Abarbarian
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Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat. You may well ask why I think that. Well me second Galaxy blew up and left me in a bit of a pickle. Nothing to do with housework you may think , but it has.
You see I resurrected me bicycle so I am not without transport of a kind. If I really really need to I guess I could ride it again, though after the try the other day I'm not so sure. Still that has nothing to do with housework or does it.
Abandoning the bicycle. I moved on to fixing the Rebel, it only needed a clean and a new fork seal. Ah ah so thats where the housework links to, well not quite, sponging down the dust of a bike and hoesing it down is not really anything like housework. So I gets the forks in bits, easy peasy. Had a spare seal and fork oil put by just for this type of ocassion. Forward planning that is. So what about the housework you ask , well I'm getting to it , don't rush me.
Fork almost back together when I came upon the gremlin in the job. You see I looked in the manual and it said I needed 238 cc of oil. Duh ! How on earth do I measure 238 cc of oil at 6.15 pm. No chance of getting to a shop as they are too far away an how do I get to em , not on the bicycle thats for super emergencies only. I have more respect for me bum and me legs and arms and hands and neck etc etc.
So I hunted high and lowfor whatever I used two years ago when I last did the fork seal. Shouldn't be too hard to find the whatever it was I used I thought. Guess what I was wrong, now that suprised me as I'm a tidy sort of chap and can usually lay me hand on anything if I'm looking for it.
So what has all this to do with housework. I'm just about to get to that part, now don't rush me.
You see I do me own housework, have done for a while now and that includes me laundry. This tale is more about laundry than housework but it didn't look so good as a thread starter so hence the housework. Back to the story. Now modern cleaning agents come in the good old fashioned powder which luckily for me I don't use. Not that it is any worse than the modern liquid I use it just takes up more room in the cupboard. I wish I had some powder though as it ain't half good mixed with a bit of washing up liquid for getting oil of your hands, better than Swarfega etc. Ok ok I'm back on track, now where was I ?
Ah yes . Liquid laundry soap. You see it comes in a bottle, no suprise there then, but it also comes with a little plastic dispenser bubble thingy. With, wait for it this is the punch line. Measure markings in milliliters. Bingo I had found the answer to me problem. The little balll thingy had a 55 ml and a 37 ml mark . So thats 4 x 55 mland 1 x half or nearly half of the 37 ml and thats just about spot on for the amount I needed. So thats what I did and the forks are now back on me bike and its of for its MOT tommorow.
Housework, you see, I go there in the end.
You see I resurrected me bicycle so I am not without transport of a kind. If I really really need to I guess I could ride it again, though after the try the other day I'm not so sure. Still that has nothing to do with housework or does it.
Abandoning the bicycle. I moved on to fixing the Rebel, it only needed a clean and a new fork seal. Ah ah so thats where the housework links to, well not quite, sponging down the dust of a bike and hoesing it down is not really anything like housework. So I gets the forks in bits, easy peasy. Had a spare seal and fork oil put by just for this type of ocassion. Forward planning that is. So what about the housework you ask , well I'm getting to it , don't rush me.
Fork almost back together when I came upon the gremlin in the job. You see I looked in the manual and it said I needed 238 cc of oil. Duh ! How on earth do I measure 238 cc of oil at 6.15 pm. No chance of getting to a shop as they are too far away an how do I get to em , not on the bicycle thats for super emergencies only. I have more respect for me bum and me legs and arms and hands and neck etc etc.
So I hunted high and lowfor whatever I used two years ago when I last did the fork seal. Shouldn't be too hard to find the whatever it was I used I thought. Guess what I was wrong, now that suprised me as I'm a tidy sort of chap and can usually lay me hand on anything if I'm looking for it.
So what has all this to do with housework. I'm just about to get to that part, now don't rush me.
You see I do me own housework, have done for a while now and that includes me laundry. This tale is more about laundry than housework but it didn't look so good as a thread starter so hence the housework. Back to the story. Now modern cleaning agents come in the good old fashioned powder which luckily for me I don't use. Not that it is any worse than the modern liquid I use it just takes up more room in the cupboard. I wish I had some powder though as it ain't half good mixed with a bit of washing up liquid for getting oil of your hands, better than Swarfega etc. Ok ok I'm back on track, now where was I ?
Ah yes . Liquid laundry soap. You see it comes in a bottle, no suprise there then, but it also comes with a little plastic dispenser bubble thingy. With, wait for it this is the punch line. Measure markings in milliliters. Bingo I had found the answer to me problem. The little balll thingy had a 55 ml and a 37 ml mark . So thats 4 x 55 mland 1 x half or nearly half of the 37 ml and thats just about spot on for the amount I needed. So thats what I did and the forks are now back on me bike and its of for its MOT tommorow.
Housework, you see, I go there in the end.
