Random stuff, just for sharing, thank you!

[Squid]

Got offered a new job today, the company specialise in cleaning mirrors. Decent pay, plus it's something I can see myself doing...

Thought you where Vampire Vlad the Irate Pirate...........

 

[pirate]

Aye, a quiet day today...resting my bones and my eyes...but it's back to the blue room tomorrow, early doors...
The client returns from Rome tomorrow night, so I have to have that job finished, wires tidied away, TV fully working and all paintwork made good.

Now, the sheep story...well, that really arose from the thread about the shed, but this is probably a better home for it.

Once upon a time...
(Oi! Wake up at the back!)
...my uncle Bill used to have a holiday house near West Loch Tarbert, and there were many acres of hill land along with it, which were grazed by sheep...
Long story short, one day Bill got a bill (Mummy Mummy there's a man at the door with a bill! Don't be silly, it must be a man with a hat on!) and what a bill it was, emanating from the Electricity Board...(younger members, Google it! and in another story I will tell you all why we should have kept it...)
The house had it's own electricity supply and meter, but this bill was for the stone bothy up the hill, where the shepherds brewed their tea and heated their pie, on an old Baby Belling (younger members, Google it!)
Clearly, something was amiss, so uncle Bill set off up the hill, in rather cold weather, with about a foot of snow on the ground following a particularly nasty spell of wintry weather...
As he approached the bothy, he spied numerous sheep...indeed they were lying 6 deep against the stone walls of the bothy, and for a couple of yards all around the bothy the grass was bare of snow, and the sheep were loving the warmth from the Belling having been left on for a week or three...
History doesn't recall whether it was the oven, or the hob rings which had been left on, or indeed all of them, but clearly diversity wasn't an issue and the pole-mounted transformer feeding the bothy was clearly not overloaded, so I guess the wiring job was a good 'un.
Anyway, that's it...the sheep story. Apologies to those who thought it might be more...ermmm..interesting.

 

[Squid]

A Bothy, is that a doss house?

 

[pirate]

Edit: DUCK with a hat on! Doh!!!

SWD, only a doss house if you doss in it...but yes, a "rural" shelter

 

[Squid]

Edit: DUCK with a hat on! Doh!!!

SWD, only a doss house if you doss in it...but yes, a "rural" shelter

Are you talking about your "ship" the Irate Pirate ;o)))))

 

[Rpa07]

Aye, a quiet day today...resting my bones and my eyes...but it's back to the blue room tomorrow, early doors...
The client returns from Rome tomorrow night, so I have to have that job finished, wires tidied away, TV fully working and all paintwork made good.

Now, the sheep story...well, that really arose from the thread about the shed, but this is probably a better home for it.

Once upon a time...
(Oi! Wake up at the back!)
...my uncle Bill used to have a holiday house near West Loch Tarbert, and there were many acres of hill land along with it, which were grazed by sheep...
Long story short, one day Bill got a bill (Mummy Mummy there's a man at the door with a bill! Don't be silly, it must be a man with a hat on!) and what a bill it was, emanating from the Electricity Board...(younger members, Google it! and in another story I will tell you all why we should have kept it...)
The house had it's own electricity supply and meter, but this bill was for the stone bothy up the hill, where the shepherds brewed their tea and heated their pie, on an old Baby Belling (younger members, Google it!)
Clearly, something was amiss, so uncle Bill set off up the hill, in rather cold weather, with about a foot of snow on the ground following a particularly nasty spell of wintry weather...
As he approached the bothy, he spied numerous sheep...indeed they were lying 6 deep against the stone walls of the bothy, and for a couple of yards all around the bothy the grass was bare of snow, and the sheep were loving the warmth from the Belling having been left on for a week or three...
History doesn't recall whether it was the oven, or the hob rings which had been left on, or indeed all of them, but clearly diversity wasn't an issue and the pole-mounted transformer feeding the bothy was clearly not overloaded, so I guess the wiring job was a good 'un.
Anyway, that's it...the sheep story. Apologies to those who thought it might be more...ermmm..interesting.

They have to be vertical !! Attention to detail and some customers DO notice.

Good story and well told. Appreciated even though we had to wait a few days, it was worth it!

 

[Dave OCD]

But what do my vertical socket/switch screws have to do with sheep keeping waaarm ?

 

[Squid]

But what do my vertical socket/switch screws have to do with sheep keeping waaarm ?

Keeps your eyes focused whilst have sex with your sheep.

 

[Rpa07]

Oh yeh! Didn’t notice that!
Trigger happy I guess!

But what do my vertical socket/switch screws have to do with sheep keeping waaarm ?

 

[pirate]

Thank you for your kind comments, esp Rpa07...
I still like my screw slots horizontal...
VIP is back from Rome and loves the installation, even though it's not quite finished...
I know, that should be in that wall-mounted TV forum, sorry...btw, next time I will surface mount the trunking...and put a wee pot with a candle in front of it...there's only 8cm gap between the top of the fireplace and the bottom of the TV. But hey...you guys know this stuff...nothing ever goes according to plan...the 25cm plaster ran out halfway down the wall, to be replaced by brick. Anyway, it's done now apart from the final plastering...and yes, I'm only doing the drop from TV socket to fireplace...the rest is hidden. As for the back box I spurred from...another story, but if I ever meet the guy who did it, I will be less than polite. Anyone Wago'ed a back box? Think I might have to, and can't see it would be wrong...but prepared to be slated!

 

[Squid]

We have Cowboys, but Pirates take it to another level..... tsk

 

[Craig Miles]

OK, just one more on the marine theme...

Blimey whats wrong with me, as an ex teacher of Marine (Electrical) students, my initial thought was 'wheres your overalls and safety boots'

 

[pirate]

Can't say that was my first thought...not even my second...or third!