Grizz' Prozac for the Soul 🚙 Berlingo Multispace 28/01/22

Cut up, sorted and packed away all the wood Dave the lodger brought, this morning.

It was a great winters day outside.



Took a lot up to the firewood box at the house and some into the house.
Keeping in mind that the pallet pine burns mostly fast and reasonably hot.
A lot really is just there as kindling and to support the lumpy logs etc in burning.





And of course the old man Dukey loves the heat and company as his hips are so knackered and movement restricted to some extent.



He is very happy and settled.

Indeed.

Anyone who knows or likes animals will like him.

Not a bad bone in his body, except those hips.

Life is good......

Got this from a friend on the Isle of Sheppey last week.



Wednesday was my 55th Birthday, and being the grumpy old man that I am, the plan was to sit at home alone and work on preparation for my end of year merit review that was due at 09.00 on Friday.
By Tuesday afternoon though I had proven the back on the preparation and decided to see if my friend who had invited me to dinner which I had declined, was prepared to still feed me on short notice.
Thankfully she put up with my change in plans.

When I got there at 7pm.....

It took me a while before I noticed the balloons and various other decorations in her home for me, as I spent the first 30 minutes playing with her two dogs.





I was so impressed.

And a 5 course dinner too, plus a cake.



And then she pointed out the prezzie, that I had not noticed.

Come on...!!!!!!!



Back home by 11.00pm as it is a week day.

She is a keen gardener, so I offered to make her a wall decoration from a piece I had made by mate Darren Hardy, at Unit Signs in Sheerness.



Wings bent and animated.

Followed by silver, bronze, gold and Lilac paint on them.

The background will be left to rust and actively encouraged chemically.




Made up some Lilac paint too.





Job done.




Need to get it to her some time and mount against wall.

awesome wall piece, Rian!

love that kind of stuff. the use of the background material adds to the waste not want not/form & function aspect of piece.

very cool

JP

Modern vs old technology.......

I am pretty sure that my first cars never needed replacement wiper blades.

And that was in Africa, where there is a lot of sunshine, meaning rubber degenerated fast.

I was going to use Prozac on Saturday, but on starting it up and driving up to the house in the rain, I found the drivers side wiper blade had torn itself up.

So I ordered some off eBay and they were here tonight.

Some supposedly clever German technology.



Job done.



Ready for action again.

Happy, belated, birthday.

Funnily enough over the last couple of months I've replaced 4 wiper blades across 2 cars. Had to buy 5 though as Halfords (I was in a hurry) only sell the ones I wanted as a pair, and Alfa will only sell a rear wiper blade for a 159 as a complete assembly. Sometimes I hate owning cars!

Mind you wiper blades have been the least of my worries...

Happy Birthday mate !

And another belated Happy Birthday Rian

Thank you all.