1 hour ago, Lenny said:

Putting up Christmas Decorations 🎅

Please tell me you are being sarcastic!?

"Christmas" should be a banned word until at least mid November.

Although it was a tad cold (4°C wind chill made it feel sub-zero) when we started, all the cars were frosted and we could see out breath, Brandy's extended morning stroll became very spring like once the sun rose, it doesn't feel sub-zero now: more like a fine May morning

The weather forecast was only right for the pre-dawn part of the morning, it was supposed be 5°C with a wind chill factor making it 0°C: it's 15°C on the garage wall with the north wind bringing it down to around 12°C

15 hours ago, jmurray01 said:

Thanks, I'll need it...  I have a good deal of strength for initial lifting, but struggle to maintain it for any length of time due to my poor fitness level, and my left leg doesn't provide a great deal of power for going up-stairs at the best of times.  Basically, I'll be lucky if I don't end up in a heap at the foot of the stairs with a CRT on top of me!!

From my experience of moving network printers between floors, it's oddly easier to take heavy things upstairs than bring them down again.  Although older ones were a lot heavier and bulkier than the new counterparts, the HP Laserjet 5 was particularly irksome to lift, let alone move between floors!

CRTs can be hugged, in the fashion of carrying a barrel, which network printers can't realistically; unless you have the arms of a baboon and the  upper body of a gorilla

I think the most awkward thing I've bought upstairs was a metal 48" tambour unit. It was longer than the half landing turning space I needed to negotiate to go up the second flight of stairs. After several attempts, head scratching and pondering, I decided it was a two man job.  Even then, with a suitably found mate, turning the 180° on the half landing, without gouging the wall or demolishing the bannisters, proved quite challenging.

It was only when we finally got it upstairs, I realised the roller and the shelves where removable.  Which would've made it far easier to move what would've been an open metal box, tilting it over the bannister to go round the half landing

Washing machines are a bit of pain to move between floors though, there's not lot a lot you can hold on to in, they're too wide to hug (unless you're a baboon again, with disproportionately long arms) .  Fridges, whilst the same sort of dimensions are considerably lighter.

7 hours ago, Lenny said:

I too wear glasses and have been told by a t.v. aerial installer whom also wore glasses when working at our home; that to appreciate full HD you need to have 20/20 vision.

I've heard that too.

2 hours ago, Lenny said:

Putting up Christmas Decorations 🎅

That's a tad early!

10 hours ago, Lenny said:

Putting up Christmas Decorations 🎅

There are 12 days of Christmas, not one of them is in November!!! 

I do like, although I probably shouldn't, watching umpteen cars, vans and taxis go speeding up past our house, come to a grinding and sometimes a screeching halt before having to reverse back to get out of our road!  Hours of fun and entertainment for all the family. 

 

9 minutes ago, Turvey said:

I do like, although I probably shouldn't, watching umpteen cars, vans and taxis go speeding up past our house, come to a grinding and sometimes a screeching halt before having to reverse back to get out of our road!  Hours of fun and entertainment for all the family. 

 

If the new TV breaks down I'll be coming to your house for entertainment!!

Just now, jmurray01 said:

If the new TV breaks down I'll be coming to your house for entertainment!!

I should set up a webcam! 

Just now, Turvey said:

I should set up a webcam! 

Good idea!

 

done a 300mile round trip to visit my daughter at uni today, nice drive up m5,m6,m58. shame it was a nightmare drive on way back, stop start in the roadworks, took extra hour home.

plus side to average roadworks was good fuel economy. refilled when i got home but think the miles to empty is a bit optermistic at 628 miles!!! lol

45 minutes ago, iantt said:

done a 300mile round trip to visit my daughter at uni today, nice drive up m5,m6,m58. shame it was a nightmare drive on way back, stop start in the roadworks, took extra hour home.

plus side to average roadworks was good fuel economy. refilled when i got home but think the miles to empty is a bit optermistic at 628 miles!!! lol

I like the look of that mpg on a run, it makes me look forward to getting our EcoBoost Focus next month but 628 miles? Maybe if it was a hybrid... or maybe if it flew part of the way...

59.4 MPG??!! A non VVT 1.6 Duratec owner can only dream of that! 

Most I've ever squeezed out of mine is 48 MPG doing a leisurely 65 MPH on the left lane of the M4, driving like a granny 

2 hours ago, iantt said:

done a 300mile round trip to visit my daughter at uni today, nice drive up m5,m6,m58. shame it was a nightmare drive on way back, stop start in the roadworks, took extra hour home.

plus side to average roadworks was good fuel economy. refilled when i got home but think the miles to empty is a bit optermistic at 628 miles!!! lol

What size is the tank?  I can easily get 700 miles from the 405 and C220, although the Focus struggles to get over 400 miles with its 55 litre tank and average of 35MPG...

think its 55 litre still. i wouldnt take the 59.4 as an acurate figure, just done calc with the fuel i just refilled with and works out at 56mpg.

so theory i could get 672miles before running dry. wont be getting that going to work and back through town traffic 1.8mile journeys.

 

1 hour ago, iantt said:

think its 55 litre still. i wouldnt take the 59.4 as an acurate figure, just done calc with the fuel i just refilled with and works out at 56mpg.

so theory i could get 672miles before running dry. wont be getting that going to work and back through town traffic 1.8mile journeys.

 

Highest I saw on my 1.6 Ti-VCT was 49mpg and that took some doing to get it that high, whereas if I drive "normally" it was about 45mpg so not really worth the effort.

I do like finally finding a new email app that I'm happy with. Now to pay for the "pro" version to get rid of the ads... 

Safety week at work 😁

presented us all with a smoke alarm tester which saves climbing up on a chair to press the button 😂

Work mate poked me in the belly with his while I was taking off my top; over my head when changing out of work cloths 😅

I really need to be more vigilant with the fire alarms!!  The downstairs one gets tested at least once a week when my mother forgets about her toast, but the upstairs one is neglected.  Fortunately a few weeks ago the council sent somebody round to do tests and found that said alarm was completely dead, and to be honest I'd have never even realised or thought about it. 

My smoke alarms are mains wired with a remote control switch panel to test without shinning up ladders.

They are also linked to my Carbon Monoxide detector.

I can press a test button which plays a really annoying, high pitched series of chirps which when detected on a phone app will tell me when they were last tested, how long they sounded & battery back up/mains power condition.

Mains smoke alarms are fine until you get a power cut during the night, you'll know when the power is back on anyway  

That said if you have a good load of alarms and they trigger for some reason other than the wife cooking, the control panels can be handy to silence all but the offending alarm. 

i do like my heated windscreen, this is the first winter iv owned my little fiesta and im so glad i have heated windows 1-2 mins and the ice is gone no more cold hands haha

I do like filling up with the last tank of diesel before pay-day!  I'm completely skint now, but at least I have spent all the money I need to and can now relax with the small amount I have left.

On ‎08‎/‎11‎/‎2016 at 6:42 AM, stef123 said:

Mains smoke alarms are fine until you get a power cut during the night, you'll know when the power is back on anyway  

Mines on mains but I've never heard it, definitely doesn't beep after a power cut...  I just assumed it works as the lights on, not sure I dare try it until everyone else in our block is out!  

Another day off work. Sat in IMAX cinema waiting for film to start.

11 minutes ago, iantt said:

Another day off work. Sat in IMAX cinema waiting for film to start.

Rub it in why don't you!!

I do like going to view a property which would be ideal for us.  Rural setting, three bedrooms, and off-road parking for four vehicles.  Beats a two bedroom semi with no parking!