Cuerden is a nice park
You must be up my neck of the woods if it’s local?
That Wigan.
Cuerden is Heaven for Ruby, streams to jump in, woodland to scare us witless as she darts in at full speed, but somehow dodges every tree and big open spaces to run around like a lunatic. It’s a reasonably nice drive up that stretch of the A49 too.
We’re in Hesketh Bank so not too far away.
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Nice, not far apart at all.
Get a room you two 
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This one?
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Seems to be an epidemic of wasps last 2 days , trying to fit a bathroom with someone and both days quite a few came in and died … not good when applying silicone !!!
Wank
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Harsh but fair.
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Wank and chav. Astonished that someone would wear that and then admit it.
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Got taken to brook lands today to the merc place. I had a go and drifting and went off roading. Drifting was fun, the track stuff was fun, the off roading thing was all a bit controlled and slow but interesting… had a mooch about the Merc gaff too.
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Spent the last three hours unblocking the septic tank of sanitary towels and tampons. The pump is blocked and tripping out the gite electrics The next guests are arriving in two hours. Joy
Still better than a lazy day on the beach.
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Watching this at the Heights of Abraham.
http://www.richardcoombs.co.uk/punch.htm
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Good band too
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Avoiding clearing out the shed (prior to demolition) and the garage (because it’s a fucking disgraceful shithole).
Displacement activity 1: fix my Gaggia espresso machine which had stopped squirting water from the group head. The Internet told me that this was a blocked solenoid so i had to dismantle the machine, extract said component and dismantle that. Then clean and generally poke about in it. Then re-assemble it and while I was at it give the whole machine a good clean and descaling. Obviously I then had to test it out and had a couple of espressos. This used up a good couple of hours.
Displacement activity 2: fix a garden chair that had partially broken. This really only needed glueing a screw putting in, but i wanted to drill a hole to prevent the wood splitting. Naturally, every battery for all my drills were dead, so I had to charge them up…
Displacement activity 3: Fix the patio table, which was a similar fix to the chair.
Displacement activity 4: snacking.
Displacement activity 5: measure up and calculate quantities of timber to put walls on the decking, then scour the Internet to price it up and submit a quotation to Claire. This was a highly successful avoidance technique because she was shocked at the cost of virtually every type of timber and made me price up lots of different kinds, which obviously took up a lot of time…
Displacement activity 6: I really needed a beer…
Displacement activity 7: thunderstorms stopped play…
So no shed/garage cleaning done at all 
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Good work. You do seem to have burned your way through rather a lot of stuff though. How are you going to fill next weekend ?
VB