Early Risers.

[Kingzance]

4 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

Good morning all,

Many congratulations and Happy Anniblisserversary Mr & Mrs Mick. Well done for dodging a bullet Mick!

Hints of blue sky and brightness here but the chance of some drizzle.

I believe what our leader said was that he was "confident the the tide will turn in 12 weeks provided everybody does what they are told/asked" or words to that effect. As it is obvious many people are not  doing or going to do that then I wouldn't hold your breath!

It is being suggested that we do some gardening today. Weeding seems to be the main requirement to prepare the beds for some bedding plants we've ordered online. I need some fresh air so I will comply with the request.

Have a good one,

Bob. ( AKA Number 6.)

I’ll Trump your AKA Number 6 with a Lotus 7 

[New Haven Neil]

Well the frost has gone, and so has the Burgen bread, if it was ever there in the first place. 

 

It is however a beautiful still sunny morning, so I am orf for a walk then to pay my bikes insurance, which due to a: my old age, b: their old age, c: Fraggle Rock has next to no vehicle theft, is very cheap!  

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Not much to report this morning, a bit nippy out but dry at the moment. I tuned in for the BBC local (London) news, principaly for the weather only to get the news from south of the estuary??? At least the weather news covered the estuary so wasn't to bad. Belated anniversary wishes to NB and wife. This is for Dave.

10 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/news/f-16.html?fbclid=IwAR3ndKN6cae84b_gtr3TWgFgH74Lw24meh-_HoSSu1WyERr44dZsMv_jWIA

I imagine that someone is on latrine duty for the rest of his military career.

[PhilJ W]

1 hour ago, AndyID said:

 

The Great Orange Sphincter is only interested in being re-elected. If he had any cajones he'd shut everything down for a month to save lives.

 

The space between them is called a perineum.

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

The sun is shining and the sky is blue with very few clouds in evidence. Breakfast has been consumed and shortly I’ll be heading off to complete the Trafford Centre and Asda Grand Prix to get what the local Sainsbury’s doesn’t stock. My return journey will be via the butchers where I’ll pick up the weekly meat rations and hopefully a pastie for dinner. After that I’m not sure what has been planned, but it will be something at home. I was only saying to Sheila the other day that’ll those of us that have hobbies that we can do at home have been self isolating for years!

 

Enjoy the day, back later. 

Edited March 20, 2020 by BSW01

[Barry O]

Her indoors returned with the weekly shop. She explained that other than bog rolls flour, crisps(?)  ,eggs and cakes were in zero supply. Most worrying was a reduced availability of tea and red wine. Panic buying gone nuts!

Sun still shining so will self isolate pushing the mower round our grass patches.

Baz

[Dave Hunt]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

 This is for Dave.

I imagine that someone is on latrine duty for the rest of his military career.

 

It was always drummed in to us that you should never, ever walk in front of live forward firing weapons unless it was totally unavoidable and then it should be quick. With fully armed aircraft it was sometimes difficult to duck underneath gun barrels etc. but there were two instances in the RAF I can remember that brought it home to me. Once at Chivenor in the late 60s one of the Aden cannons in a parked Hunter fired three rounds without anyone being near it (as was always the case, being live armed it was facing away from any buildings, people etc.) and the second was when a Phantom parked at Leuchars in (if memory serves) the late 70s/early 80s fired a Sidewinder out to sea, again apparently without anyone working on it. One of the worst incidents I know of, though, was on a USN carrier when a Zuni rocket was fired by a Phantom on the deck and hit at least one other aircraft that burst into flames and spread burning fuel and exploding ordnance all over the deck. Due to sloppy procedures the lift to the main hangar deck was open so the burning fuel ran down and the carnage was unbelievable. The film of what happened was shown regularly to all NATO forces to drive home  the dangers.

 

Here at Chez Lockdown we are into day three of exile with spirits still being maintained and no sign of scurvy. Dad has come to live with us for the duration and I've managed to get arrangements in place for his and Jill's medications various to be delivered from the pharmacy when required. We get our milk delivered three times a week anyway and the firm that does it will also deliver bread and some other staples. Having yesterday made an inventory of what food stocks we have, together with said deliveries, we can cope for a few weeks until, with any luck, the panicking cockwombles have stopped buying up everything that isn't nailed down. Also, a very kind neighbour has offered to send his lads shopping for us if required - aren't some people really good at times like this?

 

So far I haven't managed to get down to the workshop but hope to do so soon. Fortunately, being a typical Railway modeller, I have a sufficient stash of kits, partially made scratch building projects and an embryonic layout to keep ,me occupied until h*ll freezes over together with (I hope) enough solder and glue. Paint could be an issue but that won't stop the actual construction.

 

Belated anniversary wishes for the NBs and greetings to all. Stay safe and well.

 

Dave

[Simon G]

Morning all,

 

Happy anniversary to Mr and Mrs Mick.

 

Another gorgeous day here so far today, so more gardening has already been done.  I have had to cancel 2 guarding turns on the Ratty, due to self isolation, so things are getting really drastic now!!

[bbishop]

Booked out for shifts on Monday and Tuesday morning.

 

Bill

[BoD]

1 minute ago, bbishop said:

Booked out for shifts on Monday and Tuesday morning.

 

Bill

 

A huge thanks to Bill and other medics for their efforts,  but do look after yourself too.

[Happy Hippo]

3 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

But if you open up a kit you bought on Ebay  and find it has the wrong tender what do you do apart from send an email and flex the plastic.

And make sure you buy a pannier tank!

[81C]

Morning All

Bright and sunny 

Yesterday I managed to put up two new venetian blinds in the bedrooms I've finally got rid of the last of old shite hanging around the place apart from the carpet 4 weeks

before that goes in the skip my new Shark vacuum cleaner has pulled an amazing amount of dirt out of them the flat smells a bit sweeter.   

I'm glad the bathroom is being renovated to old pan can't cope with large ones I'm using a bucket to flush them the past few days. 

Now its washing down walls and coving time in every room with sugar soap the paint won't stick to the layer of dirt on them I'm glad dust don't settle on ceilings.

Police Officer daughter is working late again today I've got to let the little chap out for a pee or he will flood their kitchen. 

Better get on stay safe Monsta Turnoutt 

[81C]

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

The space between them is called a perineum.

Biggest pair of ----------- that ever graced this earth.  

chose your own word/s to go in the gap

[AndrewC]

39 minutes ago, 81C said:

Biggest pair of ----------- that ever graced this earth.  

chose your own word/s to go in the gap

Am I the only one that thinks the tangerine tw@'s mouth looks like a prolapsed rectum?

 

edit: forgot to fill in the blank. "scrotal pouch heads"

Edited March 20, 2020 by AndrewC

[PhilJ W]

8 minutes ago, AndrewC said:

Am I the only one that things the tangerine tw@'s mouth looks like a prolapsed rectum?

Well you know with a perineum between them you know what that makes the blond one.

[The Stationmaster]

Morning all,

 

Belated anniversary congrats to Mr & Mrs NB, and many more of them.

 

Tesco has been visited for the 'paper and a few current consumption items.  Noted in passing that while there is plenty of green veg in stock there were no onions and almost no potatoes left.  Great big queue for the checkout with some people seemingly very determined to dodge round it or queue - serves 'em bl**dy right for coming here to shop.  We stood patiently in the queue for a few minutes then a member of staff happily led us to the 'over 70s express queue' - where we were second in line - yet another really good idea from Tesco.  The wolves may be ravaging the shelves but the shop organisation is highly commendable.  There are also warnings in today's 'Telegraph' that there are concerns that the internet will run out of bandwidth or bytes or something technical and this will get worse when the properly studious among the children and students will all be working remotely from next week.   In many respects I'm not surprised but it will be interesting to see what happens.

 

The weather forecast is terrible.  With the G word now leaping up the headlines we are promised (??) three days of full sunshine from tomorrow - resistance, and excuses, will be exercises in futility and the lawn might even dry out sufficiently although overnight frosts might help remove that possibility because the sun is still too low to get rid of their effects on much of the lawn.  

 

Enjoy the rest of your day one and all.

[jamie92208]

The morni g has been spent productively  in the garden.  The first raised bed has been filled with a mixture of compost and soil from last weeks scrapings.  First Beth andcI had to pick loads of enourmous grubs outnof the compost.  I'm now screening it at source as I dig it out.   The bread machine has been filled so a fresh baguette has been obtained. More worryingly we've not seen the post van in the village for 3 days.  I REALLY DO NEED, thos railway related magazines, they should be classed as exzential supplies.

 

Jamie

[Dave47549]

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Edited October 4, 2021 by Dave47549
Removed pointless guff

[Coombe Barton]

1 hour ago, bbishop said:

Booked out for shifts on Monday and Tuesday morning.

 

Bill

Respect

[TheQ]

40 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said:

Morning all,

 

Belated anniversary congrats to Mr & Mrs NB, and many more of them.

 

  There are also warnings in today's 'Telegraph' that there are concerns that the internet will run out of bandwidth or bytes or something technical and this will get worse when the properly studious among the children and students will all be working remotely from next week.   In many respects I'm not surprised but it will be interesting to see what happens.

 

 

 

Enjoy the rest of your day one and all.

I suspect the video games ,streaming music videos and chats to mates will be taking up more bandwidth than school work

[roundhouse]

54 minutes ago, AndrewC said:

Am I the only one that thinks the tangerine tw@'s mouth looks like a prolapsed rectum?

 

edit: forgot to fill in the blank. "scrotal pouch heads"

There was a superb post on FB yesterday showing the finish Govt doing a speech spread out over 1M apart with a photo below showing number 45 doing his daily speech with loads of people crammed in behind him.

 

I have been chopping logs and now have a rather pleasant warm patio form the chimnera that arrived yesterday.

 

WFS been happening completing weatherin of four locos. Phots sent ot lcients to see if they are happy before I do the final matt coat.

[Dave Hunt]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

  First Beth andcI had to pick loads of enourmous grubs outnof the compost.  I'm now screening it at source as I dig it out.   The bread machine has been filled so a fresh baguette has been obtained.

 

Bl**dy h**l Jamie, things must be bad over there if you're having to make baguettes using grubs instead of flour. Are they tasty?

 

Dave

[Andrew P]

My Wife does our On Line Shop as she is almost housebound and therefore cant get around Supermarkets, and so we have a delivery every Wednesday, between 10am and 11am. As soon as the order is checked, she goes on line and books next weeks slot with almost the same order.

Our Delivery came on Wednesday as usual, but with NO tinned Peas, Carrots, or Beans. As soon as it was checked, she went on line, and there were no slots for next WEEK, and then NONE for the rest of March, and so checking April, the first available delivery date was the 24th, (the day we should be moving to the South Coast). so some greedy pigs, (and sorry if your one of them) are not only robing the Shops dry, but doing the same on line as well.

Were using no more Bog Roll than normal, Eating no more than normal, and therefore buying no more than normal, so why all the Hysteria and Panic?

Rant over, (well for now at least).

Two Old People, 78 and almost 70..

 

[Happy Hippo]

2 hours ago, 81C said:

Biggest pair of ----------- that ever graced this earth.  

 

I'll raise you:

 

[Happy Hippo]

Dave's comments about odd misfires with no apparent cause reminds me of a number of similar incidents I have witnessed.

 

But I've always found that somewhere there is a route cause, whether it is a faulty electrical system, or something that has not been fitted correctly.

 

One example was a single L2A2 grenade which failed to explode after being thrown.  We'd thrown around 60 that morning, and I was mightily hacked off that we'd had the one dud, because. it was my responsibility to go out onto the  grenade range, locate the blind* (a term for explosive ordnance that has not exploded), and then carry out a controlled explosion to demolish it.

 

Having located the grenade it was pretty obvious why it had failed to detonate:  The fuse had not been fully screwed in, so there was no chance of it exploding as it should have done.  Despite this, and the chance of it exploding being pretty minimal, there is always a risk that it might!  We destroyed the grenade in situ with plastic explosive.

 

Since we had quite a bit of PE that we didn't want to return to stores, we made a little bang into one much bigger.

 

When the classic bomb disposal units are called to sites where an old unexploded bomb has been uncovered, the issue is always what condition the fuse is in.  Although they tend to be made brass, corrosion does occur especially if the fuse has been subject to damp or ingress of water.

 

Once the fuse has been removed the remaining explosive can be removed quite easily.  If the bomb is in too difficult a place to be removed then the explosive is steamed out; if it's easy enough to get out then it's taken away and destroyed in a controlled explosion.