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Pirahna wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 3:44 pm

Taipan wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 2:41 pm

Yorick wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 1:47 pm

It's the big day here. The 3 Kings Day when the kids get their prezzies.

I know its all manana manana manana over there, but 12 days late with Xmas prezzies! Poor kids!

The locals I know split the presents, half on Christmas and half today.

Ahhh I get it. You get some at full price and then some in January sales! El Tight Gitos! Mrs Taipan would love it there!

Taipan wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 5:32 pm

Pirahna wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 3:44 pm

Taipan wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 2:41 pm
I know its all manana manana manana over there, but 12 days late with Xmas prezzies! Poor kids!

The locals I know split the presents, half on Christmas and half today.

Ahhh I get it. You get some at full price and then some in January sales! El Tight Gitos! Mrs Taipan would love it there!

January sales start tomorrow.

Pirahna wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 5:49 pm January sales start tomorrow.

They started here in November.

Taipan wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 5:32 pm

Pirahna wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 3:44 pm

Taipan wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 2:41 pm
I know its all manana manana manana over there, but 12 days late with Xmas prezzies! Poor kids!

The locals I know split the presents, half on Christmas and half today.

Ahhh I get it. You get some at full price and then some in January sales! El Tight Gitos! Mrs Taipan would love it there!

Over here lots of kids at school with English parents were getting prezzies on Xmas day so locals gave their kids some as well

Had tea at the place on the left

Count Steer wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 8:06 am Sounds like something, as you say, clogging the valley. Water backs up and gets under if the valley is tiled, usually made worse if the wind is driving in from a particular direction. Basically the water gets pushed uphill on a system designed for it to go downhill. Once inside it runs downhill again and appears at the house wall/window/ceiling edge.

(Been there, got the T-shirt as a result of moss on part of a roof under a tree canopy).

Mucho grassy ass. I wish I could actually get up on the roof, but this buggered wrist is making things difficult. Next rain isn't due until Saturday night & it was dry today. Gonna do what I can tomorrow.
Today's run to Urgent Care pretty much blew out the entire day. FFS

Today: lost/misplaced my frigging ticket for tonight's $940Million lottery draw.

However, not only didn't I win, but neither did any other bugger. $1.1Billion for Tuesday's draw. I think I could scrape by, even though it's a only measly $350M if you take the cash & then pay Fed taxes on it.

ZRX61 wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 6:49 am

Count Steer wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 8:06 am Sounds like something, as you say, clogging the valley. Water backs up and gets under if the valley is tiled, usually made worse if the wind is driving in from a particular direction. Basically the water gets pushed uphill on a system designed for it to go downhill. Once inside it runs downhill again and appears at the house wall/window/ceiling edge.

(Been there, got the T-shirt as a result of moss on part of a roof under a tree canopy).

Mucho grassy ass. I wish I could actually get up on the roof, but this buggered wrist is making things difficult. Next rain isn't due until Saturday night & it was dry today. Gonna do what I can tomorrow.

Can you get a view of the valley/gulley from anywhere ie with binoculars? Know anyone with a drone?

Just been given a crate of grapes. It's the leftovers from the harvest and too small to sell to the supermarkets, homemade raisins I think. They're very tasty.

Brought my campervan home! Its currently on a SORN, but I'm a law breaker and stuck to fingers up to the man!

Aaaaah....I'm tellin'.

Just hope you didn't pass any ANPR cameras.
I confess to testing uninsured bikes loacally (though there are very few rural ANPR@S in rural Wales). Might have to be a bit more circumspect now we are in the metrolopis of N. Somerset.

Count Steer wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 7:37 am Can you get a view of the valley/gulley from anywhere ie with binoculars? Know anyone with a drone?

Had a poke about up there this morning. There was a big pile of dirt/debris in that triangle shaped gap to the right of the flashing. Dug that out, sprayed water on the roof, got good flow into the gutter. Cleaned out more dirt further up.







Can't get on the roof with this buggered wrist. Could if I had a 12ft step ladder

ZRX61 wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 9:37 pm

Can't get on the roof with this buggered wrist. Could if I had a 12ft step ladder

Put brick under each corner of your steps. Remember and record it though

Funny day.

Pal A was cycling past so popped in for a cuppa. He has Husky TE300i

Pal B pops round on his mega fancy leccy MTB cycle to ask to test my new GasGas. He sold his Husky TE300i to Pal A 6 months ago.

Pal A drooling over Pal B's cycle.

Pal B takes GasGas round the volcano.
Pal B takes leccy bike up the volcano.

Both come back giggling.

Pal A is buying a leccy bike.
Pal B is buying a GasGas.

I'm buying nowt

Count Steer wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 8:06 am Sounds like something, as you say, clogging the valley. Water backs up and gets under if the valley is tiled, usually made worse if the wind is driving in from a particular direction. Basically the water gets pushed uphill on a system designed for it to go downhill. Once inside it runs downhill again and appears at the house wall/window/ceiling edge.

(Been there, got the T-shirt as a result of moss on part of a roof under a tree canopy).

Some box gutters are stepped every few metres of their length to avoid that.
Also it's worth noting potential snow height and situations where ice dams might form.

My Daughter came for dinner and brought her two French bulldogs with her. Our Pup Frenchie decided they were fair game and with mhy JRT joining in,we had four dogs tear arsing round the place. Funny as fook to see the little pup chasing the 3 bigger and older dogs! They've gone home now and its very very quiet in here now!

For all that I'm supposed to be an office wallah now, I do still end up driving on a Sunday (sometimes more often ) - today I started at 3:45. Got to GVA at 6:20 then had to wait just over 6 hours before heading back to resort. Took pity on an injured person so drove them to another bit of resort (boss had told me earlier after an enquiry near GVA that something like that I could keep as 'tips') only for her not to have any cash, so I have to log a taxi trip on the system tomorrow for 10€ cos she paid by cheque

Been a while since I've done an almost 12 hour day, so I'm crashed out tonight! LOL

Tomorrow I'm going for fish and chips with a french friend - he's not had english fish and chips and doesn't understand malt vinegar or why we would put it on chips

Tuesday one of my favourite bands is playing in my bit of resort.
Wednesday there might be a first tracks morning to do
Friday a mate arrives in resort for a week


Best thing of all?

IT'S ONLY BLOODY SNOWING - AT LAST

Lots of things, but the most annoying was being blown over as I was putting a pallet on top of a one tonne bag of builders waste to stop it blowing away. It's somewhat undignified to land on a pile of scrap wood between two other stacks of pallets with the one you were carrying on top of you.

I think this is why my ribs hurt when I cough, breathing is OK, which is nice.

The drive to work shitbox Ibiza was left on the road over Xmas, didn't use it until Monday morning to go to work. The passenger footwell had 4 inches of water in it. FFS. I went to work but bummed off at lunch to wfh and hit it with the wet and dry hoover and got gallons out. Presumably the sunroof drain is blocked and it runs down the A pillar and into the footwell. Left the dehumidifier in it all week and it did fuck all really. Put a fan heater in too with a WiFi camera to keep an eye on it, which didn't help really at all. The most experienced technician at work said you got to take the carpet out and dry everything or any wiring will go manky and Christmas tree dashboards are in your future. FFS the car is only worth 600 quid.





Borrowed my brother's unit, ripped the seats and carpet and sound deadening out, took the lot back and stuck it all in the spare room with a rad on and the dehumidifier on flat out and got loads of water out. Stuck it all back in today.
Blew the drains out in the sunroof and they make a nice puddle on the floor, not the footwell. Found 6.60 In change though. Took the leaf screen out as I though the drain was under it but it wasn't. Was full of leaves though so hoovered all that out. Doesn't smell of wet any more though. All that effort for literally the shittest car in the carpark. Well a lad has a MK3 golf which he has to climb in from the passenger side, so equal shittest.

Moral; Check your sunroof drains occasionally, just poor some water in the front gutter and make sure it piddles on the floor

My Volvo sunroof leaked. Never seen the point in having it when i had air con so i just ran Gaffa tape round the thing. Solved.

I temp fixed it with gorilla tape. Jobs a winner until I pulled it off to look at the drain and it took the clearcoat with it. Awesome