You won’t be making the mistake of riding in any festivals again in the future.
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Least-wise, not when the temps are in the ninties US, thirties everywhere else.
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Clearly the country where these re made is so kinmisereable they dont have festivals and probably dont even understand what theya re about. Its so very sad! Made for hurrying more troops to be shot on the front line only..... and the odd camping trip.I got it apart today.
Diagnosis is two burned exhaust valves, exhaust valve guides are toast, as are the stem seals. The cylinders are salvageable but the left piston has some scoring on the skirt. So, I'm going to order all new valves, guides, stem seals, and piston rings, though I may bite the bullet and price a new set of cylinders w/pistons.
In case you are wondering about removing the bits on the sidecar side, just pull the upper bolts from sidecar struts and lean the bike out of the way.
Out all day, working. Midday, between training sessions, got a call from the carer supervisor, house locked up, key box won't open. Carer needs to get in to help my partner to the toilet, and to get her lunch. I'm luckily only 20 miles away, and can take my next trainee on that journey home, so off we go. Arrived to find key box jammed shut. At least I could open the house.
In the morning, carer arrives to get partner out of bed, washed, dressed and into wheelchair. Shortly afterwards, district nurse arrives to administer insulin.
So it seems the nurse has locked the house (no need), then rammed the key box shut, destroying the mechanism inside. Some key boxes can be just pushed shut, but most I've seen, including ours, requires the code to be reinput to allow the latch to move to shut it. Nurse has not done that, just used brute force.
Later, arriving home around 4:45, first job, internet, and source replacement key box. Toolstation, at bottom of road, so easy. Then attack existing with angle grinder and cutting disc to get the door off. Keys retrieved, undamaged, internals of mechanism bent.
Luckily, new box uses same mounting hole positions, so easy to mount on wall.
I'll be out again tomorrow by time nurse arrives. Have left stroppy note, with copy invoice and demand for reimbursement.
In the morning, carer arrives to get partner out of bed, washed, dressed and into wheelchair. Shortly afterwards, district nurse arrives to administer insulin.
So it seems the nurse has locked the house (no need), then rammed the key box shut, destroying the mechanism inside. Some key boxes can be just pushed shut, but most I've seen, including ours, requires the code to be reinput to allow the latch to move to shut it. Nurse has not done that, just used brute force.
Later, arriving home around 4:45, first job, internet, and source replacement key box. Toolstation, at bottom of road, so easy. Then attack existing with angle grinder and cutting disc to get the door off. Keys retrieved, undamaged, internals of mechanism bent.
Luckily, new box uses same mounting hole positions, so easy to mount on wall.
I'll be out again tomorrow by time nurse arrives. Have left stroppy note, with copy invoice and demand for reimbursement.
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
When my mum was seriously ill at end of life the carer filled the room heater with coal and managed to jam the door shut with the ash tray door safety lock bypassed which must have taken extreme force and left. I have two of the same heaters in my home and in over 35 years have never been able to jam them like that!!!
I got an urgent phone call from mum and raced over, as I neared house I could see smoke pouring out the chimney like the speed trials of a Flying Scotsman and room heater glowing red hot and dangerous, I managed to get it under control, but if I had been away from town mum would have probably been cremated early
.Same carer that mum paid by the hour visit used to arrive 15 minutes late always, use the toilet for 15 minutes, do 15 minutes of cleaning (just the hall and room mum lived in) leave 15 minutes early for next job, yet still managed to find the time to go into the front room to snoop where she had been told expressly not to go as no need. Nothing of financial value just photos and stuff of mums grandchildren etc.
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
We had mixed experiences, They sent some silly girls round and they went into the basement and drunk a lot of wine that had been laid in by my dad and the beer I used to have while visiting.... Of course when challenged it was "NO it wasnt us..." They threw away all the cutlery rather than wash it, ditto plates and pans. But we had a couple of older women who were fantastic and very loyal , going above and beyond. If you can get some stability in whos calling that seemed to help but I really sympathisie as its the most stressful experience and no respite. Much respect to you.
At least there's no malice with carers or nurses, just stupidity.
Nurse today took my stroppy note, and the copy invoice, so something might happen. Probably some ineffective manager trying to fob me off with an apology. They need to understand that securing the house, and then damaging the key box is potentially life-threatening. Not to be dismissed lightly.
Nurse today took my stroppy note, and the copy invoice, so something might happen. Probably some ineffective manager trying to fob me off with an apology. They need to understand that securing the house, and then damaging the key box is potentially life-threatening. Not to be dismissed lightly.
Realistically there is no system in the NHS for being able to pay this. That said a lot of “NHS” services are being manned by private companies with different structures so you might get lucky, though if I had to place a bet I’d bet against you.
You’d probably be forced to claim on your home insurance then the insurance would be forced to pursue a claim from the service which would have their own insurance. Which ultimately just your own excess would be way more than the cost of the replacement key safe
Ignorance and people who have to have the last word .
Bloke says that it takes 45 minutes to boil potato to make mash , ridiculous ,it takes about 15 ,which I corrected him on .
comes back with " I don't like raw potatoes ".
He clearly has never cooked potatoes in his life .
I'd like to see what his potatoes look like after 45 minutes cooking , I'm not going to lower myself to his argumentative level by replying again .
Bloke says that it takes 45 minutes to boil potato to make mash , ridiculous ,it takes about 15 ,which I corrected him on .
comes back with " I don't like raw potatoes ".
He clearly has never cooked potatoes in his life .
I'd like to see what his potatoes look like after 45 minutes cooking , I'm not going to lower myself to his argumentative level by replying again .
Maybe you should have said "Oh! I see you have found Dad's urine samples"
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Oh how I wish it was!Maybe you should have said "Oh! I see you have found Dad's urine samples"
My guess is they'll turn to mush, then just liquid, if the water lasts long enough.
Why am I now tempted to sacrifice a potato, and possible a suacepan, just to find out?
A few weeks ago, we had a sudden inrush of men, diggers and other machinery, and a trench was dug, pipework inserted, and covered. Noisy, inconvenient, but they did a short section at a time, and didn't take long.
Now we've had two days of similar again. There was a short section not dug, so I assumed they were just joining up. But today, the guys are digging a new trench alongside the first. Apparently, the first dig was by Gigaclear, these guys are Virgin, and soon there will be another lot. I can't see there's room for another trench.
These guys are doing the whole street, at once. They're working quickly, but where are we all supposd to park meanwhile. The previous lot doing small sections allowed us all to squeeze along the road, now nowhere to go.
So, soon we will have 3 providers competing with BT, With phones, they all use the same cabling, just provide the service. With fibre, it looks like they're all using their own. What a waste of resources. Should have been one trench, one large diameter pipe. We've already got a new connector box on the pavement, soon two more.
Such silliness.
Now we've had two days of similar again. There was a short section not dug, so I assumed they were just joining up. But today, the guys are digging a new trench alongside the first. Apparently, the first dig was by Gigaclear, these guys are Virgin, and soon there will be another lot. I can't see there's room for another trench.
These guys are doing the whole street, at once. They're working quickly, but where are we all supposd to park meanwhile. The previous lot doing small sections allowed us all to squeeze along the road, now nowhere to go.
So, soon we will have 3 providers competing with BT, With phones, they all use the same cabling, just provide the service. With fibre, it looks like they're all using their own. What a waste of resources. Should have been one trench, one large diameter pipe. We've already got a new connector box on the pavement, soon two more.
Such silliness.
People who damage other people's property and don't own up....
The other one that pisses me off is those people who park in the street and get in my way when I am trying to turn round.
They can't blame me when I knock the bumper off there stupid green citroen
To be fair if you could manage a three point turn in my street without using a fork lift truck or smashing both the front and rear bumpers into a wall then you're significantly more magic than I am 
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The street isn't 4m wide..and isn't a through road so if you go down forwards..you're coming out backwards.
If it had happened in the street I'd have noticed because it would have taken them about 15 mins to extricate themselves or they'd have hit the Porsche in front and next door would have murdered them..twice.
.The street isn't 4m wide..and isn't a through road so if you go down forwards..you're coming out backwards.
If it had happened in the street I'd have noticed because it would have taken them about 15 mins to extricate themselves or they'd have hit the Porsche in front and next door would have murdered them..twice.
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I often go trundling around in the middle of the day in my fork lift. I feel like you're judging me now.To be fair if you could manage a three point turn in my street without using a fork lift truck or smashing both the front and rear bumpers into a wall then you're significantly more magic than I am
The street isn't 4m wide..and isn't a through road so if you go down forwards..you're coming out backwards.
If it had happened in the street I'd have noticed because it would have taken them about 15 mins to extricate themselves or they'd have hit the Porsche in front and next door would have murdered them..twice.
I am... heavily.
The other day I was reversing down my cul de sac about to swing into drive, I glanced to front again just as a woman was trying to squeeze past me, when the gap would have been zero.
The logic defies me as I wasn't dawdling. The term"sh*t for brains" seems appropriate.
The logic defies me as I wasn't dawdling. The term"sh*t for brains" seems appropriate.
