Today I acquired...........

[RichardM]

If you're desperate, offcuts from the granite worktop fitters *can be* surprisingly flat... And free, my kind of price!

(I have a proper cast-iron one though - check EvilBay)

Dave H. (the other one)

I have a big piece of old granite worktop and as you say it is surprisingly flat, certainly flat enough for anything I do.

%&*%$ heavy though, I still have to make a stand for it!

 

[MBB]

@fizzy
I have a ape microball height gauge given to me many years ago, yours is the first metric one I've seen.

 

[fizzy]

@fizzy
I have a ape microball height gauge given to me many years ago, yours is the first metric one I've seen.

I didn't realise that was metric? It reads up to 11.5 I assumed inches. The metric one goes to 300.

 

[bigegg]

Do you have dress up as a green turtle and eat pizza now?

i had a boss that i nicknamed "michelle".
cos he was always on my back about something.

would that count?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Slim pickings.

I did get an secondary infection due to an abscess, but that doesn't count.

So I got this.

 

[MBB]

I didn't realise that was metric? It reads up to 11.5 I assumed inches. The metric one goes to 300.

My mistake and poor eyesight.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Well not me acquiring. But Mrs TYA acquired a new pin cushion.

ME!!!!.

Over the weekend I needed to spend my Tax money and use the A&E departments in 2 hospitals.
I have nothing but praise for the staff there, doing a great job in a difficult time.

But today I was turned into a pin cushion. I acquired some holes.

But I am looking like a pin cushion.

Check in, Scottish nurse.

3 blood samples. Nice nurse.

IV drugs, busty nurse.

Injection, light on his feet nurse. nurse.

Head X ray, funny nurse.

Pain management, serious nurse.

More drugs, in pill form, busty nurse again.

Dentist, foreign blonde dentist and a small nurse.

Stiches in mouth. Laughing gas nurse was very tall. Dentist who stitched me up. Bad joke nurse.

Go home nurse, sweet Irish nurse.

Mrs TYA not a nurse.

All jokes aside. I am grateful to all the staff over the last few weeks who had to put up with me.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

A large pair of compases.
Useful for scribing.

 

[Tinbasherdan]

View attachment 181015 Slim pickings.

I did get an secondary infection due to an abscess, but that doesn't count.

So I got this.

What breed is that?

 

[JEZGUZ]

Looks like a Fiskars, nice bit of kit.

 

[Tinbasherdan]

Looks like a Fiskars, nice bit of kit.

That’s what I was thinking, was looking at them the other day for general camp work etc

 

[dobbslc]

View attachment 181015 Slim pickings.

I did get an secondary infection due to an abscess, but that doesn't count.

So I got this.

Is that to bury in the dentist's head?

 

[Melvyn Best]

View attachment 181015 Slim pickings.

I did get an secondary infection due to an abscess, but that doesn't count.

So I got this.

Bit drastic just to treat an abscess. You have my sympathy

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

What breed is that?

It is a Wilkinson Sword.
The top edge has hit a stone and needs attention.
But rest is a keen edge.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Is that to bury in the dentist's head?

No.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Bit drastic just to treat an abscess. You have my sympathy

It started as a sore lump in cheek. In under 8 hours my face was do swollen my eyes had closed.
Had IV drugs and a hole punched into jaw to drain the infection. 12 stiched.

Then Sunday my eye was oozing. Hence the pin cushion.
They can't pull the tooth, as it exploded.
So they have to control the infection. Then pull the tooth under general.

Oh I am so looking forward to that.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Then pull the tooth under general.

Oh I am so looking forward to that.

You'll not know a thing about it, you'll be asleep. And it'll not be as bad as you fear - I had a general while they removed three teeth to get access when they chopped tori from my jaw. I don't recall the recovery as being particularly traumatic.

 

[jimbo84]

Picked up from a place near us that is like a permanent overpriced indoor carboot mostly selling absolute garbage from the 80s. Occasionally there is something worth picking up, got these for a fiver. Gave the jaw a dip in the citric acid bath I had going, wasn't a big enough tub to do the main body so that will have to wait.

 

[Tinbasherdan]

It is a Wilkinson Sword.
The top edge has hit a stone and needs attention.
But rest is a keen edge.

If it needs a home let me know

 

[Brad93]

New to me Lista cabinet. Took 2 of us to lift it in and out of the trailer.

£50 bargain off Facebook!



View attachment 180856

That’s lovely. Better made than the Bott cabinet I was gonna buy by the looks