Early Risers.

[Danemouth]

We moved into our current house 26 years ago the longest I've lived anywhere. Our previous house bought when we married was on a busy road and took twelve months to sell. Then there were delays of several weeks due to a c0ck up by the building society. After we moved in I made it clear to SWMBO that my next change of address would involve an undertaker 😁

 

Dave

[Tony_S]

38 minutes ago, The White Rabbit said:

At least one more is likely (I hope!) before the final one into a small box.

We were round at MiL’s yesterday to be there while a nice man replaced her fall pendant alarm system with a new version that doesn’t rely on landline phones. As well,as falls and pressed button signals it also has a no movement detected setting which is set to 17 hours. 

[jjb1970]

I have never seen conditions like yesterday. I know weather in SE Asia is all over the place but for a lunchtime departure to be so dark is unusual. It was very bumpy and there were a couple of really big bumps. The wings were all over the place, 787 wings seem to flex more than most. 

 

A few months ago I flew from Delhi to Singapore, the flight went down the Malaca Straits late at night (landing in Changi at 01:00) and the lightning was spectacular, like one of those horror movies, I have never seen anything like it. Happily it wasn't that bumpy on that flight, just lightning. 

 

The weather here veers between extremes, and does so very quickly. 

[BoD]

There are lots of words I could use to describe those responsible but I won’t for fear of upsetting the mods.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66947040

 

To say that I am gutted is a huge understatement.  I’m sure that @DaveF and many, many others will feel the same way.

[Dave Hunt]

I moved house three times as a kid (or my parents did and I tagged along) then 17 times in four different countries (five if you count Wales) after joining the RAF, eventually ending up in North Hipposhire where we have now been for over twenty years, by far the longest I have lived anywhere in my life. The only time I move from here will in all likelihood be feet first in a box.

 

I have just received a parcel from  Poland which took four days to get to Shrewsbury then eight days to travel the last fifteen miles to our house.

 

Dave 

[polybear]

46 minutes ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

Out early today as jabs booked for this morning - flu and covid at same appointment, Not looking forward to it.

 

I'd send cake - but I haven't got any.  Have I mentioned that?

 

2 minutes ago, BoD said:

The Ordnance Survey have updated their maps already

 

 

 

 

In 2001 Ordnance Survey took the AA to court for copying their maps without permission - and had been doing so since 1990.  OS put unique "fingerprints" in their maps so they can spot if they have been copied.

The AA paid OS £20M damages in an out of court settlement.

[Coombe Barton]

3 hours ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

flu and covid at same appointment, Not looking forward to it

Foir me, apart from 48 hours of knowing where the jabs had been, especially when I knocked them, nothing.

[Tim Dubya]

2 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

Foir me, apart from 48 hours of knowing where the jabs had been, especially when I knocked them, nothing.

 

First covid jab I was fine, second had about 4 ours of intense flu like symptoms, then a couple of days feeling blahhhhh!

 

I have a doubler booked for the 16th of next month, always a laugh! 🙄

 

 

Edited September 28, 2023 by Tim Dubya
pasty

[DaveF]

49 minutes ago, BoD said:

There are lots of words I could use to describe those responsible but I won’t for fear of upsetting the mods.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66947040

 

To say that I am gutted is a huge understatement.  I’m sure that @DaveF and many, many others will feel the same way.

 

My feelings are exactly the same, I am so very sad.

 

I just hope the person who did it is found and dealt with.  I won't use the first words which came to mind about the perpetrator.

 

David

Edited September 28, 2023 by DaveF

[polybear]

1 hour ago, jjb1970 said:

The wings were all over the place, 787 wings seem to flex more than most. 

 

 

Flexing is good.  Snapping is bad.......

[Hroth]

1 hour ago, BoD said:

There are lots of words I could use to describe those responsible but I won’t for fear of upsetting the mods.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66947040

 

To say that I am gutted is a huge understatement.  I’m sure that @DaveF and many, many others will feel the same way.

 

Like @DaveF I considered a number of ways to describe the idiots that would be impolite to repeat here. I also thought of many ways to inflict retribution upon the b@stards if they were ever caught and settled upon taking their chainsaw across their knees as suitable punishment.

 

I "did" Hadrians wall on a holiday some years ago.  At least I've got some good snaps of The Sycamore Gap to remind me of it.  I'd put one up, but I can't find them on this PC...

 

 

Edited September 28, 2023 by Hroth
A little more...

[The Lurker]

House moves: we moved to Singapore and then back to the same house 15 months later when I was a kid. Then I went to Uni and moved once each year and then I moved to Northampton, moving again after a year.

 

Since then I have move twice, once to Sidcup, and then once within Sidcup. 

 

But of those moves, only the last three have been full house moves (for me - the Singapore ones involved a lot of stuff but I was not involved per se)

[TheQ]

I know it's somewhat symbolic, but as a non native tree it's just a weed.

That cut is neat and one go, ( ok 3, cuts, cut the wedge out, then cut through from the other side).

Someone knows how to use and has a big commercial chainsaw, that's not a home use one.

I'd suggest the local farmer being xxxxxx of with tourists . If it is and he owns the tree then he's probably broken no laws..

 

Afternoon Awl,

Q of the sore aft paws, yes, lots of plodding around shops.

From my point of view it was successful, 6 books 2 of which are on unmentionable subjects.

Hinges for the current unmentionable project have been bought. 

 

Sat waiting outside bank while the bank sorted out a cockup by them on SWMBO's account..

Sign in shop next door "We go up to 8XL". ****** ".   that's big!!! even the Hippo would struggle to fill that..

 

Arrangements have been made for me to get online banking, a return trip will be necessary next week though.

 

Of the moves, this house we've now had for 23 years. Though I was still living in Saudi to pay for it, so I've just lived here 21 years..

Before that there was an 8 years, so the other 24 moves were over a 36 year period..

As an example my RAF career.

RAF Swinderby, 8 weeks

RAF Locking 1 year,

TA hall in Erith (fireman's strike) 8 weeks

RAF Locking 3 months

RAF Neatishead 6 months

RAF Locking 6 months (though we lived away at RAF Staxton Wold and RAF West Drayton for a week each during that)

RAF Neatishead, 18 months

RAF Staxton Wold, 6 months

RAF Neatishead, 1 year

Marconi college Chelmsford 6 months

RAF Neatishead 1 month

RAF Hereford 2 weeks

RAF Benbecula 18 months

RAF Locking 3 months

RAF Boulmer for my remaining time to a total of 12 years..

 

I'm in need of an eyelid inspection

Bye for now..

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Out this evening, going to the SEERS meeting. Got to collect a few things together first.

10 minutes ago, TheQ said:

I know it's somewhat symbolic, but as a non native tree it's just a weed.

That cut is neat and one go, ( ok 3, cuts, cut the wedge out, then cut through from the other side).

Someone knows how to use and has a big commercial chainsaw, that's not a home use one.

I'd suggest the local farmer being xxxxxx of with tourists . If it is and he owns the tree then he's probably broken no laws.

True, but Sheffield council wanted to cut down one of the few remaining English elms a few years ago.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-38353335

[PhilJ W]

The Huntingdon Elm was saved in the end.

http://www.nesstsheffield.org/the-story-of-the-chelsea-road-elm-tree/

[Hroth]

The section of the wall where the sycamore was located, and the tree itself is the property of the National Trust.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_Gap_Tree

 

I think its fair to characterise the trees destruction as an act of cultural vandalism.

 

 

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, The Lurker said:

Then I went to Uni and moved once each year

Some friends of ours moved while their son was at university. He was upset about for some years.  They did tell him the new address too.

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, TheQ said:

but as a non native tree it's just a weed.

It had been there for over 200 years, so as it is older than any human in the area probably has at least residential rights. What counts as an a native tree? Does it have to have sprung from the ground as the glaciers retreated?

[New Haven Neil]

@The Q Did you ever serve with Mark English at Boulmer?  IIRC he was in your line of work.

[Ozexpatriate]

I've moved about 14 times (counting two temporary accommodations accompanying relocation). I had four addresses in the first year+ when I moved to the US.

 

There were a couple of other places where I lived for a couple of months and even received mail, but I don't count them as "moves" since I didn't move my "stuff". 

 

There's ten places where I lived for at least a year.

 

The longest I've lived anywhere was around 15 years - which happened twice: the latter of my two childhood homes, where my parents still live and an apartment I rented before building my current home.

[BoD]

2 hours ago, TheQ said:

Someone knows how to use and has a big commercial chainsaw, that's not a home use one.

They have arrested a 16yr old ‘on suspicion of criminal damage’.

Edited September 28, 2023 by BoD

[DaveF]

It is good to hear that someone has been arrested in connection with felling the tree by Hadrian's Wall.  I suspect there will have been more than just one person involved.

 

Church went well this morning, I have a meeting tomorrow about the website with a local business.  I had a walk on the beach, the tide was out so there was plenty of sand to look at.  There was just sand and sea weed, no interesting pebbles or shells at all today.  It was still an enjoyable walk with a number of friendly dogs to pat on the head as they came to see who I was - or more likely to find out if I happened to be carrying any food.

 

After lunch I spent most of the afternoon in the garage, everything now has a home but there are still items to check and if they are no further use to throw away.  There are far too many small boxes with odds and ends in so a good sort out of screws, nuts and bolts and other things is needed.  While I had my cup of tea I have been looking at what a number of other churches have on their websites - there is a lot of variation but I now know what I would expect to find and have a few ideas on how to present it.  Will others agree though?

 

This evening looks like being a chance to sit quietly and read a book and listen to music, then I think I may have an early night.  I just have to decide which book to read next.

 

David

[TheQ]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

@The Q Did you ever serve with Mark English at Boulmer?  IIRC he was in your line of work.

I don't recognise the name. But then I have a terrible memory for names. I'll check with SWMBO who normally worked in the other main building, there were people there, in the same trade,  we never had contact with.. She was also there for 9 years unlike my mere 3 ish..

[Ian Abel]

1 hour ago, BoD said:

They have arrested a 16yr old ‘on suspicion of criminal damage’.

Hopefully he had an "accident" while being arrested and lost his male appendage - seems fitting!!

[BoD]

1 hour ago, Ian Abel said:

Hopefully he had an "accident" while being arrested and lost his male appendage - seems fitting!!

… with his chainsaw

 

Not really though, in spite of how sad or angered one feels.  Very difficult to think of a suitable response/punishment though.

Edited September 28, 2023 by BoD