Mundane News

[Reynard]

I have found my tweezers.

 

[rockyroller]

You're a member of the RHS!!

nooooooo!!!!

 

[fossyant]

Nutters

 

[rockyroller]

finally got to patching Mom's driveway

 

[classic33]

It actually turned into a very nice sunny but slightly chilly evening after a bad start. Time for my woolly hat and winter fleece. I had stopped on my way home for a little coastal walk but it was pretty bleak at the time.

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Who were you aiming at?

 

[rockyroller]

Nutters

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are they digging for shellfish?

 

[classic33]

Nutters

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What they doing?

 

[fossyant]

are they digging for shellfish?

Paddling, local cold water swiming group. Lights are so the sharks can eat them MrsF is out there. 👅

 

[classic33]

nooooooo!!!!

Is there any shame in admiti it?

 

[Jameshow]

finally got to patching Mom's driveway
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I had a patch of tarmac to do and sold a caravan fridge on eBay the buy turns up in a pick up after a local job and asks if I want some tarmac yes please I replied and we shoveled it off the truck and Wacker plated it down £50 done and dusted!

 

[Illaveago]

He's just brought one of his friends in ! It was alive . I have put it out in the garden and he is locked in !

 

[Jameshow]

I must not buy another retro road bike....

 

[tyred]

Who were you aiming at?

Pirates.

 

[tyred]

Opera Web Browser is trying to update but keeps suffering a fatal error

 

[Reynard]

If I recall correctly it was >£150 & the Rotary didn't cost that much.

Hmmm, cost for a service / repair would also depend on whether the watch was an automatic, or whether it had any complications (day, date, small seconds etc). Also, Rotaries can be funny, as it's pot luck to what's actually inside them. Like so many "brands" of the time, they didn't make their own movements and parts, but bought everything in and then assembled them. So if parts are needed, it could depend on what's inside the case, as some movements are decidedly more common than others.

My Gradus automatic is much like that - it's a Swinglish watch i.e. Swiss parts but assembled in the UK. I have never opened it up (I don't have the right tools) but it's got some kind of a hi-beat movement in there, as the sweep second is incredibly smooth, right up there with the roughly contemporary Seiko.