A change of flowers for Grace's birthday.

 A busy morning ahead so we popped out early to the cemetery. I had hoped it'd be quiet but it was noisy with activity. The whole town must have awoken from their slumber since Summer started, also we're currently under a blitz at home which has explosive noise before dawn every morning in a futile bid to scare the bat population away, it doesn't work people and you've been at it long enough to stop wasting taxpayer money.

I also said hello to our friend Shirley's husband Ron whom if I stay alive a few more days shall outlive. That feels like a big "if" now.

Also broken when Oscar felt pain.

 

Another casualty of Oscar's broken rear windscreen. I had popped the phone in my back pocket and forgotten about it when driving to get a quote. Bugger but at least I've ordered a new digitiser screen thingy and hope I'm good enough to fit it. I only use the phone for two things, to receive calls from Olivia, and to play Sudoku, I can't claim to be a natural at Sudoku but I've found the logic challenge quite captivating for many years now, I only play at the hardest level.

Oscar is now fixed yippee.

Nearly a write-off.

 

I was mowing out the front and heard a noise so looked around and went ouch.

I thought I might have to write Oscar off but the local shop quoted $420 to fix it, so a big ouch on that price but I'll do it.

Now it looks better.

 

Some 10 mm tubing arrived yesterday, and today the new cheap Chinese pumping bulb arrived, so I was able to make Oscar look half decent again. A much quicker than normal delivery too so that cheered me up.

As usual a simple job becomes a disaster.

 I changed Oscar's fuel filter and when I primed the system I noticed I had cracked the squeeze bulb, which is quite a disaster.

I did a bit of nutting things out and used a bit of old pushbike inner tube with a bit of fairly large heat shrink underneath.

Hopefully it'll hold until a new generic bulb arrives which I'm hoping I can splice into Oscar's never to be serviced fuel line.

Slow progress with the scooter.

 

A new control board arrived the other day and it's tested up fine, wheels are a turning again, eventually I'll meld it into the circuit so things will be operational again. The old control unit also suffered flood damage and although I think it could have been fixed, this unit from China wasn't expensive.

Something to cheer me a little after nearly a month of misery.

 Roadworks have made our life hell of late, made worse by knowing the state government as per usual are only wasting taxpayer money on this, when it's all done things will be the same as they always were. Our road has a concrete depression era base and has always been pothole free, the worst was it's been too narrow for today's standard but I don't think it'll be widened.

Anyway what's made me happy is the 60 speed limit has been moved out of town to just past the entry to the sporting ovals, some genius must have noticed how odd it was to have that in an 80 zone. A decade ago I hounded Main roads and the council about it but merely being a below average punter I was shunned as some sort of moron, now I'm feeling good as I suspect the sign will be permanent. The downside is I suspect more cars will overtake me as I turn into our driveway when coming home.