What do you do that nobody else does?

[Bigmallly]

Ok, back on topic.......................I keep my used carrier bags in used kitchen rolls..........that maybe taking recycling to the extreme............

[marchogaeth]

Glad to see that I'm not the only one to use the word Hoover instead of Vacuum - I thought it was a local word because the Hoover factory was a few miles up the road from here........
BM - watch where you put your nozzle

It was always a hoover in our house and I was brought up in the English Midlands and I'm not sure we ever owned a Hoover.

So what I do is:-
Turn the oven up to maximum.
Open the doors and windows and go outside till the burning is over.
Let the oven cool down.
Sweep out the big crusty bits wit a dustpan brush.
Hoover out the crumbs.

And I don't do that very often!

[Bill HH]

Innovation for kids.

I took my children and their friends for a tour of our farm in the snow on the upturned roof of a VW beetle towed by the tractor.
On a very hot day I rolled out a huge plastic rick sheet down our steeply sloping garden,added fairy liguid and water, hey presto a water slide. Only minor injuries.(They did go alarmingly fast).

Dug a huge hole in our lawn with a JCB. Buried an old tractor engine (for stability) with a car axle welded to it, buried it with half the axle sticking out, bolted a scaffolding plank to the hub, great roundabout, one nasty injury as my son fell off and got whacked on the head when it came round again. A learning experience.
Ok I am a big kid.

[marchogaeth]

Innovation for kids.

I took my children and their friends for a tour of our farm in the snow on the upturned roof of a VW beetle towed by the tractor.
On a very hot day I rolled out a huge plastic rick sheet down our steeply sloping garden,added fairy liguid and water, hey presto a water slide. Only minor injuries.(They did go alarmingly fast).

Done both of those! We are on quite a slope so sledging for the kids always involved the use of a tractor to get back up when they were little. The water slide on a tarp is one of the main features at on of the local village fetes.

Eldest daughter purchased a stainless steel tea tray from a charity shop and grass boarded down the mountain on it in summer and then slid down frozen streams in the winter.

[mothhawk]

Glad to see that I'm not the only one to use the word Hoover instead of Vacuum - I thought it was a local word because the Hoover factory was a few miles up the road from here........
BM - watch where you put your nozzle

It was always a hoover in our house and I was brought up in the English Midlands and I'm not sure we ever owned a Hoover.

I'm also a Midlands lass and actually I also hoover and never vacuum, but I didn't like to use a trademark name instead of the generic term on here in case I got jumped on. My bro always corrects me. He used to get mad when I xeroxed things too, as he worked for Rank Xerox for many years and insisted I was photocopying.

As i understood it the original question didnt specify the particular unusual task had to be hoover related did it?

No indeed Bill, just anything you reckon other folk don't do or wouldn't think of

[Bill HH]

Done both of those! We are on quite a slope so sledging for the kids always involved the use of a tractor to get back up when they were little. The water slide on a tarp is one of the main features at on of the local village fetes.

Eldest daughter purchased a stainless steel tea tray from a charity shop and grass boarded down the mountain on it in summer and then slid down frozen streams in the winter.

A farm is a very dangerous place, but what a childhood children have, the word bored is not in their vocabulary.Ii used to encourage all the village children to come, then I made the buggers work lol.

[Glutton4...]

A load of us local kids borrowed all the beer trays from the local pub, and used them to go tobogganing on in the snow. Got a right rollicking when we took 'em back all bent and scratched!

[Snadger]

I remember once getting on a pram wheeled 'bogie' with a mate when I was a kid and trundling down a mahoosive hill at his farm at a rate of knots. I asked him how we were going to stop the thing. He said "You'll find out in a minute"

There was a swamp at the bottom of the hill!

Dunno what relevance that story has..........it just came into my ed!

[veggiechicken]

I built myself a bogie and wallpapered the orange box seat with cowboys and indians wallpaper left over from my brother's bedroom. It looked so smart - I was really proud of it.
Then I road tested it down the local steep hill/road. Went like a ferrari until I came to the bend at the bottom when I found out that there was a fundamental flaw with the steering design
Wrote off the bogie and nearly myself on the stone wall at the bend
So you could say that something I've done but others don't is- wallpaper their bogies

[bearded bloke]

I vacuam the muck out of inlet manifold when doing a "de-coke"


Before .........






After a scrape,suck & polish ..........

[Bill HH]

Oh I got one, I bet nobody else has been arrested (Nearly) for flying a kite as an adult.
We had bought my son a Peter Powell stunt kite (Brilliant) whilst on holiday and decided to test it out on St Michaels mount beach. I noticed a figure coming towards us in the far distance. It was a copper!
We didnt get off to the best of starts because our Springer spaniel jumped up and covered his immaculate uniform with wet mud. "Did you not realise Sir that it is an offence to fly a kite within half a mile of an airport?" I was stunned and said "What airport?" he then pointed to a building that I had been buzzing for an hour or so, seeing how close I could get. "That Sir is Penzance heliport". It was then i realised all the people in the big window who I thought were clapping my stunning kitemanship were in fact shaking their fists and mouthing explietives from the control tower!!!

[marchogaeth]

I forgot as well, we are remembered in the local electrical shop as the couple who went in for
a) a washing machine. "What sort?" "Has to be big enough to wash the horse rugs in."
b) a vacuum cleaner "Carpets or rugs and tiles?" "Has to be up to cleaning out the baler after hay making."

Anyway that's bit off topic.

[mothhawk]

I forgot as well, we are remembered in the local electrical shop as the couple who went in for
a) a washing machine. "What sort?" "Has to be big enough to wash the horse rugs in."
b) a vacuum cleaner "Carpets or rugs and tiles?" "Has to be up to cleaning out the baler after hay making."

Anyway that's bit off topic.

Not at all marchogaeth. I don't know any farmers who hoover their balers!

Horse blankets? Oh yes!

[mothhawk]

I vacuam the muck out of inlet manifold when doing a "de-coke"

Not knowing what an inlet manifold might be, all I can say is

[Glutton4...]

Ah, Horse blankets/rugs... When I was a teenager, Horse 'laundry' was banned from our local launderette, and they put up a big sign pointing to the camera, so we'd think twice about washing them. Did it work?
No! We just took them in inside black rubbish sacks, and tipped them straight in the washer!