Early Risers.

[BR60103]

Our predicted thunderstorm started just after I logged into ER; it's now bown itself out or away.

I've been making rolling stock storage. Scrapbooking trays (clamshell types) that I've had for years with dividers made of foam core board. The early ones I made were from board about 1/4" thick; the latest are 3/16 and possibly 1/8". The trays are 13' square (roughly, and not square as there are indents in the sides. It makes it tricky to cut strips from sheets of 20"x30".  And the final one was a different type and didn't like being cut with a knife.

 

Motorhome refrigerator door: I'm supposed to take the decorative panel from the original door. But I can't see a way to get it apart -- I think it's kind of glued together. 

 

[TheQ]

Mooring awl,  inner Temple Hare, 

A good nights sleep of about 6 hours,  the heat has reduced in the house but it is still way above normal. 

 

We didn't get much rain yesterday,  just occasional scattered patches... 

 

I was going to go to the motorboat today to move a couple of things around for the broads MOT,  put the fire extinguisher in obvious view,  clear the cockpit floor for easy access to the engine,  etc,  it just cuts down on the time they charge you..  However rowing across the river in the predicted near gales force winds does not appeal,  so I'll leave it till after work on Tuesday. Probably less Cockwombles around at the river side as well. 

 

I'm slowly thinking of an electric outboard for the rowing dinghy,  for the moment the occasional row across the river is not a problem, though the left elbow complains some times.  My seagull outboard is just to big,  the exhaust would be a couple of feet under water.  Once retired and going to the boat more often a final decision will be required.

  Also being able to use an an outboard would be useful for the sailing boat, it would have to be side mounted due to the retrusse stern,  and then you need to work out how to control it from the cockpit in the middle of the boat.  Hmm DCC outboard anyone? 

 

A major mow of the jungle is required and finishing the  netting the external shelving doors. If there is time after that,   boat deck sanding will occur. 

 

Time to think of something for breakfast.. 

 

 

[AndyID]

2 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

No sh!t Sherlock!

 

Maybe slightly over the posted 30 MPH limit?

[chrisf]

Greetings one and all

 

It will be a while yet before I can spring out of bed.  I may or may not be full of zest for the new day but it will have to await my clambering arrival while I am still in pain.  I have not made the giant leap to codeine and for the time being at least still rely on nurofen.  The epicentre of the pain lies just below my right shoulder blade, while the pain itself appears in spasms, usually as a result of movement.  I must be patient and keep taking the tablets.  In theevent of a laxative being a good idea I have several cans of prunes which make a nice change from bananas with my breakfast cereal.  For me, nature's way is best.

 

Whatever else happens must wait until I have had another go at soaking away the pain in the bath.  On a tenuously connected note, let me share with you this riddle.  What is the difference between Radox and a poor guitarist?  Radox bucks up the feet ...

 

Best wishes to all

 

Chris

Edited June 28, 2020 by chrisf
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[polybear]

2 hours ago, BR60103 said:

Motorhome refrigerator door: I'm supposed to take the decorative panel from the original door. But I can't see a way to get it apart -- I think it's kind of glued together. 

 

 

Does the panel lift upwards and then off?  Or, if glued on, it may be possible to use very thin, high breaking strain fishing line as a saw; a short length tied between a couple of "handles" (screwdrivers would do) may do the trick, though it's a large area.  I've used this technique for removing car badges from cars before (my car!) without marking the paintwork.  A fridge door is a bit bigger area though.......

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

It is a very pleasant morning here. 
Fortunately no crowds of day trippers flocking to stroll along our local estuarial mud flats. 
Tony

[Sir TophamHatt]

Morning all.

 

Was up a bit in the night wondering if I had ordered 1 or 2 of a particular signal control board.

Checked this morning - I've ordered 3 - even better! AND (finally) looks like the lighting for the coaches is ready too! And here endith my £500 splurge, of which I did not get the ECoS but stock and signals instead.

 

Heading out to see family today - socially distanced - a phrase I feel will be the word of the year. Apart from Wilko, who use the perhaps more correct term of "physical distance".

[JohnDMJ]

Good morning, as I understand things currently,

 

22 minutes ago, chrisf said:

Greetings one and all

 

It will be a while yet before I can spring out of bed.  I may or may not be full of zest for the new day but it will have to await my clambering arrival while I am still in pain.  I have not made the giant leap to codeine and for the time being at least still rely on nurofen.

 

 

[roundhouse]

3 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

 

 

In local Oregon news, here's one for the "Keep Portland Weird" files:

 

Interesting that Brno in CZ also uses the same slogan albiet in Czech. Lovely city. The hotel we use is opposite the main station with trams also passing along the street. Some good breweries aswell but it has something that Portland doesnt have, a tram with a bar onboard, we drank the local brew ,not Heineken

Edited June 28, 2020 by roundhouse

[iL Dottore]

17 minutes ago, chrisf said:

..... I have not made the giant leap to codeine and for the time being at least still rely on nurofen. ...

Not the best approach to have taken, I’m afraid to say Chris. There have been a number of studies showing that when the appropriately prescribed opiate (in this case codeine) is taken as soon as significant pain is felt the end result is not only the amelioration of the current pain but also less pain overall and less medication usage overall. Which is why most post-op analgesia regimens allow for “as needed“ opiate administration (within reason). As for becoming addicted to codeine when used “as needed” on a very short term basis, this is highly unlikely. I can certainly speak from experience: having bilateral knee protheses installed at the same time is somewhat more painful than a bruised or cracked rib. Although I received fentanyl during and immediately after the operation, morphine for pain control in the hospital and then tramadol for pain control in rehab and when back at home, I had no urge to continue with opioid analgesia once pain could be adequately managed by diclofenac (a NSAID). In fact, I still have some tramadol leftover which has been sitting around untouched for years (I suppose I better take it to the pharmacy for proper disposal). But, to be fair, I do not have an “addictive personality”. 

 

I am currently baking some individual custard tarts using ready prepared pastry shells plus a custard filling made according to the recipe from Felicity Cloake who does an intriguing column in the Guardian entitled “How to make the perfect...” In this column Miss Cloake tries out different recipes for a particular dish and then comes up with a fusion recipe which, according to her column, marries the best aspects of all the recipes to get “The perfect....“. Some of her recipes, although followed faithfully, have turned out to be flops (possibly due to the fact that I couldn't get here exactly the same ingredients for some items in the recipe), whilst others have turned out to be quite good.

(a little later...) I have just removed the individual custard tarts from the oven and everything looks rather good (apparently the secret is to use egg yolks for colour and flavour whilst using whole eggs to provide firmness and structural integrity [due to the egg whites in the whole eggs]). Clearly, this marriage of the commercially available and the home-made will never get me a slot on the Great British Bake Off, but it does allow me to up the professional quality of what I bake. (Happy Hippo please take note, I will be entering a phase of multiple cake baking over the next week or two).

 

Finally, a little light modelling awaits this morning-I have to give another thin coat of GWR Brown to the GWR “monster” that I am finishing off. This afternoon Mrs ID will be off to visit friends and so I can plug in my new amp and crank it up to 11. Much bad, but enjoyable and loud, guitar playing is anticipated.

 

Have a splendid Sunday
 

iD

[AndyB]

Morning all.

 

So my plan the other evening to sit on the sofa with the Hornby Magazine and a pint of Spitfire was rudely interrupted by the appearance at the back door of someone waving a machete at me. 

 

Sensing an advanced game of "Rock, paper, scissors" was afoot I leapt off the sofa and retrieved a garden hoe from my shed. And some secateurs.

 

But before we go too far, and your hopes are raised of reading a modern day battle between Little John and Robin Hood, tussling for right of way across a stream, I should mention that the machete-wielding loon was in fact my neighbour who was proposing a gardening expedition into some waste ground from which brambles invade both our gardens.

 

Hey-hoe-let's go, says I. 

 

Before long our weapons of choice had upped to petrol strimmers with slicing discs as we hacked our way into the vegetation. After an hour or so said vegetation had been reduced to a knee-high pile of nettles, brambles and bindweed cuttings intermingled with barbed wire. 

 

Today I'll be doubling down with WMD across this patch to prevent the Return of the Giant Hogweed. 

[Barry O]

Ey up! The air tastes fresher than before all the rain.good. garden flooded..bad.

 

Having helped "reorganise" our understairs cupboard (i warned her to be careful as that is where the "Gremlins" live I got a lot less done than hoped yesterday. 

 

A non drink day yesterday so perhaps a bottle of wine may be dr9unk with our Sunday tea. Looking forward to that!

Currently the UK has revealed that some of its population have zero commonsense and even less respect for others. Looks like that is a theme ongoing across the world ( apart from NZ which seems to do as the people are told. Too old to emigrate there but it would be a nice place to live)

 

Today I am not on the "list of items to be done today" roster. After I finish my mugatea I may well do something with a number of items which are about a 4mm to the foot rendition of a real object.

 

I may also chance a quick stroll before we get more rain.

 

Time to get Sunday organised to my advantage!

 

 

Positive thoughts to all ERs especially our missing ones ( I know of at least 1 who is ok but not posting on here at the moment)

Baz

Edited June 28, 2020 by Barry O

[Joseph_Pestell]

40 minutes ago, roundhouse said:

Interesting that Brno in CZ also uses the same slogan albiet in Czech. Lovely city. The hotel we use is opposite the main station with trams also passing along the street. Some good breweries aswell but it has something that Portland doesnt have, a tram with a bar onboard, we drank the local brew ,not Heineken

Vienna has one of those too. Just cruises round and round the Ring.

 

My plan for the next couple of years is to do a lot of short city breaks. Any city with trams and good beer will be high up on the list.

[jamie92208]

6 hours ago, AndyID said:

Meanwhile, just up the road.....

 

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jun/26/coeur-dalene-car-crash-breaks-car-in-half-injures-/

 

It's amazing that he survived.

That is one very very lucky young man.  The only car crask I attended where the fehicle was in two parts was a Mk 1 Fird Escort that had been neatly sliced by a large concrere lampost along the dashboard. Unfortunately  neither of the 18 yr old males survived.  Alcohol and speed had done for them.

5 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

 

Oregonian: Portland strippers march for equitable scheduling of Black dancers

 

I thought that it was rather ironic that they were marching down 'Stark' Avenue.

 

Anyway to more mundane topics. Late up this morning but the day is to be carped. First off a visit to the market then who knows. I will take it as it comes. One task will be to try and work out why the hall lights won't turn off.  There are three switches, 2 pushbuttons and a sprung contact one that work them. I think that they energise or de energise a latching relay. One of the pushbuttons was painted up by our incompetent painters so i suspect that the relay has latched once too often with the pushbutton not releasing. I just have to find the relay.  The prime suspect is a small panel on the wall in the lounge near the ceiling.  I will gave fun.

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

Sunny spells here and still quite windy but not raining at the moment.

Nothing else happening apart from the eggs and bacon etc which will shortly be proffered for my consideration.

Have a good one,

Bob.

 

 

[Happy Hippo]

2 hours ago, chrisf said:

 

 

Whatever else happens must wait until I have had another go at soaking away the pain in the bath.  On a tenuously connected note, let me share with you this riddle.  What is the difference between Radox and a poor guitarist?  Radox bucks up the feet ...

Chris,

 

Thank you for bringing a smile to my face this morning, I couldn't give you a 'funny' rating due to the rest of yous post's content.

 

Having been bashed around quite a bit in times gone by, the cure for which, apart from medication, was structured exercise by suitable qualified 'remidial gymnasts'. (An RAF term I believe.)

 

Unless you have been specifically told to keep the injured area resting, then keeping some movement will help as atrophy of the affected area prolongs your recovery.

 

You could use a tin of sausage and beans to add a bit of weight. (Providing you aren't into catering pack sizes!).

[Happy Hippo]

23 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

  The prime suspect is a small panel on the wall in the lounge near the ceiling.  I will gave fun.

 

From that I assume the offender will be interviewed under caution and then have an unfortunate fall down the stairs on his way to the cells.

[chrisf]

Richard, thank you.  John, nice T shirt but message behind it not clear.

 

Flavio - I know you meant what you said kindly but I'm afraid that I read it as a lecture rather than the advice which no doubt you intended.  When I was at the bottom of the stairs wondering whether and how I was going to stand upright, the last thing on my mind was going eeny-meeny-miney-mo with the painkillers at my disposal - which amounted to nurofen or nurofen, as it happens.  As it happens, I need to call at the pharmacy tomorrow.  The pharmacist is also free with advice.

 

Chris

[Tony_S]

The car in Idaho that split in half. Was there any suggestion that the vehicle was a cut and shut repair from two donor cars? 
Tony

[iL Dottore]

51 minutes ago, chrisf said:

...Flavio - I know you meant what you said kindly but I'm afraid that I read it as a lecture rather than the advice which no doubt you intended.....
....the painkillers at my disposal - which amounted to nurofen or nurofen, as it happens.  As it happens, I need to call at the pharmacy tomorrow....

Oops! I do tend to get on my soapbox on occasion ,although you are quite right it was well meant advice.

The latter part of your post quite astounded me: are you saying that they discharged you, after examination and evaluation, without the necessary medication? If so, that seems awfully sloppy practice.

 

John (DMJ), I liked your t-shirt, although apart from one or two dog club t-shirts and two Pink Floyd at the V&A Exhibition souvenirs, my t-shirts are boringly plain. Having said that, I have seen a number of them with (for me) amusing slogans and/or images. The infamous “Adolf Hitler World Tour” being one of them, along with a number of others like  “Zombies Eat Brains…. Don’t Worry, You’re Safe”, “I had my patience tested: I’m negative” or a particular favourite of mine “Leave me alone: I’m only speaking to my dog today!” Sartorially I am quite boring, still liking crisp white shirts, a properly knotted silk tie and a suitable jacket and a pair of razor sharp crease trousers (not forgetting the shined leather shoes), although I have been known to dress somewhat more informally with either smart jeans and a polo shirt or dockers/chinos and a casual button down shirt. Sometimes I wish that I had the panache (and the wherewithal) to dress in Edwardian Gentleman's clothing. Which in my view is the absolute peak of gentlemanly elegance.
 

Anyway off to slosh some paint around...

 

Cheers

 

iD

[chrisf]

2 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Oops! I do tend to get on my soapbox on occasion ,although you are quite right it was well meant advice.

The latter part of your post quite astounded me: are you saying that they discharged you, after examination and evaluation, without the necessary medication? If so, that seems awfully sloppy practice.

 

I was given two codeine tablets and a glass of water while I was there.  I was also asked more than once whether I was allergic to any medication.  Come to think of it, perhaps I should have been issued with a prescription.  Sloppy practice indeed.

 

Chris

[Coombe Barton]

13 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Perhaps you could get two dogs so they may keep each other company if you are out of the house? Or is that too much?

Ideally I will have two - there are so many dogs who are being rehomed in pairs and they stick as it may be too much responsibility for some.

It's what I'll be looking for when I decide to adopt, two older dogs, ideally collie or collie cross.

Edited June 28, 2020 by Coombe Barton

[Coombe Barton]

11 hours ago, Tony_S said:

If they end up in Frinton there will probably be letters of complaint in their local newspaper.

Harwich for the Continent, Frinton for the in... ??

[Coombe Barton]

The Lawns call. 

 

I can regcognise this call because the windows are only admitting half the light they have been doing as there is a certain amount of green shading on the lower half.

 

 

[southern42]

' morning all from red dragon land.

Showers and strong winds.  

 

Plans for today, you probably know them by now... 

 

Toot on the flute.  I have started to learn Wouter Kellerman's "Half Moon" on the new Yamaha 21 fife.  The first half is going OK but, since I am learning by ear (something I have always been absolutly atrocious at), the second half could be a might tricky to sort out with several short but quick runs up and down.  Fingers crossed my attempt will not be in vain.

 

I do not see a bike ride on the terrace taking place very soon...

 

...but I am hoping my little headboards, which will be fitted to a couple of little girls toys which run on a pair of metal strips, will get finished.  Then I will be able to make the number boards to go with them.  At least the numbers and boards are ready made.  All I have to do is attach the numbers to the boards....and not forget to add a bit of weathering.

 

Almost mugadecaf time.

Fitt  and   Elfie bumbling along.

 

Take care and play safe.

_________

Best wishes

Polly