Early Risers.

[PhilJ W]

43 minutes ago, Andy Hayter said:

Not fatalities, but I was surprised by the damage wild boar do to motor vehicles.  

ADAC in Germany (like the AA or RAC) reported being called out to rescue vehicles immobilised by boar strikes at an average rate of once every 20 minutes day and night.  

Wild boar have been known to attack humans. Usually a sow protecting her young.

[Tony_S]

9 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

California Lilac is looking very poorly.

Ours was fine for about 20 years and then it died branch by branch. We haven’t replaced it. 

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Just back from watching the sunset at Sandbanks. Condor Liberation passed en route from the Channel Islands to Poole.

[PupCam]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

There's a Revell kit for £50.

 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315303601403? same kit?

 

Don't know.  Same scale so maybe?

 

50 minutes ago, TheQ said:

I've twice hit deer, luckily only at 30 mph or less and both muntjac which are small.  I have a by had the big Red deer cross my path but avoided them luckily...

 

Many years ago when I was on my RD125 (that puts in the late 70s!) two deer were standing on the bank a long a country  road.  The RD music scared them and they jumped down and ran across the road.    The first passed in front, the second passed behind.  I think I dodged a bullet there or, perhaps more accurately, a pair of deer.

 

32 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

And they are all dying around Cornwall thanks to some sort of disease. 

 

And in Puppers garden.  We put it down to abuse by Mrs Puppers and/or  the weather.

 

ION

 

Seems like our departure from OLd Warden this morning was recorded for posterity 🤣

 

 

 

Ssssh, don't mention this to anyone.     The sky is clear, the wind has dropped and there's almost a full moon.    I might get the scope out.   I wonder if I can remember what to do?

 

TTFN

 

 

 

[New Haven Neil]

Just watching the first Vera S1 Ep1, hadn't seen that one before - almost jumped when they used the frontage of the hospital I used to work in, felt really strange. Not sure why, it was used for a lot of filming back in the day when I worked there, Victorian stone frontage  type place, often used as a 'Town Hall', but it really popped up for me.  St Nicholas', Gosforth BTW for any north-easterners.  And yes, it was one of those hospickles.  No I worked there, honest.

[PhilJ W]

8 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

Just watching the first Vera S1 Ep1, hadn't seen that one before - almost jumped when they used the frontage of the hospital I used to work in, felt really strange. Not sure why, it was used for a lot of filming back in the day when I worked there, Victorian stone frontage  type place, often used as a 'Town Hall', but it really popped up for me.  St Nicholas', Gosforth BTW for any north-easterners.  And yes, it was one of those hospickles.  No I worked there, honest.

The building I worked in for almost 38 years was used in an episode of Poirot. They spent nearly a week filming and when the episode went out there was about five minutes.

[monkeysarefun]

7 hours ago, PupCam said:

I saw the Italeri kit for a Manx Norton the other day whilst in Hobby Craft.   I've seen them many times and I was severely tempted but it was ~£57 IIRC and I managed to resist.       When I got home I thought I'll just have a look on the Big River where the same kit was being offered for £44 and I was unable to resist "Adding to Basket".       It turned up yesterday ..........

 

Being a cynic, in similar situations  I tend to wonder how a certain seller can offer something at a substantially cheaper cost than the others,  in your case I guess you found out how!

Edited April 21 by monkeysarefun

[monkeysarefun]

6 hours ago, Tony_S said:

I am at my MiL’s at the moment. She has a few pictures I know are correctly hung but they look wrong. It may perhaps be the picture frames are not quite rectangular. 

 

 

I'm not such a perfectionist as to insist that TV screens at work need to be dead level. I just wanted to end the "It IS straight!", "No its not!" argument that had been going on between 2 of my coworkers from the moment we  stuck the thing on the wall....

[Ozexpatriate]

1 hour ago, Tony_S said:

 I think I may have seen some people playing it or something similar on a cruise ship.

It has become very popular with "active retirees". Basically doubles tennis without all the running around - the ball doesn't carry as far.  There are courts everywhere now - often collocated with regular tennis courts.

 

It is noisy. As someone who is not up to playing 'proper' tennis these days, it does look fun.

 

Indoor pickleball centres are starting to pop up too. Sort of like a bowling alley - with pub options.

 

Edited April 21 by Ozexpatriate

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[Gwiwer]

Evening all. A busy one today. 
 

Dr SWMBO is not normally involved with ecclesiastical inflorescence but chose to make a display of “Antipodean” flowers together with miniature New Zealand and Australian flags to go on the church’s war memorial to mark ANZAC Day. Dear to her, as it is to most Aussies, not least because her father saw service with the Royal Australian Navy in the Vietnam War.

 

I was required to drive her the very short distance to church to avoid the need to walk clutching a sizeable vase of flowers. The eucalypt leaves were the only truly Antipodean representatives; the rest were local species including bluebells from our own garden. 
 

She then pottered off for tea and cake with a church friend while I pottered off to enjoy some big green toys.  I was reunited with the very bus I used to ride to and from school.  I always thought it somehow appropriate that the route which passed Newlyn harbour and fish market should have buses registered with the letters COD. 

 

Two of the six survive; one was in use today providing me with a very nostalgic trip out to Mousehole and back. The lack of power steering didn’t affect the ability to turn the extremely tight corners into and out of the village. With - as has always been the case - about an inch spare either side before meeting stone walled cottages. 
 

Lots more action in town attracted very good crowds but my remaining interest was another reunion. 
 

Catching a half-cab “Lodekka” out over the moors the long way round via Lanyon Quoit I was planning to get back home just ahead of another bus making a more direct trip on a later departure. We ground up the long hill to Madron in second gear. We ground up the long hill above Madron onto the moors mostly in second but with a faultless change down to first. And we ran happily along the single track road to Morvah. 
 

Another faultless change-down had had storming Nancherrow Hill (1:7) whilst leaving no-one in doubt as to our approach to St Just. 
 

And as we pulled in there was Dr SWMBO waiting. And there, right behind, was the other bus. The very one we had been gifted the use of for our wedding 28 ½ years ago. 
 

The three of us were briefly reunited before the timetable required the buses to depart and the moment had gone. 

1995

 

2024

 

And a few of the other players from today starting with 672 COD - my old school bus from 1967 passing Newlyn Harbour and the bottom of my old street, then resting in Mousehole 

 

 

Some properly stylish travel from Royal Blue

 

Oldest-on-parade was down from Wiltshire 

 

Buses as I knew them boy and man. Though there was never a bus station at Penzance back in the day

 

Changing destination - always the conductor’s job

 

And you wait all day then three come together!  Late-running 15.35, followed by 15.50 and 16.00, trips from St Just back to Penzance. Each will take a different route.
 

[pH]

1 hour ago, Gwiwer said:

Changing destination - always the conductor’s job

 

Despite the fact that the conductor was legally responsible for the correct destination being displayed, it was always our drivers that ‘changed the board’.

[Winslow Boy]

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Ours was fine for about 20 years and then it died branch by branch. We haven’t replaced it. 

I'm afraid they tend to do that. Bit like the built in obsolescence in washing  machines- just after the guarantee runs out.

[petethemole]

2 hours ago, PupCam said:

4 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

There's a Revell kit for £50.

 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315303601403? same kit?

 

Don't know.  Same scale so maybe?

This is the one I found https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276425494804?chn=ps&_ul=GB

Also, Revell marketed Italeri kits for several years so that would be the same kit.

[iL Dottore]

Good Morning All,

 

A rather unusual weekend for me inasmuch as I spent a goodly chunk of it building a 1/50 scale architectural model of the penthouse apartment we hope to buy. Based on the original architect‘s drawing and our visit, I was able to create a good facsimile of the floor pan.
 

As mentioned before, we are selling off Schloss iD and moving to an apartment so we need to assess what of our furniture we can/will take with us. Thus the contents of Schloss iD have been catalogued and measured and everything is being recreated in 1/50 scale (I envisage much “frank and open discussions” with Mrs iD about what gets “recycled” and what goes with us).  And if this particular flat doesn’t work out, then I’ll still have our furniture in miniature for the next candidate.

 

There has been a bit of housing bubble ‘round here as of late and one that seems to have burst. But only for parts of the country. In the place where I live there has been (and is) a spate of apartment building as, suddenly, the town has become incredibly desirable, with a concomitant knock-on effect on house and apartment prices. A small (97m2) 2 room new build flat recently was advertised for about SFr 1.1 million (about £974,000). Eye watering no doubt, but still less than the equivalent in the desirable areas of Zürich or Geneva.
 

For me, one of the pleasurable aspects of the move is the need to upgrade the audiovisual technology that we have. Exactly recreating the library/home cinema in any new place will be unlikely, so the existing projector will be retired and replaced by a UST one (UST = Ultra Short Throw). This will provide large screen audiovisuals whilst being very unobtrusive when not in use (especially when paired with a retractable/hideable screen).
 

One of my pet “interior design” peeves is having the TV on display in the living area - dominating the space like a semi-malignant Cyclops. And it seems that I’m not the only one to feel that way - there are more than a few YouTube “how to hide your TV” videos - both of a DIY and “look at this” nature. Of course, the perfect solution is to have a dedicated home theatre - but not everyone has a spare room to turn into a home cinema - so a UST projector and a “hide-away” screen would be a great solution.

 

And as much as I love new, cutting edge, technology I’m still not installing their apps on my smart phone…

[jamie92208]

Good moaning from a sunny but rather cool Charente.   There is even a little ground frost at the top of the garden. We have had a fabulous weekend with our French guests.  We've been friends since 1996 and have children the same age,  it has been strange talking in French nearly all the time, but very enjoyable.  They are due to set off later this morning.  We went to the market yesterday morning g, we t to see a delightful chateau then had a meal near the market.  As we left the restaurant an older lady at the next table, asked to speak to me and complemented me on my French.  That was an unexpected event.  

 

Ttfn. 

 

Jamie

[New Haven Neil]

Morning, from a bright, breezy rock, whereas I'm anything but. 9c and 13 promised by the seaweed twirlers.

 

Looks like a washing day 😒 pah.

 

We've both been a little off-colour for a couple of days, achey and 'not quite right' feeling, so perhaps a bit of ol Chris's unspecified pottering will be about it for activity, bar said washing.  We trimmed the low lying bits of the dreaded sycamore trees at the bottom of the garden yesterday, I think that finished us both off.  Her Ladyship went to work in her car despite saying she was going to use the bike.

[TheQ]

Nice to see the old Wilts and Dorset bus, the village I lived in in Wiltshire 1963-71 was served by the number 8 bus from Andover to Salisbury, it still is, occasionally used that on the way to and from school. Though that route used Routemasters back then. The observant among you will note that's a route from Hampshire to Wiltshire.

Don't think I ever saw a Hants and Wilts bus.

 

Mooring Awl.

3.5 hours, 1 hour, 2 hours , 1 hours sleep.

Initially helped by pink pills, my knee is a lot better than late yesterday.

 

Ben the I'd like out Collie, was only 15 minutes early today, he enjoyed following a trail, probably the muntjac I saw wandering around yesterday. No Wind!!! Blue welkin mostly..

 

Hmm 97sqm apartment = 1044 sqft

This house is about 1200 sqft. 

So the apartment is not much smaller..

However  there's about another 500sqft of mobile home and 1000sqft of garage and sheddery out there😀

 

Plans for today,

Change hob,

Work on lawnmower 

 

But first

Time for breaky.

[jjb1970]

I am feeling a sense of deja vu, I am in Brussels for the first time since the pandemic and it's like I was never away. I used to be over here every couple of weeks for day or overnight trips and got a bit fed up of it but it's nice to be back. The flight from Singapore to Istanbul was one of the newer Turkish Airlines A350's and was superb, the seat was excellent and Turkish do in-flight food and in-flight entertainment better than most. The flight from Istanbul to Brussels got a thumbs up as despite being an Euro short haul A321 it had a business class cabin, 2+2 seats with in-flight entertainment and a full (very good) meal service, unlike most European airlines which just move the divider curtain and don't sell the middle seat for business class. Airlines which many European airlines probably look down their noses at like Vietnam Airlines and Garuda Indonesia have propoer business class cabins and in-flight service in their short haul fleets yet Lufthansa, BA, AF, KLM etc just sell economy class seats at a huge mark up and leave the middle seat empty.

[Barry O]

Ey up!

 

Nice day yesterday umpiring a very nice friendly game at Escrick Park..the home of the Yorkshire Gentlemen. A bit of fun, some serious bowling and batting and.. it was dry!

 

Not sure what I have been organised to do today.. yet!

 

Enjoy your day!

 

Baz

[Coombe Barton]

Trying to get my rear end in gear to do some work

Not succeeding.

[polybear]

13 hours ago, TheQ said:

Probably in the medical facility the way my knee is feeling...

 

I'm sure Dr. Beverley can make you feel a lot better and put a big smile on your face......😉

 

 

 

 

[iL Dottore]

43 minutes ago, jjb1970 said:

I am feeling a sense of deja vu, I am in Brussels for the first time since the pandemic and it's like I was never away. I used to be over here every couple of weeks for day or overnight trips and got a bit fed up of it but it's nice to be back. The flight from Singapore to Istanbul was one of the newer Turkish Airlines A350's and was superb, the seat was excellent and Turkish do in-flight food and in-flight entertainment better than most. The flight from Istanbul to Brussels got a thumbs up as despite being an Euro short haul A321 it had a business class cabin, 2+2 seats with in-flight entertainment and a full (very good) meal service, unlike most European airlines which just move the divider curtain and don't sell the middle seat for business class. Airlines which many European airlines probably look down their noses at like Vietnam Airlines and Garuda Indonesia have propoer business class cabins and in-flight service in their short haul fleets yet Lufthansa, BA, AF, KLM etc just sell economy class seats at a huge mark up and leave the middle seat empty.

Which is why I avoid flying those airlines - short-haul or long haul. I do make an exception for the Swiss flight ZRH -LCY - principally for the top-not ground handling they afford Business Class passengers, which more than outweighs the less than amazing seating.

 

Back when we had Swissair (remember them?), I had to urgently get from London to Genoa - and the only flights available were in First Class with Swissair via Zürich - that was a luxurious flight indeed. Unfortunately, hubris at the top of Swissair combined with a less than competitive business class service on long haul* and a rather poor choice of airline partners** led to the company's demise. I find Swiss sorta OK, but it's clear that Swiss is the unwanted stepchild of the Lufthansa group with many of the great routings out of Switzerland (e.g. BSL-LCY) being axed or re-routed via Munich or Frankfurt.

 

* when BA (back when it was good) had first equipped its long haul fleet with lie-flat beds and loads of amenities in business class, these were still ONLY for first class passengers on Swissair.

** One of the airlines Swissair was partnered with was SABENA! Say No More!!!

[polybear]

9 hours ago, petethemole said:

This is the one I found https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276425494804?chn=ps&_ul=GB

Also, Revell marketed Italeri kits for several years so that would be the same kit.

 

@PupCam There's also this one if you fancy a bid:

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355652743423?epid=691148059&itmmeta=01HW2E218W953ZF45VRVVYRRAX&hash=item52ce8e30ff:g:IzwAAOSwJc9mJDOf&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4CEPEFaUpGQtPSlsHWFxkDUim--Ze6mJ4k72bTi1mb2Pz1kZhtGNw4axkCxOWKYrDHUoFFMCNsaTEA%2Bs8SV47vexZALjIrkAaZW%2BMkQroA%2BKJBRNY9IJCL2x8KAqe4SeOphsE87Xt2FHvcglYWqYEwbOCwRNxdrYchZs4tlnhKD4CwGhWPhUXcCzM3%2FtY0Do2BJM2sWqKUV0Lot%2FRZsrLD5Y9M6yTjaQe1jFP5x3OFHzu37jFuF2UXhXBdO%2Bw6zBt3IsU8X09UQ34eQSQi0X0vS7Iumtc76j0oeSlcwpcGda|tkp%3ABk9SR8iUiM7gYw

 

 

 

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

I don’t know what happened over the weekend, but it just got away from me, it’s just Ben busy, busy ,busy here. Needless to say I’ve not even tried to catch up on what others have posted since Saturday night. I was hoping to get some more work done in the garden today, but the overnight rain might have put paid to that, I see how the ground is when I go out later. 
 

Best get in with it, back later. 
 

Brian