Home Improvements
 

It's raining for the first time in weeks this morning (at least it'll temporarily stop the farmers from moaning) so I decided to put in the latest home improvement in the kitchen, behind the door where only I'll know about it.

Since retiring I've done a lot of these, power shower, central heating boiler, consumer unit, networking ... but I think this might well be my favourite ... :D

It's defective Bob - there's an empty optic! :eek:

:D

Yeah .... I haven't got a bottle to go on that one. I'm trying to think of something .... :rolleyes:

Cap'n Morgan?

Now that's a plan .....:D

Coke for tea-total friends? No, poor idea, doubt you've got any of them wierdos.:cool:

Verrry nice Bob. Got to say I admire your taste in wood shelving units....
Or am I missing something:)

No. I have a sort of OCD about blank walls, I immediately want to put a shelf on them. :D:eek:

With me it's clocks but I've run out of useable walls.

Can't deny I'm a bit of a clock man myself ... :rolleyes:

But I do wonder of what use a clock might be in a time machine ... :eek::D

Speedometer?

I would like to see a handy fire extinguisher in the Shack Bob.

That's probably a good idea given the amount of electrics I've put in there. I'll do that. A smoke detector too.:cool:

bob
 

a jack daniels would be a good companion just in case I dropped in like ?

I was going to come across and test your optics Bob. Some bar stewards nicked the seat off my bike.....LOL

Tonight they get their first test having filled the remaining optic with Captain Morgans after taking thread advice.
The ice machine is on, the coke is cooling. Venezuela (Cornish style) here I come. :eek:

Four Bells would have been better, but sadly no more, tear in the eye, ahm now greetin'

Haven't seen that for many years Gordon (in fact, since I left the sea.) But it was the standard as I remember it. :rolleyes:

we used to get "Caroni 90" for our Tot's back in 1962. Not bad but then again not like the real thing,.

I just joined the site so that I could see Bob Clay's home improvements. Very nice!

I Googled 4 Bells, it looks as though it can be bought from a German website. Pricey though.

This is the stuff we had in the early 60's

The best rum I used to get out of bond was called Black Negrita. The bottle had raffia wrapped round it. It was good for sea sickness . The cure was recommended to me by an a.b. on the first ship I sailed on, a coaster. I found it did not work for everyone. The cook tried it and was seasick in the galley sink. Yuk.

:D

The words of Nobel prize winning scientist Richard Feynman comes to mind on that one:

"No matter how beautiful your theory is, if it doesn't agree with experiment, then it's wrong."

:D:D

Thank you Bob for those pearls of wisdom. The cook did threaten to fill me in but when I told him who gave the advice he backed off. I was, in my own defence, a snot nosed O/S.

Believe me, Mr Feynman's words have come back to haunt me with some of my theories ..... :D:eek:

Couple of years ago in a moment of madness I decided to put ceiling fans in all of my rooms (it was after a particularly hot summers day had ney on boiled me alive.) So away I went, living room, computer room, bedrooms, kitchen ... installing ceiling fans (much easier in a bungalow) and wiring them all in. Even bought a couple of duds and repaired them for use (hint: most ceiling fans have two faults ... the switches, speed and light, and the capacitor. These are easily bought a replaced.)

I gotta tell ya, today (it's bloody hot) am I ever glad to have them. :big_tongue:

Simply buy a Victorian house with 10 foot height rooms. Can be chilly when the winter comes.

Errrrr ... fans are cheaper. (Especially when you can pick up a dud for £10 that needs a £5.00 switch.) :sweat:

Why oh why put the dispensing unit in the kitchen? Apart from it necessitating rising from your seat, traversing the room, opening the kitchen door then closing it so you can get behind it, how can you be certain there will be anything left to dispense when you get there. Kitchens are the domain of cooks and they can be thirsty people…..! Could you not find a section of vacant wall in a more convenient location?

The ice machine is in the kitchen. The glasses are in the kitchen. The fridge is in the kitchen.

It's all a question of logistics.

Obviously you need some more drastic re-arrangements.

Nope. If it isn't broke, you don't fix it.

I often think this could be changed to "if it's been broken for ages, don't fix it."

When i started farming, all the cows escaped most days when we moved them after milking. No one fixed the fence, we were too busy chasing the cows.

Now that looks like the classic endless loop .... :wink::jester:

Years and years ago, whilst driving down a narrow country lane around 3AM on the borders of Wiltshire/Berkshire I came around a corner to be confronted with a herd of Frisians. After getting out of the car and negotiating with the ladies I was able to get past and stopped in the first village I came to with a telephone box.
I dialled 999, asked for 'police' and got a sleepy-voiced gentleman with a broad Wiltshire accent: 'How can I help you?'
I gave the location 'there's a herd of cows blocking the lane';
'Did you hit an animal?'
'No, but someone might if they are not moved';
'Are they black cows, white cows or what colour?'
'They're Frisians',
'What colour are Frisians?'
'Black and White',
'Do you know who owns the cattle?';
'No, I don't live around here';
'May I ask why you were driving down that road if you don't live in the area?'
'It's a shortcut from the A420 to the A4, can you do something about the cattle before someone runs into them?'
'This doesn't seem to be an emergency, may I ask why you dialled 999?'

At that point I gave up. I just hope the farmer went out early for milking and rounded his cows up safely.

Naytikos;4299 . Years ago was driving a Bedford TK lorry delivering animal feeds to farms , one day
coming down a narrow country road came to a bend a lady coming the other way in her car .
i stopped , she stopped, now im on a bend [ 12 ton of animal feed on back ] she shouted to me to reverse back so she could pass , i looked pass her that had a wide gateway and said to her to reverse in said gateway she refused .[ impass ] .

she said to me to move , i told her if she could reverse my 12 ton truck she could try
i turned off engine and put on handbrake , got out my flask of coffee , for a while she called me all the names a lady should not [ i thought only sailors done that ] .
in the end with gears crunching and a lot of swearing she rerversed into gateway , she had the last word as i passed thanking her [ you can guess the word ] .

Tony

I scrolled up this page and realised that, apart from the latest post, none of the three contributors are ‘here’ any more. One passed and two MIA.
Oh dear.

And the site is a little poorer for that.