Early Risers.

[PhilJ W]

52 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Aditi had already solved the NYT puzzle before it was mentioned here, I don’t want to give too much away for any other subscribers but Handsome and Hippo do go as part of a four word group, though you might like the association of one of the other words but perhaps not the other!

I'll have to have a look at that. The electronic NYT is excellent value at £2 a month.

[New Haven Neil]

1 hour ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

I'd heard you were potty trained now Neil.

 

Dave

 

The brakes on the older bikes are sometimes the cause of close calls! Ask Puppers....

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[monkeysarefun]

4 hours ago, DaveF said:

Your council take their time.  If a bin is missed here for any reason they come and investigate and deal with it the next day, sometimes even the same day.

 

Same here. One day I came home from work to find some tradie truck visiting the neighbours  had parked in front of my bin blocking its view from the garbo driver who didn't see it.

 

It was just before 5pm so I called the council and they said to leave it out and they'd get the "remedial" truck (I think thats what she called it!)  to it the next day. Apparently they have a garbage truck that spends each day cruising the shire for un-emptied bins.

 

Given that this shire is pretty large but sparsely populated (it is 2555 sqkm with 45,000 people in it, compare this to Luxemburg which is 2586sqkm and has 661,000 inhabitants),  that is quite a boutique service to fund for maybe 4 or 5 bins a day. 

[monkeysarefun]

Got to sleep in today because it is Australia Day       National Arguing About It Day. 

 

 

"It should be a day of mourning and renamed Invasion Day!" some say.

 

"If things had gone a bit  different we'd all be talking French now and be really sh!t at cricket  so of course we should celebrate!" others say.

 

"We should still have Australia Day but make it a different day that we can all unite to  celebrate, such as when the states all federated to form Australia!" some say

 

"But that was on January 1st, which is already a public holiday so we would be ripping ourselves off of a day off, there must be something else to celebrate!" the rest of us say.

 

"How about June 4th, when Warnie bowled the Ball Of The Century to bamboozle Mike Gatting?" some say.

 

"Ball Of The Century Day sounds stupid!" others say.

 

ANd so on and so on....

 

Personally, given our national pasttime of calling in sick when we feel like a day off I'd rename it "National Chucking A Sickie Day" where we celebrate nothing more  than getting a day off at the bosses expense. 

 

And the date?

 

May8      is the Aussiest sounding  day of the year I reckon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 25 by monkeysarefun

[monkeysarefun]

Oh forgot to mention parts of the city will hit 40 today so the shady BBQ spots will be gone early.

[monkeysarefun]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

I'll have to have a look at that. The electronic NYT is excellent value at £2 a month.

 

 

I signed up for wordle.

[Pacific231G]

To honour mouse man,  haggis for dinner with tatties (not neaps though- I have to draw the line somewhere) with a nice glass (or two) of single malt to help it down. I'm not usually a whisky (or whiskey) drinker but haggis needs it.  Bit of a rush though as it needed 45' to boil and I had  a Zoom meeting of the photo club at eight. Trouble is, I now have half a haggis that, because it was shop bought not homemade, I'm advised can't be fried up again so it's cold haggis for breakfast or the recycling bin for it tomorrow. It was only £2.50 (Tesco) so chucking it won't be a great loss but I do hate wasting food. 

Edited January 25 by Pacific231G

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

I'll have to have a look at that. The electronic NYT is excellent value at £2 a month.

I think it goes up a bit after a year (or perhaps 2, not sure). Aditi also,subscribes to one of their other supplements, something food related I think. She also reads a selection of newspapers via the Essex Library online service. This is probably why she doesn’t watch much television .

Tony

Edited January 25 by Tony_S

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[Two_sugars]

The hometown one, Baz.

 

sleep well everyone.

 

John

[iL Dottore]

12 hours ago, DaveF said:

….It is because Northumberland has a relatively small population (the least dense in England) so complicated recycling schemes are far too expensive becasue of the number of refuse wagon trips needed.

At least your council seems to have some semblance of common sense.
 

Sheesh, don’t British Councils get it? If you want people to do “X” then you make it easy to do “X”

 

Our local Gemeinde (council) has rubbish collection once a week; the rubbish is mixed (food, etc) and goes into a special yellow bag that you have to buy (I am assuming that the cost of each bag contributes to the cost of collecting and sorting the rubbish); paper is bundled and collected every two weeks (free of charge), garden waste is collected once a week (also free); cardboard is bundled and collected once a month (free); there are collection points for glass (by colour), aluminium and PET plastics scattered around the village (all easily accessible); scrap metal is collected twice a year (but can also be deposited at the recycling centre) and we have a recycling centre open 6 days/week for recycling anything. Most recycling is free, although there is a small charge for certain items that require special handling (like old paint and household chemicals).

 

Unsurprisingly fly-tipping is pretty much unknown.

[jamie92208]

Good moaningfrom a quiet Charente.  Our Satellite dish man is due back this morning to put the dish in a different place. The the day gets better, I'm off trainspotting. 

 

Regards to all and of course Sundry. 

 

Jamie 

[Barry O]

Ey up!

 

Woken about 2am by rain battering the windows aided and abetted by a reet hoolie.. it died down about 3am and I got back to sleep unril6am.

 

Interesting clubroom last night. We covered a variety of topics from workshops to build live steam engines through turning a set of parts into a luggage van, building layouts in various scales etc. A good discussion was had!  And, due to the wonders of zoom we had members from Australia,  Birmingham,  Heysham, Stockport and Leeds..

 

Today is a writinganinterviewwithoutcoffee email regarding cricket, fixing my potato cart,  reloading the Beast then.. hey Ho! Hey Ho! It's off to Pontecarlos via the Clubrooms. 

 

We seem to be missing even more ERs at the moment. @polybear, @PupCam, @zarniwhoop@Grizz, @Robert, @andyram, @NGT6 1315 along with several other more long term non attendees.  I hope they are all well.

 

mugatea time.. then off to girebup my scintillisation chamber!

 

stay safe!

 

encourage your day to be a good one!

 

baz.

[Hroth]

Our bins (general waste) were supposed to be emptied yesterday.  They weren't.

Bin lorry has just been round, bins still not emptied.  I think the lorry wasn't working properly, the refuse operatives were clustered around the back, poking at things...

 

Scintillating stuff, eh?

 

Edited January 26 by Hroth

[TheQ]

Never had a problem frying up Haggis in the morning, but these days we buy it, cut it into slices and freeze it.

Then I fry a bit when required or microwave it in a small amount of water.

 

Mooring Awl, very tight on the moorings again.

4.5 hours solid sleep long awake, 2 hours sleep.

It's been blowing a hoolie all night, and is still blowing close to 50mph..

 

Bin out with Ben, Ben the eyesights not so good these days Collie, he missed a Munjac fairly close to him.

He could smell where it had been though..

 

Blue welkin, except for some rapidly disappearing clouds to the south and east. Howling wind from the north west.

 

I'm most impressed with this phone tablet, which came with keyboard, various leads, psu, and case. All for less than £100. It's as fast as the old Lenovo which was a lot more expensive without keyboard.

Haven't transfered the old card data yet, I can't find the adapter, might try putting the card in swmbos tablet and  transfer the data with that.

 

Plans for today,

Speech writing, 

If I get that done, muddling, far too windy to be outside.

 

 

 

 

 

[monkeysarefun]

Extreme weather antics today. At 6.30AM  it felt really sticky and awful when I went outside so I was surprised it was only 20 degrees, but then I  noticed the 97% humidity.  Around 11 or so a westerly wind hit and although the temperature was by then high 30's the dry desert wind had dropped the humidity to 17 and it felt a lot more comfortable.  Around 4 or so a Southerly change arrived, which brings cool moist air from the Pacific ocean  and it is now a comparatively chilly 24.

 

Traditionally when I'm stuck inside in the aircon I watch cold things on the telly, usually Scott Of The Antarctic, but I'd watched that only recently when it was 42 outside, so instead I pretended it was last winter and  in honour of Australia /Invasion/ whinging about it generally /  Day  I watched a replay of the 2023 AFL Grand Final.

 

What a game that was, one for the ages.   The  lead changed 10 times through the match. Name any other sport that has had ANY game change lead that many times, let alone a final..  (perhaps theres some NBA basketball play-off, or maybe a  Netball game...? one for ER sports expert @Ozexpatriate to put me right on!)

 

Even though @Gwiwer favourite team Collingwood ended up winning, you'd have to be an actual lemon to be bitter about it. 

 

Awesome  game, awesome sport - 5 stars!

 

 

 

 

I just noticed these cows across the back paddock. They  seem to be watching  some kind of  presentation or are having a meeting.

 

. Maybe it is a Cowmitteee meeting,  lol.

 

 

 

Edited January 26 by monkeysarefun

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

Not dull here, we have blue sky and sunshine.  A dry, bright and breezy day with plenty of wintry sunshine is forecast.  7°C rising to a sweltering 9°C! 

Nothing exciting on today's agenda so far which TBH is not unusual.  A walk is planned after breakfast but after that my day is clear.

Have a good one,

Bob.

[Gwiwer]

24 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

Even though @Gwiwer favourite team Collingwood ended up winning, you'd have to be an actual lemon to be bitter about it. 

There speaks a man with tongue in cheek 🤣

 

Collingwood are the butt of humour. And I have many more teeth and fewer mullets than their supporters do. 
 

 

[skipepsi]

I wrote a post earlier intended for early risers, it turned out to be on TNM by accident but then failed to load. Clearly, 7.15am is much too early for my remaining brain cell. I hope you all have a good day.

[Gwiwer]

Good morning from the Distant (Signal) West. A golden shiny thing rose from behind the carn and seems to have made all the small people very chattery on their way to school

 

Dr SWMBO was up at 4am due to being unable to sleep any longer.  She has kindly left me a pile of dishes and pans in the kitchen but tonight’s meal is already prepared. 
 

She also just asked me something as she read through her various pages of interest on the web. 
 

“What does it mean to abe?”  
 

“Abe?”

 

I peered over her shoulder. Her command of the language (though not its grammar) is as good as mine so I wondered what she had found. 
 

“Abe. A - B - E.  Like here where it says Jennifer was abed before anyone else in the house”.  What does “abe” mean. 
 

.

 

 

.

 

“It means she was in bed first……” 🤦‍♀️

“Were you mizzled by that?”

- “Mizzled”

-“as in misled” 

 

Welcome to Brain-dead Day

[PupCam]

Morning All

 

Puppers reporting for duty.       Sorry, bit low profile for a bit, nothing sinister in this case just a good deal of unspecified pottering with Junior Puppers.  Thanks to Baz and others for the concern but in this case everything is good.  Like Baz, I hope the same can be said for the other MIA.  I’ve been skimming and rating the occasional post.   I was going to quote Flávio’s post but it’s too difficult on my phone. Suffice to say Here! Here!  to his statement in bold.   I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve uttered the same sentiments.   These Councils that think the opposite must be right up one end of the intelligence Bell curve.   I’ll leave you to work out which end.

 

And on that note I say 

 

TTFNQ

 

 

 

 

 

 

[skipepsi]

2 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

Good morning from the Distant (Signal) West. A golden shiny thing rose from behind the carn and seems to have made all the small people very chattery on their way to school

 

Dr SWMBO was up at 4am due to being unable to sleep any longer.  She has kindly left me a pile of dishes and pans in the kitchen but tonight’s meal is already prepared. 
 

She also just asked me something as she read through her various pages of interest on the web. 
 

“What does it mean to abe?”  
 

“Abe?”

 

I peered over her shoulder. Her command of the language (though not its grammar) is as good as mine so I wondered what she had found. 
 

“Abe. A - B - E.  Like here where it says Jennifer was abed before anyone else in the house”.  What does “abe” mean. 
 

.

 

 

.

 

“It means she was in bed first……” 🤦‍♀️

“Were you mizzled by that?”

- “Mizzled”

-“as in misled” 

 

Welcome to Brain-dead Day

Yes I think I am there.

[Hroth]

A substitute bin lorry has just turned up and the bins emptied.

 

Hurrah!

 

And the sun is scintillating in the sky after last nights wild blow. 🤪

 

Edited January 26 by Hroth
Another reason to be cheerful!

[Gwiwer]

46 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

these cows across the back paddock. They  seem to be watching  some kind of  presentation

Remember most presentations are just bulls hit