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[NickFitz]

Big walk duly completed. 9km, 10,500 steps. Went to one of my old locals, now permanently closed, just to see it.

[WTFH]

Its what I look for in a wife.

Welcome back! Did you come on your bike?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Walk walked.

I noted that the flytipped ornaments in the two carparks were removed yesterday.

Most impressed.

[vetran]

That may be a beneficial side effect, but AFIK it's something about proving that the lights are ready to come on should there be a power failure, or something like that. (Not entirely sure, though.)

Electricians aren't normally geniuses and frequently don't read the instructions so the manufacturers added a red / green (when green LEDs became cheaper) light to show they were charging, if you wire them wrong they look like they work but don't charge the battery.

Then realising there was a battery in there that degrades they started putting self tests and a red flashing led to show a fault, green suggesting they are ok.

Our H&S chap originally used to pop round and check the lights once a month as one should , eventually facilities took over.

[xoggoth]

Off for a toothpaste inspection soon. Fortunately got permission from a local school to use their car park when I do a remoter area on Sunday. Doubt they'd have wanted a ghastly old Jimmy Saville look alike to park there in the week.

[vetran]

I would never marry a CUK mod. I don't have many standards - but some things are too low even for me.

Not even Cojak? She seems nice....

[ladymuck]

Big walk duly completed. 9km, 10,500 steps. Went to one of my old locals, now permanently closed, just to see it.

If you take smaller steps, you'll reach the 10k daily target* in less distance







*the 10k daily step target being an utterly meaningless made up value
Watch your step: why the 10,000 daily goal is built on bad science | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian

[DoctorStrangelove]

Electricians aren't normally geniuses and frequently don't read the instructions so the manufacturers added a red / green (when green LEDs became cheaper) light to show they were charging, if you wire them wrong they look like they work but don't charge the battery.

Then realising there was a battery in there that degrades they started putting self tests and a red flashing led to show a fault, green suggesting they are ok.

Our H&S chap originally used to pop round and check the lights once a month as one should , eventually facilities took over.

Ye Olde Sloughe of Desponde had some of those nice self illuminated exit thingies with the tritium backlight. <- don't do this near tritium.

Of course, with a half life of 12 years, they were all but useless by the time I noticed one.

Anyone remember the trimphone?

That had a tritium backlight too.

The ongoing shed renovation has involved moving some ancient metal kitchen cabinet thing that's in there and hasn't moved in half a century or more probably 60 years.

Well it's fecking moved a bit now, revealing another patch that'll need concrete.

I may bugger off down to B&Q and get some more.

This was prompted by the arrival of the scaffolders who busily removed some more bits here and there, then fecked off leaving most of it untouched.

Lunch: Heinz leak & potato soup with Morrisons wholemeal sunflower and spelt bread, bramble jelly sandwich on same, red corner yog, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Thanks to Google maps & its distance thingie I found out that today's walk was 2 miles and 500 feet in elevation, whereas the walk I used to walk was 3.2 miles and the same elevation.

Must buy another pair of boots so I can ignore the mud and return to that.

The boots I bought from Treasure were comfortable, but being Chinese crap only lasted 6 months before splitting.

[ladymuck]

....This was prompted by the arrival of the scaffolders who busily removed some more bits here and there, then fecked off leaving most of it untouched.

....

I wonder if they're just taking the bits they're short of for another job and are craftily using your house as free storage? Although, I'd have thought those lorries they use are far more efficient and practical.

[DoctorStrangelove]

I wonder if they're just taking the bits they're short of for another job and are craftily using your house as free storage? Although, I'd have thought those lorries they use are far more efficient and practical.

Exactly that I suspect.

Not that it's a problem now the dish in the front bedroom can see the skysats again.

Surely reading instructions is for wimps?

Off for a toothpaste inspection soon. Fortunately got permission from a local school to use their car park when I do a remoter area on Sunday. Doubt they'd have wanted a ghastly old Jimmy Saville look alike to park there in the week.

Toothpase inspection? Que?

Anyway, just avoid saying "Hello Guys and Gals", "Clunk Click Every Trip", and "Let the train take the strain" and you'll be fine.