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[andyBeaker]

Gave the car a really good clean and parked it up all nice and cosy as I can't see it being used for the nextt week or so.

Interesting experience having the water freeze on the bodywork when I first put the washer on!!

 

[andyBeaker]

There would only be one way to know for certain and that would be to remove the battery.

Your conditioner may only be supplying the equivalent of what is usually being drawn from the battery when it is parked up.
A modern car may be locked up but it's not off!
My Landy goes through a very long shut down procedure with the final step being a deep sleep after about three weeks of no use.
At this point you can only open the car manually. (I've heard of people making the mistake of parking the car with the only manual access point being
inches from a wall and not being able to get in!!)
And in all that time there is a draw on the battery.

You were on the right track - I had the conditioner in the engine bay with the bonnet closed. I eventually spotted that the conditioner was showing fully charged fleetingly when I opened the bonnet and then went to less than 25% charged. Moved the conditioner outside the engine bay, closed the bonnet and it went to fully charged. Presumably a lot of stuff was coming to life when the bonnet was opened even with the ignition off - there is certainly a lot of clicking and whirring - so I guess the conditioner was being fooled into thinking the battery was low when in fact it was under load.

It's nice to know that the battery is taking a charge, didn't fancy the prospect of many hundreds of £s for a new one if I couldn't get it replaced under warranty.

 

[Dangerous Brian]

I got her a number of presents and gave her £1000.

Apparently that is NOT thoughtful! ... women.

I’m still alive but testing her food before eating too much. Also been working all through and our IT security have blocked most non secure sites - fuckin fun police.

 

[Squag1]

A previous Taoiseach said in the Dáil
"That's women for you"

I cannot remember the context.
I don't need to elaborate........

 

[Squag1]

Me and mate in the pub often wondered why young glam women went out with scraggy guys.
Another guy used to say that they keep fellas tatty so nobody else would take them.

A woman I know was told by her mother to get everything she could out of a man.

 

[andyBeaker]

I got her a number of presents and gave her £1000.

Apparently that is NOT thoughtful! ... women.

I’m still alive but testing her food before eating too much. Also been working all through and our IT security have blocked most non secure sites - fuckin fun police.

If then £1000 hadn't been a cheque from your joint account it may have been better received.

 

[Pow-Lo]

Me and mate in the pub often wondered why young glam women went out with scraggy guys.
Another guy used to say that they keep fellas tatty so nobody else would take them.

A woman I know was told by her mother to get everything she could out of a man.

I tore a strip off some old cow for saying similar to a young girl a Cardiff bus station about 35 years ago. She said ‘you make sure you get the biggest rock off him for your finger’. The look on her face when I told her what a fabulous role model she was and ‘no wonder so many relationships go to the wall’.

 

[derek kelly]

Made a broccoli & Stilton soup.

 

[Jaws]

Fired up the workshop heater where it is going to sit.. After 15 minutes it went from 6c to 12c,, which is actually a good temp for me to work in..
All that left to do with the heater is attach the control panel to the wall, and fit the silencer on it.. about 10 minutes max

I had it set on heat output level 4 of 6 and I have no doubt the temp would rise a lot higher if I had left it on, but the test burn was fine and it allowed me to START getting the workshop in to some semblance of order again though that is about a three day job at a guess !

 

[andyBeaker]

Spent most of the day dozing as a result of taking an antihistamine last night.

 

[JayTee]

Done SFA, just dozed a lot, went outside feckin freezing, came back in again and had another doze.
Roll on spring and summer.

 

[ogr1]

Bears have got it right.
Sleep through winter.
Shag, fight and scoff the rest of the year.
Just scoffing then.

 

[johnboy]

Washed old Merc ready to sell on, christ it was cold out. Listed some old three rail Hornby steam locomotives on Ebay. Ate too many mince pies.

 

[slim63]

Ate too many mince pies.

Don't talk rubbish man, its impossible

 

[derek kelly]

Don't talk rubbish man, its impossible

Depends on the mince pies, my sister in law got us some so called exclusive mince pies, very expensive, they were shite, ended up feeding them to the hens.

 

[Pow-Lo]

Got up late then trained for an hour. Watched half of Scanners, had dinner and watched two episodes of Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman riding from Tierra Del Fuego to LA on electric prototype Hardly Dangerous.

 

[Squag1]

Depends on the mince pies, my sister in law got us some so called exclusive mince pies, very expensive, they were shite, ended up feeding them to the hens.

Eggs should be interesting

 

[johnboy]

Blimey, ain't seen Scanners in years. Must go, got a nose bleed.

 

[andyBeaker]

Finished the Xmas cheese selection off.

Watched the first two episodes of Deadwood. Very good but I can't get my head round Ian McShane being the potty mouthed bad guy.

Watched United go level on points at the top of the league, cracking game, last ten minutes spent watching from behind the sofa.

 

[Me!]

Took all the decs down. Eldest back to uni so some peace may prevail..... for an hour or two