BLUEMOMENT

Where is everyone?
Desperately trying to get up to the boat but thwartwd at every attenpt by increased responsibilities of the job, also in full homo domesticus role with Dear Heart still in the land of the long runny nose.
And then there may be Ofsted
Oh joy, oh rapture.

Mayhem here. Having got back from work I had to leave again for another week's work, then home again. This time home I had to run of the plumber who I discovered had plumbed the new hidden shower in upside down and back to front. With a very unhappy Lady OldBoots I set to with Fein Multimaster Grout Removal Tool to take of the newly tiled bathroom tiles and rectify the situation. The tube plumber had also fastened the wall mounted sink at 114cm instead of 900cm, which means my daughter has to stand on her tip toes and reach up. So more Fein Multimaster work, then it gets worse, the effin shower tray has developed a wobble so I'll have to lift that up and re-bed it. Its such a nice weekend and I really wanted to go sailing because my extra week at work was to to sit 4 compulsory trade exams, which is never a pleasant experience.

Sounds like its the effin plumber who should be sitting the trade exams.

The Fein multimaster - if you dropped it on the front of your leg, would it be a shin fein tool?

I'm escaping from work this week and from Wed hope to go from Dunstaffnage to Rhu round the MoK. Longer range forecast suggests northerly from Oban to MoK, westerly to Clyde and Southerly up the Clyde, and light winds all the way. Spinnaker might get worn out?

I hope you get the winds, which can make it quite a nice passage and very easy.

Good joke claymore. I'll tell it to my tiler who is a true blue, he will appreciate that. He has very kindly offered to refit the tiles at no charge.

I'm waiting for a beak in domestic & family commitments to coincide with a bit of dry weather in Wales so I can go & see if the duct tape on the hole in the foredeck is still sticky enough to keep the wet out.

We are over in Donegal surfing

Not a lot of Internet around here...

There looks like a lot of croozee boatie potential round this top corner of Ireland though which might need farther investigation next summer...

mm5aho wrote:I'm escaping from work this week and from Wed hope to go from Dunstaffnage to Rhu round the MoK. Longer range forecast suggests northerly from Oban to MoK, westerly to Clyde and Southerly up the Clyde, and light winds all the way. Spinnaker might get worn out?

Good luck with that. Looks like you'll get a gentle Thursday.

BlowingOldBoots wrote:Mayhem here. Having got back from work I had to leave again for another week's work, then home again. This time home I had to run of the plumber who I discovered had plumbed the new hidden shower in upside down and back to front. With a very unhappy Lady OldBoots I set to with Fein Multimaster Grout Removal Tool to take of the newly tiled bathroom tiles and rectify the situation. The tube plumber had also fastened the wall mounted sink at 114cm instead of 900cm, which means my daughter has to stand on her tip toes and reach up. So more Fein Multimaster work, then it gets worse, the effin shower tray has developed a wobble so I'll have to lift that up and re-bed it. Its such a nice weekend and I really wanted to go sailing because my extra week at work was to to sit 4 compulsory trade exams, which is never a pleasant experience.

BOB Sorry to hear of your woes with the tradesman (or should that be cowboy)
Pity you did not get a professional such as me.
10yrs of the plumbing and tiling game and have never yet had one dissatisfied customer, as my moto is reminiscent of the BS5750, "Get it done right, first time every time"
Oh, and I live only aprox 3 mile from you atcf.
C_W

The Fein multimaster - if you dropped it on the front of your leg, would it be a shin fein tool?[/quote]

No, but it could become the Feint multimaster!
C_W

mm5aho wrote:I'm escaping from work this week and from Wed hope to go from Dunstaffnage to Rhu round the MoK. Longer range forecast suggests northerly from Oban to MoK, westerly to Clyde and Southerly up the Clyde, and light winds all the way. Spinnaker might get worn out?

Just a thought - you couldn't pop into Owens on the way and bring my resurrected No1 with you and drop it off at RGYC on the way past? No, I thought not.
Cheers

claymore wrote:Oh joy, oh rapture.

Wonderful. You ask us whether to retire, we tell you you should, and jist look at youse. Yer quite pleased aren't you, otherwise you'd have to repair all von C's DIY?

Exhausted as we were efter a visit from the grandchildren, hersel and I have been cleaning her .. erm .. bottom. We chugged down at 4.5kn SOG with 1kn tide to this magic carpet thing which the boat sits on and then gets lifted out, had her cleaned and then zipped back against a foul tide at 5.9kn. Given that she wus last cleaned 5 months ago, this new mooring is giving the local molluscs an effing banquet, sufficient to keep a frog restaurant in crawly things.

It's now the 3rd day of continuous rain ....

Is it rainin? Ah hev nae sen ra licht o' day fer weeks