Bollocks and other stuff..

Bollocks...

All I wanted to do was convert some old home VHS tapes to digital format -no problem an Ebay search revealed plenty of cheap pirated imported gadgets that would do the job for me all I had to do once the device turned up  was to work out the instructions, here is an exert from "leewingnots" industries limited PLC  instruction manual for the bag of wires and stuff I had bought from him...
"Connecting the Video001 Wirless Camera Receiver when you use it by TV,Monitor,or LCD Monitor.

You must connect the Power Adapter to Wirless Camera Receiver when you use it by TV,Monitor,or LCD Monitor"- Personally  I had no fucking idea of which "Wirless Camera Receiver  the instructions were referring to as I hadn't purchased one from Mr Leewingnot  and I wasn't standing next to the TV,Monitor,or LCD Monitor for that matter , I was actually  sitting at my desk looking at a £12.50 VHS player and a box of cables -but I needn't have worried about my lack of power adapter whilst standing next to a LCD monitor without a non-whirring camera receiver as the next instruction read- 
"But no need this when you connect it to com-puter. And you can use Remote Controller to set any function (You can tind the instruction for using remote controller in the bottom of this guide)."

As a guide I was feeling it was a bottom, put the kettle on and contemplated picking the children up-one of them was due at the the "Ballet Brethren"  for more "pink tu-tu indoctrination" and the youngest would be expecting to sprint through Tescos  shouting "donuts" like some deranged miniature Homer Simpson not wishing to disappointing or induce a visit from social services off I went on my Daddy Duties.
-As an aside I fell over in Tescos the other day -on my own doing something I regularly bollock the 8 year old for - scooting on the trolley I lent too hard on the handle and didn't get my weight over the front wheels resulting in a 20 yard wheelie- the only winner was going to be gravity and physics- the result was me landing on my knees and face almost simultaneously as my arms were still outstretched hands clinging onto the trolley handle - I felt a right twat as one of the "beige slip on Velcro shoe  brigade"-undoubtedly with Nissan Micra parked outside -asked if I was "all right"


Using old fashioned "blagging" I managed to convert  the VHS tapes into digital format -they are now residing on my hard drive awaiting editing

Other stuff

It has been a week of extended Daddy Duties due to "half term" - oh deep joy,so house bashing has been non-existent -apart from some remedial repairs being carried out to the "new roof" which now seemed to have stopped it leaking-these repairs being carried out by the original contractor but only after I quoted the supply of goods act to them, the only annoyance being the scaffolder they used brought  his dog with him- letting it roam around the garden without me knowing-needless to say he wasn't the sort of character to carry a supply of little bags in the cab next to the supply of "Razzle" and "Nuts" to collected dog eggs -this prompted me to think about taking a shit on his passenger seat whilst he wasn't looking to make up for the one his dog left me with,but self preservation got the better of me.

 

The shed got christened the other day- Homer and his boys visited for a few days.

Shedtune at its best

High Rollin with "Billy Bob"

"Billy Bob"

Unfortunately on the way back from "six children two adults, one bowling alley and a Mc Donald's excursion   a pipe blew off his "intercooler thingy" on his modern foreign tosh German escort 

So it was the first car to be jacked up and tinkered with the in the new shed - a hasty wired up bodge made the car use-able again but with a 340 mile trip home looming we thought it wise to track down a replacement part - believe it or not a reasonably priced part was supplied by VW and would be waiting for us at the local dealer the next morning,10 mins to fit all sorted- the job made so much easier having somewhere clean well lit and comfortable to work- I cant wait to get the shed properly finished and stuck into my Rover P6 project