Early Risers.

[tigerburnie]

What no-one ever explained to me was exactly did she do with the Awl...……………………………..or shouldn't I ask being of somewhat squeamish disposition...…….lol.

[Coombe Barton]

2 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

What no-one ever explained to me was exactly did she do with the Awl...……………………………..or shouldn't I ask being of somewhat squeamish disposition...…….lol.

You don't want to know.

[New Haven Neil]

I claim my immunity!

[Ozexpatriate]

1 hour ago, Ian Abel said:

i) The high school senior who lives across the street had her graduation "ceremony" this morning. The high school is travelling the area and presenting individual certificates, family and neighbors all alerted to the time, and appropriate distance congratulations shared with and for the young lady.

The local high school spent some of their graduation budget on yard signs. Each features a photograph of the graduate superimposed on the school mascot with the graduate's first name and congratulations. There were a lot of these signs in my neighbourhood, which is very close to the school and (mostly) developed perhaps 20 years ago.

[Happy Hippo]

4 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

I claim my immunity!

How diplomatic

[Happy Hippo]

In order to avoid the awl perhaps we need to start an Early Risers breakaway group which is inclusive of Aircraft, Railways and Ships.

 

Those in favour of become an ARSER vote now!

 

 

[Dave Hunt]

What about the Trains, Watercraft, Aircraft and Trams group?

 

Dave

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

I claim my immunity!

Is that to The Awl or The Lurgi. You're certainly not immune to panneers.

 

Jamie

Edited May 31, 2020 by jamie92208

[Happy Hippo]

I just checked on the www and it seems we could be running sooner than I thought:

 

 

 

[Barry O]

20 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

I claim my immunity!

she is closer to you than most of us...be afraid.....

Baz

[Barry O]

10 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

In order to avoid the awl perhaps we need to start an Early Risers breakaway group which is inclusive of Aircraft, Railways and Ships.

 

Those in favour of become an ARSER vote now!

 

 

But that is the rest of RMWeb......

 

Baz

[Happy Hippo]

Just now, Barry O said:

But that is the rest of RMWeb......

 

Baz

No that's the group that Dave mentioned.

[TheQ]

In the back ground is not a sewing machine,  ..

It's a 12 needle felter, 

 

 

an automatic multibarrel awl... 

[Barry O]

7 minutes ago, TheQ said:

In the back ground is not a sewing machine,  ..

It's a 12 needle felter, 

 

 

an automatic multibarrel awl... 

ouch!!

 

[iL Dottore]

9 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

...Apparently the concept that trespassers could be shot does not register in their dinosaur sized brains.

Sadly true. However what you wrote did remind me of a no trespassing sign that I saw when I was in Texas quite a few years ago. In big red letters it read “trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again!“ Obviously, a quite robust line to take on the matter of trespassing.

9 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

As stated previously they are almost almost pleasant to look at in LT red....

Well, that’s damnation with faint praise!
Not a GWR fan, are we? 

6 hours ago, TheQ said:

...Ben the cooling Collie, he was sunbathing earlier...

I wonder if Ben does the same as Lucy? Lucy sunbathes in the garden and stays in the sun until she is panting heavily (if she were a human I would say that she would be sweating buckets), she then comes inside and goes to the downstairs loo, which has a stone floor that remains wonderfully cool in summer. She then lies on the stone floor, cooling down, for about 20 minutes and, once cooled down, she goes back out into the garden and repeats the process...

6 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

...But no good at all. moaning about the stupidity of others because the only thing which will persuade them is what they catch and suffer from...

Call it “evolution in action!“.

However, on a more serious note: this may actually turn out to be A Good Thing. With data from a large study in China suggesting that 80% of people infected with the COVID-19 virus will have minimal or no symptoms and with people who know themselves to be vulnerable self isolating, the intermingling of people who are likely to be minimally affected by the virus may result in Britain achieving, inadvertently, herd immunity. 

As nasty as this disease can be in those unlucky enough to be badly affected by the virus, in comparison with some of the nasties out there (Ebola and West Nile haemorrhagic fever come to mind, to name just two) humanity has gotten off fairly lightly with COVID-19.

4 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

...Having given the computer a break it seems to be OK at the moment..

Time to buy an iPad? 

3 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

....She continues to suffer fairly severe anxiety about this whole situation which comes and goes - this weekend it has been in full flight and there's not a lot to be done other than acknowledge her feelings and wait it out. ...

I’m really sorry to hear that. Professionally, I know how crippling anxiety can be (I spent quite a few years developing drugs against anxiety and phobia conditions). All you can really do is be there and be ready to be supportive as and when needed.  Not knowing Mrs Gwiwer, I couldn’t begin to think of any approach that you could take which may help her. However, I would like to point out, that a clear presentation of the facts of the situation may sometimes actually help with the anxiety (and sometimes not, depending on the person).
One of my (many) weaknesses, is that I do tend to suffer from what they call “medical student syndrome” even after almost 40 years in the business (when I really should know better).  Basically, medical student syndrome is where you read about a disease or a condition for the first time and you then associate all your minor (and totally inconsequential) aches and pains with the symptomology of the disease you have just learnt about. This time however, with COVID-19 I have become unusually fatalistic: I am pushing 64, I have two known risk factors and I take reasonable precautions. What happens, happens! (To be honest, I think I may have actually been infected with COVID-19: when I returned from the UK in March, before the lockdown, I had a couple of days of dry cough and chills, although no fever. Chances are high that I actually had a mild form of the infection)

53 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

You don't want to know.

No, you really don’t want to know!

 

Anyway, have a great evening, one and all, Mrs iD and the Wolfpack are off to visiting friends, I have a steamed steak pudding with buttered peas awaiting me and I have just opened a bottle of Primitivo di Puglia. A splendid, albeit solitary, evening awaits.

 

iD

[polybear]

Pictures of Bournemouth Beach on the news today show that the total f...wits really do not have a clue.  Perhaps when the next wave of The Big V hits (perhaps co-incident with the Government withdrawing the furlough scheme in it's entirety) then with many having very little or no money coming in it might just focus people's minds a little more.  I foresee some significant redundancies coming up soon, as many companies just won't be able to share the burden of paying staff whilst not being able to trade.

[newbryford]

10 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

 

I have no green pannier tanks.

 

All five are painted black.

 

 

 

So painting them black makes it OK then?

 

 

5 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

panniers  are not flawless.

 

 

 

The joys of selective editing.........................

 

[Gwiwer]

3 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

3 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Gotham is safe.

Not the one near Nottingham, then?

Near Nottingham it's Goat'm.  Near the Batcave it's Goth'm.  

 

Many thanks to iD for the support.   SWMBO is ten years my junior so whilst Fabio and myself are the same age she has a lot of catching up to do.  She knows her anxiety hangs itself upon what ever is doing the rounds and that, currently, is the morbidity and high-risk categories for this Dreadful Lurgy.  She interprets the figures differently to me ("as a scientist" she says - but hey I too am a scientist by education and we both have degrees ending in "-ology") and very much in the glass-half-empty frame of mind.  I always see the glass as half full.  My ongoing instruction is to keep reminding her "All will be well".  Which we sincerely hope, and I firmly believe, it will be.  She has also been missing her father this weekend as it would have been his 75th birthday.  They were not always close but she was closer to him than she is to her mother the Dragon-in-Law.  

 

Still sneezing for Cornwall here.  They weren't wrong when they sent me a "Severe Pollen Warning" at 7am.  Medicated to the max allowed on the packet and by my workplace and tanked up on camomile and honey to boot.  It's only this bad for perhaps a day or two every fourth of fifth year.  What ever is pollinating currently could it please do so more gently?  

 

I must try to sleep.  Not easy when I have a sneezing fit every time head touches pillow.  Yes it's a hypo-allergenic pillow with the cover (and all the bedding) washed in non-irritating lavender-based liquid rather than powder.  

 

Good ..... arrrrrCHOOOOO ........ night.  Sleep ............ aTISHooooooooo ....... as well as your situation allows.  

[Tony_S]

I will be going overseas in about 10 days. Well that is a slight exaggeration as going over the creek on the bridge to to Canvey for a blood test isn’t really a leisure break. 
Other than that we aren’t going anywhere yet. Aditi’s brother (GP in the Midlands) seemed to,think that it was sensible not to change what we have been doing. The doctors in the family don’t seem to be quite as optimistic as the “expert” ones on the news conferences. I suppose their view is also affected by their patients who have had Covid 19 and are still ill weeks later. Some getting readmitted to hospital, the hospital where many of them work. GPs with practices near a hospital have a lot of patients who work there. 
Tony

[Coombe Barton]

... and progress.

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2020/05/31/clearance/

 

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. I did try an I-pad but no thanks, its now laying dead in the back of a cupboard. I've noticed that if this computer is getting a bit too warm it starts to slow down so I switch it off for half an hour. I should be getting my other computer back soon but it will be handy to have both computers as this one is more powerful but uses more battery power. Tea is brewing so its be back later.

[Barry O]

1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said:

... and progress.

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2020/05/31/clearance/

 

Yes  John.. what is wrong with these people?  a lack of common sense and/or application of a brain to work out why they are doing the wrong things?

 

baz

Edited May 31, 2020 by Barry O

[tigerburnie]

Gnight all

[Barry O]

OUCH!   Mega GDB moment tonight.... missed he step into the kitchen from the conservatory... stone steps are....hard... abrasions only (luckily no breaks) but I now ache everywhere!

 

Should take more attention of where my feet are in relation to the rest of the world!  PAH!!

 

Baz

[Chris116]

5 minutes ago, Barry O said:

OUCH!   Mega GDB moment tonight.... missed he step into the kitchen from the conservatory... stone steps are....hard... abrasions only (luckily no breaks) but I now ache everywhere!

 

Should take more attention of where my feet are in relation to the rest of the world!  PAH!!

 

Baz

Have you been drinking too much fruit juice?