well we certainly got the rain and sooome sort of winds


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dry this morning though, as forecast, after another very wet night ...
first job on the agenda was sort out the ol' DC01 ...
wondered why it refused to pick Squeaks fur up yesterday, so investigated and found an issue, so knew where I was looking this morning ...
two spares in stock .. job sorted ..... God knows how the belts stick the tension they're under (or the motor bearings, for that matter) ..
quite a wrestling match, getting it back together under tension ...
probably been on there three years and lasted well considering .
couple of other odd jobs and clear the Morso out .......
fetch some more blocks for it - actually lit it last night - so cold and miserable out.
then it was 'bench time'

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so hauled the first bit out, got it set up and tacked to the bench
didn't want it moving about whilst I set the rest of it up

cut list was perfect and everything went together like a glove .....

time for some tacking up
followed by some consolidation
and a flip over for t'other side .... did consider employing little Jake for the flip, but it seemed manageable

- just about ......
wouldn't wanna be any heavier though
laid it over onto the floor and then hauled it back into the same position inverted, for lifting back onto the bench
firmed up on the underside face, up-righting it was a bit more of a handful, but managed to get it up ... on both edges
may have been a bit over enthusiastic on this bit ...
gut muscles complaining a bit this evening, but got it done ...
running out of light, by the time I'd gotten both edges done ...
tidied up and thought I'd bang a coat of ali on at least one side -- forecast heavy rain again tonight, but another dry day tomorrow and the ali dries as fast as you can get it on there
hopefully it WILL be another dry day tomorrow and I can get this finished off.
after the winds we've had yesterday, was expecting to find a lot more leaves about...
enough though ....
was hoping that the wind direction'd carry them all off into the surrounding fields ...
this lot managed to defy them and end up here ...
loads more left on the oaks though

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need some more westerlies to send them away from me patch
this is the collection
from the last two weeks .... 's a lorra rain


a hell of a lot more than we're told has dropped out the sky ... and that's not accounting for evaporation !!
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