25-07-2014 8:27 PM
25-07-2014 9:27 PM
25-07-2014 9:29 PM
25-07-2014 10:01 PM
@mouse4702 wrote:
Thank you all for the kind wishes! Too late, I've broached the bottle with my arthritis-friendly gripping device and the cork went POP into my tea-towel and the bubbly bubbled over my legs.
Tch.
As I found out about two years ago, after years of doing it all wrong - you just twist the cork out, as if you were unscrewing it. (I use rubber gloves to get a grip.) If it pops you did it wrong, apparently.
And - the important bit, this - you do it with the bottle in the sink.....
26-07-2014 5:03 AM
saasher, if you are forever hitting your thumb when putting a nail in the wall or anywhere, what to do is, have a strip of thin card, push the nail through it at one end and hold the other, tap the nail into the wall and then remove the card. No bashed thumbs.
26-07-2014 10:12 AM
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26-07-2014 11:01 AM
26-07-2014 11:03 AM
Glad you are feeling a little better today Fishey, I think we all get like it now and then, I am 54 and have always been able to do these jobs, as OH was often away for work when son was small and some jobs just can't wait, so it was do it yourself or sit in the dark.
26-07-2014 11:04 AM
26-07-2014 11:05 AM
Whats been going on in here then & whos going to clean up the chocklit wrappers & sticky with champange floor..tuts bet theres none left .
Your never alone on here as ive found out when my hubby is working abroad , just come in & theres always someone here to natter too
26-07-2014 11:06 AM
Ha ha ha, she says tempting fate, I have never been in that situation thankfully, fingers crossed touch wood etc etc etc.
26-07-2014 12:10 PM
fishie, I have found one of those extending handle wheel braces allows me to loosen wheel nuts even tightened in garage with the gun.
You could get one of those and maybe even a bit of longer pipe that fits snugly over the handle extending it even more to give you more leverage to loosen nuts, when tightening make the handle as short as possible so you do not have as much leverage then if you need to change the wheel ever again extending the handle will usually allow you to do that easily.
26-07-2014 12:14 PM
And i missed it all,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, good luck with your job mouse. Enjoy your singledom!!!,, i do and yes as Saasher said its better than being with someone you dont want to be with.
Hope your better Fishy today and not so lonely??. Its a good job we have each other on here. Its very uplifting!!.
26-07-2014 12:54 PM
26-07-2014 1:10 PM
26-07-2014 1:38 PM
I remember the first (and I think only) time I changed a tyre. It was my first (and only ) brand new car. I took it onto the back lawn to take some pictures of it but I ran over the corner of an engineering brick and got a puncture. I couldn't leave it for hubby as I had to do the school run in ten minutes!
I got on fine, no probs, unless you count the fact that I forgot (at first) to put a piece of wood under the jack and was happily pumping the jack handle oblivious to the fact that the car was in the same place and the jack was going underground!!
26-07-2014 1:45 PM
26-07-2014 2:36 PM
I have changed a tyre once but I do not doing it as someone said earlier I worry in case it falls of....
also I am not a snod and do not like champagne but do you not twist the bottle and not the cork.and you are not suppose to let it bubble over..apparently it ruins it.
26-07-2014 2:59 PM
26-07-2014 3:12 PM - edited 26-07-2014 3:13 PM
One use ones sword to open ones Bollinger h'ackshully......