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- Inside my skull
Just walked to GP and back for Covid and Flu jabs. No pain or side effects so far.
Illaveago
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- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
I've just ordered 2 new wheels for our vacuum cleaner . One of the wheels fell off . Must have been cornering too hard ! 
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Warm, breezy and occasionally sunny here chez Casa Reynard.
I slept a bit TOO well, but hey ho. Anyways, I spent the morning working on the Higman model - mainly assembling tiddly parts into bigger pieces. It's a sense of relief when you know that it all fits together and you haven't lost anything. I actually kept the bits in my glasses case overnight, just to deter a certain pair of little furry madams.
Had a lovely luncheon of a sub roll with two hot dogs, ketchup and mustard, a banana, half an avocado, some blueberries and the obligatory two
Now just letting that lot tamp down a bit before heading off on some lumberjilling duties.
I slept a bit TOO well, but hey ho. Anyways, I spent the morning working on the Higman model - mainly assembling tiddly parts into bigger pieces. It's a sense of relief when you know that it all fits together and you haven't lost anything. I actually kept the bits in my glasses case overnight, just to deter a certain pair of little furry madams.
Had a lovely luncheon of a sub roll with two hot dogs, ketchup and mustard, a banana, half an avocado, some blueberries and the obligatory two
Now just letting that lot tamp down a bit before heading off on some lumberjilling duties.
Still raining. Been working on resurrecting my old Kalkhoff as my winter roadster as I broke my last one.
This was the bike that I had been experimenting with hybrid gears on a few years ago and I am undecided whether or not to leave the two sprockets and derailleur on it or not. It is an interesting conversation piece on the rare occasions you meet someone that knows what they are looking at but it spoils the simplicity of a three speed bike and the gear progression is a bit complicated if you want to use all six in sequence.
This was the bike that I had been experimenting with hybrid gears on a few years ago and I am undecided whether or not to leave the two sprockets and derailleur on it or not. It is an interesting conversation piece on the rare occasions you meet someone that knows what they are looking at but it spoils the simplicity of a three speed bike and the gear progression is a bit complicated if you want to use all six in sequence.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Is that like the Brompton 6 speed set up which can get a bit complicated until you are used to it?
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Turned out another nice day with spells of sunshine and no wind.
An ideal day to go to Loch na Keal road but my motivation has gone and feeling too knackered.
I also had to wait until the courier who never shuts my door had dropped off a parcel as otherwise the door would lie open for a few hours. My nearest neighbour often never shuts their door but the dog is left in the house on those occasions and would certainly deter any undesirables. I had a double glazing salesman appear yesterday who did not inspire confidence.
It is now raining.
An ideal day to go to Loch na Keal road but my motivation has gone and feeling too knackered.
I also had to wait until the courier who never shuts my door had dropped off a parcel as otherwise the door would lie open for a few hours. My nearest neighbour often never shuts their door but the dog is left in the house on those occasions and would certainly deter any undesirables. I had a double glazing salesman appear yesterday who did not inspire confidence.
It is now raining.
I think so. I've never ridden a 6 speed Brompton.
I fitted two sprockets to a Sturmey 3 speed hub and use an old Sachs mech to change between the two, similar to what people did for touring in the 1920s and '30s before wide range derailleur gears came along. Those kits are very pricey today if you can find one.
I did it on the cheap with two dished sprockets back to back to create a gap and remove one of the two spacers that are there to help you set the chain line. I used Shimano hub gear sprockets which are the same spline but are 3/32" so I could use a modernish derailleur rather than try to track down a Cyclo or something which won't work as well anyway.
- Location
- Inside my skull
Bush trimming can be exhausting
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Lumberjilling duties completed. What I thought were a few dead branches in a hazel hedge ended up being a whole dead bush. And a large one at that - several of the stems were a good 5 inches across. So that's been dismantled. Have brought about 1/3 of the wood in, and it's been sawn up for logs. Will retrieve the rest on Monday.
I've had a and a chocolate biskit and done some painting.
Now it's time to feed the cats, and then it will be time to feed me.
I've had a
and a chocolate biskit and done some painting.Now it's time to feed the cats, and then it will be time to feed me.
Jameshow
Veteran
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Been picking / shaking apples off the two trees my sons planted when they were three and eight: one had a few nice large apples high up (two ended up our side, three on the neighbours), and the other is starting to produce loads of nice-tasting but very small apples rather than the crab apples it did for the first couple of years.
The small-sized apple producer's also been pruned as it dominates the other. They're both far too close to each other but that's where my sons planted their apple cores 15 years ago. At the time we'd put in a HUGE climbing frame and slide (think platform, cabin, slide, climbing wall, pole, steps, swing, etc.) that covered a good chunk of the garden, so there wasn't much space.
The small-sized apple producer's also been pruned as it dominates the other. They're both far too close to each other but that's where my sons planted their apple cores 15 years ago. At the time we'd put in a HUGE climbing frame and slide (think platform, cabin, slide, climbing wall, pole, steps, swing, etc.) that covered a good chunk of the garden, so there wasn't much space.
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classic33
Leg End Member
TP by any chance?
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Lovely supper of mushroom stroganoff, rice and steamed green beans. 
