Tea? (Part 2)

[Amanda P]

Happens to us all.

I built a wheel with an Ebay dynamo hub for my yellow commuting bike. With an appropriately yellow rim.

It's reasonably round and true, but the tyre always goes on with a low spot. Whatever I do, it's got a regular, rhythmic bump... bump... bump as I ride. Really annoying.

And the light I put on, which worked perfectly in the workstand, now only works when it's clouted, and then stops working if it feels it hasn't had enough attention.

 

[tdr1nka]

I hear you.
Somehow the battery for my Di Onette back light has memorised so only lasts a fraction of the usual time.
(Didn't think this happened to Li-On batteries?)

And the lamp socket on my Ay Ups looks like having a loose connection too.

Welcome to 'built in obsolescence month'.

Maybe its cos I dissed the bike show?

 

[Renard]

Who's the handsome fella in the goggles?

At (a quick) first glance I thought you were in scuba gear.

 

[Arch]

People who have those brushes behind their letter boxes, to keep the draught out, and coincidentally make it very hard to get a leaflet through without sticking one's fingers through too, shouldn't be allowed to have dogs.


I got bit. Bloody thing must have been sitting behind the letter box with it's mouth open, it was instant. I've got a couple of holes in a finger to prove it.

Ow.

It was the third dog to launch itself at the door as I posted the letter through, third time lucky I guess.

Tea anyone?

 

[Gromit]

Bikepete and I devised a system for pushing leaflets through doors. Bit difficult to describe but I will try.

Don't bother folding it push it through the letter box in the centre so it folds round your hand, remove hand quickly.

Doesn't make sense, I know.

Hope you knocked on the door to tell owners what happened.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Ah - Arch, that takes me back to my paper boy days. Some folks even have springs on their letterboxes so you ends up with your fingers stripped of skin when you pull your hand back out. So I feel your pain.

There was one dog who would sink his teeth into my delivery every time. So I used to play tug of war through the letterbox. Never had any complaints about shredded newspapers

Here have some strong & sweet I've just brewed

 

[Gromit]

Should have added that your fingers are not visible to snappy dogs.

 

[TheDoctor]

Nah.. here he is..as of yesterday

At (a quick) first glance I thought you were in scuba gear.

Looks like a gimp mask to me!!!!

Erm...not that I'd know, obviously.

 

[Shaun]

Ouch that sounds a bit nasty!!

Here, have some cake to go with your tea (and seeing as you know just how hard it is to get me to part with my cake, you'll appreciate how magnanimous a gesture that is )

 

[Arch]

Bikepete and I devised a system for pushing leaflets through doors. Bit difficult to describe but I will try.

Don't bother folding it push it through the letter box in the centre so it folds round your hand, remove hand quickly.

Doesn't make sense, I know.

Hope you knocked on the door to tell owners what happened.

That's exactly how I was doing it! The teeth just managed to find the bit near the base of my finger that was unprotected. Or perhaps bit through the paper. I don't think visible/invisible fingers would have made much difference - I swear it must have been waiting at the door, it was instant. Probably heard me at the house next door.

I wasn't hanging around. They'd only have blamed me for having my fingers through the door anyway. I sucked it a bit to clean it up, and bled on a couple of letters. Fortunately, I found a plaster in the puncture repair kit in my pannier. If not, I'd have shoved a patch on it.

Tom showed me his way, which is to roll the paper up, and make it strong enough to shove through. Sort of works.

Oh yes and the sprung letterboxes...

Still, we had a drink afterwards.

 

[TheDoctor]

You'd have had to sand your finger a little to get the rubber solution to stick properly...
Have you had a tetanus jab lately? If not, you'd better go and get one. Being bitten is bad enough, but you'd really hate lockjaw.

Commiserations

 

[Arch]

You'd have had to sand your finger a little to get the rubber solution to stick properly...
Have you had a tetanus jab lately? If not, you'd better go and get one. Being bitten is bad enough, but you'd really hate lockjaw.

Commiserations

The recent experience of a friend's husband (got a bit of fence wire stuck through his ear on the allotment) suggests that I've had as many tetanus jabs as I'm going to get. Apparently once you've had the childhood ones, and two boosters, you're as protected as you'll ever be, and they don't like to just give you more.*

Also, having it after an event is apparently pointless, as the incubation time or whatever of the jab means it wouldn't kick in until after it was too late.

*This is current thinking, it may change next week.

I'm alright. Swore a bit at the time though. I'm still amazed at the speed of it, unless that animal really does sit at the door, jaws agape.

 

[TheDoctor]

Humph!! The medics insisted on giving me one (snork!! snigger!) after I got munched by an Alsation a while back.
There I was, de-bagged and leaning over a table, as the nurse got a syringe ready.
'Try to relax' she said.
Yeah, right. She practically had to use a hammer to get it in.

Where is Fnarr when we need him?

 

[Arch]

How long was a while back? I got the impression this is a fairly recent thing. My friend and her husband both thought he'd need one, but were told otherwise, and subsequent googling confirmed it. My friend is doing a PhD, so she can google for England if it's a case of work avoidance.

 

[TheDoctor]

About...10, 12 years or so.