I'm in a semi but fairly sure the walls are made of cardboard and the wee girl next door seems to wear lead shoes and has her volume setting permanently turned up to 11. Even at 2am. Never hear much from her partner, but she's by far the loudest neighbor we've had, and the previous residents had a baby and toddler and the ones before three boys...

One of the many reasons we're looking to move later in the year. Hopefully to somewhere without neighbors.

Antartica then ?

Quote from: ianrs54 on 31 July 2020, 12:09:52 PM
Antartica then ?

Have you never watched a penguin documentary? Those guys are jerks.

Quote from: mmcv on 31 July 2020, 12:11:09 PM
Have you never watched a penguin documentary? Those guys are jerks.

Very true. In fact, I still have a scar on my knee from participating in a clean-up and feed them operation after an oil spill in Cape Town. They've got quite a bite.

Quote from: FierceKitty on 31 July 2020, 12:25:00 PM
Very true. In fact, I still have a scar on my knee from participating in a clean-up and feed them operation after an oil spill in Cape Town. They've got quite a bite.

Who were you feeding the penguins to?

Mr Dozy, writes.

Amazingly I managed to push some putty around today. (Today 'I are' mostly doing fantasy armoured bears.)

Best thing I've done today ?.....Saved fifty odd quid (pounds) by not calling an electrician out to replace one of those bloomin' awful ceiling 'pull' switches in the loo (john, toilet, khazi)....It was an absolute pig to do....But I didn't electrocute myself.

Nobby....We don't have a 'sub station' at Techno Towers....But we do (effectively) pass on the power to 6-10 other properties.
The bit of 'kit' they replaced at the top of one of the poles on our land, apparently weighs half a ton (or tonne).....That's as much as one of the big gee-gees.....and it's only about half the size of a wheelie bin.

Gravel on our drive.....NO !.....That would slide into the road the next time it rained hard.....You know what my address is....Translate that from Welsh into English.

Matthew...Move to a rural part of Wales....Our nearest neighbour is 300 yards away.

Cheers - Barry Bucknell. (How many here will remember 'Barry'..... )

Got first haircut today after almost 5 months of lockdown. Lots of hair off. Now walking around like a Thunderbird puppet.


p.s. sorry, Phil. Saw the TV adverts but had absolutely no idea who Barry Bucknall was.

Good grief Techno! Barry Bucknall!

Yikes! Actually, I do remember him (it was the face)! One DIY job I remember was knocking a hole in your wall beside your front door to install some kind of DIY postal box. Mad.

p.s. What "Barry" was I thinking of in the TV adverts?

I preferred Reg Prescott's DIY slots.
https://youtu.be/MU2BO5Obg2k

Quote from: mad lemmey on 31 July 2020, 09:13:13 PM
I preferred Reg Prescott's DIY slots.
https://youtu.be/MU2BO5Obg2k

The Genius that was the late, great Kenny Everett

Quote from: Westmarcher on 31 July 2020, 08:59:32 PM
p.s. What "Barry" was I thinking of in the TV adverts?

This one?

Reg Prescott still has me in tears of laughter, even now!

Ditto !! 

I believe I'm correct in saying that a certain member of the forum, whose name begins with an N and ends with a Y, had the cheek to say that my own attempts at DIY must be very similar to Reg Prescott's.

Cheers - Phil (I feel even more zombified than I did yesterday.  )

Quote from: Techno on 01 August 2020, 07:40:29 AM
Ditto !! 

I believe I'm correct in saying that a certain member of the forum, whose name begins with an N and ends with a Y, had the cheek to say that my own attempts at DIY must be very similar to Reg Prescott's.

Cheers - Phil (I feel even more zombified than I did yesterday.  )

I am sure you are most proficient at DIY, even if all your DIY is covered with your own blood 

No, Mark.....Von uses the sharp stuff.

I'm not even allowed to look at the chop saw.

I DO the electrics.

I can only remember two 'belts'.....Once when I made a 'strobe'....and the second was when I stuck my fingers down one of the photography studio's flash heads at GW. (I know I've mentioned this before.)

That hurt.....I forgot about capacitors holding a charge, and those things were fed by a couple of battery units that sounded like defibrillators when they were charging. ..."CLEAR !"

Cheers Reg/Barry.

Today is the first day our son has been able to 'safely' go out of the house after 4 months of lockdown. He was very happy and I must admit it was weird driving into town (we would normally go by bus as he gets fee travel, but still not feeling safe with this yet) just to go shopping for non-essential items. Town was very quiet, the little we saw of it, which again is weird as it would normally be heaving on a Saturday.

Well that's good news, Steve !

Have all the folk in the vicinity bogged off to the coast ?

Don't blame you for still not 'feeling safe.'.....We now appear to have a lot of 'invaders/grockles' in Pembrokeshire.
I do feel very conflicted....In the respect that I don't want folks who rely on the 'tourist industry' to suffer anymore....and for the folk who desperately need a 'break', NOT to have their hols.
But it worries me that folk from cities could be bringing COVID here.

The holiday makers (a lot of them) don't appear to think social distancing applies to them. (Oiks)

I don't think I'll feel properly 'safe' for a LONG time.

Cheers - Phil

Phil dont forget horses and dogs can carry it as well 

True, Ian ....But (as far as I know) no-one has got within 100 yards of any of our beasties....with the possible exception of the 'postie' in the past seven months.

The lads from Western Power didn't even get close to any of them when they changed the transformer, two (very early) mornings ago. The 'labs were told' in no uncertain terms......."You are NOT going out to help.....Now, SIT & STAY !

Two of them are birthday boys today !! ...Bless'em.

Cheers - Phil.