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  1. I recon an aspidistra would be easy eith death by dryness or bog .Unlike myself she has no regime so things suffer .A goldfishes memory (actually they have ok memories) due to her epilepsy don't help .I program most important things by Alexa (my memory is fading fast) the day before but she just forgets lol Love Alexa we have Alexa enabled stuff in every room and two sheds if something pops in my head i tell it to remind me because i know by experience going to write it down will be forgotten in seconds .Its also great on calenders it will tell me at set times before an event ,a week before so great for sending cards and the day before etc it will also keep reminding you every hour until you tell it to stop ,great for when something crops up and you forget after it reminds you at x time Not only am i a serial collector i am a serial planner ,sad chesters1 dont ask how long i research stuff before buying it That reminds me i got some date palms from seed last year ,no sign of them i guess they died under her care i had forgotten about them i grew several
  2. Yes they are the original version ,i just use the cheap granules in 1 ltr tubs aswell as a sprinkle of water retension crystals. I had problems over the years with blossom emd rot on one particular but very tasty tomato so i started using a expensive feed including calcium which countered it to a certain aspect but its stupidly expensive so this year i added a tablespoon of garden lime to each bucket (i grow my toms in builders buckets which sit in gravel trays full of water to stop splitting ) hopefully back to basics will be ok . Hopefully this year will be better than last and i can curse the sun vs the rain Not got any living potted houseplants my mrs easily kills spider planst and those chip shop succulants so anything else has no chance
  3. I bought some tomato feed from amazon .It was a concentrate that turns into 750 litres once diluted. What arrived was 2 x 5ltrs of pre made feed ,It means >99% is just water . Who on earth would use it? my watering can is 7 ltrs so i would be using a tenners worth of feed on perhaps two plants can this country get more crazy ! I can see the use of pre mixed say windscreen wash if you need a quick fill out in the wild but who doesnt have water in a garden ? Complained to Amazon it was not what i ordered and as it was to heavy (i recieved 2 ,i ordered one) to take to town on a bus and they said keep it ,not much to crow about though just 4 plants will laugh. On the other hand i also bought this ,boy theres some clever designers about .I spend ages trying to tie knots on ties or fiddling with tie wraps pinning canes into frames for my toms to play in ,no more!
  4. I cannot find anything that shakes cans so i made one https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o94ju8gw4zwb1dlclmoue/20250403_141236.mp4?rlkey=ggm7g5u8b4mm17dwxyolybhem&st=wdzfpum2&dl=0 Over the counter parts if your interested i will give links You cannot just attach it to something and spin it the paint doesnt mix, it needs to be slow so gravity is involved to move the paint aswell . If you suddenly see hundreds the chinese have grabbed my design but you saw it here first Couple of faults now its been used one of the nuts has to be a locking one ,the "bearings" are just a bit of pipe held in place with a nut , one unscrews in action lucky i have lots its not a backward thread like the other side which i had to buy reverse thread nuts for (which are locking) .And it will need a better stand its just clamped on a bit of plastic with a couple of lumps of iron on it but it needs something more robust .
  5. Even more of it ,cant be planes surely .I would hazard a guess the it that disapear mid flight are high enough to get some light from the sun then lose it as they sink lower and become dark. A purple it seems to have a freind 3 steps behind ,a moslem it?
  6. Lots more of it ,cant be planes surely the local air controller must be awsome ! Theres 8 buggers on a string lol
  7. Yes he says its sped up ,if you dont you hardly see anythiing .For an old (tech speaking) his Sony has an incredible ISO . Without speeding it up a casual glance would be very uninteresting .The comet looked good ,i tried when i bought my fuj SL1000 but it refused to focus lol plenty of zoom but nothing to see as it lacks manual focus.Perhaps i should take it out of auto and twiddle settings
  8. It was certainly busy .The trouble is unless its speeded up you dont notice them . Tthey must be very high as in realtime they hardly are seen moving . Unfortunately or rather fortunately we rarely get planes here just a few into Farnborough and they are not that far up when they come over so we dont know how many planes up in the stratosphere are plodding about . He uses infra red so without that few would ever be seen in real time
  9. I will let you decide what it are ! https://youtu.be/Va9MKFzGS7c?si=Qb3yHYdprIe5zC3H
  10. I think the dog did it then committed suicide .certainly a strange scenario
  11. Update the mrs is complaining the back of the handles is to cold to touch ,the ali strip bit. A: she shouldnt have broken it B: its a freezer its supposed to be cold
  12. I think a great number died of covid because it saved a great deal of paperwork and time to find the real cause . I still find it appalling people can be injured and go to hospital with a pretty mild injury but die from 'complications ' you are probably safer on many occasions to be left alone and kept away from hospital . I spent a great deal of time and money avoiding catching covid all through the pandemic yet caught it in hospital after suffering a nose bleed that wouldnt stop as i am on blood thinners because the waiting room was full of sick people . Victorians had hospitals that segregated 'broken ' people from sick people but we closed them ,go in with a broken leg come out with swamp fever ! Onr of my visits the doctor asked what i the apointment was about i said i dont know you made it! Now we predict the doctor will request BP reports and glucose reports so we do them email them in so he has to deal there and then ,its hard enough to get apointments as it is going home to do bp results THEN get another apointment to be prescibed some new pill is time consuming and expensive my mrs is on crutches and the bus stop a mile away so its £15 each way then a bus each way just to fobbed off. On a completely different tangent but its about 'broken' things ,my mrs had a small fit while opening the freezer ,she pulled out the drawer which fell on the floor (old ones didnt do that ,bloody progress!) anyway it broke a chunk out the handle and cracked the side so i looked for a new one £100 quid for a bit of ****ing plastic ! Thats a third of the freezers original cost ffs. Had to bodge it so put a strip of 3mm aluminium at the back of the long handle and a bit of white plastic along the front to hide the cracks where it was glued back together .scratched my head how to make it nice not only for fingers pulling on the handle but to make it safe as a pop rivet would work but have a sharp bit in a hard to get to bit and nuts would stick out aswell .Chicago bolts ... Brilliant ,but of difficulty getting them in from behind but once in looked brilliant and neat. Waiting for a stainless version coming from china but the cheap ones fine for the moment .the side was reinforced with a stainless 90 degree bracket with 5mm chicago bolts ,chesters aint going to waste money on something thats hidden 99% of its life! The freezer some hotpoint bit of crap has neen repaired twice in its short life but its designer needs shooting ,the two top flats just rest in place so if your packing has something just pointing out a fractions theres a great chance as you close the door it fals down just as you push it closed and you crack the hinges ,done both so far ,more bodging ! Our 66 year old fridge has one crack on its freezer section door and that was there when we bought it ,****ing progress!
  13. Only for the gullible. Hopefully when we get brexit things change
  14. Childs play lol Heres the Yukon one https://yukonquest.com/follow-the-race/w-the-race/
  15. The Mrs had a funny turn and was admitted as an emergency to Frimley Park with a BP of 256 over 112 (beat her old record of 233 over 110) couldnt fault the nurses .The doctors obviously fleeting between patients. First she was in A&E then swiftly moved to a side passage (oer mrs) on a trolley .About 10.30 pm ashe was put on a bed and was waiting for somewhere to put it in a ward. I left i was knackered having sat on the hardest of seats since 2 pm . She sms me later saying she was in a ward and next morning i went back ,i watched with horror how frail my mrs of 50 years was shes not old but obviously the high BP was wearing her down .During the hours of sitting on a different but even more badly designed chair the nurses flitted here and there taking BP and bloods .The mrs said she got about an hours sleep as a woman in the opposite bed kept jolting awake screaming and asking where she was .unfortunately dementia is a cruel thing for everyone .Her son sat holding her hand but occasionally she woke enough to open her eyes but she only knew him when he spoke .Cruel thing to say but perhaps a method of inducing a coma to make her sleep until her arm was fixed (there was a large bandage on it and a drain so i guess she had hurt herself badly) not just for a quiet life for those around but to stop upsetting the patient herself with the constant strange people taking blood and changing fluid bags etc. As usual nothing in the NHS talks to each other and a doctor used her phone(the mrs phone) to see what meds she was on (please fill in the'emergency ' bit on your phone .Its seen when your phone locks itself theres an emergency bit people can press and see the owners details ,next of kin ,what meds they are on etc.. That gave the doctor an idea of what she was already taking and showed she has Epilepsy and High blood pressure . She also asked if we had any info on previous BP numbers .We use an Omron BP machine so we had LOTS of fiqures lol. As i said the NHS refuses to talk to each other It has an NHS app Frimley Park doesnt use it it uses its own one ,our doctor uses a different app for the GP side and a further one for appointments .Its daft if we weren't tech savy we would have no chance of getting anything health wise .Anyway between the three we found not only her BP stuff we took but showed a ambulatory BP she had last august and all its figures showing she has high normal BP (forget what its called) occasionally usualy in the 150's is her "normal" . I left to get home at 4 pm giving me time to get 3 buses back .Next morning (today) i had a blood test so didnt get to frimley until 12.30 .She had moved again Opposite was an old lady ,text book granny .She was asleep but woke and asked where she was i said the doctor would be coming and have some sleep while she could and she went to sleep .She woke later and tried to get out of bed to go to the loo but it was obvious she had a catheter in so we said she wasnt allowed and i went to find a nurse to explain what one was .Trouble is caused by nurses NOT taking time to explain to patients what going on .Yes some forget so you repeat yourself but not all old people have dementia some just get confused because things are not explained to them.Little old lady took it in and dozed off again its surprising how loud frail old ladies snore ,even more how far up an old ladies nose you can see. Mrs had a CT scan of her brain ,nothing found (snigger) BP still 211 over 90 so coming down .Her food hadnt improved how they cook every bit of taste out i dont know my mrs ate half! Nothing has changed since i spent a week in there ,if your asleep you dont get a cup of tea ,if your asleep meal time and asleep when they collect the dishes you dont eat and the staff dont tell the nurses you havnt just like when i was in! Anyway the doctors could not find any cause of this high BP so gave up trying by the look of it and at 6.30 they let her go BUT the doctors completely buggered up her prescription they told us they had increased her meds for high BP but on getting home found they had actually reduced it thinking she was on 2Mg pills when she is on 4Mg (clearly shown on the 'emergency' list i had put on the mrs phone for just such an occasion ) i will have to fill in a stupid trick question form to find out what dose she should be on monday on the bloody appointment app from the doctors surgery ,never feel ill on a weekend your doctors surgery could be firmly shut for such things ,phoning 111 is pointless! They did find a reason on the exit paperwork its was probably "white coat syndrome" which is laughable shes not phased by hospitals in the slightest and how it was 228 before she even got there more of a clue ,shes probably been longer in hospital than the bloody doctors who saw to her . But shes home BP back to 165 which for her is pretty normal andd chatting on messenger to the kids . My arse wont recover! As i said i cant fault the staff the system sucks it needs tearing down,chuck out the thousands of pointless positions and start again Thinking about not one person wore a white coat so i guess the doctors insisted their patients enjoyed street dust ,spare dinner from the meals they ate and the germs from every patient they visted before for who knows how long ,at least white coats can be steam cleaned grubby jumpers probably not ! Blimey i am tired still ,she came home yesterday night i spent this morning checking the new tap in the kitchen i installed and rebuilt the water filter i dismantled to renew its filters that had been sitting waiting since Tuesday. PS the auto stop valve i fitted worked extremely well when a pipe i hadnt fully pushed in pushed out!
  16. Yes i went back to basics a decade or so ago and found it very refreshing ,long gone are boxes on wheels transporting stuff you never use (i remember a trip back from sea fishing with a box a big bag and a huge rod bag and found the train from folkestone to bromley had been substituted for a great deal of the trip by a double decker and i had to take the lot upstairs as the bottom was full .A truly bad trip) Now if i cannot cram it all in my pockets and a small cross body bag it doesnt go .What do you really need , hooks ,shot ,bait ,disgorger or forceps and a few floats or ledgers and such and thats it ,i dont even go for that long i need food but i have a stainless 1ltr bottle for a drink on a strap and the rod and landing net in my hand .
  17. Very sorry to hear this Steve ( sorry the horrer of the thought of my mrs going confused me).I hope you look after yourself in this terrible time Unfortunately those with spouses have to go through this but i hope i go first i dont think i could go through the darkness if my wife of 50 years died . My thoughts are with you .Dave
  18. All up and running ,at the moment both the broadband and the router are off grid .You have to run the machine flat then charge it so this post is off grid aswell .Its seems to have about 8 hours use judging by it having one bar missing from start off and now one left . It all depends on whats plugged in ofcourse and if the broadband itself is down from the sub station but thats miles away so local brown outs (strange term is electric brown when its not doing electric stuff?) should be catered for . Even my mrs messenger thing should still work its got batteries and i made my echo show 8 have battery backup so Alexa can tell me its time for pills and shopping online viable . https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/w45jdaeysuzlvw4p0ntaf/20250112_122134.jpg?rlkey=xokcuc8rp5mp4zm46we7e4zr3&st=6i7vb41r&dl=0 Not tried the battery going into the PV input yet my leisure battery is a big beast so it will be hooked up in the summer when the warmer weather comes .The leads made along with its current restrictor and if it can charge at 18w (why such a small imput?) it would be putting in more than the ups is outputting (on minimum like today ,once you start chaking phones and tablets that will rise) so thats great.Puzzling why it can output 45w but only take 18w, obviously a bad design imho All bars have gone half an hour ago so waiting until screen goes black ,then plug it in mains and hopefully keep going Machine switched off , broadband went ten minutes before that ,plugged it in to mains and within 4 minutes everything back to normal ,Alexa had a bit of a fit using a different voice but back to normal once it was shown the right wifi to use (reverted to the shed wifi which only connects to a couple of cameras) In all touch wood it seems ok ,now to enjoy 5 years of no power cuts DOH Shed wifi playing up it uses a powerline device to take broadband from sender by router to first shed where its connected by network cable into a wifi point in third shed ,wifi is a pain ,unplugging wifi point in first shed and third shed sorts it, it resets and is happy again .My advice is never use wifi cameras ,try not to use network cable cameras and if possible use the old bnc versions ours has never glitched once ,the response time is far faster than the other two and i use cat 7 and 8 cables and decent switches so its not a slow setup .
  19. Mines never going to be finished ,i found another box version which i bought last week but theres still gaps .I probably am missing 15 -20 boxes mostly very late and ofcourse the unknown ones but Morritt appeared to have a sequence in boxes the initial posh box then blue ones ,a striped one and a wavy line one under gladding .The reels are easy most have pamphlets or adverts showing them the boxes hard because there no mention of them bar spotting them on ebay
  20. I can see a problem with initial line lay but that should sort itself first cast .I presume the line spool holder has a way to stop the spool running to free a spring or something pushing against the spool ? Whats holing it down thats a very tiny base
  21. An old guy used to have a trailer on his car ,inside that trailer was a 4 wheel scooter and a little trailer .He simply opened the end (which was a ramp) backed out and went to the swim of his choice .He was really shaky on his legs so a rollator beyond him . If the pond has fairly flat paths and the rollator has 4 big wheels i cant see a problem ,the old guy two doors away used his for not only transporting himself but put heavy stuff on the seat but did have trouble getting over the tiniest of bumps ,hard wheels are not as good as air filled (ok i couldnt spell the P word) Dont use a 3 wheeled version they tip over very easily
  22. I just wish i was there
  23. Sounds like my mrs on sex night ,well perhaps not the singing
  24. Its about the same as my mrs £10 christmas bonus because shes a raspberry ripple ,it wouldnt even get her to town by taxi to spend it
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