Early Risers.

[PeterBB]

16 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

The fall of the Awl

 

There is no more Awl.

 

It is an ex Awl.

 

Sound the Awl clear.

So we should Awl be pleased1

[The Lurker]

Greetings all from LBG where it is sunny and cold. The food stalls have relocated in Borough Market but the Thali stall has been found and visited for lunch. I am sure my colleagues are delighted!

 

The year end work drags on and on and I never seem to get a decent run at it. I am hoping to put a big dent in it this afternoon but I keep getting more and more questions.

 

In other news, Younger Lurker has a school entrance exam tomorrow morning and we will make another attempt to order the turkey for Christmas. I have been asked to make paella tomorrow evening and the leaves need collecting for the brown bin. So a full weekend beckons!

[PeterBB]

4 hours ago, Kingzance said:

I do hope that Rachel doesn’t suffer a protracted period getting her chain reconnected, it can be very stressful as my recent experiences show!

What was a 'temporary' few days with in-laws became 11 months .  Our solicitor rang us when the removal vans were present and saying that he didn't like the contract so don't move.  The people coming to us were on their way.  It turned out that the sellers had been bankrupt and had agreed a 'rent' with somebody else who had refused to move out.  The next place was signed sealed and settled within three weeks - the advantage of the 'stored' remittance - and with stored furniture we were able to decorate before moving in. 

[PeterBB]

3 hours ago, Andrew P said:

My first, and I have to add ONLY, Parachute jump was from the top of our garden shed.

I was about 6 or 7 at the time and had seen a Parachute jump at a show or somewhere, and thought they were made of paper.

I bet you can already see where this is going.

 

So having got my dads paper, remember Broadsheet in the late 50's, I tied string to the 4 corners and climbed up on top of the Brick Sheds roof, and decided to be Hoo St Werbergs first Super Hero.

 

IT HURT

No not the jumping, the landing. I didn't try it again, but Mum and Dad obviously thought it was hilarious.

 

WARNING to GDB and others = DONT TRY THIS AT HOME folks.

Obviously an early start to a 'hip' problem!

 

Wonder how you can tell that a few days have been missed?

Edited November 29, 2019 by PeterBB
Observation of 'hogging'

[Tony_S]

I don’t need a brains trust to help me today. I suspect Paddington Bear would be useful. Aditi assured me that I stored her marmalade in the garage. I am convinced I brought the last jar in earlier this year. She is probably correct...

Tony

[Happy Hippo]

26 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I don’t need a brains trust to help me today. I suspect Paddington Bear would be useful. Aditi assured me that I stored her marmalade in the garage. I am convinced I brought the last jar in earlier this year. She is probably correct...

Tony

You currently have the initiative to prove Aditi wrong.

 

Get out there and ransack the place, when you find it, surreptitiously hide it.... Somewhere else, far from the garage.  Just remember to put it somewhere she cannot reach/get to.

 

The loft if you feel brave and want to 'find it' at a later date.

 

The less brave option would be to quietly dispose of it; in someone else's bin.

Edited November 29, 2019 by Happy Hippo

[Barry O]

My old man was retrained before DDay as a Wireless Operator/dispatcher (no turrets on a Dakota). He spent some time at Ringway airport doing dummy jumps then went up in the basket of a balloon to do his 3 qualifying jumps. He was not impressed..then they made him jump out on aeroplane.. his words were.."why jump out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft?" He alwatys reckoned once you caught the like parachuting bug you needed to have your head readjusted with a heavy implement!

As for helicopters. I visited Westland Helicopters moons ago to talk about synthetic environments.  I flew a Merlin through the flight deck of the then Ark Royal...they reckoned I was left handed!

Baz

[roundhouse]

Afternoon all. Scary things going on around London bridge with the bridge closed and station closed. They are evacuating Borough market where me and Andrew C were last night with our other halves after walking over the bridge.

 

New TV arrived and mostly set up just in time to watch the breaking news.

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

You currently have the initiative to prove Aditi wrong.

 

Get out there and ransack the place, when you find it, surreptitiously hide it.... Somewhere else, far from the garage.  Just remember to put it somewhere she cannot reach/get to.

 

The loft if you feel brave and want to 'find it' at a later date.

 

The less brave option would be to quietly dispose of it; in someone else's bin.

 

Already admitted that I found it. I must have forgotten about the lot made earlier this year rather than last year. 
Tony

[southern42]

5 hours ago, Andrew P said:

My first, and I have to add ONLY, Parachute jump was from the top of our garden shed.

I was about 6 or 7 at the time and had seen a Parachute jump at a show or somewhere, and thought they were made of paper.

I bet you can already see where this is going.

 

So having got my dads paper, remember Broadsheet in the late 50's, I tied string to the 4 corners and climbed up on top of the Brick Sheds roof, and decided to be Hoo St Werbergs first Super Hero.

 

IT HURT

No not the jumping, the landing. I didn't try it again, but Mum and Dad obviously thought it was hilarious.

 

WARNING to GDB and others = DONT TRY THIS AT HOME folks.

 

Having narrowly escaped a David and Goliath moment (age 11) on our road's field (now a large housing estate) when a catapulted stone  landed on the side of my head, just missing the temple, I followed my friend to her garden and we did free fall off the the shed roof.  All those junior school years learning how to land after jumping off the Hall stage in PE lessons obviously paid off - luckily!  No injuries, but since it took me many weeks to have the guts...er courage, I mean,  (more ladylike  ) to do anything above ground level in PE, I am surprised I even ventured onto the shed roof, let alone jump awff! 

___________

Polly

[Tony_S]

2 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

somewhere she cannot reach

That is most places! Though if I mention how useful I am for reaching anything she usually informs me she could replace me with a step stool.

[New Haven Neil]

Mrs NHN's hand stabbing went well, I don't think our new GP learned any un-ladylike new words from her this time.

 

Talking of which, Stewart surely Debs was 21 when the photo was taken -- and she still is.

 

Rest of the day wasted running about getting tyres for both cars, having noticed that one of my cars rear tyres was not in the best of health, as in disintegrating although there was plenty of tread, evenly worn - but only one. Odd.  Mrs NHN's Citroen needed two rears which looked to be evenly used.  

 

Robert has reminded me I also flew in the whirlybird Heathrow-Gatwick shuttle, horrid things.  I know you can auto-rotate to land in case of engine failure but they just shouldn't fly, in the way bricks don't.

[The Stationmaster]

Afternoon all,

 

Nice sunny day and a very pleasant walk down to the surgery and back (via the bakery for a nice warm sausage roll).  Yes it was yet another day of blood letting although I haven't had a 'phone call from the INR clinic yet (they're probably still trying to  filter out Mr Aspall's best from yesterday).  We are also promised a dry evening although it will be distinctly unkind to brass monkeys but it does mean the town's Christmas Fayre will proceed without its usual drenching from the heavens.  In some respects it's rather good fun because the entire town centre 'cross' of principle shopping streets will be 100% pedestrianised with loads of stalls, various catering outlets, lots of fun fairground things for the  younger residents of the town, and jammed solid with pedestrians instead of being gridlocked with motorised transport.

 

Ah - crossing the Channel, something I have done in various aircraft (of the sort where you pay for the dubious pleasure) ranging from a Dakota (sorry BEA - 'Pionair'), Viscount 800,  DH Comet, BAC 1-11, HS Trident, Tu134, IL 18, DC9/MD 80, Boeing 737, Boeing 747, Boeing 757, A319/320,  to an A340.  I did one return trip by hovercraft - interesting but a bit bumpy.   Without a doubt the smoothest aircraft from a passenger's (this passenger's) viewpoint were the Comet, the IL 18, the Trident, and the  A340.   I've also crossed by ship (various, including two trips on steamers) and apart from our usual holiday vessel (which has never taken us right across of course but has taken us along it and stopped in the middle of it) the best food to be had was on a train/commercial vehicle ferry.  I've also crossed it on a train on a ferry - The Night Ferry of course.   And I've been out in the middle of it, literally, in a small - ship's lifeboat size - boat.  I've been under it in a  Eurostar train about 200 times, including twice in the  cab, plus I've walked under part of it after getting off one train and walking through the service tunnel to join another train (a Eurotunnel HGV shuttle, duly sitting on the floor).   I've also been through it twice in a car in a Eurotunnel vehicle shuttle  Oddest experience of the lot was probably walking from a Class 373 power car to the adjacent coach via the partially open gangway (which had chains as handrails and gaps either side of the footway) while travelling through the tunnel at 100mph.   Interesting having to think back through all that lot!

 

enjoy the rest of your day and evening one and all.

[Two_sugars]

when i lowped off our coalhouse using me mam's new flannelette bed sheet, she wasn't very happy clagging the Detol on me knees, elbows, and anywhere else she could think of . . . . 

 

The next "experiMENTAL" project was . . . . . . . . . . . 

 

 

 

John

[Tony_S]

10 minutes ago, Two_sugars said:

off our coalhouse

Our coalhouse was half coal storage and half outside lavatory. My brother and I did jump off off it until Dad built a conservatory (although it was always called a verandah) . 
Tony

[81C]

Good Day All

Been busy had a lot of things to do as I've not been in active mode best part of the week.

The dog was at "day care" today so I'll have to wait till Monday to see how he is behaving.

 

I've not done anything on the house moving side today by last night I'd had a gut full this week dealing with

inert life forms called Solicitors and feckwit estate agents most of them should have been put down at birth. 

 

To cheer my self up I enrolled onto a dating site again see if I can find someone to share xmas day with for some stuffing.

 

Enjoy what's left of it. Needa Legover. 

[Ian Abel]

Happy Black Friday - or NOT!

We don't partake, rather avoid it and "shops" like the plague - having said that, I will venture in to the local hardware store to get some thermostat wire so I can wire the new/replacement Ecobee smart thermostat.

 

Thanksgiving here, being married to a US-origin Mrs, is generally "traditional" in that we have to appear at family gathering(s) at various times.

With Jemma out of town and Trevor obliged to join his wifes' family for the "full experience", we had ourselves a quiet day. Trevor and Meagan came over late afternoon, and we made several appetizers and drank wine in the comfort of a not to crazy place. After that we had to appear for dessert at the Mrs side of the family. Enjoyable for the most part, and certainly better than the usual frenzy.

 

I admit to "somewhat" partaking in the Black Friday thing, having yesterday (pre-Friday sale/already started Black Friday carp) managed to order new winter boots (real stuff, check out Sorel boots for reference), as somehow inexplicably we lost all our winter boots and some attire in the move. Was all in a box that cannot be found, suspected we accidentally placed that box in the "donate" pile. We're at present therefore lacking anything that allows us to tramp through the 9 inches we got Wednesday. Have to stay on the plowed paths for now, much to Whitneys dismay!

 

Helicopters - Jemma says don't trust them, anything without a REAL WING can't possibly fly, they are regulated to the domain of the bumble bee, that clearly can't fly despite observations to the contrary

I took several trips on the New York Airways/Pan Am helicopter service between the Pan Am/Metlife building in Manhattan and JFK, before the crash in 1977 that ended the service.

Only other chopper flight I've had was a sightseeing trip around San Francisco...

 

-2 first thing, expecting 1 for a high and more snow on the way 3-8 inches possible with an inch starting this afternoon, then getting somewhat more serious after midnight, so they say.

 

Tally ho.

 

 

Edited November 29, 2019 by Ian Abel

[polybear]

21 hours ago, TheQ said:

The 19 item. Breakfast looks as below. 

 

 

Looks mighty fine to me. Apart from the couple of Ice Hockey Pucks on top

 

19 hours ago, tigerburnie said:

.......at this point not only had I not yet completed the new offshore survival course,

 

The delights of the Helicopter Underwater Escape Training Course....

The rescue divers at Yeovilton seemed to have great fun blocking the exits, making you go out the hard way....

 

18 hours ago, Barry O said:

Helicopeters.. we hired a whirlwind from Bristows to use with a helitele to do simulated flight profiles for a missile seeker head. I had to design and  build the drive boxes for the seeker. My electrics worked fine. The whirlwind shook itself to bits..

Goodnight all!

Baz

 

Hatfield U-Block, by any chance?

[BoD]

58 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Our coalhouse was half coal storage and half outside lavatory. My brother and I did jump off off it until Dad built a conservatory (although it was always called a verandah) . 
Tony

 

Your outside loo had a conservatory?

 

[New Haven Neil]

Ian's post confirms my thoughts about heliochopters, and that Jemma is indeed a smart cookie!

 

I could perhaps, maybe, undertake flight in one again to 'do' the Grand Canyon, a bucket list thing for me.  I've seen it from 35,000 feet or so, I'd like to get up close and personal with it too.   Apparently pulling the handbrake in a panic isn't to be advised though.  (It's the collective....).

[New Haven Neil]

4 minutes ago, BoD said:

 

Your outside loo had a conservatory?

 

 

AKA no door....??  :-)

[Tony_S]

11 minutes ago, BoD said:

 

Your outside loo had a conservatory?

 

Didn’t everyone?
 

[JohnDMJ]

6 hours ago, Barry O said:

Why do people multiple order things on line then clog up the post office with their returns - free to them but in reality subsided by the rest of the Royal Mail users.. One lady this morning had 12 items to go back..the lady behind the counter said it would have been quicker if she had gone to the shops in town.. the answer was priceless.." never thought about that I can use my phone to order things dead easy"   yes but you keep getting the wrong size/colours/designs you prawnball!

 

Yeah, but there are no shops in town 'coz everyone orders on-line!

[Barry O]

17 minutes ago, JohnDMJ said:

Yeah, but there are no shops in town 'coz everyone orders on-line!

all the stuff she had ordered and returned were from companies who have large shops in Leeds...

PAH!!

baz

[The Lurker]

4 hours ago, roundhouse said:

Afternoon all. Scary things going on around London bridge with the bridge closed and station closed. They are evacuating Borough market where me and Andrew C were last night with our other halves after walking over the bridge.

 

New TV arrived and mostly set up just in time to watch the breaking news.

Our office was in lockdown until about  half six so I am now on my way home. I suppose spending an hour and a bit longer in the office is better than if I had been on the bridge at the time