Early Risers.

[chrisf]

Greetings one and all

 

Tonight sees a welcome small step on the road to normal life.  There is a concert in Milton Keynes featuring Ninebarrow, a duo from the West of England with a couple of CDs to their credit.  I was slightly bemused to find that the event is part of the Milton Keynes International Festival.  Odd stuff, this marketing, but it seems to have done the job as the concert is a sell-out - in the financial sense, naturally, not in artistic terms.  I think I know where the venue is in relation to the multi-storey car park but there is only one way to find out.  In the process I shall also discover whether MK has a rush hour.

 

I spent long enough searching yesterday to realise that my sun hat was in too safe a place for me to find it before Sunday, when according to the weather forecast I am likely to need it.  A swift dash to Go Outdoors produced a khaki kepi for a mere £11, not to mention a neat little tongue twister which will be handy in the event of drunkenness.

 

There is unhappy news from Australia.  Well known to viewers of YouTube is a six year old koala named Triumph.  He was born with a foot missing.  A worldwide search led to a dental technician who made a prosthetic foot for him.  Now the brave little fella has been diagnosed with leukaemia.  My thoughts this morning are with his rescuer and keeper Marley, who must be at her wits’ end.

 

Best wishes to all

 

Chris   

[Andrew P]

Once again I had to clear the Editor, never an issue, just a comment in passing.

 

ANYWAY, on to matters of the day.

 

I will NOT be wasting time on here, it absolutely glorious outside, and I need a walk before it gets any warmer.

 

Have a good day one and all, stay safe and keep well.

[Barry O]

Ey up!

 

Thanks @southern42 for the advice regarding the hands. I will keep trying to work them. They feel strange and are discouraging some activities. Pah! Never mind, I will survive.

 

According to the powers that be we must be careful due to the heat wave. I will carry plenty of water to my cricket games this weekend along with lots of sun cream. Big concrn on Sunday is the water fountains are closed off at Headingley so no refills available.

 

Some may have noticed a lot of progress on my item which has the parallel nickle silver rails on it in my thread. Today shall see a fair bit of tidying up as well as a trip to the butcher for pies and sausages for the weekend  as we have more visitors arriving.

 

Stay safe!

Baz

 

 

[Andrew P]

Forgot to say, a busy weekend ahead with much F1 action on the TV and the new format being tried for the first time, starting TODAY.

[polybear]

7 hours ago, Erichill16 said:

Evening All,

A relatively newcomer on here but really appreciate it and enjoy the content. A couple of years ago I tried to sign on as a new user I found I’d already registered in 2009 but never poster.  

 

Bear wonders when RMWeb actually arrived on the web.  Anyone?

 

7 hours ago, Erichill16 said:

Odd day really. After finally  deciding ‘we’ were happy to go off in the motor home all but one of the sites in North Yorkshire that we had in mind had become fully booked.

 

Let me guess - and it was the least favourite of all those on your list?

 

7 hours ago, Erichill16 said:

I’d arranged my meals today around having fish and chips for tea (evening meal) and ended up rushing my jobs this afternoon in order to get to the chippy before closing time.(7:30).  Got there at 7:15 and found out they were closed for the week. Bu88er. Sandwich and bag of crisps was substituted but not the Old Speckled Hen.

 

Bear is rapidly becoming disenchanted with his weekly saveloy & chip roll; it doesn't seem to have the taste appeal it used to have, and the ever-increasing price (it's now four quid FFS) is well into "p1ss take " territory.  I can see it becoming more of a once-a fortnight (or less) option in the very near future.

 

7 hours ago, Erichill16 said:

Mum came  up for some of her things and we went out for dinner (lunch) and I just had a piece of LDC.

 

That's better.  I really, REALLY wish I could do that, especially the first bit....

 

7 hours ago, Erichill16 said:

Though I often mention ‘shed time’ I don’t actually have a shed that contains miniature items, it just contains lawnmowers etc. Occasionally it gets used to paint thinks of a miniature nature. If anybody wants to see it, I’ll take a picture tomorrow. I do have a room in the house but there’s nothing to show after 10 years. Thinking about happenings early this week perhaps I really aught to get a move on.

 

 

Piccies?  Yes please....

Ten years?  My membership number suggests Bear joined the EMGS back in 2000; I'll be a very unhappy Bear if I don't actually get to do something (other than fill cupboards with goodies) next year - I want to get the refurb work out of the way first.  I could do more something (ANYTHING) in the evenings, but often after the events of the day I've had enough.

 

5 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

Outback they need to be proper enough to stop buffs, camels, emus and roos....

 

 

 

That's not a car, it's a bulldozer....

 

32 minutes ago, chrisf said:

Greetings one and all

 

Tonight sees a welcome small step on the road to normal life.  There is a concert in Milton Keynes featuring Ninebarrow, a duo from the West of England with a couple of CDs to their credit.

 

 

Bear is totally lost when it comes to music - and who makes it - nowadays.  I just looked at the Top 100 Chart and there's 10 artists I've actually heard of - and three of them (Neil Diamond, Kim Wilde and Boney M) are from years ago when music really was music, and not the white noise that's sold today.

(I don't include the listenings of chrisf in this category you understand)

 

32 minutes ago, chrisf said:

There is unhappy news from Australia.  Well known to viewers of YouTube is a six year old koala named Triumph.  He was born with a foot missing.  A worldwide search led to a dental technician who made a prosthetic foot for him.  Now the brave little fella has been diagnosed with leukaemia.  My thoughts this morning are with his rescuer and keeper Marley, who must be at her wits’ end.

 

 

 

In other news:

The previously reported joys of the loft beckon today.  Oh deep joy....

[jamie92208]

Good moaning, it's sunny here and is allegedly  going to get warm.  Yesterday the main part of the grass got cut and I then slobbed out watching the last mountain stage of Le Tour. Chapeau as they say to the climbers. How they do it day after day I don't know.  Ieven had a bit of time in the shed. No hedgehogs  here so far but the Stag Beetles are out.  The Combines and their accolyte lorries and tractors were working till at least midnight.

 

Today after sone domestic engineering, will be the first meeti g of our model railway group for some time. Vaccinated only.  Onevof our members died recently so it will be a bittersweet meet up but it will be good to get together and catch up.

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie

 

 

[AndrewC]

Good Friday all from the boring borough. 

 

We managed to survive the coming and going of page 10,000. New job has begun. All onboarding carp so far. A bit slow for my liking but today I'll finally start getting into some project work. 

 

SWMBO's former boyfriend had a Suzuki Samurai. It was a PoS by all accounts. Soft top constantly being cut to nick anything in the vehicle. Walk past with an ice cream and it would be too cold for it to start. It did roll a couple of times as well. MiL had the Ford Bronco which was as likely to flip as a stack of pancakes. Awful thing. I'll stick to my Chelsea tractor. This one has an external air bag for pedestrians. I can't help thinking of some poor idiot getting bumped up onto the bonnet and then being launched into orbit by the bag. 

 

 

Speaking of sheds. Here is mine hiding behind the jungle that SWMBO has created. 

 

Coffee calls. Enjoy the day. TFIF

[TheQ]

Double Plus Good...

 

Mooring Awl, Inner Temple hare,

An absolutely terrible nights lack of sleep not more than an hour at a time probably only totalled less than 4 hours.

 

Ben the Sense of humour Collie was around today, for several days he's sat there looking sad wanting a cuddle before proceeding..  Today... He sat there looking sad, so when I approached  to stroke his head and reassure him, he leapt to his feet and bounded around... Fooled Yahh!!!

 

I'm feeling grumpy as it is with this lack of sleep..

Then the first company email I open, a list of words we cannot use in company paper work, most of them I can't see a reason to use anyway but perfectly good words Like "Blacklist", and "grandfathered rights" are on the list..

If they give us a course on this stupidity, I shall fill the "how was this course" piece at the end, with  words from 1984..

 

Strangely this morning, there was very little traffic, like none at all in the 25 miles to work going in my direction and very little coming the other way.. I think many have decided with the forecast  for the weekend, today is a good day to be WFH..

 

Of that we've had a stiff northerly for the last few days.. and it's forecast to continue, we won't be getting much of any warmth I think.

It is however getting warm in here, the first of 3 100A shunts is warming up.

 

The company IT department has been sold off, expect cockups, major problems and other embuggerances as the buying company tries to save money on their purchase.

 

Brain has been going round the rudder / steering gear / weed deflector loop all night, with the odd thoughts of taking it out on Sideshow Bob..

 

Time to Sit and wait as things get warmer..

 

“To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone—to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink—greetings!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 16, 2021 by TheQ

[New Haven Neil]

Morning, finally made it on a bit earlier. 18c heading upwards, scorchio promised, good as it is old farts bike club day, the destination being the MSPCA cafe where there are no koalas, but many dogs n cats and the odd wabbit. Edit - not in the cafe....LOL

 

Spent some time yesterday glueing bits of brass together with a molten tin and lead based material, a little confusticated with some parts at first but a picture from RMW helped, and later some advice from the designer of the brass bits, nice chap.  NHN too has dodgy hands, I don't have a steady hand so model making has always been a challenge (less said about handwriting the better, I should have been a doctor but I'm no way intelligent enough), been like that all my life, but of late some, well all, very seized fingers of a morning don't help, arthritis starting and some diabetic damage one suspects.

 

I'll leave the car in the Bright Lights of Ramsey later this afternoon after the bike ride, and take the Manx Electric Railway to the Big City to meet Mrs NHN from work (office is actually in the horse tram sheds next to the MER station), then ride it back together and have a Chinese meal in the seething mass of humanity of an evening in Ramsey. It's all go.  

Edited July 16, 2021 by New Haven Neil

[New Haven Neil]

Reading Q's post, two things jump to mind.

 

One, that blacklisting has been blacklisted.....

 

Two, iD thought the other day that the UK was destroying itself in stupidity - it would appear this may be driven from USA parent companies....by demonstration.

 

Oh, two (a) - this so called PC rubbish needs to be stopped.  It is completely over the top.

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

Sunshine and plenty of blue sky here with a few fluffy clouds.  Temperature currently 16°C possibly rising to 26°C.

Neil, couldn't agree more.  I am sick and tired of all the PC carp being thrust down our throats telling us what to think or do and to apologise for everything that our forefathers did in past centuries.

Nothing much of note happening here at the moment except....wait for it.....I have just been given an order. 

"Don't sit around here all day, get down to that shed and do something!"

I will (for once) comply so after weighing out and eating my breakfast I will wend my way down there.

Have a good one,

Bob.

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

It is sunny here. The chaps from the double glazing company turned up on time (8.30) and they are removing the old frame. I suspect it shouldn’t be too difficult, due to the state of the timber. When the window frames were replaced some years ago the ones on the south facing side of the house almost fell out. 
Tony

 

[jonny777]

Dry, sunny and warm in North Somerset. Watering will have to take place, especially with the tomatoes now bearing lots of fruit. 

 

Am I surprised about the death and destruction from weather in Germany and Belgium? 

 

No I am not. Meteorologists warned everyone 30 years ago that this kind of extreme was going to be a regular occurrence, but everyone just laughed.... and carried on as normal. "Why should we listen to weather people?" they guffawed, "they can't even get tomorrow's forecast right". 

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

A bright sunny day here in England’s northwest, currently 17C and due to reach the mid 20’s by the afternoon. It is Friday so my first task will be a quick stroll to the butchers for the weekly meat rations and hopefully a pastie for dinner. Then I shall head to the Trafford Centre for a few more provisions that are unavailable at our local Sainsbury’s. If I am back early enough we may go to the craft shop in Dunham Massey, so no doubt a few more modelling tokens will be spent there!

 

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

 

Brian

[New Haven Neil]

24c now dans le Rock, Fraggles swooning.

 

Off in a mo for the bike ride, should be most pleasant, not sure how many we will have today but they're all good company.  Membership is strictly by invitation! Yet oddly, I'm allowed..... 

 

Best wishes to Cav today, the lad done good, if he can beat Mercx's record it will be quite something, especially considering he thought his career was over after illness.  Our Belgian friend here has torn loyalties!  I have a suspicion it is too big an ask after the climb yesterday, though.  Fingers and kippers crossed.

 

 

[grandadbob]

Pah!  Best laid plans and all that.  Breakfast had but then I remembered that I had to make  phone calls to my bank and insurance company.  Currently been sitting in a queue for 20 minutes waiting for them to answer my call "which is very important to them."  Double Pah!

[grandadbob]

Neil, I've been a fan of Cav for years and really hope that he can do it.  He did look very cheerful when he finished yesterday and had four (I think) of his team with him so they are really working for him all the way.

[tigerburnie]

Morning bright and quite breezy which is a blessing as we are not used to this heat up here, I've become acclimatised to only having one day for summer now....................(It would seem I somehow forgot to wish every one a good night last night, sorry about that)

[Pacific231G]

Just now, jonny777 said:

Am I surprised about the death and destruction from weather in Germany and Belgium? 

 

No I am not. Meteorologists warned everyone 30 years ago that this kind of extreme was going to be a regular occurrence, but everyone just laughed.... and carried on as normal. "Why should we listen to weather people?" they guffawed, "they can't even get tomorrow's forecast right". 

I agree, and even thirty years ago they got tomorrow's forecast right far more often than not. The problem is that most people don't understand probability so it's been very difficult for the forecasters  to include the level of uncertainty in public forecasts. In general, the public also don't understand the difference between meteorology and climatology and also want childishly simple answers to complex questions (the sort that populist politicians and the papers that back them are only too willing to offer them)

If the real answer to the question, "is it going to rain tomorrow" is that rain is unlikely that doesn't make the forecast wrong  if it does rain. 

 

[TheQ]

Historically speaking , we have been going through a quiet period in the way of storms. They were much more common in the distant  past and a lot more destructive.

 

When I had the house double glazed several of the window frames (the bits actually attached to the walls) were rotten just sealed up with many many coats of paint, and that's the situation of the conservatories. One will eventually be replaced completely as it's also too small. The other will have double glazed unit's inserted on top of the half wall instead of the wooden single glazed that's there at the moment.

 

 As another sufferer of Sore Fore Paws, warm / hot water does work, so the first thing on boot up, is a dip in a hot  sink of water along with the SSS.  Once or twice I've had to resort to external Ibuprophen slathered on the paws. it's a bit sticky but does work.. I'm wondering why my paws don't get drunk with all this sanitiser spread upon them.

Paws aren't too happy today but that's because I'm shunt measuring each shunt requires about 200 characters typing  and there are 24 of them in this set.. 

[grandadbob]

Buggrit as Baz would say.  Forty minutes is too long to hang on so my "really important" call will have to wait until later.  I'm off to The Shed.

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Warming up nicely but still plenty of cloud being blown in by a brisk NE breeze, if that wasn't there it would be el scorchio. The high pressure system will move eastwards by Sunday so no wind and no clouds so it will be hot! That though is better than what is happening across the North Sea. The low pressure system with all its rain that caused the flooding in west London is now pushed up against the Eiffel mountains and there its stuck but it looks as if the high pressure system will squeeze it out like a zit over the coming days. The death toll in Germany is not far short of 100 but with 1,300 people unaccounted for its bound to rise. Time to get on with the rest of the day, be back later.

[Tony_S]

2 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

blacklisting has been blacklisted

I suspect the company has blocklisted blacklisting.

[Pacific231G]

Just now, grandadbob said:

Good morning all,

I am sick and tired of all the PC carp being thrust down our throats telling us what to think or do and to apologise for everything that our forefathers did in past centuries.
 

There is a world of difference between being told what to think and say and asking ourselves to stop and think about what a large number of our fellow citizens have thrust down their own throats everyday.  I don't feel personally guilty about the crimes of our forefathers- it wasn't me who committed them- but I do feel a responsibility as a citizen to be aware of them, to understand how they've been sanitised since, and the echoes from them that still influence our thinking today. 

[PhilJ W]

More koalas for Chris.