Did you know, Dear Readers, that your tv or dvd player can be made to play and view ALL dvd's?
The makers make dvd's for different regions but if you enter your television or dvd player's serial or model number into a search engine, you can find the code to de-programme your equipment so that it can play all region dvd's.
She has a charming American friend who is a film addict and she has sent us a huge number of truly wonderful films, they are American films (which I believe is Region 1) and so she got the code which enabled her to 'unlock' her tv to play all regions.
But they are stacked up in a cupboard as there is 'no room in the inn' on a shelf and there are lots that she hasn't seen yet.
Many posts ago, I wrote about her doing someone else's kitchen garden and the necessary sequence of events.
You think about something, you realise, yes, it would be very useful to have it (in our case extra shelves). So you.
Decide what you want, plan it, measure, write the measurements down, check your measurements, double check them, purchase supplies needed, bring them home and execute the plan, if you can't do it yourself, find someone who is reliable and good at their job to do it for you.
In our case, she has used Power Tools ever since she was a young teenager and has both electric and battery operated drills, plus all the various bits needed for drilling masonry, wood etc.
Lolling on her bed studying the insides of her eyelids as per a pal's instructions, made her think about a certain film. Huh, she thought, I've got that and have never watched it!
Now where could she build shelves for dvd's and there, literally, right in front of her was the perfect spot, where the television and the dvd player sit on a little table would be the perfect place for four long shelves!
Eureeka.
Measure the height of the bedside cupboard with book shelves above it, measure and make a mark on wall for the top shelf, 140cm is a good length. The three lower shelves need to be shorter to allow the cupboard doors to open easily.
Check measurements. Go and look in the store cupboard for the shelf brackets which made the old bookcase in the hall.
Brilliant, they are the right length, She took one with her and off she and Wicker Wheelie trundled on a 391 bus to B&Q to see if they still made the same upright supports to fit these brackets.
Indeed, they do! So four supports of a metre length slid into WW, along with the correct screws and a packet of the smallest rawl plugs for another job that has to done.
That was on Friday, a quick rootle in the store cupboard produced an old shelf, the spirit level and the power drill.
They were put together in a box with the things from B&Q and she said to herself "a little job for Sunday", for she knew she was going to be too busy to do it the next day, which was Saturday.
Why was she going to be too busy to put the supports up on Saturday? Well, she was going to the Farmer's Market in Balham to see Debbie, aka Goaty Mum, she had been told where to find a good, but not too expensive, De-Humifier, we needed fruit and it was the last time she thought she'd get to see Calvin, her old friend from Homebase on the Warwick Road which is closing.
Saturday promised to be a full day and it was!
Come back later to read about delicious Albanian Cheesecake and Pretzels, Goaty Kefir Grains and all about Calvin's new job in my next post.
Me, I am plum tuckered out by all the shenanigans that have been going on or have been discussed or measured or planned in this joint!
And, she has been wrapping 'things' in pretty paper and bags, no, of course, I cannot tell you what they are / were, they're birthday presents for people who read my Blog!
GeeGee Parrot.
June 1st, 2014.
Post Script: Sorry, no ditties for the First of June.
The makers make dvd's for different regions but if you enter your television or dvd player's serial or model number into a search engine, you can find the code to de-programme your equipment so that it can play all region dvd's.
She has a charming American friend who is a film addict and she has sent us a huge number of truly wonderful films, they are American films (which I believe is Region 1) and so she got the code which enabled her to 'unlock' her tv to play all regions.
But they are stacked up in a cupboard as there is 'no room in the inn' on a shelf and there are lots that she hasn't seen yet.
Many posts ago, I wrote about her doing someone else's kitchen garden and the necessary sequence of events.
You think about something, you realise, yes, it would be very useful to have it (in our case extra shelves). So you.
Decide what you want, plan it, measure, write the measurements down, check your measurements, double check them, purchase supplies needed, bring them home and execute the plan, if you can't do it yourself, find someone who is reliable and good at their job to do it for you.
In our case, she has used Power Tools ever since she was a young teenager and has both electric and battery operated drills, plus all the various bits needed for drilling masonry, wood etc.
Lolling on her bed studying the insides of her eyelids as per a pal's instructions, made her think about a certain film. Huh, she thought, I've got that and have never watched it!
Now where could she build shelves for dvd's and there, literally, right in front of her was the perfect spot, where the television and the dvd player sit on a little table would be the perfect place for four long shelves!
Eureeka.
Measure the height of the bedside cupboard with book shelves above it, measure and make a mark on wall for the top shelf, 140cm is a good length. The three lower shelves need to be shorter to allow the cupboard doors to open easily.
Check measurements. Go and look in the store cupboard for the shelf brackets which made the old bookcase in the hall.
Brilliant, they are the right length, She took one with her and off she and Wicker Wheelie trundled on a 391 bus to B&Q to see if they still made the same upright supports to fit these brackets.
Indeed, they do! So four supports of a metre length slid into WW, along with the correct screws and a packet of the smallest rawl plugs for another job that has to done.
That was on Friday, a quick rootle in the store cupboard produced an old shelf, the spirit level and the power drill.
They were put together in a box with the things from B&Q and she said to herself "a little job for Sunday", for she knew she was going to be too busy to do it the next day, which was Saturday.
Why was she going to be too busy to put the supports up on Saturday? Well, she was going to the Farmer's Market in Balham to see Debbie, aka Goaty Mum, she had been told where to find a good, but not too expensive, De-Humifier, we needed fruit and it was the last time she thought she'd get to see Calvin, her old friend from Homebase on the Warwick Road which is closing.
Saturday promised to be a full day and it was!
Come back later to read about delicious Albanian Cheesecake and Pretzels, Goaty Kefir Grains and all about Calvin's new job in my next post.
Me, I am plum tuckered out by all the shenanigans that have been going on or have been discussed or measured or planned in this joint!
And, she has been wrapping 'things' in pretty paper and bags, no, of course, I cannot tell you what they are / were, they're birthday presents for people who read my Blog!
GeeGee Parrot.
June 1st, 2014.
Post Script: Sorry, no ditties for the First of June.
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