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I do not see the headlight activated traffic lights or camera Activated ones around any more

Now I have turned something on, but there was no red warning! G.O.M.S. While we are on about Road Closed signs what about sets of roadwork traffic lights and cones and barriers that are not protecting a hole in the road, that could easily be shifted to the side after work , holding traffic up all through the night needlessly. Or similar in the daytime when nobody is working except for one man reading the paper in his van with the engine running. Talk about pollution as it is happening all over the country

On and on then! Or should it be on and off. The problem is I do not know which way to turn it off! On the tap in our new hotel room there is a red blob and a blue blob The problem is that when you turn the lever in the direction of the blue blob, the blue blob disappears and you are left with a very prominent red blob facing you. They need a fixed line to show which blob is active. It is not rocket science!

Apologies for my Americanism. I did use the word tap to describe earlier tap warnings and I thought that faucet was the new word to describe these single devices that control flow, temperature and direction with one lever. Every day is a learning day. I will in future refer to them as embuggerment devices!

Ok, I know I know bbbbut Back on the farm and in the Woods I cannot move for fear of violating some ‘elf and safety rule. Most of which are fair but a lot are bleeding’ obvious. Caution on working on slippery surfaces, caution on ladders and working from heights, caution when using teleporters when reversing etc Now staying in London at the second hotel and there is again a faucet on both the sink and shower with no indication whatsoever of which direction to turn it for hot or cold. In the old days of separate taps you would have a red dot on the hot tap and a blue one in the cold. Years before that it would by experiment I discovered one changed the direction from shower to bath but not before I had received a blast of red hot water to my head from the shower. I have like all of you learned that turning the faucet to the left would mean hot and to the right cold. But this faucet was mounted vertically to confuse further and there was no indication of which faucet controlled the shower/bath and which the hot cold.. It seems that there is no standard as each hotel I stay in is different You would have thought that things would improve over time especially where very hot water is concerned. Rrrrrrrrrrrr

Anybody else there to witness a fantastic game? A friend asked me down as he has permanent seats there. I have been twice before and not enjoyed it as it was either freezing cold or raining or both but this time the weather was perfect and I think they seem to have altered the floodlighting as everything seemed so clear. The atmosphere was great and also better than previous occasions I have just watched the Welsh game and thought that they did well in spite of the score. They were not only up against a great side but also up against a side that had obviously been given a strong dressing down by the management! The quality of passing and kicking is a joy to watch and also my attention is with the Red Roses whose handling and passing is also superb. Being a sad old git I can watch Ellie again and again!

It is a rare condition when certain people working with wood all their lives have their brain matter replaced with sawdust!

That is Compulsory Sunset Posting Syndrome!

Sorry about this, but I seem to have developed C.S.P.S.

Leave your girlfriend out of this topic!

This evening’s photos

In the top picture it has become apparent that the grain in the foreground this side of the whiter patch has some spalting and is on the cusp of starting to decay and although it still feels hard and heavy, is more absorbent and takes the oil much easier than the other which also is where the trunk divided and has very hard grain, Time will tell!

If the wife is happy , I am not going to stop her! Happy wife happy life!

Dear wife has just put the tenth and last coat of Tung oil on. We have put some different legs on which we are happy with

I decided not to use resin so used wood glue and the fine sawdust from the sanding. Seemed to work. So my wife has put at least half a dozen coats of Tung oil. How should we finish it off or is that ok. Does it need sealing with something or left to breathe?