Cheaper ...

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Same here, only it's a tape measure. I have three but can I ever find one when I need it...

The toolbox arrived today, and it happens to be raining, so time for a Great Toolbox Rearrangement. I have three creaking at the seams and a toolbag to sort out.

The little freebie one will be handy for my screwdriver collection.

NT

LOL. I started out that way, but it wouldn't all fit, so the screwdriver collection (and assorted related bits and bobs, e.g. Allen keys, security bits and the 'baccy tin marked "Small Tools") are in the big one (as originally intended), and the small one has "non-stock electrical related" stuff, like the screws for holding on faceplates, fuses, insulating tape, the earth screen for T&E, my small multi-meter and the 3,451 chocolate block offcuts in it.

What's worrying is that the big tool-box that it all came out of doesn't look any emptier and is just as heavy.

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ah, it's not just me then.

I took a rain check on the Great Toolcase Reorganisation today and opened a bottle of a nice Argentinian Malbec instead. Salud!

watch that liver now! .....

Enjoy.

Today's DIY was to set some mole traps in the paddock. The hills are making it a pain to mow. Oh, and to move the "dwarf" (hah!) "rhododendron in a pot" round to the other side of the house so the Gardener-in-Chief can decide where she wants it planted. Fastened it to the sack barrow with a ratchet strap. F*ck knows how I'm going to get it out of the pot. Never mind dig the hole.

Rest of the day occupied with U3A stuff.

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How are you finding that? Mom joined up but she found the old-fartish attitude of people her own age dispiriting. She's always looked and behaved younger than she is.

It's OK. Some of the *really* old people are a bit tiresome, but the monthly lectures are mostly quite amusing and we've made some new friends. We've only joined one interest group (a reading group) and they're OK. I'm considering starting a computing group, although I don't want to spend my time fixing people's PCs.

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Amen to that. I've found the best thing is state upfront that you'll charge for your time. Amazing how many people it puts off: "but it's only a little thing and I'm sure a clever chap like you will have it fixed in ten minutes" is the usual response.

If it's such a little thing, piss off and fix it yourself.

I just say now that I spent my working life working with computers on behalf of other people in exchange for money and I'm buggered if I'm going to do the same for free in my retirement.

Agree with every single word.

I hope this is not going to extend to computer advice offered freely to other less knowledgeable group members?

After all, we have to sit patiently reading, hoping for some understandable gem, while you all go off willy waving about some past exploit:-)

TBH, I'm not sure. I was going to ask if people wanted a computing group, and if they did, what they wanted from it.

I don't mind doing it for family and genuine friends, but a few years back I seemed to have developed friends and friends of friends etc within the village, where I got to fix their PCs, out of hours, over and over again for the odd lager or two ...

what a wasted life you should have done a worthwhile job like me...tee hee

I once paid a "computer expert" ?20 to try and fix a problem I had.....waste of money fixed it myself when he failed.....I never asked anybody ever again ...

what has a d-i-y group got to do with computers .....?

Not everyone buys off the shelf, ready to use PCs. Our household has numerous PCs, bought as components. The one pre-built one (other than a couple of laptops) no longer has any of the original components in the case.

Installing the OS and setting things up the way you want is a sort of DIY too I suppose.

SteveW

don't be silly that is just farting about with computers ....not DIY

But choosing the right size hammer to erase your HD is DIY.