What did you do Today 2018

Spent 3 hours decorating #2 son's dining room for him. I'm too old for this nonsense! not finished yet but at least his fiance is learning how to do it

Yesterday; bought some 4-5-6 mm screwed rod as needed to redo pillar studs on my vertical cross, needed to put extra blocks under entablature plate to get correct overall height, had made them but somehow forgotten to install ?... , having the height sorted has virtually got rid of the 'tight spot' so ...

George.

just finished cleaning workshop now hopefully i can find all the little bolts i have lost

This post is not about what i did today but what i am going to do tomorrow. tomorrow I am going to commit murder. i am going to get two of our sailing club members, chop them up in little pieces push them through the mincer & feed them to the fish in the River Blackwater. then i am going to get the fish & batter them with a big hammer.

The reason is this:- over the winter my club project was to remove the worn seating in the lower loung bar area & put new timber framing with ply panels which a (cowboy) upholsterer would cover & I would then fit. in addition I would take 12 small tables , strip  & re polish them-  (difficult to apply due to the silicons in the wood)  I had already taken the the 8 much larger tables on the upper floor and completely stripped & polished them earlier.

Once the framing was complete 2 of our ladies were to decorate the walls . I had been careful not to damage the wallpaper as the plaster was friable & would break away so i applied a plastic trim to cover the edges. the ladies then did the painting & did a very nice job as can be seen in the photos

After that the blinds were fitted

Then i fitted the upholstered seat panels & screwed them down so they would not be moved by cadets jumping on them. i finished this last Thursday. Carpets going down Saturday.

On Friday a club member decided to donate some cheap & nasty wall lights to replace the ones we already had.

SOOO a so called retired electrician & his mate turns up.(no certification to do electrical work) totally ignores the heap of dust sheets stacked on the floor next to them. Rips the old fittings off the wall, pulls down chunks of plaster complete with wall paper. Gets plaster down the backs of the "non removable" seating. Stands on the seats, lays the tools all over the table tops

Decides that the lights cannot be finished that day & will come back AFTER the carpets are done because they have some jobs to do at home. Leaves the ONE fitted wall light with a big patch of damaged wall & wall paper round it to be repaired & re painted . Does not think of placing a paptress over the damage to cover it. ( did not know what a paptress was!!

Then F's off leaving a mess for the 2 ladies to clear up & acts as though they are doing the club a big favour

This picture is just one half I will not bore you with pics of the other half-- rant over as tomorrow I will be in prison & the knife crime total will have risen by 2

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 07/04/2018 08:32:52

Sam, sounds like a case of poor planning to me, sparks should have been in first.

Emgee

Battered fish is always best. This punishment is not harsh enough for sailing people!

Agreed, but try telling that to the well meaning idiot who decided to donate carp wall lights on thursday after everything was almost done.

But how do you tell them they are carp & to poke them?

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 07/04/2018 11:45:45

Oye!!!- watch it-- nothing wrong with the sailing fraternity- Are you forgetting our heritage? Or are you another one who wants to deny us of our glorious past -- & future

As an angler, I find this debate most interesting, because so-called "water sharing" doesn't seem to work too well. There's a great example about three miles from my home, where an angler can pay a lot of money for a day's salmon fishing on the Spey, and have it totally ruined by canoeists who pay nothing. There are many other examples nation-wide, including yachtsmen ruining fishing, and what the answer is in this overcrowded isle I wish I knew. Don't misunderstand me, yachting and canoeing are great sports at which Britain produces world champions, but we do need some answers.

I thought the maritime punishment was keel hauling. Your ?electricians? sound like some of the so called trades men who did repairs to houses in Christchurch(NZ) after the earth quakes 7 years ago, 2000 or 3000 houses are still waiting for their second or third repair of a repair, while others are still waiting for the first repair to be done, hopefully not by some cowboy builder.

Ian S C

The first day of spring weather (touch wood!) here on the Moray Firth, so began a monster clean-up in the workshop. First job was to sort out all of my spanners and screwdrivers (nearly 100 sockets, plus a load of open-ended and ring spanners, 20-odd screwdrivers, plus a stud extractor, bearing puller, and no end of other stuff. It's now all been cleaned up and stashed in one of those big red tool trolleys I treated myself to last December. Tomorrow it's the turn of all the lathe tooling. The pile of rubbish for the tip (sorry, recycling centre) seems to grow by the hour.........

It's been no surprise that Britool and Snap-on tools I bought in the 1960s have cleaned up like new, some but far-eastern stuff shows rust spots in the chrome.

How do yachtsmen ruin fishing? you have me on that one. Can you elucidate, briefly, because I have been sailing since 12 & never knew that i was doing that.

I have visited Inverness twice, & whitehills, on my 2 single handed round UK trips & apart from a few dolphin watchers near Chanonry point I had no idea I was upsetting anyone round the Moray Firth.( where i assume you live from your posts) Or anywhere else for that matter. When I lived at Berwick on Tweed (in the 50's & then later in the 90's)- plus many holidays with my grandparents  I did fish the Tweed  & its tributaries extensively & i never once had problems with canoeists.

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 07/04/2018 21:25:39

I am fitting DRO to my Dore Westbury mill that I made nearly 35 years ago. X and Y axes in place and nearly there with the Z.

John B

Edited By John Billard 1 on 07/04/2018 22:10:30

Sam, I no longer sail but when I did there were a lot of inconsiderate sailors on the water, in dingys, sailing yachts, gin palaces and noisy stink boats, from the motor boats that roar past your yacht on a calm day 50 yards off in an otherwise empty day, leaving you bobbing in their wake with your sails flapping after you have spent the last half hour trying to get the sails to fill and pull on a calm-ish day, to the dingys and Hooray Henrys in their hired yachts flaunting the rules of the road and expecting you to get out of their way "because we're racing, don't you know". No I don't and I don't bloody care if you are, you stick by the rules of the road like every other vessel, and if I'm the stand-on vessel I'm standing on and you keep clear of me.  Then getting into port and finding the Hooray Henrys noisily drinking and loud voice partying well into the early hours, disturbing the peace and quiet of everyone else unfortunate to have moored up close by.

Just sail down the Solent on a sunny summer Saturday, and then more up overnight in places like Yarmouth or Cowes or Lymington, and see what I mean - it shocks you. Why it shocks I don't know, as you see the same on any road in the UK where 'me first - I can do what I like' prevails. Total lack of consideration of others, just me me me.

So I can quite believe Mike and agree with him when he complains of yacht-ties and other water users upsetting fishing folk - if only people would think and have consideration for others.

Chris

Edited By ChrisH on 07/04/2018 22:52:44

My grandfather was borne in Yetholm near the end of the Pennine Way. Through it runs the river Beaumont.When he was a lad, it was deep enough for his father to try & commit suicide by drowning himself in it. One of my early memories of it was of my grandfather catching a 6lb whitling. Last time I went there I could have paddled across & hardly got my ankles wet.

There used to be a picture of me by the Tweed as a 6 year old holding a salmon by its tail. Its head was touching the ground & its tail level with my head. the fishermen working for the Berwick Salmon fishing Co would catch a dozen or more every night sometimes several dozen. It has all gone. The fish all taken to such an extent that very few of the young return to the rivers to spawn even if those rivers are accessible to them

Years ago the locals would watch the Salmon under the bridges at Berwick in great shoals waiting for the tide to turn to start running up the river Tweed. Now they are lucky to see a single fish

But when you say that sailors plague the reservoirs that is not their fault. Like everyone else they have a hobby/sport, as we do on this forum. It just so happens that yours might be fishing & theirs is sailing & the powers that be have decided to make the lake available to both factions at the same time. You cannot blame the sailors because they have been allowed to use the lake. Blame those that said they could in the first place.

Now you might say that they should stay away from you when you are casting a line, but the rules on most waterways- Broads for example- clearly state that vessels have the right of passage over those fishing from the shore. Now if the same byelaw is in force where you fish then do not blame the sailor for using it. Blame the bloke that made the byelaw. I do not know what your byelaw states but check it & if it is in your favour then you can do something about it & should do so very noisily. if not then perhaps you should not really blame the sailors

Sorry Sam, despite what you say and with which I have a fair degree of sympathy, I still blame boaties because of their lack of consideration to others. With the crowd I sailed with, if we saw fishing going on we would keep well clear so as not to disturb them; unfortunately, not many others did. A lot of fishing gear can be damaged by inconsiderat boaties sailing too close.

Chris

When it comes to lack of consideration few can beat the flyboys. If I revved an inadequately silenced engine in my garden and ruined the peace for 1000 households nearby the cops would soon be round. But some twerp can squander fossil fuel and make conversation over tea in my garden impossible with impunity. There might be some excuse if it were vital for industrial support or rescuing an idiot yachty but at weekends recreational polluting should be banned.

Bazyle well that pretty much wipes out what we do, driving down to the local track in our polluting car, then get out our smelly coal fired or diesel loco. The whistle and horns on them really are the icing on the cake for noise pollution.

Oh dear - I love to watch motor sport (car and bike), and occasionally take part in clay pigeon shooting. But in a way I agree with Bazyle - there's a time and a place for everything.