Today I shall be Mainly...

[David Whipp]

Each, as they say...!

[Stanley]

It keeps me off the street corners David.....

[Julie in Norfolk]

Dad and his brother went to Sunday School at Clarion House and he thought that he took me there also. I have vague memories but we left Nelson in 1961 when I was 5. I do have a book on Clarion House, it mentions a chap (who I think was James) Butterfield who was dad's godfather and quite a mover in the ILP.

Jim Butterfield was the man's name

[Stanley]

After I replied to David's post I remembered this pic....



Each to his own indeed.....

Today I shall be improving the accuracy of the Taylor chuck!

[David Whipp]

Aye... and I've moved on to bigger and better!

This was a 'try before you buy' in June.

(Needless to say, vacuuming isn't on my agenda for today... inspecting some hard to use public rights of way around Earby is first off.)

[Sue]

Home sweet home

[Stanley]

That's one for the next election flyer David!
I have a small job in mind in the shed. Something I promised Daughter Janet a long time ago....

[Julie in Norfolk]

A day late but never mind, yesterday mainly I was at the Maritime event in Great Yarmouth. A really great event with Shanty Singers, boats of all sizes, good food (kippers etc.), craft and local interest stands. http://www.great-yarmouth.co.uk/maritime-festival/

[Stanley]

Posting a small packet to Janet in Oz..... See Shed Matters.

[PanBiker]

I have started the search in the upstairs front bedroom for the fishy smell in the room when the front room downstairs light is on. Almost certainly a Bakelite junction box that will need replacing. The front bedroom has two single beds for when the grandchildren stop over and our double wardrobe and drawers where we keep all our 1940's attire. I know where the light fitting is below but the circuit is not wired on pendants. It will almost certainly be wired as multipoint on junction boxes. I have a number of cut boards down one end of the room where the wall switch is so it's quite possible the offending box will be down that end somewhere. Having said that I cant remember ever coming across it when I have had the boards up before. We have shifted all the furniture down one end and stood the beds on end. I'm hoping we wont have to empty the room completely to find it!

[Stanley]

Have the kids been hiding kippers? What a bummer..... Commiserations Ian.
Getting in the shed, I missed yesterday because of domestic matters.

[Sue]

I was having a sewing lesson today but Maxine is ill, so instead I shall be tidying the overgrown back garden, which is full of flowers. Nice to see them. My hydrangeas in France had gone over with dehydration but here they are in full bloom

[PanBiker]

Getting the CAT sorted at the garage and continuing pulling floorboards up, happy days!

[Wendyf]

Taking it easy after having a troublesome back tooth extracted this morning. Didn't enjoy it..but relieved that it has gone!

[Tizer]

Ian, did you solve the smelly electrics problem? We had that problem a couple of years ago and it was the light fitting rose on the ceiling that needed replacing.

[PanBiker]

It's looking like I have a similar problem although not quite as simple. The drop from our ceiling is through an ornate wooden patress in the centre of a circular plaster ceiling cornice. I have had the boards up in the bedroom above and I can see the two 1mm conductors disappearing down behind a wooden baton fixed between the joists. It's not wired in junction boxes as I had originally thought

I have had son in law electrician concur that there is probably a festering rose embedded there behind the wooden ceiling patress. All I can see below are the two 1mm single cables, one of which also carries the earth which I terminated in a choc block and then into the fitting. From above there is also a 1.5mm twin and earth cable going behind the baton which is not visible from below, this will be the switch pair and can only really be terminating in a ceiling rose that cannot be seen from below or above.

The resolution without destroying the downstairs decorations is to disconnect the buried ceiling rose and bypass it with new drop connections and pull the switch line and feeds back into a new junction box under the floor upstairs. My son in law is dispatching his colleague Nathan to sort us out later today.

My front room fitting now has 5 x 3w LED lamps so is not drawing a lot of current as it did previously, still feeding through some festering infrastructure though so better to bypass this then we can forget it.

[Stanley]

Good luck with your 'festering rose'!
I shall be aiming for as normal a day as possible. The first job is to turn the water off and cure the sticking cold water tap in the kitchen. Why do these things happen just when you could do without the hassle!?
[By the way, an interesting LKF.... The printers call '!?' an interrobang.]

[Sue]

Looking forward to going walking with our walking group. We don't manage so much these days as usually it rains on a Wednesday.

[PanBiker]

Closing up after hunt the smell. Nathan tipped up yesterday afternoon and it turned out Son in Law Ant's diagnosis as well as my best logical conclusion were both wrong.

Nathan didn't like the look of what I assumed to be the 1.5 twin and earth. He concurred that it was showing signs of carrying current but he wasn't happy. The cable was actually an open end left over from a previous installation and was actually old imperial sized rubber clad cable that was perishing. He spotted that there was a 50 year gap or so between the cable types. The old one probably from the original 1930's wiring. I noticed also that there was evidence of an even earlier lighting installation with the presence of quarter inch lead gas pipe run over the joists but now folded back. He agreed that there were no Bakelite junction boxes or pendants on the circuit so we have assumed that the smell was the perishing rubber of the old cable. This was still showing current through induction from being pushed down behind the patress adjacent to the modern cabling. It's all stripped out now. So today I will mainly be nailing the boards back down, getting the carpet back down and the furniture back in the room.

[Tizer]

It's the little things that cause most trouble, Ian!

Mrs Tiz told me she was going out with the village Local History Group this afternoon for a visit. When she returned, the truth was revealed! A visit, yes, but to Rich's Cider near Highbridge, one of the old, small local cider makers. Apples were being crushed and the employees had to shoo away the History Group because they were getting to close!

[Stanley]

Just goes to show you can't trust them when you let them out carrying money!
Ian, glad you bottomed the fault. When we rewired 10 East Hill I insisted that all the old wiring was ripped out and replaced with new cable. You weren't in charge of the rewiring at yours because you would have done the same....
I shall try to have a normal day in the shed but at the moment the flow of mail and instructions is quite demanding.

[Sue]

Today my sisters partner finishes his bike ride from lands end to John o groats. It's well over 900 miles. I am full of admiration for him

[PanBiker]

Fantastic Sue, he will be ready for a sit down, (or maybe not)!

[Stanley]

That's a fair old ride.... Respect!
Today I shall be trying to keep myself occupied, we are all in limbo at the moment..... Something demanding in the shed looks attractive!

[Sue]

Best way Stanley. Neill hasn't been in touch yet, I should think he is trying to make a more conventional return to Crosby, than cycling. It was an organised ride and I gather this year the sponsored charity was the Paralympics. Weren't they terrific. I just loved the swimming.