Your Day (apart from gardening) - what took place?

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  1. Phil A

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    Don't think your a spammer @alex-adam :biggrin:

    Got an old urinal? Mate of mine is after one to use as a flower pot :)
     
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    Been on me knees all day cutting glass and soldering, wine o'clock now :)

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      I spent the day fixing up one of my heaters, baked bread, shopped, worked on the third rear brake light on my car to bring it up a little nicer cosmetically, bbq something for supper.


      Got a client coming by soon to pick up her sheers and then it's cocktail hour. Red wine spritzer anyone? Zigs? You know if you water it down, you don't get legless...:heehee:
       
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        3:45PM here . not quite wine time. maybe 30 mins. trying to figure out "what for dinner".
         
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          Haven't looked (don't do ebay) but they're probably the same as the ones that I've been using for the last 60+ years :heehee:
           
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            I always used to listen to his 'Letter From America' from the mid 40's until his death 12 years ago. :blue thumb: Didn't know he'd been reincarnated :noidea:
             
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              We have blinds in our kitchen and my craft room. I don't think I would want them across the whole of my house, theres something a bit cold about them.

              I volunteer at a charity shop and we had these lovely pair of curtains from Next come in. They were a little too long for our door and so I had to shorten them from the top as they have them metal rings and our curtain pole had all its rings fixed in place. I only paid £6 for the curtains themselves and already had a bit of curtain tape I had bought in anticipation of making some when I had the time. So total cost was £8.49. The curtain pole didn't come with enough rings and only need two, so may have a go at making them on the lathe when I get time to.

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                Yesterday we had our charity coffee and craft morning. There was lots of preparation and plenty of assistance from friends. Unfortunately the cold weather kept a lot of people away :sad:. It wasn't too bad a turnout but nowhere near as good as usual.

                We had some lovely friends and family turn up (including some GC friends :wub2:) and some very nice strangers. A lovely day was had by all. Thank you, all who came. :dbgrtmb:
                 
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                  Looks lovely, Jane. seems to match the general color in the room from what I can see.
                  Today I am cleaning out a room, moving all furniture out, little by little to empty it out for the new carpet next Saturday. What junk I have, hope I can throw more out, or give it away on the replacement round back to the room. My faithful sewing machine will go to the basement, as I really don't use it anymore, at least now. Not sure I want to sell it yet, perhaps when I retire I can start to sew again. It is a good Sears Kenmore machine. Anyway, come this Friday, I will be ripping out the old carpet, cleaning the floor before they arrive Saturday to put the new in.
                  I am so tired. now have to think of dinner soon. glass of wine will help. After I put the clean sheets on the bed. Then that is it.
                   
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                    I've started on copying old colour slides to digital. It's going to be a long job at the rate of 10 - 15 an hour as we have thousands of slides (up to almost 60 years old :old:) :doh:. As I no longer have a slide viewer I'm also having to look at each one by holding it up to the light! Then I'm trying to adjust colour balance, saturation etc. and remove the worst of the damage and dirt. :phew:

                    I can only do it on the old laptop we've been given because my desktop doesn't support the software. So I'll need to transfer them.
                     
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                      I've decided to take up walking - bit of exercise, fresh air and take in the views.

                      Downloaded a map of 'local' public footpaths and at 9.10 am today, bravely stepped out into the cold morning air.

                      Eventually took 40 minutes to walk a mile - either I was very slow or google maps is wrong :dunno:. I did spend a fair amount of time dodging cow pats though.

                      My shoes were also soaked (note to self 'proper' walking boots required).

                      Here's a couple of pic's as evidence that it actually happened :snork:.
                       
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                        @Jungle Jane, I love your curtains they look fantastic :dbgrtmb:, & what a great bargain :hapydancsmil:
                         
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                          Im up in llangollen today. So have been taking pictures of the river dee

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                          Cant wait to load them all on to the computer

                          I did stupidly pull some muscles in my back tho as i thought i would wade in to the river as its so low to get some pictures but its very very slippy and i almost went over.

                          I have also been scattering more hearts for the peyton heart project so left some in the tescos in cefn and others around trevor. One has been found and has already been posted on fb :-)
                           
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                            Walking shoes would be more practical. For that sort of walking you don't need boots. The report of the latest test done, by Which?, on walking shoes shows that Scarpa are best but there are lots of other good ones.

                            I wear Scarpa all the time (even before the latest tests :)).
                             
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