Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

We have this thread on TilersForums.com and it's just been restarted because the old thread had 20,000 replies and 500,000 views. And there were 700 pages. Started to lag a bit on slow connections.

I think we had a bash of this before, but I can't find the thread, so thought I'd start another one off.

If you have time in the mornings, come post in the thread before you head off to work, let us know what you've got on and what the weather is like in your area etc. Anything at all is fine.

Posts and likes get counted towards your total stats in this thread.

So GOOOD MORNING PEOPLE - WEATHER IS NICE TODAY IN STOKE. I'M THANKFUL IT'S FRIDAY, HAD A RUBBISH WEEK. THANK GOD IT'S OVER.

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[littlespark]

On a cold, damp site today. Only 132kV. So far frightened a sleeping deer and spotted a fox.

That’s better than being spotted sleeping with a foxy old dear

 

[Moley]

When you get to my age a foxy old dear would be a luxury

 

[Moley]

Hopefully a quietish day today. Currently eating a Premier Inn breakfast. Bacon is a bit too hard. After that it's a 2 hour drive to our workshop/stores and do a refurb on a gas analyser for next weeks job. Tidy the van up and then home.

 

[Rockingit]

Procrastinating on packing for another three weeks away from tomorrow whilst starting to work out CAD drawings for the project afterwards when I'm back..whilst having early discussions on the job after that which is another six weeks away.

 

[Moley]

Another week, another Premier Inn. This time I'm near St. Neots. Weather looks pretty sh1te :-(

 

[pirate]

Another boring, same-old day today. Breakfast on the terrace, and now heading for a long walk on the beach, a dip in the sea and later a leisurely lunch and a couple of beers...

 

[littlespark]

Stopped for lunch in a local car park picnic area between jobs, and once stopped, I could hear the shrill of the bagpipes….
Someone else’s radio perhaps?

No…. There’s somebody in the car park practicing…..




And if you think this must be an everyday occurrence for us “sweaty jocks” as dear old Tel used to call us….


I’m parked up in England.

 

[Rockingit]

Waiting for this lot to "get lost" out of my way to commission 4 x 2000A cabinets

 

[James]

Stopped for lunch in a local car park picnic area between jobs, and once stopped, I could hear the shrill of the bagpipes….
Someone else’s radio perhaps?

No…. There’s somebody in the car park practicing…..

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And if you think this must be an everyday occurrence for us “sweaty jocks” as dear old Tel used to call us….


I’m parked up in England.

I expect his wife won’t let him practice in the house, or anywhere near it!!

 

[Moley]

Today I'm 'oop norf' again, this time I'm at Goole. That does mean that every where I look there's goolies.

 

[westward10]

Some rainbow.

 

[littlespark]

You know Christmas is coming when the big boxes of chocolates are in the supermarkets.
Have been for weeks now, now we’ve just bought a couple to munch on during these darker nights.

One of my girls likes to open them up and swap the wrappers around, so you don’t know what you’re getting.

I don’t mind, it’s just a bit of fun…. But my wife?


It really gets her snickers in a twix.

 

[Admin]

Haha morning peeps.

Trapped my phone in the car door so nipped CEX get another. Camera isn't as good but the view is better on this one.

 

[Rockingit]

View attachment 118326Waiting for this lot to "get lost" out of my way to commission 4 x 2000...

When they eventually did, we made

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[littlespark]

Day three in the Littlespark caravan…. Please do not sweaaar!

Drove down the A1, heading to Scarborough on Saturday. Usual fun and games… stopped at services, forgot the fuel…. Missed the Darlington turnoff to reach next services for fuel…. Turned off following Satnav.
Sutton bank… unsuitable for caravans… follow signposted alternative rout…. Not much better.

Got here about 3 on Saturday. Rain and wind, so got set up, but left the awning.

Set up awning on Sunday…. It’s an inflatable, so comes with a hand pump.



It’s a few years old now…. So after the first couple of supports inflated… there was a bit of a crack.



So that’s that broken.
Half inflated awning, and a severely pee’d off sparky.


New addition to the caravan tool box. Box of self tappers and a roll of duct tape.




Sunny day. Heading to the amusements.

 

[pirate]

28 degrees here now...had a leisurely al fresco breakfast as I watched the sun creep along the beach, then a short beach walk and off into town for some essential supplies. Got a couple of sea-bream and will have a BBQ later, having invited the lady I met last nght...
No...I won't tell all tomorrow...cos there will be nowt to tell!
I have an outside light to install for a neighbour, but it's too hot now, so I will do that in the morning. I installed one for her last year and it's so good she wanted another one. I'll try to remember to take a pic. Light fittings for outdoors here are a bit random, some good, some awful, some of them expensive. This one is an unusual design but easy to fit cos there's a template in the box for the hidden screws.

 

[Admin]

Oooo love holiday season. We were in a cottage overlooking brixham. 41 steps to get up to the cottage, and the cottage was over 3 floors. Kitchen bottom and living room top so tea trips were aching us. If I were 20 I'd have loved it but we came back a couple of days early. Banged my head at least 4 times a day on their 5'6 door and the spiral stairs in the middle of the cottage were proper ankle twisters.

With my track record of breaking bones on holiday I thought it's safer head back

 

[pirate]

Ignoring the 2 road sections and track, all sloping, there are 247 steep steps from the centre of the resort to my terrace...and I walk down and up again every day...usually in the evening when I head for a few drinks...which can make the homeward trip a bit tricky!

 

[littlespark]

247 steps one way…. Somehow 276 after a few drinks?

 

[littlespark]

Rained all night last night. Hardly slept with the noise on the caravan roof. The dog was whining at 3, and I had to take her out about 7….

New houses being built in the next field to the site, and they all start up at half 7.


Having a slow day in the caravan today. A good long walk around the area if the weather changes.

Spent yesterday at the Scarborough seafront… playing the 2p amusements. Even nowadays, they’re fun for a couple of teenagers.

 

[Carolina]

Evening already for me but I've been doing some work with my cousin, sometimes he needs a helping hand and well here I am, ran some EMT and boxes to install a pair of outdoors lights and photocell for a lady, crappy integrated LED kind but it's what's available, tho I was able to rescue the older halogen ones that were poorly installed, those will be restored and modified to take 2x mains MR16, linear halogens are unobtainable.

 

[Moley]

A quiet day for me. I've just had my Premier Inn full English, packed my case and about to leave for home. Hopefully a quiet run, mainly M4 but first section M40 the M25.

 

[pirate]

Thanks @Moley
You just put me in the mood for a full English! I will head down to my favourite bar where they do such a thing.
They give me a full Scottish...no beans, but I get an extra sausage instead!
It's not really a "full" breakfast, but you do get 2 fried eggs, 2 sausages (link, not Lorne or square...not something the Spanish go for) bacon, toast, coffee and fresh orange juice...add a small brandy if you wish, nobody judges you!
Of course they do serve it with beans normally but in my view beans should never be part of a breakfast, hence I omit them and get the extra sausage. To be a true full breakfast I'd add black pudding, haggis, fried tomato, mushrooms and hash brown. My local breakfast place back home does that big combo.
OK, no beans for me at breakfast, and I'm sure there will be many who are horrified at that...have your say! Also, if you do favour beans with your full English or Scottish, do you like them dumped on the plate with all the other ingredients or served in a separate wee bowl?

 

[Moley]

I like beans, preferably just dumped on the plate. I've never understood the separate pot. We don't get the square sausage here, that's a treat when we work in Scotland.
I'm currently in Lee Delamare services. Got another 63 miles to go.

 

[littlespark]

Well I’m sitting down to Whitby haddock and chips with mushy peas

 

[Moley]

I'm home and just about to take my favourite family member out - my dog.

 

[westward10]

The super moon still shining bright at 6am.

 

[Moley]

Today I've got a heavy day of procrastination planned. There's lots of stuff for work that I need to catch up on but can I be bothered?

 

[littlespark]

Trip over to York from Scarborough today so wife could visit and old school friend, and I could browse through a second hand Lego shop.

Got lunch at the local Tesco

Now normally, I drink Coke, not Pepsi…. Full fat, not zero sugar and nothing coloured strangely… but today I thought I might try this…… just because of the name.

 

[pirate]

Beautiful morning here after a very wet, windy and thundery day yesterday.
Spent early morning doing housekeeping then a beach walk followed by a carajillo...I'm gonna miss this when I return to sunny Scotland on Tuesday, but I have booked flights for another week out here in November when I will be fitting a CCTV camera outside on the terrace so I can enjoy the view over the Winter and beyond. I know I can just get the camera in an underseat bag and the other bits I need will fit in the capacious pockets of my travel jacket. I won't bore you with the details, but to take a full size cabin bag adds £186 to the cost of the flight....however, you do get speedy boarding thrown in!

 

[littlespark]

you're going to beep a lot walking through the metal detector with all that in your pockets.


I once worked at the Army base North of Arbroath, and one day they were high on the security and checked every car going in and out.
Opened my boot, and there's a box with wires hanging out of it....

"test kit! honest!"

 

[Moley]

This week I'm near Sleaford doing some maintenance on a GSU TX and 2 aux TX. Been pretty good so far. Hopefully get them all finished today, maybe tomorrow morning then home to see my dog The daughter is in Manchester doing her exam to become qualified in testing asbestos samples today.

 

[Moley]

Well, a day late but thought I would post it. Yesterday I had to go out the the diabetic unit for my 6 monthly revue. They have decided to change the insulin I'm on so wanted blood samples taken so that they can compare things next visit. No problem, I'm okay with them. Off I trundled into a little side room with a nurse. Out came my right arm and in went the needle. Missed. Try again, Missed. 'Okay' she said, 'Let's try the left arm'. In went the needle, nothing. 'Okay, one more go'. In went the needle. I don't know what she hit but I almost screamed with the sudden pain. Never mind, blood was flowing and the samples taken. Next thing I knew I was looking up at 5 nurses all gathered around me on the floor. Apparently I had a little fit and they had to lay me on the floor. I was out for a very short while and when I came round I was fine. It was as if someone had just switched me off and back on again. Never had anything like that before.

 

[brianmoooore]

My other half has between 15 and 20 blood tests a year, so is well familiar with what you describe. Sometimes the needle goes straight into the right place, and the phials fill up one after the other, with no problems, and other times she comes out covered in multiple bruises from failed attempts. She also definitely has her favourite nurse to take the samples, and a few she likes to avoid.

 

[littlespark]

I go to the blood donors… and never have any trouble. On the other hand, my wife has to give blood samples and its luck of the draw wether she gets the good nurse, or "stabby Mary"

She's fainted plenty of times.... a combination of being anemic at times, and "white coat syndrome" where the blood pressure drops just at the mere mention of a hospital.


I am staying up late tonight waiting for youngest to come in from a night out...

 

[Moley]

My other half has between 15 and 20 blood tests a year, so is well familiar with what you describe. Sometimes the needle goes straight into the right place, and the phials fill up one after the other, with no problems, and other times she comes out covered in multiple bruises from failed attempts. She also definitely has her favourite nurse to take the samples, and a few she likes to avoid.

I certainly don't envy her. I go twice a year to have blood taken. That's enough for me. I have inject multiple times a day but that's into my stomach area and nearly always pain free but give a nurse a needle and she becomes a sadist !!

 

[Moley]

She's fainted plenty of times.... a combination of being anemic at times, and "white coat syndrome" where the blood pressure drops just at the mere mention of a hospital.


I am staying up late tonight waiting for youngest to come in from a night out...

Both my kids hate the idea of hospitals. Last time te wife was in we were all sat around her except for my son. He was out cold on the floor next to the bed.

Well, did the youngest get home OK? Did she get a row for being a couple of minutes late?

 

[littlespark]

They had a school charity hall in the local rugby club. I went out at 11pm to pick her up with 3 of her friends and dropped them off at one of the friends houses.
That was the end of my taxi service.

They were going to get ready to go to an “after party” at a local farm, expecting to be back home at 3 or 4am.

She texted at 1:30 to say she was on her way, The music put on at this after party was not to their taste.

I think it was a reality check that you can’t start partying at 11pm and expect to keep going til 4am

 

[littlespark]

Only my kid.

Middle child and her high pain threshold.
This is the one that fell out a tree when she was young and didn’t say anything for 4 days! Broke her elbow.

On Sunday, she was in her room sitting on the floor… doing makeup, or her hair or painting or whatever… She jumps up… pins and needles in her feet from sitting funny…. And sits straight back down with a thump.

“You ok?”

“Yeah… I just fell down”


Monday morning. Her foot is turning blue…. There’s a half inch thick line under her ankle…
And she doesn’t feel a thing.

She drove to work both days, but the colour just keeps coming.
She is currently in the minor injuries dept at the hospital with her mum, waiting on results of an X-ray… the nurse thought it might be fractured…..



Update. As I’m typing this my wife has phoned…. She has a metatarsal break, wearing a big boot, can’t drive for at least 3 weeks.


Only my kid can fall over her own feet and break something…..

 

[pirate]

Just back from Spain again and this morning I have been installing the app for the CCTV camera I installed there last week. Fortunately, no problems at security despite the kit I was carrying on the outward trip.
Camera is working fine, and is controlled by app on my phone, but downloading the version for PC and laptop allows a much bigger picture, however any tweaks to the system need to be done on the phone. Now looking at the scene over there and it's a lovely, sunny day...unlike here.
Had to buy some trunking over there, for obvious reasons, and while it was cheap it was of an odd design where the lid fits fully over the base, so when you silicone it to fill the gap, you stick the lid to the wall...don't expect to take it off again but mildly annoying