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....
My wife is presently in hospital, has been for nine weeks, she's had MS for decades and a couple of months ago had a fracture in her back, a form...
We have some garden furniture, four rattan effect chairs, I bought a few years ago, but we don't often use them. They've not been out at all this...
As I get older, I find that I'm getting increasingly intolerant with the behaviour of inanimate objects and mechanical and electrical appliances...
Had a further visit from United Utilities yesterday. They will arrange with the local council for a licence to dig out the old meter in the...
Job done! I got it mounted before the rain this morning. At 84, I didn't fancy clambering around up there if the roof was wet. What I was looking...
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