Weekend, 12th- 15th.4.2024.

 Must tell you that I started this post on Monday evening (12th), just got the title in and there was a flash of lightening and thunder and my Modem was fried!. After an hour on to the engineer at TalkTalk they decided what I had thought and sent me a new modem which arrived this morning Wednesday about 10- 30 which isn't bad is it!.

All setup again now with all the other items setup, ie Printer.

So on to the post, had a nice visit to Reddish Vale on Friday, first time for a while as the road had been close while they added lighting down to the farm, houses and info centre.

For those of you that were interested in the Heart-murals I've been on about at Debdale Park, this is another one of his!. 

The Terrapins were out on the lower mill pond.

These on the top mill pond.

Yet another on the Sunnyside pond, even though it was the other side of the pond you can still see it's eyes with my Nikon P950.

This is a lot bigger than My Alfie.

Plenty of  Mandarin ducks about doing their mating game.

Male changing into his breeding colours

On the overflow to the river.

 The river looks awfully rough Fred, don't worry Gladys I'll look after you. 

Squirrel getting into his Peanut.

Blue Tit.

Great Tits.

Chaffinches, Male.

Females

It's a shame that most Chaffinches seem to suffer with bumblefoot, That Scaly  stuff on their feet.

Coots seem to be nesting everywhere.

Our national bird and rightly so!.

Saturday it was the Bridge View Café , always a nice welcome there.

Sunday went to Son's for dinner, whilst there walked round to my youngest granddaughters new house to have a first look, and surprised it needs so much DIY doing, there again they have done it all before on the house they sold.

When I got home it was out with the Picture light I'd bought in the week from Amazon and mentioned in the previous post.

What's in the box!, the light, two brackets and all the screws and raw plugs plus two sticky pads and a controller.

Fitted in my work room, has you can see the light tilts so it doesn't shine in your eyes

So after fitting it in my work room, and finding there was two brackets, decided to put the second bracket over the picture in my bedroom that my good friend Bob the Painter gave me a while back.

So at night it looks like this, and as it has a timer on the controller, I can light it up and set the timer!.

So it's there until I need it for Jig sawing in the evening.

Monday I went to The Windmill for lunch, 

 Looks nice, but still raining but at least the rain is getting a bit warmer!

 So after a bit of a worrying time reconnecting all the items to the new Modem now back to normal thank goodness!, wasn't sure they had it right about being the modem at fault, all's well that ends well hey.

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The best way to loose weight is to stuff your face while standing naked in front of a mirror - the restaurant will sling you out before you can swallow too much.

An English teacher spots a boy staring out of the window and calls out a question, "you boy! Give me two Pronouns" 

The boy looks round and say's "Who? Me"

I drink to steady my nerves,

Last night I got so steady I couldn't move!.

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The Rainy City, Wednesday, 10.4.2024.

 Yet another day of rain today, good job I had plenty of things to do!.

Changed the bedding for myself and Alfie, dislike the first but don't mind the second!.

I did go out today, but only for dinner at Morrison's for my fish and chips, could only manage half the chips!.

Noticed this on the tables today, free crumpets!.

More for the kids to drop on the floor hey.

Been busy with the lighting again this week

This was the light in the front room, and although I don't go in there much these days thought I would update this light the same as the  others in the house.

Remember the round light in the garage I thought was too fancy, I've used that for the front room.

I spent hours years ago painting those pastel colours on the rings, back breaking job.

So I'm pleased that some of the colours still show!.

The 5 bulbs in the old light were 5x 40 watts = 200 watts, this led one is only 36 watts and seems brighter if anything!.

Then, with one light left over I decided to use it for the back bedroom (My ironing/drying room) so the single light shade with an LED bulb was changed for this 22 watts light which is quite bright enough for occasional use.  

Good use of the new electric tester again.

So though the rain stopped play I've keep busy, after Morrisons today, popped over to Debdale to check on the new mural, but as I expected nothing else done due to the heavy rain these last few days.

The red Shania bush in my garden has sprouted these leaves in just a couple of days must be all the rain, that yellow privet that my mate Bob gave me years ago should be trimmed into a nice square box but there again too wet out there. 

Did realise looking at this picture, in the better weather, could use the left over bricks from Alfie's outdoor run to make a nicer wall round the bottom of this bush, saves a trip to the tip!.

Not stopped the Goldfinches stocking up, ready for the busy period of the breeding season.

Off to Portland Basin tomorrow, only the Bridge View Café though, How many pictures of the inside of the museum do you need!.

Though its good for you people with children as it's free!, in the museum that it!!.

My Friend and neighbour will be singing in the café tomorrow as well.

Sat and did two jigsaws the last few days too, and realised that the new round light though quite bright enough, means I'm sat in my own light whilst Jig Sawing, the old one was a neon strip light and covered my table, so it was back on to good old Amazon again found this picture light which will be ok in front of me as it tilts down so not in your eyes.

Will install it tomorrow all being well and will post the result in the next post.

What's in the box?.

Light, holder, charging lead, remote and destructions!.

If you want to check the Jig Saws done check the Tabs under the main header picture
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Friday, 5.4.2024.

Yesterday I got my order of some lighting tubes from Amazon, 6 LED tubes at 10 watts each and all the fittings for each to be fitting individually or in any configuration you  fancy. 

You might remember I'd changed my neon strip light in the garage from this. 

To this which didn't look right in a garage, which made me look on Amazon for something more industrial looking.

 Came up with this bargain of 6 tubes and all the fitting for them at £39.99.

This is three of the tubes joined with connectors, plugs at one end and blanks at the other, very easy to fit once you've studied the attached instructions. 

So that's only 30 watts and a better light as it spreads it round better.

One of my friends Christmas pressies, came in very handy as the screws provided were very (My Newt) minute.

3 cross and 3 straight drivers in very small scale.

 Today went over to Debdale,  (it was raining of course) to see the Hearts_Mural on the sailing clubs wall, as the chap saw my comments on the Debdale website that I thought it was finished and he commented that it wasn't and had added some Bees on it!.

 There they are and then I noticed an owl silhouette in the tree, some detail to be added to that I'm sure if the other murals I've seen at Reddish Vale are anything to go by.

There's even a beehive on the other side!. 

Had some dinner at Sainsburys and shopping done, it was home again in the rain, and there was another friend to welcome me.

Remember the small marked table I'd bought at Pear Mill the other day, had another idea .

Here it is now covered in vinyl and the edges painted with acrylic paint in stock. 

Won't ever be folding it will I.

I'd ordered some brass switch plates to replace the two dimmer switches I'd changed and it's taken 8 days to come today from the suppliers though ordered through Amazon.

So both fitted and back to normal now.

Then on the other hand ordered this tester last night at 7pm and it was in my porch by dinnertime today!, how is that for service and free delivery with Prime membership. 

Chinese of course and stickers all over the instructions!, perhaps they had heard that most men never read the instructions in the UK!.

Don't think Alfie likes this pressie one of my friends bought me, he keeps trying to shove it off the hearth.

Will keep checking the Heart_ mural again, though the weather is probably holding the painter up.

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Who invented Break dancing?,

A guy trying to steal hub caps of a moving vehicle.

Two cows,  Daisy and Dolly in a field, Daisy said  "I was artificially inseminated this morning",

"I don't believe you" says Dolly, Daisy says "It's true No Bull!"  

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