Any one done anything "useful" over the break?
 

Feeling smug - I finally finished putting cabling round the house so you can put on a Bluray on in the lounge and watch it in the kitchen or dining room or bedroom as well. Floorboards upstairs were heavier than they looked!

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How have you done it? Long hdmi's?

I need to get the new engine in the sv over the hols and hopefully get it fired up

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Finished my bathroom off inc painting.

I'm finally getting round Tomoz to tidy my garage out, watch this space as there may be things for sale :)

Got my copper 'bin' ready for weighing in :)

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Not me, not a thing

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What break?

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A couple of the runs are too long for HDMI cables. Bought some HDMI to Cat5 adapters and ran Cat6 cables to the further away TVs. Bought some RJ45 ends and a crimping tool and made up the cables myself (double smug!!)

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Saturday- bike into a multitude of bits
Monday- Shed tidied properly (I love sweet tins!!), leak on the carbs fixed (new bolts in the bowls), front subframe once over'ed (never checked after me off)

Today- Work for a couple of hours, mothball inspection and a deep clean
Tomorrow- Fire alarm test in the morning (oh joys), bodywork to the painters

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Two runs for SERV done today - delivery of blood and plasma from the Bloodbank in Southampton to Winchester Pathology Lab, got home and immediately got called back to Winchester to do another delivery to the Royal South Hants Hospital back in Southampton.

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Nearly emptied the fridge

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Pruned my magnolia tree:D

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That's my favourite one!

:drink:

Aside from giving my liver/kidneys a good workout, I've almost finished decorating the front bedroom. I've got x2 more before baby arrives but plenty of time for that.

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I removed the skin from the knuckles on my right hand.

Yes, I changed the spark plugs on the SV and I still hate the front plug.

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I stayed absolutely silent from 8pm on 24th December until 7pm on 27th December - I didn't utter a single word to any living thing for a whole 71 hours, mainly because I didn't see anyone for that length of time.

Now that has got to be the biggest favour to mankind ever.

I only broke my silence because my housemate came home and asked a question that required a long answer, then he buggered off again after 5 minutes :-(

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Refilled my Scottoiler.

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Something I need to do as well, but I was going to use 200mbps homeplugs instead of long cable runs.

Finished building my winter bike(bicycle) and went out for a ride on Boxing Day

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I washed and polished my Versys and the company FJR, but I don't class that as useful.

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Essential, to see how badly its rusted?

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Valve check on Sylvie, then fitted a new tank pad and cleaned out the garage. Two days off from work, felt like I needed much more.

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[QUOTE=Jayneflakes;2641543]Valve check on Sylvie, then fitted a new tank pad and cleaned out the garage. Two days off from work, felt like I needed much more.


Snap!

I put the one I got from you Jayne on this afternoon. Pics tomorrow

Was it the same choice of pad Mav? Suit you sir ;)

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There are no pink fairies on my bike!!!!!!!

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burnt quite a few litres of dinosuars lately, but thats not useful, well except to tesco maybe.

Oh and took the forks out the sv to change the oil and put them back to silver or maybe black, bored of grey.

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Painted my nails.

Ate all the cheese in the fridge before it went mouldy.

Fixed the Dyson so Mr LPH could vacuum the house.

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Versys - no corrosion because it was doused in ACF50 a while ago.

Yamaha - no more corrosion than I'd expect on a 50K mile 02 bike.

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Its started to dissolve then

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I think this is the first winter it's seen. Looks like most of the miles were done in summer.

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Fair enuf
Have seen 2000 Thundercats with more miles and never seen salt

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Well yesterday I cleaned my garage out, put some brackets on the wall to hang my 8 different hammers on :)

I fixed my 24v Bosch hammer drill as a wire had come off the soldered plate on the motor.

Bodged some bits together to use my paddock stand with my DRZ...

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Finally I noted down all the model numbers of my tools that need attention so im gonna order some spares for them.

Productive day. :)

The one thing i'm missing in life is a garage stuffed full of tools. Maybe one day :rolleyes:

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At the moment for me it's a just another place to get messy with my work tools.

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Changed the alternator on my campervan, changed the oil in our car & washed the Sv. as it was filthy.All done yesterday morning.

Back to work tomorrow :(