20th February 2025 - Tips and Travels

Thought for the day :"I’ve decided to sell my Vacuum Cleaner – it was just collecting dust."

Wet

2025 : Wet 24 : Dry 26

A very busy day yesterday so it took the toll on the body today. Susie did the early turn which was great. 

I took the Landie out to get coal and some bits and pieces for the weekend from Tesco, and as I got back Charlie said that he was ready to take a trailer load of stuff down to the Dump.

The local amenity sites are different to my old Carmarthenshire ones - everything separately sorted for re-cycling and everything has to be carried up steps to put into the skips - and some of the stuff was very heavy.

The Hammond Organ though was too bit to get into a skip and so we went to Beulah where we did not really know that there was a site - but they took it and we all commented on the size of my great organ!!

However, in the re-cycle area was a Statue that I though could fit in the Eastern Springs

Back to the homestead and not a lot of time - but as I put the ducks and Chickens to bed I took the opportunity to put the tarpaulin back over the  beer garden so I can sort the "tunnel" tomorrow.

Scheduled for an early visit to the Keens tomorrow to pick up the Kitchen Range and Gazebo.

Meanwhile - the stack of pallets is smaller at the drive 

  

In other news...

In case you ever wondered why wine bottles are exactly 750 ml. and not, for example 1 liter (1000 milliliters).

In the 19th century the main customer of the French wine producers was England. The English unit of measurement for liquid volume is imperial gallon, which is equal to 4.54609 liters. To simplify the calculations when converting units of measurement, the French transported wine from Bordeaux in 225 liter barrels or exactly 50 gallons, corresponding to 300 bottles of 750 ml. To make it easier for them, they assumed that 50 gallons = 300 bottles.

So, one gallon corresponds to 6 bottles. In fact, this is the reason why even today, wine cases often contain 6 bottles.

Cheers!

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