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[NickFitz]

I'm pretty certain they've cocked it up

I was keeping a watch as they made various drops around the northeast of the city until I was next. Then map showed them on the next road, over by the park! So I headed downstairs and out to the road, ready to meet them… except then the site stopped showing me as next, and they were off delivering somewhere down near the station. Further investigation shows that the place they stopped nearby for a few minutes has the same postcode as my place except for one letter - and the differing letters are right next to each other on the keyboard

So I'm now convinced, as I watch them making their fourth delivery since they came within two hundred yards of here, that they've fat-fingered the postcode, somehow failed to notice that the name of the road they were on was different, shrugged, and given up

[NickFitz]

That's easier than you might think. Chock it underneath when it's open enough to reach the hinges. Take out two screws from each hinge, then remove the last three from the bottom hinge upwards. To put it back, put it back in the chocks, screw in one screw in the top hinge to support it in place, then one in the other two hinges, then the rest. It should be back where it started.

For chocks I use three wedges along the width of the door (one to the left, two to the right) to keep it level.

Cheers, mal! Only two hinges on my doors, though the same general method applies

When looking on RightMove at other flats in the block, I've noticed that quite a few have had fancy doors installed, but I reckon my featureless white-painted ones are probably the originals from when the place was built in the early 1960s

Back in the mid-1980s I got sent on a couple of training courses in Instructional Techniques as part of my short-lived work training the long-term unemployed in IT. One time we were split into groups with the exercise of preparing and presenting a detailed explanation of how to do some task. One group was all older tradesmen, and they gave an excellent presentation on how to hang a door! It was nearly forty years ago, but from what I recollect it was the same process as you describe

I've just been back out there with the tape measure and I reckon they should be able to get it in, though it'll be a tight squeeze. Mind you, for the last hour or so they've been on delivery 19 in Melton Mowbray. I'm now supposed to expect them between 16:30 and 18:30, but I'm pretty sure they won't manage five more jobs plus the journey down the A607 in the next half hour. I'm starting to worry that I'll be getting a message saying "Sorry, ran out of time, got to reschedule"

[malvolio]

snip...

If the whole kitchen door needs to come off…

That's easier than you might think. Chock it underneath when it's open enough to reach the hinges. Take out two screws from each hinge, then remove the last three from the bottom hinge upwards. To put it back, put it back in the chocks, screw in one screw in the top hinge to support it in place, then one in the other two hinges, then the rest. It should be back where it started.

For chocks I use three wedges along the width of the door (one to the left, two to the right) to keep it level.

[NickFitz]

The delivery folk are currently on stop 10, with mine being 26. The estimated time of arrival is now between 15:52 and 19:52

But I've no idea how reliable their time estimation algorithm is, of course

[ladymuck]

Morning all

There was sunshine when I got up but that's been replaced by cloud. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 23 expected. The sun may reappear occasionally. Barometer up to 1022 mBar.

Sunrise 05:58; Sunset 20:09 BST

The day started with me realising, while being incensed by an interview on R4, that I had a meeting at 9 am. I was up and logged on in plenty of time, with a coffee. Two meetings now done and I'm having some toast.

The quote for the repairs to my car came in at north of £6k incl VAT. That's more than the car is worth but my brother says the cost doesn't really matter if I have no intention of selling it. The rust on the rear wheel arch is worse than I'd deluded myself into thinking, seeing as I've known it's needed attention for several years now. I'll think on it for a few days. The quote is good for three months, which gives me time to plan how to pay for it should I go ahead.

[NickFitz]

The flat's hallway has now been cleared of clutter, providing all the access they're going to get for delivering the washer-dryer short of taking a few walls out, which is forbidden by the terms of the lease. I even vacuumed it! Surprising how much dust gathers in a wholly interior space

And Amazon have just delivered some cheap runners which I'll put down to protect my lovely 1960s parquet floor

The tricky bit is going to be the kitchen door, where they'll have to sort of pivot it to get between the units within and the doorframe. There's a corner cupboard whose door I could remove, which would give them an extra couple of inches. But I won't bother with anything like that unless the situation demands it; it'll only take a minute to remove it if it's needed, but then I'd have the tricky business of putting it back on

If the whole kitchen door needs to come off…

[xoggoth]

Back from hotel stay after nephew wedding. As usual it was me got the loony dancing going.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start here, though there's also cloud around and it'll get cloudier by lunchtime. It's still warm enough but not too warm, being 16°C with a goal of 20° this afternoon. The barometers are back up a bit, at 1010/1018mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday?

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cooler in here at 19.3 deg, 19.5 in the kitchen, 17.5 in the leanto.

1016 mBar, 30 in Hg, 762.1 Torr, 14.74 psi, (up from 1015 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 10th of February 2020 NF was unimpressed with the pace of the first eps of "Picard", WTFH was wondering if he could finesse another trip to Memphis, Brillo was railing at the lack of trains, BR14 popped in, opm declared it was raining in Manchester (quelle surprise), and it was equally fine around here (ditto).

Walk (towpath) walked in the sunshine. Quite warm in places.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4 green bollox <click> 13 o'clock news: <click> when the Zionist apologist started spouting lies.

[NickFitz]

I read some more of The Rewind Files tonight, in which confusion grows around who exactly is responsible for Watergate, and whether it's supposed to have been stopped or not

Early night now as I'll need to make sure everything's ready for the washer-dryer stuff tomorrow morning. This will include moving some stuff in the hall, which is really an L-shaped corridor running through the flat to the kitchen.

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Ah! That all connects up rather nicely.

The plot thickens! There's also Goose Bay Airport which is probably the one Shute was referring to, built during the war and now largely a military airfield, though it does have some commercial flights as well. According to that Wikipedia article, it was named Goose because they already had an airfield named Gander

[ladymuck]

I didn't know that specific fact, but thanks to Nevil Shute I did know that Gander is the location of an airport that was part of the transatlantic air routes in the days before planes could make it across in one go. And there's also a water aerodrome for seaplanes called Goose

Ah! That all connects up rather nicely.

[NickFitz]

As an aside, did you know that Gander is the name for the oceanic airspace between the east coast of Canada and roughly halfway across the Atlantic?

I didn't know that specific fact, but thanks to Nevil Shute I did know that Gander is the location of an airport that was part of the transatlantic air routes in the days before planes could make it across in one go. And there's also a water aerodrome for seaplanes called Goose

[NickFitz]

Tea has been sausages and chips

And I'm finally on to the new series of the motorway cops thing, which is now with Humberside police who at least have a few more motorways

[ladymuck]

Turned out sunny here too, this afternoon.

There's been a flurry of activity this morning/early afternoon.

The landlady turned up with a brickie to see what could be done about the garden wall that the tree was pushing over. They think it ought to come down entirely and be rebuilt. I can see a huge increase in my rent next year if I decide to stay put. If the quote is to her liking then hopefully the work could be done while I'm away at the beginning of September.

Then I called a car body workshop (what they'd call a coachworks back in the day and what the company call themselves too, I was pleased to observe) to see if they needed an appointment for giving my car a once-over for quotation purposes. They advised such formalities were not necessary so I off I toddled to the outskirts of Watford going past RAF Northolt and having a gander at Ruislip high street on the way.

As an aside, did you know that Gander is the name for the oceanic airspace between the east coast of Canada and roughly halfway across the Atlantic?

I also called a local independent optometrist to make an appointment for a sight examination.