What are you all up to
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Enjoy Stamford Helen, glad you got the mover working, we needed three of us to turn our van around at home, the mover spared our backs.
Have a nice time Millie and Goldie enjoy the sunshine. The winter wheat around here is looking a bit forlorn.
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I think I get enough work from Pizza Hut! I'm trying to spend the rest of my time making the most of what little is left of the longer hours of daylight before Autumn and Winter set in. I got a taste of the horrors to come last night at work. I did the last delivery in Shoreham in the dark and raining heavily too, a cash on delivery order to an address with no number, just a name. I had to circle the area twice to find the address and then I had to count the change in the dark.
They seem to be constantly having to recruit new drivers which suggests that maybe other drivers leave after a while especially having to do this in winter conditions.
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I wasn't amused last night, especially as it was nearly ten p.m. and time for me to finish and get home but instead being delayed in that way!
I get paid 80 pence per drop and that applies to Shoreham deliveries too even though many of them are four to five miles away, so a round trip of 8 to 10 miles.
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My husband is like you KjellNN in that he does everything himself (it must be an 'engineer' thing
). As he has got older, there are certain things he cannot do which he used to do when he was younger, such as climbing up ladders to clean out the guttering. Our house is quite high and we live on the seafront so lots of wind here too! However, last week he got his come-uppance when 'supervising' the chap we paid do do the work, somehow, he was splattered in bleach ruining a brand new pair of chinos and a new polo top!! 0 -
I still go up ladders, and you have just reminded me that we have a couple of gutters I need to check out.
We also have a scaffold tower which I use on the really high up bits, mainly to keep OH happy, but there are some bits where there is not enough ground area for the tower.
In a former life I used to climb the flare towers on rigs in the North Sea, so I do have a good head for heights.
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A warning to any Pigeon Fanciers out there.
Please advice your pigeons not to stop off for a rest at our farm. They are easy pickings for a lazy ginger cat! When he's not sleeping of course.
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I bought a Petzl one a couple of years ago. Although not cheap, that only weighs 89 grams inc the batteries. It is a multi mode one, does everything from an emergency stobe in red which will run for 200 hours, to a reasonable beam ( for counting money)😇 that will last 60 hours, to a high intensity beam, that sears your eyeballs that will only last 30 minutes. I find it very useful, great for sorting things round the van in the winter and also for after dark walking. Plus very light weight for putting in the pack on hill walks.
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The rain arrived just after I posted this morning, I spoke too soon.
Uninteresting afternoon at work. Have been putting some stuff in the caravan tonight and turned the fridge on, ready for the off tomorrow.
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We had a lovely day out with friends today to Doddington Hall near Lincoln. It poured with rain all the way there but luckily dried up just before we got there. It is a beautiful Elizabethan house still in the same family who built it but with many changes of family name as it often went down through the female line. The gardens are lovely as well.
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On our list to visit Millie. We keep missing opening dates. Lincoln is a regular pilgrimage visit for me, to see Katherine Swynford's tomb. Such an interesting person, and what a love story!
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Oh dear, yet another of ABM's quirky quips that missed the mark
Should I have posted that :--
I always find these LEAD torches are very heavy
With this failure in mind, I'm off to see some Traction engines so See you all, figuratively speaking, in September.
Please have fun, enjoy yourselves & play nicely
Brian
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Blowing a wet Northerly here this morning in East Kent.A bit of 'Lidl ing' on thec way to B/yd ,then ? ? ? who knows what ?
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Fairly bright again this morning in sunny Manchester
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I have the book 'Katherine' by Anya Seaton which I read and re-read when I was a teenager TDA. As you say what a love story. When I did an A level Medieval History course about 20 years ago the tutor had to arrange a trip to Lincoln for us as so many of us wanted to visit her tomb.
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After all that rain yesterday afternoon, the sun has come out and there's plenty of blue sky to see whilst having breakfast this morning.
My shift today is from 16:30 to 20:30 all in daylight, so no need for a head torch today at least! Also fairer weather is forecast, meaning better visibility in all ways! It will be sunset as I drive home today.
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Funny contrast this morning. Sun shining in through the windows and warm radiators!!! Our heating is set at 20.5 degrees C, we leave it on all year but up the temp in the winter, and because the house is reasonably insulated the temp in the hall where the stat is rarely goes below 22 C in the summer.
David
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On a different matter. I noticed I had some Tesco Club Card vouchers which were about to go out of date at the end of the month. One of the options is to use them to buy a railcard. As we sometimes use trains when we are away in the motorhome I thought it might come in useful. £15 of vouchers buys a Two Together Railcard. So I have ordered that today and we will see how much use we get out of it.
David
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