Early Risers.

[Gwiwer]

1 minute ago, Coombe Barton said:

Except with a very long pole

I’m not sure if I have a Pole that long. I’ll have to Czech. 

[Tony_S]

I wasn’t the first patient of the day at the clinic but I was the first to turn up.  The nurses asked if the traffic was busy. I said it wasn’t. Everyone else must have assumed the clinics were cancelled . Anyway I can stop taking one of my medications, the diuretic one, which will be nice. Apparently my lungs are clear and I have very nice ankles. Return in late February and depending on the echocardiogram either get discharged or a medication increase. I have already booked a blood test for a few days before the clinic visit. 
Tony

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said:

Except with a very long pole

16 feet 6 inches?

 

[Coombe Barton]

5 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

16 feet 6 inches?

 

If it were square it might be a virgate

[Winslow Boy]

5 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

16 feet 6 inches?

 

What's that in metric?

[45156]

Afternoon All

 

Just a quick visit, and again a lot of skipping has happened.

 

I am currently having a bit of a query about a historic tax assessment from 2016, and think I might need some of the paperwork.  I am still not all that able to bend down, and the paperwork in question was in a large box at the back of the eaves, so had to seek the assistance of 30747 to get it all rooted out.  It was not where we thought, and a thought from me that we had left one box of paperwork in the top landing cupboard - and so it transpired, but that left a load of boxes to replace, much to 30747's disgust that I hadn't remembered this sooner.  Then 30747 had the inspired idea of not putting the car boot boxes back, and instead going through them and as we have no plans to do any more car boots, to put the stuff in the garage with a view to donating it all to Wolfwood, a local animal charity.  So that's how we've spent the morning of our 42nd wedding anniversary.

 

Generic greetings are as ever freely offered.

 

Regards to All

Stewart

[BoD]

19 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

What's that in metric?

1/40 of a furlong.

[Tony_S]

6 minutes ago, BoD said:

1/40 of a furlong.

Did you have those exercise books in primary school with all kinds of measurement units on the back cover? 

[Gwiwer]

58 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Did you have those exercise books in primary school with all kinds of measurement units on the back cover? 

Yes. Most of them I still remember. 
 

Nails, hands, rods, poles, perches ..... 

Avoirdupois versus Troy

 

In other news white rain was reported by colleagues earlier today. Anyone arriving from south of the Croydon Ranges (those hilly bits beyond the Swan and Sugar Loaf  ) would probably have woken to find the ground covered with fluffy stuff and more of it falling down. 
 

None of that in the blissful warmth of the House of Fun where the temperature remained stubbornly at 2C all morning and liquid rain gave way - eventually - to wan sun. 
 

Greetings all. Happy Wetness Day. 

[Coombe Barton]

1 hour ago, Winslow Boy said:

What's that in metric?

5.0292m

 

Wrote this years ago ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/ancient-and-non-metric-measures/

 

 

Edited January 6, 2021 by Coombe Barton

[Gwiwer]

3 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

5.0292m

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/ancient-and-non-metric-measures/

 

 

773.723 beespaces. 

[leopardml2341]

2 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

Except with a very long pole

 

1 hour ago, Tony_S said:

16 feet 6 inches?

 

 

Two parrots on a perch......

 

 

 

 

.....one said to the other can you smell fish?

[Ian Abel]

Moaning...

HUMP day, and welcomed for sure.

 

Yesterday was spent with myriad back-and-forth trying to get my access to the client servers sorted. All levels of folks involved, ALL initially inferring it was my issue, even several times asking if I was using a "," (comma) instead of a "." (period) in a domain name for christ-sake!

I refrained from pointing out that I was using blqqdy domain names before most of the arsebandits were even BORN! 

 

Finally, around 3PM, the head of "Enterprise Applications" (one of the folks exchanging about 2 dozen emails with me) sent the following;

"Can you disconnect from the VPN and try again, our team believes this to be resolved".

I THINK, since it did now work perfectly, that is shorthand for;

"we did something REALLY REALLY STUPID again with your access and it's taken 10 of us 3 days to figure it out. That's NOT to say we're IDIOTS, but it may LOOK LIKE THAT if we admit to it"...

 

Nothing else going on here, the White House rant-meister continues to assail our senses, but everyone I know is counting down the days...

 

COVID vaccinations here are going at a snails pace, local/state governments reporting that they've no real handle on what/when/where all the supplies are appearing, and the federal government (Trump and band of useless wannabees) insisting it's all going swimmingly! 
Supposedly 15+ million doses have bene shipped to states, but so far about 4.8 million have gotten a vaccine!

Given sh!t-for-brains said there'd be at least 20 million vaccinated by the end of 2020, we simply add that WHOPPER to the lie total for him, I guess! 

 

Pah - nothing any of us in the real world can do about any of it anyways - just continuing the self-isolation until someone with some grain of common sense gets things going. 

 

-5 and overcast here, may reach +1 or +2 later.

 

Tally ho.

Edited January 6, 2021 by Ian Abel

[BoD]

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Did you have those exercise books in primary school with all kinds of measurement units on the back cover? 

I’ve still got a couple.  
You didn’t think I’d actually remembered that did you?

[Tony_S]

4 minutes ago, BoD said:

I’ve still got a couple.  
You didn’t think I’d actually remembered that did you?

I can remember having to do £sd calculations and ounce, pound and stone conversions at primary school. I wasn’t very good at arithmetic then, so was quite pleased that at secondary school the metric system was used except in engineering and woodwork lessons. 

[The Lurker]

Greetings all from the fold in the side of the hill. No snow has been seen in this part of the boring borough although it did rain heavily enough in the night to wake me up.

 

Groundhog day working from home.

 

On the school front, Mrs Lurker and a number of other TAs spent a substantial part of yesterday morning printing work for the week for about 20 kids in the school whose parents told the school they could not access the google classroom and that they'd like the work. By the deadline for pickup of 12 yesterday, only 4 packs had been collected. The others will not be getting a pack from now on - it is a waste of time and resources. She does not work on a Wednesday though she did join her class' google meet anyway. And she is back in tomorrow, hoping there might have been a change in the heating situation....

 

 

 

 

 

[Gwiwer]

Just now, Tony_S said:

I can remember having to do £sd calculations and ounce, pound and stone conversions at primary school. I wasn’t very good at arithmetic then, so was quite pleased that at secondary school the metric system was used except in engineering and woodwork lessons. 

I was never good at much more than the four basic arithmetic calculations but never had a problem with £sd or imperial measures.  Possibly (knowing what I do now, many years later) the product of an Asperger's brain.  

 

I still convert freely between "new" and "old" money and while in Australia frequently double-converted between Aussie $, UK decimal and UK £sd.  Easy enough.  For me anyway.  The Aussies use an expression "groat" to mean "dirty" (as in "groated up" - "filthy and in need of a decent shower") which I freely interpreted as "4d".  

[TheQ]

If you convert prices  to pounds shillings and pence, then everything seems very expensive.

 

 

 

 

[polybear]

50 minutes ago, Ian Abel said:

Finally, around 3PM, the head of "Enterprise Applications" (one of the folks exchanging about 2 dozen emails with me) sent the following;

"Can you disconnect from the VPN and try again, our team believes this to be resolved".

I THINK, since it did now work perfectly, that is shorthand for;

"we did something REALLY REALLY STUPID again with your access and it's taken 10 of us 3 days to figure it out. That's NOT to say we're IDIOTS, but it may LOOK LIKE THAT if we admit to it"...

 

Nothing else going on here, the White House rant-meister continues to assail our senses, but everyone I know is counting down the days...

 

Please tell Bear that you couldn't resist sending an email saying "I told you so....."

As for the Chief Cockwomble, we saw some of the current goings-on in the States on BBC News; Trumpie's bunch of cheerleaders are still convinced they've won/have been cheated etc. etc.  I reckon there's a few street squabbles fast approaching and it ain't gonna be pretty.

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. I see the Hornby generic coaches thread is still merrily frothing away, already on fourteen pages when only about three will do. I have obtained a copy of the 2021 Hornby catalogue, its on sale in Tess Coes from today.  

[PhilJ W]

Oops, pressed the submit button before I'd finished. My friend is at last going on line, a case of having to as his sons school has given his lad a tablet to continue his education under lock down. I'm trying to persuade him to join RMweb.

[The Stationmaster]

7 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

Surely that is one of the jobs that cannot be done from home.  
 

Our window cleaner uses a pressure washer so maybe he could turn the wick up a bit and try it. (He already occasionally does some of our windows from next door's garden  )

[The Stationmaster]

3 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

Yes. Most of them I still remember. 
 

Nails, hands, rods, poles, perches ..... 

Avoirdupois versus Troy

 

Strangely 'Helen of Avoirdupois' doesn't have quite the same sort of ring to it.  Hardly likely to launch many ships I'd have thought..

[BokStein]

Good Evening one and awl.

 

Pride has been taken in deciding to buy some Hornby; 66773 and 9/11ths of 390 119 now on order. They'll look good in a TrainSafe wall display!

 

In other news, an observation:

 

9 hours ago, BoD said:

It’s hardly a job that they can do working from home. 

 

IIRC, nobody has explicitly stated form who's home one should work so, therefore, all window cleaners are working from home; it just happens to be yours!

 

In a measured response,

 

5 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said:

Strangely 'Helen of Avoirdupois' doesn't have quite the same sort of ring to it.  Hardly likely to launch many ships I'd have thought..

 

Might take a while to fathom out! Meanwhile, 10 cricket pitches = 1 furlong.

[The White Rabbit]

14 hours ago, chrisf said:

Meanwhile, amid all this excitement I neglected to charge my phone yesterday.  It now appears lifeless.  Why am I so hopeless with technology?

 

 

I suggest that is the wrong question. Ask not why you are so hopeless with technology, but why technology is so hopeless with you? *

 

In my experience, usually if you plug the phone in to recharge anyway, it splutters into life (eventually). It may require some button pressing and/or plug-pulling/inserting. 

 

 

* Not just a cheap gag based on a JFK speech but a serious gripe based on my own experience with technology.