottom of the wheelie bin bag no one knows, let alone checks. As long as you can make it small enough to fit in the bottom of the wheelie bin, the bin men take it no question. Apparently.

[Mr. Dazzle]

No wheelie bin here, bin bags go straight on the pavement...so they'd notice