What you pottering at today thread.

[Mark Bolam]

28 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

I think that’s a bit too hardcore Mik.

It’s dangerously close to servicing/work.

 

Surely pottering would be the kind of stuff you would happily attempt after 4 cans of Stella?

That doesn’t rule out a lot for me in all fairness.

[rapalaman]

On 31/08/2024 at 09:57, AHPP said:

Wasps. Appropriate action. Build a shrine to them. Praise them. Feed them jam on sacrificial children. They’re as important as bees, they’re amazing pollinators…

If they’re so good, give me your address and I’ll post you some. 
Kill the bastards. My phone typed kill the gays when I tried to write that. Kill the gays afterwards. 

Got stung four times today - they were in a pampas grass I was cutting back 😡

Loads of ant powder unleashed at them and going back tomorrow late evening to pour some more there.

Hopefully that’ll do for them as we can’t even rake the garden up till they’re gone

[AHPP]

Pop back after dark. The wasps will be more docile and who knows what else you might find going on.

[sime42]

Premium lightweight pottering here today. Though it was fairly inevitable with a 5 year old shadow in tow all day due to a forced day off to cover another bloody school teacher training day. (There's a very generous handful every year now. I'm sure we barely had any back in the day. It grates).

 

Leisurely breakfast followed by finishing off a jigsaw that was too hard for the lad. One job on the list was to repair a leak on an outhouse roof. It was raining this morning so I contented myself with climbing up and looking at it, poking it and thinking about it some more! No need to actually do any work today I told myself, that can wait for the weekend.

 

Next job was to free up seized wheel bearings on his scooter. Whilst doing that he wanted to make a mallet. That necessitated clearing the inaccessible workbench. Which unearthed a little beauty that I picked up on a second hand stall months ago. That obviously then had to be cleaned up and lightly fettled. Changing the wiper blades on the van led to messing around trying to sort the dodgy cd player. A mix of mortar for various little masonry jobs around the place and then time for dinner. Plus a load of other semi-productive fly shit jobs along the way.

 

Four pints of tea. Two mugs of coffee. Zero Stellas.

[Mark Bolam]

Well pottered!

[AHPP]

Put some batteries on charge and wrapped all the 8mm hex socket drivers in red electrical tape to make them quick to find when driving timber screws. The day is mine. 

[Stephen Blair]

On 02/09/2024 at 20:18, maybelateron said:

I'm reading the pottering thread on Arbtalk. Does that count as softcore enough to count as pottering?

What did you originally start doing and what should you be doing instead?

[Stephen Blair]

This is the British Olympic Team of Pottering.  Always started with a boring day ahead and a meet up for a cuppa!

 

 

[PeteB]

My lad is off to Santa Pod until Sunday night, crewing for Bad Apple Racing. He started to clear up in my garage before I left to make space for my new toy car. That means that all my pottering projects will be tidied away and benches clear and all the tools put back where they belong.  It took me years to get it to that state of advanced pottered, I'll never be able to find anything now either!

[tree-fancier123]

replacing broken cord on sash window

made a mouse out of old throwline and a length of 8mm bar, then pile hitch to get the fat cord threaded through the pulley and out through where the sash weights go in