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

Thanks for the interest.
The boiler is about seven years old, fitted by a golfing pal who was a heating engineer and gas certificated. But he retired early this year and is no longer licensed.
The rest of the system is 26 years old, so I'm not surprised that the radiators need flushing. It's the usual symptom, cold at the bottom of a few and only warm at the top and none need bleeding. The boiler after working for a while, turns off the gas and the read-out says that it's reached its operating temperature although the thermostat in the hall is asking for more heat.
So the sludge in the radiators is not letting the water circulate fast enough. The last "engineer" on his visit cleaned out the filter (on my insistance, they don't like doing it as it's a messy job), which improved things a bit.
The problem is that some of these young guys aren't that experienced, having to deal with a large number of makes of boilers. They rely on what the information on their phone tells them, more than doing a proper investigation. The flush won't happen until the end of the month. The weather's a lot warmer so the boiler hasn't been on much today. So it's not a problem.

 

It was a golf day today, quite sunny and warm enough to not need wet weather gear. But several greens are still damp and show slight indentations where player's feet have been, which doesn't help your putting. But I didn't play that well today anyway.
They need to "get the iron out," as soon as they dry out a bit.
They're a ridiculous price I think my club paid over £6000 for ours a few years ago.

One of these.



Two minor irritations.

My electric golf trolley went completely dead as we were coming off the course. I hoped that it wasn't the battery, as lithium batteries are really expensive, as it always shows a full charge after we come off, or occasionally just one bar below full.
But the trolley could do with a good clean.
When I got home, I plugged the battery into the charger and the light on the charger was "green" which meant it wasn't charging. It does that when the battery has been charged and it's turned itself off. So I thought, possibly a poor connection.
So I got my aerosol switch cleaner that I use on my jukeboxes out and gave the battery, trolley and charger contacts a good spray, I put the battery back in the trolley and turned it on and it was working fine and showing nearly a full charge. So I put the battery back on the charger and it showed "red" which meant it was charging, I think I've dodged a bullet there.

The other irritation was that as I was leaving the club, my car was telling me that the battery in the key fob needed changing. It kept bangin' on about it all the way home.

I changed the battery a few weeks ago, because it whinged about it, when I got the same message, but I used a spare that I had for my last car, but ordered a couple of new ones. So I've put one of the new ones in "and it's happy now."