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28 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Yew is the best wood for traditional long bows.

 

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.

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10 minutes ago, polybear said:

It'll definitely be a case of "Measure fifty times, stop, ponder, measure again and then pray to The Great Cake Bear before going for it" - screw that job up and Bear will be in Poo soooooo deep that not even the bravest Hippo could rescue me.

 

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!

 

 

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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#

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21 minutes ago, jjb1970 said:

The king of biscuits (other than the Carr's water biscuit and orange club obviously) is the Lotte Binch, if you see Lotte Binch on sale I recommend them.

 

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

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12 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

 

I guess the Cheese one is out of the question then!

 

 

🤮🤮🤮

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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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2 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

The ultimate  taste  test  ( a kind of taste test Ashes) would be to compare this with the Marmite Penguin.

 

 

 

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20 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

I learned all I needed to know about elm in History, and was nothing to do with rot, but more in HH territory*...

 

* its use in 6ft poles to shoot sharp pointy sticks at other people with extreme rapidity.

 

 

 

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!

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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.

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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!

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

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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.......😇

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Always liked that angle!

 

Hope your day is going a bit better......

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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!

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4 minutes ago, polybear said:

p.s. welcome back @Debs. 😃

 

Thirded.

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17 minutes ago, Hroth said:

Watch out, an Iberian Plume is about*

SCORCHIO!!!

 

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

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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!

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7 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

I see it mentioned that (another) duplicate page had occurred and shortly after that the site not available notice  appeared for a couple of minutes.

 

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!

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6 minutes ago, br2975 said:

I would suggest backdating the idea to a Pannier, or two, and relocating the concept some forty miles up the Severn Estuary to the Forest of Dean 

 

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

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59 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Some years back, the late Iain Rice produced a rather natty S Wales track plan called Tai Bach. It is what I would term the American style, in that instead of concentrating on one station or yard, the modeller can follow the train through the landscape stopping off at various industries along the way. 

 

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

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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.

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9 hours ago, MrWolf said:

I suspect that is more to do with the current style of registration number

 

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.

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45 minutes ago, PupCam said:

In my case it shows I had a very good memory albeit it's shot to pieces now! 🤣

 

 

 

 

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

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26 minutes ago, Hroth said:

Its just brightned up here, so I expect precipitation is due...

 

 

It is........

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Just now, Hroth said:

How about an update?

 

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.