Early Risers.

[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

Baz

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. My dad had a Chevette from new. When it was five years old he purchased a new car and passed the Chevette onto me. A few years later, shortly before he died he was told he couldn't drive any more (in case he was taken ill at the wheel) so he passed his new car on to me and I passed the Chevette onto my niece who had just passed her test.

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

Not much of a day really but if you want to know, here it is.

Didnt get up until 10am as I’ve got a cold and didn’t sleep very well. Shortly after this sil rang up asking if we could take a bed she’d sold to Huddersfield, no problem, a chance to get out and recharge the battery on my van. Didn’t bother with dinner due to late breakfast and after a few hours cleaning the drive I went to the chippy via the Coop for cider. After tea watched a bit of Telly and look around here. 
There we have it.

Goodnight

Robert

[Simon G]

After yesterday’s walk, we settled for a shorter 6 mile walk today!  I was ready for lunch after that.  A bit of garden work was done in the afternoon before I just got too cold.  I had a call from my mother this evening wishing me a happy birthday.  Sadly, with her suffering from dementia she had got the wrong day!  Only one day out though, so she was a day early.  Better than a day late she said when I told her!

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all

[Winslow Boy]

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Is it a particularly British trait that as soon as any rules/regulations/advice are released there seems to be a lot of “what can I get away with?” “how can I bypass these conditions?” 

I think that stems from the fact that the British don't have a tradition of accepting rules that have been imposed on them. Not wishing to bring politics up but I seem to recall I quote made by a politican to that effect.

[Tony_S]

Aditi rang her Mum late this afternoon. She took a long time to answer but she did interrupt the answerphone. The first thing she said was “what time is it?” Aditi told it it was nearly 5 o’clock. MiL then asked “am or pm”. She had fallen asleep in her chair and it had got dark. She has been in pain at night with hip and leg pains so I am not surprised she slept well in the afternoon. 
 

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

As I mentioned this morning, I’d been requested to be on door answer service, I thought I’d doing something quiet, so I’ve spent most of the day wiring up some light fittings ready for installation when I eventually rip down the old and fitted the new ceiling in the cellar. Before I got changed, I emptied the vacuum cleaner, all the bins, the recycling bags and put the bins out ready for tomorrow’s collection. Ironically the parcel arrived after I’d finished, I’d changed into some clean cloths and was just about to sit down with a muggertea, fecking typical!

 

This evening we had long conversations with Vickie, James and Michael, with regard to the easing of restrictions at Christmas. Vickie has stated categorically that they won’t be going anywhere or seeing anyone over the festive period. This is mainly due to how bad Ian was with Covid. James and Michael both feel the same, so we our all staying in our own respective homes, we all feel the risk is far to great. Hopefully next year, we’ll all be able to get together and celebrate all the missed birthdays etc. 

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[skipepsi]

Thought better of it so. G'night awl.

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[rockershovel]

8 hours ago, brianusa said:

A Vauxhall Mokka!?  Who actually thinks up names such as these?  At least my Vauxhalls had more respectable names like Wyvern, Velox or Cresta. All nice cars except for the unique slide up windows!

        Brian.

 

Starbucks? 

 

Mind you, Vauxhall thought at one time that Spanish speakers would buy a car named “no va” ...

[rockershovel]

10 hours ago, Chris116 said:

I am not competing with you, just keeping one step ahead like I was when the queue formed. Sorry to disappoint you this time. You have the flowers and cake and I will stick to Suzi!

 

Felicity Kendall... Anneka Rice....

[rockershovel]

6 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

I think that stems from the fact that the British don't have a tradition of accepting rules that have been imposed on them. Not wishing to bring politics up but I seem to recall I quote made by a politican to that effect.

 

It’s because of the English tradition of Common Law, by which any given act is legal unless specifically prohibited, and (to a considerable extent) the verdict is reached by a jury selected at random from the population, and its composition amenable to challenge from the accused. 

 

We don’t really have the Chinese provision to deploy armed troops in the streets... 

[chrisf]

Greetings one and all

 

I received my first seasonal greetings card of the year yesterday.  Perhaps fittingly, I found it on the doormat when I returned from my trip into town to post the cards destined for friends overseas.  I need little prompting to quote from a song by Paddy Roberts, written in 1963 and ever more topical:

 

“Merry Christmas, you suckers, it’s perfectly clear

That you fall for it all a bit sooner each year

If it goes on like this you will find pretty soon

That you’re singing ‘White Christmas’ as early as June”

 

This year those who rule us have decreed that the UK festive season will last for five days.  Finally they have got something right!  What I like most about the festive season in Switzerland is that it is brief and to the point.  Here it seems to go on for ever and it has barely begun.  Oh dear.

 

Yesterday evening the LGBT group met via Zoom.  Collectively it is looking at an evening of carols next month.  If it comes off it will be a far cry from the last time I was involved in singing carols.  That was when four of the Ffestiniog Travel tour party was persuaded to render two carols in German in the hotel after dinner.  It was good fun, if only for the singers.

 

Best wishes to all

 

Chris

[rockershovel]

13 hours ago, TheQ said:

Potato's no, sugar beet yes, tons of it being taken to the pan next door. The road is invisible under mud.

Fog is lifting off the fields and flowing over the earth banks and hedgerows.

 

Tes and co were busy, but the car park half empty, most odd.

Picked up our prescriptions after, mine accompanied by a note for online medical review, which I've done..

Name address, any side effects, do you know how to take the pills, are you happy with the review, and that was it.

 

 

It’s the sugar beet campaign right now. Peterborough used to be a morass of silty mud every year, having a beet plant which had become surrounded with urban sprawl over the years... I really don’t miss that, or the awful smell.. 

[iL Dottore]

9 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Is it a particularly British trait that as soon as any rules/regulations/advice are released there seems to be a lot of “what can I get away with?” “how can I bypass these conditions?” 

That’s quite an interesting observation. There are many who, according to the comments section in various newspapers, would like to see the adoption of many of the Scandinavian and/or German systems. Unfortunately for the UK, for these systems to work there has to be the same amount of social discipline and cohesion that you have in Scandinavia and Germany. I don’t see that happening  in the UK (for many reasons – most of which definitely being within the realms of politics, which we don’t discuss here...)

9 hours ago, polybear said:

 

We're talkin' Suzi here.  There's a time and a place for lemon drizzle, and this one's being saved......

Mr Bear and other miscreants of ER are more than welcome to try their chances with Miss Quattro. I never found her that particularly appealing and the other young actress with a supposedly award winning Gluteus Maximus, Miss Felicity Kendall, also failed to “float my boat“.  Now, the young Miss Linda Ronstadt is another matter entirely!
If I may be admitted to add a little bit of friendly, avuncular, advice, I would like to point out that Mr Bear’s aversion to creamy substances in his cakes could well turn out to be a drawback in the wooing of Suzi and the other ladies he would like to get his paws upon.  There is something very appealing about cakes with lots of cream or cream-like fillings for the ladies; I understand that by eating a rich, creamy cake they can experience a frisson of naughtiness which may affect their willingness to be wooed...

8 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

Called so because if you drive one you are mocked. Remember Vauxhall developed the Corsa for people who know f*** all about cars.

British Cars! Absolutely superb up until about 1959 or so, utterly crap afterwards... I am very much of the firm opinion that RR, Bentley, Jaguar etc. have made no better cars than those made before 1959 (I think that the current batch of RR and Bentleys are nothing more than luxuriously kitted out tanks) Even at the less exclusive end of the market you had lovely cars like the 1951 Wolseley 6/80, the MG Magnette or even the Morris Minor or the Hillmann Minx. 

As a relevant digression, if anyone has one if the following cars for sale (in good condition) I’d be interested: Bentley S1, Mercedes-Benz “Ponton”, Wolseley 6/80 (preferably the Police issue model), Jaguar Mk VIII or an Armstrong Siddeley Hurricane. LH Drive if possible.

 

Have a great POETS day

 

iD

Edited November 27, 2020 by iL Dottore

[jamie92208]

20 minutes ago, rockershovel said:

 

It’s because of the English tradition of Common Law, by which any given act is legal unless specifically prohibited, and (to a considerable extent) the verdict is reached by a jury selected at random from the population, and its composition amenable to challenge from the accused. 

 

We don’t really have the Chinese provision to deploy armed troops in the streets... 

Hence why the UK police referred to itself as a service. We were taught that we policed by consent.  I'm not sure of the figures but was told that police numbers in most European countries, particularly France and Germany,  are much higher per head of population than in the UK. I believe that the legal position over here is that things are illegal unless allowed by law.

 

Jamie

[Robert]

Good Morning Everyone,

 

I thought it was about time I checked in again!

 

All is fine in this part of the world.  We are still in "lockdown light" and that has been extended until (probably) Christmas.  To be honest, I can't see them relaxing the rules much - we've already resigned outselves to the fact that Christmas is going to have to be scaled down this year.  My Mum cannot visit because of the travel restrictions, which means that it is the first time in my life I won't see her at Christmas, and visiting Thomas will probably involve meeting  in the garden!  Still, if that's what it takes to get this wretched virus under control then so be it.

 

Have a good day everyone...

[jamie92208]

Good morning all, first off, Happy Birthday Simon. I hop that you have a lovelly view of those glorious fells today in my native county.

 

We got quite a bit done yesterday. A nice walk round the fields to start with. Beth is starting to feel the benefits of CPAP, then after coffee, a couple of hours demolishing parts of the bathroom. That hasn't revealed any nasties yet and the first few floor tiles came up easily. The afternoon was gardening time and the jungle is now startibg to look neater.  Fish and chips for tea and an episode of the Queens Gambit on netflix.  Today it's off to the Dr's forvprescriptions this morning then to the garage to part with muddling tokens for repairs to the front brakes on the Volvo.  

 

Mis Q was definitely rather nice and I also appreciated Ms Kendal and Ms Rice. I would like to add to the list, Sonja Kristina from Curved Air and off course a certain Agnetha, though Annafried had the better voice.

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie

 

 

[polybear]

8 hours ago, Dunsignalling said:

They've relied, at every turn, on the majority obeying their "advice" and quietly turned (and continue to turn) a blind eye to the F-wits who are willing to take their chances with the virus (no problem, their choice) and don't give a damn who they take with them (big problem, not their choice).

 

Infection rates of a few hundred in every 100,000 appears not to spook the vast majority; it seems to be for many people that unless they actually catch a bad dose of it themselves or see it close to home (family member, friend etc.) then it doesn't feature on their radar.  All they see is that they can't go down the pub or go clubbing with their mates.  Give it a 10% chance of catching it with a 50/50 death rate and then they'll maybe sit up and take notice.

 

8 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Aditi was still sad to see it go. We sold it to someone who had access to a replacement engine.It had to be towed away as it had had a piston/conrod/crankcase event overtaking a BMW on the A127. A noble end! 
Tony

 

You could always surprise her.....

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1277423

(Quite an interesting site for seeing what's still out there and what they are worth)

 

43 minutes ago, rockershovel said:

 

Felicity Kendall... Anneka Rice....

 

Ahh yes, Felicity.....

You're a man of obvious immaculate taste. 

 

16 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

If I may be admitted to add a little bit of friendly, avuncular, advice, I would like to point out that Mr Bear’s aversion to creamy substances in his cakes could well turn out to be a drawback in the wooing of Suzi and the other ladies he would like to get his paws upon.  There is something very appealing about cakes with lots of cream or cream-like fillings for the ladies; I understand that by eating a rich, creamy cake they can experience a frisson of naughtiness which may affect their willingness to be wooed...
 

 

Fear not, it's butter cream (why ruin a decent lemon drizzle with that 'orrible cream stuff?).  Naughtiness?  Bear can do that....

[rockershovel]

23 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

Hence why the UK police referred to itself as a service. We were taught that we policed by consent.  I'm not sure of the figures but was told that police numbers in most European countries, particularly France and Germany,  are much higher per head of population than in the UK. I believe that the legal position over here is that things are illegal unless allowed by law.

 

Jamie

 

Quite so. The English (as opposed to British) position is that at least notionally, the monarch rules by consent of the nation, and delegates that authority to Parliament. The Prime Minister is neither President, nor Head of State. Don’t forget that well within modern times, a monarch who had done nothing actually illegal was forced into abdication, and monarchs have been sacked or executed in the past. 

 

Theres also the matter of that Cressida woman, the one who seems to be a standing provocation to website word-checkers, who sees nothing wrong with the idea that police forces are free to decide what parts of th3 law they do, or don’t enforce. (The idea that the police are a service, as opposed to a force, is very recent and I’ve never heard it outside the Guardian or the BBC. Most regional forces actually use term constabulary.)

Edited November 27, 2020 by rockershovel

[rockershovel]

19 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Infection rates of a few hundred in every 100,000 appears not to spook the vast majority; it seems to be for many people that unless they actually catch a bad dose of it themselves or see it close to home (family member, friend etc.) then it doesn't feature on their radar.  All they see is that they can't go down the pub or go clubbing with their mates.  Give it a 10% chance of catching it with a 50/50 death rate and then they'll maybe sit up and take notice.

 

 

You could always surprise her.....

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1277423

(Quite an interesting site for seeing what's still out there and what they are worth)

 

 

Ahh yes, Felicity.....

You're a man of obvious immaculate taste. 

 

 

Fear not, it's butter cream (why ruin a decent lemon drizzle with that 'orrible cream stuff?).  Naughtiness?  Bear can do that....

 

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker...

 

the point about infection rates as a yardstick, is that a couple of hundred in a hundred thousand is a level at which most will never encounter the infection, and a lot won’t even know anyone who has. Add to that the concept of “asymptomatic infection”, by which 80% of those diagnosed show no discernible symptoms... but most people know someone who has been in a RTA, or been injured at work, or had cancer, or... were it not for the constant blare of publicity, things would resemble the Hong Kong Flu epidemic of the 1950s and 1960s.

Edited November 27, 2020 by rockershovel