ok ... fast forward a few days to
June 17th Had been a bitty few days .. weather had been on / off .. Pam got the strimmer out on the Sunday morning, to give the edge of the lawn a trim, so's I could give it a seeing to
... ankle deep after several wet days last week ... and it didn't wanna
play ball .. unusually?? ....
no
fuel getting to the primer
bulb?
so out with the tools - got it apart and me phone rings .. Vicki on her way up with some of our shopping, she'd picked up, whilst in town doing hers ..
so said strimmer got left, whilst I went and opened the gates .. ... 'Monkey' in the back, so a pleasant distraction for an hour or so .... wanted to go out in the field to pick some flowers for Granny ..
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200614_15_22_58_Pro_zpsg19vmmu4.jpgshe is growing so quickly even from one visit to the next, it's noticeable ... when we saw her most days it wasn't quite so obvious
Visits don't seem to last long
back to the husqy and all its fuel pipes hard hardened to the point they were
drawing air ... been sooooome time since I last did them ...
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Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200614_17_11_35_Pro_zpsjatxutcs.jpgmust remember to put some new line on the 'shopping
list' ... try to keep spares for most things as it's always a Sunday when they're needed most
so with that sorted and Pam dealing with the edges I went an' massacred the grass beside the drive ... was some bit long and left a serious trail behind the Dane
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200614_20_13_35_Pro_zpssvctlzze.jpgwhich'd need the Countax's collector ..... sod raking that lot up
Collector full off the lawn .... then several more off here ..
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Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200615_16_09_32_Pro_zpsnhgbvzkb.jpgit's steeper than it looks and is a hang yer bum off the side of the seat job to maintain traction to achieve the 'manicured' look
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200615_20_09_35_Pro_zpsobxjafp7.jpggot a couple of coats of paint on these
yesterday .....
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200615_20_08_43_Pro_zpsdj47r5qi.jpgwere badly in need of a freshen up .......
Squirrels are now taking the piss with their dining habits .......
Sunday morning
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200615_20_11_35_Pro_zpshsm5fry1.jpgMonday morning
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200616_09_43_24_Pro_zpsemwy5qqi.jpglil' buggers
Pam now has a collection of clean 40mm stones by the back
door, to lob at them
After the Husqy's temperamentallity Sunday, the Dyson decided to join in
this morning ....
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200616_13_53_46_Pro_zpsgf3cvz0r.jpg
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200616_13_54_33_Pro_zpsql4giu5g.jpgamazing what constant flexing will do to a mains lead .... Someone'd obviously been in there before (this'd been a ten quid bargain at a local auction house, probably 7 or 8 years ago and has been brilliant)
New connections made and a good 150psi blast out of every nook and cranny, whilst on me bench .. it gets one every month or so ... and 'twas like a new one again - awesome suction on these DC01s
been rained on a few times
today - HARD!! so only odds and sods done for me, especially with the various interuptions ... Pam appears with a bottle of old cooking
oil in her one hand (great fire starter fluid) and said 'chip' pan in t'other ... had I got anything that'd get this a bit cleaner than her efforts with the soap had ..... Carb cleaner's not a lot of cop
... but thinners
is a lot better
but some of it was welded on
.... especially on the base ..
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200616_16_17_49_Pro_zps4gxotees.jpgit had to have it
...... that brush is now a fearsome tool with 80% of its bristle length diminished ..... Pam was impressed when it went back to the kitchen half an hour later
the
red Thai chicken went down very well afterwards ....... and so too did a dish full of strawberries that evening .. sod the reactions ... I took me chances ... hadn't had any for several days .... but must confess to feeling pretty itchy again on the arms that night .. no rash
as yet though !!
Got a letter
yesterday morning from ..................... the bloody NHS fella ... again .... 16th August FFS
...... and now't to say it won't happen again then ....... 16th March was the last time I went from here on a major stock up shopping expedition
been putting off getting all sorts delivered ..... it's gonna have to happen ... pallet collection booked
this evening ... and several other items I've been delaying ordering'll get sorted too ... I understand it, but FFS .... it's getting a tad frustrating now !!
june 18thwell the squirrel had a good brekky
this morning .....
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200617_11_08_35_Pro_zpsh8eet6fv.jpgPam salvaged a few for us though
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200617_13_23_09_Pro_zpswaxlyjap.jpgleast she had 'til 'The Lil' Monkey' and her mum turned up with the rest of our shop that she couldn't get at the weekend, and they mysteriously vanished !!!
first thing on Clara's agenda ..... after blowing kisses at granny was ..... beat seven shades out of the rocks ...
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200617_14_18_13_Pro_zpssu7nxqw6.jpgnever ceases to amuse her ....... followed by some
generator washing off with a
bucket and brush, which
'degenerated' into a water fight ..... needless to say, guess who got the wettest .. Pam has some pix apparently - not seen 'em yet
..... giving her the high
ground ....
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but not satisfied with being two feet above my head, with a bucketful of water and a tin can to lob it with, she had to
'go for it' .....
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200617_14_49_52_Pro_zpsh5dowoko.jpgand no, grand dad did not take the opportunity for revenge on a 'sitting duck' target
she really misses nursery and all her friends .. so amusing her when she appears for an hour or so is a must do
.. but sadly doesn't last for long
had a couple of hours later, after they'd departed, juggling some 'stuff' about, getting at some of me
gear that's been slung into various corners and enable me to have a n other patch square up ... sort of .. get some of me att.s more accessible for some TLC and rationalise the spaces some of 'em had vacated ...
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Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/buckets/WP_20200617_18_55_56_Pro_zpsxb5tyxau.jpga 'perfect lift' on me walker ... first time ..
easier than walking it across for sure ..
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/buckets/WP_20200617_19_23_56_Pro_zpskg4hctxz.jpgbe handy to have someone on the deck, lining up a landing sometimes though
... but I can usually juggle it about with a nudge here and there ...
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Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/buckets/WP_20200617_19_31_20_Pro_zpsfjbsbhxi.jpgif it doesn't throw it down, I might get all the rest of the various sundry odds and sods sorted and relocated
tomorrow ... VA-r and forks time for that lot
also got a serious quantity of dead leaves cleared up from where this lot'd been sat .... third or fourth bin-full I've burnt, that I've been able to get at ... they're bloody everywhere
needed to order some more HBZP
tomorrowjune 23rdthese are 'granny's pix from the water fight ......
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/soaked_zpsi5qradiq.jpggranny giving her the
hose pipe was not sporting
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/hose_zps52nost6h.jpgand mummy bought her some BIG water pistols, which she arrived with today .... I left my phone in the house, to keep it dry .. so no pix from me, 'til after the water fight'd stopped ... and jake'd become the centre of attention again .. she's not been in there in a while
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200622_17_15_26_Pro_zpsxjqtjifu.jpgone day we'll have run it up ....... with plenty of space around it
then she had to 'fix' the headlights on the disco ....
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200622_17_25_14_Pro_zpssgnrqvyz.jpgwith 'her' spanner ...... all I had to do was find where she left it afterwards
I'd been making a little progress on me patch sort out ..
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/my%20bucket%202/WP_20200621_12_22_24_Pro_zpswgffr4jw.jpgand now have a lot of various piles of sleepers and timber all in one spot .. almost
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/my%20bucket%202/WP_20200621_18_30_29_Pro_zpse5gcvepu.jpgand a pile of knackered stuff to block up for the firewood basket ...... plus a lot more of those bloody leaves cleared up and 'incinerated'
Pam's birthday Saturday (20th) and she 'ventured out' to our local nursery for a 'click and collect' mission ..... she'd had
green itchy fingers for weeks ... so said "
forcrisesakes, go and get what you want " .. came back with two
car fulls ....
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200620_12_46_04_Pro_zpsmbadu4py.jpgkept her busy Sunday ..
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200621_18_39_10_Pro_zpspff4pzjb.jpgmust say, looked better than the weeds which'd gotten them selves well established in her planters
had a
'visitor' on the Friday !!...After a phone call cry for help .... Simon and a problem, as usual ... could I get this spindle out of this
pulley ?...
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200619_12_01_38_Pro_zpsu9omiqur.jpgdidn't quite anticipate such a beast
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200619_12_01_33_Pro_zps6ecc44qb.jpgand of course it had to pee down, just as we were having a go .... came out bushes an' all, which was a real bonus ...... all socially distanced .. of course ........ and of course ...... it came out
this was the amount of water we'd had drop out the sky on the Thursday night ...
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200620_10_09_22_Pro_zpshtulmgod.jpgI'd emptied both of 'em on the wed.s evening .. with a similar level from earlier in the week ... was some bit wet here .......
and Pam beat the squirrel to these .......
Originalets URL: https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y450/v8druid/scans%202/WP_20200619_10_15_26_Pro_zpsbujyzorn.jpgnewly planted tree earlier this year, so was surprised to see it fruit ........ t'other tree's haven't ripened yet, but we're gonna have to beat the squirrels and the birds to those
not a lot done
today, 'tween a 'hamster juice' morning and entertaining the 'monkey' this afters, so's Vicki could get some work done, for a return to school, Thursday ..... really did not see the point TBH, for the last two weeks of term, with 25% of the kids, for what will essentially be a 'baby sitting' exercise FFS
:
Was 'sposed to be a pretty nice day
tomorrow, so can get on again and have a n other squaring session ...... wished the bloody wind'd drop though ... been pretty rough here all that day ... nice in the sun if you could get out of the hooley
It´s fun but now I´m sort of worn out 
**** !!!!
