I would just like to say

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kevstar said:
Hello zonners I hope everyone is well. :)

I got a skelf (splinter for those south of the boarder)about 5 days ago in me thumb ive been poking it with a needle for days
so much I couldnt touch anything with it, so damm sore I was convinced there
was nowt it it so left it for a day, my thumb was kinda swollen earlier so I gave it a good
squeeze & some nice sticky puss appearing then out she pops a nice bit of timber over
an inch long.... Yaaassss highlight of the week :D:D:D

Im off to work on my trailer, njoy yer day lads n lassies :)

Edited for others not residing up North.
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Did you wrap it up in a bandage with summat like zinc and castor oil on it? That usually brings them up.
But I have had a piece of brass in my thumb what an absolute barsteward that was. Avoid doing that like mad if I can.
 
.....that despite the predictions of rain for this afternoon the old bike-shed has been completely re-roofed with 18mm OSB board and an EPDM skin on top.
It should be good for my lifetime now and the roof will probably outlast the timber elements of the shed.
Less than 10 mins after all the tools were put away.....it began to rain. A lucky escape. :D
 
Well two funny things acksherly.
1/ EDF having been contacted because their bill based on estimated readings since FEB was well ocer the top told me that although I sent in my readings they couldn't change the bill nor send a person to read the meter.

But on carefully reading the email I think I was being hinted at for a solution.
(Sorry this is a bit longwinded, but those who live in Frogland will appreciate it.)
so @Ian M in France, @Datatek @Maurand @frog hopper et al, here we go!

Normally peeps in France have their electric on a simple tariff, one rate during the day another during the night.
But a few, like us have a thing called "Tempo" where you pay much cheaper for Blue days which are most of them, but it goes up on White days and Evden further up on Red days, (Colours of the flag, geddit?!) so, cos we are in blighty during the winter we don't get hit by these days, so this is much cheaper for us.
Recently our meter went up the spout and had toe be replaced by one called a "Linky". you've guessed it, it is the sort that is linked to the internet so both you and EDF can read it at any time, except the system is not fully up and running yet, so it can only read the old normal tariff. But the brill thing is that while it is like that, we get Blue days every single day of the year. cheaper than anyone. Win Win!
But, obvs if you read the meter instead of getting the 6 reads you need, you can only get the two for blue days.
I sent the reads for that and got the knockback. But reading between the lines the person on the end of the emails was telling me, "Give me the zero reads for the 4 others and I'll sort you out!" So I tried it and it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoopee! They will now be sending me a cheque! All for telling them what they already knew but weren't allowed to key into the computer!
Only in Frogichops land!

2/
Still awake?
Dinner party tomoz.
Wifey prepping the soup.
Makes up and puts in a "bouquet garni" in a little muslin bag.
Liquidises it.

Forgot the bouquet garni!

Very upset!
We try to find it in the soup, even sieving it, no luck.
So I takes a look in the liquidiser.
There it is wrapped around the blades!!!
...................and relax!!!!!!!
So it has been a busy, tiring and eventful day. Got up at 8a.m. Felt well wobbly! Not seen that time for two months!
Sleep well folks, i intend to!:):):):):)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Well two funny things acksherly.
1/ EDF having been contacted because their bill based on estimated readings since FEB was well ocer the top told me that although I sent in my readings they couldn't change the bill nor send a person to read the meter.

But on carefully reading the email I think I was being hinted at for a solution.
(Sorry this is a bit longwinded, but those who live in Frogland will appreciate it.)
so @Ian M in France, @Datatek @Maurand @frog hopper et al, here we go!

Normally peeps in France have their electric on a simple tariff, one rate during the day another during the night.
But a few, like us have a thing called "Tempo" where you pay much cheaper for Blue days which are most of them, but it goes up on White days and Evden further up on Red days, (Colours of the flag, geddit?!) so, cos we are in blighty during the winter we don't get hit by these days, so this is much cheaper for us.
Recently our meter went up the spout and had toe be replaced by one called a "Linky". you've guessed it, it is the sort that is linked to the internet so both you and EDF can read it at any time, except the system is not fully up and running yet, so it can only read the old normal tariff. But the brill thing is that while it is like that, we get Blue days every single day of the year. cheaper than anyone. Win Win!
But, obvs if you read the meter instead of getting the 6 reads you need, you can only get the two for blue days.
I sent the reads for that and got the knockback. But reading between the lines the person on the end of the emails was telling me, "Give me the zero reads for the 4 others and I'll sort you out!" So I tried it and it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoopee! They will now be sending me a cheque! All for telling them what they already knew but weren't allowed to key into the computer!
Only in Frogichops land!

2/
Still awake?
Dinner party tomoz.
Wifey prepping the soup.
Makes up and puts in a "bouquet garni" in a little muslin bag.
Liquidises it.

Forgot the bouquet garni!

Very upset!
We try to find it in the soup, even sieving it, no luck.
So I takes a look in the liquidiser.
There it is wrapped around the blades!!!
...................and relax!!!!!!!
So it has been a busy, tiring and eventful day. Got up at 8a.m. Felt well wobbly! Not seen that time for two months!
Sleep well folks, i intend to!:):):):):)
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Well that confused the frig outta me!
 
..... that if the rain is not a feature of the day tomorrow I shall be plumbering a "bodge" into another "bodge" but not such an "obvious bodge".
It has to be "not raining" because both the existing "bodge" and the new "bodge" involves running HOT & COLD pipework external to a building because some previous plank/owner of the property put the boiler in the external garage and ran the rising main supply to the boiler and the DHW out from the boiler under the badly made false floor of a conservatory that has now been knocked down. :oops:
It is a horror-story, and I hate to perpetuate a "bodge" but the alternative is a £2k new boiler re-sited back in the main house and my son cannot afford that.
When will all this nonsense end I wonder?
 
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