Early Risers.

[New Haven Neil]

The latest attempt to circumvent our currently closed borders came to light yesterday, whence a young-ish man travelled to the island from the Isle of Whithorn (which isn't an island....) in Scotland to Ramsey here, on a jet ski!!!  All to see his current squeeze. 

 

Now, aside from the stupidity of breaking the border control, it is about thirty miles or so across the Irish sea, in winter.......on a bloody jet ski? Madness, the thought of it, at this time of year is beyond belief.  I'm surprised they carry enough fuel, TBH.

 

Anyway, his stupidity just cost him 4 weeks in the slammer.

 

Had he been a couple of days later, this was Ramsey prom on Sunday - no jet ski is going to cope with that.

 

[jonny777]

Dry and bright here in North Somerset. 

 

Today is an optimistic one because it is the point in the year after which the evenings begin to get lighter.  I will celebrate by putting up my Christmas tree. 

 

Sadly the mornings are still getting darker, and by more minutes initially than the evenings get lighter, hence the solstice on 21st/22nd; and unfortunately the mornings do not start drawing out until January 6th. I will celebrate that day by taking down my Christmas tree. 

 

 

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

A dull but dry start to the day, one which again will find me continuing to scrap paint from the cellar walls. However, Sheila has a 10 o’clock appointment at the hairdressers, so I’ll wont start until she’s gone, as before I begin work downstairs, the bathroom sink needs unblocking, a quick job when you pour down one of those bottles that does the job for you, but I’ll do that once she’s left. In the meantime, I’ve got 30 minutes to kill, so I might as well surf the interwebby  thing. 

 

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

 

Brian

 

[New Haven Neil]

Nearly fell off my perch, the vet rang just after 9!

 

They have a locum in helping out with calls, a pleasant young lady who was interested enough to take a proper history of the bits that have fallen off this last few years.  Going with naproxen as Robert  suggested, plus something to protect the stomach lining from continued NSAID use. Interestingly their computer software didn't flag up the drug interactions/cautions that the drug instruction sheets do.....hmm. 

 

Still, she was well on the ball, went through my history well so ended up having a discussion regarding diabetes, about which she was very interested in my situation, hadn't heard about HBA1c improvement with proper low-carbing, which she was very impressed with.  A convert, I think, she was going to do some research.

[Coombe Barton]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

Now, aside from the stupidity of breaking the border control, it is about thirty miles or so across the Irish sea, in winter.......on a bloody jet ski? Madness, the thought of it, at this time of year is beyond belief.  I'm surprised they carry enough fuel, TBH.

Apparently it was his first time on a jet ski - he bought it for the trip.

[New Haven Neil]

3 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

Apparently it was his first time on a jet ski - he bought it for the trip.

 

Darwin Award candidate!

[southern42]

' morning all from red dragon land.

Sunny-ish start, showers promised thereafter.

 

Last of the family presents accounted for and posted - click n collected from our front door.  Now, there's easy...

Cards still to finish off, *C* cake to make and *C* tree to put up.

 

Playtime consists of starting on a new 7mm plank for the dining room - the 'exhibition' word dropped from our vocabulary, at least, for the time being.  Well, we bought a few items of stock after selling Camel Quay so, we might as well (try to!) use it!

 

Fitt  and  Elfie getting into the swing of things.

 

Take care and play safe.  

_________

Best wishes

Polly

[PeterBB]

12 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

Scientists have noticed for some time that the magnetic north pole has been drifting progressively to the south and is actually somewhere in Canada. At some point they expect it to completely flip so north will be south and south will be north. So actually if the Bear is in Herts he is only confirming a scientific fact.

Hence why OS maps have the bearing printed on them related to the date of the map.  Geologically time wise the magnetic pole changes 'quite frequently'.  This to set your compass and make sure you are actually going in the right direction if you are in the wilds or plotting a route.

Edited December 15, 2020 by PeterBB
Spelling.

[tigerburnie]

Morning, we have seen some blue in the sky and a large bright thing in the sky, seem to remember seeing many moons ago, off to the Infirmary in Arbroath as SWMBO has an appointment with Rheumatology, wish us luck.

[southern42]

5 minutes ago, PeterBB said:

Hence why OS maps have the bearing printed on them related to the date of the map.  Geologically time wise the magnetic pole changes 'quite frequently'.

 

One reason why people who like to go mountaineering need to be good at the M word to do the calculations to know where they are on the map. 

Edited December 15, 2020 by southern42

[Barry O]

Filling.. fixed.. i want some of that uv setting stuff they use.. too expensive to let me borrow some though! Pah!

 

New dentist so it took some time to understand that I am heavily not into pain. She understands that now.

 

@New Haven Neil doctors..read the notes in medicines ???  Far too difficult for them. They refer to the nhs drugs wiki.. which may or may not actually be correct or up to date..

 

no sign of my prescription.. due to the delays I will run out of two items on saturday.. no worries tgere then..

 

off to take in the sun (yes ..it is sunny up in the North West Leeds Highlands).

baz

[simontaylor484]

Good morning all

 

Positive thoughts to all especially to the missing of our correspondents.

 

Its a beautiful sunny day here bit of cloud cover.

 

 

[jamie92208]

3 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

Apparently it was his first time on a jet ski - he bought it for the trip.

The girlfriend must be something special to make him do things as daft as that. 

2 hours ago, PeterBB said:

Hence why OS maps have the bearing printed on them related to the date of the map.  Geologically time wise the magnetic pole changes 'quite frequently'.  This to set your compass and make sure you are actually going in the right direction if you are in the wilds or plotting a route.

Thus you have to remember "Map to compass add, compass to map subtract" or have I got that the wrong way round.

 

Perhaps I should become a navigator.

 

Jamie

Edited December 15, 2020 by jamie92208

[Chris116]

2 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

The latest attempt to circumvent our currently closed borders came to light yesterday, whence a young-ish man travelled to the island from the Isle of Whithorn (which isn't an island....) in Scotland to Ramsey here, on a jet ski!!!  All to see his current squeeze. 

 

Now, aside from the stupidity of breaking the border control, it is about thirty miles or so across the Irish sea, in winter.......on a bloody jet ski? Madness, the thought of it, at this time of year is beyond belief.  I'm surprised they carry enough fuel, TBH.

 

Anyway, his stupidity just cost him 4 weeks in the slammer.

 

Had he been a couple of days later, this was Ramsey prom on Sunday - no jet ski is going to cope with that.

 

I hope the jet ski has been confiscated and sold to help pay for the cost of keeping the idiot on a bread and water diet before being sent packing. 

[TheQ]

I've just had

 

 

 

 

 

 

cake!!!

 

 

Chocolate....

 

Cake supplied the company, my bosses 25th anniversary of working here..  

 

He didn't know it was happening and neither did anyone else till we got quietly summoned  to the engineering area..

 

Kept so quiet, no low flying Hippos or Bears arrived..

 

Meanwhile I've just remembered this afternoon I have a blood test for ..... Diabetes... ooops..

 

 

 

Edited December 15, 2020 by TheQ

[TheQ]

29 minutes ago, Chris116 said:

I hope the jet ski has been confiscated and sold to help pay for the cost of keeping the idiot on a bread and water diet before being sent packing. 

The Mooring fees on the visitors pontoon are £2.75 per metre per day on the IOM, so 3m for a jet ski  £8.25, 28 days inside that's £231. Kick him out without collecting said jet ski, for another say year till everyone is vaccinated that's £3011...

Edited December 15, 2020 by TheQ

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. No trouble from the foot last night but this morning it was making up for it from the off. Even a long-ish soak in the bath seemed to make no difference. Nurofen has been deployed and is starting to have an effect.

3 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

The latest attempt to circumvent our currently closed borders came to light yesterday, whence a young-ish man travelled to the island from the Isle of Whithorn (which isn't an island....) in Scotland to Ramsey here, on a jet ski!!!  All to see his current squeeze. 

 

Now, aside from the stupidity of breaking the border control, it is about thirty miles or so across the Irish sea, in winter.......on a bloody jet ski? Madness, the thought of it, at this time of year is beyond belief.  I'm surprised they carry enough fuel, TBH.

 

Anyway, his stupidity just cost him 4 weeks in the slammer.

 

Had he been a couple of days later, this was Ramsey prom on Sunday - no jet ski is going to cope with that.

 

So he'll be spending Christmas/New Year in the slammer.

1 hour ago, PeterBB said:

Hence why OS maps have the bearing printed on them related to the date of the map.  Geologically time wise the magnetic pole changes 'quite frequently'.  This to set your compass and make sure you are actually going in the right direction if you are in the wilds or plotting a route.

There used to be an antique shop on the Ostend waterfront specialising in marine antiques. They had plenty of (not so) old sea charts for sale quite cheaply. They all had the box containing the magnetic pole information cut out. 

[PhilJ W]

The idiot on the water ski, what was he wearing? T-shirt, jeans and trainers and not much more is my guess. And as for a life jacket? The icing on the cake would be if the young lady he was intending to visit ditched him for being such an idiot.

[BoD]

1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said:

Apparently it was his first time on a jet ski - he bought it for the trip.

I’m sure I read that he then walked 15 miles to his girlfriend’s house.

[BSW01]

I've said it before, there's no cure for idiot. 

[New Haven Neil]

10 minutes ago, BoD said:

I’m sure I read that he then walked 15 miles to his girlfriend’s house.

 

That's what he said in Court, but it is a bit sus if you ask me.  Trying not to drop someone in it I'd say.  He could have got the bus....maybe the driver wouldn't let him on with his wet t shirt and jeans...

[tigerburnie]

Reported that the numpty then went in two night clubs, seems his girl friend thought he was working on the island, she allegedly knew nothing of his trip on the jet ski, just hope they don't breed, goodness only knows sort of idiot they'd churn out.

[simontaylor484]

Amother case for forcible sterilization im afraid.

 

I have to admit i have just shocked myself with content on the internet that i wasnt expecting. 

I was looking for self cast moulds it came up with self castration???

  

[PhilJ W]

You definitely do not want to mix those two up!

[Tony_S]

We saw a few groups of jet skis on various ports of call on our month aboard QM2 last year. In New York what I think was the NYPD Harbor patrol discouraged boats approaching. They discouraged groups of jet skis too. In Halifax a group of jet skis started approaching the nearby HMS Queen Elizabeth at high speed.  I thought they were very silly but they too were “discouraged” from proceeding, obviously not by the NYPD.