I have learned today that my body isn't up to cleaning two cars in as many days...  My arms feel like they have been put through a mangle.

That really says a lot for my fitness level, or lack thereof!

i learned today that the new roofers knee pads from Screwfix are quite inferior to the old ones. 

They no longer have a comfortable elastic strap but a fixed plastic strap that cuts into the back of your leg and has little adjustment.  The pads themselves are too narrow except for the tiniest of knees.  I can't imagine roofers having slender knees; roofers girlfriends and wives may be: but not roofers themselves

The alternative gel ones won't stand up to the rigors of kneeling in the garden.  A pair of Dewalt ones I did try, failed after a week of weeding from the drive and path

I had this issue before with a backup port, rubbish straps which cut you to pieces. I took an elasticated bandage (and would do though) and wrapped the straps with it so that you have a more comfortable contact on the skin

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I learned tonight that I should never try to find houses out in the country, where the sat nav is incapable of assisting... 

The result was a near 100 mile round trip for sweet !Removed! Adams because I couldn't find the house I was going to pick the object (surprise surprise, a vacuum!) up from.  The only saving grace was driving through some very nice country roads on the way home, still not worth the wasted diesel though!

EDIT - SERIOUSLY?  A ONCE POPULAR FEMALE NAME IS CENSORED!?

I learned today, when someone sent me the wrong academic research paper, that lesbians who identify as "butch" types have shorter index fingers than those who identify as "femme".  Apparently, butch lesbians have the same index finger to ring finger ratio as all men, both straight and !Removed!. Whereas femme ones have the same ratio as regular women.

Quite how my requested research paper on the sugar content of old potatoes in storage was confused with a a study of !Removed! finger ratios, is somewhat of a mystery

11 minutes ago, jmurray01 said:

I learned tonight that I should never try to find houses out in the country, where the sat nav is incapable of assisting... 

The result was a near 100 mile round trip for sweet !Removed! Adams because I couldn't find the house I was going to pick the object (surprise surprise, a vacuum!) up from.  The only saving grace was driving through some very nice country roads on the way home, still not worth the wasted diesel though!

Couldn't you phone vacuum seller, or was the phone signal poor too.

I got lost in Devon once, although not through sat nav failure to find: but rather a vague address, (something like hotel name, village, Devon) when going to an hotel contents sale and auction.  It wasn't actually in the village, nor even close, the village was the nearest habitable area to this hotel, which I eventually found, some four miles up an unnamed lane out on it's own.

I learned today that way fuel consumption in the Mk2 Focus is lower on the outbound trip to Tesco than upon the return trip.  Same route there and back

Shouldn't be the other way round? 

No shopping, Brandy and I should equal higher mpg: whereas it's shopping plus Brandy and I equals higher mpg

I learned today that I need two new tyres ASAP...  Whilst I'm sure the Roadstone (never heard of them before!) tyres fitted to the front of the 405 were great in their day, at 10 years old and with barely 2mm of treads left, they are well past their prime.  They are M+S stamped too, so it just shows that any tyre will lose its grip after a certain amount of wear.

Performance in the dry is still acceptable, but the slightest bit of rain causes wheel spin at almost every junction and lack of front end control on tight corners/roundabouts. 

As they should still pass the MOT (which expires in 9 days) I will wait until that expense is over with before buying new ones, possibly waiting until next pay-day and opting for brand new rubber all round as the rears are different brands and sitting at around 3mm treads.  The Hyundai will take over daily driving duties for next month anyway, so no rush.

Roadstone weren't good in their day, they still aren't now!   Although are slightly better than the LingLong's I bought a car on once (yes that is a genuine brand lol!).

42 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Roadstone weren't good in their day, they still aren't now!   Although are slightly better than the LingLong's I bought a car on once (yes that is a genuine brand lol!).

Ah well, that answers my question!  

The tread pattern never struck me as being very effective for any road surface/conditions, to be honest - very archaic design. 

At this very moment, I'm learning it's near impossible to eat a tuna and onion sandwich, sitting at my desk with Brandy in the room 

If she's not trying slip her nose on to the plate and quickly hoover the tuna off: she's leaping and thrusting forwards, to cause a tuna to fall off it, each time I lift it to take a bite!

3 hours ago, jmurray01 said:

Whilst I'm sure the Roadstone (never heard of them before!)

I've never heard of them either

3 hours ago, TomsFocus said:

LingLong

or those!

Sounds like the name of a dubious lady-boy in low budget movie

 

1 hour ago, GMX said:

At this very moment, I'm learning it's near impossible to eat a tuna and onion sandwich, sitting at my desk with Brandy in the room 

If she's not trying slip her nose on to the plate and quickly hoover the tuna off: she's leaping and thrusting forwards, to cause a tuna to fall off it, each time I lift it to take a bite!

I've never heard of them either

or those!

Sounds like the name of a dubious lady-boy in low budget movie

 

Haha!!

I've learned today that despite three weather services (Met Office, Accuweather and Netweather) declaring it will not rain: it does!

I've also learned eating crusty bread, when I'm ravenous, can cause palate injuries whilst biting into it too enthusiastically.  The fleshy bit of the palate behind my incisors seems to have been torn

ive learned today that my fiesta is on its way :)

I learned today, that the impulse buy of some young sweet corn plants, I did from the nursery yesterday, may not have been the best idea. 

I bought them without thinking how they were going to fit in to my crop rotation and veg layout

Now, as I set about transplanting, I'm not sure if I have sufficient space.  There not enough where I'd imagined there would be, between the rhubarb and shallots.  The allocated brassica bed has enough space but they can't swap over: as brassicas were grown between the rhubarb and current shallots in 2014, as that would wreck my crop rotation.

 

me and growing vegetables has never gone well . seem to manage to get eaten by bugs or die.

On 09/05/2016 at 8:41 PM, Philf1 said:

Even with aircon on full it's still chuffing hot

See my parts for sale on thread "philf1s Spirit Blue Fiesta ST180 parts for sale"

How many folk I hear of them having the air con' on full and also have all the windows down is madness  For air con' to do it's business all the windows should be fully up 

After much googling,  I learned of a solution to my earlier sweet corn plant and where to plant them problem:

The three/four sisters methodology of the Iroquois nation, and most notably the Wampanoag method of it

Using a 1200mm wide bed, in the inner 600mm, the corns are planted in groups of 5-6, around each corn 4 pole beans are planted. Around the edges squashes are planted with sunflowers dotted here and there.(if you're doing four sister variation)

The corns and sunflowers provide supports for the beans whilst the squashes act as a living mulch with their huge leaves and also keep predators off the beans with their prickly stems. The sunflowers encourage pollinators too whilst acting as a decoy to any birds fancying a nibble on the corns.  Apparently given the choice birds prefer sunflower seeds to corn

 

 

On 15/05/2016 at 0:43 AM, jmurray01 said:

I have learned today that my body isn't up to cleaning two cars in as many days...  My arms feel like they have been put through a mangle.

That really says a lot for my fitness level, or lack thereof!

I know how you feel! I've got a bad back, so washing the car only happens when it really needs it 

I learned today that the likes of Deloittes, KPMG, Earnst & Young and PWC charge extortionate rates when they really don't have a clue about corporate finances. Think I should apply for a job with one of these.

I learned this evening that ants, particularly angry seething ants, whose nest had just been torn asunder with a hand fork, can bite through nitrile bodyguard gloves.

 

 

 

I learned yesterday, that no matter how many bags of manure you buy, you'll always be one short for needs!

You buy 10: you need 11, you buy 25: you need 26.  You a buy tonne: you need a tonne plus one 40L bag!

 

I learned that beer I'd awesome at lunch but I desire the weekend to be here too quickly thereafter and can't be bothered with work

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I learned that even with good "word of mouth" reviews, a business cannot necessarily be trusted...

I learnt my girlfriend doesn't pay for parking so I have to pay 55 quid for her hour and half at bingo

I learned that this year I'm quite tasty again to the mosquito population.

They've not feasted upon me for a while, but today four of them: one of whom I squashed in mid-suck

 

24 minutes ago, jmurray01 said:

I learned that even with good "word of mouth" reviews, a business cannot necessarily be trusted...

Your MOT garage/tester?

18 minutes ago, GMX said:

I learned that this year I'm quite tasty again to the mosquito population.

They've not feasted upon me for a while, but today four of them: one of whom I squashed in mid-suck

 

Your MOT garage/tester?

Indeed Ghana!!  Or rather not anymore, seeing as I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole after their cluster today.  Good thing we also have the Hyundai, as if the 405 was our only car and we depended on it going through the MOT today then I'd be completely screwed!