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Showing posts with label Seb. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 November 2014

My Granny

Person

My Granny – I have three grandmothers: Nanna, Granna and Granny. But here I am describing my Granny. She is tall, around about as tall as my mum but shorter than my dad. She is on the thin side and has skin as wrinkly as the bark of a tree. She wears squarish glasses and has brown hair that is greying. She is normally cheerful but she can get cross sometimes (she used to be a teacher so she had some time to practise).

Family

My Granny is my Dad’s Mum. She is divorced now, which is how I got three grandmothers. She is the oldest out of herself and her two sisters. She has 2 sons and one daughter.  She has five grandsons and no granddaughters much to her dismay. I am her youngest grandson but only by 6 hours – two of us were born on the same day (very annoying for Granny because we were born in different cities and she couldn’t be in two places at once).

Hobbies

My Granny loves her crosswords, she sits there for hours solving crossword after crossword. She also loves jigsaw puzzles (there’s always one on the table). Sometimes Granny does a bit of gardening. Granny likes playing puzzle games on her computer when she runs out of crosswords. She volunteers a lot for various thing such as the citizens advice bureau, something were people help the old aged people work their computers (e.g. their teenage grandson buys them a laptop for their 80th and they can’t turn it on) and many other things. But the thing she likes most of all is spending time with her grandsons, who visit her constantly.

Funny Story


Granny practically always leaves stuff behind when she goes home. Things like hearing aids, glasses (you would have thought that was impossible), camera, and even her phone. She also drove off with my carseat when I was younger. There’s also granny’s shopping list, which is both confusing and funny. It has word like Broc-li = broccoli, gladly wrapped might mean glad wrap and I scream cones might mean Ice cream cones (that is only a small example of the crazy things on my Granny’s shopping list).

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Welding Pictures

Here are some photos of me welding, hope you like them :-)

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Monday, 10 February 2014

Welding

During the holidays I decided to teach myself to weld. this mean doing lot of research such as reading articles about welding and watching YouTube videos. I will put some photos up as soon as I can.


Welding is often thought of as getting blowtorch and melting two pieces of metal together, however its not that at all, There are two arc welding processes that I am using: stick, which is self explanatory getting a metal rod of the material you want to weld and strike the electrode like a match on the metal you want to weld and off you, there's MIG, where you put wire into the machine turn the gas flow rate to right speed, pull the trigger and of you go. The basics are get an arc welder, some electrodes (in my case stick electrodes and MIG wire) and flip the welding mask down and pull the trigger on the wire feed gun and start welding and its still not as easy as that. There's travel speed, drag angle and the distance from the wire feed gun and the base metal, all and all it is a lot harder than you think.


I got my welders on long-term loan from my uncle who can't weld himself but part of the deal was that once me and my dad are good at welding we will teach him. my dad knows vaguely about welding but has done no research so I am having to teach myself and him how to weld. I haven't done much welding, but enough that I can write this post about my experiences. I suggest that you find someone you are friends with that has a welder and have a try. My dream of welding came true because I didn't give up on getting a welder so I could weld and I hope that your dreams come true as well.


Seb