Today I shall be Mainly...

[Stanley]

Writing for the BET I think, I need to get them off my back!

[Sue]

Have you tried an old fashioned rubber hot water bottle Sue? Get some heat into the area and encourage the inflammation which is of course part of the healing process......
I shall make my new lathe tool fit and turn a little bush for Ian.... Delicate work!

That is where I started Stanley, slept with a hot water bottle for 10 nights. The dr assures me it will go when the atmosphere is drier. Back to France imminently, perhaps that will work.

[Stanley]

I thought perhaps you'd know about that old trick Sue. Best of luck with it wherever you are......
I have a clean shed, a straight edge and four articles on the BET stockpile. I think I shall put John's castings on one side and start on the Alex engine.....

[Sue]

When it all started Stanley, we were in France on a holiday weekend, with no knowledge of how to access their emergency holiday services. So it was good old NHS online. That said to apply warmth via a hot water bottle, take pain killers and anti inflammatories. It got me over the three days, I carried on with the warmth as it was very soothing.

[Big Kev]

I have suffered with abcess' in my ears in the past, I took the extreme measure of heating an old tea cup with boiling water and then tightly placing it over the affected ear. A little extreme but it did draw out some 'interesting' gunge and the infection cleared up very quickly...

[Sue]

I remember my mum doing something similar when I was a child. All nearly ok now. When I get up my ear fills full, after walking around for a bit it shifts. My hearing is nearly back to normal.

[Stanley]

Heat is good.... When I was going through my Cystitis phase a woman told me that the only relief she got was s strategically placed hot water bottle and she was right, I found it helped.
I was talking to Susan about ears the other day and she sympathises with you Sue. She has been there in spades.......

[Sue]

Dental hygienist this morning. This afternoon I shall finish packing and do a bit of sewing. My shorts pattern fits! This evening is art.

[Stanley]

Catching up after a late start and working on the Alex engine.....

[Stanley]

Yesterday the shed was an oasis of sanity as I mounted the engine castings temporarily on a block of wood so I could hold them to work on them..... I shall be in there today.

[Stanley]

Going quietly ahead with Alex's engine.....

[Tripps]

Well - tomorrow actually - I'm taking delivery of my new mattress. It's from a firm called Silent Night. I think they're from 'oop North' somewhere.

The fitted sheets arrived today - If you look quickly they are 'percale' which I'm told is a good thing. However look more closely and it actually reads 'Easy Care Pecale'. I think I've been seen off.

[Stanley]

I think that means it is not 100% cotton David but certainly a superior weave. I hope you enjoy them and the mattress!
I shall be doing my usual Friday round of shopping, reading the BET and hopefully getting time in the shed.

[Stanley]

I shall be following up a nice session in the shed. Things are coming together nicely and I am enjoying the build!
Watching the Monaco GP at dinnertime....

[Big Kev]

Up early today to put a pork shoulder in the oven. 10 people for lunch today, some who have travelled up from Kent for the Bands on the Square

[Stanley]

Respect!

[Stanley]

More quiet progress with Alex's engine. Very satisfying work.....

[Stanley]

Enjoying myself in the shed. I realise more and more that my shed is the key to my physical and mental health. I can't imagine life without it! Everyone should have the equivalent of my shed when they retire......

[Sue]

Hobby room Stanley, with fully equipped sewing section, art section and storage for craft and knitting. Can't quite get my knitting machine in , which is stored under the bed and surfaces occasionally. Sewing patterns and other accessories stored in the wardrobe in the study. Who needs a four bedroom house anyway when you can have two, a hobby room and a study. As for a double garage we couldn't get two cars in so Bob rapidly converted that to a single garage and his domain, his workshop.

[Stanley]

Excellent! But you know that we are in a minority. So many people have no interests beyond the anaesthetic of the TV and the sofa.... Have you ever watched daytime TV? I shall be doing my most fraught job this morning, drilling steam passages in the cylinder casting..... It usually goes well but always a strain! You must hit similar stages when dress making, once you have made a wrong cut life gets very difficult!

[Sue]

I remember watching day time TV when I was off work for months with ME, I think it made me even more inactive

[Stanley]

I c an well believe it! What bits I have seen sapped me of the will to live!

[Stanley]

A little patch of sanity in the current madness....

[Stanley]

Enjoying the shed. I am making good, steady, cock-up free progress. I tapped all the holes on the cylinder yesterday and tried the studs.....

[Sue]

On the way back from France and stayed over in Coventry overnight with the grandchildren and family. We slept in sleeping bags in the lounge. Eve gets up early and got a shock when she came in the lounge at 6.15, ( thank goodness that is French time at 7.15) . She didn't know we were staying over.