What's made you smile today?

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

I'm so pleased to be able to report Mrs J seems to have taken a massive step out "of the woods" today. She's spent the last couple of days hacking up dirty great lumps of green gunge but feeling better and less breathless. Today she tells me her sense of taste is back and she's breathing almost like normal and she doesn't seem to be coughing anything like she has been for a wee while now. Two more days of "horse pills" for her to complete the course of medication given to her by the hospital but it's looking very good by today's reckoning. It's wonderful not to be feeling I have to be constantly checking up on her when she's sleeping just in case she's stopped breathing! Thanks for all the words of support and well wishing folks, it was and is much appreciated.

 

[porta]

Excellent news

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

Excellent news

Even better news, she's in the kitchen right now surrounded by vegetables and a tub of home made stock from the freezer, making "Spiced Vegetable" soup. Making soup is a speciality of hers and I just hope it's going to be ready for our tea (supper some might call it? evening meal to others) tonight.

 

[porta]

Even better news, she's in the kitchen right now surrounded by vegetables and a tub of home made stock from the freezer, making "Spiced Vegetable" soup. Making soup is a speciality of hers and I just hope it's going to be ready for our tea (supper some might call it? evening meal to others) tonight.

In Yorkshire it’s:
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper
Our friend from darn souff says ‘dinner is wehn go out for a meal, otherwise it’s supper’, oh, and they have lunch or brunch depending on the time it’s eaten, tea is a treat and ‘taken mid afternoon…’ but then, she is a southerner

 

[bugsymike]

In Yorkshire it’s:
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper
Our friend from darn souff says ‘dinner is wehn go out for a meal, otherwise it’s supper’, oh, and they have lunch or brunch depending on the time it’s eaten, tea is a treat and ‘taken mid afternoon…’ but then, she is a southerner

I take it you mean "Saff East", speaking as one born in the neglected South West, dinner time was when I stopped work at 1pm for an hour then went back to work till 5:30 as part of my 40 hour week unless I did overtime on a Saturday, unlike the "work from home brigade" in the "Saff East" who probably stop playing games on their company laptop in time for a light luncheon before checking their table is booked for when they "dine out" in the evening

On a non smile point when are the phone companies going to stop all the spam calls, I am sure in this digital age they are more than capable, or is it the revenue they get from, them preventing looking after their genuine customers!

 

[PuntoHowTo]

Even better news, she's in the kitchen right now surrounded by vegetables and a tub of home made stock from the freezer, making "Spiced Vegetable" soup. Making soup is a speciality of hers and I just hope it's going to be ready for our tea (supper some might call it? evening meal to others) tonight.

Glad to hear J is on the Mend, Can we request she post out home made soup it sounds amazing.

on the naming of meal times... Tea is something you drink. Guess how I was brought up. in the evening you would have Dinner, supper used rarely if it was a particularly late dinner.

How is your hip? have you managed to make it out of your road yet, or round the block?

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

Glad to hear J is on the Mend, Can we request she post out home made soup it sounds amazing.

No chance, I want it all!!!

on the naming of meal times... Tea is something you drink. Guess how I was brought up. in the evening you would have Dinner, supper used rarely if it was a particularly late dinner.

On this one I'm in a bit of a quandary. My mum definitely fancied herself as a bit "posh" so Luncheon was taken midday when my dad came home for an hour from his office and "tea" would be something taken mid to late afternoon, often with her friends, with little triangular cucumber etc sandwiches with the crusts cut orf and dainty cup cakes etc. High tea was a bit later, maybe 5.30 to 6.00 pm when I and my siblings were fed. Dinner took place later on, maybe 7.00 to 8.00 ish when dad came home and they sat at the dining room table for a "proper" meal

Dad didn't stand on such ceremony and talked about breakfast lunch and tea - don't remember ever hearing him talk about dinner although I've often heard folk I've worked with call the midday meal dinner.

How is your hip? have you managed to make it out of your road yet, or round the block?

Hip's been a roaring success Andy, thanks for asking. Very sore for the first week when I was pushing myself doing all the exercises - only 2 nights in the hospital. Using painkillers much less in the second week and now, just a few days into the third week, pretty much doing without them. Moving round the house now without even using sticks at all. still taking the sticks for stability when out for daily walk. Doing about a half hour walk now every day around the block and up as far as the main road and back. Going to contact my insurers about physio on Wednesday - which will be three week in - because the foot is slightly "toed in" unless I consciously straighten it. I'm advised exercises should correct this. I really am delighted with the progress. Meeting with the consultant scheduled for two week time and I think a return to driving in week six is likely to be very possible - but I'll very much be guided by him. So, with Mrs J's pneumonia seemingly now under control and my hip responding so splendidly, it's lifting my spirits re all the cr*p around my brother's passing and the "meal" the lawyers are making of sorting it all out - just coming up on a year now since his passing and we are miles away from a resolution still.

 

[porta]

I take it you mean "Saff East", speaking as one born in the neglected South West, dinner time was when I stopped work at 1pm for an hour then went back to work till 5:30 as part of my 40 hour week unless I did overtime on a Saturday, unlike the "work from home brigade" in the "Saff East" who probably stop playing games on their company laptop in time for a light luncheon before checking their table is booked for when they "dine out" in the evening

On a non smile point when are the phone companies going to stop all the spam calls, I am sure in this digital age they are more than capable, or is it the revenue they get from, them preventing looking after their genuine customers!

Oxfordshire

 

[bugsymike]

As a youngster with a healthy appetite on way back home from school I would pop into mate's house and his mum would do a fry up tea, I would then walk on home and my mum would do my normal tea.
This carried on for some time until the two mum's talked to each other!!!
On a different note and as a "wind up" Does anyone remember the British Coal advert about coming home to a living fire? At the time some people in Wales were setting fire to holiday homes, so the joke was "Come home to a living fire, buy a cottage in Wales"
I see on BBC1 National News today a 2 year old Mercedes EV incident, so the advert could read " Come home to a living fire, buy an EV???"

 

[porta]

As a youngster with a healthy appetite on way back home from school I would pop into mate's house and his mum would do a fry up tea, I would then walk on home and my mum would do my normal tea.
This carried on for some time until the two mum's talked to each other!!!
On a different note and as a "wind up" Does anyone remember the British Coal advert about coming home to a living fire? At the time some people in Wales were setting fire to holiday homes, so the joke was "Come home to a living fire, buy a cottage in Wales"
I see on BBC1 National News today a 2 year old Mercedes EV incident, so the advert could read " Come home to a living fire, buy an EV???"

Cruel, but true

 

[FiatMatt94]

Scarlett is virtually all back together now with a new shaft, new anti roll bar brackets from Europe with studs & nuts etc along with outer anti roll bar bushes, so the new shaft turned up from Germany this morning a week after I ordered it, I compared the new with the old to make sure it was the same length etc before I put it on the car. I also put new dust covers on both ball joints whilst it was off as I noticed they were very slightly split

Then topped up the gearbox oil (yes I remembered ) with 2.5 litres of Comma 75w90 GL5 semi synthetic gearbox oil from Halfords after installing a new metal clamp on the inner boot, then started her up & let her run for about half hour to make sure there was no leaks which I'm happy to say its all bone dry as it should be, so just to torque up the hub nut to 240nm in the morning & she's all done.

 

[bugsymike]

Is it the angle of photo , but track rod end nut looks loose in last photo.

 

[FiatMatt94]

Is it the angle of photo , but track rod end nut looks loose in last photo.

Yeah I haven't fully tightened it yet, one of the small niggly bits to finish off in the morning as it started getting dark

 

[bugsymike]

Yeah I haven't fully tightened it yet, one of the small niggly bits to finish off in the morning as it started getting dark

In a rush to top up your sweeties "trick or treating" eh?

Free slide and climbing tower on Gumtree made Grand daughter happy. I can live withe the £20 odd for trapped threaded rivets and tool to fit so I could reassemble after grinding old ones off to fit in van.
Daughter bought a little bed for her small dog, but there appears to be a "cuckoo in the nest".

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

Scarlett is virtually all back together now with a new shaft, new anti roll bar brackets from Europe with studs & nuts etc along with outer anti roll bar bushes, so the new shaft turned up from Germany this morning a week after I ordered it, I compared the new with the old to make sure it was the same length etc before I put it on the car. I also put new dust covers on both ball joints whilst it was off as I noticed they were very slightly split
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Then topped up the gearbox oil (yes I remembered ) with 2.5 litres of Comma 75w90 GL5 semi synthetic gearbox oil from Halfords after installing a new metal clamp on the inner boot, then started her up & let her run for about half hour to make sure there was no leaks which I'm happy to say its all bone dry as it should be, so just to torque up the hub nut to 240nm in the morning & she's all done.

Remembering to refill the gearbox - or engine, or any other fluid container? Always something which worried me and now even more of a worry as my aging brain tends to forget things more readily. A number of years ago I made notices on plywood backings which I can hang from the steering wheel whenever I drain fluids of any sort - works a treat for me.

Seeing Matt informing us he'd refilled with a GL5 oil set me to thinking, I've not seen much of late about the historic problem of GL5 oils "attacking" the soft (yellow) metals in gearboxes which require a GL4 oil. I read some time ago, that the oil manufacturers had modified the GL5 spec so as to effectively stop or greatly reduce the damaging effect of the extreme pressure additives used in GL5 oils, thereby reducing or eliminating their potential to do damage However I've not seen any updates regarding this. Anyone looked into this of late?

By the way, seeing as this is the "smiley" thread, the latest on Mrs J is that she's fighting fit and pretty much back in the saddle! Can't tell you how relieved I am, I feel as if a great big black cloud has just dispersed from over my head! I too am doing well. The cold I contracted but was worrying it might be related to Mrs J's pneumonia, has turned out to be just a bad cold and is now well on the mend. I had my first session with the physio yesterday which went very well and he commented that having done all the exercises specified by the hospital physio when I was discharged 3 weeks go has put me well "ahead of the curve and made his job easier. amongst other stuff, He put me through a number of quite arduous resistance type tests - so asking me to work against him as he held my legs in certain positions - which have left me with some pain/discomfort in the big upper leg muscles so i'm going for a walk soon to loosen it all off.

By the way, the spiced vegetable soup was absolutely delicious and, as she always makes her soups in "industrial quantity" there's some in the fridge for later and some in the freezer for next week - Yum Yum!

 

[FiatMatt94]

Remembering to refill the gearbox - or engine, or any other fluid container? Always something which worried me and now even more of a worry as my aging brain tends to forget things more readily. A number of years ago I made notices on plywood backings which I can hang from the steering wheel whenever I drain fluids of any sort - works a treat for me.

Seeing Matt informing us he'd refilled with a GL5 oil set me to thinking, I've not seen much of late about the historic problem of GL5 oils "attacking" the soft (yellow) metals in gearboxes which require a GL4 oil. I read some time ago, that the oil manufacturers had modified the GL5 spec so as to effectively stop or greatly reduce the damaging effect of the extreme pressure additives used in GL5 oils, thereby reducing or eliminating their potential to do damage However I've not seen any updates regarding this. Anyone looked into this of late?

By the way, seeing as this is the "smiley" thread, the latest on Mrs J is that she's fighting fit and pretty much back in the saddle! Can't tell you how relieved I am, I feel as if a great big black cloud has just dispersed from over my head! I too am doing well. The cold I contracted but was worrying it might be related to Mrs J's pneumonia, has turned out to be just a bad cold and is now well on the mend. I had my first session with the physio yesterday which went very well and he commented that having done all the exercises specified by the hospital physio when I was discharged 3 weeks go has put me well "ahead of the curve and made his job easier. amongst other stuff, He put me through a number of quite arduous resistance type tests - so asking me to work against him as he held my legs in certain positions - which have left me with some pain/discomfort in the big upper leg muscles so i'm going for a walk soon to loosen it all off.

By the way, the spiced vegetable soup was absolutely delicious and, as she always makes her soups in "industrial quantity" there's some in the fridge for later and some in the freezer for next week - Yum Yum!

It's good to hear that Mrs J is all better now I purchased GL5 oil as the original handbook states it takes GL5 which surprised me as I thought it would have been GL4, I noticed around here though that not many places tend to sell GL5 with Halfords being the only one. You cannot beat a really good homemade soup.

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

It's good to hear that Mrs J is all better now I purchased GL5 oil as the original handbook states it takes GL5 which surprised me as I thought it would have been GL4, I noticed around here though that not many places tend to sell GL5 with Halfords being the only one. You cannot beat a really good homemade soup.

Yes, I've noticed they seem to specify GL4 in some years and GL5 others. I'm intrigued to know whether there is actually any difference between what seem, at a glance, to be essentially identical boxes?

Home made soups, oh yes. Mrs J does them splendidly. Lentil, Leek and Potato, she does one with squash, onion, peppers, etc (don't have a name for that one) and now there's her latest spicy butternut squash and turmeric offering. There's others too and mustn't forget the Christmas turkey soup - Oh what a lucky lad I am!

 

[FiatMatt94]

She's all better now & moving about, so after I done the finishing touches & torqued the hub nut to 240nm me & my cousin went for an extended test drive in her into the Cheshire countryside & did a tip run as well, with the old shaft there was a little bit of a grab whenever you accelerated which has now disappeared since the new shaft has been in, also the power delivery feels a lot smoother & quieter than before, upon closer inspection of the old shaft the tripod bearing seemed a bit sloppy with too much play. I pulled over a few times just to check there was no gearbox oil leaking anywhere & it's still bone dry so I decided to call that a success & gave her a quick clean afterwards .

 

[The Panda Nut]

Noops massing
An embarrasment of Pandas - which is I gather the correct term.

New used jack arrived today so we will have the basics if we have a puncture. Punto jack does not fit in the Panda storage so I am still chasing a Panda jack for Ruby.

 

[bugsymike]

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Noops massing
An embarrasment of Pandas - which is I gather the correct term.

New used jack arrived today so we will have the basics if we have a puncture. Punto jack does not fit in the Panda storage so I am still chasing a Panda jack for Ruby.

You do realise that only two are required for breeding purposes