Early Risers.

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

We’ve had some mixed weather here today, it started off sunny, but it was raining when Sheila walked home from her Zumba class. 

 

My package didn’t arrive today, so hopefully it will get here tomorrow. But to be fair, the Ebay website does state that expect per delivery would be Thursday/Friday. Whilst I was waiting, I continued to update the drawings for the turntable table control panel. 

 

Charlie was due to call round this afternoon, but he didn’t come round today, as he has flu or some other such bug (negative for coved) and didn’t want to pass it on to us. So, I took my recently assembled store drawers to the workshop, installed them on the large shelf above the workbench and made a start on sorting out all the small pots of bits that used to be on the shelf. There’s still lots to do, but it’s getting there. 

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[Ozexpatriate]

3 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

We don't have "Bin men", just one bloke driving a truck. Or actually 3 blokes driving 3 different trucks (rubbish, recycle, green waste), unless  perhaps its the same truck and same bloke with just  the label on the side  changed each time.

Here we have one truck and one driver (though I think it is equipped with two sets of controls).

 

The first pass is for yard waste - which reaches me around 8:00am. The second pass is for garbage/rubbish/trash - which reaches me around tennish. The driver does not leave the vehicle. The third pass is for recyclables - a crate* for glass and a wheelie bin for paper/plastic/metals. The driver has to dismount to load the glass crate into a receptacle on the truck side around hip height.

 

* Like a wide milkcrate.

 

The area served by each truck is quite small. On my daily walks I pass through local neighbourhoods, each with their own bin day.

[monkeysarefun]

1 hour ago, PupCam said:

I'd be fibbing  if I said I could see the great red spot.

Jupiter rotates about its axis just like  the earth does so chances are you got to see it while the spot was rotated away from us, though its rotation is a rapid 10 hours meaning you only had a maximum 5 hour wait for it -  more commitment next time please!

[Ozexpatriate]

55 minutes ago, pH said:

The bins have to be out by 7.30 AM, but may not be collected until about 4 PM.

I don't know by when/if my bins are supposed to be "out". I have had "Oh shoot!" moments when I heard the truck in the street behind me and wheeled the bin out in time for refuse to be collected.

[monkeysarefun]

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Here we have one truck and one driver (though I think it is equipped with two sets of controls).

 

The first pass is for yard waste - which reaches me around 8:00am. The second pass is for garbage/rubbish/trash - which reaches me around tennish. The driver does not leave the vehicle. The third pass is for recyclables - a crate* for glass and a wheelie bin for paper/plastic/metals. The driver has to dismount to load the glass crate into a receptacle on the truck side around hip height.

 

* Like a wide milkcrate.

 

The area served by each truck is quite small. On my daily walks I pass through local neighbourhoods, each with their own bin day.

Trucks here are left hand drive so the driver can view the kerbside arm which he controls from the drivers seat. My particular drivers are pretty cool, they'll often beep the horn if you have forgotten to put the bin out, and give you a minute or two to respond.  I've even  seen them  leave  the truck once or twice to get a forgotten bin if its not behind a locked gate.

 

In the case of green waste if you've got too much for the bin you can stand at the kerb with the excess pile,  they will empty the bin then  wait while you refill it with the extra stuff and empty it out for you again.

 

Hence they earn their Christmas beers!

Edited October 7, 2022 by monkeysarefun

[J. S. Bach]

4 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

Those unfamiliar with the ways of certain transport (and maybe other) operations may be surprised to learn that 30:00 does indeed existI myself have booked off duty as late as 26:30. 

 

In my case it was the Melbourne (and State of Victoria) systems which adopt the method of distinguishing between days by continuing to add beyond 23:59.  

 

So if you book on at 16:00 but off at 2am next morning then your book-off time will be 26:00.  This is shown on staff rosters and diagrams, tram driver's table cards (the equivalent of a bus driver's duty card) and other largely internal documents.  Australia generally uses the 12-hour clock for public purposes.  When on a night shift the driver might book on at 23:00 and off at 31:00.  A colleague who worked a slightly later shift might book on at 00:05 and off at 08:05 but largely working the same actual hours.  The public would see the 12-hour version on train departure boards, bus and tram stop information panels.  Public announcements also use the 12-hour clock.  

What we did (in the scheduling dept at Broward County Transit) for the drivers was formatted as, for example, 1230A, 1230P and 1230X for any runs that finished after midnight. The earliest report time was somewhere around 400A (0400) and the last pull-in was off the clock was around 130X (0130). Note that I still write my time in that format; years of usage at work!

 

[J. S. Bach]

Happy Birthday to BoD.

[BR60103]

We have 3 bins -- garbage, recycling, and compostable. Compostable is every week; the others alternate. Usually, one truck picks up both bins as they have a divided compartment.  There is a latch on the compostable, but it has to be undone for pickup. We just put ours out first thing in the morning (stored in the garage).

 

[iL Dottore]

Happy Birthday @BoD

 

I hope that your day was as splendidly food and alcohol fuelled as my was 😉

 

Late night, so to bed….

 

bis später 

 

ID

[Barry O]

Ey up!

 

Herself will shortly be returning to the North West Leeds Highlands  so I need to do a quick tidy up. 

 

A trip to the butchers is also required today before muddling can commence. I have to do some preparation for a cricket related course I am attending on Sunday near Oldham. Wil be a change from operating layouts!

 

I await our brown bin collection today. This contains compostable garden waiste.. our own compost bins are full so grass clippings and other end of summer clippings are in the bin. Our council has a lot of gardens and makes a lot of compost.

 

I hope that @chrisfis keeping well, as are other missing ERs.

 

Yime for my mugadecaff.

 

Stay safe!

 

Baz

[jamie92208]

Good moani g from the Charente.   The hens are out and about and Beth is waiting for Sister Drac to arrive to relieve her of some red stuff.  It looks as if it will be agood day and 5he sky is clear.  

 

I got the tree stump/roots, cut up yestetday and the pieces now need splitting.  Various other tidying up jobs got done and all the temporary leads put in for the outside pumps have been removed and put away.  So much cable came with the two pumps that I have gained enough 2.5mm 3 vore flexible cable to make two nice long extension leads.  

 

This morning we will be visiting some friends for acoffee and no doubt other tasks will be allocated.

 

Regards to all, and happy birthday to Warren.

 

Jamie

Edited October 7, 2022 by jamie92208

[TheQ]

Mooring Awl,

2.5 hours, 1 hour, long awake, 1 hour, 2.5 hours, a very good total for me but I'd have been very late for work as Ben the alarm clock Collie was still snoring.

 

First, those pretty pictures a brother's cat trying to prevent WFH.

PS I suspect finger nails had been experimented on by daughter testing nail polish again...

 

Ben did surface once I did, a breezy patrol was taken, heavy dew, as it was late Ben enjoyed a full patrol in daylight.

 

Bins there are 4 available, the brown and food bin are on request only.

Black rubbish, 

Green recycling,

Brown garden, 

And a food waste bin I don't know the colour of because I've never seen one.

 

Brown bins are rare here because most people have a compost heap and a bonfire for heavier stuff.

The extinct Food waste bin,  veggies go in the brown bin or compost, meat waste most people have a dog.

Any bones we have go on the fire and then the remains get disposed of with the ash..

 

Today's plans,

first musical trailers, boat trailer out, to be fitted with better lighting board holding brackets.

Unmentionables transport trailer to be put in nose first, awkward but it's the best direction to cope with winter gales. By chance that leaves the rear of the trailer to be worked on and we will be making a cover to keep rain out.

 

This weeks arrivals

Turnbuttons  for said cover.

A box of small unmentionables for the future project,

More bearings for the spinny thingy bobbins.

 

Part 2 of plans will of brownie point necessity, be bobbin work..

 

Time to make breakfast...

 

 

 

[BoD]

Morning all

 

A good day was had yesterday made especially so by a visit from the grandson bearing a cake.  He is 17 months old already.  Where does the time go?  

I think today might involve a trip to source some autumn/winter bedding plants.  We don’t have a garden but an area that is well planted  with containers and other features.  It is our ‘Yarden’.  Container gardening is a skill/art  in itself so I may save some work and treat us to a  pre-planted container or two.  Not something I would normally do but maybe a late present to myself.

 

I too miss @chrisf’s morning roundup.

 

Have a great day people

[Erichill16]

Morning All and belated birthday wishes to Warren.

Not sure what’s on the agenda for today.

I’ll finish my coffee before I ask.

Robert

 

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

We had a brief shower of rain earlier and there are more showers to come along with some sunny spells.  A breezy mild day forecast with temperatures up to 18°C.

Garden waste collected at 07.06.  Bin lorries here have a crew of three, driver and one guy  each side of the road with a wheelie bin into which whey empty our food waste bins and  collecting the other bins and hooking them on the back of the lorry. Sometimes the driver gets out and helps and sometimes the bins actually end up back on our property but more often than not they're left on the pavement. 

Tea taken to The Boss earlier and it sounds like she's now on the rampage, in fact now coming down the stairs so any minute now I'm expecting  "We need to........."

Time for breakfast, I may poach some eggs as we have a bit of a surplus.

Have a good one,

Bob.

 

 

 

[polybear]

Bear here....

Feeling bouncy(er) than yesterday - which (apart from having to pack some items sold via the 'bay - fortunately all were already in nice n' strong boxes) was a non-event.  I even missed my M.E. Group at College - I figured that feeling cr@p n' dizzy in charge of a Colchester clone (or driving) wasn't a good scheme.  Turdycurses.

One thing I did learn was that (after registering for buying postage on the RM website) - they offered free parcel collection from Bear Castle - even for cheap items costing less than four quid to post.  Result.  Not sure if it's a special deal or permanent.

I did get to test the new Air Fryer yesterday - I made up a "bowl" out of cooking foil to line the inner basket (and then placed it there after preheating) and warmed up a scotch egg.  Worked a treat, with zero mess to the AF either.  Incidentally, the instructions say that cooking temps can be reduced by 15C and times by 20% when using an AF instead of an oven - so even more savings.  I've now found a heavy-duty foil dish I'd salvaged from a ready meal that fits the basket ok so I'll use that instead of cooking foil - the dish will stand a fair few washes - and be easier to wash than the basket itself.

 

Today?  MIUABGAD - nothing to ambitious methinks.  I do have Postie collecting four parcels - and maybe someone collecting a freecycle item (They're DEFINITELY in the Last Chance Saloon this time - and one step away from being blocked).  Apart from that, nottalot planned as yet.

Bear gone.

[Tony_S]

10 minutes ago, polybear said:

and be easier to wash than the basket itself.

Can these air fryer baskets go in a dishwasher or is that why the liners are used? I don’t think we will be getting one, just curious. 

[iL Dottore]

Morning All,

Up, bright and cheerful, had a splendid breakfast of bacon, eggs and haggis (I could’ve had baked beans as well – but why spoil perfection?).

 

Off to do some shopping for Mrs iD - I may be some time…

[The White Rabbit]

34 minutes ago, polybear said:

... One thing I did learn was that (after registering for buying postage on the RM website) - they offered free parcel collection from Bear Castle - even for cheap items costing less than four quid to post.  Result.  Not sure if it's a special deal or permanent....

 

Don't rely on it but I think I saw something suggesting it was available (at least to Rabbit) until the end of December. 

 

 

Morning all,

 

'Sometimes I wake up grumpy, other times I let him sleep in'. Rabbit is grumpy this am. Not as much due to sleep issues, though that never helps. But yesterday was wearing. Big bill to get the car working again and found the mobile mechanics had fouled up - more aggravation to come there... Gumtree threw up two furniture enquiries, one was a scam - detected in time and avoided but dealing with took time and energy - and the other was a time-waster/no-show. I'll give it 48 hours in case there's been a crisis and then feedback will be left... One item on freecycle attracted queries, one was what are the dimensions - which I made a point of including in the OP... 'puffinbadgers' I think might be one of the terms mentioned. 

 

It was a blue sky when I first looked out, now clouding over like someone drawing a curtain and the raintracker shows a great splodge of red and orange upwind and approaching fast. Time to reef topsails and send the watch for their oilskins. 

 

Thoughts with those suffering ill-health, hope things improve soon. 

 

Edited October 7, 2022 by The White Rabbit
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[New Haven Neil]

Morning, from a rock with much wetness.

 

Mad, mad day yesterday - Fridgy countersigned his death warrant by alarming at 0230.  Then way out west first thing to do Best Man duties for JB getting welded again.  herding cats is easier.  Duly welded, then w(l)edding breakfast in a different part of town.  Initial duties discharged, then over to the Big City to buy a fridge freezer.

 

Spent many, many train tokens on a new one, to be delivered today, thankfully, as, yes, 0222 this time....pah.

 

Then all the way down north for a quick change into slightly less formal wear, some other things to see to, then back way out west to begin more Best Man-ly duties for the evening meal, 60 cats to herd into allocated tables, lists provided by the Bride turned out to be in given name order-ish, guests arrived quoting surnames.  #sigh#

 

Cats guests finally seated only 30 minutes behind schedule, and got under way, NHN's speech went down OK, brief as requested.  Brides sister was also asked to speak, briefly - was NOT brief!  The cue of the bride constantly looking at her watch didn't seem to work.....

 

Meals went well anyway, then the entertainment began - I'd say 50 of the 60 guests were singers, JB's other hobby so the roof was raised well and truly, by some very competent singing indeed, plus me. I can mime with the best of them.

 

Finally home waaaay past our bedtime, then the (*&^%$£ fridge woke us at 0222 as a treat. Taking it to the tip today will be a treat. (just informed by SWMBO the delivery folk are taking it away - same cost).

 

I need a rest.

[PhilJ W]

1 hour ago, Tony_S said:

Can these air fryer baskets go in a dishwasher or is that why the liners are used? I don’t think we will be getting one, just curious. 

Depends on the model. Some say dishwasher friendly in the instructions and some say hand wash only. I don't have any problem with that as my dishwasher is on the end of my arms.

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

A dull and breezy, but thankfully a dry start to the day here in England’s northwest corner. Breakfast is now but a distant memory and I will shortly be setting off for the butchers to collect the weekly meat rations and pork pie for my dinner. I will then head off to the Trafford Centre for some more supplies, after that there are no firm plans, but that could always change. 

 

Back later. 

Brian

[simontaylor484]

Morning all 

A bright sunny start here 

Got to take Swmbo curtain shopping today I am over the moon at that prospect NOT.

Didn't sleep well last night too busy keeping an eye on Swmbo. Kieran isn't at college today so he helped a bit