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So what did YOU do today?
Welshbreed:
today I took a look at my mates Corsa 1.7 diesel, cough - crap - cough, to see as to why his brakes failed the other day. turns out the brake line had corroded away on Front Near Side wheel, and had been leaking brake fluid all over the road. Not much I could do as I dont have the tools to repair the steel and our car was out of commission and he needed a quick fix and so a job for kwik-fit just on the corner. I foresee a trip to a salvage yard as if one has corroded away, likely all others are on way out. so his list for parts continues to grow. I'll be sorting him out an engine service, new OS door mirror, new NS windscreen wiper arm, maybe 2 if I cannot find identical arm, some body work/paint and figure out where it's leaking coolant from.
I will try to get some pics of me doing this as well for your education amusement. :lipsrsealed:
Welshbreed:
Today (and yesterday, more impressively) I went for a run with my equally unfit flatmate. relax it was in the dark so no one saw us sweating our bits off, and we ran an impressive (for 2 unfit blokes) 3.11 miles before doing 50 sit ups and 20 push ups. and i?we did the same amount yesterday too. and now I am showered and PJ'ed up I am happy as a pig in (well you know the rest)
:cry: (thats sweat not tears lol)
Landy1uk:
Yesterday changed The oil in both diffs went to do the Transfer oil and autobox oil but can't as I've lost the key to the Shed :embarrassed: so looks like that's what i'm gonna be doing over the break looking for them lol
Welshbreed:
check your pockets. I guarantee it'll be in the last place you look for them :rolleyes:
:lipsrsealed: I'll get my coat....
Saffy:
I haven't added to this post recently as things haven't been that good.
Last Friday was a massive bad day in work that started the day before and resulted me punching myself in on the clocking in machine quite literally - the finger print scanning machine lost that battle. Think I had a nano-metal break down and was prepared to jack everything in. .....anyhow was ordered to have a relaxing weekend.
Sunday, in an attempt to relax we went for a picnic in middle of Salisbury Plains. Took the Disco which is not offroad prepared so took route carefully to get me to Milston Down along side the Nine Mile River (dried) . The mrs drove in which stressed me out no end as she randomly swapped ruts and I could see us getting stuck in a stupid place. Anyway we got there ok and set up and ate some grub and was just starting to unwind and enjoy the sun when one of the dogs suddenly whilst chasing a ball collapsed screaming. No control over his back end. Nothing seems broken - I was looking for gun shot wounds - snake bites the lot but nothing. Dog needed vet badly. So challenge was getting disco off the plains fast as fricken possible to a main road via routes that didn't result in getting stuck with an injured dog onboard. Stress back to volume level 11.
Aimed for Bulford Camp and thankful that the weather had been dry all week.
Hour later arrive in the Vets in Frome with a prearranged emergency vet attending. Lots of nightmare scenarios banding around and one very ill dog admitted into hospital. Mrs in pieces.
Monday - working still in a bit of a cloud with the added thought that I may have to decide to put dog down as he was paralysed. Mrs had been to seen him and he was stoned on morphine, katamine and lidocane with no improvement but with a 90% sure diagnosis of Fibrocartilaginous Embolism - blood colt in the spine - with the 10% doubt being that he was still in pain and shouldn't be.
Tuesday more of the same. Wait another 24hour before decisions need to be made.
Wednesday/ Thursday - Dog stood up :shocked: :huh: :azn: :grin: Collected him in the evening.
May never get fully healed - next 2 week crucial in how much he will heel. Will need some therapy. But at moment he is bumbling around best he can with one hind leg not working right. And he wagged his tail when I got him from work tonight which is something I have been waiting to see. Boss also unexpected took me out for a massive fried breakfast today which went down a treat.
Have a good Easter break all - I need this one.
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