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2 Jan - Bedroom
before |
Bedroom after -
New box for bedroom thingy stuff!!! |
8 Jan - Off to
Champniers 16430 to look at Table Tennis tables and came home with
this!! |
12 Jan - No
excuses now * All hooked up and ready to go. |
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15 Jan - New iPhone battery for Jen's
phone |
22 Jan - A rather nosey bird glaring
at me through the study window!!! |
27 Jan - New LED lighting unit for
the electronics workbench |
Amazing light output, just the thing
for soldering fiddly things like resistors and transistors. |
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Amazing what these people can produce
for a few Euro's. Not high accuracy but still! |
14 Feb - Managed to find some flowers
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20 Feb - Railway Cottage Puzzle |
21 Feb - Italian meal with Dave and
Mara |
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3 March - Murder puzzle |
Mothers Day |
10 March - Before COVID-19 French
"Lockdown" started |
12 March - After COVID-19 French
"Lockdown" started !!!! |
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5 April - Dragon Exit Puzzle |
All eight deep cycle solar batteries
now have one dead cell rendering them all useless. Such a waste!! |
5April - So, no solar - no tracker
required. Solar Tracker dismantle, |
move from top field |
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and awaiting unbolting when it's
warmer |
13 April - New 3D puzzle project.
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Hotel & Restaurant first |
15 April - Cinema |
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16 April - Nice weather so repainted
GR1 window shutters |
17 April - still nice weather so old
lounge front door shutter and bench seat. |
Shack update after removal of solar
batteries, wind/solar switch gear and charger |
18 April - Book Store and Cafe |
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23 April - Even in "Lockdown" Jenni
managed to find some Geraniums |
1 May - It's always been quiet here
but even more now so due to the "Lock-Down". A fox eating mice
on bottom field |
2 May - 3D Puzzle Street |
5 May - Amorous
Snakes in the back garden |
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8 May - Front
Porch floor painted |
9 May - BBQ
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Fly Screen frame
for Study Window |
11 May - Running
out of things to do during Lock-Down |
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so thought I'd
get GB3NF MKII out for a check-up |
A bit the worse
for wear this time. TX ok but no RX. Added to the "To Do" List |
12 May - Jen's
latest Puzzle, A Paris Patisserie |
18 May - Totally
fed-up with trying to start 2 stroke engines so bought a 4 stroke
strimmer. FANTASTIC |
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Finally got round
to fixing this knob properly. First time I've drilled a steering
wheel. |
19 May - Not used
the Renault since 6th March due to Lock-down and it's 10 years old
this year. |
Poor battery
didn't stand a chance not having been started for 2 months.
Hopefully, that's that for the next 10 years! |
20 - Still trying
to work out how flies get into the house so this is the next step. |
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A fly filter
gauze around the fosse vent pipe just in case |
they get in via
the fosse breather pipe. |
22 - Back windows
finally get a lick of paint |
Mainly due to
fitting the fly screen to my study window. |
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23 May - Buddleja
Globosa !!! Butterflies love it |
25 May - Latest
in the Puzzle construction. The Fire Station |
Added to the
street |
27 May - Wildlife
seems to be much more at home during our lock-down |
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30 May - Not
often we get the chance to see these on our Cherry tree |
Dog Roses given
to us by Carol in 2014 and finally |
putting on a
brilliant show both side of the fence |
31 May - Had to
happen one day. Day dreaming and ran into the Oscar 100 dish.
Need a new one now! |
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The field below
our bottom field has changed owners and is now used for crop
production. Huge watering spray at work. |
2 June - Tractor
cooling system overheating. The radiator gets a lot of grass
stuck between its fins. |
I use a brush
whilst grass cutting but the only real cure is to take it out, back
flush the inside |
and clean between the
fins. Much improved now. Only gets up to 1/4 heat mark. |
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9 June -
Waterside Club net Tuesday evenings on GB3SU during Lock-Down |
10 June - Been
waiting a long time to get round to this |
New bedroom
carpet |
Jen taking the
opportunity to do
maintenance on the wardrobes |
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We started this
job before before lock-down |
but had to wait
until the carpet layer was let out again. |
Worth the wait
though. Very nice. |
10 June - New
kitchen shelf after the old one found the floor! |
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14 June - Game of
Thrones started when we moved to France so we never really engaged
with it at all. |
The lock-down
gave us the opportunity to "binge watch" the complete series. |
Of course we
loved it and Jen decided to have a go at |
a GoT 4D puzzle.
Very Impressive and helps you get to know what is where. |
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16 June - Laptop
having red wine removed from the keyboard and motherboard.
Fingers crossed! |
New winter coffee
pot for when the stove is alight. |
Attempting to
modify this router to prevent it from being "reset" to default
values and allowing wifi access. |
16 June - Laptop Keyboard drying in the boiler
room |
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along with the motherboard. |
16 June - A new
weekly Waterside Radio Club Net on GB3SU whilst COVID restrictions
in place |
29 June - In
anticipation of new TV rewire TV speakers |
4 July - Mara's
Birthday Meal at Sommiere du Clan |
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7 July - Repaint
GR1 Window |
10 July - House
front after paint touch-up |
12 July - Jen
donating some of her old puzzles to charity |
17 July -
Geranium time again |
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23 July - Restock
Spirits, young visitors expected!! |
25 July - Chinese
Puzzle |
This is where the
kindle ends up when Jen falls asleep reading |
27 July - Table
Tennis arrives late afternoon |
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and up and
running by 22:00. Good fun! |
29 July - Been
playing with WiFi audio as a music distribution system. Acrylic kit
- nice stuff and sounded really good |
as did these sony
pods but wifi suffers from too much lag and the units end up out of
sync. |
So back to good
old wireless (Radio). Two of these little portable radios |
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with one modified
to run off of a battery for 2 days |
and fed from an
Internet radio/Mic/Mixer PA set-up |
and an ultra low
power 100Mhz FM Stereo Transmitter. |
For outside
summer use just pick up the red one and switch it on. |
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antenna only
needs one section up |
where there is
mains power - use the blue radio |
and of course any
radio can pick up the signal - kitchen |
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or even |
the bedroom |
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the car |
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and most
important |
Jen's Gym. Steve
Wright in the afternoon and some 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's music all
over the house - IN SYNC! |
6 Aug - Jen
pouring a beer |
7 Aug - WOW! |
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8 Aug - Dinner @
Sommiere du Clan |
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and a nice walk
afterwards |
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9 Aug - Back in
the pool |
11 Aug - Lads
Flying Lesson @ Limoges |
Great fun
avoiding |
the thunderstorms |
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12 Aug - Pool
Time |
A bit of jogging
in the Vienne |
13 Aug - Jen's
Birthday Meal |
Dinner @ Porte
Bleu |
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14 Aug - Party
Night Outside!!! |
2 Sept - Wood
Delivery again |
First delivery
cleared by 23:00 |
3 Sept - Once
more. |
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12 Sept - Trouble
with deliveries by courier. Even though we have no official
house number |
they often will
not accept an address without one. So we made our own up |
and we've added
this extra signage to try and minimise missed deliveries |
New kitchen taps
again! |
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15 Sept - A new
Oscar 100 dish for me having bent the old one with the tractor |
We must be
getting old - Rose is our fav tipple these days |
We were away in
the UK from mid September until 22 December but we managed to get up |
some decorations
so it felt right for Christmas! |
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