Tell Me Something............Anything!

[Marco]

Del's also super-fussy how the decs are done. She's currently fitting some cute handmade baubles, which she's made out of wool, in different colours (she'll also wear them on her hair at Christmas), to a little 'tree', constructed from twigs and other bits from our garden, which we've got some lights for, and goes in the kitchen window.

Here's what I was referring to above, for Adam, or anyone else who likes that sort of thing:



On the left is an old Chianti wine bottle, which she stripped of its labels and put some 'spangly' lights inside. Looks quite effective I think!





Everything there, apart from the lights, was from bits just lying in our garden. and she also made the pompoms. Makes the kitchen look nice and cosy and Christmassy!

Marco.

[Barry]

No. I'll drive over and check it out. If the precautions look good I'll go in.

We went to B&Q yesterday to buy 40 litres of masonry paint, and the place wasn't crowded at all with hardly any queue for checkout.

Quite different to the situation after the end of the first lockdown, when the queues at B&Q were stupid. Getting in wasn't too difficult, but the queue for the checkout was very long. Also the staff were unhelpful in answering an enquiry of mine about stock of floor tiles, so we just said "sod it" and left without purchasing anything. Went across the road to another tile supplier, where they couldn't have been more helpful. Their gain was B&Q's loss.

[walpurgis]

We went to B&Q yesterday to buy 40 litres of masonry paint, and the place wasn't crowded at all with hardly any queue for checkout.

I tried to get there this afternoon, but the traffic was so bad towards the A312 I gave up and went home. May have another bash tomorrow morning.

[Macca]

The shelf in the door of my fridge is exactly the same length as four pint-size cartons of milk. I never noticed that until just now.

[Filterlab]

I just swapped one of the EL166 drive units in my speakers for a NOS unit as the outgoing one had a bit of a crackle on certain tracks at certain volume levels. Nice to do some soldering.

[Macca]

You think? I always used to burn myself with the bastard. And get solder on the carpet.

[walpurgis]

You think? I always used to burn myself with the bastard. And get solder on the carpet.

The fun starts when you drop a bit down inside your shoe.

(did that with red hot bits when welding too)

[Filterlab]

I’m very careful with my hot dribbles.

[Marco]

I’m very careful with my hot dribbles.

Yes, I believe you always ensure something's wide-open to 'catch' them

Marco.

[Filterlab]