CLOSED -Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman.

[Johanino]

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it really sounds like you have a chest infection Handy....

I suggest raw garlic or onion in a salad and DOCS...for some antibiotics...

Sure Lady has a nice friendly old etonian doc she can call out for you

Rattie has chewed half of my favourite warm glove from Praha... - well they've lasted 7 years...

So now off to find some warm gloves...thermal - links please...preferably hide...

SC

[Pixie]

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Hope you're feeling better soon Handy

[Handyman]

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Cheers all. I still have the Coughs and Sneezes, in fact it's been none stop coughing since @ 4 this morning. The Doc says it's not on my chest for I don't need antibiotics. He was more interested in shaking hands with my prostrate

Now with a cough like this the last thing I need would be a bad case of the runs at least I wouldn't dare cough then.

Right it looks like the sleet shower has passed over so it's back outside to finish roofing job number 1. At sometime today I have to go on the Hall roof to fix an Ariel. This won't be as bad as when I worked for the Lady Laird of Ochyesassenach. I had to go on her cottage roof when it was covered in ice to fix her Santa Sledge and Reindeer lights. Remember the early storms of 2005, we were still living in the Highlands and were without electric for 10 days.

After one gust I found the old girls Santa lights in the next field

Regards all, Handy

[Handyman]

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Rain stopped play again, looks like I may get an easy day for a change. Having said that I have just had a delivery of 20 new Rose bushes, so it looks like I may be in my wellies with spade in hand by the rest of the day. Snow is forecast for down here tomorrow, so it should be interesting if I am digging holes in the snow to plant them. I bet her Ladyship insists I water them in well.

On the other hand, I find it amazing how the West Country grinds to a halt at the first mention of the White Stuff.

The Folk down here want to experience life up in the Yorkshire Dales (where Brother in Law lives) they have an emergency food supply in the Church hall for the little hamlet. Last year was a good one they were only cut off for 3 weeks (one of several times, 3 weeks being the longest).

Or the Cumbrian fells, better still the Highlands.

This morning our Postie is still in shorts, though he has ditched the sandals for a pair of boots.

Mind you I am concerned because if it snows I won't be able to get the car up the lane, I am really beginning to regret Mrs Handy talking me into swapping the 4x4 for a people carrier.

It isn't even getting up the lane that is the worry, its getting back down. It's a single track road with steep banks ( there are place where if you stop you can't even get the doors open) and the last bit is steep. If you start to slide you can't stop, as Lady Hooray found out when she got an Audi Quattro (all road) stuck between the bank and a wall.

Looks like a patch of blue sky on the horizon, time to get back to it.

Regards all, Handy

[Handyman]

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No sign of the Snow yet but plenty of rain last night. The storm force winds didn't find us either. I'm still ankle deep in soggy tissues as the nose is still running like a tap.

Blinking Quack, If he had put me on antibiotics I would be on the mend by now . It's not like I go to the Doctors very often. I had forgot the chaps name so when I was booking in at the surgery, I told the receptionist I was to see the new guy. She thought for a moment then laughed "he has been here 18 months" she said, and that's the last time I needed a Doctor I replied.

Anyway it's repairing a trailer then tree planting this morning, Christmas food shopping this evening

Back later, Handy

[philnicandamy]

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Food shopping later???

blimey handy you need a medal!!

[Handyman]

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Food shopping later???

blimey handy you need a medal!!

Do I look like I have any choice in the matter
She who must be obeyed has decreed that she needs to go to Messrs Moribound to spend her £25.00 voucher bearing in mind that you have to spend over £40.00 p/wk for 7 weeks. I reckon that we must have spent £500+ to earn the voucher.

If you ever want to see Martin Lewis have a breakdown all we need him to do is to go shopping with Mrs Handy.

Even better send him with Her Ladyship when she goes to
Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's shop. Last time I drove her there it was over £100 just on pate de foie gras as well as some of his £3.50 sausage rolls.

I'm going now as I'm starting to feel depressed, I can hear my wallet shouting for mercy already.

Regards, Handy

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

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I still have the Coughs and Sneezes... The Doc ... was more interested in shaking hands with my prostrate

Where had your prostrate been lying down?

Now with a cough like this the last thing I need would be a bad case of the runs at least I wouldn't dare cough then.

I asked the local convenience store if that was why they kept laxatives and Lem-Sip on the same shelf.

Right it looks like the sleet shower has passed over so it's back outside to finish roofing job number 1. At sometime today I have to go on the Hall roof to fix an Ariel. This won't be as bad as when I worked for the Lady Laird of Ochyesassenach. I had to go on her cottage roof when it was covered in ice to fix her Santa Sledge and Reindeer lights. Remember the early storms of 2005, we were still living in the Highlands and were without electric for 10 days.

After one gust I found the old girls Santa lights in the next field

Where did you subsequently bury them?

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

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Blinking Quack, If he had put me on antibiotics I would be on the mend by now .

No, you probably wouldn't.

If the cause of your illness is a common cold - rhinovirus - or seasonal influenza, antibiotics will have no effect whatever as they are only effective against bacteria.

If your illness is pig flu, then you should try this:

[garlok]

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With Wales being what it is we always keep a small generator topped up with jungle juice. I have a lead with a 13A plus at each end. If the power goes off I pull the fuse on the ring main and plug the genny in. At least we have table lamps, telly, phones and the gas fire. Highly un-recommended it works though and just leave one light on in the lighting circuit and you know straight away when the power is back.

A few thoughts on living in the back of beyond in a land wanting to be back in the Dark Ages. Forgive the pun l l

regards
Garlok

[Handyman]

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With Wales being what it is we always keep a small generator topped up with jungle juice. I have a lead with a 13A plus at each end. If the power goes off I pull the fuse on the ring main and plug the genny in. At least we have table lamps, telly, phones and the gas fire. Highly un-recommended it works though and just leave one light on in the lighting circuit and you know straight away when the power is back.

A few thoughts on living in the back of beyond in a land wanting to be back in the Dark Ages. Forgive the pun l l

regards
Garlok

I take it that you are out in the sticks, if it wasn't for Mrs Handy's love of shopping that is where I wish I still was.

I like areas (and there still are a few) where the number of population are counted in tens and not thousands per square mile.

That's not to say that I don't like people. But I like the privacy that isolation brings.

As regards given's like electricity, it was 1970 before I lived in a house with electric. We had the old Gas Mantle light and a big old Yorkshire Range for heating and cooking.

Entertainment was a book, or the Home service on the BBC powered by lead acid accumulators or later a Roberts transistor radio.

Angelic if you read this you are doing the right thing by not having a television. DD lets her kid watch CBB's from 7 am till 7pm. if GS cant have it on he physically attacks the TV.

When we were without power for 10 days we had the oil fueld AGA for heat and cooking, Candles and Oil Lights for lighting, and one another for entertainment.

I still have quite a collection of fully working Victorian and Edwardian Oil Lamps, and a supply of Oil to run them on.

If I have one good thing to say for the age of the internet it is this, I have written more and enjoyed the written word and all that goes with it more than in the age of snail mail.

So before I go, I offer a Toast to those who live out in the sticks, or those that still engender the spirit of self sufficiency.

Regards all, Handy

[Handyman]

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If your illness is pig flu, then you should try this:

I resemble that remark! at least according to the Mrs

[Handyman]

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I just had a thought, I wonder how many folk especially the blokes who would know how to bake their own bread these days without looking for a recipe on line.

I can still remember the smell of fresh bread baking in the old Yorkshire Range I mentioned earlier. My Grandmother baked bread twice a week all her adult life, I doubt if she ever bought bread more than 1/2 a dozen times in her life. My favourite was an oven bottom bread cake she did that was filled with hard boiled egg and strips of bacon. That must be over 50 years ago and I still remember the taste, Yum.

[garlok]

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No mate we live on the outskirts of a town but NW is like that all across, out in the sticks or not. BT still use hand signals or wet string and cocoa tins to communicate. l l

regards
Garlok

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

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As regards given's like electricity, it was 1970 before I lived in a house with electric. We had the old Gas Mantle light and a big old Yorkshire Range for heating and cooking.

Entertainment was a book, or the Home service on the BBC powered by lead acid accumulators or later a Roberts transistor radio.

Luxury!