Early Risers.

[iL Dottore]

3 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Well spotted - it's a day where anyone that knows a Poly sends them oodles of cake; not to do so means ten years' bad luck....

 

I’ll chance it….

 

Captain Cynical

[polybear]

BH.....

 

There was a very sad story on the news this morning about a little 'un who'd died at school due to a food allergy. 😢

It seems common nowadays that children have food allergies, yet when Bear (and fellow ER'ers too, I suspect) was a young Cub such things were totally unheard of.

I wonder why it's so common now?

[polybear]

Oh good....

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-68414524

 

Can't see that being a simple, cheap project.

[Hroth]

34 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Well spotted - it's a day where anyone that knows a Poly sends them oodles of cake; not to do so means ten years' bad luck....

 

 

You could always try this...

 

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/air-fryer-lemon-drizzle-cake

 

However, I know for sure that MY airfryer isn't big enough for a loaf tin, so this may be better

 

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/members/welsh-girls-lemon-drizzle-cake

 

Sounds similar but baked conventionally....

 

 

 

[Hroth]

6 minutes ago, polybear said:

Oh good....

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-68414524

 

Can't see that being a simple, cheap project.

 

I was just about to post that....  😃

 

It should be fun to follow.  Make the bustards pips squeak!!!

I bet the guilty will suddenly find that they're bankrupt...

 

[The Lurker]

58 minutes ago, polybear said:

BH.....

 

There was a very sad story on the news this morning about a little 'un who'd died at school due to a food allergy. 😉

It seems common nowadays that children have food allergies, yet when Bear (and fellow ER'ers too, I suspect) was a young Cub such things were totally unheard of.

I wonder why it's so common now?

All of our contemporaries died of their allergies before they got to school.....? 😉

 

I am not sure where they all come from. It was a shock to have the paramedics round for Younger Lurker one Boxing Day. Tests showed the peanut in the fun size snickers he'd eaten, and/or chick peas/sesame in the small handful of bombay mix had caused a reaction. He'd eaten peanut before, but never since.  The other  things he was shown to be allergic to have been challenged under medical supervision and so he can, in fact, must, have them in his diet. The reaction to peanuts is too severe. We carry an epipen for him but. we have never had to use it.

 

We don't know where the allergy came from, and we were generally gung ho about such things with him and his brother. Now not so much!

 

 

 

 

[Talltim]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

 

[Winslow Boy]

4 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

Oh yes - the only general cargo ship I sailed on had Indian crew, so I used to eat the 'crew curry', much to the disgust of several of my fellow officers who were not connoisseurs of curry!

 

Good morning from a very wet n windy rock, a total contrast to yesterday.  Todays duties include stripping the cordless mower, that has developed a fault with the control board, it would appear. Pah, it's not very old either, I bet this costs almost as much as new mower to repair.  I normally swear by Bosch products, but this time I swear at them.

I have found Bosch products very expensive for what they are. Unfortunately there are not that many Battery operated mowers on the market so I would suggest you 'grin and bear it' I'm afraid Neil. Unless you wish to go and get a goat.

[PupCam]

Afternoon

 

4 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Todays duties include stripping the cordless mower, that has developed a fault with the control board, it would appear. Pah, it's not very old either, I bet this costs almost as much as new mower to repair.  I normally swear by Bosch products, but this time I swear at them.

 

I used to swear by Bosch products but some years ago I began to question my faith in them.    The final straw was when the 13 month old washing machine door hinge failed (basically because it was made of cheese or Mazak) and could only be replaced by a complete new door assembly at over £100 because it had been designed for (cheap) manufacture and note  designed for maintenance.   Particularly galling as EBay is swimming with replacement washing machine door hinges ~£12.       

 

You may recall the story of how I fixed it which involved materials I had (brass rod and epoxy) and a bit of machining.    I certainly wasn't going to pay Mr Bosch's price for a completely unnecessary and wasteful new door or take them up on their kind offer of sending an "engineer" round to fix it at a cost.

 

2 hours ago, polybear said:

Bear here.....

Awake at sillyo'clock ☹️ (0330) thanks to the wee wee fairy - b1tch;

 

You were lucky!   I didn't manage to get to sleep for the first time until gone 4:00am!    As I recalled previously, I was rather out of energy yesterday and coupled with the fact that my right ankle started to throb (the result of the Beeza kicking back earlier in the day)  the moment I got into bed circa 11:00pm.     In the end I went down stairs and sat on the sofa under a duvet with my leg up  and just after 3:00 I thought blow this for a game of soldiers and put the TV on.    I finally nodded off just after 4:00 only to wake with a start at ~4:30.   So I turned the TV off  and finally managed to drift off to SnoozyPuppersLand.      I decided to do mostly BA today although I'm just about to go to the GP's to pick up a form .....

 

If you look in the direction of Pupppershire in about 30 minutes there is of course the distinct possibility that you may see a big black mushroom cloud rising  through  the atmosphere.

 

TTFNQ

 

 

 

 

 

[Barry O]

Not been a good day. Due to go to a school friends funeral today but had more bad news.. another one died this morning. Will now stay at home as it is too risky to go on the A1 methinks...

 

Baz

Edited February 27 by Barry O

[jamie92208]

4 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

I think that is the problem, that people with political axes to grind will take things out of context to support their ideology. Take the infamous Thatcher quote "there's no such thing as society". The entire quote is "who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first".

 

The point being made, when the entire quote is presented, is that people first look after themselves, then after their families and instead of "society" being a monolithic mass, it is in fact made up of individuals - all of whom place their own welfare (and that of family) above that of a nebulous "other" (call it society, if you wish). And only by getting people "on your side" can a government get anything done (obviously, in a democratic country, this means getting people's votes to place you in power so you can execute your policies).

 

I don't see anything inaccurate in that assertion. Which, I think, is a sociological version of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

 

One of the problems of taking things out of context is that it is so easy to then paint someone (or something) as either a saint or a villain. A good illustration of this is "reality" TV - which is heavily edited to create a narrative that the director/producer wants to put across. I could, for example, have a camera crew follow @jjb1970 around for a day or so when he is living and working in Singapore and then - by selective editing and judicious use of post production lighting and soundtrack manipulation - make him look either like an "ignorant ex-pat" or "an urbane and sophisticated <one of the locals>"

 

I am very wary and distrustful of "identity" politics as it subsumes individuals into a "group" which is defined by certain characteristics, characteristics that the individuals subsumed into that group may or may not have in part or in whole. Both @polybear and @iL Dottore are railway modellers - but as individuals are wildly different.

 

Furthermore, in identity politics the self-appointed "spokesmen" (and women) of any group are likely to represent the extremes and not be representative of the majority of individuals subsumed into that group.

 

As a minister we knew once said, 'A text without a context is a pretext' 

 

I used to enjoy upsetting senior officers in meetings by telli g them the root cause of problems.  In several cases it was the  gent himself.  It didn't do my career much good but made me feel better. 

 

Jamie

[PupCam]

And        r  e  l  a    x  ...........

 

Despite having been a patient at the practice for >42 years they still don't recognise me because "it's a new system".    Still, they managed to get there in the end.

 

 

[New Haven Neil]

1 hour ago, Winslow Boy said:

I have found Bosch products very expensive for what they are. Unfortunately there are not that many Battery operated mowers on the market so I would suggest you 'grin and bear it' I'm afraid Neil. Unless you wish to go and get a goat.

 

I have had good service from many Bosch things, including the washing machine (that the door hasn't fallen off yet, 20 years), but this mower is pretty crepey really, as you rightly say.  Living here means you have a limited choice in goods unless you want to buy from across, which we try not to do, in order to support the local economy.  It was Bosch or some B&Q never heard of it job with no spares backup. 

 

It appears the control board has an intermittent fault, which is likely the relay, but it is 'potted' in and I can't get it out to replace without destroying the whole thing.  Pah. One Deltic down.

[New Haven Neil]

5 hours ago, jjb1970 said:

when I asked how reducing the value of the denominator in a certain equation would reduce the output sum, contrary to conventional math, that didn't go well.

 

I'm thinking he was previously one of JB's students that never turn up to lectures......😆

[New Haven Neil]

4 minutes ago, PupCam said:

And        r  e  l  a    x  ...........

 

Despite having been a patient at the practice for >42 years they still don't recognise me because "it's a new system".    Still, they managed to get there in the end.

 

 

 

We had to go through the same malarkey to get registered on Patient Access despite being personal friends with our then GP, but it is quite good once you get there!  The ability to see graphical representations of tests over some years has brought some interesting things - reactions to other things - to light for me.  Also you can see test results without having to phone the practice then await recall or whatever, often they are on the next day for us here.

[Ozexpatriate]

8 hours ago, Barry O said:

@Ozexpatriate is that the "Moreton Bay" famous for its "Bugs"?

It is. Funnily enough those crustaceans were not popular while I was growing up. The prosaically named sand crabs and mud crabs (particularly) were prized. Fishing in the bay was always popular and there were small commercial fishing enterprises that plied the bay regularly.

 

The bay is enclosed on the seaward side by two large sandy islands - Moreton and Stradbroke Islands. It is relatively shallow and despite being protected from the open ocean can be quite choppy.

[iL Dottore]

The "Reformed" @polybear felt strangely out of place at Cousin Bertie's party last night, even though his cousins did thoughtfully provide a broccoli cupcake...

[TheQ]

4 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Just after the photograph was taken Ben jumped onto the table and snaffled the lot.

My dear boy, Ben would not do such a thing.

But anything on the floor is his, and unless you give some of your portion to him, you'll be given a very hard stare..

[Hroth]

1 minute ago, iL Dottore said:

The "Reformed" @polybear felt strangely out of place at Cousin Bertie's party last night, even though his cousins did thoughtfully provide a broccoli cupcake...

 

Its about time that Broccoli Dieback Disease made its presence felt...

 

[TheQ]

Afternoon Awl,

Landrover started ok , 

Stopped off a Tescos for fuel (£96)

Got back in landrover, turned key...

Click, no start, tried 4 times...

Opened bonnet , reached carefully down between , turbo charger to the left and exhaust manifold above, as they were hot, very hot.  Waggled connection to starter solenoid.

Got back in,

Brum, brum.

Some time when I can access it when it's cold I'm going to have to clean the connection properly.

 

Didn't get as much work done on on the Radars as I'd of liked as much time was spent channelling my inner Kirsten Ramsey..

No not actually on ceramics, but an all plastic notice about 3ft square. It's a manufacturers notice / advert of some technical equipment on display. 

A, the plastic is old, therefore brittle,

B, it had fallen off a wall,

C, it landed on a corner that had previously been repaired.

D, yep clean the old brown glue off time.

E. It shattered about 6 inch by 4 inches of corner.

 

Gluing all the bits together went well, as did painting over the cracks in the black lettering.

However colour matching the light blue back ground. Kirsten I was not,, the light blue was mixed then I found it needed a hint of green to get near the colour, but near was as close as I could get. I just couldn't get perfect..

 

As for the radar I've started on a type 13 and a type 14 RADAR. Both have identical aerials but the 13 scans vertically the 14 horizontally. I'm going to do a little more research on them.

Landrover started ok on way back.

 

Back to two bills,

Sailing boat insurance, including racing... £79.40

Landrover Road tax £325..

 

 

 

Edited February 27 by TheQ

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, PupCam said:

used to swear by Bosch products but some years ago

I think on domestic products the Bosch name has been devalued somewhat. If you want what was the sort of quality that Bosch used to be like you need one of their Siemens labelled products. We have a lot of Bosch power tools and garden stuff.  The power tools in an attempt to standardise batteries and the lawnmower as I was fed up of failing Flymo. After a succession of rubbish strimmers I bought a Stihl. Heavy and needs a shoulder strap but actually has a cord feed that works. 
Tony

Edited February 27 by Tony_S

[TheQ]

If you want a Bosch these days you may as well buy a Parkside, most of which are made by Bosch for Lidl, but without much of the price.

[polybear]

49 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

It appears the control board has an intermittent fault, which is likely the relay, but it is 'potted' in and I can't get it out to replace without destroying the whole thing.  Pah. One Deltic down.

 

Dodgy solder joint on the PCB?  Might be worth bungin' a soldering iron on them all.

 

33 minutes ago, TheQ said:

....and unless you give some of your portion to him, you'll be given a very hard stare..

 

I know a Bear like that....

[New Haven Neil]

7 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I think on domestic products the Bosch name has been devalued somewhat. If you want what was the sort of quality that Bosch used to be like you need one of their Siemens labelled products. We have a lot of Bosch pore tools and garden stuff.  The power tools in an attempt to standardise batteries and the lawnmower as I was fed up of failing Flymo. After a succession of rubbish strimmers I bought a Stihl. Heavy and needs a shoulder strap but actually has a cord feed that works. 
Tony

 

Ah yes, we have a new Siemens fridge!  Seems like a quality job.

 

3 minutes ago, TheQ said:

If you want a Bosch these days you may as well buy a Parkside, most of which are made by Bosch for Lidl, but without much of the price.

 

if only we had a Lidl or Aldi - their attempt to come here was kyboshed by local business leaders.

[New Haven Neil]

2 minutes ago, polybear said:

Dodgy solder joint on the PCB?  Might be worth bungin' a soldering iron on them all.

 

 

Trying to de-pot the board, er, caused 'some damage'.  They use something that is obviously suitable for surviving nuclear warfare.  The relay clicks in but no juice comes out, except when it feels like it - pretty sure it is to blame but it's proving impossible without a blowlamp and a road drill.