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Follow-up to my NSBD (New Skirting Board Day), finally got some in place. Very pleased with the design. I don't do a lot of DIY so I'm quite chuffed with this.
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I fitted a laminate floor in our bedroom and replaced all the skirting at the same time, rather than going the beading route. 2nd time I've done skirting. A satisfying job if your walls are square and plumb like they were on my 1st attempt, not so much when they aren't like, my 2nd attempt in a much newer house... But decent wood filler, decorators caulk and some patience with a paintbrush covers a multitude of sins!
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Just resurrected my old mic stand (and when I say 'old', it still bears the name of a band I was in that split in 1988). Very rusty and creaky, but after disassembly an overnight soak in white vinegar and a clean-up with wire wool soon got rid of the rust on the adjusting bits, and with a bit of silicon WD spray here and there it's as good as... well, not good as new, but it's got a new lease of life.
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NSBD (New Skirting Board Day). 6 lengths delivered, and I've just realised quite how long 4.4 metres is...
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Wearing grey jeans and a grey polo today. I feel like John Major
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Please keep your fingers crossed for my cat. Having ultrasound on a big lump.
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Yeah, that's just what you want at bed time isn't it... back pain that gets worse when you lie down. Great.
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I have been recovering from a lower back issue and tweaked it yesterday. You have my sympathy Rich. I couldn't roll over in bed last night and was concerned I might never move again it was so bad. Luckily my back support was within reach and I managed to get it on. This at least enabled me to move again.
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God help us all.
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Have just become hopelessly carried away in the Maruszczyk bass configurator... oh well, there goes the morning...
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24 songs to learn for a dep gig tomorrow evening... eek.
(although in truth, I already know a handful of them)
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NEVER EVER EVER EVER
FLY WITH KLM.
Shower of bastards.
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I've got to go to Italy again next year, for my stepson's wedding... got to say I am really really tempted to drive, via the ferry. I know it's a hell of a long way, but I think it'd be nice. Spread it over three days or so, take a leisurely route maybe. A whole load better than flying, that's for certain.
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Yesterday in America it was 06/23.
Today it looks more like 1923.
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To be fair they were already close to the bottom of pretty much every sensible league table where Big Nations are concerned. I feel sorry for the tens of millions whom this will affect, and despise the tens of millions who think this is Jeebus answering their Thoughts and Prayers, and the millions who did not vote for Hillary because of her emails...
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When you’re stuck in an airport on the other side of Europe, completely stranded because your connecting airport is shut, the last thing you want to hear from the airline agent is “good luck”…
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There’s a nightingale singing outside my bedroom window. Oh, glorious.
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Holidaying in Italy... I'd parked the car in a town car park while we wandered around, this was what I found on my return. Bloody Italians.
Luckily I managed to get in through the passenger door and scramble across. I may have accidentally scrawled the word 'TWÀT' in foot high letters in the dust on his bonnet before I left.
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When you're at the airport waiting to check in, decide to have a quick browse on Farcebook while you're waiting, and the first pic that pops up on your screen is this. The algorithms are taking the pish.
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1978
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_182
TBH this is one of the most chilling photos I have ever seen. One can only guess at the sheer unadulterated panic and terror inside that cabin.
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Yes. I have seen (once, and never found again - I have a professional interest) a photo of a cloudscape over an American city; with an airliner in a 90-degree bank and its lower wingtip below the silhouetted buildings. The photographer caught the airliner by accident. There is no way that aircraft was capable of recovering. So, everyone in it was about to die. It is probably from one of the crashes which exposed the existence of clear air turbulence; so maybe 1975.
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Been doing some troubleshooting on my mute switch/tuner output thingy that wasn't behaving as I was hoping. Turns out there was one hair-like strand of a wire that was sticking out from a soldered joint causing an intermittent short to ground. I obviously need to brush up on my wire tinning skills. *slaps self*
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Get a real kick out of seeing my band listed alongside some big names.
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If I ever take my car to mainland Europe again, I am definitely getting one of these.
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The famous 'This England' speech from Shakespeare's Richard II is much beloved by demented flagwavers:
"This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm,
This England."How many of them know that the speech continues thus:
"This dear dear land is now leased out
Like to a tenement or pelting farm:
England, bound in with the triumphant sea
Is now bound in with shame,
With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:
That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself."Shakespeare knew.
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OMG. Dave Wakeling of The Beat has just started following my ska band on Twitter.
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Just lost a tiny bit of weight... ganglion removed from left middle digit. Had it years but it was becoming a real pain in the arse. Finger. Whatever.
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I have a ganglion in my right hand, just underneath my little fingers. It used to flare up when I (an electrician) rewired properties and used my SDS hammer drill to chisel out chases in brick for cables. I would get pain up my arm for several days afterwards and it would stop me sleeping.
Most of my work these days involves inspection and testing, with a lot less 'house bashing' so now it's not noticeable but its not gone away.
Hope you recover from your surgery quickly.
