Today I have mainly been

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At work whilst my darling other half supervises the landscaping of our back garden.

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Best of luck with it all.

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All the best :pray:

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On the beach at Scarfolk^H^H^H^Hborough.

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Meeting over and it looks like the project team is going to be heavily culled from 340 to 140-160. Grim news for those involved but, as someone who has only just joined, itā€™s probably no bad thing. The project has become too unwieldy and has lost its way, so time for a shake-up.

And, no - I havenā€™t heard if Iā€™m on the list. But as they are very short of planners I remain hopeful. Tomorrow we will find out for sure, which just leaves me to enjoy a couple of beers in the garden tonight and worry about it in the morning.

Thanks for all your messages :+1:

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Post Bank Holiday hardware/garden centre shopping. Bits & bobs that I needed/wanted. Plus another gas bottle for my other BBQ.
Some wine/beer purchased from the neighbouring superstore because ā€œfuck it Iā€™ve a few more days off workā€.

Fitted a ball valve tap to my brewing boiler. Enlarged the standard 15mm catering tap hole to 22mm. Learnt that I needed to do more research. Silicone washers are needed. Order placed with my home brew supplier.
Brewing on hold until they arrive.

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Falling asleep in the sun. Utterly fucked now.

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visted valveblokes place yesterday , ah at least it reminded me of it !!!

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went back in time , maybe some of you older ones remember it !!! :rofl:

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actually it was black country living museum , one of the most interesting museums i have ever been to

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My place isnā€™t that tidy !

VB

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Barmpot

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We have two compost heaps, both ridiculously large, one of them isnā€™t even meant to exist but for the fact I am much better at chopping stuff down than I am at processing itā€¦ Heap B is over 2m high, and 10m square, mostly privet and holly from taking the hedge down by 6 feetā€¦ Most of today has been spent pushing this heap through a mulcher and spreading it on some of the beds, or burning the stuff thatā€™s more ballachce to mulch than is worth. Only half way through, despite Sam getting home and putting-in an hourā€¦ Hope the rain holds off tomorrow. Absolutely fucked!

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My compost bins exist only to swallow garden detritus and provide a nursery for Rose Chafers and the like.

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I wish I could confine it to a bin! The main heapā€™s a topographical feature, chiefly on account of there being rather more garden than I like to admit to (much less, manage), and it having been allowed to grow rampantly for several years before we arrivedā€¦

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Donā€™t know how he did it but my dad used to run marathons in Baghdad during the summer, used to hit 45-50c quite easily.

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Surely marathons are better held in I-ran?

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I only liked that out of sympathy.

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Limited good news - I am not on the initial tranche of leavers. Two more tranches to go - one by the end of May, the other by mid June. :+1::grinning:

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So, do we think Rafa will stay at Newcastle?
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