I couldn't find the recipe for the campers yellow paint. I couldn't believe it - well I shouldn't have. It was there but buried in some drunken rant about formatting and blogger interfaces.
I made it thicker for brushing most of it's going into bits you can't see. The base is nearly right but the inside and the outside of the camper are different colours. I like the outside (faded version) better.
Repaired the passenger footwell. Welding fun. Not a bad job. The welding into mid air was rubbish making a little fillet and running a weld around would take time but easier in the end.
Day 2
We went for a walk This time I can remember what happened. We went on a hunt for Minning Low
As the picture suggests it dominates the landscape but it's the trees what do it. When it was a what ever it was in the whatever age there would have been trees a go go. So the monumental landscape I see is not what it was placed in. And you can see it from Green Low.
ifI type in red we can all read this. I've lost control here - bastards. This combination of editor, desktop, browser, blah de blah de blah has snafu'd my efforts. The iMac deals with white text from the blog. What happens if I cahnge the design level settings for fonts n shit? I Can now type in a reasonable editor. Seems dumb to me that it can't handle white text on black ground. Dumb and dumberest, It does it into another font but can't deal with goths at the control. I'm going for purple nail varnish next. Thath will teach all you twats ouit there. Laughing at my hair I know you are
That doesnt work either - rats! I'm bored. Back to the van I#ve mixed some paint the light ivory 97.5% yellow 2.5% (RAL codes to follow) (+50% white spirit ) I mixed 10g of paint and added 5 g of ws. So its not 50% but you get it. still a bit yellow but damn near.
I think I sussed Bastards this formatting was lurking! I Give in This was meant to be green on red Somewhere maybe it is Publish and be damned
Finally it feels like we have left winter behind. The dry weather and longer days are just what my psyche needed.
I've been getting very frustrated and that's always a danger of that turning into anger and depression. Faithful readers will know that lots of stuff that I either need or want to do happen outdoors.
So what did I do outdoors this weekend?
Paint
Firstly I got 3 coats of paint on the rear quarters of the camper and it's looking neato. The recipe has had a slight tweek
Proportion
Colour Ref.
Colour Name
80
RAL8011
Brown
20
RAL6001
Green
5
RAL2009
Orange
1
RAL9005
Black
75
White Spirit
The last entry about paint was obviously written the evening of the painting. The next day the last side to be painted was covered in tiny craters. I'm guessing that these were popped bubbles that then didn't flow flat.
So when I started the paint it was just thin enough. Then it had thickened in the tray and on the roller by the time I'd got to the other side.
Or the paint had cooled after being inside. So more White Spirit. It works. Just by chance Casper the junior ghost from over the road has sprayed his camper. For some reason his father Mister Ghost wanted to show me the results. I had to be diplomatic. My finish is better. But I've taken a long while to get it, he painted the whole van in a week. I think that considered he's done a good job.
Which is the point
I'm expending time and labour.
He's spending money.
On to the Merc. Finally my insurers, who we shall call Equity Red Shite (ERS), have decided it's worth fixing after months of plain ineptitude. The details are far to boring to detail so here's the headlines. Dec 17
Snow and ice make side street undriveable
We park to consider abandoning MB
Fool in some Pugeot childs car slides into MB front end.
Dec 22
Estimate of repairs from Charlotte Motors (£1K) emailed to ERS.
Dec 22 to now
An inabilty to hold on to documents,
understand common courtesy
and operate simple clerical process from ERS.
But at last they approve repairs, I think. As they can't seem to answer correspondence I have to rely on an anonymous text from their engineers and an assurance from Charlotte Motors that they will invoice ERS.
Finally the Velvet Underground. Sister Ray as loud as possible, on repeat. I haven't listened to them recently but Radcliffe and Maconie have The Chain which produced 'Pale Blue Eyes' and that is a thing of such beauty I had to listen to the third album.
