Yawn, Yawn, Wakey Wakey!! 2016

I don't know whether our village is doing anything for the birthday, apart from having the Festival on the village green, but we don't have enough streets to have a party in them.

I clearly remember the Coronation party we had and have interesting memories of it. We flew a large Royal Standard flag from an upstairs window and had a radio blaring out music from the windowsill alongside.

I'm still wearing mine!

 

Good luck @moyra

 

Aloha everyone,

I have another busy day today after my meetings yesterday. I'd done most of the emails that I had to get done about them by 4 a.m. this morning.

I'll have a walk to the village and back this morning, then get some mowing done and then off to the exhibition, Public Health England are building a £400 million research facility in the nearest town, this afternoon.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Good morning all my friends hope you are all OK on this Bonus of a Saturday morning,yes we are still looking for a car for Mrs Woo she has now decided that she would like a car with an automatic gear change,I might add after driving manual cars for 30 years, I have no dealings with automatic gear change, so I am wondering perhaps if it would be best for my good lady if she had just one lesson in helping her to change over,what do you think anyway I digress ,have a lovely day and please take care

@moyra hope everything went well at the hospital and that you are alright

 

Aloha everyone,

I'm rather achy after doing a bit too much in the garden yesterday (Told you so! )

Rearranging the bonfire heap was a bit tough on the back. I had a bonfire the other day and then the heavy rain came. All of the centre of the fire still burnt down but the outer edges, about an 8ft diameter, didn't. This required me to move all the unburned stuff to the middle. Sounds easy, but wasn't. I'd been burning normal woody garden waste and some of the giant poplar that had been cut down. So shifting heavy logs and smaller pieces whilst bent over didn't do my back too much good.

Then I moved a 5ft x 5ft 11 ply sheet of plywood over 200ft to the bonfire. It didn't feel too heavy at first .

I got half the lawns done and dug and weeded an area for Mrs Shiney's dahlias to go into.

Light work today

@moyra I hope you're feeling better this morning. I suppose it depends on when they can fit the biopsy in as 'a couple of weeks' will bring you to the Bank Holiday. So they may schedule it for afterwards.

@wiseowl There's really no need for Mrs Woo to have anything more than a little test drive with the car seller. The hardest thing when changing from manual to auto is your foot keeps trying to put the (non-existent) clutch down. It's just a matter of remembering some of the little things that go with having an auto. A lot of the cars won't let you start the car if you don't put your foot on the brake. Some won't let you turn the engine off unless you put it into Park (P). Both of those are good safety features so have become more common.

Apart from that there are mainly, only three positions for the gear stick, P (Park), N (Neutral) and D (Drive). You don't have to worry about the car stalling if you are in D and bring the car to a stop with your foot on the brake (at traffic lights or in traffic). You just need to remember that if it's in D and you take your foot off the brake the car will creep forward. If the stop seems as though it will be a little while (as we have at the level crossing) you just put it in N or P (good practice to put it in P). Your left leg is redundant so you can put it round the back of your head if you wish . You don't get leg ache from a lot of clutch use that can happen in slow traffic with a manual car.

Some cars have other positions for the gear stick. This are mainly a couple of low gears to be used like a manual car when negotiating steep hills. Most people never use these.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Good afternoon everyone some good news Mrs Woo has chosen a Suzuki Swift 1.5 GLX 5dr Auto, I can now get in the garden (peace at last)

@shiney its all thanks to you my friend many thanks for all your help and advice

 

Thanks @Zigs its got 7 speakers 6 stereo and Mrs Woo,its also got re-entry shield's,warp speed and the voice of K.S.Chithra on the Sat Nav