Early Risers.

[Captain Cuttle]

20 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

How pensioners keep up with the day of week I don't know

We are not brain surgeons, take us months to work that out, we use this below😜

[TheQ]

We've got three of those clocks , one I can see here in the living room, one in our bedroom, the third is my boating clock. Which reminds me, after this winters reengineering I've not made a new site for it on Blue Moon.

 

Hmm I don't know what's got into Ben today, but he's just taken me for his longest walk ever..  we got to our normal turning point and he wanted to go.. and on... Then on crossing our muddly lane starting point, he asked  to go round again... I refused, I'm knackered .

 

I wondered why the trench digging equipment had been left at the bottom of the field, they've continued on, crossing the bottom muddy lane, split into two, then feeds two fields on the marsh with water. Two troughs have been set up, with heavy ballast hard standing around them.

 

The feet and two sides of the next loom have been cut out, lots of sanding to do yet. 

My package of pins says 2 stops away.

 

Time to struggle off the sofa..

 

 

Edited March 30 by TheQ

[TheQ]

Mr Amazon man has delivered 10,200 pins, they are as described and very similar to the peco blackened pins. But silver.

[jjb1970]

I heard news that made the heart feel like it had been gripped by an icy claw and made the blood run cold yesterday. The UK permanent representative to IMO has been replaced, the post is being taken away from the MCA (Coastguard Agency, staffed by people with some understanding of and interest in shipping and maritime affairs) and given to DfT. What could possibly go wrong. The general consensus I have heard is that the UK has taken another step down the pecking order as even in maritime affairs DfT has a toxic reputation and it is only havng the MCA between them and the world that keeps things as on track as they are.

[iL Dottore]

1 hour ago, TheQ said:

Hmm I don't know what's got into Ben today, but he's just taken me for his longest walk ever..  we got to our normal turning point and he wanted to go.. and on... Then on crossing our muddly lane starting point, he asked  to go round again...

Is it perhaps time for Ben to have a “well doggie” vet visit?
 

He is, like Lucy and Schotty, getting older and like humans, even if no symptomatology is present, a once yearly MOT is a good idea. Schotty and Lucy have their “well doggie” check ups when they go for their yearly vaccinations.

 

A yearly “well human” MOT after a certain age (50 or 60 - depending upon family history) is an essential part of staying healthy as you get older. By having a “Well human” check up your GP can catch small problems before they become large problems and, as is frequently the case, the small problems can either be made to go away or prevented from becoming big problems by appropriate intervention.

 

Unfortunately, it may be difficult to get a “well human” MOT in the UK (unless you pay for it) - partly because the NHS tends to be reactive as opposed to proactive.

[iL Dottore]

30 minutes ago, jjb1970 said:

I heard news that made the heart feel like it had been gripped by an icy claw and made the blood run cold yesterday. The UK permanent representative to IMO has been replaced, the post is being taken away from the MCA (Coastguard Agency, staffed by people with some understanding of and interest in shipping and maritime affairs) and given to DfT. What could possibly go wrong. The general consensus I have heard is that the UK has taken another step down the pecking order as even in maritime affairs DfT has a toxic reputation and it is only havng the MCA between them and the world that keeps things as on track as they are.

It does seem that of all the various UK departments of state, the DfT is second only to the DWP for sheer incompetence and an appalling reputation.
 

Regardless of the political arguments around privatisation, a competent DfT would not have allowed the privatised railways to basically self-destruct and leave Britain with the dysfunctional system. It now has. The Japanese managed it with their privatised railway network (privatised before the UK’s). If the Railway Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in Tokyo could do it, why couldn’t the DfT in Whitehall?

[jjb1970]

Et tu  Singapore 😢 I never thought to see such blasphemy

[jjb1970]

The thing nobody can understand about this vegan bak kwa malarkey (other than the basic premise, obviously) is the no soy bit. Not only is soy plant based, soy sauce is a key ingredient. No doubt a clever chemical cocktail is used to replicate bak kwa.

 

Edited March 30 by jjb1970

[Erichill16]

Had to Google bak kwa but sounds tasty.

(4:20 and still not had dinner(lunch)) 

 

[Dave Hunt]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

A yearly “well human” MOT after a certain age (50 or 60 - depending upon family history) is an essential part of staying healthy as you get older. By having a “Well human” check up your GP can catch small problems before they become large problems and, as is frequently the case, the small problems can either be made to go away or prevented from becoming big problems by appropriate intervention.

 

Getting a "sick human" appointment with our GPs is difficult enough; I think that a "well human" one would be a near impossibility.

 

Dave

[DaveF]

I realised that as it is the Saturday Park Run at the beach today there would be no point going there for a walk so I went to the Quayside instead where I had an enjoyable walk watching a few cars drive by and a cormorant trying to catch a fish.  On the way home I called at a corner shop for a newspaper and found that since I was last there in February the shop has been refitted so the till is now by the door not at the back which was a shock.  Naturally all the stock was in new places to but I eventually found what I wanted.  It might have been quicker to have made the slight detour to the Tesco Extra.

 

As I felt tired I just had coffee and looked old photos until lunchtime.  After lunch I decided to have rest and lay down for a while.  When I came to I looked at the clock and noticed it said 3.30, I'd gone up to my bedroom just after 1.  After a few moments I remembered that I was being organised about the clock change this morning and that I had pressed the button on the alarm clock to chnage it from GMT to BST, it was really only 2.30 so I was able to watch both boat races.

 

I've also managed to change the car clock, once I'd found the right menu it was only two button presses to select BST.  I'll live with it being about two minutes fast.  I've now changed the rest of the clocks as well and will have an early night tonight to make sure I get up in time for church tomorrow.

 

It's been sunny and quite mild all day which has been very pleasant though there is still nearly an inch of water on the greenhouse floor.

 

About every two years I have a "well man" check provided by my surgery, so far the results have shown things work correctly or at least are not getting any worse.

 

David

Edited March 30 by DaveF

[Dave Hunt]

56 minutes ago, jjb1970 said:

The thing nobody can understand about this vegan bak kwa malarkey (other than the basic premise, obviously) is the no soy bit. Not only is soy plant based, soy sauce is a key ingredient. No doubt a clever chemical cocktail is used to replicate bak kwa.

 

 

I used to love bakkwa when we lived in Singapore but hadn't seen it for donkey's years until we visited a few years ago and I made its acquaintance again. Fortunately it was the real deal rather than the abomination shown above. What on earth is the point of ersatz soy sauce?

 

Dave

[polybear]

Bear here.....

 

Mickey has new brakes (at the front at least) and Bear decided that a Special Beary home-made Pizza was in order.  Huge Tick Awarded.

I'm gradually working my way thru' the new Top Gun Movie - the flying sequences are outstanding.  Mickey's new brakes have been tested and as the Bearmobile didn't end up upside down in a ditch I reckon they're good to go.

 

ION......

A Courier called at Bear Towers and presented me with an unexpected parcel, asking "Is this for you?"  Well let's see now......

• The Parcel address starts with No.7; the number on the front wall of Bear Towers isn't No. 7.....
• The road name ends with "Close";  Bear Avenue is, well, an Avenue.....

I think he got the message.  F.Wit.

 

BG

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[Captain Cuttle]

2 hours ago, TheQ said:

We've got three of those clocks

They are very good if you can get a reliable batteries, i got some Oneloop off Ebay last year and i think they are fakes as they dont last. They look absolutely 100% though?

Dont suppose anyone knows where the Aircraft Pictures and Vidoes thread is do they?  I have a new report on the P63 and B-17 aerial collision i want to put up.

[Hroth]

I've just been touring all the "real" clocks in the house so they think its BST already.  I also popped out to Yeti and ticked the DST box so it'll be ready for tomorrow.  All the radio-controlled clocks will position themselves appropriately in the small hours.

 

The only thing left is the clock on the oven, which is so weird that it'll have to wait until I find its instruction book...

 

[Captain Cuttle]

27 minutes ago, polybear said:

I think he got the message.  F.Wit

Brian is very upset with your message and had to cover his ears, he is an OAP for heavens sake!

[Ozexpatriate]

22 minutes ago, Captain Cuttle said:

had to cover his ears,

Twice no less! He must have been quite astonished. 😉

[PhilJ W]

1 hour ago, Captain Cuttle said:

Dont suppose anyone knows where the Aircraft Pictures and Vidoes thread is do they?  I have a new report on the P63 and B-17 aerial collision i want to put up.

Go into forums and select *'Wheeltappers' and scroll down until you find it. *I assume Wheeltappers is where it will be found.

[PhilJ W]

6 hours ago, Tony_S said:

I remember that. At one time we lived next door to a junior school. The cabbage miasma never quite got as far as our house. I was always fascinated by the Colorado Beetle poster outside the headmaster’s office. Aditi said she used to daydream about what she would buy with the reward if ever she found such a beetle. The posters must have been in every school, just like the cabbage smell. 

I remember the posters but I never heard of any Colorado beetle infestation.

[Coombe Barton]

... They loved the mud, less so the post walk bath. ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/03/30/acute-respiratory-infections-ari-visit-to-poppy-the-puppy/

[Erichill16]

7:20.

still no dinner(lunch)

 

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Shopping has been done and put away and dinner has been eaten (toad in the hole). The usual Saturday night desert on TV so I might find a book to read or watch a few video's on Youtube.

[Hroth]

5 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

... They loved the mud, less so the post walk bath. ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/03/30/acute-respiratory-infections-ari-visit-to-poppy-the-puppy/

 

Poppy the Puppy is certainly a cutie!

(liked the Gesualdo too)

 

 

[Ozexpatriate]

25 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

Go into forums and select *'Wheeltappers' and scroll down until you find it. *I assume Wheeltappers is where it will be found.

It is in Wheeltappers. @Captain Cuttle can find it here.

 

I went looking for it and at one point I thought it wasn't visible on the first three pages.  @jjb1970 made posts with lots of Singapore pictures quite recently - so it should have been. 

 

Maybe I missed it, but performance has been bad-to-ifffy lately and maybe it was not visible.

 

Edited March 30 by Ozexpatriate
Found it.

[polybear]

Bear here.....

 

Top Gun 2 watched - I rather liked it; I wonder if it'll appear in Iranian Cinemas?  🤣

 

ION.....

I decided that changing the vast majority of clocks in Bear Towers this evening was a good plan - so that's now been done; the only ones I haven't done are those that I think may change themselves automatically, as well as the ceiling projection clock above the Bear Pit.

 

Not sure what tomorrow holds in store for A Certain Bear yet - there are several potential missions on the Reminders List to choose from, none of which hold great excitement and a couple of which fall into the right PITA category (although simple enough to do).  Alternatively I may just say sodditall and do something totally different instead.

 

Bear gone....