It pays to send recorded delivery letters to chief executives when you feel you have a legitimate complaint, when often, "complaints" departments...
Phone call from United Utilities today. I will be receiving £1080, what I paid for my new 25mm supply pipe.
I made this myself in 1987 [img] Then this. [img] Then this, all in the same year. [img] Then. I bought this and installed it, when we...
Thanks for the kind words. I did actually check out the gearbox. [ATTACH] The gear wheel is actually plastic. It looked as if it had been...
I like to play the two jukeboxes I have in our summerhouse, when I'm working in the garden. This is the younger of the two. It dates from 1976....
The "Water Main Saga" is nearing its close. A wagon turned up at 9.00am this morning with some tarmac and two workmen filled in over the hardcore...
Nearly there. Two guys turned up in this big truck with a grabber completely blocking the road and filled the big hole in the pathway around my...
So much for my idea that this job would only require one man with a spade and a spanner. A big van turned up at 8.00am this morning with a large...
The replacement for the broken mirror received on Monday arrived this afternoon. So "stairlift corner is now complete." The wood of the mirror...
Why did the old song that starts, "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy," come into my mind?
I'm finally up to date with both gardens. [IMG] [IMG] I sorted out the "bamboo forest." It has three retaining wires between three...
On the subject of wisterias, mentioned earlier in the thread, now is the time to get at them. They'll be throwing out new growth from near the...
The mirror I'd ordered from John Lewis to go above the stairlift chair and new cupboard has just arrived. Most of it is down in the bottom...
The cupboard was scheduled for "first drop" today. That apparently is 6.55am. Fortunately, I was up already.[IMG] Calculations correct. Clear of...
I got a job done, I'm never fond of doing each year. Dead-headed our biggest rhodo. I find with jobs you don't like doing it's best to get them...
I've put it on my YouTube channel. [MEDIA] I've taken down that full length mirror. It'll look odd as quite a bit of it will be appearing to the...
Had an e-mail from stairlift company with a questionnaire about the installation. Said the install was fine, not so the admin. Lost order, told...
Oh.. The "special shoes" were an old pair of trainers.
A search of the internet found as replacement cupboard that would just fit. It needed a bit of A4 paper and an upright spirit level to confirm...
The stairlift is in and working. Only two irritations, caused by the numpty surveyor. He said that this shoe cupboard wouldn't be in the way....
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