Tea? (Part 2)

[Speicher]

No, I have not broken a zip. I bought a pair of trousies of Fleabay, but they have a very cheap metal zip. It is relatively easy to buy and/or put a new zip in some trousers. Auntie never threw any clothes out with a zip or buttons on them.

 

[potsy]

Have you broken a zip? I won't ask you to post pictures

No biscuits for you now wocky

Anyway, those 'lastic waisted trousers that wolly wears stretch quite well I've heard

 

[coffeejo]

Anyway, those 'lastic waisted trousers that wolly wears stretch quite well I've heard

*winces and steps back hastily*

 

[Arch]

@Speicher, could you look for my camera? I thought I took it to Mum's but then couldn't find it, and it's not obviously anywh...

Scrub that. It's behind a cushion on the sofa. Sorry, you'll have to find something else to look for....

Well, we're back in Manchester, all the laundry is on and tumbledrying, I'm online and NT is browsing the new Axminster catalogue that came while we were away.

This morning over brunch, Mum mentioned that the little decorative clock I bought her years ago had stopped working a while back, and the lady in the battery shop had said it wasn't the battery. She only mentioned so I didn't think she'd not bothered to change the battery.

"oh," sez I, "we'll have a look...."

Much protestation followed, she never meant us to fix it, we wanted to get on, oh please don't bother, she wouldn't have mentioned it... By which time, I'd been upstairs and brought it down. NT noted the symptom (second hand twitching as if trying to move but sticking), carefully disassembled it as much as possible, couldn't find a cause. But he said he knows it's possible to get those clock units separately in craft shops etc, so perhaps we could track one down and replace it. Well, that would be very kind, but please don't go to any trouble.

No trouble, we said, as we put the old clock unit back into the pretty case.

And found it was suddenly working fine.

NT has now, I think, been elevated from mere "amazingly handy person" to "miracle worker"!

(And we've looked in the catalogue and found the exact clock we'd need, if it does go wrong again).

 

[Moon bunny]

(...And we've looked in the Bradford Exchange catalogue and found the exact clock we'd need, if it does go wrong again).

 

[Arch]

Give us that link again, it won't work. I bet it's for something right tasteful though.

 

[potsy]

I need to start looking for something else.

Wolly, can you see if you can find my feet?
I can usually see them when standing up, for some reason I no longer can

 

[Speicher]

Wolly, can you see if you can find my feet?
I can usually see them when standing up, for some reason I no longer can

 

[potsy]

 

[Speicher]

I found the bag of zips, in the first place I looked. Then found exactly the right size of zip, in the right colour.....but the slider is broken. Then I found the zip repair, with spare sliders etc. Unfortunately my skills with a pair of pliers is not sufficient to take off the bottom bits where the zip joins together, then replace them, after renewing the slider. Or I could have a black zip in a navy blue pair of trousies. Plenty of 7 inch and four inch zips, but I require a 6 inch zip.

 

[Speicher]

Anyway, those 'lastic waisted trousers that wolly wears stretch quite well I've heard

 

[potsy]

Rocky made me do it

 

[Moon bunny]

JUst put the black zip in and if anyone comments, say "You should not be looking down there" and embarrass them.

 

[coffeejo]

I found the bag of zips, in the first place I looked. Then found exactly the right size of zip, in the right colour.....but the slider is broken. Then I found the zip repair, with spare sliders etc. Unfortunately my skills with a pair of pliers is not sufficient to take off the bottom bits where the zip joins together, then replace them, after renewing the slider. Or I could have a black zip in a navy blue pair of trousies. Plenty of 7 inch and four inch zips, but I require a 6 inch zip.

Can't you convert them to button-up instead?

 

[coffeejo]

I've just bought a pair of trousers with button flies.......trouble is that I'm struggling to do the buttons up what with the trousers being made out of stiff material.

I'd like to apologise to anyone that I've seen today

Nothing to do with your Christmas diet then?

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