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Nothing much happening here, except that the rear lamp fell orf. The guard really should use better glue.

Not sure which looked the best so to save me deciding here are both versions.....

A pause in shunting on a Radnorshire byway:

Just had the good news that Gemma's PCR test is negative so she's gone back to school and will be able to go to the university open day on Saturday.

Good moaning. It's cool down ere but I warmed myself up yesterday emptying the sand from the trailer. I did put some polythene sheets and a sheet of sterling board on the grass first. In the afternoon we played hunt the cake shop. Gateaux was closed for half term but we did find one called Coffee Cave and had some delicious cakes. Rich fruit cake for me, lovely and moist. Lemon meringue cake for Beth. That vanished very quickly. Slices of other cakes were purchased for later consumption. Quite a good way of spending an afternoon. I also had a good natter to my brother at one point. We don't talk often but enjoy it when we do. Mike called about 7pm to update us. He'd spent his second day at court and has to go back today. The sparky and plumber are owed more than Mike so the total is of €20,000 plus costs and rising. The expat has been arrested and interviewed. His passport has been confiscated and all his bank accounts and assets frozen. There is talk of the case eventually being completed at a higher court in Angouleme. It looks as if Mike will get his money in the next couple of days. All this averted by Mike alerting the bank and the bank moving very quickly. If they had been 90 minutes later at the Notaire's office the money would have gone to the UK. Anyway it's a tip run for me today for a friend then some work at the house we look after. Simon, I do hope that things improve. Jamie

Farewell to Cwm Prysor…. I have made the difficult decision to sell Cwm Prysor. I feel the layout got mixed up in the baggage of my Dad’s death and it’s time to let it go and move on. Feel free to get in touch if anyone is interested. Some of the stock maybe available for separate negation.

I haver resorted to technological warfare.. Baz 1 Bangalore Telecom/Microsoft/HP 0.. see.. years of being an engineer meant I knew exactly where and how to hit it with a soft headed mallet. Now fighting with the Sumup Card reader for our show.. PAH! Why are these things so difficult to set up?? Next door knocking more holes in walls.. hopefully that side of our semi will fall down soon... Baz

I've had a 24 hour 'holiday' from RMweb but have returned after tilting at the IT windmills. My apologies for the ensuing long post. Feel free to skip to the end. Yesterday evening, after working during the day, my laptop declared that there was "no internet". Assuming that the WiFi modem had wobbled (the usual cause) I reset* it, but since it takes a while to reboot and not really needing to be online I decided not to recheck until today. * More accurately I power cycled it. (I installed an inline switched plug for the purpose since US outlets do not have switches.) Today the laptop still declared "no internet". I went three rounds with my internet provider - one that US residents would recognize as a very large cable television provider which had a terrible reputation for customer support. A month or so ago, they had shipped me a new modem (which I hadn't requested, along with an explanation that there were "issues" with the five-year old one) and kept sending me emails about sharing with them how much I liked the new one and returning the old one (which of course was still installed). I took the opportunity (with two consecutive calls to telephone support women, who I strongly suspect were from a call centre south of the border, but were much nicer to work with than the dreadful AI call handling system which desperately wanted me to electronically chat or SMS for assistance) to install the new modem (which turned out to be basically the same model as the old one). The result: "no internet". A technician visit was scheduled between 4:00pm and 6:00pm and he arrived at around 5:45pm. The tech busied himself undoing all the installations of unity gain amplifier and attenuators that the previous installer had fitted to the cable set top boxes and then installed an newer, upgraded modem. The result again: "no internet" - but this time it was clear that the laptop was the culprit - somehow. None of the usual "forgetting" WiFi connections or rebooting the PC had any effect. He left happy to have done his bit, without me materially any further along than 24 hours previously. He did save me a trip to the UPS store to return the old modem(s). I was envisioning having to cancel a Zoom conversation with my cousin and venturing out tomorrow to an electronics store, laptop in hand, to diagnose my WiFi connection. This evening however, poking around Windows networking panels I found an option to nuke all the networking sockets and after a Windows, self-induced self reboot, all was magically restored. My HP printer did need to have it's WiFi connection reset but is back in action and printing happily, despite warning that ink supplies are "critically low". I profoundly despise doing consumer IT work. It really requires expertise which few possess. All is now well ahead of my zoom call tomorrow with my cousin - so long as the laptop can find the internet tomorrow.

No trains, but the entrance to Wykeham Station. Metcalfe buildings, Redutex road surface, Scalescene pavement, Kytes Lights Belisha Beacons, Oxford Diecast taxis and Bachmann people. IMG_1021 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr

My aunt (the oldest of four sisters, but not yet 90) was recently moved into aged-care facility. She is very unwell. Shortly after her admission a Queensland CoViD lockdown prohibited all visits. Her sisters were able to visit on Monday. I'll check in with my cousin by Zoom tomorrow to see how she is doing. She has a room with a nice view (of the Brisbane River) but of course she can't see the view from her bed. She does not possess a mobile telephone and when the lockdown hit, it had been too soon to transfer her landline telephone from her home to the aged-care facility. When I last spoke to my cousin, this was still a work in progress. Meanwhile the family is packing up her home. A few years ago she was spry and healthy. She had knee surgery, which went well, and didn't wait for a nurse to get up to use the toilet. Her downhill spiral started with a fall. I won't go into all the subsequent complications. Her lesson to me is avoid falls.

Good morning all, Simon, sorry that your anniversary was not what you would have wished and I hope that you can both celebrate properly in the near future. Still dark but dry here and a cloudy day with some sunny spells is forecast with temperatures reaching 17°C. Bin day today but only one lorry due. All through the pandemic collections have been superb but over the past 3 weeks have not been quite so good and sometimes 1 - 3 days late. Shortage of drivers we're told. Sainsbury's delivery is due between 8.00 and 9.00. Here again they've been superb and today there are only 2 minor acceptable substitutions. I paid a visit to Wickes yesterday to get some decorating materials but still not very enthusiastic about the task. Need to extract a digit or three. News from Nicki is that after many weeks off recovering from a major operation she will be returning to work on Monday but on reduced hours for a while. Gemma is waiting to hear the results of a PCR test as someone at school has caught Covid. LF tests have been negative but she has a bit of a cold and is worried as she's due to go to an open day at Sussex University (where Joe is) on Saturday with a view to going there next year. Time to take tea to The Boss, Have a good one, Bob.

To end the speculation I am posting a link here to our own web site about several of Adrian's 7mm ranges and the Classic Commercials range - https://www.djparkins.com/home.php?cat=350 Please note the part about us not having the time to get into discussions about individual items. We are very busy getting all the currently available items onto the sight and re-tooling out of stock ones. Updates will be made at very regular intervals as more stuff is being added every day - see the sidebar menus on our home page - https://www.djparkins.com/home.php - for the individual ranges. There are some real bargains to be had at present, as with the stock that came with our purchase, we thought we'd just keep the prices at or just below those charged when Adrian was last trading - and hopefully this will provide an alternative to some of the exhorbitant prices being suggested on a certain auction site for [in particular] the 43-two-1 wagon kits. As new production costs get applied in the future, then obviously prices will have to rise - though of course we will always strive to keep them as low as possible, as we do with our own MMP kits. For the SR Coach building fans amongst you, you might want to check this link out! - https://www.djparkins.com/home.php?cat=351 Regards to all, David Parkins An afterthought! With the inherited stocks of wagon kits you get the added bonus of addtional reading material from the scrunched-up pages Adrian used for packing. Catch up with the Radio Times and the Poole & Dorset Herald from as far back as the 1970s!

Ey up! It's Thursday so it's Moreasons day. Herself is already sharpening her claws in case anyone gets too close while shopping. As for me, I have a Newsletter to compose and issue regarding our Exhibition in a weeks time. Fixing broken items and some booking of a restaurant for a reunion at the end of the month will keep me busy this morning. After that..who knows? Time to drink y mugatea! Stay safe! Baz

An e-mail yesterday from my favourite travel company told me that in about two weeks' time I will know whether or not I will be visiting Switzerland over Christmas and New Year. There must be at least an even chance that it will not happen. Oh no, not again, please. Last year the festive season was pretty dreadful without it, not helped by the decision of those who rule us to close the posh hotel where I would have had my substitute dinner. I must try not to think about it until I know for certain. Good luck with that. Oh well, never mind. Plenty of other things are likely to happen before the big day. My flu jab is all arranged and will be administered on Tuesday of next week. Every little helps. Best wishes to all Chris

Cheers, everyone. Quite wet and autumnal outside! Feeling somewhat ropey today. Dunno why, but I did get some work done at least. Speaking of sat navs requiring updates, I noticed ours showed a map update this morning, too. To simplify matters, I downloaded the entire package and nipped outside to install it from a flash drive when I needed a break. Thinking of everyone under the weather...

Photos on the Newcastle to Carlisle line again today, between Prudhoe and Hexham. Prudhoe Class 156 to Sunderland 31st Dec 93 C19260 Stocksfield 143001 Hexham to Sunderland 15th April 89 C11864 Riding Mill 142015 Hexham to Sunderland 5th Aug 95 C20358 Hexham 9F 92220 Newcastle to Hexham in celebration of Blaydon to Hexham 150th anniversary, 1835 to 1985 9th March 85 C6753 Hexham 143615 Hexham to Sunderland July 90 J11041 David

Here's my current WIP project from my N/2mm workbench. On the left is a Shapeways 3D printed wagon. It's a former Murgatroyd's 35t liquid chlorine bogie tanker by Maridunian’s Models. You get a body and chassis which needs mounting on NGS plate-back bogies. Ladders and buffers are included as 3D prints but are rather chunky so I'll be using etched ladders and vee hangers, brass buffers and wire bracing. It's far from finished as the ladders need to be added, the tank is not yet fixed to the chassis and some more painting and weathering is required. The wagon on the right is a NGS kit built TTA chemical tanker. Just about complete except for some weathering.

A'noon. First time we visited Amberley (for a miniature traction engine rally, admittedly a 'few' years ago) we looked in the communications museum and saw the mobile phone Debs had only recently at the time stopped using (Philips Diga) and both burst out laughing simultaneously. It was a good phone in its day and worked in places others wouldn't. The other thing about Amberley is they won't give us Polar Bear back, but they do bring her over to play at Groudle occasionally.

Printer still acting like a complete pile of wotsitdoodoos. PAH! It is either a HP printer problem.. (built in obsolescence??) or Bangalore Telecom.. Baz

Curious conversations about "satnavs". My car (purchased new in 2003) has one built-in. It uses maps stored on a DVD player. Back then, the car manufacturer used to send me annual postcards suggesting I should purchase a new DVD map for the price of a multiple of $100 (which I never did) but they stopped doing this many years ago and the maps are now quite out of date. (My home is not even on the map, but I have a marker that is 'close enough'.) I am a convert to mobile telephone turn by turn directions. With horrible, unpredictable traffic (or road closures) on my familiar routes, the 'real-time' alternatives spontaneously provided en-route can be very handy and have saved me much anxiety on numerous occasions. Some of them were really intriguing and effective - I would never have thought of them. Recent "improvements" to suggest more fuel economy-friendly routing seem to have mitigated some of the really clever features that were implemented in mobile telephone navigation applications. They're not perfect. One day this summer when the highway traffic was particularly diabolical, I wanted a more relaxing alternative. I couldn't make it recognize the route below until I reached the far shore.

Morning, rock still 12c, or the thermometer needs Q's input. Thoughts firstly to Simon and his family, and fervent hopes they can diagnose Mrs T's issues and begin to treat her effectively. The day here will be occupied by driving to the Big City to return wireless ear bud things to TXMaxx, as they won't pair with each other, and the master bud is the wrong side.....firmware issues presumably. Annoying to have to go there just for one thing, we have no other business there for ages. I'll pop across way out west to see John on the way back, or if they're out, have an ice cream on Peel prom, they place there has diabetic ice cream. Yum. I wonder what I was supposed to do today I'll forget.....

Mooring Awl inner temple Hare, 4hours solid sleep, long awake, 3 hours very broken sleep. Ben the alarm clock Collie got me up at the correct normal time, and has been out for a splash and dash. New rigger boots today, slightly more expensive than the previous pairs but maybe the sole won't break up this time. They are however a lot stiffer and not as comfortable, hopefully they'll break in .. I've had a few bad training sessions over the years, from a 3 month course in the RAF where the only person who hadn't worked on the equipment was the instructor. To a Microsoft office course where the instructor had very poor English. Most of my current courses are definitely carp, generally not in person or via zoom. They each appear as an email telling us to complete the "trainings" by a certain date. You go to your company personal web "trainings" page click the subject and you normally get the option of a video or slide like pages. The English is poor American business talk, it's written for 5 year olds, very American biased often quoting American laws, but at least you can click through most of it rapidly and just answer the very dumb questions at the end of each section. I would think those people handing out antivax leaflets should be arrested for attempted manslaughter, unusual, but they could cause the death of people with something they don't believe in.. Our Christmas dinners in kit form will be bought towards the end of November, I'd prefer turkey, I like traditional fare, but we won't pay stupid money for it, so a beef joint is probably more likely this year. A gammon joint will also be bought for boxing day. Today I'm not at work, the car is getting its MOT, but it's SWMBO's late friends funeral today so I'm taxi driver in the Landrover. Then we'll see if the car is finished after the funeral. Time to lay about, before putting bacon in a trying pan..

Motor-fitted ex-Midland 1P with Belpaire firebox awaits its next journey to the junction.

Our landline is VOIP by Orange it also fails with the shortest power cut and we have to wait for the router to reboot. However we will retain it. Mobile reception is so patchy in the village that most of us use the landlines for reliable connections. Beth's satnav is by Renault and does not like updating using a USB that has anything else on it. I keep one just for updates. It also has a strange feature. When we get tothe French ferry port on journeys to the UK, I so eti es amuse myself by settiig up our UK destination. It always routes us via Calais even if we are at St Malo. As to PB's point about the con man getting away with it in the UK, it would all depend on uow keen the police officer it was reported to was. With 3 victims, system, has been proved so there is a prima facie offence under the Theft Act. IIRC Section 16 or 17, Crimibal Deception. The bouncing of cheques from two differ banks is good evidencevof dishonesty. What has made a huge difference over here is that, A) There are locally based staff in a local branch of the bank. B) The fact that the Notaire will almost certainly be on 1st name terms with the bank officials, and head Gendarme. Once that triangle was set up things moved very quickly. Jamie

The only reason I still have a landline is for emergencies, we have an ancient phone up in the bedroom that doesn't have to be plugged to the mains or anything. So it will soon be in the dustbin and one major powercut away from everybody realising just how that little copper wire could be a lifeline in a blackout.

Morning all The sat nav update didnt complete downloading last night I feel like re enacting the printer scene but using a pick axe handle. The sorry antivaxxers list is just a litany of mind bending stupidity the more removed from the gene pool

Morning a bit wild and windy but currently dry, SWMBO has a trip to the x-ray dept. this afternoon, I shall be the taxi driver again, other than that looks like a quiet one. On the subject of fitness, I find I really do have to make the effort, hill walking really does give me a lift, so lots of flatter miles are done to ensure I keep active, playing football with a seven year old is however, not compatible with worn out knees I have found lol.

Baseball bats? Sorry old boy but this is England don't you know? Would a cricket bat suffice?

We had a communication from BT that they are planning to replace our phone line with “Digital Home”. The main landline phone will need be plugged into the router and any other landline phone or fax extensions plugged into a wireless adapter. Unlike the existing system the phone won’t work if there is a domestic power cut. Sounds fun.

Oh hell no. It is like the Darwin Awards meets Whackadoodles are us, and people of Walmart, all rolled into one big inbred mess. Half of me feels sorry they were gullible idiots & duped, half of me is happy they are out of the gene pool before they did any more damage. I still get called upon when anyone in the family has issues. Most recently managed to restore MiLs broadband connection over a Whatsapp call. I really do dread the "can you fix....." calls from others. Some of whom can only be arsed to contact me when they want something. For those of you with dinosaur mobile phones, I have bad news. They will be obsolete in the next few years. For starters the nice <cough> people at BT/EE are decommissioning their 2g and 3g services in the SE. Large swathes of Kent and the boring borough will have their gsm signals switched off in the coming months. Looks like the cost of maintaining all the extra and life expired equipment outweighs the ever shrinking number of customers still using ancient devices. Greetings from the boring borough. Nothing but the mundane banalities of life here so nothing else to say. Pumpkin spice latte at the ready and time for the first meeting of the day. Enjoy the day.

Had some more of my hooter removed this morning but luckily the surgeon decided that since he wasn't enlarging the area of the previous excavation very much but mainly making it deeper he didn't need to do a skin graft. So I'm back to having an enormous dressing that has me looking like a cross between one of Mike Tyson's victims and a plague doctor and it aint 'arf sore. If I play the poor wounded soldier card well enough, though, I may get some quality modelling time in tomorrow so it could be that every cloud etc. For now, though, a brace of cocodamol and an early night beckon. TTFN Dave

Leave the hangar doors locked, no flying today. I know which one I would plump for. Unusually, I'd let Bangalore Telecom off of the hook on this occasion. Unfortunately I believe that to be one of the most important lessons in life. It's importance rises exponentially with advancing years. Unbelievable isn't it. I did find myself actually starting to feel a bit sorry for them in their total stupidity but I snapped out of that PDQ. An acquaintance always used to say; "Stupid is as stupid does" which seems entirely apt. I'd better start training mother up on the use of smart phones then! We've got to start finding her an alternative mobile provider anyway as good old Virgin informed her the other day that her PAYG service will cease to be in January. We'll all need to install emergency power supplies soon, a diesel generator set in every home. That'll save the planet. Me thinks the modern option of ditching fixed installations entirely might be the way to go shortly. I received an invitation the other day from BT advising me that perhaps it was time to "upgrade" my terminate at anytime landline facilities. One of the two suggested alternatives would cost approximately another £11/month and the other another £18/month both "locked in" for another 24 months with with what benefit for me? Stupid is as stupid does ....... I haven't been to the Amberley museum for something like 30 years. Sounds to me like you would do well to ensure that you have some assistance & company when you set off on your long journey south of the river In other news: You will find an extremely smug Puppers here in Puppershire today. Puppers = 1 Dyson & Vacuum cleaner = 0 The repair to the recalcitrant Dyson "Brush Bar" has been completed successfully. I may bore you with a couple of photographs later and invite you to play a round of the engineering design game "Smart or Stupid". Oh what excitement! Other than that, we've been out this morning to buy the stuff that I was going to get yesterday but found I was too busy doing things like repairing vacuum cleaners, washing my hair and generally "couldn't be bothered". This means further DIY in the hall can now be done (Boo!) but, on the bright side, we stopped off at the local farm shop and stocked up with lots of fresh, yummy meat. Looks like Shepard's Pie to night! Toodle pip! Alan

I have training and coaching qualifications. Even without prior knowledge of the subject matter and course material I could have done a much better job standing in a tub of congealed peanut butter with one hand tied behind my back.

Pre-lunch tea break with pills! Sandpaper has been deployed both manually and attached to an electrical device. Somebody (not too far away from me) wants decorating done but "without making a mess!" Yet to find a way of sanding down paintwork without a certain amount of "mess." Answers on a postcard please. There is a lot more "mess" to come over the next few hours days weeks.

We dumped our BT line a couple of years ago. £31 a month for nuisance calls. SWMBO now just uses Whatsapp to contact her parental units. MiL really prefers the video chat. I do have one ancient phone that I'd love to be able to integrate with the computer or wifi to be used as a traditional phone but at the moment nothing exists apart from the BT Digital Home option, which isn't available here yet, and no doubt will be costly and again filled with spam, scam, and crap calls.

This was foisted on Australia under the guise of "the National Broadband Network" with uneven results. In the Australian implementation, all the telephone appliances were replaced with VOIP devices. I couldn't telephone my parents for weeks - and now my inbound calls are not identified by caller ID and they don't pick up thinking I'm a spammer with my "unknown" number. Here I have fibre to the home with an IP-POTS converter for my "landline". It does work in a power outage for a while - until the batteries fail. VOIP devices will be totally power dependent.

Anyone familiar with the movie Office Space will know that baseball bats are the proper solution for recalcitrant printers. You can find the relevant clip here. (Warning - NSFW lyrics.) It's actually much funnier in context in the movie, understanding what drives them to this point. I imagine a Bangalore Torpedo would be effective.

Handrails are a very sensible precaution - for bathing/showers in particular. Of course anything related to bathroom remodelling is expensive but here there is a lot of focus on low step / no step bathing (step-in tubs, or showers with seating and rails), and designs are such that they don't have the 'institutional' look of what was in the past designated as "accessible" or came from the creepy part of a full-service pharmacy supplying mobility aids.

When navigators were first introduced, if you were approaching Horning from the south by car, you were met with this view. .. At that time there was no ferry and hadn't been for many many years.. and it's probably 10 miles to go all the way round via bridge..

Good evening everyone Well I was right about the weather looking dodgy this morning, we had a couple of light showers before dinner and another one after dinner too! Although the rain wasn’t heavy, I’m glad I was in the workshop when it did rain though! The workshop and shed are starting to look a little more organised than they were this morning. Of the two shelves I put up in the workshop, one was to replace a temporary shelf, that was made from a wide piece of pallet wood. The new shelf is a little bit wider than the previous shelf and extra shelf, which has been fitted directly above this is also proving very useful. I’ve been able to put several small compartmented boxes that contain plastic gears, a few more boxes of different sized cable ident markers on the top shelf. These are now readily available, but out of the way, leaving other shelves to house stuff that is used on a more regular basis, closer to hand. I’ve also transferred all my power tools and larger DIY tools to the shed, where they are all stored together on the same shelving rack. It’s all starting to look a lot tidier and a lot less like a dumping ground, which is what it had become.

With it now being revealed that Crovan's Gate has a triangle. Locos can be depicted smokebox or cab first. It evens out the flange wear after all! No. 2 make a start away from Ward Fell with another load of slate for the Wharf at Crovan's Gate.

Granby Shed

Well it seems that after some investigation Bear's phone is an iphone 4s (I knew the first bit, but didn't know the 4s bit) and works quite happily on something called 3g. Apparently the current model is a number 13 - and Apple want the best part of seven hundred notes for that (HOW f.MUCH??). Signed, A "I'll keep what I've got, thanks very much" kinda Bear (And BT et all can go ** themselves and stop messin' with things that ain't busted....jeez they make enough profit as it is (BT made £21,370M in 2021, apparently) Can you blame them? Polar bear display stuns Isle of Man shoppers - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-46260817 Shocking - in public as well....

I've made a start on the shed walls; they may need to be higher, I'm not sure at the moment. The gap in the back wall is where the straight shed will be. Peter

Do your employer have their own trainers, or employ external companies to do the training? If it's the latter then they should review who they are choosing. Do you get a feedback form to say what you thought of the training? Certain stories can have a habit of making a Bear smile Now why is it that if a similar event occurred in the UK they would've got away with it? (e.g. released pending further enquiries/not enough evidence to proceed/civil matter - so see a solicitor etc. etc.) Ah yes, now what's that saying.... "A friend in need is a friend indeed pain in the ass" In other news: Bear delivered Grandpa Bear's Radiogram to the Museum yesterday https://www.amberleymuseum.co.uk/ An excellent museum IIRC (and I'm told it's moved on a lot since then) - it must be 20+ years since I was last there; the Curator offered to show me round but sadly time was against me, so she very kindly said that if I contact her at a later date then she'll arrange a complimentary pass and show me round - and hopefully the Radiogram will be on display by then The M25 was it's usual bundle of joy - and Bear copped a stone chip on the Bearmobile's windscreen in the process ; fortunately it's on the passenger side, high up and fixable - and also very close to the dashcam's suction mount so that will do a slight sideways shift by about half an inch to cover it. Halfords have been booked to do a chip repair at home on Saturday for the grand sum of forty quid (Autoglass wanted £170-odd for the same thing ); since my insurance excess is £75 that made no sense either - and whilst it doesn't affect my no-claims bonus that doesn't mean it wouldn't affect next year's premium...

Well, if that's as 'controversial' as RM gets then all is well in the World. P

Except of course, for most, their genes have been passed on. More seriously I'm not convinced that poor decision making is a genetic trait. Once 5g infrastructure is at a critical mass, even my 4g 'phone won't function much longer, though service can be so poor it spends a lot of time in 3g mode. (At home I can't reliably make/receive calls without using WiFi calling and I am in the middle of the metro area.) With greater distances to cover in the US, I suspect 3g will have a longer lifespan here than the providers would prefer.

Ok if you had your fishing rods, not if you wanted a pint..

That is one thing that concerns me, a decline in my fitness. Its perhaps more noticeable after lockdown as the decline was gradual and not very noticeable before. I have had to make some adaptations such as handrails as I live on my own and falls are one thing to be avoided.

Do what I do - spend time here for a nice soothing dose of schadenfraude... https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/ Todays forecasts is severe storms and up to 30mm of rain. That La Nina thing has really kicked in here now. At least the place isnt on fire though.