Illaveago
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Illaveago
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- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
When you install another water butt, you need to make sure that water poured into the guttering goes into the butt (that the connecting hose is level). What else do you need to do?
We connected ours at the top from one to the other so that when one was full it overflowed into the other .
Ours came with a flexible pipe and fittings to do this .
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It was the working in between those times I couldn't get the hang of !
It felt like holiday time in the morning and felt like overtime at the end of the shift.
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- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
These are two separate water butts, not connected. I forgot about something essential in the process.
When you install another water butt, you need to make sure that water poured into the guttering goes into the butt (that the connecting hose is level). What else do you need to do?
Close the tap?
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
Still not raining much in that there 'rainy' Manchester. - sun's back out, and it's warm.
Reynard
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Warm and breezy here chez Casa Reynard, with a lot of high cloud. It rained overnight, but looks like it didn't amount to that much.
I slept really well (hoorayyyyy!) and have ad a morning puttering around doing stuff. That included watering the tomatoes and making tabbouleh for this evening's supper.
This afternoon I have some errands to run, including popping back to Tesco. When I went on Saturday evening, most of their chiller units were out of order. Hopefully they should have that sorted by now, so I can pick up some deli and some dairy. Might sort out another batch of prints for the archive while I'm at it.
Anyways, it is almost time for luncheon.
I slept really well (hoorayyyyy!) and have ad a morning puttering around doing stuff. That included watering the tomatoes and making tabbouleh for this evening's supper.
This afternoon I have some errands to run, including popping back to Tesco. When I went on Saturday evening, most of their chiller units were out of order. Hopefully they should have that sorted by now, so I can pick up some deli and some dairy. Might sort out another batch of prints for the archive while I'm at it.
Anyways, it is almost time for luncheon.
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
A much cooler lunchtime stroll completed
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
oldwheels
Legendary Member
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- Isle of Mull
In my working days I always had an early start. Farming the milking started at 0530 then after that was done we stopped for breakfast but the day's end was flexible depending on season.
Postman I had a spell of starting at 0430 which was a 5 mile commute by bike but mostly started at 0630 and finished at I think 1300.
Distilling days sometimes started whenever we had a breakdown which could be the middle of the night and not stopping till the problem was fixed. This sometimes entailed wakening boiler repairmen and meeting them anywhere up to 20 miles away to get spare parts. Got stopped by plod once as we drove into a closed petrol station at about 2AM and after a quick exchange of a parcel drove off with barely a stop. They were a bit disappointed to find we were not drug couriers.
Self employed usually started at 0700 but if on mainland trips mostly a 0530 start to get quiet roads and make good progress.
I never had a job which had a routine apart from the post office.
Postman I had a spell of starting at 0430 which was a 5 mile commute by bike but mostly started at 0630 and finished at I think 1300.
Distilling days sometimes started whenever we had a breakdown which could be the middle of the night and not stopping till the problem was fixed. This sometimes entailed wakening boiler repairmen and meeting them anywhere up to 20 miles away to get spare parts. Got stopped by plod once as we drove into a closed petrol station at about 2AM and after a quick exchange of a parcel drove off with barely a stop. They were a bit disappointed to find we were not drug couriers.
Self employed usually started at 0700 but if on mainland trips mostly a 0530 start to get quiet roads and make good progress.
I never had a job which had a routine apart from the post office.
Reynard
Guru
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
Luncheon was a bit ad-lib, as I noticed some brioche rolls were in danger of developing language skills. So two of them were substituted for wholemeal bread. I had one filled with luncheon meat, the other with gouda. Then I had a pear, a really lovely nectarine, some raspberries and two 
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Right, time to go erranding.
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
What a day 
Roll on my day off on Friday
Roll on my day off on Friday
mistyoptic
Vintage
- Location
- A parallel reality
Today’s jobs completed:
Proofide both Brooks saddles and re-tension
Put away latest delivery of LA beers for future consumption (Drop Bear Tropical IPA)
Fix hose reel to prevent leakage from centre of drum
Mrs Optic has made fresh cookies
time for a
Proofide both Brooks saddles and re-tension
Put away latest delivery of LA beers for future consumption (Drop Bear Tropical IPA)
Fix hose reel to prevent leakage from centre of drum
Mrs Optic has made fresh cookies
time for a
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Quite a nice trike run at lunchtime today but marked difference in road manners from morning motorists.
Two close passes from behind which were probably partly my own fault for not taking up the whole carriageway. The rest not one gave me thanks for pulling over into a passing place.
On my early morning runs nearly everyone gives a wave or a flash of hazard lights depending on direction of travel.
Cold as temp. never rose above 15C with a brisk wind adding wind chill so I had on bikesters and full finger gloves.
It is now raining gently again and not forecast to stop for several days. Getting definitely autumnal.
There can be some nice weather in September and the yacht club had the annual 'Cabbage Cruise" then with several boats cruising in company for about 10 days. We just shut the workshop as our "Head Girl" and husband also had a boat and sailed with us.
It was a slack time as our main orders came in October when we attended Trade Fairs.
PS It was called the Cabbage Cruise because one year somebody brought a solid cabbage over a foot on diameter which was shared and lasted the whole cruise.😄
Two close passes from behind which were probably partly my own fault for not taking up the whole carriageway. The rest not one gave me thanks for pulling over into a passing place.
On my early morning runs nearly everyone gives a wave or a flash of hazard lights depending on direction of travel.
Cold as temp. never rose above 15C with a brisk wind adding wind chill so I had on bikesters and full finger gloves.
It is now raining gently again and not forecast to stop for several days. Getting definitely autumnal.
There can be some nice weather in September and the yacht club had the annual 'Cabbage Cruise" then with several boats cruising in company for about 10 days. We just shut the workshop as our "Head Girl" and husband also had a boat and sailed with us.
It was a slack time as our main orders came in October when we attended Trade Fairs.
PS It was called the Cabbage Cruise because one year somebody brought a solid cabbage over a foot on diameter which was shared and lasted the whole cruise.😄
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