Other Bank Holiday Comp from bit-tech & AMD

Nexxo's love of brass and such is what makes me love him so damn much.

Speaking of which, dat scale.

 

My Mum's birthday was on this bank holiday weekend.

On Saturday I took her out for lunch and a stroll around the large gardens of a local mansion followed by the best fish & chips in the area, which we ate by the sea shore.

On Sunday we took her for dinner to very nice country house.

On Monday I stayed in and farted a LOT. Too much protein I think.

 

Spent some time with the parents this weekend, went to Ryde to watch the Scooter ride out (5000 odd classic scooters choking up the island with 2-stroke).


I made a Banana and Rum cake out of surplus eggs, rum and bananas.

I also cooked a roast dinner for my GF, her Dad and Nephew.

Fixed up a few laptops for various people and finished up an i5 build for a friend.

Didn't manage to get any walks in however : /

All in all quite productive : )

 

Took my family to butlins for a long weekend.

Grandparents and all.

Had to hire a mobility scooter for my wife as she threw her back out a week earlier.

Had a great time, wasted far too much money in the 2p slider machines but the kids enjoyed it soooo much.

Don't care if I'm too late to enter as I was a winner all weekend

Even the diabolical traffic on the return journey didn't ruin it.

 

Those slider machines are a pita, I wasted allot of money on my 3 nieces whilst we was at Llandudno Pier and those grabber machines trying to get each of them a Minion teddy.

 

Yesterday I left some nice chunks of pork in a clay pot along with a pint of dark beer, a few cloves of garlic, a couple of chilies and some thyme. I then put a lid on it and set it into the oven at 80C. It has now been sitting there for 11 hours, and by the time I get home from work today that pork should be like butter!

Other than that I will be tinkering with my RepRap. I had a bit of an issue With Z-backlash, so I printed and installed some Z-holders which instead gave me Z-banding. Also my extruder has a tendency to jam when printing things with large first layers. It's fun.

And then I am currently erecting a fireplace in our gazebo.

This APU would go nicely in my missus upcoming new computer - she longs for a chance to dominate me in Unreal Tournament once again.

 

That pie looks absolutely delicious.

 

Hi All,

I'm gonna let this run a few days longer, seems like people still on their hols so want as many people to be able to enter as possible

John.

 

It was. I think the vanilla-infused sugar lifted the blackberries.

Oh yeah, slow cooked stews are awesome.

 

Well today I managed to do a fair bit of damage to the front wing of my nana's car. So to say the least I'm unbelievably p***ed off with myself.

Summer holiday, right everyone?

 

Pictures

 

seconded. pictures or it didn't happen!

 

Tomorrow providing gramps hasn't already taken the front wing off. I still feel beyond a whole level of nervous.

I have not been on the road a whole lot and I just keep thinking "yeah, that effing happened."

 

Don't feel too bad bro, I rolled my dad's car 10 days after passing my test and it was written off

All part of the learning curve - just be thankful that you've walked away.

 

Aye well, I supposed I'm just peed off because it was so easily preventable and makes me constantly look back on just how dogs**t I still am at reversing a car.

 

Have passed your test yet kid?

 

Nope, on that sweet little provisional.

#GetKidOffTheRoad

 

My bank holiday weekend was spent visiting a farm/park for my little ones birthday and painting a bird feeder with my eldest. The usual weekend routine is normally filled with looking after kids and house chores whilst trying to fit in episodes of Community and a bit of gaming.

Whatever happened to being young with no responsibilities?

 

Lol you'll get there in the end kid

 

Helped my dad build a Pizza oven, its almost done,

Can't wait till its done and we have the first set of pizzas out of it