Awake and up all night

I think we become accustomed to places. I remember being with a pal who was meeting a friend from elsewhere off a coach. 

We were young at the time! Her pal looked a bit fazed as we were leaving the town centre bus station early evening and then stood still and said ' I have never seen so many young people!'

We hadn't realized it was a 'thing'. Our university, at that time a huge polytechnic, and it being a night out night (when there still was a night scene), did mean there were large numbers of younger people everywhere ... but that wasn't remarkable to us locals.

Cheers

See now I am intrigued as to what you have contrived! Is your domain very Willy Wonka?

I love a wire coat hanger! The things they can cure, fix, persuade to work are numerous. The hangers themselves are rarities these days thanks to plastic.

Cheers

Uh oh. I've just got hamstered    3 times, wish I'd never said owt now.

Anyway, yeh, that's true about getting immune to places no matter how rough or menacing they seem to newcomers. Bradford's got a bad, and probably deserved, rep but I've never been nervous even late at night except when the Yorkshire Ripper was at large, even then it didn't stop me going on nights out.

Now the hamsters have allowed me privy to your Wonka post I'll reply in a bit as they might come after me again xxx

And the moral of the story is ... you will get  d especially if you bring yourself to their attention though belligerence

Cheers

It certainly seems that way Shims, although Amanda did remark they'd struck in broad daylight yesterday.

Someone must be enjoying a foam party a bit too much right now.

I'll post one of my Wonka Inventions and then hang up my night owl  badge for the night. Back soon xxx

Giving it enough displacement to float was the only tricky bit. I just took the heated sole plate off a Morphy Richards iron then added balsa bits and filed a small piece of brass to make a prop. The motor was salvaged from a broken toy. It was quite fast in the bath. The aircraft was more satisfying to make as I gave it front wheel steering and all wheels have suspension. The rear cargo ramp enables two Corgi Toys to drive inside. It had a hard life. My son was barely 3 and played with the plane a lot until he was 7 or so. My hands are too unsteady to make anything like that now. 

I envy you with your craft work and others who have shown intricate crochet examples. Gill's innovations sound right up my street as well. Distracted by music Gill but will have to go upstairs soon for catheter TLC which takes about an hour  (alternate days). Not as technical as your skilled daily TLC for OH.  xxx

The execution may be tricky but I bet you still have fab ideas when you look at stuff and the innards of things!

Cheers

Well when OH and me got together we lived in my house for the first 7 years before I sold it and we moved into his, as he'd kept it on.

My place was dropping to bits and I was pretty skint, so had to bodge things in the DIY department - clothes pegs were good, as were wire coat hangers and Blu Tak.

The handle thing that flushed the toilet snapped off so I had to move the cistern lid to get at the thing that flushed it. After a few days I got fed up with it like that so found something I'd won on the now famous 2p shovers.

It was a pink talking pig's head, but had a meaty elastic band attached to the head that set the talk mechanism off. By cunningly wrapping the band to the hook that pulled the ballcock and then anchoring the pig head on the side of the cistern, it allowed the lid to fully close by pulling the head.

Success without calling out an expensive plumber! The trouble was, a scratchy piggy squeak accompanied each flush and that's why I didn't want anyone else, other than my girls and OH, to see it. Its saving grace was the horrible pink bathroom suite and the pig's head matched.

After that load of drivel I'll wish you a good nyt if you're not already asleep xxx

I love, love, love it!  I do not love the style of the emoji here! That's why I don't use most of them!

Enjoy your Zzzzzzz if it happens 

Grrrrrrr; just got  d

Nyt, sweet dreams

Well I noted Ray might come back after he's sorted his plumbing, so I'll still lurk.

Just going to pay a call and get a couple of bananas  for the midnight feast xxx