Old time tips...

[Arch]

Well, old time in the sense of being the sort of thing old fashioned craftsmen used to hand down..

Measure twice, cut once. (Even better, measure three times, mark, measure again, check, then cut.)

Or, if you have to copy something like a consignment number down multiple times, copy it from the original each time, not from the copy you just made. That way, if you make a mistake on one, you won't repeat it over and over....

Let's have yours...

 

[accountantpete]

One year's seeding and seven years weeding.

ie let the weeds seed for just one year and you will have a permanent job on yer hands trying to control them..

 

[MickL]

Never spit into the wind.
Having trouble screwing a screw into wood dip it in some Vaseline or some thing similar, soon makes life easier.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

try and borrow tools from your clubmates, rather than pay lbs charges.

 

[Landslide]

Does "Assumption is the mother of all fcuk ups" count? It dates back to before Steven Seagal was super-porky...

 

[gbb]

'Work by your own measurements'

Never work by someone elses calculations...they're probably correct, but the operative word is 'probably'

 

[rich p]

Having trouble screwing dip it in some Vaseline or some thing similar, soon makes life easier.

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[Amanda P]

Please engage brain before operating mouth.

 

[Landslide]

Mirror, signal, manoeuvre. You w@nker.

 

[rich p]

Only borrow money from pessimists because they don't expect to get it back

 

[Joe24]

Ask around in your LBS instead of just going out to buy new.
Dont force yourself to go out on your bike too much, or you wont enjoy it as much.
Dont always just go out on your bike to train and go hard. Have some fun times aswell to just ride along and relax, especially when its sunny and warm
Dont get too stressed out by much, just think that whatever has happened, will get better/the person that cut you up or passed close will go off the road and die in a ditch.
Wear suncream!!!!!!!

 

[Theseus]

If a situation is starting to wind you up, ask yourself if it will matter in 5 years time. If not, it isn't worth getting stressed about.

 

[rich p]

If a situation is starting to wind you up, ask yourself if it will matter in 5 years time. If not, it isn't worth getting stressed about.

The Doc just told me that you've got 5 years and 1 day to live, Touche

 

[Theseus]

Then I will worry about it. Had you said 1 day less than 5 years it does not matter.

 

[Black Sheep]

forget arguments, remember the things that make you smile

don't sleep on an argument with your spouse (ie, sort it or start sorting it before letting resentment build)

never eat yellow snow

if your going to cut something that might be structural, brace it first (anyone want two half coffee tables?)