What are you doing today??

Have a great time all of you x

Enjoy Minty!

Burst water main up the road in Rosewell this morning so no water supply , told Val who was going up to the toilet, "you won't be able to flush" I said " its o.k" she said " Ill take a bucket of water with me said Val" women!!!!!!!!!! 

Hello,,, cottage has got Internet but none of us can connect to it, piggybacking using Annie's phone at moment...

Photos don't do place justice it's lovely...

So today Mathew we went to the highest pub in Englands 1700 odd feet, about a 40 minute drive on single track road to get there, totally barn but spectacular scenery...

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Then Cam we actually did watch the sheep dog think, farm is a sheep farm, specialise in black sheep, old couple who have it live in other half of farm building we're in, woman is batty as hell but lovely, so Annie's sister wants to see sheep dog thing, bare in mind my uncle had a farm so it ain't nothing new to me, so it's arranged for 3 o'clock, 3 o'clock comes and were meeting farmer in field next to farm, sister says its to cold I ain't coming,,, so three of us who had no interest in it ended up freezing our tits and nuts off,,, then farmer says there a steam train comes past every Saturday at 4 o'clock, oh, Settle Carlisle line runs past back of farm, so we end up watching that...



Tomorow, pub, two football matches,,, no hills, no sheep, no trains...

Been working on the boat again. Final push now to get it launched in the Spring. Jacked it up little by little so its off the trailer so I can get a 1".x 3" hardwood strip fixed all along the bottom of the keel. The boat already came with holes drilled through the inner and outer skins and I have some 150x12mm bolts to go through so went to get my auger bits out for the job....... Got 10mm and 13mm and bigger but no bloody 12mm one. Normal drills are not quite long enough. Jeez. So I had to go to Toolstation in Kings Lynn to get one. Nice ride in the MG in the sun though. 

Breakfast shower then away to church Forgive me father for i have sinned, and given half a chance i will sin again so its all a bit pointless so i wont bother then 

Adam Mint wrote:Hello,,, cottage has got Internet but none of us can connect to it, piggybacking using Annie's phone at moment...

Photos don't do place justice it's lovely...

So today Mathew we went to the highest pub in Englands 1700 odd feet, about a 40 minute drive on single track road to get there, totally barn but spectacular scenery...

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Then Cam we actually did watch the sheep dog think, farm is a sheep farm, specialise in black sheep, old couple who have it live in other half of farm building we're in, woman is batty as hell but lovely, so Annie's sister wants to see sheep dog thing, bare in mind my uncle had a farm so it ain't nothing new to me, so it's arranged for 3 o'clock, 3 o'clock comes and were meeting farmer in field next to farm, sister says its to cold I ain't coming,,, so three of us who had no interest in it ended up freezing our tits and nuts off,,, then farmer says there a steam train comes past every Saturday at 4 o'clock, oh, Settle Carlisle line runs past back of farm, so we end up watching that...



Tomorow, pub, two football matches,,, no hills, no sheep, no trains...

Nice wee steam train...was Jenny Agutter there?

Perfectspecimen wrote:Been working on the boat again. Final push now to get it launched in the Spring. Jacked it up little by little so its off the trailer so I can get a 1".x 3" hardwood strip fixed all along the bottom of the keel. The boat already came with holes drilled through the inner and outer skins and I have some 150x12mm bolts to go through so went to get my auger bits out for the job....... Got 10mm and 13mm and bigger but no bloody 12mm one. Normal drills are not quite long enough. Jeez. So I had to go to Toolstation in Kings Lynn to get one. Nice ride in the MG in the sun though. 

I want photo proof of this thing floating!

Its the holes that bother me

Why don't you put copper along the keel? (He asks in his best shipwright's voice... )

Went to the "Great Polish Map of Scotland" near Peebles today. This is a drone shot of it, it's hard to get a decent photo from ground level...

At mother's bedside. Won't be long now. Couple of days very max I would think. They had to give her morphine earlier. If it was me, I would have thought long and hard about quadrupling the dose. As they saying goes, euthanasia doesn't result in more people dying, it results in less people suffering.

End of life very difficult, watched both my parents go through it.

Bless you Dermot been through it here ,! Hope you go down the right route thinking of you x

We were sent for when my mum was dying , sat up all night with her John ,my brother drove up from N/Yorks , arrived at the hospital around 9am so I went home  for a kip 1pm John came to the house Mum sat up and said she was starving ,she had lunch and lasted another couple of weeks, 

Crap time D ,look after yourself Bud

Thinking of you Dermo. x

So sorry to hear this D, thoughts are with you.

Today Mathew it's back to civislisation, if you can Mamchester that...

Sheep shagger...

Mcqueen wrote:Its the holes that bother me

There are other holes to be made........ Engine cooling intake, echo sounder and heads (toilet). Add the propshaft and bilge keels each side and that makes a total of,,,,,,,, 28 holes.   The exhaust, bilge pumps and sink outlets are just above the waterline but these have a gooseneck on the inside. Regular inspection and maintainence is the key. Old boats used to have copper to stop barnacles clinging on. Anti foul paint with a high copper content is what we use now.

Cleared all the snow off the path this morning...it's snowing again. Feckin' waste of time!

Went up to local corner shop with Mermaid to get milk...didn't want her getting stuck in a snowdrift!

Campbell Brodie wrote:Went up to local corner shop with Mermaid to get milk...didn't want her getting stuck in a snowdrift!

I sent Janet up this morning with a couple of tennis rackets on her feet, no point both getting wet