Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

We have this thread on TilersForums.com and it's just been restarted because the old thread had 20,000 replies and 500,000 views. And there were 700 pages. Started to lag a bit on slow connections.

I think we had a bash of this before, but I can't find the thread, so thought I'd start another one off.

If you have time in the mornings, come post in the thread before you head off to work, let us know what you've got on and what the weather is like in your area etc. Anything at all is fine.

Posts and likes get counted towards your total stats in this thread.

So GOOOD MORNING PEOPLE - WEATHER IS NICE TODAY IN STOKE. I'M THANKFUL IT'S FRIDAY, HAD A RUBBISH WEEK. THANK GOD IT'S OVER.

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[Lou]

Its FRI-YAY!

And completely pouring down. got some running about to do before a night out at the theatre - The most not refined show ever - the Leigh Francis one (bloke who does Keith Lemon - big in the 00s. Should be a hoot!

Have you got any Friday night plans or weekend plans?

 

[littlespark]

So is this Leigh Francis as Leigh Francis? Or as Lemon??
He was also Avid Merrion from Bo Selecta… came up with one of the best modern classic Christmas songs “proper crimbo”

 

[Moley]

This weekend is expensive. My son passed his driving test last week. Saw a car he liked so,

Tomorrow Car £995
Tonight Insurance £2300
Tomorrow Roadtax £180
Tomorrow, 1st tank of petrol £????

Looks like I need some overtime :-(

 

[Lou]

So is this Leigh Francis as Leigh Francis? Or as Lemon??
He was also Avid Merrion from Bo Selecta… came up with one of the best modern classic Christmas songs “proper crimbo”

Haha yeah the best ever song at Christmas. He was doing a selection of his characters - it was pretty good!

How is everyone doing this morning?

 

[littlespark]

I couldn’t get onto forum this morning…. Seems ok now.


Over the past weekend, I’ve had to push my DIY skills to the limit.

Mechanic; the girls’ little Kia had a broken windscreen washer bottle. Had to remove the wheel and the plastic liner out the wheel arch to access the bottle, which is in the most awkward position actually inside the wing. Its sat on its jack, minus a wheel, for a few days until a replacement pump turned up.

Joinery; rear door to house wouldn’t lock. It’s a multipoint locking mechanism, and a broken part within the lock gears stopped the top and bottom bolts from moving. Had to remove entire lock from door, dismantle the gear box to remove the broken part… put it all back together and manage with only the centre dead lock working.
Bought a new gear box that fitted the existing workings and got it all working… but now really stiff to lock compared with how it was.

Plumbing; main bathroom toilet cistern hissing and taking an age to fill. Messed around with the diaphragm washer… replaced with what I thought was a spare new one, to find it was a split one that I had replaced before and didn’t throw away. All the fiddling with the isolator valve, opening and closing, and it develops a leak…. So a trip to screwfix on a Sunday for a new valve and a whole replacement filling assembly.


And this is why I don’t mind helping non electricians with simple stuff in our DIY section.

 

[nicebutdim]

Joinery; rear door to house wouldn’t lock. It’s a multipoint locking mechanism, and a broken part within the lock gears stopped the top and bottom bolts from moving. Had to remove entire lock from door, dismantle the gear box to remove the broken part… put it all back together and manage with only the centre dead lock working.
Bought a new gear box that fitted the existing workings and got it all working… but now really stiff to lock compared with how it was.

That's not joinery.

Any self-respecting joiner would have thrown the whole lot out and chiselled in something of completely different dimensions, leaving a huge gaping hole where the old one had been.

 

[Lou]

It is Friday again!

@littlespark that was a lot of DIY you did there, are you having a weekend off?

 

[pirate]

Today is recovery day for me after a long day yesterday giving a helping pair of hands to another forum member who was installing an EV charger. Long cable runs up an external wall into the attic and much crawling about up there, so my old bones and knees need a day or two to recover.
Later today it's shopping time in preparation for Pie Day tomorrow with 2 friends. To clarify, we are celebrating Pi day which as you may know is officially March 14th, but my friends can't make that mid-week date so we have brought it forward to tomorrow.
The star of the show is of course a fabulous steak pie with all the usual trimmings, but we will have a soup starter and a dessert of Magnums!
We will be wearing our special Pi inspired t-shirts!
We will start the day with 9 holes of golf, and there will be some wine consumed...
Incidentally, on the topic of food, I was trying some Genetically Modified grub last week, and I can report that the leg of salmon was disgusting!
On Sunday I am going to the Rufus Wainwright concert with my sister, whose hubby has a broken leg so can't attend. Wouldn't be my choice albeit I am a fan of Rufus's father Loudon Wainwright the third. Fun Fact, omitting the details, Rufus's daughter is the granddaughter of Leonard Cohen...

 

[littlespark]

It is Friday again!

@littlespark that was a lot of DIY you did there, are you having a weekend off?

I wish!

We are going into town tomorrow morning to look at bathroom showrooms.

Another DIY job was to change the shower door in the en-suite.
That has now become: “we could wet wall the shower cubicle…..”
Which then became: “why don’t we wet wall the entire room”
Add in: “can we change the radiator to a towel rail”
And my own fault, I added : “electric underfloor heating and new downlights and fan….”


So a couple hundred quid on a new shower door has escalated somewhat.


“We could do the same in the main bathroom next year”…..

Now…. Does anyone know a good tiler for the floor?

 

[Rockingit]

So on a Friday we have a little tradition that neither of us can say when we started it - 2p's friday: Prosecco & Pizza. Nothing elaborate or expensive, but the end of every week we find something positive that's happened, or some other reason, to toast the end of the week. Sometimes it's something obvious, sometimes it's as little as not having actually killed each other over an argument and still being together, but it's just a moment of stillness and acknowledgement of the challenges that life brings along with the joy of succeeding. And that's something that we can do even when I'm away - a quick video call, each of us with a glass of something (always interesting if it happens to be breakfast in my time zone...). And then when I'm home we do the Pizza bit - I'll be knocking up some dough to start proving in a bit, and then we each have a pizza-off as to who can make the prettiest or tastiest pizza whilst doing some kitchen disco. Before then collapsing in front of some boxset!

 

[pirate]

Prosecco and Pizza! Go for it!
Always go for a goal...food and drink!
Living the dream...

 

[Dan]

Morning everyone! Hope you're all doing okay. Monday. Boooooo. Roll on friday.

What work have you got on this week?
Anything interesting?

 

[Moley]

Well, left home (S.Wales) around 6.15. Drove to Kent. Took an oil sample from a transformer. Now driving to Sheffield for the night. Should get to the hotel around 6pm. Tomorrow is similar. Power station in Sheffield, take an oil sample. Give a bit of training on an online gas analyser then drive to Runcorn. Wednesday, take 3 oil samples, analyse them on site then drive to Birminham.

 

[littlespark]

What is your annual mileage, @Moley ?
And hence, carbon footprint?

You’de be better off with a full EV

 

[Moley]

Annual isn't too bad. Usually around 25k. Most of the time I drive to a hotel Sunday/Monday and then it's just short trips hotel to site and back then Friday drive home. Full EV would be no good. I would spend too much time charging. Plus, not sure if there is a full EV Transit Custom