Welcome to #SublimeSunday , a tag presenting you with the unique opportunity to post something a bit different, wacky, crazy or just whatever takes your fancy and instigated by me @c0ff33a ☕️

First up though is a #beautifulsunday (hosted by @ace108) photo with a #funkyedit (hosted by @krazypoet) with Saturation to the Max.

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Blue skies and the beach of Blackpool, if only it was that warm now! It's another #sublimesunday on a Monday because I have quite a busy few days and the weather with Storm Ciara blowing through has been decidedly grim. Fortunately no more of my fencing blew down, in fact the strong winds of the storm were not the biggest issue locally - instead heavy rain over a short period caused localised flooding blocking roads, and ruining homes and businesses.  I was fortunate to escape flooding, but many locals were not so lucky see [a small amount of the Brighouse flooding](https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Y_u6yhZc9/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet) and [Shibden Mill Inn I drive past on my vlogs](https://www.instagram.com/p/B8WDH3WhZKy/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet)

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Friday I was only at work until 11am and then drove the family down to Shropshire for my Grandad's funeral (Mum's Dad) - a sad day of course but we caught up with family and old friends and he had a good send off. We left Minsterly at 7.30pm for the drive back, I've uploaded [dash cam](https://youtu.be/YOD_pOwYl6I?t=540) at Christmas of the back roads and if you follow that link the section of back road it starts at just outside Pontsbury is where we met 3 fire engines, two ambulances 3 Police cars and a closed road - as the fire brigade were trying to cut someone out of a wrecked car. These tight narrow pitch black country roads are very unforgiving, and the hedgerows carry the scars where cars have previously misjudged a turn and gone through them. But of course if you get a wrong on a tight bend when someone is coming in the other direction, the results are even more dramatic. Hopefully it was not a fatal incident, but the road was blocked so we had to do an 8 point turn! on the narrow road and head back to Pontsford to take an even narrower single lane road 

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That actually brought back some memories, because I went to primary school at Annscroft and we then went past Hook-a-Gate and the farm I used to live on until I was ten - with my Grandad and Grandma along with my Mum and Uncle. So the accident added a little time to the journey home, but it brought back a few more memories of my Grandad just passed, and Grandma too who passed some 12 years ago.

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There is nothing like a 6 hour round drive to wear you out, so I slept well Friday night and woke refreshed Saturday morning. After catching up on a bit of Steem I got some inspiration to start a job I was planning on doing between Christmas and New Year at work - but that went out the Window when I ended up looking after the boys alone all Christmas. So Saturday lunch time I headed to work to start clearing the back wall of the loose old flaking paint, the down side of being in a very big, very old stone building that dates back to late 1800's - the last time someone painted inside was probably a good 60 years ago and it's starting to look distinctly rough inside. But because we are pretty much flat out every working day - even getting someone in to paint it would be a challenge - they would want everything cleared out and pretty much stop our own work while they did theirs. So the alternative option is do it myself, it's cheap and I can work around our stuff - and in bite size 5 hour chunks on a weekend it's not too bad really. Well I say that, but when it got to 5.30pm and I wanted to drive home - I opened our roller shutter to drive my car out of the warehouse (it's big enough to park inside - and free parking) only to find someone had parked their beaten up Ford Transit van in front of the roller shutter so I could not get my car out! I waited another hour to see if the returned and moved it - but it was still there so I ended up locking up and getting a Taxi home.

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Sunday after lunch I got another Taxi back to work to continue painting - and the van was still there. But in daylight the reason it was still there became obvious - on the driver side from tyre there was a massive hole where the tire had obviously blown it. The van was also obviously beaten to death, a 2007 plate it was obvious that nobody planned on coming back for it. So I was straight onto the police non emergency line to get it towed - only Storm Ciara had inundated them with calls so fifteen minutes waiting in a queue I finally got through to a nice young man at 1pm who took all the details and said it would get looked into. I went back to painting.

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Another reason to do this myself, I don't mind sticking prehistoric step ladders on equally prehistoric benching and wobbling around while reaching the top most areas of the wall. Because if I fall and injure myself I won't be suing me for compensation. No doubt having this done by someone would require paying for suitable scaffolding to achieve the same goal.

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By 6pm I had progressed quite well with my painting, and a nice lady from the Police rang up about my abandoned van problem. She confirmed from the registration plate of the van it had no insurance and no registered owner - and so would be impounded. Of course with all the flooding and gale force wind issues she could not say when they could get someone to move it, but they would do their best to get it done before we resumed normal business. I said I could live with getting a taxi home and back again - because really it's a minor inconvenience compared to the flooding and storm damage people have suffered. I decided to keep working until 7pm to see if it would be moved before then, and just as 7pm passed and I was literally dialing for a taxi I hear the sound of a big diesel engine and air brakes....Opening the roller shutter a man appeared "is this your van mate?", no I said it's stopping me going home! No problem he said, give me five minutes and it will be gone. 

I stood and watched him work despite the cold just out of interest, in retrospect I should have taken a video because it was quite fascinating. His vehicle had a flat bed at the back that would hold the van, he had parked what I though was quite a distance from the van - but when he operated the flat bed it lifted first and then tilted before moving downwards until it stopped on the road less then 10cm from the van front - the precision was uncanny I don't know if his vehicle had a radar to say stop at this point or if he was just so skilled from experience he knew where to stop. With the flat bed ramp ready to take on the van, he attached chains to the front wheel left and right axles - no tow hook messing he got under then van and attached the chains to the strongest points he could to pull it with. 

Setting off with his winch there were two problems, the van was a little too far to the right compared to his flat bed and the van had been left with the wheels angled right - so It wanted to pull right and was already too near the right edge of the flat bed. Quickly he solved both problems, using a pulley he clipped to the winch cable and then the left middle point on the flat bed the van was pulled to the perfect position to go up the ramp. Removing the winch he then solved the wheels being at a right angle direction using plastic ramps with a front upright - positioned at the front of the van tires they moved onto these plastic ramps - stopped at the upright but being plastic they slid readily where they tire would grip  - so his winch could pull the van where it needed to be. With these sliders in place he pulled the van right onto the flat bed, strapped every wheel down with ratchet strapping and then reversed the process with the ramp pulling itself back up towards the recovery truck and then lowering to hold the van on the back of it. And that was it - 10 minutes and he was gone with the abandoned van, and I could finally drive my car out of the warehouse and go home!

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So that was my exciting weekend, I was so worn out I was asleep by 9.30pm Sunday hence no #SublimeSunday on a Sunday - I'm such an old fart! Anyway a #funkyedits to finish of a pretty flower in Sunnier times at York.

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