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Plenty of woolley shops in Norfolk.. somehow I've been in many. Though swmbo often spins any passing sheep's or dog's.... "The works " has, on the odd occasion, had wool.. as have B&M stores, and even poundland.. Buying almost anything from hobbycraft is expensive... We've now got all of two bluebells in the garden. Bits for spinny thing, and the USB charge hub have just arrived.

When I built the model Railway shed, I built a a foundation of breeze blocks all the way round, then a damp proof course, then a ring of heavy timbers onto which i built the shed. The outer walls of the shed overhang but don't touch the top of the breeze blocks so there is no chance of rain collecting on the top of the breeze blocks or DPC.

I looked at joining various trade bodies, one I selected, but then they increased the level of qualification needed. Then I realised , those in the society were pulling up the ladder behind themselves. The oldest members cannot have had the relevant even earlier electronics qualifications because they didn't exist when the society started. Looking at the history, the qualifications required increased a couple of times. Afternoon Awl, Ben's sample delivered, no phone call with the results yet. Then to the MRC, toilet room emptied, walls washed, pipe work cleaned , floor washed, before anyone else arrived. Discussions on cupboards sinks etc Measurements taken, The top of the cupboard has been made. Three into one toilet room don't go, so I painted a wall in the clubroom I'd previously filled. Painted? Well just the repairs and old pencil marks, there used to be a bench there. . Next time I'll roller the lot. Then to an orange shed, entertainment on the way.. someone doing a 450 degree turn at a roundabout. Deltic and a half spent, sand, timber, and a new hob. SWMBO doesn't know about the hob, I'll fit it Tuesday when she's out weaving and see if she notices. The three blocks for BM arrived yesterday, the errant one has got an apology, should arrive tomorrow. Bits for SWMBO's electric spinny thingy should arrive today along with the USB hub. Eta 1 hour. Ocular covering checking required...

Strangely walking to the MRC AGM a couple of nights ago, I saw someone's front porch was being held up by pied de poteaux, this is as built comparatively recently. However I don't think it is much good, the cup holding the foot of the beam above , had signs of water and soggyness into the wood.. Like this but with an adjustable threaded support rod. Nice water trap..

Worst interview.. with the police comms section. Radios repair, setting up remote incident transmitters etc. 3/4 of the interview was race relations obviously by someone in HR who'd never worked with other nationalities... Thing was, it wasn't a customer facing job, and the percentage of other races in Norfolk is tiny, this ain't Leicester or London. I have turned down other posts, twice because of pathetic pay offers, twice because when I got there, I thought... What a dump.... Also turned down interviews a couple of times when offered, because they were honest and said the pay band before the interview... Mooring Awl, and to the thrower of the Awl. 4 hours plus 2 hours plus 2 hours sleep.. Ben the surprised Collie had both swmbo and myself on moving patrol, it was capture a sample day. I'll be delivering that later. Blue welkin, light breeze, hint of frost at the most likely area. Weather wombles says high winds return tonight and through Saturday.. I was going on to a big orange shed , but instead I'm off to the MRC. We are re engineering the loo room, it's about 8 ft square so there's plenty of room.. we are going to add a dirty sink, next to the hand washing sink, for brush washing / liquids disposal and a rack for sheet materials.. Today is only clear the junk and measure up day, so I still might get to go to the orange shed later. Time to finish this muggacoffee Oh idiot TV environmentalist Steve something, this morning was saying the levels of pollution in some samples were so high the lab technicians wouldn't open the sample bottle test it.... Yeah? So how did they know they were so high?,

Difficult when they closed the local school, there are many more school closures in the pipeline as the birth rate is dropping. The school across the road from me has closed*** the primary school in the next village has closed ( about 25 years ago. ) the nearest is 4 miles away.. (*** Ok that was in 1894)

It is a " smart" charger.. capable of 3 A, .. the advert specifically mentions fast charging Samsung and Apple devices.

The card reader has arrived, in a box.... With all the packing one end and the card readers own box down the other. It looks intact though. The reader is remarkably heavy for its size.. It will of course need charging, so later I'll go plug it in. Only comes with a USB cable, good job there's a charger. upstairs. Of the 4 items identical ordered yesterday, one has missed the boat and won't be delivered till tomorrow, that doesn't matter they're not needed till Sunday. Just realized I'm building up a collection of items that need USB charging, often at the same time, so along with the missing bit for BM a 6 port charging station will arrive tomorrow. BMs tiktok is now batteried and upstairs facing out of a window awaiting a time signal. Then Coleman the coal man rang up , offering 25% discount on eco coal ( you can't buy anything else these days). Trying a different type this time as the last lot got hot and rapidly burnt out, or didn't get hot and went out.. the new one promises an 18 hour burn time. Bin an expensive day all this ordering, Needed some wooden circles to make the endplates of bobbins, I could turn them myself but it's a right pain, especially on thin ply, so I've ordered them.. strangely Amazon delivery.. 31 May to 12 June , er no, eBay, 3 days... Most odd..

Had an interview with a recruiting company where the woman doing the interview had a top that didn't cover much.. That definitely wasn't fair, I'd just come back from Saudi..

Sir Walter didn't need to. Hemp has been grown commercially in the UK for centuries, still is, but that variety has considerably less wacky backy about it. It is still the same plant though.. There are many places called Hempstead in England , somes name means "home farm", but others meant "hemp farm". Those hoping for legalisation of wacky backy now must realise that ain't going to happen, as I suspect it has the same effect on the lungs as smoking tobacco. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2516340/. Mooring Awl, 5 hours sleep, waterworks alarm call, due to pint of beer at the MRC AGM, held at a pub, short awake, 2 hours sleep, good. Ben the currently snoring Collie, only got up when I did, we had a good but chilly patrol. Blue welkin with a few fluffy white things up there, a stiff north easterly earlier but that's moved round to the north west. A dash out to Tes and Coes was required as I forgot to divert on the way back from the MRC last night.. lack of milk is a disaster for the tea by the gallon SWMBO. I've just been out working on the electric spinny thingy but have realized I need more parts, a huge £5.47 for 5 more parts, they are now ordered. There is a need for other things but they won't be expensive, just need the right combination of words to find them. I'm just going to go out to the shed again to put a second coat of paint on the mast wedge. Then upstairs for MRC accounts. Time to venture outside again.

One wonders if the ban on smoking might eventually cause a situation like the prohibition era in America... A new radio controlled tiktok for BM arrived, I'll start making the mounting for that tomorrow, it needs to be visible from my seat, in a place that won't get demolished by other equipment or me when I do move around the boat. Just thought of the perfect position!! Now to try to work out a mounting for it there.. Evening Awl. MRC AGM went well, unfortunately I got reelected as treasurer, just after I noticed a couple of errors in this years printout, the errors don't affect the overall results. I'll correct them tomorrow, before filing that for posterity and then creating the 2024-2025 spreadsheet from this years. Ordered 4x 20mm block from the house of strong ladies. ... The order has been split into 4, all are individually coming from different places, two of which are abroad somewhere.. The blocks are listed as £13.20 on the manufacturers website, around a tenner from most places plus delivery, and all 4 cost a total of £27 delivered via a big river. Muggachoccy gone, goodnight Awl .

Oi I was going to say that. The orange one also said in 2019 of the American war of Independence 1775-1783 “Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory,” Afternoon Awl, BMs mast wedge, though not wedge shaped, think of it as an upside down J with squares inside the U bit of the J, has been constructed sanded and even painted. Luckily I was not working on that when swmbo arrived to see progress on the electrical spinning thing. I'd shoved it to one side some time ago in disgust, when on top of other problems, the electrics failed. That turned out to just a wire not connecting because I'd pulled it accidentally when trying to sort out the main problem. The main problem being the brake on the bobbin not doing it's stuff. So before starting work on it I reviewed other electric spinners. Iirc, Last time there were just 3 E-spinners showing up on researching the subject. This time there were 7. The E-spinner I'd chosen to copy was the only one using it's style of bobbin brake, all the others used a common other system. So I've started rebuilding the relevant area of the E-Spinner, now awaiting epoxy metal to set.. On checking in with swmbo before she set off to the weavers, I also checked the weather radar, a window opened in the rain and Ben took me for a walk, he did cut it short and we got back just before another round of soggyness. The wind has slightly changed direction, instead of a glancing blow on the rear windows, it's now bouncing off the front, so there's a little more East in it.. Hmm of food a company is opening in Norwich selling Yorkshire pudding wraps!! I e . The small making's of a roast dinner wrapped in Yorkie puds. Time for an eyelid inspection.

Mooring Awl, A terrible night's sleep, caused a lot by the noise of the howling winds, this mornings weather wombles say close to 50 mph for most of the day. Ben the impatient Collie, wanted out early, going back to bed during showers. We went out at 07:00 ish between further downpours, everything is dripping Wet out there. All those irate cricketers couldn't get on the jury... Had a few thoughts on BM during the night, some parts got ordered at stupid o'clock. There is another minor problem I'm thinking about though. Of that, I'll spend a little time in the workshop today, I need to make the wedge for the mast, it's actually a quite complicated shape. Then I need to restart work on Swmbo's electric spinning wheel, though today will be an inspection and cogitate. Much searching of ideas boating wise.. no solution yet Time to finish this muggacoffee.

The eco colour round here is brown mud, I won't by grey or white, it's a good way of not being seen in fog. I think Ford got in early with Utes.

Got to the vets, brilliant sunshine, left the vets, horizontal rain and definitely not nice. Ben's original problem fine, Ben's liquid test, results odd, but not conclusive, second liquid chase Thursday. We were going down the beach after Ben's visit, but not in that weather, it's stopped soggying at the moment but round 2 is imminent according to the RDF. Got interrupted didn't send the above, Ben took me for his long walk, but I refused the ultimate long walk in this weather, I was definitely only going where hedges provided some shelter from the wind. Came back printed 20 copies of the annual accounts for the MRC.. Then ordered the card reader machine, Numerous problems, one they don't know the existence of clubs, We are a limited company, but only the secretary and chairman are on HMGs companies lists, not the Treasurer.. Eventually I found a way round that but I think from the words they'll send me a form to sign to confirm I am a legal representative of the " company". Just waiting for another outburst of soggyness to clear, before delivering the accounts print out to the landrover so I don't forget them..