I have had my first few loganberries that were ripe/eadible. they’re very good, just as good as I remember.
We went to West Bay the other afternoon, I took a photo, then Google decided it needed jazzing up somewhat, so the wild colours are NOT real, it didn’t look like that at all, though it was nice down there, if a little windy. It’ll probably be one of the last visits where we have the beach almost to ourselves.
The bedroom floors were not level, so since we wanted new carpet we took the opportunity to have it levelled and new floor board down.
Well actuality I think I’ve got a noise in a diff or perhaps else where. So I jacked up the front and spun a the wheels and prop, but could hear nothing out of the ordinary, but this lead to some routine maintenance being carried out. I need to find a way of recording this information. I failed to find the noises I was looking for but also haven’t driven it since doing this, so can’t be sure that I’ve not resolved it accidentally. Anyway, a good job was done. I still think there is a lot of back lash in the rear diff, but I need to find the enthusiasm to take it off the road for a day or two to do it.
I ddid Gascoigne Lane again at the weekend. The southern crossing I skipped as it looked very deep, which gave me confidence that the northern most crossing would have been less washed out during winter and would be easily passable. So I headed into the northern one and soon realised that my feet were getting wet, so it was deeper than I’d hoped.
I finsihed off the top mesh sides part last night and made a lid that will be hinged on the top. I now need to buy some hinges and perhaps a latch as a means securing it shut to stop the cat getting in or the gerbils out by some fluke stroke of luck, be it good or bad luck depending on who’s viewpoint you take. I also had to file down the heads of the rivets where it sits into the glass tank, it is now a tight fit.
I have now made the 4x sides of the top bit, it needs the top mesh putting in now and a door constructing for the side, and perhaps one for the top. not sure how this will work. I had two rivits break like this, I have no idea why this might have happened, could be a faulty rivit or I supose it could be the jaws in the rivit gun doing something they shouldn’t.
We were at Mole Valley at the weekend and they happened to have the right size gate posts. So we had them deliver 2 yesterday. As such today I got keen and managed to get one out. Given how rotten they appear, they’re actually quite solid. The post would rock back and forth but I couldn’t lift it up. Only after getting the high lift jack and drilling a hole for the tang of the jack to gain purchase on was I able to pursuade the post to rise from its setting. I hope the other one is easier.
We bought a fish tank, that will form the base of the cage. I went and picked it up last week for 15 quid. I cleaned it and removed the paint from the exterior. I aam using angle and flat aluminium that I recovered from the greenhouse that I had for the glass. I did have to buy some weld mesh.
I ordered a coupler/bush, to adapt from some female metric thread to 1/4″ BSP male thread of thew air line. I guessed it was M10 ish thread on the inflater thingy. I guessed wrong. It was perhaps M12. I don’t know, and now it doesn’t matter anyway. The metal filler stuff, similar to plastic padding came out and resolved the issue permenantly.
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