bigsinky

the weeds under the caravan are a complete bastid.

Jamz3k

daag **** is like nectar of the gods to them feckin' weeds.

fast bloke

Have you had the bin police round yet? We have a black (grey really) bin, brown bin, blue bin and yellow bin, along with a 140 page set of instructions for what each bin should contain. Apparently I have been putting the wrong stuff in the wrong bin. The blue bin is for recycling, and the manual says "No pizza boxes." The yellow bin is for glass and the brown bin is for compost, so I put the empty Goodfellas pizza box in the the grey bin..... no other option really. The bin police called round to tell me that I was landfilling recyclable material. The pizza boxes the rules refer to are take away pizzas, and frozen pizza boxes are acceptable for either blue or brown bin. Take away pizza boxes should always go in the brown bin, for compost, but not in the blue bin for recycling, or the grey bin, for landfill.

As the guy was leaving, after a half hour lecture on not buying tetrapacks as they can only be landfilled, he stuck out his hand and said "Always remember, get it right or get it left."

We don't have street lights, our road has never been gritted and we have a septic tank, so I pay 2k Rates a year for water and to have the bins emptied. As he stood there with his hand out waiting for me to shake it, I had an overwhelming urge to head butt him in the face, chainsaw him to death and then put all the bits in the wrong bin, stomping on his lifeless body screaming, "sort that one out you smarmy ****!!!!!"

Sadly I had no petrol for the chainsaw.



But on the bright side - If you work for the bin police...... I keep the chainsaw topped up with fuel now, so come back soon!!

bigsinky

yep that's the way of it. £1800 a year for water and bins. they even want to dig up my new block pave driveway to put a new water main in. the full length of the drive way mind. will they replace it like new? will they ****. the contractors for the job are a bunch of slack jawed retarded ***** who i wouldn't trust with a screwdriver never mind a JCB and pipe laying equipment.

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

When the council re-layed the bridle path their equipment runined the entrance to my driveway - which is my property (cotswold chipping, just before the block pavers) although it is a public right of way. They replaced it all with fresh for free...I didn't even have to ask. The works supervisor offered straight off with me even hinting at it. Did a nice job too, rollering it with a proper double drum roller, so it won't shift under vehicle traffic - which better than before an I had it rolled with a single drum before

This was in the height of government/coucil cut backs......during which they re-lay all the bridle path in our areas with crushed stone...WTF? its never been done before ever. Some local councillor must be fed up with getting their feet muddy when walking the dog Bearing in mind all the trees and hedged hacked to be hacked back to make it high/wide enough for the equipment to travel down there......yet they STILL won't let me prune my TPO'd trees which are right next to the trees they butchered.....because council owned trees don't have preservation orders, oh how bloody convienient

However I am waiting for a warning from the Bin police for my damaged bin (50cm split down the side); Collecters damaged it, and I noticed my neighbours have gone the same, So I reckon their equipments damaged the bin not me from over filling it. Not that I've been jumping on top and stamping it down, filling it again, stamping it again, filling, stamping, filling etc. Well, its the green waste bin mainly - they should either collect it more often or give me a bigger bin!

As for fixing things, this weeks task is a bit more challanging: A dead X5 3.0 diesel...blown turbo (as in the bearings have completely fell apart) and knocking engine. Engine runs, but the bottom end is knocking; likely due to it hydrolocking after sucking up a large glug of oil after it built up in the intercooler and then someone gave it some welly (drained over a litre of oil out the intercooler pipework! ), probably has piston damage as well.

I'm not doing the engine on this one, though. Just taking it out, which is a job and a half in itself, wish I could take the body off like on Range Rovers.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Todays fix : My office chair kept making creaking noises as anyone moved on it, like it was sticking and releasing, so got the missus to joggel on it (oo er) and saw where it was coming from, removed the broken rubber washers, replaced the stcking steel one with a big rubber washer and put it back together, much better.

Dishwashers gone again so will have to attend to that, more cotton from her sewing in it I expect, she putsa the off cuts on a plate and then some end up in there and it wraps round stuff.

Bubba po

PMSL@ Fast bloke.

Iain250

iTrader: (1)

Yip i try to repair everything - my grandfather used to say you can always spot a poor man by the size of his tool kit.

iain

as for the bin thing, i find a bottle and case of beer at christmas for the lads on the collection trucks works wonders for all the stuff you hide in the wheelie bin disappearing

Jamz3k

Couldn't get VGA port on the TV to pick up the signal from my PC. Thinking it was PC as it hasn't been used in a month or so, i tested it on another TV and it worked perfectly.

Undid the back of the faulty telly, checked the VGA connection, a few dabs of solder later and I now have my TV/Monitor workings grand!

Also did the same with the horn on the car.

Alfa Romeo wanted near £150 for a new piece as some of the tracks on the circuit board had corroded. a piece of wire and a soldering iron sorted that out withing half an hour!

specialx

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