TLC....

 Another hundred miles this morning...bringing the total to 800 so far!

500 to Kent, 200 from there to Somerset, now 100 to South Wales)

I arrived chez the Oily One as he finished work....he lives in a caravan by the side of the factory where he works

 This is a good thing both ways...they had a fire a few years ago and he spotted it beginning one evening as he arrived home at 10pm...so it was caught in time. 

He has a safe (and affordable) home in the compound...which also backs onto the main police HQ!!!

The main tlc to the car was service and replace a faulty brake sensor.

Two problems....the thread on the aluminium sump stripped....it had been hanging on by two threads....steel bolt and aluminium sump, the threads wear...

Round the corner to the car supplies...he finds a set of taps and various sized bolts...new "toy" !! The car now has a re tapped thread and bigger bolt.

Then one wheelstud broke off...they'd been done up too tight with a "rattlegun" and with no lube....so rusted in....(it wasn't my garage man himself who'd done those tyres, but a mechanic helping him...)

That got drilled out and all the threads checked and cleaned out with the correct size tap....

So far so good....a relief..I'm not sure what he has planned tomorrow morning!!

being useful

 I weeded the paviour drive today..just getting rid of the worst and giving it a brisk sweep! Now the house looks a bit less neglected!

Time to sort everything ready to pack tonight as I'll be on my way in the morning.

After lunch we had a walk to the local garden centre...plenty if things that I'd love to have, but I limited it to two bags of red onion sets!!

We saw Honey fungus fruiting bodies on our way back.

Now I'm comfortably next to a radiator in a large hall in Sherbourne, as Bro helps his friend give two Tai Chi lessons...with free Wifi as well!!

trains, blog and a night out

 Bro. has made this layout with a friend ...they both have 00 gauge (18 mm) track layouts themselves, this trackbed stays at the village hall where the club meets.

I helped clean engine wheels ready for a show in Wincanton next weekend

Then film night at the Swan theatre.

Eagles of the Republic . Interesting. How people can be manipulated

We decided that the easiest way to go with my blog was Blogbooker.   There is a free version, but I've paid for the higher quality..

Now I have a huge amount of pdf files ready to print.

Trees and blog

 the first is through the village hall window where bro goes to a tai chi class, looking out at trees on the edge of Yeovil...hardly any leaves left...the other in the estate near him, far more sheltered.

It has been a sunny day until 3pm, but quickly turned much colder...and started fine rain...just showers so far.

Computer work continues. This blog has been downloaded to the laptop..all 40 gigabytes !! 17 years ....Now that is safe I need to see what it looks like and what editing will need doing before printing, if it looks exactly like the web version of the blog with the sidebar etc.

This is not easy.....we may have to pay and go down the Blog Booker route....

IT

 I thought IT was supposed  to be easy....

Computer shop didn't do all of the job as requested...and in the process cleared all the content on the laptop AND installed windoze instead of upgrading the linux...boss is to blame there as the latter was his job....

However...all my photos etc are mostly on my external hard drive...which I forgot to bring with me....and bro managed to download linux onto a memory stick...Discovering that this worked best on a machine already using linux.....

Then uploaded it onto the laptop.

Then the next step was Bitwarden....a password saving app.....we got back into that in the end when he realised that it was ".eu"

and we had a break after lunch for a walk at the warmest part of the  day...just into double figures C...if you were out if the breeze!!!

I'm not sure what this tree is

but half of it is dead

It is still dry, but getting colder still..I've got two more days here....I may do some drive (block paviours) weeding using a heavy duty hoe that I brought down for him!!

Between being a webmaster for quite a number and travelling, gardening has a low priority for him!!

Misty

 

Today's washing was hung up on a line in the carport!

This afternoon was a visit to a fellow potter, Eddie Daughton. 

His work is beautiful.

It was a great afternoon of blether and discussion with him and his wife, myself and my brother. 

Then kiln firing and building advice!!

Felix...I was surprised that nobody picked up on the reference a couple of posts ago !!

Gone West

 Another day with no photos!!

Off at 9.15, as usual I don't go straight on the motorway..Just as at the end of a journey it is good to have a quieter finish, a settling in on ordinary roads gets it started nicely.

Although I might have been quicker staying on ordinary A roads. 

The traffic report on the radio said "M25 anticlockwise, congestion between junctions 8 and 9 due to an accident....they didn't say anything about the one on the clockwise side..two junctions tailback going between creep and stop...The M25 orbital motorway around London is busy!! I was glad to turn off on the M3 to head West just before the warnings of more congestion!!

This meant that the first stop at 100 miles, Fleet services, was done in three hours.

Time for a break and a sandwich. Then the last 87 miles took 2 hours. 

Going past Stonehenge was clear going West...but the other way was jammed with people slowing to catch a view of the stones with a consequent miles long tailback of traffic. 

It was a clear fresh sunny day to start with, and gradually turned misty over the hills.

We are certainly into Autumn and with Samhain tonight, heading towards Winter.

I'd just finished unloading my car when my brother arrived with friends from his day out! After a cuppa one was dropped at the station to catch a train home and we went for suppa with the other friend and his wife.

Good to not have to cook after travelling..and to have good food, company and conversation.  Although my brain was a little frazzled after a long day "in the saddle"!!