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Tony_S

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  1. If you know you know, bit like specialised cookery item descriptions.
  2. That was what concerned me, but I can see a bungee hook wouid be useful.
  3. Many years ago when Matthew was about 3 years old, my mother came to stay for a few weeks. She brought along her generally well behaved dog. This dog slept at the foot of Mum’s bed. One night, the dog must have been desperate and left a deposit (solid) on the landing carpet. My reaction was something like, oh dear, poor doggie, don’t worry, I will deal with it. My mother was most upset and insisted her dog could not have done it. She insisted her grandchild was probably responsible. I found myself saying, “Mum, it looks like dog poo, smells like dog poo, it was your dog, I don’t care, how can you even think of blaming Matthew.” Tony
  4. It must be a rural Norfolk thing. Our friends used to own the village shop. When they first moved there groups of people used to sit on the wall outside watching them stack shelves after they shut for the day. It is a very quiet village. I am sure Q’s Ben wouid approve of the lack of noise.
  5. I am definitely in the “let roofers repair roofs” group nowadays. At our old house I did go up on the roof and point chimneys but it wasn’t that steep. People doing stuff on this house roof have used scaffolding, except for the time when we had a cherry picker arranged at “mates rates” by a nice neighbour. I have a friend who lives in Norfolk. As odd bits of land come up for sale adjoining his house he has bought them. Each plot seems to come with a few rickety sheds. Some don’t need much of a push to,dispose of but one plot has brick stables. My friend who is older than I am, is going retile its roof himself this year and restore the stables. I am fairly certain he won’t be getting a horse though. I finished sorting out the garage enough for an electrician to have enough space to install an extra battery for our solar power system. I didn’t bother vacuuming, I just used a leaf blower. Looks quite tidy now.
  6. When I was at secondary school everything in science was in cgs units and so dyne and erg were used. Then as we started O level courses it was all metre, kilogramme, second , newtons and joules. Engineering and woodwork were staunchly Imperial. Tony
  7. Isn’t that a euphemism for assassination?
  8. Perhaps the DJ had seen the film recently too?
  9. Some of the interior of my garage is rather clearer now. We will be having an extra battery module for our solar power system installed on Tuesday. So I cleared the space near the existing batteries and the route to the space. Aditi had calculated we did need an extra battery (she does all the energy allocation and management) but our installer stopped working in Essex. However they phoned us, told us storage batteries were cheaper to us now they were VAT zero rated, they were working in Essex again, and they reckoned we would benefit from an additional one. Easiest sales pitch ever, we just said “when can you fit it?” I did a bit of model railway tidying too. Then I reinstalled all our bird feeders and filled them with new food. I didn’t reload the fat ball dispensers which will disappoint the local starling population . Aditi did buy some food marketed for robins as a pair are building a nest in the robin box we put up a couple,of years ago. A pair were building a nest on our neighbours fence but they have been doing a lot of gardening, pruning trees and shrubs. Perhaps the robins have moved from next door but they aren’t usually bothered by humans. Hopefully two,pairs then. Tony
  10. It wouid seem that eventually bats will be the dominant species having killed off everything else.
  11. Making garden building kits that each weekly part will go through a letterbox?
  12. I suppose it gave people on a long sea journey to Australia something to look forward to.
  13. For those of you missing beach life here is a photo of our local beach Not as crowded as in the Victorian era when Londoners flocked to Canvey to enjoy the clean air and enjoy a ride on the monorail.
  14. I thought it was a nice parent and child photo.
  15. But you don’t live too far from Southend, it isn’t very different.
  16. Is that when you leave for the airport?
  17. Belated happy birthday. For my birthdays now I just seem to find I am eligible for another vaccine or scan.
  18. I had a friend and colleague who was seriously considering becoming a nun. She drove a Lada. Whenever she departed from her family home in Burton her Mum used to walk round the “godless communist car” sprinkling it with holy water to protect her on the journey south.
  19. Happy Birthday Andy. According to YouTube birthdays in Poland seem to be celebrated with an enormous cake and people chanting “Sto Lat, Sto Lat”. Is that true?
  20. Remove the radiator and put the engine in the boot space?
  21. Are they similar to French waffles or Gaufre? We have a waffle maker but I think it only makes Belgian waffles…
  22. I hope I would have got used to it, but we only had it for a few days. Trying to use it in a left hand drive car while pressing the buttons on a hotel security gate system on slope wasn’t the best learning environment.
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