nearly halfway

 After a bit more car tlc....and a two mile walk to the end of the trading estate and back....keeping the exercise going...

a tiling and roofing company's brick built office...with dragon!

fire hydrant

not a real tyre

a real tyre with a real Oily One!!

I was off at midday....missed the exit at the far end...he did say that someone had wiped out the sign last week! so had to come back down again to the exit/entry I knew!!

An uneventful drive up through countryside after leaving the M4 by Tongwynlais with a view of Castell Coch...all the way up the A470 to Llanfair ym Muallt (Builth Wells) then up the wiggly A483 all the way to Croesoswallt (Oswestry) yes...in England...just...from after Llanymynech...borders move....

Yes, I did have a break about halfway!! 

134 miles done today....

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 !!