Our Visit to Witney – Part 1
Tom the Scientist and the Lovely Laura have finally moved into their new house in Witney, No. 30, which is all very romantic and exciting! And, we decided it would have look very rude if we weren’t the first visitors over their threshold to check out their guestroom see how they had settled in.
I also offered to help plumb in their new cooker (with a bit of Andy’s help) – after all, I mused, how difficult could joining up a couple of pipes to the gas supply be?
I thought it best to send Darrell and Nigel into town for a coffee, a look round the 99p Shop and to gather some tourist information for our anticipated many future weekend stays, enabling Andy and I to work in peace and concentrate on the task in hand.
And in the end Andy said that if I just wanted to hand him his tools when he asked for them that was fine by him ….. no one but be any the wiser.
My relief was tangible ……. Andy had realised my limitations and so for the time being at least, I will remain a stranger to hissing gas and blow torches!!
But, I was a diligent assistant to Andy, once he had explained what his various utensils were called and what they were used for.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
7 comments:
Looks like a stillson and a mole grip may be needed for such jobs. PTFE tape and plumbers are handy too.
Does this make me sound as though I know what I'm talking about? It is an illusion.
MR D i was well impressed i was thinking not only is Mr D a master of the dictionary an intellectual multilingual giant and intercontinental world traveller but to top it all he is a secret handy man lol well i for one was illusionised by your use of all things tool like ( i know that illusionised is not a real word i looked it up but i kind of like it think i will chuck it in my coversation today along with mole grip lol monkey your secret is safe with us big love Marc
No need for concern, Monkey, it is a wise and confident man who knows his limits and and turns to the expert to get needed help..Remember, assistants are important too, and often make it possible for the professional expert to do their job. ....Mr.D must be the master of all he surveys!.....Hope you all are having a wonderful 2 week fun time off....Dianne
Marc and Dianne,
I am not an expert like Andy but I have a stilson and have used PTFE tape but not plumbers mait. (I missed the mait before plumbers in my original comment.)
I did put my own central heating in when I lived in London using end feed fittings. Monkey can ask Andy about these.
Marc - I like the word illusionised but I better not use it with my Palestinian colleagues. They will think it is a real word and it could spread across the region.
Mr.D, central heating instillation is far more than beginner hndywork. Your words carry the weight of knowledge and experience! Most impressive......Dianne
Mr. D, you do instill confidence with the tech words, but understand you installed central heating.....got to quit doing 3 things at once..noticed that as it went off into cyberspace...Dianne
Dianne,
An edit option would be useful in case we don't proof read our comments very well.
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