New Haven Neil

The average price in our village is somewhat skewed by the late Trevor Hemmings (he was worth over a billion) having a mansion and stud/stables here. He was a top line racehorse owner, used to fly out every day in a personal helicopter to races. The house and stud is worth......a LOT. Three time Grand National winner.

Rant Incoming: House and contents insurance. Last year £230, this year £647. WHAAAAT! On a rock where there is hardly any crime, away from water courses, pit heaps, etc etc. So the story is they now use 'blanket cover' in areas, and the value of our house is taken as a million.........I wish. £330k more like it, it's tiny. Tried three other companies, same story. (Probably same underwriters). LV came to the rescue at slightly under £230, with Civil Serpent Motoring Club membership. So why this stupid blanket cover lark, while there are houses in the village with that sort of value (and one of ten times that) why should we be paying their costs? /rant.

Indeed - if you have ever shot a bow without an arm guard, the string buzz from that multiplied by about ten!

ION: I ate the TimTam. Special treat. It was nicer than a Penguin, no contest, very tasty. Therefore it was probably full of Anti-iD stuff......to survive the 'strine climate I suppose. I won't be having another due to previously mentioned diabetes, shame really as it was nice.

We don't shoot traditional, we shoot barebow field, so don't know, but the modern wooden bows are all laminated, no idea what the woods are in them either as we use modern materials. Cheap and last longer! A couple of the guys use modern wood bows, they are exquisite to look at but one v expensive one failed.

Note from Fraggite long term multiple motorcycle owner - don't cut them to accurate (allegedly) length off the bike , cut them down maybe, but mount the pipes up and hang the silencers and see where bolt holes come - the newies will NOT be in the same place, guaranteed!

The one thing in Kiwi that was way better than the UK version (weather too, but foodstuffs at the moment!) is the Moro bar - like a Mars bar, but maltier and very yummy. #sigh#

Nah- either Choco-Leibnitz, or M&S Extremely Chocolatey Rings. All verboten now 😇

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I don't eat biscuits, being diabetic, but will have a nibble of the TimTam to see. As I don't much like Penguins anyway (from pre-diabetes days) I can't see it as a life changing experience! I do like Marmite and can suffer Vegemite if I have to, but not by choice - we have family in New Zealand and they won't buy Marmite.

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Ash is popular for arrows too, but we use terribly modern carbon fibre ones. Our mate Geoff shoots wooden arrows, but with a very powerful bow, you need a more powerful bow as the wood arrows heavy, he is a: a man mountain so can pull a 50lb bow, and b: the best archer in the club. Oh and an all round nice bloke, but you don't want to stand in front of him when he's shooting!

Morning, from a sunny rock that lies, it feels pretty chilly out there despite showing 10c. @monkeysarefun there's no chance of anything being in Annette's luggage without getting severely flattened, beaten and destroyed, non-Australian or not! Think 'The fat broad' from the BC cartoons. Lethal. She also delivered a packet of Tim Tams, they just look like UK Penguin biscuits, but I haven't had a nibble of one yet. Not sure what the day will bring, I'm a bit under the weather so won't be riding out to the Old Farts breakfast, but may go in the car. It's still too cold when you're not quite well.

Mrs NHN met up with a retired work-mate today, on her return from Upside-downie land - she brought an immigrant with her, a boat person....well, an Airbus person......wellllll, a Donk really....called Bruce apparently, who would have thought it. He's just young we think, he's not fully grown but obviously related as he doesn't have Eeyore's dozy eyes but the wideawake mischief making Donk eyes. No doubt he'll be in the news again soon. Apparently the spideys and snakey things in upside-downie land were not to his liking, and who can blame him!

Hmm. Preservative (preservatif?) means something else entirely where Jamie lives!

I have been a member of two of those institutes over the years, one the same as JJB would have been in (but NOTHING like as senior!) and the other #cough# CIPD (HR), but I had to present examined qualifications to both - and money of course. The CIPD in particular used to get my goat as the monthly magazine was literally self promotion and job adverts, and a mere ONE page of new case law that was relevant to my practice. I'm now in neither as I don't send them any money. I did manage to pressure wash a lot of the paths, until my hips and back gave up, we'll see if the remainder looking dirty will provoke SWMBO to do the rest - or just tell me to do it. I can guess.......😇

Always liked that angle! Hope your day is going a bit better......

Morning, from a rock that surprised us early doors by being 2c and frosty. Eeuww. Not sure about the morning's activities, it was going to be making a start on pressure washing the garden paths as they are getting rather slippy, but it needs to warm up a bit first. Then some drivelling with friends, which I will have to leave early to attend my diabetic eye review in the Big City. I see the see the speel chucker doesn't like 'slippy' - both it and 'slippery' are in the Oxford English......checked it years ago as a (southern) mate insisted it wasn't a correct word and I should say slippery, so presume it is a north/south divide thing? Regardless, they paths are slippy!

Thirded.

Currently an Icelandic one I think! Chilly NW wind, 9c, grey. Ugh, when will spring sproing?

Morning, from a dull, breezy rock that manages a disappointing 7c currently. Pah. Mrs NHN is off today, this is the start of her working part time, 4 days a week, so she has two Fridays a week now. When I left real employment locking up re-guiding young people and went to work with JB at Trackshack I decided not to work Fridays. This was a mistake, as the day soon merged into the weekend and I felt little benefit from it. As Trackshack got bigger and I took on more responsibilities (Director, technical manager) the stress built and didn't stop just because I wasn't actually physically in work. Running a small business (we went from 3 to 8 employees) is no gentle retirement job I soon discovered. So Mrs NHN has chosen a different route, we'll see how that pans out. Her boss (She's PA to the head of fleet services) is really supportive and is happy not to have important meetings on Wednesdays!

Happens regularly to me. Once had a page three times, but corrected after flipping to another thread and returning. The looooong waits also are not just this thread. getting tired of it now!

....which was my interest in it! It is rather squeezed in, the gradients/clearances are a bit, err, Triang. May need Magnadhesion.

I've always liked the concept of that plan, the reality of space has prevented it being built!

Still very windy on the rock this morning, but a sunny 11c. However, this feels like about 6 😒 Mate H will be here soon for our weekly compare medical notes/put world right/talk trains, so that'll see the morning off, then I had better do some shopping I suppose on the grounds we need to eat.