Thread: My daughter to the rescue

Originally Posted by Arapiles

Where in Ireland are you? I was in Westport and Castlebar a couple of years ago .... visiting the family graves.

County Donegal

Originally Posted by LRJim

Bought my wife a ryobi drill, whipper snipper, shears, blower etc
Now she hangs all her own photos on the walls, puts together bunnings/kmart furniture like stands shelves etc and uses the whipper and garden tools flat out, best investment ever.

When we moved back to Australia my wife went and bought a lawn mower - for years afterwards I wasn't allowed to touch it because it was clearly too complex for me. So she got to do all the lawn mowing and I had to watch. Damn.

Originally Posted by spudfan

County Donegal

A bit north of Mayo then. We probably have family in Donegal too because my mother was an O'Neill.

Originally Posted by Arapiles

A bit north of Mayo then. We probably have family in Donegal too because my mother was an O'Neill.

It's a big place (by Irish standards!). O Neill would not be a familiar name in my area.

Originally Posted by spudfan

It's a big place (by Irish standards!). O Neill would not be a familiar name in my area.

We know a fair bit about my father's family but less about my mother's - will have to do some research on it.

Originally Posted by spudfan

He is 26 years young.......

Is the Cup weight for age? Whatever that means.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

weight for age? Whatever that means.

A horse named 'Paunch'!

Originally Posted by spudfan

My daughter works at a child minding facility in the evenings doing meals and cleaning up. It helps pay for her pony and college. The other day it seems a gate at the bottom of a flight of stairs broke a top hinge. This came to my daughter's attention when she saw one of the staff trying to hold it up and other staff wondering how to sort it out.
When my daughter got her 90 tdi I got her a tool kit with basic tools like, screwdrivers, pliers etc plus a set of spanners for maintenance. My daughter told them that the only way to remedy the situation was to remove the gate and get a replacement hinge fitted to the top. She said she had a tool kit in the Land Rover and she could remove the gate. So she got the toolkit and removed the bottom hinge and freed up the gate. Now this is the good part. This in my daughter's own words..
"Manager was like why do you have a tool kit and when I said because I drive a land rover and have a stable she just looked at me like my answer didn't make sense."
One proud father

Some years ago my eldest daughter was helping me doing summat. Boyfriend was trying to drill a hole in the end of a 1/2" rod for summat.
Him. "Drill keeps wandering around" he sez while getting the ****s on.


After a couple of tries at it & him cursing she said "Stick a decent centre punch mark in it"


He was absolutely amazed when it worked.

She had watched me work in the shed & been out with me on many Service Calls & you never know what they observed. Same with Cooking.