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Cousin Jack wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:46 pm Two meetings in one of my schools, with Ofsted inspectors.

The good news is this school is now officially overall Good, with several areas marked as Outstanding! Not too bad for a train crash that we took over 4 years ago.

Woo and hoo!

I have some idea of what you've been through and how today is likely to have been.

So well done to you and the team

Horse wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:53 pm
I have some idea of what you've been through and how today is likely to have been.

So well done to you and the team

It is the Head and teachers who deserve the thanks for the hard work. My contribution has been no more than the occasional touch on the tiller.

Horse wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:36 pm

Taipan wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:21 pm Joined a gym!

Well done.

That's the easy bit. Going every two days is the challenge!

... I speak from experience

I used to love it. 3,4 or 5 nights a week was better than being stuck in front of the to. Sadly my skeleton fell apart in a couple of places and that stopped play. Still got other issues but might as well get fit or die trying!

Taipan wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:09 pm

Horse wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:36 pm

Taipan wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:21 pm Joined a gym!

Well done.

That's the easy bit. Going every two days is the challenge!

... I speak from experience

I used to love it. 3,4 or 5 nights a week was better than being stuck in front of the to. Sadly my skeleton fell apart in a couple of places and that stopped play. Still got other issues but might as well get fit or die trying!

I find it boring boring booooooooooooring ... I've listened to so many podcasts.

However, it's been important for Filly pre- and post-op for a total knee replacement. And, to be fair, my dodgy knee gives me much less grief now (although three days stood up at the Excel bike show didn't help).

Plus, for the first time in my life, I have muscles!

Horse wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:31 pm

I find it boring boring booooooooooooring ... I've listened to so many podcasts.

Me too. I haven't done gym stuff for years (apart from a bit with physio). I really NEED to go to the local gym here because I'm not doing anywhere near the amount of skiing or touring that I expected. But it's a bit of a challenge to make myself even go join the gym!!

Not sure I'd want to listen to podcasts but I might have to do something!!

I'm only intending to do cycling, cross trainer and possibly try a rowing machine (really need to build some arm and shoulder muscles)

Really must sort that next week!! Probably!! (Means I need to buy trainers!! )

Hadsomehting called the Born to be Show here today. Well, this evening. It's way shorter than it used to be but apparently for a few years they haven't had the 'jump' thingy (I think someone broke their leg a few years in a bad landing) but that was here this time.

I've not seen it for a few years as I've always been working, but it was definitely worth heading out - I wasn't particularly keen TBH, but I did enjoy it

Random skiing (2, 3 and 4 peeps on a set of skis; 6 people on a monoski; the pisteurs demonstrating their skills with stretcher/toboggan things etc etc) - but also the jump to show off the skills of some of the instructors but also the kids from the Club de Sport

Never seen the skiers leave colour on the snow though, that was pretty!!




Didn't take any other photos as it was just cool to be watching all the folks doing their stuff!!

Back in ireland, late coming home from the hospital, I popped in my favourite pub for a pint. Diddly diddly music every Thursday!! Who knew? My cousin did, I messaged and said are you coming, she said she'd skip this week but will be there next week.

Took the dog for a walk. Nearly drown.

I think today I have finally realised my purpose in life!
My whole raison d'etre is to come up with workable, aethestically pleasing solutions to my wife's crazy ideas.
Just waiting for some acrylic filler to go off now!

I acquired 8 pallets from the building site next door.
Now 6 of them have been added to my wood pile courtesy of my Makita 18v circular saw.
Last 2 joined the spares piles as batteries were overheating and not taking a charge for some reason

Headed down the hill to meet up with a gal a dated around 1986. She's flying back to the UK this evening.

I've been house bashing.

I put the cutting disc straight through the light switch cable!

Easy fix tho' (yes I know, it's getting fixed properly soon).

Yorick wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:05 pm I acquired 8 pallets from the building site next door.
Now 6 of them have been added to my wood pile courtesy of my Makita 18v circular saw.
Last 2 joined the spares piles as batteries were overheating and not taking a charge for some reason

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If you regularly cut wood like that you should get your self a table saw.

Taipan wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:09 pm

Yorick wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:05 pm I acquired 8 pallets from the building site next door.
Now 6 of them have been added to my wood pile courtesy of my Makita 18v circular saw.
Last 2 joined the spares piles as batteries were overheating and not taking a charge for some reason

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If you regularly cut wood like that you should get your self a table saw.

Just every few months. The 18v jobby does the job.
Also handy if I see pallets at the tip. Can chop them to go in the car.

I've got a jigsaw but can't be arsed laying out long cable.
Besides, circular saw is more manly

Went to the gym for my induction and set up on the eGYM. Fantastic system and really enjoyed using it. Downside to the day was I have a BioAge of 71! Also, my body composition analysis revealed I have a very high body water content of 63.4. I have been suffering from oedema (puffy feet and lower legs) lately, so I've looked into a few things and everything I'm suffering with likely stems from my blood pressure medication change to Amlodipine just before Xmas, so back to the docs next week. All in all, a kind of, really positive day.

Taipan wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:20 pm likely stems from my blood pressure medication change

Doc put me on Doxazosin, feet blew up like water balloons

The food bank people were at my local supermarché, so did my bit for those who think they are less fortunate than me ( nearly everyone I see coming out of the local restaurant de coeur have far nicer motors than I do!)

After over 20 years of sitting around unloved and unused, I've finally got round to fixing and servicing my old Logic Tempo turntable. From memory it never worked properly after the journey from Stafford to Sheffield in the early 2000s. It's unusual in turntables from that era (mid 1980s) as it has suspension - springs and dampers! OK, so the springs are weedy little things you can compress between finger and thumb and the damping is just a piece of foam, but...

The foam had dissolved into a slightly greasy pile of dust and the springs needed the grommets they fitted into replacing as they too were falling apart. I also did an oil change on it - the main aluminium sub-platter bearing runs in an oil bath and the oil had pretty much turned to treacle. So I cleaned out the old muck and replaced it with no more than 5ml of Motul 10w60. Oil changes are cheap on turntables.

Then I cleaned off the motor pulley face (removing the old drive belt) and the sub platter rim with IPA and fitted a new drive belt (amazingly still available on eBay for a few quid). Thankfully I hadn't binned the old belt, as the new one was too short, too tight and was trying to climb off the drive pulley. The old one was probably a bit loose, but still did the job. And best of all it sounded bloody great. I put Gimme Shelter on as a test and Merry Clayton's soaring vocals really hit the spot. Job jobbed.

Comparison of old and new belts. New belt inside the old one:




Old belt on top, new belt below:




And the newly serviced (but still horribly dusty) Logic Tempo turntable:

Planned on having a lazy day, but on taking the hound out for his mid-day wander, discovered the FocusOfDestiny had a flat tyre (second in three weeks, and third puncture in the household this year already ), so swapped it for the space saver, and did a few other pottering about jobs while I was at it.

Muz will take the tyre to be changed for me this week while the car sits at the train station and I wander around Glasgow/London

Off to a mates tonight for a catch up, if I get another puncture I will throw a proper strop.

Declared the loft rodent free after a week of catching nothing and no fresh sign being left behind, so mostly I've been lugging all the crap that had been taken out of the loft back up into the loft