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[deptfordmarmoset]

I think it was @SatNavSaysStraightOn started this fred.

I washed the car this afternoon and finally got the last bolt out of the chainring.

Maybe one of the parts but the earliest name was @Stu_Robertson - last seen in 2014.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

It's muddy out there

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

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Top mud!

 

[Illaveago]

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Have you been out rotorvating ?

 

[Illaveago]

The battery was fully charged, the engine just wouldn’t turn over. Left it until this afternoon, when it’s 5 degrees warmer, and now battery hasn’t got enough juice left so just waiting for FIL to come in his car so I can put the jump cables on. If that doesn’t work, he’ll give me a lift for some cold start spray from Halfords. Will pick up a battery booster and charger too. The engine wanted to turn over but couldn’t manage it.

Can't understand why your engine wouldn't turn over with a fully charged battery !
Have you got antifreeze in your engine ?
How cold is it where you are ?

 

[fossyant]

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Get yourself some winter boots that you can hose off. Hopefully out tomorrow, but going to pop the Ice Spikers on - seriously icy this morning, although I no doubt very muddy in parts.

 

[fossyant]

I am so annoyed. It’s the kids CX races today. And the ******* car won’t ******* start. It’s -3 degrees.

Usually first signs the batery is past it. Very cold night, fully charged or not, older batteries just can't cope.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

The battery was fully charged, the engine just wouldn’t turn over. Left it until this afternoon, when it’s 5 degrees warmer, and now battery hasn’t got enough juice left so just waiting for FIL to come in his car so I can put the jump cables on. If that doesn’t work, he’ll give me a lift for some cold start spray from Halfords. Will pick up a battery booster and charger too. The engine wanted to turn over but couldn’t manage it.

Your battery is stuffed, when FIL gets there put the leads on his RED positive first then your RED positive, then put his BLACK negative onto his battery then finally put your BLACK onto a metal part of the engine, do not put it on your battery.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Get yourself some winter boots that you can hose off.

These are just fabric walking boots Hi Tec, they stay waterproof only water that gets in them comes off my legs, I normally just spray them with the hand pressure washer but they take a couple of days then to dry. Suggestions on another pair welcomed, wife is after buying me a present as i've bought her a new oven for Christmas

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Pictures needed of mudguards fitted to fridge freezer

Wouldn't want it to get muddy when it goes out in the lanes.

 

[mudsticks]

VAT return completed - Yay go me !!

I know no one really cares - but it does mean i get to post on page 4000 of MN

And don't think you can go parking your horse, in our local pub carpark - not neither ..

 

[Reynard]

Slept in this morning - still recovering from the sinusitis and just feel really tired. Face is less numb, but now having to deal with sores in my mouth where I've burnt myself with too hot drinks and food because I couldn't feel how hot stuff was. Ouch. Ah well, onwards and upwards.

Freezing and foggy here this morning, fog was lifting when I went into the garden to move some firewood to the stack for seasoning. The sun was peeking through the fog and the tree branches, and you could see the "sunbeams". Really rather nice, even if it was right proper cold - the frost didn't completely melt in places.

Spent the afternoon watching the snooker and finishing the small pen & watercolour painting I've been working on. It's intended as a gift card for someone special.

 

[Reynard]

So you had Christmas pudding and custard. Did the itch ease?

Very much so. And right tasty it was as well.

 

[Reynard]

Tried scorzonera, tasty but not really practical at any scale.

And a bit of a faff to cook if you don't know how... But they're good in a cheese sauce.

But yes kohlrabi, multicoloured turnips, black radish, and all sorts of other roots, and leafage, plus the summer grown squash released from their store over the winter.Winter veg is very far from dull.

Sounds good

I'm looking forward to the the chicory bulking up.. I can eat tonnes of the stuff.. It's Its like my mid winter catnip.

That's one I'm not quite so keen on, can take it or leave it. Mum likes it, but then she's Belgian and they do eat a lot of whitloof over the winter - either shredded finely into a salad and dressed with mayonnaise, braised, or wrapped in ham and in a cheese sauce.

Some trip photo-journalling to indulge in (my guilty time-wasting pleasure)

Everyone needs a guilty pleasure. I love to "waste time" painting and working on my motor racing scrapbook. Sometimes the two are one and the same, as the artwork I did for it while in my teens and early 20s doesn't quite hack it anymore...

The lanes are a tad mucky right now.. Too-wide tractors mashing up the verges, of the little Devon lanes with their mahoosive wheels

It's the same here in east Cambridgeshire. Plus we get all the mud being dropped while they move tatties and sugar beet around...

 

[Reynard]

And I get post #60,000 in this thread

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!