Today I shall be Mainly...

[Stanley]

This morning I spent over 45 minutes fitting the bottom halves of the crankshaft bearings into the bed. This entailed refining the bearing blanks and their beds in the casting and then modifying the crankshaft until it was a perfect fit. Lastly I punched witness marks into the wings of the bearings so that their orientation couldn't be mixed up. I am very pleased with the fit, it's good! I deserve my breakfast.

[Sue]

Morning

My cold seems to be progressing to the same cough this morning, otherwise we both have a light cold and a negative covid test. Neither of us feels particularly ill . We shall just watch out for the cough. I do a daily inhalation anyway so hopefully will keep it from developing further

Today is the wine groups Christmas lunch, we are booked in at our favourite Italian restaurant at the lake. We are going by taxi . Otherwise I have some ironing tp do. I didn’t have time last weekend and won’t this weekend. Its not like me to have a basket full.

Rain forecast today, have a good day all

[Stanley]

Morning Sue.... I hope your colds ease off for Xmas..... Just had mail from Susan. She is in full Xmas swing at the London International Horse show watching the indoor carriage driving. It's being held at ExCeL London.

[Sue]

Morning Sue.... I hope your colds ease off for Xmas..... Just had mail from Susan. She is in full Xmas swing at the London International Horse show watching the indoor carriage driving. It's being held at ExCeL London.

That sounds good

[Stanley]

She said it smelt horsey! Her husband Mick's brother is Wilf Bowman-Ripley (LINK) and that's the connection with horses and carriage driving.....
I shall be in the shed as usual at 06:00 working on my crankshaft bearings. The forecast of rain is not encouraging me to walk and there is no reason for me to go out so I shall take a view on the rest of the day when I see what the weather is doing......

[Stanley]

This morning I spent over 45 minutes entirely on the two top components of the crankshaft bearings. First I fettled the flash off with the grindstone, then Milled all the faces square and to equal dimensions. (It was while I was doing this I discovered the blowhole in one of them. I could get a replacement from Stuarts but is it worth the hassle?) Then I polished the faces on fine emery paper and finished by breaking the edges with a file. I finished with them ready for the final stages, that can wait until tomorrow. The job now is breakfast.

[Sue]

Morning

I have a really bad throat and no voice, that will teach me to talk for three hours at our lunch yesterday. It all went very well. We were both tired and were in bed by 10.30 and woke at at 7.45 this morning.

After breakfast we are off to Bacup market for some eggs and pick up our Christmas meat order, otherwise I don’t think either of us will be doing much today. Have a good day all

[Stanley]

Sorry to hear that Sue...... I hope you don't make it worse by going out in what in Barlick is some nasty cold wet and windy weather!
I am dealing with my Xmas meat.... I am defrosting my slab of Pork Belly but first I shall go in the shed and set the edges on my knives on a fine oilstone..... I do like sharp knives!

[Stanley]

The pork Belly is in the slow cooker starting its journey through a long slow cook. That's the meat for Xmas assured! A lot easier than an enormous turkey..... I've had my dinner and a dadnap is looking quite attractive.