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Posted 18 Nov 2024 at 09:18

Hi all, I hope you had a good weekend. 

We went up to visit my son and his wife yesterday to lend a hand gardening.

Anyway, I'll cut to the chase, the virtual beers are on me because they're expecting a baby in June. They have a nice scan picture that looks like a cross between a jelly baby and an astronaut. 

Cheers everyone. 

Kev.

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Posted 18 Nov 2024 at 10:00

 Congratulations mate! 🍾 I'll have a virtual Stella please. Is it their first?

I've got two framed photos of my two grandkids at the 20th week scan stage. 

I've just got two grandkids, 6 and 11 years. When my daughter was heavily pregnant with her first, whilst on a walk, we picked up an acorn. It grew and I treasure Ollie's little oak tree. When heavily pregnant with her second, we picked up a horse chestnut. It grew and I also treasure Albia's, little conker tree. I've grown both in outdoor pots and sort of bonsai them to keep them reasonably small. I just cut off most of the roots every year when I change the compost. By doing this I've managed to stop the trees growing as fast as the kids. 😁

 

Edited by member 18 Nov 2024 at 18:12  | Reason: Typo

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Posted 18 Nov 2024 at 10:47

Cheers Adrian, 

It's their first, we already have a 10 year old granddaughter. My wife and I had a £5 bet on who would be next and I won, result!

What a lovely idea planting a tree.. on walks in the woods with our granddaughter, we would often tread acorns into the soil in the hope that we were keeping the woods going. 

Cheers,

Kev.

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Posted 18 Nov 2024 at 10:59

Congratulations Kev , really pleased for you . 

We only have the one grandchild at the moment…! And he’s in Jersey so don’t see him all the time. But we do zoom at least twice a week 👍. 

One of my mates brothers had an S1 and I remember thinking how weird it sounded compared to my BSA ….! But it was so thirsty he couldn’t get between petrol stations… 🤣

I am looking forward to getting mine running ok and trying it out on the road. It’s got 15 more BHP (45) than the S1 but the same weight so it’s supposed to be a bit of a wheelie monster .. 

But then I’m gonna sell it and put the money in the holiday pot 🙂

cheers guys, 

Phil

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Posted 18 Nov 2024 at 13:06

Afternoon gents! Apologies for my prolonged absence from the pub. I decided I'd try and distance myself from anything cancer related for a while, in the hope that I would be able to forget about it. Needless to say it didn't work.  The ongoing incontinence and ED issues post surgery, make it impossible to forget, and I was just missing out on the banter on here! So I'll pull up a bar stool, and have a nice flat pint of Bass please.

Kev, I see you expecting another grandchild. Congratulations mate, I've got four in my collection so far, and they keep me sane. I see you are also re-flooring a bathroom. I ripped up the tatty laminate in our en-suite the other week, thoroughly expecting to be having to replace it. But surprisingly, the floorboards didn't look too bad given their age (old bit of the house is Circa 1817), so I am currently renovating them instead of covering them up.

Phil - it's good to see you are feeling a bit better at the minute. Glad to hear you are wielding a paint brush again, as it means you must be on the mend for now. I just spent the weekend painting our utility room, after promising to do it when we move in two and a half years ago....😂

Adrian, looking at the clock, you're probably in the real pub by now, you jammy sod. Have one for me! That's a great idea with the kids trees. We've got a Horse Chestnut growing in a pot, from a conker picked up last year. I'd just assumed we would eventually have to get shot of it, or plant it in the garden to annoy whoever ends up living in our house in years to come.

Cheers all

Ian.

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Posted 19 Nov 2024 at 08:45

Hi Ian, it's good to see you back in the virtual pub, hopefully Adrian's jokes can take your mind off things. It's snowing outside so there's a danger we'll all be stuck inside the pub! 😁

As for the bathroom floor, the old floor tiles are breaking up under the lino so it's all got to come up. This DIY business is never ending!

Cheers, 

Kev.

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Posted 19 Nov 2024 at 12:43

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member
This DIY business is never ending!

 

It certainly is Kev. Got up this morning to the first snowfall of the year, and a suspiciously cold house. The boiler has packed up. Why it had to happen on the coldest day of the year so far, is beyond me. Can't get the plumber round until late tomorrow, so will be throwing logs on the burner until then 😒

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Posted 19 Nov 2024 at 15:32

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member
This DIY business is never ending!

 

It certainly is Kev. Got up this morning to the first snowfall of the year, and a suspiciously cold house. The boiler has packed up. Why it had to happen on the coldest day of the year so far, is beyond me. Can't get the plumber round until late tomorrow, so will be throwing logs on the burner until then 😒

Hey Ian, 

Does the boiler have an error code?

Sometimes the condensation drain freezes up in cold weather. At a previous house, I had to heat it with a hairdryer to get the boiler going again. 

Hope you can get it sorted mate.

Kev.

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Posted 20 Nov 2024 at 08:08

Morning Kev

No, unfortunately it is an old oil fired boiler, with no fancy display screen for error codes. I think the fan motor has failed, as I heard a horrid whining noise as it shut down. We inherited it when we moved in a couple of years ago, but I reckon it must be 25 years old. Need to get it replaced really, as it's not very efficient - burns about 10 litres of oil a day in the winter!

Anyway, hopefully the plumber is coming later today and will coax it back to life. In the meantime, the log burner is working overtime 👍

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Posted 20 Nov 2024 at 09:45

Hi Ian.

Great to see you're back again. I'm sorry that you've still got some incontinence and ED issues, but it's still very early days mate. It maybe that you'll have to join my 'Prick a dick' group. I've become a dab hand at injecting now I'm a sort of erection junkie. 😁

I hope you sort out the old boiler problem. Mine occasionally plays up when I'm late home from the Club. 

We could do do with some new blood in our virtual pub.  I'm thinking of asking my DIY guru, Mary Burke, if she'd work behind the bar. That may increase numbers?

Anyway must get off, starting the damn Xmas shopping today. Yo ho ho. 🎄

 
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