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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[Lou]

Morning everyone, Happy Hump Day!

I posted a thread about this on TF but I wondered if any of you could shed some light on this (what I think is from the 50s) decorative wall ceramic cat. It was in my Grandma's kitchen forever and ever since she died about 10 years ago I have had it but sadly the tail broke so it has been in a drawer.

Just interested to see if anyone knows any thing about it.

Here is the thread on TF for ref

 

[littlespark]

I did a google image search, and it crops up on this page….
Don’t know if it’s from the same designer - James Matthew’s- or just in similar style.

 

[Lou]

Oh my gosh @littlespark theres one on the page exactly the same!!! The posts are a bit confusing though so I'm not much wiser, I'll have to see if anyone replied on tf. Bloody forums are amazing!!!

 

[littlespark]

Oh my gosh @littlespark theres one on the page exactly the same!!! The posts are a bit confusing though so I'm not much wiser, I'll have to see if anyone replied on tf. Bloody forums are amazing!!!

yes they are... and that particular one was choc full of ads.... even worse than this one!

 

[Lou]

yes they are... and that particular one was choc full of ads.... even worse than this one!

Haha was thinking that myself!

 

[Lou]

Its FRI-YAY!

And completely pouring down. got some running about to do before a night out at the theatre - The most not refined show ever - the Leigh Francis one (bloke who does Keith Lemon - big in the 00s. Should be a hoot!

Have you got any Friday night plans or weekend plans?

 

[littlespark]

So is this Leigh Francis as Leigh Francis? Or as Lemon??
He was also Avid Merrion from Bo Selecta… came up with one of the best modern classic Christmas songs “proper crimbo”

 

[Moley]

This weekend is expensive. My son passed his driving test last week. Saw a car he liked so,

Tomorrow Car £995
Tonight Insurance £2300
Tomorrow Roadtax £180
Tomorrow, 1st tank of petrol £????

Looks like I need some overtime :-(

 

[Lou]

So is this Leigh Francis as Leigh Francis? Or as Lemon??
He was also Avid Merrion from Bo Selecta… came up with one of the best modern classic Christmas songs “proper crimbo”

Haha yeah the best ever song at Christmas. He was doing a selection of his characters - it was pretty good!

How is everyone doing this morning?

 

[littlespark]

I couldn’t get onto forum this morning…. Seems ok now.


Over the past weekend, I’ve had to push my DIY skills to the limit.

Mechanic; the girls’ little Kia had a broken windscreen washer bottle. Had to remove the wheel and the plastic liner out the wheel arch to access the bottle, which is in the most awkward position actually inside the wing. Its sat on its jack, minus a wheel, for a few days until a replacement pump turned up.

Joinery; rear door to house wouldn’t lock. It’s a multipoint locking mechanism, and a broken part within the lock gears stopped the top and bottom bolts from moving. Had to remove entire lock from door, dismantle the gear box to remove the broken part… put it all back together and manage with only the centre dead lock working.
Bought a new gear box that fitted the existing workings and got it all working… but now really stiff to lock compared with how it was.

Plumbing; main bathroom toilet cistern hissing and taking an age to fill. Messed around with the diaphragm washer… replaced with what I thought was a spare new one, to find it was a split one that I had replaced before and didn’t throw away. All the fiddling with the isolator valve, opening and closing, and it develops a leak…. So a trip to screwfix on a Sunday for a new valve and a whole replacement filling assembly.


And this is why I don’t mind helping non electricians with simple stuff in our DIY section.