Early Risers.

[Coombe Barton]

... Today back to work, and five hours teaching - I did remember the way in without too much of a struggle ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/04/17/decline-interrupted-possible-regional-hotspot/

[tigerburnie]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

WTF??

 

"He was convicted of rape earlier this month however, due to new sentencing guidelines for under 25s, he was not jailed and instead given 270 hours of unpaid work."

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-65298929

The SNP at their finest at work, you can vote at 16 have a sex change if you want want one, but under 25 you are not responsible for criminal actions.

[Ozexpatriate]

8 hours ago, PhilH said:

hopefully today is the great watershed, as in the start of stomping season. We shall see ...

Hope you can get out there. I completed my daily stomp before the forecast rain arrived today.

 

I am looking forward to more consistently Spring-like* weather rather than the overwhelmingly cool and cloudy, dreary weather we have mostly seen this year.

 

* Which here can be highly variable with hail and rain showers but are usually followed by what are (a bit euphemistically) called "sun breaks" of bright sunshine and warming temperatures.

 

The current forecast looks like this: (temps in °F): 

62°F (17°C) is about 'normal' for this time of year.

[NGT6 1315]

Gotta admit the RailAdventure livery fits pretty much all stock rather well!

 

 

It‘s also funny that the 43s are marked with D-RADVE. I certainly wouldn’t mind seeing them around here now and then!
 

(RailAdventure did present two of them during a publicity tour through Germany a while ago, I should add.)

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon Evening all from Estuary-Land. Spent too long on eyelid inspection this afternoon but despite that I can't stop yawning. Just had dinner, the other half of the toad in the hole that I had Saturday with some green beans. Now to catch up with the rest of RMweb.

[Gwiwer]

58 minutes ago, NGT6 1315 said:

the RailAdventure livery fits pretty much all stock rather well!

Certainly better than the C2C pink also creeping into the clip.  It appears that Stafford is "The Place To Be" when you can get four HST power cars hauling three Merseyrail battery-electric units side by side with a Fenchurch Street - Southend unit and so-nearly bowled out by a multicoloured box train!  

 

That's all folks.  It's been a longer day than planned due to the absence of colleagues and the need to spruce up the Hill of Strawberries from its winter hibernation.  

[New Haven Neil]

@jamie92208 Yes that is certainly a Triumph (splayed pipes) so is likely the Bonneville.

 

@PupCam The Norton is apparently a '29 Model 20 twin port single.  I couldn't quite decide if it was a twin or a single but wiser heads over on RealClassic FB tell me what it is.  The thing at the front is a home made magneto cover apparently.

[NGT6 1315]

 

Goosebumps.

[PupCam]

47 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

@PupCam The Norton is apparently a '29 Model 20 twin port single.  I couldn't quite decide if it was a twin or a single but wiser heads over on RealClassic FB tell me what it is.  The thing at the front is a home made magneto cover apparently.

 

Certainly looks home made and, if I'm honest, not really in keeping.  The rest of it looks really nice though, can you send it round?

 

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

This morning’s shopping trip was uneventful, nothing much to report, but I did notice that some of our favourite wine was on offer, so I bought a couple of bottles to top up the ones already on the shelves in the cellar. 

 

In other news, we seem to have a pair of blue tits showing an interest in the bird box I put up a few years ago. I was thinking about moving it to somewhere else, but I’ll leave it where it is until later in the year and then think about moving it and putting up another one too. I also spotted a female firecrest darting about the garden. I’m used to seeing the odd goldcrest every now and then, but seeing a firecrest was a first! 

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[BR60103]

We made two trips out to the Motorhome and brought back a loaded car each time. And we haven't opened the outside compartments yet.

We have a landline with a batch or of portable handsets. This is plugged into the wall.  We also have one phone that is powered through the phone lines.  We'll still have service in a power outage or if the cell towers go down.  Our computer service is through a different company, just in case. 

One of my friends lives alone. He has a phone in the basement/railway room mounted near the floor, just in case something happens to him there.

 

Edited April 19, 2023 by BR60103
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[iL Dottore]

11 hours ago, polybear said:

WTF??

 

"He was convicted of rape earlier this month however, due to new sentencing guidelines for under 25s, he was not jailed and instead given 270 hours of unpaid work."

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-65298929

WTF indeed.

I don’t think anyone would be upset if something terminally unpleasant happened to that individual (apart from the usual hand-wringers)

[iL Dottore]

Regarding phone calls etc.

 

Were you aware that STD is a common medical abbreviation for Sexually Transmitted Disease.

 

Just thought you ought to know….

[polybear]

1 minute ago, iL Dottore said:

WTF indeed.

I don’t think anyone would be upset if something terminally unpleasant happened to that individual (apart from the usual hand-wringers)

 

Bear was amazed to see that these things are currently still legal:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65303502

 

[Ozexpatriate]

19 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Were you aware that STD is a common medical abbreviation for Sexually Transmitted Disease.

Well understood, though for some reason, I see the term STI ("I" for infections) more commonly these days. 

 

Presumably since treatments exist for the bacteriological classes of these infections, they result in serious disease less frequently.

[monkeysarefun]

29 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Bear was amazed to see that these things are currently still legal:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65303502

 

 

Unlike here -

 

 

We can't have bludy big guns, we  can't have bludy big knives, yet the 'wildlife' is allowed to  wander around with impunity,  poisonous as anything,  just laughing at our helplessness and taunting us, going "haha we are protected!"

 

 

 

Edited April 18, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[TheQ]

Machetes have a practical use, and are similar in use to a billhook.

I need to give my billhook a sharpen up and have a wander around the garden chopping the ivy on the trees.

 

Mooring Awl 

I'm awake but rather would not be, 4 hours plus 2 hours sleep, not enough, but I can already hear SWMBO wandering around upstairs, much earlier than normal.

 

I see chickens are now allowed outside, cue reporter standing outside to film chickens being released this morning.

Who sensibly stay inside where it's nice and warm..

There are chicken barns in sight of Ben's long walk, but their runs are the other side from our normal walk so we don't often see them.

 

I'm now getting  26kg of Collie getting up on my lap saying you haven't taken me out yet and SWMBO is up. I'm getting the stare from less than a foot distance. Makes it difficult to type this.

 

He'll start trying to push this gadget out of my paws shortly..

 

Time to move so I can get some peace..

 

[Barry O]

Ey up!

 

Cricket meeting attended.. bit more revision to do on the Laws and match regulations before Saturday.

 

Her indoors was out playing in a recorder group last night. Meant I got on fixing more items which run on parallel bits of nickel silver. Great! Just need to get them back in the stock boxes in the loft. Deep Frabjoy!

 

If it stays dry I can get the grass mown today. It was sunny yesterday but stayed chilly until late afternoon.  Hopefully will get a bit warmer soon.

 

 @monkeysarefun even if you had a bludy great gun or knife you can't kill nasty biting objects in Oz, you have to remove them.. some of your laws are.. weird. It can kill you.. you can't kill it? Yer wot??

 

Time to drink my tea and.. geronwithit. 

 

Baz

[iL Dottore]

I think that what we are seeing in the body politic in many Western countries is a total disconnect between those who propose and legislate and the consequences of their legislation and decisions.

 

To illustrate: let’s say we have the Monster Raving Loony Party in power (a good a choice as any) and upon the urging of their Minister for Cake  - a well placed and wealthy individual - they decide to ban ALL commercial cakes that contain antioxidants and stabilisers (which would mean >90% of all cake production). The result is that humble @polybears and the like who are either unwilling or unable to fork out ££££ for artisanal cake end up cake-less, whilst the Minister, who can afford the ££££ to hire a Great British Bake Off winner to make cake from fresh all natural ingredients every day, notices no change in his cake situation. (and in the above you could change “Minister” to “Newspaper Opinion Columnist”  or “TV Pundit” and the scenario would alter little).

 

[Grizz]

8 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

I think that what we are seeing in the body politic in many Western countries is a total disconnect between those who propose and legislate and the consequences of their legislation and decisions.

 

 

Or indeed a total disconnect between the same bunches of Herbert’s and any real world consequence to their actions or inactions when sitting in their various Houses of Liars, Criminals and Layabouts. Nothing will ever happen to them. 
 

Rant over…. High horse is munching his fodder and soap box now contains its usual compliment of soap. For now. 
 

Morning All…had two hours sleep. Slightly irritable this morning…can you tell? 

Edited April 18, 2023 by Grizz

[Grizz]

Erm… just saw this ad at the bottom of the page on RM. 
 

Can anyone explain what a six week puppy is please? 
 

 Pretty short life expectancy.

Edited April 18, 2023 by Grizz

[monkeysarefun]

56 minutes ago, Barry O said:

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 @monkeysarefun even if you had a bludy great gun or knife you can't kill nasty biting objects in Oz, you have to remove them.. some of your laws are.. weird. It can kill you.. you can't kill it? Yer wot??

 Or Contrare or however you say it, often not killing things is not only not Un-Australian, but also often helps you to not  get killed too.

 

Take for instance the following scenario. Bloke under his ute in the back of beyond  untangling a bit of wire when his dogs as a joke chase a Tiger snake ("world's 5th most venomous snake!") Up the leg of his pants.

 

Now, if he lived in a country where guns were  protected  but the wildlife wasn't  he'd simply  whip out his "Eaglehawk .357 Tactical Taskmaster" or some such nonsense, blow away  the snake and by doing so also blow off most of his leg,  and thus die slowly out in the Middle of nowhere and his dogs would chew on his remains.

 

But, because the snake is protected he has to be more imaginative, and as a result gets to live on for another day, as does the snake, and as a bonus provides material for countless trouser snake jokes.

 

A warning, he speaks graphic Australian..

 

 

 

Edited April 18, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[Grizz]

8 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

 Or Contrare or however you say it, often not killing things is not only not Un-Australian, but also often helps you to not  get killed too.

 

Take for instance the following scenario. Bloke under his ute in the back of beyond  untangling a bit of wire when his dogs as a joke chase a Tiger snake ("world's 5th most venomous snake!") Up the leg of his pants.

 

Now, if he lived in a country where guns were  protected  but the wildlife wasn't  he'd simply  whip out his "Eaglehawk .357 Tactical Taskmaster" or some such nonsense, blow away  the snake and by doing so also blow off most of his leg,  and thus die slowly out in the Middle of nowhere.

 

But, because the snake is protected he has to be more imaginative, and as a result gets to live on for another day, as does the snake, and as a bonus provides material for countless trouser snake jokes.

 

A warning, he speaks graphic Australian..

 

 

 

Perhaps when laying down whilst fixing the ute it should be law in Australia to wear skinny fit jeans and not boot cut jeans? 
 

Just love his reaction….
 

 

Edited April 18, 2023 by Grizz