Today I shall be Mainly...

[Sue]

Morning

Well it was another wet day yesterday despite the forecast. When we went to the cemetery I even put my walking boots on as I had visions of sinking in the grass. However it was much drier than expected. For some reason I had a nagging feeling that the flower van would not be outside the cemetery, daft really as he always is except on Mondays. Anyway I called at the florist in Whitworth and got a nice spray of flowers plus a lovely long chat. Shopping local is such a joy compared to supermarket shopping. Anyway when we got to the cemetery the flower man was not there, in fact Jane told me it was in the paper last Thursday that the man had died. What a strange premonition that was that I had . We had our meal at the Ram but were quite disappointed with the quality, no where near as good as usual. The art group went there in July for an out door painting session and had reported the same at the time. The menu was fine but the food was badly cooked, not very nice at all. It was late afternoon when we got back home.

Today I have our bedding to wash and change and hopefully the rain will be minimal . If it is I hope to cut back a few more dead perennials and am thinking of putting some of my potted plants in the greenhouse. Bob will be st the park so I have a day to potter. Roast beef this evening. Have a good day all

[Stanley]

I started by cutting recesses in the base for the heads of the bolts that hold the bottom lids of the pump down so that the pump will bed firmly. Then I went looking for something to make a frame from and remembered some angle plate that Newton had used on one of his abandoned projects. I saved it from his scrap bin and this morning milled the plate away from the rivets. I now have some angle plate with dummy rivets on it and will see what I can do with this tomorrow.... A productive hour. It's coming together I think....

[Stanley]

I shall be in the shed mounting my engine using Newton's riveted angle. I think he'd be quite pleased!
No rain forecast so I think walk and sit is on. I think that short walk and sit watching the world go by is quite important for me.....

[Sue]

Morning

That walk definitely is important for you Stanley for may reasons, physical, psychological and for your own personal safety. Its important to be seen on a regular basis, so if you are not seen people know to check on you . Another important aspect of one guy too. We shall probably walk to the bank this afternoon, it was another good afternoon of train running yesterday so money to be banked. Its pilates this morning.

I refilled the brown bin yesterday with dead and dying perennials and did a little more transplanting. The garden will look quite different in places next week . I also did some cooking, making my first big batch of soup of the autumn , and some sewing. I have decided to work through my stash of fabric and get rid of any I don’t want of which there is quite a bit. That will leave me with this years challenge with Maxine when sewing sessions resume ie how do I sew these very fine fabrics that I have bought over the years, a d what can I make with them. I was in bed by 9.30 pm !

Have a good day all

[Stanley]

Morning Sue... some very good points there and I agree with all of them. Particularly the reminder to people that I am about! That's why I mail all my kids and grandchildren each morning. I have asked them and they like it, they like to know I am still here acting as a sort of anchor in a changing world.



This pic tells the story. The pump is declared finished, mounted on a good base and sat on the kitchen table as an ornament which is what it is actually. The base has a rubber covering to stop scratching of furniture and I have given it a coat of linseed oil as well. It has stopped being a problem lurking in the shed and become an interesting conversation piece. Next move, box on!.....

[Stanley]

I've had my short walk and half an hour's sit watching the world. Heavy overcast but not cold if you are wrapped up.

[Stanley]

The pump looks nice sat on the table. (That last liberal coat of linseed oil has soaked into the wooden base nicely. Much better than varnish on oak I think.)
Not sure about this morning, I shall take a view when I go in the shed. I have a follow on project ready to go......
Midday walk is looking dodgy as we have rain forecast.... I shall see what it's like.

[Sue]

Morning

We did our 4 mile circular to the bank yesterday and I finished the top I am making. I think that is it for clothes making for a bit. I shall turn my mind and fabric to other things, I just haven’t decided what yet.

Today is lunch at the garden centre with my old sewing group. I have been unable to meet up with them since June or even earlier as they meet the first Tuesday in the month and we have usually been away or elsewhere on that day. I shall take the opportunity of being at the garden centre to buy some Spring bulbs for the area of garden I have cleared and replanted. I shall be on the lookout for autumn sowing broad beans too. I usually plant up my pots etc at the end of October. Sometime during the day I want to phone my friend Wendy who has at last come out of hospital after her shoulder operation. This evening is pilates and yoga. Yesterday was the first pilates session, after returning from France , when I didn’t ache. My body has at last got used to the exercises again.

Have a good day all

[Stanley]

I'm just about getting over the after-effects of last week's vaccinations. From what I have learned from Ian the culprit is more likely to be the Covid Booster. I missed on my walk yesterday because I kept waiting for rain but it didn't come until later. I think I was just tired and fed up! Then I read Pluggy's post and gave myself a good talking to!
This morning I shall be in the shed with the next project.... See shed matters later. The forecast today is for rain all day and no ambiguity! It's started already..... So it could well be an inside day.....

[Stanley]

And now for light relief..... I'm going to make another wobbler.... Susan pinched the last one I made....
I cleared up after the fire pump and tidied stuff away. Now I'm ready to start proper engine making again.....

[Sue]

Morning

There were no covid booster after effects here, and I don’t know anybody that has had them this time. I had a stiff arm, that was it. The flu jab is on Saturday but we have never reacted to that either.

Today is wet and windy and sadly the funeral of a work colleague and a very good friend. Ann’s eldest was born the day after Julia so we were in Birch hill together. Later we met up at the local swimming club where Julia and Will were both backstroke swimmers. By the time they were 16 the two of them were girl and boyfriend for a short time. Ann followed me career wise, getting my part time job at Rochdale college when I left to go to Bury, and a couple of years later she got a full time job at Bury. We taught the same subject and shared a staffroom for many years. Unfortunately after I retired early we did not see much of each other, but used to occasionally bump into each other eg at the theatre. It was a bit of a joke at work that we often turned up wearing the same coloured clothes or style. Sadly it is now the end of an era as Ann died of cancer two weeks ago. That is one similarity I do not want to follow. The funeral is this afternoon.

Otherwise yesterday I restarted writing my Widdup book so today I am in the process of reading what I have already written. I need to get back in to the mind frame.

Have a good day all

[Stanley]

I've just been out for a short walk on an errand. I have no doubt it did me good to be taking light exercise in the cold rain...... But I'm back inside now ans feeling better for it!

[Stanley]

I shall be in the shed for an hour this morning but not engine building, there is a piece of shed maintenance I need to take care of. Worth looking in!
I should get my walk and sit in before it rains around midday but we'll see. Certainly no signs of any Indian Summer.....

[Sue]

Morning

This morning is art and i am taking my dressmakers mannequin so that we can tackle drawing draped fabrics and clothes. This afternoon I hope to visit my friend Wendy who had the shoulder op. Otherwise I shall be doing battle with Libreoffice as I try to update some of the chapters of my book that I had already written. Its a slow process.

Have a good day all.

[Stanley]

Sue, I'm sure you know this but when refreshing text that was written perhaps on a different machine, it's a good idea to wash it in the text editor to get rid of embedded formatting that can surface later on and cause problems. (Forgive me for interfering....)
Have a look at shed matters this morning for what I have been doing. I think Bob will like it! Nothing to do with engines, it's advanced shed maintenance! Here's a clue....

[plaques]

Libra Office is straight forward as long as you stick to written text. If you have tried to copy both text and images together it gets a little complicated. I'm assuming that you have created numerous pages under different headings where you are bobbing in and out of different pages trying to remember where you have been / come from. It may pay you to put it onto two laptops so that you can hold a page and work on the other. Just a suggestion.

[Wendyf]

It was a pleasure to meet both Big Kev and Mrs Big Kev this afternoon when they delivered my Chinese Money Plant.

[Big Kev]

It was a pleasure to meet both Big Kev and Mrs Big Kev this afternoon when they delivered my Chinese Money Plant.

The pleasure was mutual and thank you for the brew.

[Stanley]

It would be nice to pop in at Wendy's for a brew.... Ah well! Glad to hear the district's social life is flourishing.
I shall be in the shed for an hour with my bell mouthed chuck and then to the Co-op for the weekly early doors shop. It could be raining before then and I don't know what will happen to short walks at midday!

[Sue]

Morning

I am afraid I do not understand the term to wash in a text editor. All I know is it is giving me one big headache and total destruction of enthusiasm. I had a day away from it yesterday . When I see the pile of resources that I still have to wade through it is quite off putting but at least most of those will be typed from the beginning and not as an adjustment . I have just about finished reading through and updating the chapters already written. The updating was not about the format but literally research updating. Some of the chapters referred to a hypothesis which has now become fact due to the random contact with someone who found me on oneguy. It was a great ‘revealing moment’ as she produced a will that confirmed what I had deduced ie the Martha Edmundson that married Joh Widdup in Rochdale in 1785 was indeed from an established family in Salterforth and Barnoldswick. By the way how far is Slaidburn from there

Otherwise yesterday i had a successful art morning and a really pleasant two hour visit to see my friend. She is very incapacitated with her arm in a sling to immobilise the shoulder, however she was in good verbal form and bent my ear for nearly two hours. I left her with a drink of horlicks and a good book. Her husband Barry is still in a home for recuperation after his heart attack but is also defintely improving. I shall visit again next Wednesday

Straight after breakfast to day I have dance exercise then we are off to Clitheroe. We want to visit Majestic wines to find some organic wine that meets the criteria of this Saturdays u3a wine tasting. We are also having lunch out, just the two of us, to celebrate 55 years since we met. Bob is then out this evening at a model engineers meeting and i will tackle my book again

Have a good day all, windy and wet here, I believe.

[Sue]

Libra Office is straight forward as long as you stick to written text. If you have tried to copy both text and images together it gets a little complicated. I'm assuming that you have created numerous pages under different headings where you are bobbing in and out of different pages trying to remember where you have been / come from. It may pay you to put it onto two laptops so that you can hold a page and work on the other. Just a suggestion.

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I am transferring text and images and unfortunately I do not have two functioning laptops but it is an idea I had thought of. I have this problem because my last lap top gave up on me and my new one, a temperamental thing any way, has libra office and not open office. I think I will try and transfer a chapter at a time to my ipad so I can look at it on that as I type. My mind this morning is telling me to move on to brand new chapters and get used to libra office before trying to reformat the chapters I have written. I have no intentions of retyping over a 100 pages

I seem unable to locate where I position the page numbers ie left, right or central, and it took ages to find out how to insert footnotes numbered with 1,2,3, etc rather than roman numerals. In fact thinking about it, I haven’t yet. At the moment each chapter is numbered independently but I also need to work out how do a continuous numbering system from one chapter to the next, though I will do that when I have finished. I find libra office far too sophisticated for me after 20 plus years since of using the old open office

[Stanley]

I don't envy you the job Sue and wish you the best. My own instinct is always to have a fresh start but that has often got me into trouble!
I have done my hour with the grinder and have an improved chuck. I've done the shopping and put it away. Noticeable how the cost rises each week, it must be a nightmare for anyone feeding a family on a limited budget.
That's why your unions are 'militant' Liz. Seeing kids going hungry tends to concentrate the mind!

[PanBiker]

my last lap top gave up on me and my new one, a temperamental thing any way, has libra office and not open office.

Can't you just download Open Office if it would make the job easier?

Open Office

[Big Kev]

Going to Colne Muni for a Neil Diamond tribute show this evening.

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[PanBiker]

Enjoy Kev.