Barry O

2024-04-24T05:57:06Z

Ey up!

Hope Beth's op goes well @jamie92208.

And I hope your train arrives on time @woodenhead. (Not something I can bank on with Late and Never Early!).

first up today a visit to the new dental hygienist, followed by hoovering and tidying ...pah.

Day should be completed by a trip to the MRS before my trip to Beamish tomorrow. Busy, busy, busy

Have a good day/night/ morning wherever you are ERing in the world.

Baz

2024-04-24T05:52:26Z

50 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

Been awake since half four - feeling knackered already

Is it retirement beckoning or end of teaching?... Dr Eldest is also having similar problems.. as in can't sleep so it may be a common theme for lecturers. Next up.. dissertation marking and reviews..

Baz

Tuesday at 07:07

Ey up!

Heavy rain in Driffield means my umpiring today has been cancelled.. pah! The Over 60s are a nice bunch .. I know a lot of them as well so missing out on a catch up and a cricket tea.... PAH!

I fear that I will have to get a hearing test. I too had measles but years working in Engineering hasn't helped. One fitter at Leeds used to stamp numbers into the ends of a particular item.. using a large metal stamp and a very large mell hammer.. hevhad ear protectors on.. we didn't always have them.. standing close to guns even with protectors on wasn't good for the ears either. Handy when umpiring though.. players assume you are deaf anyway.

No cricket means I have a free day.. could involve muddling or gardening..

Enjoy your day!

Baz now located in the mushroom shed..

Monday at 08:01

Ey up!

Nice day yesterday umpiring a very nice friendly game at Escrick Park..the home of the Yorkshire Gentlemen. A bit of fun, some serious bowling and batting and.. it was dry!

Not sure what I have been organised to do today.. yet!

Enjoy your day!

Baz

Sunday at 07:19

Ey up!

Sunny morning here, fingers crossed it stays that way.

As part of my cricket umpiring retirement I am still doing odd games (mainly friendlies) for a while to help to get away from cricket teas... these are, at least in Yorkshire, a thing of great nutritional value.

I have a busy week coming up as I am venturing North for a couple of days to catch up with history (a quick trip to Beamish is involved).

Time for my mugatea!

TTFN!

Baz

Saturday at 22:09

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

Bradford is allegedly the curry capital, of the UK and has some fabulous curry houses with their own specialities. Well worth a visit. My team once detected a case of criminal damage by the sauce in a curry that the suspect had in his car. According to the shift curry expert that sauce was only sold at the restaurant he denied going to.

Jamie

Was it from the Karachi ( or K) by any chance?

Baz

Saturday at 18:57

8 hours ago, TEAMYAKIMA said:

Well, I think there are other considerations.

Firstly, there are 36 layouts and Warley had 90 and already that is over one third and secondly one of those 36 layouts is 208ft long and so that has an impact on the actual number of layouts on show.

Also, Keypublishing are taking a big risk to promote and nurture our hobby and I think that they should be given a chance to prove themselves - let's face it - there aren't many shows around the country that would or could accommodate Pete Waterman's 208ft of layout. If people want large ambitious exhibitions then they need to support them as and when they take place. My layout is 28ft x10ft and several two day shows have told me that it's simply too big for them to invite it.

OK, I like OO9 4x2 layouts, but for me, big is better and big shows are needed in order to see big layouts.

Pete could have taken his layout to Warley but chose not to.

Baz

Saturday at 18:54

37 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

There used to be a very good Italian restaurant on Orchard Road. Probably long gone by now.

Dave

Didn't see one last year but we did try the Mowe pick as per @jjb1970 s suggestion. Brilliant place!

@monkeysarefun that platter looks nice. I noticed that an australian acquaintance was ar Crab Shack in Wellington Harbour recent where the staff wear t shirts telling everyone "We have Crabs"

But tye food is very nice including the huge green lipped mussels and orange ruffle..

Baz

Saturday at 11:04

4 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

And outside of London it’s a desert - with oases few and far between…

Certainly, you can get (pale imitations of) “ethnic food” (Asian, Indian [well, mostly Bangladeshi], Italian etc) but it’s nearly always what you could term “Hollywood Movie” food, as in “A Blockbuster Movie based on….” where the only thing that is actually original (authentic) is the name used…

Have you ever got north of the M25 recently? Obviously not as your very broad brush view needs to be revised pdq. Why?

In Leeds and other cities, towns and villages, I am certain that the choice of foods.. generally available prepared by at least first generation visitors (as in Chinese, Thai, Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani and both Greek and Turkish) as well as Italian restaurants serve food just like it says they are described. I didn't notice any majore differences on my travels. Unfortunately I await a visit to a local Japanese restaurant to check it out.

Our local chefs may not be too pleased about your views..

Food in Switzerland ( on my business vists) was never really that exciting...even when prepared in the General in charge of Army caterings Castle!

Baz

Saturday at 07:22

Ey up!

Presenting to a group of muddlers today. They are expected to try turinng clean things into dirty things.. should be fun!

No major aches and pains from yesterday. Good! But it reinforces my decision to longer umpirevleague cricket..

Time for a bacon sarnie (or so my tummy tells me!)

Hope all of our missing ERs are well.

Baz

Saturday at 07:10

8 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

Well it's no good complaining , for the last 3 or so years you've been saying you were giving up

umpiring .

I have.. but did this as a favour.. everyone is very short of umpires. No league cricket umpiring just special occasions..

Baz

Saturday at 07:06

8 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

Did you do the Dickie Bird Dismissal Finger in tribute?

Nope

Friday at 19:52

Cricket was umpired. It was very cold..

Baz at Headingley.

The ground was quite soft.. but.. as we left.. they were watering the square.

All club cricket has been postponed around here.....

Baz

Friday at 06:41

Ey up!

Attended an umpires meeting last night. All was going well then I had to explain the concussion protocol. It's been in place for 2 years but few bothered about it. Now it has been restated.. the message is.."do exactly what the protocol says". Very easy you would think... nope any excuse not to do it was trotted out.. answer was the same "for legal reasons JDI" Eventually it was accepted.. boy didn't realise how stupid people can be.

Off to Headingley to umpire two T20s shortly. The weather may reduce this to 1 T20 and a T10. Me? I'll umpire whatever the coaches ask me to do.

Have as good a day as you can!

Baz

April 18

Ey up!

Busy day ahead Including (hopefully) a pleasant time zooming with some like minded people.

Teams is an awful package.. Microsoft have now 5aken it out of Office. Big problem is its old and creaky. Using it for interviews means it's hard to pick up on body language. I have used it for this purpose but I prefer face to face interviews.

Time to geronwithit as O have a lot to do!

TTTFN

Baz

April 17

Me and my big gob...by some use of more electricity we approached Leeds Station 5 minutes early.. held by a signal.so ended up 5 minutes late..pah! Which meant I missed a bus and spent 11 minutes waiting for the next one... PAh!

I attended a panel interview for a post in the civil service. I was asked questions which I wasn't allowed to answer.then I had a sensible interview and got a role at JET..it caused a problem when one of the interviewing panel in the UKAEA was asked why I hadn't been selected. He thought I knew diddly squat..to be told I had all the right knowledge and technical ability to run rings round him..

Baz

April 17

Late this morning. Late tonight.. LNER at its best.. ie carp...

Azuma back is causing a lot of discomfort as is a fellow passenger who can't be bothered to blow his nose..

@polybear never ever had a cake with candles on! Had to take pies ans peas in in Barrow on pay days and birthdays.

Long day and we didn't achieve enough to say its bèn a good one.

Sleep well all!

Baz

April 17

Ey up!

Late and Never Early has got off to a bad start. 5 minutes late leaving Leeds and now held by a signal check near South Emsall.. frabjoy!

Nice pictures @Gwiwer but the Leeds.. York..Scarbados Coastliner route is voted most scenic route regularly.

Off to Lourdes (the ECB need a financial miracle or two!).

Meeting to be had on line tomorrow when I can get Zoom to cooperate .

Have a great day!

Baz

April 16

The weather is creating chaos. Game today cancelled but games on Friday have been moved to Headingly.. ooh err! Pictures will be taken as momentoes..

In other news.. preparation for tomorrow's meeting has been completed.. May have to join via Teams due to uncertainty about train travel pah!

Visited the MRS and checked out some Repairs/improvements we have done. Yippppppeeeeedddddoooo! It works.. but another problem has been identified. Pah!

Time for slow cooked beef and veg for tea.. lovely!

Baz

April 16

Ey up!

Yesterday was weird weather day.. but I now have a no cricket umpiring day today. Problem is.. I have a cricket meeting at Lords tomorrow.. so its preparation day.

Train tomorrow is a concrete seated Azuma badly organised by the Late and Never Early Railway.. aka the Civil Service.

@polybear we either travel from Leeds Bradford (10 minutes by taxi) Manchester (1.5 hours by bus/train) but I only used to park at LBA for day trips to London.. not cheap but never had a problem..perhaps you need to move?

Her indoors hosted a recorder group meeting last night so.. no TV sound to be used... not a problem.. I did my prep for Saturday's meeting.

Time to get on with breakfast. Have as good a day as you can!

Anyone heard from @Ian Abel recently?

Baz

April 15

Filled in and returned our "Risk" document for the show. Chapel has been repaired and some minor modifications undertaken and tested. Stock is just about there.. all we need now are some joining instructions and we are ready to go!

quick pic of the ICI Hoppers on Chapel

April 15

so far today we have had heavy rain, wind, hailstones/snow balls from the sky, bright sunshine but its blowing a hoolie and is flipping cold (about 3C)

PAH!

Game tomorrow cancelled .. pah!

Disgruntled Baz!

April 15

Ey up !

Guess what?

It's chuckinitdarn..what a surprise! NOT!

our first car.. Bessie.. was a mini in Tundra Green and had a very small engine in it of an A series type. Could trundle along at 60 but didn't like going up hills.

Today will involve a Zoom meeting plus a trip to the MRC to replace our water carrier which self destructed on Saturday.pah!

At some point I need to put together a short presentation on making things dirty, hopefully the attendees will enjoy it along with the opportunity to have a go themselves.

Time fo my mugatea and then.. to infinity and beyond..

Baz

April 14

Ian,

If you don't post on this thread it will hibernate all on its own,

Best regards

Baz

April 14

Managed to get the grass cut before it rained.. good for grass cutting Pah! For chuckinitdarn..

Baz

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