Early Risers.

[Tony_S]

I had a good tidy up in the garage. I should be able to play with cars and trains now. I found all kinds of interesting things I had forgotten about. I think I have matched every tool up with its charger now too. 
Tony

 

[simontaylor484]

This is the best i found on another part of the forum. 

 

They are the same colour as our Dachshund Rolo

 

[New Haven Neil]

Good evening, seem to have missed this morning.

 

A busy day, walk on the beach first thing, literally not a cloud in the sky, but a rather bracing wind.  As in, Skegness.  Then working on the garage and garden, friend Jayne came around (we're bubbled) which was nice.

 

The day got really nice indeed as the Skeggy wind dropped, so clear and quiet, hard to think it is going to be so horrible by Monday.

 

Tomorrow we have a friend/ex-employee coming for a distanced outside chat, he's not well so it is going to be really good to see him.  Then off on the bikes for a ride, to another socially distanced brew in a garden.  We had no new cases today, first time for quite a few weeks, but the great Manx public to seem to be interpreting the new rules rather loosely.  Hopefully this will not ruin things.....hmm.

 

 

[Ozexpatriate]

6 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

Hopefully this will not ruin things

It's an anxious time. Locally in Oregon, our case rate continues to be about one third the national average, sounds good, right?

 

Unfortunately the rate is increasing and is higher than the peak of our second wave, early last summer. The seven-day rolling average is approaching 400 daily new diagnoses and the trend-line has the potential for a fourth wave. The Governor was on television again today, pleading with people to stay the course.

 

Nationally, professional baseball has begun. Opening day was yesterday and already games have been postponed due to players testing positive.

 

Today being Good Friday I am reminded of an awful, truly groan-worthy 'dad' joke from my childhood that I trust everyone has heard numerous times:

Quote

"What do you get when you pour boiling water down a rabbit hole?

Hot cross bunnies."

 

I do miss good hot cross buns. The concept is not unknown here, but come packaged and baked who knows how long ago. Some of them are even iced!  They do not compare with my memories of hot cross buns fresh from the bakery.

[The White Rabbit]

3 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Any thoughts, the back half would be great for a model railway room. 

 

2 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

The term we're looking for here is "railway room".

 

Well, strange you should [both] say that... quite a few years ago, I did have a plan for the back half to be just that. Life and associated distractions meant it never got beyond the initial planning stage but there would have been a decent size space for  a model while still leaving a good space for a car and garden tools. Sadly, it is unlikely any purchaser would use the garage for that, though the scope for a workshop/store/utility room should be obvious. But as @polybear pointed out, so long as the price achieved reflects the value/space, the description is less important.

 

I get the feeling I might be disillusioned (rapidly and repeatedly) in dealing with estate agents... 

[PeterBB]

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Interestingly I just witnessed the "echo". I was posting my reply to @SirTophamHatt and the site stalled. Opening a second page the site had timed out, but coming back to reload this page, my post and the @Compound2632 echo appeared.

Happens quite often.

 

[polybear]

17 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

This is the best i found on another part of the forum. 

 

They are the same colour as our Dachshund Rolo

 

 

The UK Police have dogs trained to sniff out money - there was a feature on the six o'clock news a while back.  They go nuts every time they walk past a cash point

[Ozexpatriate]

1 minute ago, PeterBB said:

Happens quite often.

The difference this time for me was that I saw it happen in 'real time'. My guess is that it is related to server queuing issues. My internet connection was wobbling at the same time I was posting and might have downshifted to the slower of the two WiFi channels supported by my router. This might have resulted in two post requests being queued up. 

[pH]

3 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

I do miss good hot cross buns. The concept is not unknown here, but come packaged and baked who knows how long ago. Some of them are even iced!  They do not compare with my memories of hot cross buns fresh from the bakery.

We get ours from this chain: https://www.cobsbread.com/about/ who have baking facilities at the back of every store, so you know they’re fresh. 
 

(You may also recognize their parent Australian company!)

 

 

[simontaylor484]

I have thought often of trying to train our dog to find money that was dropped in the street.

 

I did have a colleague at the Council who could almost sniff out money even finding pound coins in the snow. 

[TheQ]

I could never be disillusioned with my experiences of estate agents, of have no expectations of them anyway..

 

Oddity of the day,

I'm rereading the "Conjurer of the River Kwai" the life story of Fergus Anckorn 1918-2018 who in his life time managed to be the youngest, the oldest , and longest serving member of the Magic Circle. What's special about that was, he survived the building of the bridge over the river now called the Kwai (after the film). 

 

The oddity.. I'm sitting here with this week's bottle of wine lottery from the back of the cupboard,  a bottle of Thai wine. It's from the Mae Sai district 500 hundred miles north of the Kwai.

 

 

 

 

[brianusa]

15 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

It's an anxious time. Locally in Oregon, our case rate continues to be about one third the national average, sounds good, right?

 

Unfortunately the rate is increasing and is higher than the peak of our second wave, early last summer. The seven-day rolling average is approaching 400 daily new diagnoses and the trend-line has the potential for a fourth wave. The Governor was on television again today, pleading with people to stay the course.

 

Nationally, professional baseball has begun. Opening day was yesterday and already games have been postponed due to players testing positive.

 

Today being Good Friday I am reminded of an awful, truly groan-worthy 'dad' joke from my childhood that I trust everyone has heard numerous times:

 

I do miss good hot cross buns. The concept is not unknown here, but come packaged and baked who knows how long ago. Some of them are even iced!  They do not compare with my memories of hot cross buns fresh from the bakery.

I do miss good hot cross buns. The concept is not unknown here, but come packaged and baked who knows how long ago. Some of them are even iced!  They do not compare with my memories of hot cross buns fresh from the bakery.

 

Mike, we've just ordered half a dozen from a local bakery.  Not a bad attempt at the real mcoy.

    Brian.

 

[Ozexpatriate]

7 minutes ago, pH said:

We get ours from this chain: https://www.cobsbread.com/about/ who have baking facilities at the back of every store, so you know they’re fresh. 

Nice! Apparently so far, they only have a small presence in the Northeastern US. It looks like they are almost as common as coffee shops* in the greater Vancouver area.

 

* Just kidding, sort of.

 

7 minutes ago, pH said:

(You may also recognize their parent Australian company!)

I wasn't familiar with Baker's Delight. I looked them up and while there are plenty of them in the Brisbane area, there are none close to my parent's home. They still have some owner-operated bakeries to choose from which are closer.

[brianusa]

It would appear that those on the top left hand side have all woken up and are causing 'echos' on this forum 

    Brian.

[Ozexpatriate]

7 minutes ago, brianusa said:

... 'echos' on this forum

Is he?

 

Yes. Yours is the third in the last hour or so.

[petethemole]

15 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

I did have a colleague at the Council who could almost sniff out money even finding pound coins in the snow. 

 

I had a similar knack when I was on a very low income (archaeological fieldwork used to be very poorly paid).  I once spotted a tenner in a gutter full of dead leaves, while cycling past it.  As pay rates improved the 'gift' left me.

[pH]

16 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

I wasn't familiar with Baker's Delight. I looked them up and while there are plenty of them in the Brisbane area, there are none close to my parent's home.

Knowing Cobs in Canada , but not that it was originally from Australia, we were surprised when we first found a Baker’s Delight in Brisbane. (Apparently that particular shop is now closed.)

 

[laurenceb]

4 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Popped down to Tesco's this lunchtime only to discover a queue winding along the front of the store and out of site to around the corner. I decided to come back later but before doing so I asked the security lady what time they closed (it turned out to be normal closing time, midnight). But then she told me that I could walk straight in without queueing. I must look really old and decrepit to be allowed that favour. I was hoping to do a bit of the G word this afternoon but the hay fever says otherwise. Heads up for any Carry on fans, ITV3 are showing Carry on films back to back this afternoon culminating with Carry on Screaming at 8 PM.

Any thoughts, the back half would be great for a model railway room. 

Dont forget that the shops are closed fora HOLE DAY this weekend, people have to get a months groceries in

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. I will be finishing off a pack of apple and cinnamon hot cross buns shortly, as soon as the tea has brewed. I enjoyed watching 'Carry on Screaming' for the umpteenth time. One of the best of the genre, and its 55 years old! Part of the background music included the themes from Z cars and Steptoe and son. Thats it for now, be back later.

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[Coombe Barton]

... and a smoke alarm moonlighting, again ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2021/04/02/boris-on-twitter/

[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

Ha'way the lads!

Bas

[simontaylor484]

I once found a pound coin on the floor in the pub i put it in the quiz machine and won a fiver i bought a pint and put the rest in the bandit and came of with £80 then went up town for more ale

[PhilJ W]

I once found £60 outside the door to my office, three £20 notes screwed up in a ball. I handed the money into our cash office they took a note of where and when I found it and put it in the safe. Six months later they told me that no one had claimed it so the money was mine. Came in handy as I was just about to go on holiday and the extra spending money was useful. It was quite a sum 42 years ago.

[The Stationmaster]

6 hours ago, Barry O said:

@The White Rabbit thanks for that.. I  will have a quick golooksee at said act..

 

Baz

Baz I would draw your particular attention to Section 6 of the Act which might well apply in this case (it's the bit most people don't know about).   Access is an interesting one in that I don't think you can prevent access but equally the word used is 'access' not necessarily movement of plant and materials.  

The neighbour should ideally serve a Notice under the provisions of the Act in respect of any access intention on his part.

 

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/523010/Party_Wall_etc__Act_1996_-_Explanatory_Booklet.pdf