Early Risers.

[jamie92208]

That picture is lovely Q. It brings back so many happy memories of Easter holidays on the Broads. The only type of sailing craft I havd ever sailed, or poled along.  On my last trip at the tender age of 17 our skipper got rushed to hospital with appendicitis and I was left in charge for the rest of the day with 4 younger teenagers as crew.  I even managed OK and didn't hit anything. Happy days.

 

Jamie

Edited August 23, 2020 by jamie92208

[jamie92208]

Good moaning all from a sunny piece of The Charente .  A long day was had yesterday supervising the unloading  of a pantechnicon of furniture at our friends house.  It's all come from storage in the UK.  8 hours in total but the two lads worked hard and did a great job.  I only needed to text Rachel in Chicago once and fortunately it was later in the day when she was up and about. 

 

Even though I didn't have to do much i felt tired at the end of the day. Beth gave the two lads lunch, which helped dispose of some of the BBQ leftovers. A quiet evening watching Vera then ensued.

 

This morning it's the usual Sunday market trip and I might even get some shed time later if I'm lucky.  

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie

Edited August 23, 2020 by jamie92208

[polybear]

8 minutes ago, TheQ said:

It's £39 pounds here for 1 to 3 items and non refundable. So any reason to cancel or delay and you've lost your money. 

Please don't mention HH bags,  I'll get bombarded by yellow adverts again. 

 

You've prompted me to take a look - £29 for one, £39 for two, £49 for three.  The best news is I discovered that they do half a van load for £75, so that's looking good for getting rid of the old kitchen and plaster off the walls   Half the price of a H***o bag, and I'll get rid of more that way too

[TheQ]

5 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

That picture is lovely Q. It brings back so many happy memories of Easter holidays on the Broads. The only type of sailing craft I havd ever sailed, or poled along.  On my last trip at the tender age of 17 our skipper got rushed to hospital with appendicitis and I was left in charge for the rest of the day with 4 younger teenagers as crew.  I even managed OK and didn't hit anything. Happy days.

 

Jamie

If you fancy another trip there are just four places now doing hire sailing craft. 

https://www.eastwood-whelpton.co.uk/holidays/familyholidays

 

https://www.marthamboats.com

 

https://www.broadssailingholidays.co.uk/

 

And the historic fleet at https://www.huntersyard.co.uk/

 

 

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

Some blue sky, some clouds and a bit of sunshine at the moment.  Showers are a possibility.

Rugby watched as usual but I didn't really enjoy either match.

The Boss has stated that The Shed needs my attendance today.  Unusually  I am in complete agreement with her but whether I achieve much down there is debatable.  I will have a discussion with myself about that later.

First things first though and that will be breakfast.  Bacon sarnies this morning for a change.

Our local council provides a bulky waste collection service for furniture and other large items.  They charge £31 for up to 3 items and £52 up to a maximum of 6.   

Just had a email from my bank with my car insurance renewal premium, an increase of 19.5%.  There will a phone call made at some stage and if I get no satisfaction I will be making calls to other companies and comparing Meerkats etc.

I've just been asked what I'd like for dinner tonight and a request has gone in for SMOG as we haven't had that for a while.

Have a good one,

Bob.

 

 

 

[New Haven Neil]

Morning, strangely not windy sur le rock, it seems odd after the last few days.  Dull though, and fore-guessed to remain so garnished with rain. A quick glance at the rainfall radar shows showers but the heavy stuff is passing to the north of us and going towards the borrderrs  and lowland Scotland.

 

Today will mostly be finishing painting the lounge by the look of it.  Joy.  Still, it releases the first part of next week for whatever I want to do! 

[Barry O]

Ey up!

A very long, tiring and less than great day at the office yesterday. Had to finish the game at 7:15pm with 16 overs to go as it was very dark. League rain rules are disastrous when covid hygiene breaks are involved.

 

No chance to check in here last night but hopefully today should be an easier day. Parcels must be prepared prior to posting them tomorrow,  not a lot else on my slop chit for today.

 

Have a great Sunday! I hope your day goes well and you can make best use of ypur time today.

 

Baz

Edited August 23, 2020 by Barry O
spellung

[roundhouse]

Good morning.

 

A good day meeting up with long time friends in Croydon - max 6 of us. One we hadn't seen for a year.

 

This morning we were hoping to go to Tonbridge as South Eastern Hastings trains are being diverted via Redhill due to engineering works so three an hour. However there has been a train derailment on the route  at Tonbridge yard. What a day for that to happen. So I am now monitoring what happens before deciding if we still do make that journey.

 

Otherwise it could be more shed time testing Western region Hydraulics and then improving the weathering.

 

Update.

 

Trains running again but not this one at Tonbridge

Edited August 23, 2020 by roundhouse

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

Bright and breezy here. 
Aditi must have been up early as there is a load of washing outside drying. 
Back later. 
Tony

[polybear]

 

 

 

[AndyB]

Morning all.

Aches have somewhat subsided overnight, although I may have exceeded the 20 minute limit recounted byou Simon. By about 2.5 hrs. But the job had to be completed and it us now looking good ok. 

Nice curry last night - chicken pathia with lemon rice.

Trying to summon up the enthusiasm to do some work on the layout later.  

Have a good one everybody.

[jamie92208]

3 hours ago, TheQ said:

If you fancy another trip there are just four places now doing hire sailing craft. 

https://www.eastwood-whelpton.co.uk/holidays/familyholidays

 

https://www.marthamboats.com

 

https://www.broadssailingholidays.co.uk/

 

And the historic fleet at https://www.huntersyard.co.uk/

 

 

Thanks for that Q.  The yard wss just below the bridge at Potter Heigham on the west side of the river but I can't remember the name. No motors though slept 4 teens plus an adult.  They had a fleet of 10 and the group that organised it hired all 10 plus a motor cruiser and a launch with seats for us all for evening meetings. Very well organised.

 

Somehow I doubt that I'll ever get the chance again.

 

Jamie

[Coombe Barton]

Went to the Farmers’ Market today.

 

No farmers going cheap, though.

 

They said they left that to the chickens.

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. One thing that I intended to mention yesterday but forgot. On the 22nd August 1970 I started my employment with the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, 50 years ago! I remained with them for 37 years and 7 months until early retirement. I find it hard to believe that it was half a century ago.

1 minute ago, Coombe Barton said:

Went to the Farmers’ Market today.

 

No farmers going cheap, though.

 

They said they left that to the chickens.

Thats the next step up from groan.

The easy chair that was collected by the council wasn't very large, about the size of a car drivers seat. The free collection service has cut down fly tipping by a considerable amount.

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

It's raining, not heavy but it's wet just the same. So, after a late breakfast I'm now in the workshop about to start working on the control panel once again. 

 

JSB. The road at the top right of the is a ramp for the coaling area, the only loco using that would be propelling trucks to the top. The line directly below is for locos being coaled. 

 

Stay safe, stay sane, enjoy whatever you have planned for the day, back later. 

 

Brian 

[Danemouth]

Seeing all this talk of the Norfolk Btoads I have been reading a series of crime novels based in that area. The hero, a DI is based at Wroxham police station. However, as yet, I have seen no mention of Q's "Effin Clown Town"

 

Dave

[J. S. Bach]

11 hours ago, Florence Locomotive Works said:

 ...snip... I've always wanted to drive one of those zero turn mowers, but never got the chance.

Well, if you are ever in the area, give my a shout.

[simontaylor484]

I remember when lawnmower racing and tractor pulling was televised when Sky was in its infancy early to mid 90s i cant remember wether it was Eurosport or the now defunct Screensports, whom i seem to recall used to show sports that wouldn't be classed as mainstream.

   Our gardeners at work had some ride on mowers called Grillos that were low slung they would have made really good Go karts 

[The Stationmaster]

G'day all,

 

Some showers are promised on the Exeter seaweed infinite improbability scale so we'll just do what we normally do and watch the sky to see what it portends.

 

Dinner yesterday evening consumed tomatoes as part of a 'Provençal' sauce instead of the usual sausage casserole base - and it was rather tasty so will no doubt be repeated as art of teh continuing attack against the South Oxfordshire tomato mountain.  Taking away larger things courtesy of the District Council is minimum charge £40 for up to three items then £8 for any additional items up to a maximum of  a further two items. clearly the sensible policy of disposing of things like cupboards is to fill them up with as much rubbish as you can find in order to maximise value for money because 40 quid strikes me as a bit on the steep side.  I could on the other hand support steam restoration and get one of Mr Hazell's expensive skips but alas the delivering/collecting vehocle comes with an infernal combustion engine (that isn't powered by steam).

 

No other major, or minor plans are currently conjured up for today but it will n be necessary to check the email for the plumber's invoices and then transfer them PDQ to the management for settlement - deep joy all round but at least there is some evidence of drying in the external part of the walls.  We (the Good Doctor and I) are also wondering if the 'making good' part of things will include rebuilding the back door step which we demolished in our search for the source of the water, that might save us a job?

 

Have a good day one ad all and still try to stay safe.

[PhilJ W]

Now I've seen everything.

Its made specifically for dogs and is none alcoholic.

[45156]

Afternoon All

 

Had a call yesterday from our log supplier to say that he's very busy with his main business (he's a tree surgeon - cuts em down, then cuts em up and sells them about three years later) and that he has a load of logs in his Land Rover which are well seasoned, tinder dry, and cancelled so if we want them, we can have them at some time in the next few days when he can fit in the delivery - as the space for the logs had not yet been cleared in the garage, that job actually trumped the redecorating and I was out there quite early this morning before a fodder run to see what cheap stuff Lidl had in their chiller that was on its use by date, and offered at 20p or 70p.  Then it was back to finish off the garage, as the 10' Henchman ladder needed to be shifted as well.  We now have a clear space for logs, a clear and quite tidy garage, and are both totally knackered, and 30747 is sound asleep as I type this. 

 

For the first time in weeks, all posts since yesterday have been read and rated, and hope that this will now continue, as the new laptop  appears to be behaving,   We are having a survey for a new boiler later this week, then a visitor (30747's niece) over the bank holiday, at a suitably social distance.

 

Greetings are, as ever on offer to all fellow ERs, and a well done message to Rick for managing a trip out with the missus - I'm pleased that she was able to get out, and also that she enjoyed it.

 

Regards to All

Stewart

[TheQ]

3 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

Thanks for that Q.  The yard wss just below the bridge at Potter Heigham on the west side of the river but I can't remember the name. No motors though slept 4 teens plus an adult.  They had a fleet of 10 and the group that organised it hired all 10 plus a motor cruiser and a launch with seats for us all for evening meetings. Very well organised.

 

Somehow I doubt that I'll ever get the chance again.

 

Jamie

That's Herbert Woods, https://www.herbertwoods.co.uk/, no sailing craft any more. 

 

Group sailing hire these days are done with the historic fleet at Womack, they used the be the Norfolk Schools fleet,  before they decided sailing was too elitist, and disposed of them.  That's when the Norfolk heritage fleet was set up. 

 

[TheQ]

3 hours ago, Danemouth said:

Seeing all this talk of the Norfolk Btoads I have been reading a series of crime novels based in that area. The hero, a DI is based at Wroxham police station. However, as yet, I have seen no mention of Q's "Effin Clown Town"

 

Dave

That's clever, there isn't a cop shop in Wroxham.. It's in Effin clown town.. 

Do they mention Roy's?  The cop shop is next door... 

[TheQ]

Afternoon awl,, 

Tasks aforementioned on the boat were partly carried out,  the fillet was installed one side of the cockpit  but not the capping.  By the time I'd made the measure all the pieces there wasn't time. 

I did sand the number board,  that will get coats of varnish when others are done. 

 

The hull was partly  painted I suspect one more coat will do it for the upper foot of the sides,  but I'm running short of the paint,  it will get expensive during the week.. 

 

Mid morning they collected the combine,  went to the next field,  the previously partly harvested one. This meant a diversion later for Ben the I hate noises collie,  as the combine was just the other side of the lanes hedge...  A shorter route was travelled.  I can still hear them rumbling away,  5 hours later. 

[simontaylor484]

Is the cop shop in clown town owned by Roys as well as everything  else