What are you getting up to today?

patp said:

Dog walk first thing. Then a builders labourer this morning. Taping aluminium tape over all the joints in the floor insulation going down in the new build. Then off to chiropodist to sort out me corns. Bought a sand pit in Lidl's on the way home for granddaughter's Birthday coming up in April. No time now for a another stint at labouring as it is time for another dog walk.

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Oh, yes, sorting out me corns. That was on my list for today too, but only making the appointment.

Chris

Today I have to go and pick up the Strong Wholemeal Bread Flour from the agricultural supplier down the road. He orders it directly from the mill for me. Usual dog walk first though. Then builder's labourer finishing off aluminium taping of joints and moving on to laying the dpm in all the rooms in the bungalow. We might have a visit from the guy who will pour the final layer of concrete which comes in liquid form and is pumped into each room. He is going to check our work!

I'm taking the MH for its annual Hab Check this morning. Its the first time it will have moved since December!

Then watching cricket on the telly for the rest of the day when we get back.

Tea will be fish and chips from the village pub who have started doing takeaways again. For some unexplained reason they stopped doing them in November and are only starting again this weekend! I guess the government money must have run out!

Lots of pubs have had refurbs during lockdown. Ours did.

No it wasn't that Pat. We live just down the road from them (30 meters or so) and they never had the builders in. I think Phil the landlord replaced their bathroom suite last week but thats it.

Let's hope it wasn't a deep clean then eh?!

For 4 months??!! :surprise:

Today i have booked and paid for a couple of little breaks away. 1st on the Kent coast mid April and then in May down in Somerset. Guess i need to go and do some checks on the bus first though. But not today. Maybe next week. This will be my first time having to go through checks as i only started motor-homing last June. Any advice welcome. So back to the original question...... what am i doing today? um, i don't know. Cup of tea and a dippy egg first me thinks and then we'll see. Have a lovely day people xxxx

I think I was born lucky all my organs and feet have always been good apart from me bladder n me brain I'm fine except for me back.

Just heard that the apartment we were going to book in Mojacar has been taken off the holiday listings as she is not getting enough bookings She is going to try to let it as a residential let and will tell me if it is available for next winter if it does not get any interest.

Pudsey_Bear said:

I had my diabetic eye test a couple of weeks ago, seem I'm going to have a cat or something.

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Would you not be better with a dog Kev? - exercise is good for diabetes (only joking!)

You folks are awfully busy... My days are walking n coffee - takes me away from housework!

I will have to move the MH from one side of the parking area to the other as a neighbour is having rather tall trees between us pruned soon. Can't put it on the street as it's SORNed ATM.

Adele Lawson said:

Today i have booked and paid for a couple of little breaks away. 1st on the Kent coast mid April and then in May down in Somerset. Guess i need to go and do some checks on the bus first though. But not today. Maybe next week. This will be my first time having to go through checks as i only started motor-homing last June. Any advice welcome. So back to the original question...... what am i doing today? um, i don't know. Cup of tea and a dippy egg first me thinks and then we'll see. Have a lovely day people xxxx

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We are all over that as well. Booked so far...

- Pembrey and Newport (Pembs) for April - 11 nights

- Cirencester in May - 13 nights

- Devon and Cornwall for June - 26 nights

- North Wales in July/August - 16 nights with 8 left to book

I am leaving September for the mo in the hope we can get to Italy. if not then the south of France. If not then London and East Anglia. :smile2:

Dermo Doc check-up OK and nothing untoward found. But more scans and checks in four months again. They are not letting me go just yet.

Ray.

What's your reasoning G?

I did some research way back last year and the over riding view (including on the Fiat forum - Ducato section) was that idling an engine without load from cold is one of the worst things you can do to it. It really needs to be driven between 30-50 miles so that it gets thoroughly warmed up and evaporates contaminants in the oil etc.

One quote..."prolonged idling would definitely be a BIG NO NO with the DPF it has fitted as this would eventually clog the DPF up with its associated problems, as in normal operation it needs to get really hot to burn off the particulates - idling for long periods Not really recommended!"

When we bought this car the first diesel we have had, the Subaru dealer told us not to `warm it up before driving, just get in and drive´ he did explain why, but that was 12 years, don´t expect me to remember that far back, we assumed the same with the van. It started first turn of the key today and I drove.

Was that the one you blew the engine up Jan? Not inferring anything of course but Personally I would always allow a few seconds before moving off very gently for the first minute or more.

Ray.

raynipper said:

Was that the one you blew the engine up Jan? Not inferring anything of course but Personally I would always allow a few seconds before moving off very gently for the first minute or more.

Ray.

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Nobody knows how or why that happened Ray, but it was nothing to do with cold engines. When I say I started it and drove, I meant I didn´t let it run to warm up, theres always a minute or more in between, checking everything is where it should be like mirrors and Motleys in his place all that kind of thing takes a minute or more, but why do you say it especially, I have to have reasons for these things. 0