Early Risers.

[polybear]

Oh yes......

 

The ink cartridge supplier (with a bit of prodding and a scary growl) has decided to do the honourable thing and send Bear a replacement cartridge. 😃  Polite snottograms do work sometimes....

Bear's review never appeared on their website though - s'funny that.....

 

BG

[iL Dottore]

37 minutes ago, polybear said:

iD @iL Dottore - is this what you mean by a UPF?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51n0p14y1lo

Not quite, although the rat must have felt pretty ultra processed when it ended up in the mixing vat.

 

What I didn't see in the story (apart from a reference to Japan's usually extremely high hygiene standards) is that a certain amount of insect parts, rat droppings and other detritus IS legally permitted in processed foodstuffs in many countries.

 

OK the amount permitted IS minuscule and may reflect the difficulty in achieving a 100% rodent, insect and vermin free environment (though the high tech industry manages OK with their "clean room" production facilities). But even so... Not something you'd find in homemade cake (all the cakes produced at Schloss iD are guaranteed to be 100% rodent and insect free)

 

Still, added insect and rodent (ahem) flavour (not to mention all those yummy additives) may explain why PB is so hooked on cheap UPF LDC.

[The White Rabbit]

17 hours ago, polybear said:

Bear's Thought for the Day......

 

WHY???

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68977469

 

There's some very, very weird people in this World.

 

... which is one reason I am 'rather careful' using the Internet and do try to think about search words/terms - it's all too easy getting more educated than you might wish ... 

 

I recall when studying for my law degree some cases not dissimilar to that, with what I would regard as ultra BDSM activities. They were the subject of a couple of seminars on issues of consent and capacity - I won't go into details but let's just say I felt utterly bemused and some students were clearly horrified and uncomfortable. 

 

7 hours ago, TheQ said:

If you look at most old roads in the UK they are fairly obvious names. It's only in comparatively recent times people started " naming roads " and places with unrelated monikers. ....

 

One location I'm familiar with has a 'Harepath Road' - nothing to do with lagomorphs, it's based on the old Anglo-Saxon name for a warrior. 

 

7 hours ago, polybear said:

Perhaps it's time for a resurrection - there are certain members of society that shouldn't be allowed to reproduce at all.

 

I can't disagree with that - but there's a problem in deciding who gets to make that call as to who shouldn't. Quite a few individuals who I'd class as natural members of that group would put me in that group. Who decides...? 

 

6 hours ago, polybear said:

... I don't hold out much hope though, nor do I expect the review will appear on their website.  We'll see. ...

 

Standard procedure - all reviews are 'moderated to ensure adherence to review rules'. Tesco had no problem in publishing a favourable report on a couple of items - but surprise, surprise, 'lost' the one which panned them for a breach of trades description - a supposedly boneless tinned fish product which actually had a couple of dozen bones in, including the piscean spine.  

 

1 hour ago, polybear said:

iD @iL Dottore - is this what you mean by a UPF?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51n0p14y1lo

 

Another case discussed during legal studies was one where someone had purchased a frozen pizza from a certain supermarket (breath easily Bear, twasn't the Co-Op) and cooked it, only to find an unadvertised and thoroughly unwanted extra 'topping' - two sparrows. The poor things had got in the food processing plant and been clobbered by the ventilation fans, the parts dropping onto the food production line and had been included in a few pizzas. This was discovered on the dinner table/plate after being cooked. Yuk... That cost the company quite a lot of money. 

 

[polybear]

55 minutes ago, The White Rabbit said:

I can't disagree with that - but there's a problem in deciding who gets to make that call as to who shouldn't. Quite a few individuals who I'd class as natural members of that group would put me in that group. Who decides...? 

 

 

Bear just happens to have an opening in his busy schedule.......

 

55 minutes ago, The White Rabbit said:

Standard procedure - all reviews are 'moderated to ensure adherence to review rules'. 

 

The unwritten rule being that it must be a nice review of course......

 

[PhilJ W]

3 hours ago, DaveF said:

I thought  some of you might find this old car of interest.  It shows my grandmother in either her car or a very early car of my grandfather's in the early 1920s.  It does also appear in the old cars thread but I know not everyone looks at that.  Someone has attempted to hand tint it.

 

 

David

C. 1923 Morgan. 

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. The washing has just finished but I leave it in the machine for a couple of hours as the spin cycle compresses the washing into a solid mass around the drum and requires to stand before it can be removed. I was going to Tess Coes this afternoon but I've still got plenty of food so I'll leave it until tomorrow.

[Ozexpatriate]

2 hours ago, The White Rabbit said:

... which is one reason I am 'rather careful' using the Internet and do try to think about search words/terms - it's all too easy getting more educated than you might wish ... 

This sort of thing would appear much faster in the early days before search was monetized and internet trawling was also accomplished by daisy-chained links to who knows where. Now search results are much more likely to show you something to purchase - even if not very related to your search.

 

I once saw a reference to that sort of thing - unintentionally (I hasten to say). It was a bit eye-opening about the lengths people will go to. According to a separate news article I read, this sort of thing is a problem that big city hospital emergency rooms / casualty see. Perhaps not on a regular basis but not unheard of either. If I recall correctly the article quoted a hospital in San Francisco. If not done well the subject can bleed out. It is a very dangerous procedure - despite claims that such things are regularly done to livestock.

 

Edited May 10 by Ozexpatriate

[polybear]

7 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

I once saw a reference to that sort of thing - unintentionally (I hasten to say). It was a bit eye-opening about the lengths people will go to. According to a separate news article I read, this sort of thing is a problem that big city hospital emergency rooms / casualty see. Perhaps not on a regular basis but not unheard of either. If I recall correctly the article quoted a hospital in San Francisco. If not done well the subject can bleed out. It is a very dangerous procedure - despite claims that such things are regularly done to livestock.

 

 

There were two or three that worked at The Great Empire in the 90's (I think) that were into, er, "unusual practices" involving a hammer, a nail, and a certain part of the male anatomy.  Once the story broke the Nationals had a field day "Rocket Scientists etc. etc....." and they were shown the door PDQ.  At least one served time because (IIRC) one of the group was under 21(?) which made it some crime or other.

[Ian Abel]

POETS, yes, doing that.

 

Yesterday I managed to complete the work day without any additional nasty-gram sending. Seems my initial missive may actually have got my point across 😀

 

Enjoyable choir rehearsal and pre/post whistle-wetting.

 

Today - my presence has been requested at a meeting to help the IT morons understand the system they're responsible for, that'll be a laugh, I'll POSSIBLY refrain from pointing out the "bleeding obvious", i.e. since they let the last admin for the system go (several years ago it seems, but I was never informed!!) they apparently  didn't bother to assign anyone the actual responsibility for its running/upkeep...

 

This evening we attend Neil deGrasse Tyson - This Just In: Latest Discoveries in the Universe - the Mrs got me tickets for Christmas. Love his books and pretty much everything he post/discusses in various interviews and discussion forums.

Only WRINKLY is - and who knew when his event was scheduled - the Minnesota Timberwolves play downtown about 1/4 mile away from where we'll be in what is fast becoming on of the largest NBA championship series in a long time.

Only saving grace is, our event starts an hour before they play, so with LUCK we'll avoid most of the frenzy at the start and we should be long gone before the game ends!

 

Weekend has a Mothers Day brunch with the family Sunday at an Indian restaurant, arranged by DIL Meagan. Nothing else "planned" so far.

 

9c and sunny first thing, 21c the expected high, much the same all weekend.

 

Hope you all have a great weekend.

[DaveF]

Today has passed pleasantly, so far. After I had done some odds and ends I went into the garden and removed all the bulbs from the tubs and pots so they are now ready to plant the summer plants - though one or two of the tubs will go, I have a friend with a relative who is looking for some.  I also did some weeding until I found I was struggling to stand up after kneeling.  I had to lever myself up by hanging onto a rose arch.

 

Then I went to the beach and walked on the Prom and Links.  Fortunately I parked in the first space I saw as the bottom end of the car park was full of TV vans as Vera was being filmed there today.  They were still getting ready when I walked past.  It was warm but humid and misty at times over the sea.  I took a few photos, see below.

 

I called at Tesco Extra on the way home and treated myself to some English strawberries, very tasty.  I really went to buy a loaf.  Since lunch I've been scanning photos once again.  I've also started to sort out books and other things to get rid of - some to charities, other items to the tip.

 

It is now a very nice sunny late afternoon and have just been outside to water the plants in the greenhouse. 

 

This evening will more more scanning unless I get very bored and find something to watch.

 

Battery gun.  It is a dummy.

 

Low tide beach with old WW2 anti tank blocks partly exposed.

 

TV vans in the car park

 

The battery with two TV people discussing something.

 

David

Edited May 10 by DaveF

[Barry O]

Ey up from a sun doused Coniston.baz is a strange pinkish colour.. much better than rain induced rust!

 

 

Would you buy a used car from this lot?

 

Includes an ex rocket propellant person, a lawyer, a musician and someone who was h3avily involved in cleaning up sewage...

 

Had a cracking few days at the Sun Inn. As usedby Donald Campbell for his water speed attempts..

 

Visited Bluebird..looked very dodgy to me.. bit nice to see it restored in Coniston.

 

Local brewery brews a beer namedafyer me.. the O part that is..

 

Time for pre dinner champers...

 

Look after yourselves!

 

Baz

 

[Gwiwer]

 

Hello 

 

I’ve been below the big chimney watching our coast again 

 

Lots of yachtspersons not all of whom were abiding by the rules. Lots of visitors to the watch too - from hikers to thunder-bugs. 
 

And a party of around 30 younger folk from the West Midlands totally unfamiliar with the sea and safety thereabouts. And who chose to dive into rock-infested shallows from a private slipway. Eejits. 
 

The Coastguard was alerted. An incident was created. And a person in a dark blue Land Rover with a blue flashing light on top duly appeared and ordered them on their way.
 

In what I later learned were “Strong Cornish terms”.
 

It’s now beer o’clock. And it’s Indian grub night at the café. Yesssss.
 

Welcome to the weekend  

 

Edited May 10 by Gwiwer

[Coombe Barton]

... Today has be checking entries from a database and providing correction. It’s long, detailed and loads wrong. I haven’t finished yet. 49 working days, 82 actual days, just under 12 weeks to go.

The inclusion of the above figure will tell you how thrilled I am to have to do this checking with so many errors ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/05/10/covid-incidence-and-deprivation-still-admin-and-marking/

Edited May 10 by Coombe Barton
Can't count

[New Haven Neil]

The OF's ride out went to 'Land's End', aka The Sound, where the breakfast was OK but a little pricey.  We hit two closed roads due to the rally, so had to make some 'interesting' detours, on very bumpy back roads.

 

I've only seen two snakes in the UK, once saw an adder in Ingram Valley, when I was a teenager - not too far from Dave F's perambulations, and a slow worm (OK not really a snake), on the far platform at Haverthwaite on the Lakeside & Haverthwaite railway.  Saw loads of yellow sea snakes in the far east when at sea, horrible things.

[Tony_S]

2 hours ago, Barry O said:

Ey up from a sun doused Coniston.baz is a strange pinkish colour.. much better than rain induced rust!

We had a little walk in the Essex uplands. 
We think it is probably too warm and dry for some of the plant life.

 

We did find a more cool and damp area though.

Then after a walk among the rhododendrons we retired to the caff for tea and scones. 
Tony

[New Haven Neil]

ION - Fraggles swooning everywhere, 20c recorded.  Actually felt warm riding the bike, wonder never cease.

 

Wondering if we'll see an aurora tonight, big soar flare incoming apparently.

[Coombe Barton]

2 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

And it’s Indian grub night at the café. Yesssss.

Does the North Inn in Pendeen still do curry nights, do you know?

[Coombe Barton]

from https://meteologix.com/uk/aurora for today

 

 

 

 

Edited May 10 by Coombe Barton

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Been pretty much free today of the arthritis but its jumped back in again this evening, probably due to the high humidity. At the moment there is a pesky fly buzzing around so its time to get the spray out.

[PupCam]

Evening All

 

10 hours ago, polybear said:

A friend had a C-19 Jab (Modena) yesterday afternoon - and was rather ill indeed last night, which is highly unusual.  Seems some don't respond too well after having it.

 

Didn't go easily for me or mother and after that we've both had a very similar coldy/fluy/spaced out weirdness symptoms.    Unless you can catch such viruses via a Faceache Portal one did not infect the other!

 

We seem to be heading back to normality now I'm pleased to say, it was not good!

 

 

8 hours ago, DaveF said:

I thought  some of you might find this old car of interest.  It shows my grandmother in either her car or a very early car of my grandfather's in the early 1920s.  It does also appear in the old cars thread but I know not everyone looks at that.  Someone has attempted to hand tint it.

 

 

David

 

Now I think that is an absolutely fabulous image @DavidF !

 

ION

 

Notalot due to apathy induced by the lurgy.

 

Night All

 

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

Tiring day at work due to heat,  traffic congestion and an absence of sleep.

I was hoping to stay up and look for the northern lights, even got the camera set up,but feeling shattered and SWMBO has already hit the sack as she’s not been well.

So goodnight,

Robert

[TheQ]

Evening Awl,

Today at the museum began with crawling about on the floor, I must say the new carpet is nice and soft on the knees.

 

What was I doing down there?

Laying out sailcloth, marking , then cutting it, then overlaying the cut off piece, at the top, marking and cutting that.

This is the new jib for Blue Moon, that is a triangle with a 90 degree turn at its rear bottom corner.

What's needed is 60 inches across the bottom, 164 inches  on the vertical, and 176 inches on the leading sloping edge. I've added a couple of inches in all directions for seaming and  minor corrections.

The difficultly was I broke the tape measure, I pulled it out to it's full length, it went twang, the spring shot inside and i was left with the measuring bit flopping around.

 

Repairing several more switches, have been shown another type that needs repair. These are 50+ year old round tubes, but the plastic is cracking up. I've measured the space and think I can line the original with a 10 mm O/D  plastruct type tube. Some has been ordered to try.

 

After that I started cleaning and polishing the box for the ultra sonic radar device.. And dropped it...

Several joints broke apart, so all the joints had to be cleaned up and re glued.

Drilled the four holes to screw it to the board . Just been to the house of strong ladies to order some very short self tappers with a wide pan head.

 

Then to the 1/1000 model of Neatishead, the if "all else fails" radio aerial was fitted today, this is the highest point on the diorama except for the comms dish. It involved a 1 inch long piece of wire sticking up, and the cotton thread guy ropes being super glued in place. Next week the comms dishes, and preparations for fitting perspex protection and legs to the layout.

Also put a RAF flag on the pole, that is, a little over size piece of RAF blue paper folded round a pin . A red splodge filling the top right corner. Then the pin and the paper where it's round the pin were painted white.

 

Only 19 visitors today of which I saw 7, so most of the day was spent muddling, hence i have a very stiff back having been hunched up over a table all day.

 

After that the MRC, where 1mm stainless wire was bent into various shapes to imitate a 6 inch fuel pipe line. Several more need doing, but they are just short lengths.

 

Muggachoccy gone goodnight Awl.

 

 

Edited May 10 by TheQ

[Gwiwer]

1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said:

Does the North Inn in Pendeen still do curry nights, do you know?

Yes they do. To very mixed reviews it must be said. 
 

We went last year. Never again. Neither of us enjoyed the meals. Some others rate them highly, some go elsewhere. 
 

 

[monkeysarefun]

23 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Usually less than 0.01% of participants get it right first time. Today I got three consecutive letters correct first time and it was easy to work out the correct word.

I  quite regularly end up with this kind of thing after the second guess:

S H A ? E 

But then it becomes a case of whether I happen to luckily guess the right one out of SHARE, SHAME, SHAPE, SHAKE, SHADE, SHALE, SHAVE etc before my remaining goes runs out.

 

 

Edited May 10 by monkeysarefun

[Gwiwer]

1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said:

from https://meteologix.com/uk/aurora for today

 

 

 

 

Don’t think I’ll bother on a 20% chance. The nearest light-free location with a clear view north is only a couple of miles away at Botallack. The aurora was photographed there earlier this year. It’s been a long day and the car is tucked away in a tight spot. If I got it out I wouldn’t try getting back in after dark so it would have to go in the car park. Not that it’s far to walk but hey. 
 

I’ll have another muggercoffy and hit the hay. Tomorrow is also going to be a busy one.