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[chrissie]

Cor is it really Wednesday... where did Sunday, Monday and Tuesday go?!!  Doesn't look too good out there once again, hope it's better where you are.

KITZ... so pleased to hear that Chaz is better than he was and that he is progressing.  It's never boring to hear about animals and get good news when they aren't well...keep up the good work, he'll get there in the end.

Have a good day everyone.

Chrissie

[Ezzer]

In Gorleston today, still overcast but may be brightening. got the tent out yesterday, not for myself as I was up the pole but for my colleage who came to help out after assisting her. Got a call to see if I have the gear to renew a cable in a hollow pole, had most of it, only problem Couldn't remember how exactly the hinged bit at the top end stays upright when we need it to. So long scince i've done a renewal via a hollow pole. I thought I know who to ask, he couldn't exactly remember either for the same reason.

Sussed it in the end, doh for some reason there was more to it. I think everyone was having a "blond" moment, today about 10 meters away somes having a similar moment at the moment and getting a bit wound up with themselfs at the moment 

[tickmike]

Cor is it really Wednesday... where did Sunday, Monday and Tuesday go?!!  Doesn't look too good out there once again, hope it's better where you are.
Chrissie

What happened to the rest of the year ? can someone slow time down a bit as I have that many things I have to do.
Well the sun just came out for about for about 30secs 15 more than yesterday 
I have put building the stone wall on hold while my daughter is on school hols., as shes gone out with her friends I'm doing some plumbing inside because it looks like it going to throw it down again.

Got a call to see if I have the gear to renew a cable in a hollow pole,

Can you not just tape new cable onto old and pull it through ?. or is there a special way to do it.?

[Ezzer]

Called a "cut and draw"Depends on the type and state of the original cable. For this one we pass-up 2m long rods srewed together rather like a chimney sweep, at the end there's a bar which once through the top drops 90 degress with a plumb weight to bring the sash cord to pull the new cable at the right spot. What i coul'nt remember was how the sash was kept taught to keep the bar upright whilst passing through the pole.

It came back to me as we were doing it. It's years scince I've used this method

[Yorkie]

Been a funny day so far, spent a good amount of it on my hands and knees in the bathroom looking for a lost  screw.  Not just any old screw you understand, got gods amount of those, no this is that tiny tichy one that holds arm of spectacles to frame.

Gave up in the end, have a spare pair but the lenses are scratched and I accidentenly sat on them so that they don't quite sit as they should and one side rubs against my nose and makes it sore.

Finally had a brain wave and took an old pair of sunglasses to bits for the screw, bit fiddley as you can imagine, but the world looks a better place now.

Cat and I are playing that well known game, pushy-shovey, I think I'm winning, but must remember not to lean back and squash him, he's purring his little head off.

[Floydoid]

Yorkie, as a former contact lens wearer, I know that when looking for anything like that, a torch is the best tool to use... however small something is, it will glint in a beam of light.  Also, have you tried going round with a dustpan & brush?

(otherwise, there would have been no repeatable answer to your first sentence on its own)

[chrissie]

Yorkie, how annoying is that with the screw.  I have had that happen lots of times and before I bought a little kit with screws and a tiny screwdriver just for specs, I managed to secure the arm on with a stripped down piece of wire from a freezer tie, it held it in place until the optician fixed it for me.  Another tip which might help, put some clear nail varnish over the bottom end of the screw when it's fixed in the hole, helps to stop it coming out.

Chrissie

[Floydoid]

put some clear nail varnish over the bottom end of the screw when it's fixed in the hole, helps to stop it coming out.

It gets worse 

[Yorkie]

Former contact lens wearer myself, so yes been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
Despite what the style gurus say, I have carpet down in the bathroom so I think it just disappeared into the pile, I did try a brush and pan but probably made things worse.

Whilst fiddling with aforementioned sunglasses, it occured to me, I wonder how many of these screws actually make it out of the factory and how many are lost before then and what does the machine look like that makes them, sometimes my mind wanders.

Don't have any nail varnish, got some superglue though.

[Floydoid]

Do you have something magnetic you can probe about with... such as a magnetic screwdriver?

[Yorkie]

Probably in the speakers on the hi-fi (I use the term loosely) but I'm dammned if I'm taking them apart.

Ezzer I thought you all had your own pet ferret for running up poles and through tunnels.

[UncleUB]

I never seen such excitement over a screw. 

[Ezzer]

for small objects lost on the floor, try a mirrors edge on the floor with the mirror reflective side up at 45 degrees, as you look down you'll get an ants eye view so hopefully any small item will look like a castle on a desert horizon.

Also handy if you suspect the offending item has hidden itself under cooker,sofa etc, shine a torch down the mirror.

As for ferrits, we are the ferrits 

[Ezzer]

Errr, I ment a small mirror of course, not a dress mirror 

[tickmike]

Do you have something magnetic you can probe about with... such as a magnetic screwdriver?

The screws are normally made from 'Brass' ! 

Last time I was at my opticians they gave me some spare screws free.