lightengine Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 The early rain has cleared and sun is now bathing sunny Teignmouth. The outcome of my wife having two appts at the surgery yesterday is that she will be referred to that dept at hospital for a spot of none shaving surgery. The NHS us gradually working around her body, right shoulder bone shave 11 years ago, right knee replacement 3 years ago, left knee replacement 2 years ago ........... 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
south_tyne Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 I went out for a long walk at 4am this morning as it is the solstice! Nice bright sunny morning in the North East and really invigorating start to the day. I suppose it's best to make the most of the long days when we can! 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AndrewC Posted June 21, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2019 Greetings all from that borough most boring. In local news the owner of London's first micro-pub is calling it a day. Whether he is selling, closing, or stepping back and letting someone manage it, is unknown at this time. Any of the 3 options will be an improvement. It wasn't nicknamed "Ray's twig emporium" for nothing. Only ever 3-4 beers on and all virtually identical. 4% twiggy, poorly kept, bland ales. Ray himself was a star graduate of the Basil Fawlty school of Hospitality. TFIF. This has been a shite week at work. Too much travel to meetings that could/should have been an email. Managed to burger my knee again Wednesday night. Will see what the quack says as I'm expected to be spending a lot of time in hotels & meeting rooms all over the country in the coming weeks. With luck I'll get signed off until this project phase is over. Enough boring waffle from me. Enjoy the day and have a good weekend. 4 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 81C Posted June 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 21, 2019 Morning All I've been up early to catch up on yesterday I have about 2 day work to box up my stock Her has been and will be back Sunday to clean the house through for the estate agents photo shot She had a moan at me because the bank has put extra security for buying with the cards and could not buy some insurance for a new car, I left a pile of paper work including info about it on the table it's still there. Any way must get on I can't believe I've been packing this layout up for a week now. Welland Truipisstoff 1 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Dave Hunt Posted June 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2019 Took The Toe for its twice weekly visit to the practice nurse yesterday - still no better so she took a swab to send off for analysis to see what particular bugs have set up home in it. A GP was also consulted who said in the meantime to start another course of antibugtastics. One advance was the issue of a device for keeping the foot dry in the shower - not as colourful as a Sainsbury's bag and purple elastic band but more efficient. I queried why the promised appointment with a podiatrist hasn't yet come about and was told that they are understaffed and very busy. Friends are beginning to call me Hopalong. 3 hours ago, chrisf said: My friend Mike has kindly given me a tomato plant which he has raised himself. I’m not sure that giving it to me is a kindness to the plant given the unfortunate state of my garden...... Chris, I wouldn't worry about the tomato plant. In my experience they are hardy little (or in some cases not so little) bu**ers and providing they get ample water they do well despite my ministrations, or lack of them. Our current ones are threatening to take over the garden. Many years ago a sewer broke under some waste land near where we lived and the following year, and for many years after that, tomato plants grew wild there, tomato seeds apparently often passing through people unharmed. Main things on the to do list today are path and drive de- triffidising and organising the catering for friends arriving this evening for the weekend. Exciting or what? Have a good day/night/something in between depending on your earthly location. Dave 17 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted June 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 21, 2019 Morning all. Greetings from sunny West Midlands. We will be going home today via Burton Latimer (near Kettering) Where Aditi’s brother lives. Tony 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Morning, bits of sun and white cloud, so hopefully will remain dry, garden and greenhouse attended to and SWMBO is off to the borders with the daughter for a spa day or two, so 1 must get anniversary card or my life will not be worth living 2 get a hair cut(I did go for 25 years without one and still haven't got the habit of going to a barbers shop) 3 spend the rest of the day in TOSH building new layout, track and droppers to assemble..................... enjoy your day. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 21, 2019 Morning all from Estuary-Land. Bright and sunny this morning and no sign of the (predicted) humidity. Tomato seeds do pass through humans and other animals unharmed, thats what they are designed to do. As a propagation strategy its perfect, the seeds are distributed over a wide area and with their own package of fertiliser. Muggatee to be drunk, be back later. 14 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 55 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: Morning all from Estuary-Land. Bright and sunny this morning and no sign of the (predicted) humidity. Tomato seeds do pass through humans and other animals unharmed, thats what they are designed to do. As a propagation strategy its perfect, the seeds are distributed over a wide area and with their own package of fertiliser. Muggatee to be drunk, be back later. SWMBO has a worm composter for generating large amounts of "stuff" from the garden & kitchen waste. Despite the little red wiggler's best efforts, rogue pepper and tomato plants appear in the garden from unaltered seeds. Last autumn she had one of the best crops of accidental tomatoes in years. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted June 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 21, 2019 Good morning from a Sunny Surrey. Electrical installation to and in shed nearing completion. Hopefully later today I can watch TV or browse the web up there! Speakers are already fitted ready to wire up to the old hifi system that's will be put in there tonight. Cladding continues whilst they work inside. The PIR light even has its own remote control - disco light effects are even possible but might annoy the neighbours in the adjacent flats 13 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted June 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 21, 2019 20 minutes ago, AndrewC said: SWMBO has a worm composter for generating large amounts of "stuff" from the garden & kitchen waste. Despite the little red wiggler's best efforts, rogue pepper and tomato plants appear in the garden from unaltered seeds. Last autumn she had one of the best crops of accidental tomatoes in years. We have an accidental wormery. It is supposed to be an ordinary composter but it is well populated with worms. This year the beans didn’t come up but the compost is growing well. Looks like cucumbers, or something similar. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted June 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 21, 2019 Afternoon, The vacuum has been cleaned to the satisfaction of the management who was meanwhile moving on tomato plants to gro-bags and putting out the surplus for the delectation of passers-by, no doubt the usual folk will be along to select the ones they fancy and return the empty pots. Incidentally herself's tomato plants normally grow up to the greenhouse ridge but are prevented from going any higher by the glazing. Newspapers and sundry shopping duly acquired. Meanwhile in overseas news the Good Doctor this morning completed the penultimate journey in her round (part of) eastern Europe tour this being the only leg by ship, from Piraeus to Rhodes - whence she returns to dear old blighty next week. Enjoy the rest of your day one and all. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 (edited) Happy POETS! AWOL for a couple of days due to no-internet-itis at the cabin combined with, surprise, surprise, a huge amount of requirements from the Long Island client, starting while I was taking time off! Never ceases to amaze me how poor at planning any of these folks are Not much to report - lake cabin mosquitoes were horrendous, probably making up for a late start this season, arms covered in welts even after various and sundry precautions taken Supposed to be a quiet weekend, so I can spend more time at the new house doing "stuff", who knows I may even fit in some trains/modeling - FAT CHANCE. I KNOW we'll end up with a busy weekend in spite of currently having a fairly empty calendar. One bright spot will be the annual choir PARTY, Saturday evening, to celebrate whatever we managed to provide this past year An anonymous donor (typically one of the well heeled parishioners) has once again footed the bill for the event - we just BYOB 16 getting the newspaper (once AGAIN miles from the front door ) with light drizzle falling, expected to make 24 but rain most of the day. Back to work - POE if you can, enjoy the start of the weekend... Edited June 21, 2019 by Ian Abel 18 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Well not too bad a day, got my must do chores done, here's me going for brownie points and the delivery man has just delivered another flippin' handbag and no it's not for me, she must have nearly as many handbags as Imelda Marcos had and nearly as many as I have fishing rods lol.(I can feel some serious spending of modelling tokens coming on next week when me and a pal visit the Perth show). Sun keeps popping out, might nip out for a short'ish bike ride if the black clouds vanish. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Gwiwer Posted June 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2019 A good afternoon and a Happy Solstice to all. Whether that be summer or winter depends upon whether you drink your beer up or down Warm sun has been ventured upon us and we are threatened with more of the same in coming days with rising temperatures. And the threat of occasional yellow thunderstorms. I am parked outside with the first of Friday Drinks enjoying the twitter of birds, the humming of bees, the greetings and chit-chat with neighbours and in the knowledge that the launwet is fast becoming the laundry. Speed-dating last night was described as “okay” and “quite fun” though it seems no-one was of sufficient interest to Neighbours (Upstairs) to be worthy of further investigation. Tomorrow sees me demonstrating dirtying techniques to Joe and Joanne Public in Twickenham Library. Half ten until three if anyone’s passing. Sunday requires vegetarious sacrifice as SWMBO has invited a non-carnivorous friend to stay. Stay warm and dry. Be good or be careful. 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted June 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 21, 2019 7 hours ago, PhilJ W said: Morning all from Estuary-Land. Bright and sunny this morning and no sign of the (predicted) humidity. Tomato seeds do pass through humans and other animals unharmed, thats what they are designed to do. As a propagation strategy its perfect, the seeds are distributed over a wide area and with their own package of fertiliser. Muggatee to be drunk, be back later. Apparently that's why tomatoes regularly grow on railway lines. Though with the fitting of retention toilets that will be on the decline. Jamie 7 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted June 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 21, 2019 Yes it’s a Snapchat screenshot. A case of having to speak a language understood by the non-wrinklies in order to communicate! 10 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Coombe Barton Posted June 21, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2019 I was told, by customers (for computers) at Minworth Sewage Works (more than 30 years ago) that a gentleman came in and asked for sewage cake for fertiliser. that gave him as much as he wanted. He spread it on his pristine lawns. A few weeks later he had lawns with tomatoes. 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisf Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Good evening one and all. You what? Simple. I have a stupidly early start in the morning and every minute counts. It's a surprise visit to one of my old haunts. I'll tell all on Sunday. Best wishes to all, Chris 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 2 hours ago, Gwiwer said: Yes it’s a Snapchat screenshot. A case of having to speak a language understood by the non-wrinklies in order to communicate! Why do they print the name backwards on the can? Is it so the driver in front can read it in their rear-view mirror? 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted June 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 21, 2019 25 minutes ago, chrisf said: Good evening one and all. You what? Simple. I have a stupidly early start in the morning and every minute counts. It's a surprise visit to one of my old haunts. I'll tell all on Sunday. Best wishes to all, Chris We could have travelled back from the home of Weetabix via Bedford but it wasn’t the sat nav first choice so we returned along the A14 and M11. Many miles of speed restrictions but at least no terrible driving or accidents. We had stayed a bit longer at Aditi’s brother’s house so we could see both nieces. Tony 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 18 minutes ago, AndyID said: Why do they print the name backwards on the can? Is it so the driver in front can read it in their rear-view mirror? It's like a Government health warning. You look at the can, see it's ar5e about face and think you have had too much. 1 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted June 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 21, 2019 18 minutes ago, AndyID said: Why do they print the name backwards on the can? Is it so the driver in front can read it in their rear-view mirror? It’s just the way the app works. It uses the face-facing or “selfie” camera on the phone but doesn’t reverse the image to correctly present text to view. Kids, eh? 12 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 19 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said: I'd like to see a glacial lake grow like a weed. (OK I'm being naughty.) I was going to ask you what the dominant evergreen species was but Google is our friend and I was interested (but not totally surprised) to see the Douglas Fir at the top of the list. The Douglas fir is the dominant evergreen on the west side of the Cascades. It is truly amazing to see them immediately give way to Ponderosa when crossing pass summits to the east slope of the Cascades as the microclimates change. I frequently have to pull magically-appearing, juvenile Doug Firs from my garden, and they are very tenacious for such small plants. I do love them but my house will not if I let them grow. (Coastal Douglas Firs can grow 20m - 100m tall.) Those across the street from me are easily well above 20m and some may exceed 30m. Watching them tossing in a storm the other day had me doing lots of mental rudimentary trigonometry to make sure they were far enough away to not present a existential threat to my home. (I'm pretty sure they are far enough that they don't.) Sadly our little town is being 'discovered' and people are fleeing Seattle due to high housing costs and moving south. Consequence thereof is more houses are being built, land clear cut and trees cut down. So to counteract all this development and help nature and the environment, we planted native trees on the property as the lot is big enough. After twenty years or so those trees are now around forty feet tall and the property doesn't seem so big! At this rate they will soon be as tall as their older brethren in the green belt. Brian. 4 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 1 hour ago, Gwiwer said: It’s just the way the app works. It uses the face-facing or “selfie” camera on the phone but doesn’t reverse the image to correctly present text to view. Kids, eh? I was, of course, being slightly facetious. But then I found myself wondering why a mirror doesn't invert images top and bottom as well as swapping right and left. I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation but it's an interesting question for anyone who wants to start a fight in a pub 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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