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Noggin wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 8:59 am
*It really didn't look like a mouse or a vole. About the size of a vole, it was very small, but had an extremely pointy nose!!!

Prolly a shrew.

636mick wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 9:20 am

Pirahna wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 8:01 am Hand surgery today to correct Dupuytren's contracture.

Cheers, you have just confirmed what I thought I may have in my right hand. I’ve got all the symptoms, funny little ridge to one end of my palm, finger starting to bend. Another visit to the docs I suppose. The joys of getting old.
Mick

It's fairly common. I know a few people with it but mine seems to be the worst. Just for shits and giggles I've also got the start of it in my feet. It's called someone else when it's feet and starts as small bumps on the arch. Hopefully that's how it will remain.

I hadn’t realised it was common, no one else I know has ever seen anything like it! Every day’s a school day, it doesn’t stop me doing anything so not too concerned at the moment.
Google is telling me lots about it though!
Mick

The other day I fitted some nice, good quality LED indicator/running lights to my FJR1300. And they flashed to quickly, as expected. I ordered new LED bulbs for the rear indicators along with a FJR specific LED flasher relay. It came today, and I spent an hour just looking around the bike for the standard flasher relay unit with no luck. I then googled it and found an excellent write up on an FJR forum explaining how to fit a new relay. Undo this bolt and that bolt, remove the screen, the screen motor, the headlight, the complete fairing... So, today I am refitting the standard rear bulbs along with the factory indicaors. Two or three hours saved I would imagine. And then I can do something else.

Count Steer wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 9:25 am

Noggin wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 8:59 am
*It really didn't look like a mouse or a vole. About the size of a vole, it was very small, but had an extremely pointy nose!!!

Prolly a shrew.

Apparently it is indeed une mégère - a shrew!!

I don't think I've ever actually seen one before, it was kinda cute

Noggin wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 5:06 pm

Count Steer wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 9:25 am

Noggin wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 8:59 am
*It really didn't look like a mouse or a vole. About the size of a vole, it was very small, but had an extremely pointy nose!!!

Prolly a shrew.

Apparently it is indeed une mégère - a shrew!!

I don't think I've ever actually seen one before, it was kinda cute

They are.

I found a dead one on the drive It was tiny. Couldn't decide if it was just a young one or a pigmy shrew.

I had to go over to the Peak District for an errand & went in the car despite the excellent weather... It was ace fun!

First time I've been on those roads in a car, on my own, for years

Spent the day clearing the rafters in the garage,so I can insulate before next Winter.

I only picked the warmest day of the year so far.

I also managed to overbalance and fall from the top of the step ladders. Nothing busted,but a sore arse is certain for tomorrow.

69.75 and can still bounce.


a bit.

Skub wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 8:20 pm Spent the day clearing the rafters in the garage,so I can insulate before next Winter.

I only picked the warmest day of the year so far.

I also managed to overbalance and fall from the top of the step ladders. Nothing busted,but a sore arse is certain for tomorrow.

69.75 and can still bounce.


a bit.

I managed to trip over a BT hatch in the pavement on Saturday. Proper face-plant job. Thought I'd spoiled my dashing good looks. Got off lightly with a slightly bruised knee, a sprained thumb and a sore top lip.

I was stone cold sober but it was right outside a pub.

People were very nice about it - thought they were going to fortify me with a large brandy at one point.

I got out of bed, switched my laptop on and ordered some new LED ceiling mount 300x300mm lights for my "spray painting" shed. Two for the ceiling and two for the side walls, one each side. I am fed up with poor lighting which I keep on telling people I am going to change. So, now I am going to change it! I am now going out to buy some bright white masonary paint to refresh the shed walls. BRIGHT, BRIGHT, BRIGHT... and maybe some sunglasses. And some new wiring cable, light switches and plug sockets. There are only two or three wires, how hard can it be to rewire a shed.

Dixiethedog wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 9:08 am how hard can it be to rewire a shed.

Save money on fancy testers - to test for live, simply lick the end of your finger and stick it on the exposed wire. Anything else is just fancy showing off.

Got up at 3am, looked for my poorly cat, could not find him. Looked in the garden, could not find him. Found the foxy woxy bastard creatures had dug up my wife's newly planted vegetable patch. She is not happy. Found the cat at 7am, sleeping in one of his never used before cat houses we bought a year ago. His kidneys have failed, so he does not have long in this world, he is very very frail, wobbly and light as a feather, when he used to weigh in at 7kgs of muscle and fur, he was a big bruiser. Still beautiful, but we are getting ready to say goodbye.

The EVRI delivery has been returned to the depot after three days of not being delivered. So now, we wait and see what happens next. Wife and son taking woof out for a walk in the local park, I'm staying home to wait expectantly for Evri.

Sorted out some admin work. Going to have a day off now.

Dixiethedog wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 9:08 am There are only two or three wires, how hard can it be to rewire a shed.

I'd be inclined to stick the incoming 3 wires into a small consumer unit and start from there using surface mounted plastic conduit.

(Disclaimer: I'm not an electrician and do not own any jet-skis. )

Museo Histórico Militar

Spanish military museum, it's free, it's massive and there's a shit load of guns, mortars and cannons, etc... 70+percent of the stuff is labeled up in English too.

What's not to like!

Oh yeah, it wasn't today but it was recent. I met my most glamorous relative for the first time since I was 17 (she's now 92!). She (and my uncle - RIP) were world championship level ballroom dancers who moved, first to Western Oz, then the USA. She came back here some time after he died - sold the dance school (and the ballroom he built! He wasn't averse to a bit of hard graft having been a coal miner and then working in the Kalgoorlie gold mines while they got the business side going).

What a star! She was demonstrating the moves that define the rumba (and explaining that the modern lot are all too stiff legged ). She's tiny and so my uncle used to do lots of lifts but they had to be a bit special because otherwise the height difference counted against them).

Back in the day they were regulars on TV and had paparazzi snooping on them on holiday in Spain and reporting that they were getting local, authentic coaching on some Spanish dance moves (they weren't, they were just having a holiday ).

Really enjoyed our visit.

Had coffee with an ex-colleague who has just turned 70. She's long retired and was telling me she's gone deaf in one ear, broke a leg falling down a ditch in Sri Lanka, but other than that has been travelling around South America, Aus and NZ, Singapore and several countries in SE Asia and is still gymming a few times a week.

She's bloody good for 70.

I went for little walk outside without crutches.

I also applied to a bunch of camping companies

Count Steer wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 10:49 am

Dixiethedog wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 9:08 am There are only two or three wires, how hard can it be to rewire a shed.

I'd be inclined to stick the incoming 3 wires into a small consumer unit and start from there using surface mounted plastic conduit.

(Disclaimer: I'm not an electrician and do not own any jet-skis. )

LOL, the wiring is through a consumer unit. I had one installed and hard wired from the fuse box in the house when I needed a high amp feed for welders etc. And this put in by a mate who is fully qualified. But, I think that I will be be OK with replacing the existing LED lights.

But I do understand the reasons for playing safe when it comes to dangerous things like leccy.

Playing at tourists again today. Staying in Dartmouth, today visited Brixham with the most convoluted route to a major car park I have ever seen.
Then to a NT house at Colaton Fishacre, stunningv1920s Art Deco house that is superb.

Yesterday I decided to try some cocktails I’d head of but never tried before, mainly because I’m not really a spirit drinker. But I managed to spend more on whisky sours in a night than I spend on petrol in 3 weeks on the Xadv!

Today I had sausages mash and sauerkraut. Turns out I love sauerkraut!

Right I’m off to drink a few weeks worth of petrol money on Old Fashioned, that’s the cocktail not flared trousers and heavily patterned, big collared shirts!