New Haven Neil

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.

Not in my case - we don't have those here. Many people keep the same number through successive vehicles, especially if they are of the old MAN type (When MAN ran out they went to the style of AMN 123 them AMN 123 A and so on) we do for the bikes, not that we often sell one, but the cars come and go with what they have. I looked - my car is NMN 554 B ! No point in cloning that one folks, DVLA don't issue those so ANPR spots them rather quickly - we occasionally used to get pulled up for a check in the UK as they also weren't on the computer systems there, but they are now. A friend's daughter who was a student doctor in Lancaster used to get a check if they thought it had been there too long, students have special dispensation not to have to re-register vehicles in the UK if there for over a set period of time.

Yup, I resemble that comment. I recall our family having a Fiat 600 car, AGR 64.......but mine now? Err......HMN something.....

It is........

Sunny. No, chucking it down. No, wait.....sunny, and still raining. More rain. Then sun. But always, always windy, like proper uncomfortable blowin' a hoolie wind. I hear there are damaged cars on the fast-craft ferry. then they complain if the boats don't sail....you can't win.

You'll have to go back a page before your post!

Morning, from a very windy, showery rock, 7c and I'm staying inside! Its 'orrid out there. The first time I went over it was also in a Transit minibus, not driving though, it was on a team building thing when I was a Merch cadet, err probably 1976. Soon afterwards I did it on the bike of the time, a Honda CB200, and since then have ridden and driven many vehicles over, being a Ratty fan! Mrs NHN hates it, I love it. The smashed wheel last year was due to a hidden rock in a tussock of grass I hit when avoiding the a$$ in the Rangie who came barrelling through scattering everyone else on the road, I reported him to the plod as I have a dashcam, I copied the footage and passed it to them, they agreed he was out of order but I didn't hear any more about it. I thought Anita Rani did OK in that little roller skate, she didn't look terrified, and seemed to enjoy the filming.

@polybear I find 'Motobatt' batteries (they're yellow!) to be very good, very low self discharge, stand all winter and start even the old BMW without extra charging, but you may not want to spend the £ if you're selling it.

Oh yes, with bells on. Do NOT try it unless you are happy to deal with 1 in 3 hill starts and hairpin bends on such gradients. It is alleged to be the steepest road in Britain, although there are others as steep (Rosedale Chimney I think). I got pushed off the road there last year by a Range Rover, hit a rock and smashed an alloy wheel - not happy - b'sterd didn't even stop. Luckily I do have a spare wheel in my car. I have been over more on bikes than the car, but were going to the Ratty (as in the programme) as my mate is a driver there and I was on for a footplate ride - great fun. Jamie was a guard there too, and occasional poster in garden railways forum David Mart is too.

M'Bear's bike is a Honda CB750F, probably a D or E year model? (Edit - they are Honda model year designations, not registration letters) Looks nice and clean - the chaincase is an add-on, Puppers. On the subject of Puppers, there are far too many of those Richard Heads around, they last had a bike in 1979 and now have money to buy something big and fast, but not the experience or knowledge to handle them properly. The squeaky clear leathers are usually a clue to keep well away from them - the come here in hordes TT week, and account for a lot of the accidents. It's easy to make them go fast, a lot harder to slow them down.

Morning, from a sunny, breezy rock that is but 8c. Looks nicer than it feels. Donk did offer a free home to Bear's bike, but the deal was not taken up, sadly. It would have been polished and able for him to use each time he came on holiday.... ah well. Orders have been issued for a ride today, or at least this morning, as pleut is due after lunch.

Ah, a fan of the Galloping Sausages!

Odd day, ended up riding some electrically driven things on three foot and three foot six inches apart rails. The work in the garden and garage. Then a cooking experiment with making chicken 65, which turned out a little hot, like Tony's dinner!

re Watches - the local lad, the late George Daniels made a decent one - second only to the maker iD mentions.