What have you done today

[The Doctor 46]

Not today but last night I had a nice ride across Dartmoor to Plymouth where I saw Cinderella, a ballet. It was brilliant and amusing too. There was a live orchestra and I'm sure the musicians are very talented but I didn't like what they were playing very much. Still, the reason I went was to watch and enjoy but listening and enjoying would have been a bonus too.

I love ballet and have been lucky enough to watch in Moscow and St Petersburg. I look forward to visiting another soon.

The ride home was uneventful but I used the A38/30 because it was cold and I wasn't wearing my warmest kit and also the wildlife on the moor doesn't wear dayglow and I was in a rush to get home.   

Today consisted of washing bedding and housework before an apointment at the hospital then going for a ride for a couple of hours on the bike. I'll ride again tomorrow, the last day of forecasted sunshine then wash the bike when I get home. Mmmm, I love retirement. 

[Phild]

I’m up north, in Lincolnshire (north to me anyway) looking after the four Grandkids.
Left Somerset on Monday, picked up two in Devon, and then drove up to Lincolnshire.
Took them to the Kinema in the Woods, Woodall Spa yesterday to watch Dogman. Great place to watch a film…. I was also corrected when I call it the pictures.🤷‍♂️ Only about 20 seats in the room.
Another few hours in the park and a BBQ today, before heading back south tomorrow….. 350 miles by the time I’ve dropped two back in Devon and driven up to North Somerset. Traffic on a Saturday during the Easter holidays?😱

I love getting them all together, but how do I cut down on food costs?.…. they’re bottomless pits.😂

[Brockett]

This week, I have been mostly considering avoirdupois. In that I am getting thicker in the middle. So much so that to get a jacket to go around my belly I end up with an empty chest. 'Yes' I know it's just subsidence since what was once my chest has sunk into my waistband and 'no', underpinning is not the solution. At the end of my second week of reducing carbs I woke up this morning dreaming of a nice slice of bread and jam.  The thought has lingered all day so far. My grandson is staying over and he is scoffing biscuits, sandwiches pasta, pizza, chips, crisps etc. and I have to do the cooking and then pass it to him as I eat half potions of porridge made with oatmilk and sugarless other than a sprinkle of bluberries. Lunch is oftem scrambled eggs and mushrooms  and a late meal of microwaved white fish with cabbage and carrots. Meanwhile I have to make and watch him eat beefburgers.  My old mechanical scales might be unreliable Showed I had lost half a kilo so I bought a fancy digital job. When I stood on them they showed I was 1.5kg more than I was when I started the diet. Everytime I get on them they show a different weight within  2kg either side of 110kg. Must be something wrong with them as even the heartiest dump won't weigh 3kg.

[Phild]

When I’m with the Grandkids I just eat what they have….. but in far less quantity.

4 skinny kids but a rounded Grandad.🙁

[Barbel Mick]

Dave, I've given up trying to lose weight, or not gain any more, it's just about impossible!
I think our problem is we're not tall enough for our weight.
I think it will be easier to figure out how to & then increase the vertical distance between the plantar aspect & the vertex. 

[2112]

Today it was shopping for a new broom (car...) for the mother-in-law! After a fairly painless search she quickly settled on a top of the range 4x4 Nissan Juke. It has everything she wants (heated leather seats, switchable four wheel drive, sunroof, cruise control etc, etc) and came in well under her budget. She's even got a decent P/X for her old car. All in all she's happy, the wife's happy and I'm in the good books for a change!

[Brockett]

On the brightside I called my House builings and contents insurer and had a moan about their renewal email. They said I paid £419 last year and so the £440 they want this year is not too much of an increase, I told the nice lady "I paid £370 last year"  she checked it up and found someone in their car division had slapped an additional charge on my account in February but it was not shown why. I told her that "no charge was demanded in February and I don't insure my car with you"..... After a while she came back and said she couldn't see what was going on and offered me a deal at £377. I agreed, but also told her that in the 9 years since I first insured with them the price had risen 400% and yet my state pension has only gone up 60% and now I'm down to one slice of bread every two days (sob.....) I didn't mention the diet.

[Barbel Mick]

Didn't you tell her about the dripping you have on the bread Dave?
Or would that have meant you're far better off than you were making out?   

[2112]

I had a very hefty day in the garden today, cut the grass front & rear, trimmed the wife's overgrown bush, trimmed a couple of branches off the fir tree at the corner of the drive which has increased the useable drive space by about 3 square meters! I then found a couple of large decorative stones which I moved to another bed. I can't remember them being that heavy when I put them there in the first place some 25 years ago. I'm cream crackered now...

P.S. The two fir trees you can see in the pictures were once living christmas trees in pots. We planted them out after christmas and both have thrived. There was a third one, but I tripped over it while cutting the grass and it snapped...

[Froglodyte]

You trimmed the wife's overgrown bush? That was surely worth a photo!

[Asmith61]

 

[Froglodyte]

Thank you  - I'm here all week!

[TLPower]

2112, you "cut the grass?"

You ran over the moss and merely bothered the grass mate. 
Scarify the bleeder 

[2112]

Noooo, the moss grows slower than grass, looks like grass from a distance and holds more carbon than grass. It's an Ecolawn and the future !

Actually, we did scarify it one year and got 24 black bags of moss out of the lawn. It looked terrible all year...

[Brockett]

An update on the "scales of injustice" issue. Problem solved. I read the instructions which said I must tap the scales and wait for them to show "0". After I did this the scales showed a consistent reading indicating a loss of 3 kg.  I'm sure that's correct and now only another 20 kg to go to achieve the status of overweight.

[Phild]

Platelet donation number 628. 🧛‍♂️😁

[2112]

Today, for the first time this year, we've hit our solar PV maxium output. We have a large 14.9kWp system, spread over three orientations (South, sadly the smallest array, East & West) and through three inverters (5kW East, 5kW West & 2kW South). Due to the angle of the roof we can only hit 11.5kW maximum, which has happened today. It's the earliest in the year we've done this since 2019 according to my Tesla app'.

[Rixington43]

It's sure been a better year than 2024 so(lar) far.
Generated more than I used in March for the first time since installation.
Still getting my arse handed to me by my Dad and brother though, South facing arrays are cheating in my opinion 😉.

[2112]

It's the luck of the housing draw sadly. I did ask a feller who worked for a large house builder (Bellways) if they took into account the orientation of roofs when designing a new estate. The answer was, rather predictably, no - they just mazimise the use of the land they have.

[UK_Vstrom650]

I spent the best part of 12hrs painting two newly plastered rooms whilst watching lovely motorcycling weather through the window