Early Risers.

[polybear]

1 hour ago, TheQ said:

Hitch a lift back with the new PM...

 

Lucky for him she's on the same team...

(I did think of the name "Red Robbo" if it'd been the other team - it seems that guy was behind 523 car factory strikes.  Bluddy hell)

 

41 minutes ago, jjb1970 said:

I have an interest in pilot and space watches, if I was ever in the super rich club it is a hobby I'd love to indulge myself in but I just have a very small collection which wasn't that expensive. I tried watching watch YouTube channels and very quickly realized many of them really are just selling a form of ostentatious wealth porn to dreamers who seem to get some sort of vicarious satisfaction from it. 

 

Whilst making themselves a Grade A target for robbery at the same time.  Just ask a Premiership Footie Player....

 

Bear here.....

Door painted (Episode 1).  Tick.  Then I pondered the iffy Sideboard door - I noticed that there was a fair gap below the door, yet burgerall above it - in particular at the handle-side.  So I slackened the hinge screws to the stile, applied a little downward pressure then re-tightened them; this created a bit more of a gap, but still not enough.  So it was off with the door, plug the screw holes with wooden dowel coated with wood glue and now I'll wait until tomorrow before re-drilling the holes a fraction lower.  Seems like a plan - and a lot safer than trying to plane the door.  I really shouldn't be having this aggro on a new item though.....

Now waiting for the telly to arrive....

[polybear]

6 minutes ago, jjb1970 said:

On the strange ways of penny counting I gave up trying to figure that out many years ago. When I worked in electricity generation I had a company credit card with a rather large limit and delegated authority to issue POs up to £25k without getting any higher counter signature. Which meant I could call suppliers and get spare parts and stuff we needed urgently very easily, but purchasing were always whinging about plants doing that. They had framework agreements which were much better, rather than calling Siemens, GE or whoever and having a part couriered over same day central purchasing would pay twice as much and get it to us next week (or maybe two weeks). Every time I highlighted the difference in the price they were paying and what I could just pay directly (in some cases it could be 3 or 4x) I always got the same answer, it was much more efficient and cost effective to go via central purchasing. At the end of the day I was just another hired hand and so if that's what our paymasters in Germany wanted who was I to argue? However it was interesting that when a unit was down the approach was to just use the company card or issue a PO directly and get the thing back online.

 

It sounds as though your Purchasing Dept. went to the same school as those at The Great Empire (though ours were no longer called Purchasing - they re-invented themselves with some poncy name that no-one understood; they really didn't like being called "Purchasing" after that).

 

[simontaylor484]

523 car factory strikes then people wonder why there is no British car manufacturing hardly

[simontaylor484]

Just waiting to go see if my appointment is today.

Taken eldest for his haircut 

Then her ladyship has a drs appointment 

[southern42]

15 hours ago, Barry O said:

Youngest Herbert always pays money back..its part of his training by mum and dad..  

 

Baz

 

Likewise training, here. When I was 16, Mum's endowment policy on me, matured. She gave me the full amount for which I got a longed for pushbike. When I moved from flat country to up and over territory, I left the single gear machine with mum, her sit up and beg bike having seen better days by then.

Mum and Dad were always generous to us when times were tough but I was able to "pay back" in Mum's later years when she found it tough but it was never as much as I would have liked, and half the time, things could have been done if only she had said something. Mothers, eh?

 

[simontaylor484]

I did see Boris nearly dragging Mrs Johnson to the car happen she didn't want to leave the wallpaper behind.

 

[PeterBB]

Central purchasing has its positives but when you need something 'small' or 'now' the delays and downtime seem extraordinarily long and, yes, I agree that often it is much more expensive overall.

[The Lurker]

1 hour ago, PeterBB said:

Working opposite Friary Meux Brewery in Guildford, YHA Hostelling in 'hop areas' in Kent and the Burton breweries found the smell literally sick making so totally agree.

The smell of freshly cut hops was very strong but not unpleasant to me (growing up in those same hop areas, it is a smell redolent of a distant childhood) but the smell of breweries not so much.

[simontaylor484]

Well it looks like my appointment is today 

[southern42]

' morning all from red dragon land.

Sun and clouds fighting for supremacy but at least the bench will be dry for my late 11ses mugadecaf. Garden temp. 17C so it should be warm enough.

 

Some transfers transferred nicely, yesterday, and toot on the flute, mostly, went well. I finally got the tail end of line 4 of twiddly bits sorted and playing the whole section with twiddly bits from memory. Lots of head shaking (too much watching of videos and, seemingly, assimilating tutor's customs!).  More to do of both, today, so I had better get on with it as there are the odd-jobs to do as well.

 

Interesting comments on smells. Hope it does not put you off your meals!

Though I could list loads of meals that smell 'orrible....how long have you got?

Outside our school chemistry lab versus school kitchen at morning break time comes to mind... cabbage or bad eggs?

 

Polly

[Tony_S]

2 hours ago, PeterBB said:

Working opposite Friary Meux Brewery in Guildford, YHA Hostelling in 'hop areas' in Kent and the Burton breweries found the smell literally sick making so totally agree.

I was once asked to accompany a educational trip to Chessington Zoo (before it was a theme park). I was asked along as I counted as an experienced teacher( 2 years in post!). 

Anyway our coach was held in traffic for ages outside a south London brewery. One child said she felt sick from the smell, this started a mass vomit. They all did have their sick bags as per instructions. Next time went on a similar coach trip , I asked parents to provide bags without  holes. The two other teachers on board just faced the front and said they couldn’t cope with vomit. I did get a couple of nice letters from parents thanking me for looking after their children. 
Tony

Edited September 6, 2022 by Tony_S

[Tony_S]

32 minutes ago, southern42 said:

cabbage or bad eggs?

I am sure the whole country smelt of boiled cabbage in the 1950s, certainly anywhere educational. Bad egg gas was a hazard where I first taught. There were two nearby refineries and occasionally there were emissions. We had to have gas drills.  

Edited September 6, 2022 by Tony_S

[TheQ]

H2S as found in some raw natural gas wells.

one of my jobs at Bacton was to change the filters on the incoming system that filtered off any oil that came with the gas

plastic suit, rubber gloves, respirator.. we were way over the 1000ppm mark..

[PeterBB]

Where is GDB?

 

[DaveF]

There aren't many smells here - the wind off the sea is usually too strong.  Now and then you can smell the sea if that makes sense.  

 

As for central purchasing, I once worked for a council where school textbooks were purchased centrally - we only paid 10% above the retail price.  We decided to ignore the requirement to use the sytem as we could get a discount of at least 30% from publishers by buying direct.  Then everyone started to do it and the council simply gave up trying to enforce the rule.  The same thing happened with stationery.

 

Now about yesterday. I got all the housework and washing done nice and early and then went to the beach for a walk.  It was just after high tide (neaps at the moment), the waves were about 3' high.  It was lovely walking along the firm wet sand dodging the water as it ran up the beach - it was like being a small child again - and I wasn't the only person doing it.  Once again there were a number of lions mane jellyfish, including a few broken ones, along with a lot of washed up seaweed and a very dead cod.  There was just a gentle breeze and it was warm.  All the birds must have gone somewhere else for the morning, there were none to be seen. 

 

I got back home at just the right time for coffee and started to look at a book which had come some time ago as a freebie from a publisher, it contains some of both my and Dad's photos.  Just before lunch the Evri courier arrived, as the tracking said she would, with some new trousers from Craghoppers.

 

Then after lunch I did yet more sorting out in the garage, I now have some more empty storage boxes and a bit more floor space.  The wheelie bin was quite full by the time I'd finished.  I also went into town to visit the "big" Boots for some odds and ends.  There was only one other customer in the shop!

 

In the evening I read, listened to music and watched TV as usual.  The TV included catching up online on the first episode of the Onedin Line which Talking Pictures TV are showing - very enjoyable.

 

David

[Gwiwer]

15 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

"IS that a tea bag or a Christmas decoration stuck to his ear?" I thought to myself as I scrolled down that picture.

Neither. 
 

It is a safety device attached to the ceiling. When operated appropriately it assists in the avoidance of obstacles by shining forth  onto our existence.  
 

Had I been a bird-of-prey loving domestic engineer fond of a certain style of music I might not need such a thing. Because it could then be said that 

 

….. wait for it …..

 

Our kestrel man hoovers in the dark 

[polybear]

2 hours ago, southern42 said:

Likewise training, here. When I was 16, Mum's endowment policy on me, matured.

 

Momma Bear used to take out endowments in the 70's as a means of saving; she had bvgger-all and was struggling to bring up two cubs single-pawed (B'sterd Bear had ** off with Lilo Lil - and was diddly squat help financially).

The endowments (5 year?) were as a means of saving, and the amount per week wouldn't have been much; they were via the local door-to-door agent (who was the son in law of the H&W 2 doors away) and he worked for the Pru(?) or the Co-op.  Anyway, come pay-out time he asked for her payments book so "the office could make it up".  When he handed over the money (in cash) she worked out that it was less than she paid in; when she chased him on this it was "oh, the office must've made a mistake - I'll sort it" and he handed over a bit more (nottalot) a few days later.

Anyway, the same guy sold house insurance to another neighbour - and when she needed to make a claim the Pru/Co-op said she didn't have a Policy with them.  He'd pocketed the Policy Fee, knowing the chances of a claim were slim.

Did he get the sack?  Nope 🤬 - they moved him into the office instead, where he wasn't handling money.

He's probably dead now - but I'd love to see him in the street one day, preferably with his missus in tow....

[TheQ]

27 minutes ago, DaveF said:

 

 

In the evening I read, listened to music and watched TV as usual.  The TV included catching up online on the first episode of the Onedin Line which Talking Pictures TV are showing - very enjoyable.

 

David

Ah, Khachaturian's, Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

[Danemouth]

I wonder if @Happy Hippo and @The Johnster remember the truly awful smell that sometimes came from the Brains Brewery when it was in Cardiff City Centre?

 

In those days Brains was a really good pint.

 

Dave

[iL Dottore]

The thing about smells is that the worst of all come from humans – more specifically dead humans.

 

Freshly dead humans, especially those who died in hospital, aren’t usually terribly pongy, although it does get a bit whiffy if you have to open the bowel.

 

I’m not sure what is the worst: floaters, crispy critters or those who have died unattended and have started decomposing before being found. Amongst the latter, semi-liquescent bodies are particularly unpleasant. Very old, mummified, bodies tend not to smell.

 

A good dollop of Vicks vapour rub under each nostril certainly helps a lot In subduing the smell and modern autopsy suites with effective ventilation and refrigeration also also helps keep the smell down.
 

One final bit of interesting trivia: did you know there are such things as “body farms“, where donated bodies are put in various places and allowed to decompose naturally? The bodies are then evaluated by scientists on a regular basis - generating the sort of data which in turn allows forensic pathologists to determine - for example - in what type of soil a murder victim was buried and for how long.

 

As fascinating as forensic pathology is intellectually, it’s not a career option I would choose.

[Rugd1022]

A'noon all, hope all's well,

 

Looking at my work diary earlier to see what day it was (!) it suddenly dawned on me that I started my railway career forty years ago today, the time has flown by. I started on a YTS course Rugby station on Monday 6th September 1982, before joining the footplate grade in January 1983... I can remember it as if it were only yesterday!

 

The strange thing about the passage of all that time is that I don't actually feel old now, a little worn out in places perhaps but in my head I'm still a spritely youth... well almost!

 

 

 

 

[Tony_S]

16 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

a: did you know there are such things as “body farms“

Yes, I did know. Some years ago there was a BBC travel documentary about one in the US. I think it was the FBI one and I am sure the narrator/presenter was Stephen Fry. 

[Tony_S]

19 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

specifically dead humans.

Considering their size, dead rats that have been poisoned are really pongy.

[southern42]

4pm

Thunder...or as my Infant class Health Worker used to say, God moving his furniture...

and...Chuckinitdarn

This top left hand corner bit of Wales has disappeared in grey-out.

[Coombe Barton]

... same realm as people going to Leeds (Yorkshire) looking for Leeds Castle (Kent) and people from the US going to Austria looking for kangaroos ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2022/09/06/on-an-upward-track/