ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Ha ha. I had forgotten that was in the pipeline. It seems a long time since the original 2 series!
The Retirement Thread
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classic33
Leg End Member
They've been using the swimming baths on Huddersfield Road as the police station. And apparently the court on Harrison Road.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
@12boy - I don't know if you watch TV and have Prime Video? If you do, you can watch Happy Valley there. It is a gritty police series filmed in and around the Calder Valley where @classic33 and I live and lurk. There are some great views of the local towns and scenery.
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Deleted member 1258
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From my facebook page this afternoon.
Depending on your age you could have 5 1/4" or if you were really blessed 8"
MrsD says I have a 3 1/2" floppy.....she can be so hurtful.Depending on your age you could have 5 1/4" or if you were really blessed 8"
pawl
Legendary Member
- Location
- Desford Leicestershire
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
From his last post I thought he'd written it.
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You're not alone.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Several annoying things today
Firstly I failed at Wordle for the first time - 2 options left on the last line and I flipped when I should have flopped
Secondly I needed to take some mains powered outside lights down and replace them with some new solar powered ones
No problem - confirmed last night that they were fed off the downstairs lights contact breaker
and I knew - because the electrician who did the new kitchen a few years ago old me quite specifically - that the under cupboard lights and the outside lights were fed off 2 junction boxes on the top of the kitchen cupboards.
So this afternoon I turned the breaker off and disconnected one of the junction boxes
The under cupboard lights still worked so the wires I disconnected must be for the outside lights - which I couldn;t test as they only come on when it is dark
ANyway - I disconnected the lights and took them down - then cut the cable sticking out of the wall
then flipped the contact breaker back on - at which point it tripped again and took half the box with it
Turned out that the outside circuit was still live
in spite of being disconnected inside
The electrician - who was the prtner of one of my wife's best friends - had basically lied to me to make it sound good
Also the kitchen power sockets were not working
I eventually figured out that
a) all the kitchen sockets go through one of the junction boxes - the one I have isolated - so I have to put it all back together
b) the other junction box is now isolated - but nothing is not working - so it appears to power nothing!
The under cupboard lights are working just fine - $deity knows where they are powered from!
This is why I hate having 'friends' that have a useful profession - they offer 'mates rates' but you feel obliged to give them the job
Then when something goes wrong you feel guilty getting them to fix it
and the concept of 'mates rates' automatically means they are working for less money than normal - which is not really fair.
Anyway we have fallen out with this bloke - he was all sorts of dodgy in may ways. Pity about also loosing contact with my wife's friend but he ripped off one too many friends after a while - the final one was ripped off for a few thousand pounds for work I could have done myself in a couple of days!!!
bar steward
Anyway - sorry - end rant
Firstly I failed at Wordle for the first time - 2 options left on the last line and I flipped when I should have flopped
Secondly I needed to take some mains powered outside lights down and replace them with some new solar powered ones
No problem - confirmed last night that they were fed off the downstairs lights contact breaker
and I knew - because the electrician who did the new kitchen a few years ago old me quite specifically - that the under cupboard lights and the outside lights were fed off 2 junction boxes on the top of the kitchen cupboards.
So this afternoon I turned the breaker off and disconnected one of the junction boxes
The under cupboard lights still worked so the wires I disconnected must be for the outside lights - which I couldn;t test as they only come on when it is dark
ANyway - I disconnected the lights and took them down - then cut the cable sticking out of the wall
then flipped the contact breaker back on - at which point it tripped again and took half the box with it
Turned out that the outside circuit was still live
in spite of being disconnected insideThe electrician - who was the prtner of one of my wife's best friends - had basically lied to me to make it sound good
Also the kitchen power sockets were not working
I eventually figured out that
a) all the kitchen sockets go through one of the junction boxes - the one I have isolated - so I have to put it all back together
b) the other junction box is now isolated - but nothing is not working - so it appears to power nothing!
The under cupboard lights are working just fine - $deity knows where they are powered from!
This is why I hate having 'friends' that have a useful profession - they offer 'mates rates' but you feel obliged to give them the job
Then when something goes wrong you feel guilty getting them to fix it
and the concept of 'mates rates' automatically means they are working for less money than normal - which is not really fair.
Anyway we have fallen out with this bloke - he was all sorts of dodgy in may ways. Pity about also loosing contact with my wife's friend but he ripped off one too many friends after a while - the final one was ripped off for a few thousand pounds for work I could have done myself in a couple of days!!!
bar steward
Anyway - sorry - end rant
Chief Broom
Veteran
Evening folks 
glad Mo got away relatively unscathed from her prang with a bus....not words many would associate together- hitting a bus and unscathed!
Its been another funny old day in the onward evolution of acquiring furniture and getting the place comfortable... Bought a £50 sofa a while ago to have something to sit on and today a friend got given a posh sofa so i had the cast off [which is perfectly good]. So have put the 50 quid one on a local site to take away for free. Im getting there slowly but surely and its becoming more homely every day.
glad Mo got away relatively unscathed from her prang with a bus....not words many would associate together- hitting a bus and unscathed!Its been another funny old day in the onward evolution of acquiring furniture and getting the place comfortable... Bought a £50 sofa a while ago to have something to sit on and today a friend got given a posh sofa so i had the cast off [which is perfectly good]. So have put the 50 quid one on a local site to take away for free. Im getting there slowly but surely and its becoming more homely every day.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I bet you get some cheeky person asking you to deliver it to them ALSO free!
Chief Broom
Veteran
Actually coming to think of it, i hit a bus once 
i was on a motorcycle in the pouring rain and slippery roads, i started to come down through the gears engine breaking as a bus was pulling out. Unfortunately i hit a false neutral so the bike was sailing on and had to grab the brakes...this washed the front tyre out and i slid sideways and wacked my head on the back of the bus.....driver didnt even realise i had hit him 
i was on a motorcycle in the pouring rain and slippery roads, i started to come down through the gears engine breaking as a bus was pulling out. Unfortunately i hit a false neutral so the bike was sailing on and had to grab the brakes...this washed the front tyre out and i slid sideways and wacked my head on the back of the bus.....driver didnt even realise i had hit him 
12boy
Guru
- Location
- Casper WY USA
Hopefully you will be ok tomorrow, Mo. Sometimes aches and pains don't really manifest until the next day.
