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Posted by Shirley Anne on September 27, 2011
When I was at the doctor’s surgery last week there was a guy in the car park carrying out a valet on a vehicle owned by one of the staff. He was doing it when I arrived and was still doing it half an hour later. I chatted with him and found out that he had suffered a couple of heart attacks and now cleans vehicles instead of his previous job which I didn’t get a chance to ask about. He was starting afresh in life, having a clean sweep as it were. I asked him what he would charge me for cleaning the cab of my van, which is like having half the interior of a large saloon car cleaned. The outside doesn’t need cleaning and in any case I do that myself in about twenty minutes and the carriage area, that is were all my electrical stuff is stored gets a clean out once a year by myself. He told me he would charge £20 which includes shampooing the carpets and seats. He is coming this morning (Tuesday) to do the job.
Every so often I have a clean-out of my bedroom and in other rooms of the house (although to a lesser extent). I think it is a good idea to have a good clean-out every so often. It is quite amazing what rubbish I find I have accumulated after a short time. My office, that is the room I use for an office, gets cleaned of out-of-date paperwork, invoices etc. although I have to keep the last five years worth of documents for tax purposes. It still leaves a lot of paper to store away. Cardboard boxes keep it under control. When I look back at my life it has always been one in which I have regularly had a clean sweep because it has always been necessary!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on September 21, 2011
I have been into many homes, it’s part of what I do as an electrician. The actual number must run into thousands. I have been in real hovels where the occupier has had little respect for themselves let alone their house. I have been in houses where the owners have done their best to make their home clean and tidy with as much investment in it as their income would allow, you might say house-proud. I have been in houses that look like show pieces where everything is neatly stacked away with nothing out-of-place and where every move I made was closely followed by a brush and shovel. There have been homes that I would never dream of living in and those that were most inviting. My own house is fairly well-appointed, fairly well decorated and fairly clean but most of all it is a home, a lived-in house and not one that I am terrified of anyone daring to put a cushion out of place in. It’s all about attitude to life I suppose. Some folk take things far too seriously and I think often afraid of actually living out their lives without imposing all the rules they have in place for those living in their homes. Take a close look at your own home and see if it is inviting to any visitors. Do you make too much fuss when visitors call or can they find a more relaxed environment when they visit your place?
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on August 11, 2011
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We were promised rain for yesterday and when I got up from my bed I discovered we hadn’t any! That is until I set off to work! It started as I was driving out of my garage and didn’t stop until I arrived at my destination. Whilst I was inside the house doing my thing there was again no rain to be seen. I finished the job by one o’clock but as soon as I started to drive back home it began to rain again. As I arrived back home the rain ceased but I had to go outdoors again, twice, to place items in the yet to be emptied re-cycle bin. Each time I stepped out of the door it rained. I was beginning to think that it rained only when I was outside but in fact it continued to rain for the remainder of the day, heavily really heavily! I suppose it is ok if you are a duck! Things are quiet on the home front and nothing has been done regarding the garage door but our eldest son dropped by the night before last with his ever-growing wife who is now just about half-way through her pregnancy and he is keen to help organising the fitting when he gets some time free. I am waiting to see his work roster so we can arrange a day.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on August 5, 2011
Well it has been a week since I did anything, work that is, at home. I promised myself a breather and hard as it was for me to refrain from working at home I managed to do just that. I have had work away from home in my capacity as an electrician, yesterday was a busy day for example. I thought that I would get bored but somehow I managed to find things to do, playing my guitar a lot more than usual almost wore out my fingers! There are things I want to get on with and I am waiting for my two sons to be available to help get the roller door in place but I need to organise some staging first. Once I get the door in place I can fit the guides and the control gear. The next job I want to tackle is rebuilding the concrete steps leading to the garage back door and tidying up the wall around that door. After that there is an internal block wall to build and existing walls to tidy up by applying a concrete render. A host of small jobs really but they will take some time to do. Fortunately I have plenty of time on my hands these days. I just hope I can remain fit and healthy enough to complete them!
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Yesterday I received an email from Lotte, a friend of mine, who has been spending the last three months travelling around the world. She flew east to places like Thailand and Australia and now she tells me she is in San Francisco! Working her way back home. Well not actually working of course, lucky girl! It will be great to see her again when she finally gets back home and tells me about her adventures. If you are reading this Lotte, Hi…..take care, see you soon!
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 28, 2011
Yesterday was another glorious day here on the north-west coast at Southport. 
Weather for sitting around in and relaxing but I had to do the work I promised I would do the day before. The garage electrical circuits are now all fully functioning. E took me to a local store to purchase a light fitting for the roof above the rear steps as we had forgotten to buy it the day before. I also diverted the supply to the floodlight on the garage front so that it, along with everything else in and around the garage would be supplied by the garage distribution board. After I had completed that work I set about fixing some wooden battens over the rear access to the storage area which is inside the garage but above the rear steps to the garage. I need to make this opening secure by fitting some heavy-duty plywood over the hole. I have a small job to do for someone this morning so I will have to continue with the garage later. I also have to fit the woodwork for the roller door’s metal guides on each side of the garage opening and the newly cleaned and painted brackets need to be replaced on the wall. I didn’t finish working until 6.30 last night after starting at 9.30 in the morning so I was glad for the rest but I’m ready to start again today! It looks like we are in for some more fine weather this weekend so maybe a barbie is on the cards? Must remember to get some charcoal though!
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 26, 2011
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Yesterday, Monday morning, I managed to have a sleep in for an extra hour or so. I say ‘extra’ but in fact I must have needed it. Usually all I have ever needed during the last twenty years or so is a mere four and a half to five and a half hours sleep each night, dependent of course on how tired I have been through working hard. Occasionally I get some extra hours in bed which is ok provided I have no pressing need to get up. I cannot however simply lie there once I am awake, maybe ten minutes at the most but I get up after that. I have been procrastinating over doing a certain job in the garage, applying wood preserver to the roof timbers. The reasons for that are it is a messy affair and the roof is quite large. The actual area to be covered is almost twice the dimensions of the roof if one takes into account all the joists and trimmers as well for they each have three exposed sides to treat. The roof itself is marine plywood and is exposed to view from below. I don’t have a paint sprayer which would have been ideal for the job but I do have a couple of sprayers of sorts, large containers with a spray attachment for controlling weeds! Well after a late breakfast I decided to stop procrastinating and treat the garage roof. I modified the spray nozzle on one of the sprayers to give a wider spray, filled the container and set about spraying the roof. The only problem was that I had to keep pumping the spray head to maintain flow. Never again! I shall either buy a paint sprayer or borrow one in future! Anyhow, after a couple of hours I had it all done at last. Now despite being careful I did still manage to get the stuff on my hands. Plastic gloves were useless for the job as the liquid ‘melted’ the plastic! The only other gloves I had were too large and cumbersome. Well at least my hands won’t get wood worm infestation! It all came off easily anyway. Whilst I was doing the job I noticed an abundance of spiders of various sizes scampering away from the liquid spray. I don’t mind spiders as long as they keep out of my way (we have plenty of them inside the house, difficult things to get rid of but harmless, that is to us!). I thought no more about the spiders until I went indoors to visit the toilet and having completed what I had to do began to pull up my underwear (knickers to you! LOL) and what should I find inside them but a spider! Don’t ask! It was obviously lost and very much dead.
After lunch I decide to remove the two brackets that had been fitted to support the roller-shutter door because they had become a little corroded and needed cleaning up. I scraped them down and immersed them in oil and set fire to them, repeating this a few times until the oil had penetrated the metal surface. This is a proven method of making mild steel rust-proof but it does take time. Once they had cooled down I cleaned them and applied a special rust-proofing paint. I will give them a second coat today and replace them on the wall when dry. All I need now is to borrow some scaffolding and organise the fitting of the roller-shutter door. Hopefully we may have an almost completed garage soon!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 25, 2011
I was up and out working at 8 o’clock yesterday morning. I had rested all day Saturday so was ready to do something. The main jobs were to remove the bricks and then the stones that had been stored in the garage but first of all, where to put them? I had it in mind to store them on the concrete platform that stands behind the old garage but first I had to remove some garden furniture and other things that had been left there. Using a wheelbarrow I proceeded to remove the bricks and re-stack them on the concrete platform. This took me over an hour of continuous labour. The next hour was spent shifting the stones and re-arranging the other items stored on the platform. At last! I could see the garage floor! By this time E had come outside to help. She was applying wood preserver to the parts of the new partition wall that had not yet been done and also some spare plywood sheets. Meanwhile I fitted some skirting boards and architraves to the partition wall which is now complete. There was quite a lot of off-cuts of wood as well as old wood pieces that needed to be removed and burned. This was my next job. In the past, before we had a vegetable plot, the area was used to burn large amounts of old wood, tree branches and the like but now the area has been landscaped and planted so we have to burn the wood elsewhere. We have an old metal waste bin that we use for burning wood now. It has holes in the base thus allowing an air up-draught, perfect for burning. However, with such a large amount of wood, including some old branches we found in the garage, it was necessary to stay with the fire to both feed it and to make sure the fire remained safe. By the time the wood had burned a couple of hours had passed by and I was beginning to smell of wood smoke! It was around 4.30 when I decided I’d had enough and went back indoors both to rest and to get washed and changed. There is always another day. The garage is looking more like a garage now although there is still much to do yet.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 24, 2011
Today I shall be making a start on clearing out the garage of bricks (we have a few hundred stacked there) and many large natural stones which we accumulated when we knocked down the dry-stone walling at the front of the house some weeks ago. If you remember (those who read my meanderings) we had a brick wall built in its place. Anyway these need a new home, probably either inside the other garage at the rear where there is ample space or at the rear but outside on a large concrete platform which is there behind the garage. Then there are the several sheets of plywood which need treating with preserver before being stored alongside existing sheets of plywood in the other garage too. If anyone wants to build a shed using plywood we have plenty of it! A few other things will need to be disposed of too then I can sweep the floor and get on with treating the roof timbers and finishing off the electrical work and the remainder of the woodwork around the new partition wall. I’ve plenty of time on my hands these days so I am not bothered by the amount of work that needs to be done.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 22, 2011
Lately I have been short of electrical jobs to do but yesterday I had three and today at least one! They are only small jobs but suit me down to the ground. In between those jobs I managed to ‘second fix‘ the electrical work in my garage. That means I fitted the power outlets and light switches ready for when I complete the circuits and connect them to the distribution board perhaps this weekend. So the day was a busy one for me. I was just thinking about shopping and the reasons I haven’t been shopping for some time. I am talking clothes and shoes here, not potatoes and breakfast cereals! I suppose the main reasons are the fact that I have been too busy with projects at home and of course very little spare cash as a result of all the work. If I am to be honest I don’t really need clothes or shoes but I like buying them! Anyway I probably have little time to dress-up and go out unless I specifically make the time to do so and I am more inclined just now not to bother because I want to finish the tasks ahead. I do make an effort to dine out at least once a week and to treat E at the same time.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 20, 2011
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I didn’t want to get out of bed yesterday but obviously I did. It was around ten though before I came downstairs. After a quick breakfast I had it in mind to continue with building the partition wall inside the garage and started taking tools and materials there. I noticed that part of the floor was wet and looked up to the roof to see if it was also wet. Sure enough I could see that it was. The garage roof is sealed to the gable end of the house with bitumen and felt but it appeared to be a weak seal in a corner where the chimney breast is. Fortunately I have ‘flash-band’ at home to repair such leaks and a special paste which is applied first to enable a better contact. So out came the ladder and up I went onto the roof armed with the necessary materials to effect a repair. Within a half-hour of my completing that job it began to rain! Timing is everything! It seems to have done the job but time will tell when we get more persistent rain showers. Now I could get on with building that wall! E joined me and between us we finished the wall, hung the door and fitted the handles, latch and a lock. It was six-thirty in the evening before we finished for the day. All that remains to be done now is fitting the architraves and skirting boards and perhaps some wood trims. I will also fit the power outlets and lighting switches to the boxes and wiring we have installed in the wall. The next major task for this garage is the installation of the roller-shutter door but I will need much assistance to do that and preferably some scaffolding/staging, something I will organise in the weeks ahead. In the meantime there is the job of applying the wood preserver to the roofing timbers and clearing out the garage of debris and all the other things stored in there. The floor needs sealing and then painting before it can be used to garage a car though. Later I plan to build an inner brick wall and do other various work on the internal brick walls. There’s plenty to do yet before we can say that it is truly completed but progress has certainly been made now that all other major outside jobs have been finished. Work has yet to begin on our proposed wet room too!
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 16, 2011
So here are some pics showing what I’ve been up to in the garage. The second shows the approach to the rear of the garage from the patio and vegetable plot area. The black water pipe on the right is the overflow for the water butt. You can see that I have boarded the ceiling above the steps and painted it white. There is a cable for an electric light. The unpainted door and frame are new. Beyond that door I have constructed a wooden studded wall and installed wiring inside (as of Friday). I will show those pics when I have completed it (possibly today Saturday). In the meantime the next pics show how much I had done on Thursday afternoon. On Friday I spent about eight hours and had much more done, including the internal wiring. The next to last pic show our poor roller-shutter door that has been there for ten years waiting to be fitted! Shame on me but I did have other pressing issues to deal with in the interim now didn’t I? Hopefully it will be fitted within the next few weeks. Incidentally those steps are to be re-constructed and part of the approach covered with ‘granno-mix’ (concrete). The third pic shows the storage area above the steps beneath which is the white painted ceiling. The new power board is also shown in this pic. Coming out at the top of this board is the main steel-wire armoured cable which supplies the patio fittings.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 16, 2011
On Thursday I was rearing to go. I got up very early, had my breakfast and was ready for work at 08.00! Problem was, I wanted to go shopping with E for some more materials for the garage but she wasn’t up yet! I went on my computer and checked my Emails and blogs. Soon enough E came downstairs and I explained what I wished to do. She agreed, had her breakfast and was ready within a half-hour! Off we went in my van to the timber supplier with list in hand. When we arrived the guys there were a bit surprised we had returned after only being there last week and having bought quite a lot of materials from them. ‘We’re back’, we announced as we walked into the reception to their amusement. We bought even more stuff than we had previously bought from them so I guess they were pleased to see us! I am building a studded partition wall inside the garage and wanted timber and plywood, a door and furniture, some more wood preserver and a few sundry items including wood drill-bits. whilst I was there I received a request to change a light fitting. The house was en-route to home so I told the client I would be there within twenty minutes. I arrived there and did the job whilst E sat in the van listening to the radio. I was only in the house for fifteen minutes, received payment and was back on my way home. It all helped to pay for my materials! When we arrived home it was too close to lunchtime to start work so I again waited until I had eaten. It was about 2.00 when I eventually started work in the garage. Again I spent four hours out there erecting the framework for the studded wall and inserting a door frame. E came back from her Thursday shopping spree and took me by surprise. ‘Let’s have a barbecue ‘, she said. I did a minor repair on the barbecue and then spent a few minutes clearing up in the garage. E began to light the barbecue whilst I went indoors to wash and change. Soon we were having another impromptu meal from the barbecue in our new patio and were joined by our youngest son. I had opened a bottle of red wine a day or so before (I vacuum seal my wine if I don’t drink it all on the same day so that it remains fresh) and had taken but one glass full from it. I finished the rest with my barbecue! Today, Friday, I hope to receive delivery of the bulk of my purchases from the timber suppliers so that I can continue with the job in hand…….unless I get an electrical job in the meantime! There is never an excuse to have nothing to do in my house! All that is needed is the inclination, which I have to confess is not always there sometimes. I think I do too much work at times so I treat myself to a break now and then and let the work wait. My youngest son mad a remark earlier asking when the wet room would be finished! I told him that it would take me until six weeks hence before it would be done (it will probably take longer than that as I am tied with completing the garage). He doesn’t realise that it is only myself doing the work and I am getting little or no help from anyone else. Children…..who’d have children? LOL.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 15, 2011
Finally I have been able to return to the garage to begin work there. Illness and occupational work has kept me away leaving me too exhausted to even think about the garage. So on Wednesday I thought I would make a start but wouldn’t you know it, I slept in until 10.30! I had a job on Tuesday which must have drained me more than I thought it had consequently I needed the extra rest. By the time I had gotten downstairs it was almost 11.30 (lots for a woman to do getting ready for the day!) and after a very small bowl of bran I checked my emails and my blog. I decided I would have to leave working in the garage until the afternoon. Around 12.30 I had a wrap filled with salad which served as my lunch so it was about 1.00 before I went outside. However, the lawn needed mowing and E is in no fit state to do that so I got stuck in and did it myself. It was well after 2.00 before I had organised myself to work in the garage. My main task was to prepare a new door and fit it in the frame that we had erected a few days ago. the door was too long! I cut off the excess then retrieved the wood that formed part of the frame within the door and refitted it inside the door panels. Then I fitted the furniture, hinges, handles, latch and escutcheon plate etc. although I still need to fit a mortice lock but just didn’t have one. Amazingly it was 6.00 before I had it finished! E returned from her afternoon’s drive to our son and daughter-in-laws house to check for mail and that all was well there (they are on holiday). It was about the same time that I’d finished and the two of us set about cleaning the garage from all the accumulated rubbish that was on the floor. I took all the tools to storage whilst E brought in the washing she had placed on the line earlier. All mundane stuff but all a part of everyday life isn’t it? It was well after 7.00 before either of us ate anything and we both simply had a snack as we felt too tired to prepare a cooked meal. Working with wood has always been a favourite with me and now I am keen to start erecting the internal studded wall to form the office section of the garage interior. That also means fitting another door too!
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 12, 2011
Yesterday I tentatively returned to work after my recent illness. The job was very small, took me ten minutes to earn £40, so worth doing. On the way back home I dropped into the electrical suppliers to buy some items for my stock. The place was empty except for one other customer and I was served within five minutes. When I turned to exit to my van one of the guys was there holding the door open for me. He didn’t need to as the door can swing both inward and outward but I think he just wanted to. He didn’t follow me outside so he must have come to my side of the counter for the sole purpose of opening the door. How lovely of him I thought. I got home before 10.30 having left just before 9.00.
When I got out of bed I opened the second window in my room, one I normally keep closed. When I was about to leave the room I found this window wouldn’t close! I had a quick look but couldn’t find the problem with such limited time on my hands before my job so I had to lean something against the window to keep it shut. As the window is not readily accessible being high up the wall and in a part of the wall which is recessed, leaving it unlocked wasn’t a problem. So when I finally returned home I spent some time finding out how the window mechanism is supposed to work by comparing it with the other window’s operation. I discovered what the main problem was but I had difficulty in effecting a repair. However I managed to slide the otherwise stuck mechanism which allowed the window to close. I locked it shut and will have to return to it some other time, else get someone to repair it. Somehow I fancy the second option, I wonder why? The windows are tilt and turn which means they can be opened in two positions, the first allows just ventilation and the window ‘hinges’ along its lower edge whilst the top falls back a few centimetres into the room. The second option allows the window to fully open by ‘hinging’ on the side edge as a normal window does except that the window swings into the room rather than out of the building. This makes cleaning them very easy, especially those higher up the building walls! They were installed a little over twelve months ago but there is no way the installers would come and repair them now, even if we allowed them to. The story, for those who don’t remember or don’t know, is that the installers tried to get more cash out of us long after the job had been completed, to the tune of £800! Needless to say, they didn’t get the money. Anyway that is all in the past suffice to say that if we did get someone to repair any of our windows we would be going somewhere else.
It was lunchtime and I was fixing myself a quick snack when E returned home after taking our eldest son and his wife to Manchester airport for their short trip to the south of France for a week. They had to be at the airport at 04.00 so E had travelled there early on Sunday evening and stayed overnight. She stayed at home until the evening when she had to go to a meeting with her fellow ‘comping’ friends for an hour or two. After lunch we decided to make a start on installing a door frame in the garage. It all sounded easy and usually it is a straight-forward task but for some reason or another this frame fought with us all the way! We had difficulty in getting it ‘plumb’ but eventually managed to do it. We had pre-treated the woodwork and the door using the materials we had bought last week. By now it was time to pack things away and start our evening meals, I say meals because E had to get on with hers so she could get to her meeting, I had mine a few minutes later.
It seems I did more than I had expected to do on my first day back to work. Today my electrical work will probably take me most of the morning and if I have no further jobs I may continue in the garage.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on July 8, 2011
On Wednesday I simply couldn’t get out of bed early. I had been working the day before and quite frankly I was pooped! There is no rush to do anything these days, my occupational work is almost at a standstill, I haven’t had much to do in that respect and the work I am doing at home isn’t urgent. This means I can pretty much please myself as to what I do or want to do. So on Wednesday I got up late and did nothing in the morning. After lunch E and I went to a timber supply depot and bought some structural timber, two door frames, one door (we already have one), door furniture and other sundry items. Whilst there we also purchased ten litres of wood preserving liquid to treat the garage roof timbers which may be enough for us to treat the roof in the other garage too. We have decided to partition off part of the new garage interior to form an office and this is what the timber and doors are for. It looks like I will have plenty to do over the next few weeks.
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Every so often I have a clean-out of my bedroom and in other rooms of the house (although to a lesser extent). I think it is a good idea to have a good clean-out every so often. It is quite amazing what rubbish I find I have accumulated after a short time. My office, that is the room I use for an office, gets cleaned of out-of-date paperwork, invoices etc. although I have to keep the last five years worth of documents for tax purposes. It still leaves a lot of paper to store away. Cardboard boxes keep it under control. When I look back at my life it has always been one in which I have regularly had a clean sweep because it has always been necessary!
