Howaryiz ... Have just spent a fortnight wearing out my eardrums in the company of two dozen gabby relatives (none of whom has ever kissed the Blarney stone); and come home to find myself with an unexpected houseguest for a week. No, not her :cry: ; another her - one of my festival buddies - whose i...

It's very shiny! I'd be afraid to get it dirty.

Every so often, I'd get a half-page request to contribute despite never having done so.

Wouldn't be surprised if the suggested amount is adjusted in line with each country's notional disposable income.

quodec wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 11:54 amJingle Bells?

That might have been the only one they didn't play. Otherwise, the full catalogue of Christmas classics.

FFS. Am in Charles de Gaulle airport waiting for my flight to Dublin, and they're playing fekkin Christmas carols on the PA system.

Here's what you need to do: move to a high-crime area! https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/10/booths-supermarkets-to-ditch-self-checkouts-in-north-of-england-stores Not just one local, posh British store, though: The same story reported by FoxBusiness adds: The move away from self-checkout...

isha wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 12:49 pm On the subject of cars, I think some of ye might have had a coronary if ye had seen the amount of moss and algae I hand washed off my car yesterday.

Kadman, yes, no doubt about it; me ... moss and algae - is that all?

EV economics. A new electric Citroën is coming to a forecourt near me next year at a price that's really quite sensible (barely 10k with subsidies) and I started wondering if it'd be a good time to trade in the 19-year-old Mégane that serves as my runaround. So I took a gander at the EV discussions ...

For one brief moment, I thought this thread would be an account of quodec's became a legend in his/her own world ...

... but no, just a reference to some opium for the masses. Such an anticlimax.

Something didn't work properly as far as the feeder is concerned, as it was almost completely empty instead of being only half-empty, and there was a quantity of un-eaten biscuits in the dog-bed suggesting that all five appetites had been well-satisfied. With it back in the house at the moment, it ...

One of the YouTubers I follow (Anglo-French woman, owns a chateau about half an hour north of me) had an English guy come to visit last week (another chateau-owner), and great fuss was made of the English sausages and British black pudding he brought with him as a gift. He proudly bragged about the ...

@JayZeus : to be fair to the EU, at least they have mandated that all battery-containing "portable" devices to be sold in the EU must be designed so that the batteries can be replaced by persons with no special skills and no special tools (unless the manufacturer provides such tools free o...

Haven't lost her yet!

So I abandonned the feline family on Thursday night, and on Tuesday morning I came back to find ... ... ... the same five that I'd left to fend for themselves. All present and correct. :D As you can see, we now have an automated feeding station ... the current installation will get its real-world te...

Sligo's not a million miles from you, isha, is it?

This version is in stock there:
https://silvershardware.ie/basta-non-lo ... p-212.html

You have the floor No, don't have the floor yet - that's on the 2024 agenda! :mrgreen: The prototype window is made, and in the process of being fitted today. For once, I have got myself organised enough to take pics of the project from start to finish. Or at least up to now - still time to forget ...

She has your number ... for the love of God please tell us you have hers? Time to make your intentions known, she seems keen so you need to progress things now. I can't tell you that ... :oops: I had hoped to take advantage of the down time between workshops and dances on the Saturday and Sunday to...

kadman wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:00 pmHey CR you missed out on becoming a legend on this one.

I'm too busy trying not to drill into the scavenged double glazed panes of my own window to be thinking about legendary status.

Janey kadman. Is it a bottle or a barrel of Jameson you're working your way through?

If you can accurately judge the safe depth to which you can drill, think about getting hold of one of this type of drill-stops: https://www.amazon.com/Clamp-Tite-Drill-Stop/dp/B0050683GC Although more expensive than the traditional bit of masking tape stuck to your bit, as long as you've tightened i...

isha wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 5:19 pm Early New year!!! This is far too long away for my liking.

Me too ... but her agenda between now and then is packed with Advent and Christmas concerts. Occupational hazard when you dabble with the likes of Handel and Vivaldi.

The provisional bill for Ciarán and Domingos in France has come in this week: 1.3billion. :shock: Not including the uncountable costs, like about a dozen schools in Brittany remaining closed until further notice, and several townlands in the Pas de Calais effectively uninhabitable due to flooding. T...

Listen, K - at this stage in my life, I'll take any kind of a hook-up I can get ... and shure the camper'll be a lot less rickety once the mechanic puts the wheels back on.

So anyway: in the cold light of the (third) morning after the night before ... ... yep, she's just as Czecxy as she was last month. Or maybe moreso. :lol: Arriving at the venue early and lending a hand with the final preparations, I had a chance to scan the list of ticket-holders. Her name wasn't on...

Will they fit the old screw holes though, that's the issue in the first place. I don't want to be drilling into wood half a centimetre away from old drill holes! I just want it to be easy. Sometimes the easiest thing in a situation like this is to offset the whole arrangement by 1 or 2cm from the o...