When not attending to garden tasks what other things have filled your day?

I was surprised, back in the late sixties, how small was HMS Victory.
It was a disappointment in some ways, that there didn't seem to be enough cleaning going on.
But I learned a few things from the brochure supplied. In the days before mechanisation, "setting sail" could be a major task.
If they had four anchors down, it would take 24 hours to wind them all up by hand. Quite often one down would be enough, so if they were in a hurry, they'd just let it go and when they came back they'd "fish for it."

 

https://www.nps.gov/bost/learn/historyculture/ussconst.htm

We have The USS Constitution docked in Boston Harbor and it's the oldest still active War Ship in the World. Built in 1797 It is nicknamed " Old Ironsides ".

 

I have seen the beautiful Queen Mary docked in Long Beach California. It’s aMAZing..

 

Also been on the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier 1960’s, which is a small floating city with over 2500 p 500- sailors and personnel aboard.
I got lost like being standard on a desert island.


Also seen the Pearl Harbor memorial in Hawaii from WWll.

 

About thirty years ago I toured Brunnel's S.S. Great Britain, in Bristol

and decades ago, The Cutty Sark before the fire.

 

From Thursday, I've been trying to arrange a service for my wife's stair lift.
The supplier wouldn't answer the phone, two e-mails went unanswered, two were returned as the addresses of the people were no longer active and the link on their website didn't work. I finally got through this morning after hanging on for over 20 minutes having to suffer the recorded voice of a woman telling me how wonderful and caring they were, when the opposite is the truth.
I didn't take it out on the guy who answered, as it wasn't his fault. But I let him know how abysmal I thought their communication facilities. Anyway, it's sorted, they will let me know when they can do it, it'll probably be in a week.
We've no concerns as the lift has worked perfectly several times a day since we've had it. So it should at £4.5k. But it's a year old and it's due a free first service. I negotiated a three-year warranty when I bought it.

Contrast this with Sharp/Ninja. I had a question about our new Airfryer, well not new, we'd had it over a year and only used it for the first time last week. So I sent them an e-mail on Sunday.
When I opened my laptop on Monday morning, there was already an e-mail from them offering some advice.

 

It's so very frustrating at times having to attempt such communications.........in fact I wouldn't be at all surprised if it put some folk of completely. It's so time consuming.

Hats off to to Sharp/ Ninja. Sometimes the good guys go unnoticed as it seems more of a norm to highlight the badies.

 

I told the guy at the stair lift company that a neighbour had asked me about our stair lift as she needed to get one for her mother. But although I think the stair lift was excellent, I wouldn't recommend them to anyone given the quality of their service.