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Err um, 1 double garage, 1/4 of which is workshop, another quarter is workshop storage. 1 double garage currently boat shed, to be loom and unmentionables shed. 1 10* 17 gardening shed, 1 12*10 shed pub, 1 6*8 shed storage, 1 6*4 tool shed gardening to be moved, Three double bin cupboard sheds used for storage.. And... 1 63 ft by a varying width between 12 ft and 16 ft wide. Unmentionables shed. Oh and a 20 ft by 30 ft mobile home.. Plus the house of course.. Mooring Awl, 4 hours sleep 3 hours sleep. Good.. Ben the sleepy collie didn't get up early, probably because when we went out it was light rain with heavy blobs. After breaky, to town to get our and Ben's pills, Ben's successfully got , ours... No. It seems the surgery / pharmacy is now 8:30 till 17:30 Monday to Friday only... Ben's are for a 1 week trial of new pills then another urine test to check the results.. Got home then went next door with Ben to see neighbour and printer.. printer no go , definitely black print cartridges not being recognised. It was bought for her by a friend via Amazon, I've left her to sort that out. Noticed while there her Internet is less than 1MB up or down !!! Ours next door is 25Mb +, then noticed her phone which still works is plugged into the phone line.. but looking it up it's not a Voip phone and we've been viop in this area since September... Most odd.. Then we took Ben to the Beach, he was extremely happy bouncing around, we weren't, darn chilly wind coming off the sea.. Got back to find the postie has been... I've been invited to join a joint NHS / company / university trial for Oral SemaGlutide, it's a 5 year trial, .. This is an oral version of the drug wealthy people/ actors have been taking to lose weight. It's real purpose it to control diabetes with a side effect of reducing heart attacks and strokes.. Looking it up it's an expensive drug, it appears to be a deltic*** to two deltics a month depending on strengths. I'm inclined to join the trial, I hope I get the real thing not a placebo, I'd soon know, it has a side effect of... Gas gas gas.... Time for something to eat... *** That's £10,000+ worth!!!.

Scoff very quickly, Ben loves marmite and toast, as we found out while I was working on the neighbours printer. Of that the new cartridge has arrived. Today being museum day i was busy muddling, we had a coach load of visitors plus a few others.. how many reached my room?... 8... First muddle, Sand down filled cracks in broken wall poster, give background a coat of white paint... Done ok. Just finished that when the man with the broken springs in switches arrive clutching bits.. turns out not to be broken springs but broken plastic. You remove the square cap which reveals a round light fitting, behind that a round plastic insert that on inside had two plastic wedges moulded on in the shape of a pyramid with the top cut off. In the broken switches the wedges had gone. The biggest dimension was about 3mm and they were about 1mm thick. 1mm plastic card i had on the table already🙂 cut two wedges, stuck them in using plastic magic, and as if by magic the reassembled switch worked!!! The bearer of switches was most impressed, more switches will be delivered for repair next Friday . Then worked on the mini ultrasonic radar case, only it was more than the case, because it didn't have a case someone had broken a wire, go to land rover get gas powered soldering iron, and some heat shrink, a quick repair and all was good again, another customer impressed, then back to cutting up left over perspex to make a case. All bits roughly cut out, next week start assembling and rounding corners. Then the 1/1000 model of RAF Neatishead 1983, only had time to fit a chimney to the power station. On the 1/87 model of an Austin K6 and radar fitted tube to underside of radar . Made a close clearance hole for tube through the K6, dry fitted tube onto motor , all looks ok.. Then to the chippy for tea before off to the MRC, decided to fit stands for fuel oil pipes, about twenty all done ok, then did the verticals that supports the overhead heating pipes the involved sticking 1mm diameter rod onto a 2 mm by 4mm cross bar. Amazingly that went well so I planted them on the accommodation site. They and the fuel oil stands will need painting black next time. Need to order 1mm wire for the fuel oil pipes, and .5mm wire for the heating pipes. Muggachoccy gone, good night Awl.

Tescos 4 miles, Sainsbury and lidl 10 miles , All the others 20 miles+, That's one way.. Mooring Awl, 5.5 hours broken sleep, 1 hour solid sleep. Temporary server problems again. Spent the awake time thinking of a display case I've been asked to make for the radar museum, https://www.radarmuseum.co.uk/ it's quite small, only 6 inches square but has to be a weird shape as it has an electronic ultrasonic radar simulation in it. So there has to be two openings for the controls and the sensors. They also want to be able to be screwed down so it doesn't walk. Time got ready and got some bits from the muddling room.

Val Donnican lived at Neatishead, that's had a second home, which he kept very quiet, I note that's not noted in his "official history" which suggests the family might still own it, he was often seen in the area. The place is roughly between the RAF radar site, and the RAF radio transmitter site which is a couple of miles further north. So I'll be going close to it in an hour..

Yep I've bypassed the cartridge instant ink on the HP4507 we got given when swmbo's brother went to live in Thailand . But it's too complicated for the neighbour should I not be around. I do hardly any printing , then every 3 months print the club accounts for the quarterly meeting . Which reminds me I have to print out several copies of this.. ( ignore contents to be safe from the Awl) to be displayed at the sailing club, the radar museum and anywhere else I can think of.

I seem to remember some of the footy teams wanting their cut of money from sales of the " Footballer" locomotives ( LNER B17/6).

Afternoon Awl, just. Message left for vet as she's on holiday today, two locums at work which explains why she's so busy. Next door called, she's been given a brand new printer a HP Envy 6020e... It took over 2 hours for me to set it up. A 149MB " HP Smart App" , then that allowed you to go get the driver for the printer, then registration for the printer then... Hp use " instant ink", they supply cartridges when the printer says it needs them, you buy a contract for 10 pages a month ( 1.49), or 50 pages a month (3.99), or 100 pages a month (5.99) etc.. anyway I've signed her up for the cheapest, you can change anytime . There are way around this but she is computer illiterate, I'd be round there every 5 minutes bypassing " instant ink" And then I inserted the cartridges and paper, .. black cartridge faulty so it said, close inspection showed a plastic " hair" glued to a pin on the cartridge , scraped that off but it seems to make no difference .. tried one of our Envy cartridges but it's the wrong model.. Went round and round the HP "smart app" trying to get to their contacts pages... All 404 not found, their phone lines didn't appeal as I've no wish to wait for hours with their online system being offline. In the end I've ordered via Amazon for a tomorrow delivery with her agreement as she's got something she wants to print out.. Her old printer? An Epson 442, that's 9 years old, very cheap in the first place, not used enough so the ink cartridges / heads used to dry out... SWMBO is out with Ben, I'm defrosting as next doors computer room is effectively unheated..

Mooring Awl, 3.5 hours sleep, 3 hours sleep, but at least each section was solid. Ben was an hour early, but we went out on time, as he went back to his pit when told he was early. He had a good snuffle around, if slightly more slowly today. Dry , but for heavy dew, rain forecast later, not a lot of wind. The vet didn't call yesterday, have to call them this morning, as we'll need more pills for Ben. I've noticed more stuff from the house of strong ladies is arriving with the postie... Or not. The current parcel ordered Tuesday, arrived at Norwich sorting office at 05:09, 18:44, and 23:00 yesterday morning according to their tracker, still not sent to the local post office now.. so much for post office tracked 24 hour delivery. I see the post office are still playing games over the horizon.. https://www.centralfifetimes.com/news/national/24275626.judge-surprised-attempt-withhold-documents-subpostmasters-appeal/ Plans for today.. Spinny thingy , chase vet. Not necessarily in that order.

Oh ground floor, I can imagine Ferrovie federali svizzere going round in circles in the garden and useful for the woofs.

I quite like this land rover.

I've often got the sat nav on for long distance driving ( pre set before starting) .. not for getting there on the normal route, but several times over the years, I've been diverted off into the wilds due to an accident, there are then no signs how to get back onto your route. The current sat nav, radio, phone answerer, dashcam, machine is touch screen, but who ever designed it had thought about it. Down one side are the permanent 6 touches for the modes. If you have the radio on there are 6 large touches along the bottom for preset radio stations. I find it no harder to use than the old push button radios. Tend not to change stations anyway, the radio has of course got AF on it so it automatically finds the best received signal for that station.

Gabapentin, is I think, what Ben's been on for the last 3 months, he's certainly been bouncing around and taking me on longer walks since he's been on it. If we do nothing else, the vet last night was talking of moving him onto steroids. Ben has just taken me on his full long walk, which he greatly enjoyed, many more "messages" than usual, for him to sniff than normal, I suspect a group of visiting doggies have been around his route

Mooring Awl, 1 hour, 3 hours ,2 hours sleep, not enough. Ben the I'd like out Collie, was early, he went back to bed for a while until I needed to get up. He enjoyed himself snuffling around, waggy tail.. at that time dull grey and drizzly, now bright blue welkin, but in both cases very windy. A north westerly of 31 mph. Not so waggy at the moment as they are playing top gun up above us... Spent a considerable time researching Ben's problems, no good solution. Vets phoning at 12:30 on what to do next.. Swmbo's opinion is as he's old, try him on some different pills the vet is offering, but not go for anything more upsetting to Ben.. Time to take Ben the snoring Collie on his long walk, as we need to be back for the call. Ah the fly boys have gone definitely to to walk.

I doubt it's the fastest landrover.. Some years back there was a tuned twin turbo 5 litre V8 petrol landrover in one of the LR magazines. On a runway test it reached 165 mph... But ... You needed a fuel tanker to go any distance....

Evening Awl, MRC went well , got rained on as I arrived back home.. Arrived home to the vet calling... Ben's results of the blood tests. Raised protein and calcium levels. Not good. Parathyroid disease seems unlikely as he has none of the symptoms... Which leaves kidney disease or cancer or ? The ? Is because the vet is struggling to find a definite cause to match Ben's results. So what do we do? Ben is 13+, a border Collie's life span is 12 to 15. It would be unfair on him for anything invasive. If it's cancer chemo at his age probably not worth the suffering he would get from the chemo..

According from a website I've just checked, all new cars in the UK from 7th July 2022 have to have had a black box fitted. Many cars have had them for some years. So gradually everyone will have a tell all in the car.

Bin drizzling all mooring, old decision not to work on the mower, instead been earning brownie points making new bits for the electric spinny thingy. I'm being huffed at by an impatient teenager.. a certain 13 year old Border Collie.. Time for his long walk...

Mooring Awl, 5 hours sleep, long awake, 1.5 hours sleep. Ben the early Collie ask for out an hour early, he got told so and went back to his pit.. we've now been out, he bounced around and enjoyed his wander. cold light south westerly at present, dull grey welkin. Forecast to become a strong northerly later. These repeated strong northerlies has raised the sea level in the southern north sea. Some areas of the broads are getting flooding.. Plans for today Not sure weather looks doubtful for lawnmower work. Time for breaky.

And don't expect it to look like it did when Barnes Wallace was bouncing golf balls... They've got a lot of very shiny newish looking buildings now. Had a personal tour of some parts of the place, when I brought down some references voltage sources and reference resistors to be measured. I've had the same problem with the bike cbt, me assuming the car plate was one much further way. Also when the audiology crew were discussing a cricket match outside the soundproof box , the box wasn't very soundproof...

Now I know why I spent most of my working life in buildings and darkened rooms with no windows, still do on a Friday... I suspect I've lost some high frequency hearing, I've increasing tinnitus, it's a high frequency whine. That may well be to do with the high frequency whine a lot of electronic equipment had when I worked on in those darkened rooms . Interesting that article by the professor, where we live was considerably further inland a thousand years ago let alone 10,000 years.. The village to the East of here lost 90% of the land ( approx 1800 acres) between the Doomsday book and QE1. its lost more since.

I believe There's one or two that got through the channel tunnel before that route was blocked. And some ancestors may have walked before the tide rose at least 100,000 years ago..

I had a small child " feel the textures" on my layout at a club open day .. layout still under construction.. So it didn't have the perspex cover on the front of the sea... The seaweed was made of wire, sharp points. She didn't do that again.. At the Radar museum the first thing i do in a morning is go see the 1/1000 radar station dioramas I've built. About once a month someone will have prodded and broken a radar.. so far no one's stolen one... Second thing is go look at the learn to write backwards board.. and remove any rude words or symbols.. that happens less often. The biggest damage I've seen at a show was self inflicted.. The train arrived in the fiddle yard... An open frame cassette based yard. Loco and complete train hit the floor which has tiled. Cassette not in place!!

You could but with their weight, both postage or coming to get them would be more expensive than buying..

£12.99 from a big orange shed, no doubt cheaper elsewhere. Quicker and quieter than a chainsaw or angle grinder

Decided to fit a "dual cooker appliance outlet" to the wall, that's one in and 2 out. It can take 16mm^2 cable . Then it will be separate cables to hob and oven. That will make a much neater job of it. It will be below the hob, but above the oven and unseen once fitted. Bits should arrive tomorrow, so that will be fitted Wednesday. It will make disconnecting and moving units easier later, there is a plan to move the oven up to hob level. That will make getting hot oven trays out a lot safer and easier.