Thats what some people would have us believe and in this case it's true. There i was admiring the bank holiday deluge out of the window with the log stove crackling happily, when an email landed announcing this blog had earnt me some money.
Now, when I say "some" money, the mortgauge is not about to be paid off, neither is the next trip to brittany suddently closer, in fact "some" would not even pay for a meal out for herself and me but it's progress, a step in the right direction.
No more shifts landed from the G4S demand mill, we had a fabulous teen free time in Brittany so much so that we are off there again in a few weeks and i have been tasked with organising a long break in October so that we can engage in some lumber jack ology and chop down a tree,
Lumber jacking is a sore point here. Not long before we left the Makita chainsaw I was begining to think was indestreuctable prooved it wasn't. Much heartaching and very much stretching ourselves financially I bought a big Stihl industrial chainsaw. WOW was that a revalation, I thought the Makita was good, but this is a whole new league. It is about twice as quick as the Makita - it tears into wood, my loading crew are seriously tired after a chainsaw load which will usually see a whold cord of wood chopped up as oposed to around 2/3 with the old saw.
So to say i was delighted was an understatement, I bet the little towrag who pinched it when we were on holiday was pretty pleased too. Fortunately, there is a data base, the serial number of the chainsaw is going on it and should the chainsaw pop up in any Stihl dealer for anny reason in the next 4 years, the game will be up. Technology is good sometimes!!
Othertimes it is just plain annoying. ~You may recall that just before we left Bethan and i spent a huge ammount of time trying to persuade one of my Green Goddesses to run and got no where. We changed battery starter switch and starter motor to no avail. We rewired the earth side of the truck and got nowhere. When I came back we rewired the supply side and still nothing.
When you take a component that has been part of spare parts stock off the shelf and fit it you do have an expectation that it might work. We had taken a brand new starter off the shelf only to find it was faulty itself. Still all is well now and I am a happy little bunny. The truck is not running brilliantly but it is at least running.
In fact, had the biblical deluge not been falling we might well have gone for a play in the river today.
There's allways next year I suppose.....
New technology offers new chances and the student has been amusing herself these last few days on family history research. This should come with a health warning, she has traced her familly tree back to 1798.
They got about a bit too, they went to India at one stage. In one of those tricks of fate they lived in Plymouth in streets around the ferry terminal we use all the time.
Of course Plymouth got blown to hell in the last war and either in the slum clearances of the 60's or the bombs of the war the houses got flatened but between her geneology research and my google earth searches we found where they were. A funny old ting technology, sometimes your friend sometimes a pane in the glass.
She has tootled off happily to phone her sister and share her news.
R
Now, when I say "some" money, the mortgauge is not about to be paid off, neither is the next trip to brittany suddently closer, in fact "some" would not even pay for a meal out for herself and me but it's progress, a step in the right direction.
No more shifts landed from the G4S demand mill, we had a fabulous teen free time in Brittany so much so that we are off there again in a few weeks and i have been tasked with organising a long break in October so that we can engage in some lumber jack ology and chop down a tree,
Lumber jacking is a sore point here. Not long before we left the Makita chainsaw I was begining to think was indestreuctable prooved it wasn't. Much heartaching and very much stretching ourselves financially I bought a big Stihl industrial chainsaw. WOW was that a revalation, I thought the Makita was good, but this is a whole new league. It is about twice as quick as the Makita - it tears into wood, my loading crew are seriously tired after a chainsaw load which will usually see a whold cord of wood chopped up as oposed to around 2/3 with the old saw.
So to say i was delighted was an understatement, I bet the little towrag who pinched it when we were on holiday was pretty pleased too. Fortunately, there is a data base, the serial number of the chainsaw is going on it and should the chainsaw pop up in any Stihl dealer for anny reason in the next 4 years, the game will be up. Technology is good sometimes!!
Othertimes it is just plain annoying. ~You may recall that just before we left Bethan and i spent a huge ammount of time trying to persuade one of my Green Goddesses to run and got no where. We changed battery starter switch and starter motor to no avail. We rewired the earth side of the truck and got nowhere. When I came back we rewired the supply side and still nothing.
When you take a component that has been part of spare parts stock off the shelf and fit it you do have an expectation that it might work. We had taken a brand new starter off the shelf only to find it was faulty itself. Still all is well now and I am a happy little bunny. The truck is not running brilliantly but it is at least running.
In fact, had the biblical deluge not been falling we might well have gone for a play in the river today.
There's allways next year I suppose.....
New technology offers new chances and the student has been amusing herself these last few days on family history research. This should come with a health warning, she has traced her familly tree back to 1798.
They got about a bit too, they went to India at one stage. In one of those tricks of fate they lived in Plymouth in streets around the ferry terminal we use all the time.
Of course Plymouth got blown to hell in the last war and either in the slum clearances of the 60's or the bombs of the war the houses got flatened but between her geneology research and my google earth searches we found where they were. A funny old ting technology, sometimes your friend sometimes a pane in the glass.
She has tootled off happily to phone her sister and share her news.
R
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