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

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  1. noisette47

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    It's just the opposite here :) Most villages, towns and individuals leave the lights up right through January, to combat the cold, dreary weather :hapfeet:
     
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    • Victoria

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      We go by the 12th night ... well, if they don't come down, they are turned off ... or not turned on.

      As @noisette47 says, here they seem to stay up forever, even Easter!
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        Lovely day here, just had a yummy BBQ......first of the year!:heehee:
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        Back out into the garden after all the festivities........love it!!:hapydancsmil:
         
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        • Doghouse Riley

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          The red ones on the pool pergola are on all year round for a few hours each evening, but I've turned off the new multi-coloured ones on the other pergola. but I won't take them down.

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          Probably turn them on again on a few warm Summer evenings, when we turn on all the other lights if we're in the garden.
           
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            Took down all the Christmas decorations this afternoon.......glad to get back to normality. After a while I find them a bit claustrophobic making.
             
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            • Doghouse Riley

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              We turned off our lights and most of our neighbours have too. Seems to be what many do these days.
               
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                My decorationd are mostly put away. Only a few outdoor ones left . If I leave too long, it becomes extremely difficult to take them down because we are now going to see lots of snow and temps willl be dropping down around the 10f point in the next few weeks. I don't mind so much goofing around with wires in the cold but I do not like digging through snow to find them!

                Granddaughters are now upstairs playing for a bit before supper. Had the whole famdamily here for brunch and spent the afternoon with the little ones putting together a map of Canada jigsaw puzzle. Sneaky way of getting a little learning into playtime. ;)
                 
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                  Yes took ours down yesterday.
                   
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                    Took delivery of our new Electra freezer today.. Only ordered it on New Year's Eve. Bought it on eBay from ao.
                    It's an undercounter freezer to replace one of our two table-top freezers, we keep in the shed for my wife's on-line bulk meat purchases from Donald Russell. Our big Meile fridge/freezer in the kitchen won't take half of it when it comes.
                    The old one broke down on Sunday. Fortunately, there was only about thirty quid's worth of food in it we had to throw away. The other freezer is fine.
                    The new one was a bit of a pain to set up. The temperature control is at the top of the back panel, so to change it I'd have had to drag it out from under the long bench in there.

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                    But for £119, for twice the capacity, and free delivery, I thought it worthwhile, another table-top one would be about £80.

                    So I cut an aperture in the back of the top of the bench over the control and made a plywood flush fitting cover for it, to stop any stuff falling down behind the back of the freezer.

                    Nothing's ever easy is it?
                     
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                      I need another table top freezer for the dog's meat. That looks good, Dog.
                       
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                        Had a bit of a situation this morning - regular Friday visit from a relative - who appeared at the door flustered:

                        Me: what's the matter?

                        Relative: one of my car tyres has a hole in the side, I can't drive the car :rolleyespink:

                        Me: how did you get up here?

                        Relative: I drove the car up, I think I hit a jutting out kerb stone. I need to get to the pharmacist, I don't know what to do.

                        Me: not to worry, we'll pop over to the tyre centre

                        Relative: how are we going to get the car over there, it's a couple of miles away, I can't drive it!

                        Me: car designers aren't daft, they have built in the ability to take the wheel off the car :hate-shocked:, I'll take the wheel in my car :hate-shocked:

                        Next job - take wheel off car:

                        Me: loosen the wheel bolts

                        Relative: attempt to jack up car.

                        10 minutes later -

                        Me: everything OK?

                        Relative: I can't get the jack to work

                        Me: that's because it's upside down :hate-shocked:

                        Wheel removed, taken to garage, new tyre fitted and put back onto car -

                        Me: that front tyre looks a bit flat, I'll just check

                        It should be 30 psi, it is 10 psi - all tyres (apart from the new tyre) are similarly flat

                        Me: have you got break down recovery?

                        Relative: No.

                        Me: I can highly recommend it :pathd:

                        I'm not making this up - it just happened :spinning:.
                         
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                          It is a real worry how little attention people pay to things like tyre pressures. I confess, being a bit of a petrolhead, I am one of those that checks everything on a fairly religious basis, and work on the principle that if it is fitted to a car it should work. The real worry of course is that someone with badly inflated tyres could very well be travelling in the opposite direction to us.... at speed.

                          Oddly enough, after I finish my coffee, I am off to replace sidelight bulbs in mine as they are so orange they look like there is a candle in there, and then I want to take a look at the bluetooth for the phone as a prior owner has disabled it - puzzling.
                           
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                            New sidelights fitted (LED) and they look great - and having not found any problems on my weekly bulb check on Saturday, I have a number plate light out. Thankfully, I have some spares in this box of LED ones and they are the same size, so that is a job for tomorrow.

                            Bluetooth reconnected, and working - have made a phonecall from the driveway to Mrs C in the house (she must have been dead excited to get a call from me, breaking her peace having only briefly got rid of me to the driveway.... :biggrin:) - a fairly successful day.
                             
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                            • alana

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                              Hope to start this year completely debt free so paying off all outstanding debts.
                               
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                                Went for a long walk and there was a stile with a broken foot plate which it made it diffcult for Miss Jiff to get over which we notice last time we went, so this time i took a hammer and some long screws and repaired the foot plate (hammer in screws :biggrin:)

                                A few years back a friend saided to me that there is a loud noise from the engine, i took a look but couldn't see anything, i pulled out the dipstick and to my :yikes: there wasn't a drop of oil in the engine :doh:they were driving it around like that for over a month and it's still going even now it has oil in it, lucky!
                                 
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