Early Risers.

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[Adam88]

5 hours ago, polybear said:

That's another three lengths of coving fitted - two big (2m) lengths and a diddy-ish bit in the corner; the corner joint was a bit of a pig (wiggly wall and ceiling) but appears to have come out better than I had feared - all joints will need some filling & sanding (nothing silly though) so I'm a happy Bear so far 

 

 

After two injections and a booster aren't you immune to coving yet?

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[iL Dottore]

13 hours ago, PupCam said:

 

The operative word in my statement was IF, the statement was of course completely hypothetical! 

Anyway, hasn't The Bear got a   MODEL RAILWAY   to build?  

He has a model railway??!!

And I thought he was only here to share his life affirming experiences with cake and “Changing Rooms“ DIY 

[iL Dottore]

12 hours ago, polybear said:

…For your budget the choice is somewhat limited (based on Screwfix & Toolstation prices); Einhell do both Table and Bandsaw options and are German, so stand a fair chance of being available in Switzerland.  I've not read the reviews, just looked at the star ratings.  It's worth bearing in mind that people are far more likely to leave a bitchy review if they're p1ssed off that they are to leave a good review if they're a happy Bunny, which naturally slews reviews in the negative direction.

 

https://www.toolstation.com/power-tools/saws/c722

 

HTH

Bear

My budget is certainly far less than what I can actually stretch to, but I always limit the amount I spend on tools that I want to try out,

 

I don’t think it is wise to spend a lot of money getting a top of the line piece of kit that I end up using only once or twice a month or less. By buying a budget model, I can find out what my actual use is and then upgrade to a top quality model if usage is more than occasional.

 

I understand that in the UK and in the US it is possible to rent heavy equipment on an as needed basis, this is relatively unknown in Switzerland. although there does seem to be a movement, on environmental grounds, to just that. That would certainly be the preferred option, in the absence of which buying a budget item to test out is probably the next best thing (especially as nowadays the cost of a budget item is probably equal to, if not less than, rental).

 

Apparently, Einhell make the machinery for Lidl that Lidl sells as the Parkside range and the Parkside range is -  overall - considered to be quite adequate. Einhell, Metabo, Scheppach, Makita and De Walt can all be acquired in Switzerland, although choice of available models is limited (as always seems to be the case in Switzerland).
 

So now I am left facing a choice: do I buy on line - which will provide a wider range of equipment in my selected price range to choose from - or do I buy locally - with a more limited range but an easier “go back and bitch loudly” option (prices, at least at this level, are pretty comparable).

 

Thanks for taking the time for providing your informed insight my Dear Bear - in the absence of a 3-D food printer a virtual crate of LDC is winging its way to you 

Edited February 18, 2022 by iL Dottore

[iL Dottore]

11 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

I see absolutely NOTHING wrong with that!

Indeed, why go First Class when you can afford to go Steerage?  

Edited February 18, 2022 by iL Dottore

[iL Dottore]

7 hours ago, PupCam said:

I regularly have trouble with a poor performing PC (Desk Top).  In it's defence I'll add that it's pretty old, but I don't think being old is the cause of the problem per se….

I doubt that it’s the hardware - sounds like a software issue.
 

As I was clearing and reorganising my workshop in the cellar, I came across the user manual for the old DELL desktop tower that now resides in the cellar workshop as the workshop PC. I knew the machine was old, but I hadn’t realised how old: I got it in 2003!
 

A number of years ago, a friend of mine who is somewhat of a LINUX aficionado stripped the machine back to the BIOS and installed LINUX and the machine has been working flawlessly since then. Unfortunately, I’m a bit clueless when it comes to LINUX and so depend on my friend for the occasional LINUX upgrade and new hardware installation.

 

Even back when I bought the Dell desktop in 2003, Microsoft Windows was known as “bloatware” by computer geeks, I doubt if it’s any better nowadays.

[Barry O]

Ey up!

 

No Eunice here...yet!

 

Flights have been cancelled from Leeds this afternoon as it is difficult to land here when it's windy.

 

More paperwork bashing today to be followedby a bit of muddling (hopefully).

 

Lummy @grandadbobwith hair!!!!

 

Covid cases in Leeds seem to have fallen off a cliff. Is this due to less testing or...

 

When we flew back from Madeira someone on the flight tested positive. We have tested every day for the required number of days..all negative but others we know flew back from Austria.. they have got it.. and we're pinged by test and trace. You winsome,you lose some!

 

Mugatea to drink as herself is off volunteering today.

 

Enjoy your day!

 

Stay safe!

 

Baz

[TheQ]

Mooring AWL, inner Temple Hare,

Wind has been increasing for some time but Eunice will not be at her peak here till 15:00 ish, I see all the TV companies are putting their reporters in harm's way.

 

Shortly I'll wander out and look to see where to see where the tile has come from the roof..

 

After last night's lack of sleep, not surprisingly I had a bit more this night, 4hours long gap 4hours, and I may try for more later..

our current PC has a 2007 motherboard but it was a multi core chip fitted and I've since added a solid state drive.. so it can still do everything we want.

Ben the seaweed inspecting Collie, dragged me out at 05:30, we wandered around the garden, then he stopped looked intently into the wind then turned and headed for home, just as we reached the house the rain started..

he's just giving me indications he wants to go out again, so there must be a gap in the rain.

 

Time to go look at the roof..

 

[BoD]

Morning - the mutt and I have just been out for our morning constitutional.

Not a breath of wind.

Not a spot of rain or snow.

 

Eunice, I bite my thumb at ye.

[The Lurker]

Greetings all from a cloudy drizzly but not yet too windy Sidcup.

 

up before the rest of the house for Ocado who were on time - but for some reason none of the changes I made on Wednesday have been taken into account- so the rolled over bargain wine is no longer a bargain and the ingredients ordered for tomorrow’s tea are missing.

 

my preps for the storm we’re limited to moving the chairs off the decking and laying them in the lawn. Two were there anyway courtesy of Dudley.

 

have a good day all

[TheQ]

Just bin out with Ben part 2, very soggy puddles are already to maximum size.

Amazingly the tile blew off the roof , over the hip, and then dropped 20ft into the front garden all 6ft depth of it.

 It landed with out breaking which is a miracle. That has been recovered to a safe place for refitment, when the weather allows.

It came out at about 5ft from the eaves, 2 tiles in from the hip. 

When the time comes it'll take a big ladder, and two  long poles to push it back into place. Two because one needs to push the tile, the other needs to lift the tile above it to slide this one into place. They somewhat loosely lock into place, and about 1in 5 are nailed down.

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

The wind (outside the house ) woke me at about 5.00 am and it's still gusting and quite wet.  Our weather warning here has changed from Amber to Red from 10.00 am so we're definitely not going anywhere.  Already had a warning from son Steve to stay put.  I did tell him I might be getting old but I'm not completely daft....yet!

Time for some breakfast.

Have a good one,

Bob.

 

Edited February 18, 2022 by grandadbob

[New Haven Neil]

Morning, from a not very windy rock. 6c.

 

I see the weather maps show the amber zone cleverly circumventing us, I wonder if they told the wind to do that?  Or is it just that we're not directly in the UK so don't count?  Yet we pay the BBC TV licence....pah.  Manxie weather shows us amber.  Lat night was eerily still, not a breath when we went to bed, I had to go down the garage as I had left my workbench light on.

 

Bike club morning will be car club, Gophers cafe the venue for a morning of talking, well drivel.  But bike drivel.

 

 

 

[jamie92208]

Good moaning from a town by the water south east of Ba s and north of Simon.  No apparent wind here but a young tornado has gone off to nursery.  I'm off to York to see my one and only brother.  We might even look in his garage at some parallel strips of metal that things movevon.  Stay safe.

 

Jamie

[tigerburnie]

Morning wild and windy here, not too windy about 40 mph, had a bit of snow, but now sleet again, many roads are closed, snow gates are expected to be closed on the high roads, but the main dual carrigeways(we don't have any motorways round here) are difficult to get through, Dundee to Aberdeen is chaos seemingly. Son in law went to work in Kirriemuir and they are closing the roads round there, so he might be stuck there for the night. Take care all and keep warm.

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. No need for a weather report this morning but the winds starting to pick up, someone must have told it about the red warning. Luckily I have a few spare roof tiles in store in case any are damaged. When the local authority/housing association reroofed their properties a few years ago I managed to cadge a few of the old tiles, fortunately I haven't had to use them yet. Apart from the usual morning reminder Arthur Itis has been quiet of late and long may it continue. Definitely staying in doors today.

[PhilJ W]

Your new Porche or Audi may be delayed.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/cargo-ship-carrying-4000-porsches-26264214

Edited February 18, 2022 by PhilJ W

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

Not much sign of Eunice here at the moment, although we have had a few heavy showers and strong gusts, but they lasted just a few minutes. Currently bright and sunny at the moment and the trees are not moving at all. I’ve decided to forget the walk to the butchers today, instead I’ll call there on my way back from the Trafford Centre, that way I’m assured of not getting soaked through. 

 

After that there are no firm plans, but that could change at any moment. 

 

Stay safe, back later. 

 

Brian

[polybear]

10 hours ago, PupCam said:

Blxxdy PC!    Perhaps it's time to replace it?

 

 

Whaaaaat??  Just think how how many Arduino's Puppers can get for the price of a new PC.  And a Fly Press.....

 

10 hours ago, Erichill16 said:

Don’t know if anyone else is getting the same advert as me but Military 1st are offering some rather nice military spec flat caps. 

 

A Government Surplus Russian Army Flat Cap should raise a few eyebrows.....

 

10 hours ago, NGT6 1315 said:

Purple is the highest warning level. I don’t envy sailors on the North Sea in particular!

 

Rumour has it that TheQ was last seen heading towards Holland at a hundred and twenty knots.  In a Coracle.....

 

10 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Do the students who don’t turn up or answer emails know?

 

It'll not stop them trying to claim a discount for loss of learning me thinks....

 

3 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

He has a model railway??!!

 

Er, well, <cough> a certain Bear may have a somewhat large collection of various locos and rolling stock (some RTR, some kit) plus some unassembled "Brilliant Baseboards" and other items too numerous to mention but as for, er, <cough> somewhere to actually run them <cough> well that's an issue that Puppers seems to remind a certain Bear of at regular intervals......

When the lounge and staircase refurbs are out of the way then Bear has no more excuses...

(I may squeeze in the resurrection and sale of a certain CB750 in there somewhere)

 

3 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

And I thought he was only here to share his life affirming experiences with cake and “Changing Rooms“ DIY 

 

Changing Rooms??  CHANGING ROOMS??  Is that the one with Linda Barker and LLB going round f. up people's houses in a day?  I'd love a look round one of those rooms after it's been done - they usually look horrific on telly, I bet they're even worse in the flesh.

Bear would much rather be compared with Grand Designs.  I could live with that.

 

2 hours ago, TheQ said:

Wind has been increasing for some time but Eunice will not be at her peak here till 15:00 ish, I see all the TV companies are putting their reporters in harm's way.

 

 

I wonder what the risk assessment for such activities looks like - and how well it'd stand up in court in case of an insurance claim or prosecution?

 

1 hour ago, TheQ said:

When the time comes it'll take a big ladder, and two  long poles to push it back into place. Two because one needs to push the tile, the other needs to lift the tile above it to slide this one into place. They somewhat loosely lock into place, and about 1in 5 are nailed down.

 

Several years ago a neighbour lost a roof tile - when Bear went round to tell them (in case they were unaware) they said that it's being dealt with by the insurance company and the roofer was waiting for the scaffolding to be put up.  For one tile....

 

In other news.....

Bear up at silly o'clock (05-45 - but still a lot later than the 04-30 I used to get up when going to the Fun(?) House); medium Tesco raid carried out, blood letting done, letter posted, a minor Co-op raid, back home and all squeezed into cupboards by 09-05.  Result.

Now?  MIUAIGA methinks....

Bear Towers has been promoted to a red weather warning - starting now and lasting until 3pm apparently; the peak is at midday with gusts of 65mph.  I knew that mix of beans and sprouts was a mistake....

[simontaylor484]

Morning 

It was absolutely belting down when I took Lucas to school he has even taken his ear defenders to school ready for Eunice showing up.

 

Sun shining here not much wind really. Wonder if we are in the eye of the storm

 

Sounds like a play doesnt it "Waiting for Eunice".

[Pacific231G]

Winds are definitely strengthening here in W. London but, after heavy rain earlier on the sky is now clear blue with just a few whisps of cloud moving very fast.

Damage is likely to be signifcant here not so much because the winds will be any stronger but because in a large urban area there's so much to blow around.

Looking at the aerodrome forecasts (TAFs) the predicted gusts between now and 14.00 are up to 60kts (about 70MPH) for Heathrow and Northolt but 65 kts for Farnborough and 70 kts till 12.00 for Cardiff.

Stay safe and don't let the blue skies fool you!

[polybear]

Well it seems that Lewis Hamilton has confirmed he'll be driving this year after all; the fact that Michael Masi was booted out as Race Director by the FIA just yesterday could of course be just a coincidence...

[NGT6 1315]

Moaning awl.

 

Just completed a grocery order for home delivery - mainly heavier items, things that keep or stuff for the freezer! Just in case I, too, may have to enter quarantine in a couple of days… Other foods which we'll need for the weekend I can get at the supermarket near us, which I'll duly obtain once the beverage delivery I also made this morning has been through.

 

Elise says that as of today, she only feels tired really, and that the side effects from the jabs were more pronounced. Well, here's hoping we'll be through with it by the end of next week...

 

Storm warnings for our location have been updated to around nightfall today. Oh well...

 

Stay safe, everyone...

[AndrewC]

Greetings all from the breezy borough. 

 

A calm before the storm. The rain has stopped, the wind has died down, and there is a bit of sun showing. Of course you know, this means we are going to get hammered shortly. 

Southeastern even though they're no longer a private franchise are determined to maintain their modus operandi of cancelling trains for any excuse in order to save money. The SE London metro lines are basically stuffed as they've cancelled most services and shortened others. Asshats. 

 

SWMBO had to go into the office today to fix someone else's fustercluck. She's hoping to escape in an hour or 2.

 

Bins not picked up this week. (again) The joke is on the new outsourced company. Our metal/glass bin took off down the street, spilling out about 20kg of glass and metal. Instead of a simple bin empty, they've now got the fun job of cleaning up half a dozen or so bins worth of recycling and food waste that is migrating down the road towards the high street. More asshats. 

 

Little else. TFIF

 

Enjoy the weekend.