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biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
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- Northamptonshire
Evening stroll completed
Time for the GP
Time for the GP
Andy in Germany
Legendary Member
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
I put curtain rails up. This was made mildly more complex because this is a very old house with funny measurements and the rails can't just sit above the windows in the normal way.
Putting the brackets in the wrong place was entirely my own fault, however.
Rude words were said: this didn't help.
New holes were drilled, old holes filled, brackets put up, old holes painted over, all is well.
Now I need to get the actual curtains.
Putting the brackets in the wrong place was entirely my own fault, however.
Rude words were said: this didn't help.
New holes were drilled, old holes filled, brackets put up, old holes painted over, all is well.
Now I need to get the actual curtains.
Andy in Germany
Legendary Member
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Also, one of the rails looks wonky: I put a spirit level on it, and it's straight, just the surrounding flat is wonky.
Wouldn't have had that problem if you used imperial measurements.. 👍
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
It's been a blustery and mostly sunny day here chez Casa Reynard after some overnight rain.
Slept well enough, but still not feeling it. Ears are bunged and there is serious sinus snottage. Yuck. I've had a quiet day watching and listening to the BTCC from Thruxton and the F1 from Hungary. I've also kept an eye on the Hundred cricket and the sumo.
Really happy, as my favourite rikishi Aonishki won the top division yusho. Among his prizes was a whole cow's worth of beef, a tonne of rice, a year's supply of noodles, a year's supply of beer and I've forgotten just how many eggs. Oh, and a year's supply of macarons.
Here, food has been mostly of the snaccident variety.
Slept well enough, but still not feeling it. Ears are bunged and there is serious sinus snottage. Yuck. I've had a quiet day watching and listening to the BTCC from Thruxton and the F1 from Hungary. I've also kept an eye on the Hundred cricket and the sumo.
Really happy, as my favourite rikishi Aonishki won the top division yusho. Among his prizes was a whole cow's worth of beef, a tonne of rice, a year's supply of noodles, a year's supply of beer and I've forgotten just how many eggs. Oh, and a year's supply of macarons.
Here, food has been mostly of the snaccident variety.
Andy in Germany
Legendary Member
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Well, no, but that's because I'd still be working out how many inches 175cm is.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I have the exact same problem, living as I do in a winky wonky fen cottage.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Two inches short of six foot i.e. 70 inches.
Ready reckoning is easy. 180 cm is two yards, and each yard is 6 foot, and each foot is 12 inches. An inch is roughly 2.5 cm, so lop two inches off the total.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Evening hot chocolate went down well with a Molly's digestive
Andy in Germany
Legendary Member
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
"Easy"...
There are many reasons I don't regret migrating here, and imperial measurements is one of them.
classic33
Leg End Member
69(actually just shy of), if memory serves me right.
Andy in Germany
Legendary Member
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Very few buildings are square: when I was an apprentice carpenter we frequently built fitted wardrobes in a local old people's home in a giant high-rise, and we had to allow up to 10cm each side for wonky walls.
German yards twice the length ? 1 UK yard is 3 feet
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
No. A yard is 90cm. Ergo 180 cm is two yards.
Am so used to doing the conversion, as the local haberdashers sell fabric and trim in metres, but cat show pens (for which I sew display drapes) are either 2ft x 2ft x 2ft or 4ft x 2ft x 2ft.
