What have you done today

[crump]

We spent the morning emptying the garden shed, sorting out anything to go to the skips and then putting everything else back tidily. that's now the shed, the loft and the garage all sorted.....for now, till we acuire another load of crap to be sorted in the future.

[2112]

A shed tidy is on the cards for next week. I have a set of racking that didn't fit in the garage to go into the shed, should tidy things up a bit.

[Upt North]

My garage is my shed, it just is.
I started today with a tidy garage but with a new intergrated dishwashing machine waiting to go in.
I no longer have the dishwasher in the garage but the garage looks like a North Korean missile exploded in there.
Pffffffftttttt.
I'll tidy it tomorrow.

[Brockett]

My next bike

[nigel s]

Is it just my screen ..or is the front wheel a different colour to the back....
Don't see that often............I think I like it   

[Asmith61]

Nice Brockett      I think you are Right nigel s if you look closely the frame is two tone the light blue merge in to the black/ dark blue and if you look the top rim of the rear wheel is the light blue.   I think I like it too 

[MisterDavey]

Great looking machine Brockett.
Looks like a lot of fun.

[Brockett]

I have put my spelling hat on and found another "R" so it's Guerrilla. I have always struggled with spelling. My disordered brain ... If I was a superhero I would be Captain Chaos. The opposite of the OCD that mean other people like orderly lines and neat rows. I have great difficulty remembering sequences or linear processes. I can just about manage the alphabet but sometimes have to start five letters back. Darts is a good game as I can look at a board devoid of sequence and still know where everything is. 
Diet day 21

[2112]

Going well Brockett 

[TLPower]

I must say I'm very impressed Brockett and thank you so much for the tip-off regarding your new bike purchases.

As you always spend a small fortune at Pyramid Plastics with every new bike, I bought shares and made a bundle. 

Congratulations.

[2112]

    

[Brockett]

You are, as always, very welcome.

[Rusty Nuts]

TL making money out of a pyramid scheme? Grifter.

[Phild]

Took two of the Grandkids to the Helicopter Museum (Weston-super-Mare) today.

Various military enactment clubs were there….. great day.👍

But still bikes involved…

[2112]

Today, it was an early start in the garden with a bout of weedkilling, then it was time to strim & cut the grass front and rear, trim some shrubs and then water the pot plants. Phew. While this was going on the car's been plugged in taking advantage of all this solar energy, another 160 miles of 'free' motoring has gone into the battery today. Nice.

P.S. if you've seen the news regarding the massive power outage in Portugal & Spain, my 'educated guess' is frequency drift leading to a cascade failure. The Spanish have never been good at sticking to 50hz and seem more paranoid in keeping the voltage in check. This is OK until you get a sudden increase or decrease in supply when at which point frequency can deteriorate rapidly. As soon as you get to 48.5hz (or 51.5hz) things start to happen automatically to 'protect' the network, at 47.5hz (or 52.5hz) circuit breakers start to open which can mean blackouts for some. This then cascades through the network causing frequency variations (both up and down) and more blackouts. We studied the Spanish grid for a client a few years ago, it's not as healthy as it should be an needs a LOT more battery storage to cope with events like this.

[Brockett]

Yes well... I am trying to lose a few pounds but golly a trip to the opticians and whooooosh! away went 400 of em.

[Rusty Nuts]

Only £400? Gone for a monocle, then?

[mr_diver]

On Saturday, I dragged our little trailer out of the back of the garage (had to move Jen's bike, which she saw for the first time since last September and proves I haven't sold it  )

We're away camping this weekend and we wanted Jen to have a bit of practice driving with the trailer just incase, mainly reversing it as she's never towed anything before. Neither had I until we bought it last autumn but I've used it a few times for tip runs and checking everything was OK after I'd replaced wheel bearings and general tidy up and grease what needs it ect.

She did manage to reverse bay park it after a couple of attempts, my daughter found it hilarious watching us be teacher and student, with things like "turn it the opposite way to start your turn" "now reverse the angle" "stop, don't drive into your own trailer" 

It was a nice turn about as she likes to say she taught me to drive as I only passed my car test in 2020 and here I am showing her how to reverse a trailer. (In fact an old squady taught me to drive in a mk2 Land Rover while towing a boat when I 15, but we won't talk about that)

[MisterDavey]

The smaller the trailer, the more difficult it is to reverse. I learned trailer skills from having a jet-ski, all I could ever see for direction were the handlebars.
Now I tow a 16ft flatbed trailer 3-4 times per week.

[MisterDavey]

Scrapped it.
"To receive the full value, the vehicle must be complete and undamaged".
So matey slings a chain through the open doors, and once on, rests the bloody great Palfinger crane on it 🙄