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My other half was like that about my guitars and turntables, smart woman.

Ha, yeah I got told off for selling my 1200s a few years back. I recently had a huge wave of regret about it and bought another pair, fully endorsed by my wife with accompanying 'told you so'.
Also recently had a 'should I spend £100 on a record' debate where I was the one on the 'no it's too much' side of the fence.

Feeder/enabler vibes.

Haha, we're obvs both very lucky guys. I was looking at electric twelve strings last year, found a really nice Rickenbacker that was ~A$3k, showed it to her and she insisted I buy it! I told her she was crazy and bought a Danelectro for A$600 instead.

I doubt it would fetch enough to cover the sentimental value, so here it will remain.

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My back won't let me ride fixed anymore

You could just push it around.

My Donohue is in the same boat. It's in bits and I don't have any intention of building it again (too small, only takes up to a deeply unfashionable 25c) but I've got so many good memories of riding it and it's absolutely battered from being used as my work bike for a while so it's worth fuck all anyway.

I’m not great at building stuff or doing DIY
I do it, it’s ok but I don’t get inspired by projects to improve my house etc.

But if something breaks, I will try to fix it.

At the weekend I was at my mother in-laws
She has an ancient Brother industrial sewing machine. I have known her for nearly 30 years and it’s never worked. It’s just a giant 100kg clothes rack.

She was saying that she’s bored and wants to sew again. So with a crappy corner shop screwdriver I got to it.

Nothing crazy I just took it apart, unraveled miles of thread cleaned the moving parts, fitted a belt and then reassembled it.

Somehow there were cosmetics from the 80s jammed inside it as well as a dried chilli from at least a decade ago.
It’s running like a beast now

See some of the junk extracted

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Holy shit

Fucking France man.
“After the National Rally did well in the first round last week, left or centrist candidates in many places withdrew from the race - a tactical move to allow anti-RN votes to be concentrated on one contender.”

Turned that fuck around quick sharp. Genuinely fills my heart reyt up!

Fucking lol. Just a few mechanical challenges for the machine to overcome. Love these kind of repairs!

The two paw prints one of my cats just put in the enamel on the windowsill I painted this morning

I’d love to see a photo of that!

Turns out they mostly settled out, but one is still partly visible 😀

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She does this rather than go another eight metres to the cat door, naturally

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Is that an outside space? I really like that.

Yeah, that back wall is cladding on the paling fence, painted it the same colour as the walls in the kitchen / living area. Been thinking something on the concrete would be nice, some slate maybe?

This.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwF1KDpv7hg

When you're on holiday, the kids have fallen asleep early after a full day of activity and you can sit and have a beer in the sunshine.

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You had me at..

the kids have fallen asleep early

Enjoy, looks glorious. Cheers.

I know right? We got a boat over to one of the other islands and they both fell asleep on the way back.

Home measured Aperol Spritzes hic

O_O

That was halfway to Marty at the Under the Sea Ball, minus the time travel.

Not familiar with this

I’d try that shoe trick myself if I wasn’t so sure I’d stomp the headstock off

Not familiar with this

Surely ye jest