The briefest of all possible previews.
Georgia v Fiji
Fiji are a very good side, but have not played a test match due to their Covid problems. Georgia were much improved last week. Georgia by 5.
Ireland v Scotland
Both sides looking rather pedestrian at the moment. With the inexplicable void where Hamish McFuckface should be, as well as the return of Sexton and Ireland’s home advantage (and despite the dropping of McCloskey), Ireland by 10.
Wales v Italy
Wales by 25. You know why.
England v France
With France putting out a C side, there is not much doubt: England by 15. Although I suspect France will throw some surprises England’s way.
Onna telly this week
Friday 4th December
| Bristol 18 – 17 Saints | ||
| Connacht 31 – 14 Treviso |
Saturday 5th December
| Australia v Argentina | 08:45 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Georgia v Fiji | 12:00 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Ireland v Scotland | 14:15 | Amazon Prime |
| Bulls v Cheetahs | 14:30 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Leicester v Exeter | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Wasps v Newcastle | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Worcester v Bath | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Wales v Italy | 16:45 | S4C / Amazon Prime |
| Golden Lions v Western Province | 17:00 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Glasgow v Dragons | 19:15 | Premier Sports 1 |
Sunday 6th December
| England v France | 14:00 | Amazon Prime |
| London Irish v Sale | 14:30 | BT Sport Extra |
| Gloucester v Harlequins | 16:15 | BT Sport 1 |
Ovally Balls 
Why do you have beading for skirting boards? Isn’t the skirting on top of the flooring.
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This mystery must be solved
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CMW – I can have both.
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Chimpie – Mrs Craig’s says it’s decorative.
Next.
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But the skirting board itself is decorative. Why does it need an extra bit of decorativeness?
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@Chimpie – I’ve had enough things to read about without looking too much into installation of laminate wood floors as I already have one of them. However, I think it’s normal due to expansion/contraction of the flooring.
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It’s decorative in the sense that it covers up a nasty gap between the shitty flooring and the beautifully painted skirting boards.
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Put in some (moderately shitty) laminate flooring earlier in the year, with some cheap MDF skirting boards (now painted, using the prone position technique).
Didn’t go for any beading
I now feel like something may be missing but I’m not going to give mrs chimpie any ideas.
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At least you can piss on your floor now without having to worry too much about it.
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It wouldn’t be the floor I’d be worry about if I tried that
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Tiles may be a more durable option if floor micturition is your thing.
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CMW – Frog Tape you say.
Thanks, I’ll get onto that.
Carry on………………
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@Chimpie – You might want to bang your head on it too though.
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@Slade – it’s expensive, but you get good lines and the yellow stuff especially is very good (though not quite infallible) for not damaging the surface you’re sticking it to.
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Hop to it slade!
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Where’s the down vote button?
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@Craigs – did some paint bleed through your Frog Tape?
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Well that’s the blog croaked.
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CMW – maybe, who knows? I am blissfully not doing it.
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mirrripp!
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Where’s the down vote button?
CMW painted over it. It was underneath Chimpie’s crappy, cheap MDF.
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Although I have a bit of DIY to do.
– put in a water feed into my garage
– clear out garage and install homebrew system
– build kegerator
– brew beer and put in kegerator
– drink beer with friends circa summer 2021
https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to-plans/how-to/a13106/diy-draft-step-by-step-kegerator-plans/
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Also:
– dig pool
– line pool
– buy filtration system onna cheap or steal off back of lorry
– install filtration system
– fill pool
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Does Chimpie only paint one side of his MDF?
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Deebs – I bet he leaves the top unpainted.
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There’d be not point trying to paint the side that’s facing the wall, would there?
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I made my first ever Gantt chart today, using Excel. Excel is a dick.
I would like to think that I could avoid doing many more Gantt charts in my career, but they do seem to be expected by funders if you are leading on a research project, however small. If I end up being a project lead every other year, I probably have another 12 Gantt charts ahead of me. That’s 12 too many.
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Chimpie
There might be if your house is damp – a lick of paint (ideally diluted so that it penetrates well) would militate against moisture penetration
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DAB
Can you not use MS Project?
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Congratulations, Dab.
In the Czech Republic they usually say “Harmonogram” for one of them or something similar. It’s quite a pleasant word for a dull thing.
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Ah, of course:
https://www.microtool.de/en/knowledge-base/what-is-a-gantt-chart/
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That’s a valid point slade. This is not a damp hoose though.
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Chimpie
Fair enough – but it’s a great use for left-over paint – just in case
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Hope you’ve identified your critical path Dab. And got all your dependencies sorted out. nothing worse than a non-matching precedence network.
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I know people professionally who spend literally their entire working life buried in and adjusting gantt charts in the likes of primavera. They must have done something awful to deserve this.
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My next project is putting up a log cabin in the garden & run power / interwebs out to it so I can use as an office.
Craigs, I think that kegerator is the perfect addition to this project.
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If you could supply one for about fifty notes that would be great.
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A Short Play
A: Look out. Here comes “Old Cheese on Toast”.
B: What’s he doing? Talking to himself?
A: Yes, something about dado rails. He looks angry.
C: Fucking dados … bastard interior design … grrr ….
(A and B look away, afraid to catch C’s eye)
C: Hi fellas. Going to the pub later. Fancy com …
A: Would love to but you know this gantt chart won’t adjust itself.
B: Goodness, yes, me too. No rest for the wicked, eh?
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How rude
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@chimpie
I know similar people who do everything in spreadsheets. Their team meetings consist of everyone staring at spreadsheet on a monitor on the wall. Occasionally someone stands up and points at something on the spreadsheet and then sits down again.
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I put in some high-end flooring in this hoose, it is made up of 15mm ply topped with 6mm solid oak, you get the same thickness of oak as you would in a solid board down to the tongue and groove, so it can be sanded several times, it will outlast several owners of the house after me.
I lifted the skirting boards and fitted the flooring under them, leaving an expansion gap between the edge of the boards and the wall. It was an okay job to do apart from behind the radiators, but that gave me an excuse to buy a Fein multi tool, it cost about £200 iirc but it saved me a fortune in getting a plumber in to take radiators off the wall. I used the Fein tool to cut the skirtings along the base under the radiators and fitted the flooring under the new cut, I also used it to cut the skirting behind either end of the radiators, because it’s behind the rads you don’t see the difference in height of the top of skirting boards.
Is there a pool for the Heineken Cup?
Top matches this weekend look like Toulouse in Belfast and Leinster away to Montpellier, Brizzle Clermont could be good, too.
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Oh, an aside about the flooring, the product name was Zamora, after the centre forward Bobby Zamora.
The guy who owned the company is a Brighton and Hove Albion fan and he named his flooring after players
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Chimpie – you’d need a homebrew setup too to make it work. Buying your own kegs doesn’t have the same wow factor as home brew out of a tap.
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‘a Fein multi tool, it cost about £200’
Nice. My £40 one tends to struggle with any kind of wood thickness.
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entire working life buried in… gantt
Karl.
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‘Top matches this weekend look’
You forgot to include embra. Ah yes, we suck.
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I have plans for homebrow craigs. Been doing wine / champagne but will venture into beer territory next year.
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Chimpie – have you been doing that from scratch? If so you should find the transition to beer fairly easy. The only real difference is the boil and cooling.
But otherwise it is extract sugar, boil, cool, ferment, keg/age, put into kegerator… Drink.
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@Chimpie: All those managementy terms put the willies up me! I hope nobody asks me about any of them in a meeting. If they do, what do I say??
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@Slade – PLEASE don’t tell me there was an easier way than the 2 hours it took me to persuade Excel to do something that looked about right…
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