What are you all up to today? - part 3

Warning to all, like me, the wrong side of three score years and ten!

Spent 2 hrs up a ladder yesterday and could hardly walk this morning until the pain killers kicked in. Think I'll have to give it up for good and flog the ladders on Ebay. Still I did enjoy several cups of tea and (unusually for me) watching day time telly.

Careful  Redface  !!  This  day-time  telly  is  quite  Dangerous  !!  If  I'm  around  I'm  quite  likely  to  watch  Flog it  to  see  what  garbage  folks  buy  &  then  try  to  sell  on.  There  was  a  sort  of  carved  wood  stick  from  Tonga  on  sale  today  and  the  "Expert"  said  what  it  was,  where  it  was  from  &  gave  a  guide  price  of  £800  absolute  minimum  going  to  a  probable/possible  top  whack  of  about  £1500  (  I  think ).    A  little  bit  of  saleroom  bidding  then  a  flurry  of  fone  &  tinternet  cross  bidding.  Ended  up  at  £5800  !!    I  think  you  ought  to  take  up  this  twig  wittling  malarkey  yourself  then  you  could  pay  the  workers  to  go  ladder  climbing  whilst  you  sit  back  &  supervise  (  )

Car going in tomorrow for the propshaft to be replaced.  Hope that will solve the noise problem we have.  Time is running short before our holiday.  Hope it will be solved in time.

David 

Well - car went in for propshaft yesterday.  No joy!  Still unacceptable noises coming from the car.  Next thing: Transfer box.  Managed to pick up a new transfer box yesterday for under a grand!!!  Expensive, but a bargain!  It goes in Friday for it to be fitted.  If this doesn't work, goodness knows what next!!  This is getting dangerously near our holiday!  At this stage, I'm beginning to wonder if we'll make it....  

David 

That is getting serious, David! 

Really hope that the transfer box sorts it out. It's awful when something goes wrong just before a holiday......but often means that everything then goes well, after all the stress.

Good luck!

Thanks Ian, and Brue for the sympathy.  We seem to be having one of those times when everything seems against us.  Hope things will improve soon.

David 

It looks like you need a new car, David.

It's moving day for us today as our 21 night stay at Northbrook Farm is over. We're hoping it will stay dry enough this morning to get the awning packed away. It rained a lot during the night so it looks rather soggy outside at the moment. 

We're just getting all our camping equipment together to be packed into the car ready for our two nights away camping with our tent. It's trying to remember all the things we'll need as it's so long ago when we last went camping. The campsite we'll be staying on is £13 a night including electric. So the two nights away will cost us £26. The equivalent of one days wages at dinnertogo!

It's going to be fun as we'll be working during our camping stay. So it means coming back to the tent, after work, late at night and cooking our dinner on the camping hob!

Too much information Malcolm...get on with the packing before the thunderstorms soak your wife! 

with all this rain we're having i dont know weather to go out or stay in

It's dry here, hope no one has suffered from all the lightening strikes and flash flooding. What contrasts in the weather at the moment!

Too much information Malcolm...get on with the packing before the thunderstorms soak your wife! 

Write your comments here...Sorry, brue, I was just trying to entertain you!

with all this rain we're having i dont know weather to go out or stay in

It's dry here, hope no one has suffered from all the lightening strikes and flash flooding. What contrasts in teh weather at the moment!

Write your comments here...We had plenty of that last night, brue! The heavens really opened up after our last delivery accompanied by thunder and lightning. So the boss let us finish work earlier.