Early Risers.

[Ian Abel]

Moanday, but mostly non-moaning weekend!

 

First up - the garden shed. Actually delivered around 10:30AM, troops gathered around noon, shed finished around 3:30PM

 

Went together without problems and ALL parts accounted for and fitting correctly!

Definitely knackered even with help from the troops. 

Had an evening with friends after that, Mrs made bangers and mash and we consumed "some" vino!

 

Sunday we basically took it "easy", aside from heading to the pharmacy as they had the "high dose" flu shots in and we availed ourselves of those.

Both of us had restless nights, we're attributing it to the shots, and no other signs of issues, but REALLY tired this morning.

 

9 first thing and partly cloudy, only heading for 13 at best apparently

 

Carry on, excuse me while I slump over the keyboard, I'm NOT napping honest.

[Gwiwer]

18 hours ago, Barry O said:

University Halls of Residence have rooms which are quite "poky" just enough room to have a bed, a desk and chair and communal kitchens and toilets/shower facilities. If I had had to be locked down - it would have been about the same as being locked in a prison cell.. but no food or drinks...

 

Baz

And in common with prison cells are often shared.  Though in the case of university halls sharing is sometimes a socially-desireable option rather than a requirement.  

 

No more news here.  Moan-day plods its way steadily through the time-space continuum.  

[Simon G]

Our heating system is a gas boiler installed about 3 years ago, and it replaced a 40 year old oil boiler.  I now use the old oil tank for water storage in the summer for the garden.  When we moved into our house in the 1980s, it was a very cold place, so after one winter we had double glazing, cavity wall insulation and loft insulation fitted.  That made a huge improvement, so I was surprised more recently when the double glazing was replaced by the latest hi-tech glass with heat reflecting properties and argon filling in the gap.  That made another huge difference, and then when our leaky slate roof was replaced 2 years ago with a decent tiled roof, that made another significant improvement.  What that meant over the weekend was that one hour on the central heating in the morning would keep the house warm nearly all day, then another hour in the evening to maintain it.  Once it gets colder, the woodburner will be used in the living room from late afternoon onwards.

 

stiff shoulder from yesterday has thankfully eased a bit, so I am more mobile today, but still a bit stiff.  Various outside tasks have been completed, but I was rained off just after lunch.

[The Lurker]

1 hour ago, The Stationmaster said:

 

 

When the lad was at Sheffield Uni (the original one) he was in a shared uni owned flat which was quite well equipped and had a proper kitchen.  Only problem was his flatmates were a bunch of idle gits who used his utensils etc without asking and never bothered to clean either them or the kitchen - fortunately most Britons are forbidden to own firearms because I'm sure he'd have used a gun on those lazy clowns had he had one to hand.  Maybe they all had servants at home?

 

 

More likely they were being typical lazy student gits. I know i was; in one houseshare we had a flatmate who could not stand the washing up remaining undone - we soon clocked that and guess who did the lion's share of our washing up!

 

And they probably did have servants at home; their parents most likely trailed around the house behind them just like AndyB does. And i now do  behind the Lurker boys.  Mrs Lurker follows around doing the bits i miss/ignore, and every now and then she "reminds me" that i need to do better....

[AndyB]

42 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

 

You weren't tempted to ask for a wake up call at 2 AM then? The ride of the Valkyries at full volume would be my choice. 

 

Likewise I'd never agree to look after someone's house while they were on summer holiday, program their Alexa to play Abba's "Dancing Queen" randomly each week, and then fess up to it over drinks in November.

 

That would be immature.

 

 

 

I waited till Christmas. 

[PhilJ W]

1 hour ago, Ian Abel said:

Moanday, but mostly non-moaning weekend!

 

First up - the garden shed. Actually delivered around 10:30AM, troops gathered around noon, shed finished around 3:30PM

 

Went together without problems and ALL parts accounted for and fitting correctly!

Definitely knackered even with help from the troops. 

Had an evening with friends after that, Mrs made bangers and mash and we consumed "some" vino!

 

Sunday we basically took it "easy", aside from heading to the pharmacy as they had the "high dose" flu shots in and we availed ourselves of those.

Both of us had restless nights, we're attributing it to the shots, and no other signs of issues, but REALLY tired this morning.

 

9 first thing and partly cloudy, only heading for 13 at best apparently

 

Carry on, excuse me while I slump over the keyboard, I'm NOT napping honest.

I feel a case of shed envy coming on. I've yet to fill mine but the old one has still got a lot of stuff in it.

[The Stationmaster]

Well the 'wetness(of walls)ometer' showed some fascinating results.  in places where the skirting has been removed teh wall was officially 'dry', i.e. it registered nothing on the meter.  But 9" - 1' highrer up teh wall in laces it was recording just over 40% on some walls and 20+% on others.  We concluded that the sort of wall paint which you can damp wipe also has another property - if the block inside teh wall is wet the paint seals it in as well as readily as stopping wet getting in.  The loss adjuster surveyor is asking for further tests next week before authorising any stripping of paint.   But the overall result is that further progress has been recorded.

[polybear]

4 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

sending me the email.  I do wonder where they got my email address - especially as it bears not the slightest resemblance to my name; interesting question that one?

 

When the lad was at Sheffield Uni (the original one) he was in a shared uni owned flat which was quite well equipped and had a proper kitchen.  Only problem was his flatmates were a bunch of idle gits who used his utensils etc without asking and never bothered to clean either them or the kitchen - fortunately most Britons are forbidden to own firearms because I'm sure he'd have used a gun on those lazy clowns had he had one to hand.  Maybe they all had servants at home?

 

 

Big Brother's watching your every move..... 

 

As for idle gits - they're in for a real wake up call when they do start work for real.......

 

In other news.....

Bear has just tried to do his bit for society and download the track n' trace app, only to be informed that my fone (a freebie iphone jobbie from my mate next door) isn't fancy enough to cope (that's an IT technical term).  Well I did try.  If Bojo would like to send me a new iphone I'll have no objections.

Painting done, wall filling done, din dins scoffed, blood test form collected, shopping done and parcel posted.  Tomato plants watered, garden tidied a bit, Harry Hedgehog's din dins put out, Tea scoffed, Dental Hygienist appointment (postponed from March) arranged for late October.

Bear now stopped....

Edited September 28, 2020 by polybear

[Andrew P]

In case anyone hasn't already seen this posted on Face Book.

 

An automated call saying from AMAZON from 01294 604197 asking if I’m ok to renew my amazon prime and will take the money from my account but need to press 1 I ended the call so be aware. it’s a scam

Edited September 28, 2020 by Andrew P

[Northroader]

Ah, students and their residences. First year my daughter was in hall of residence, a tall block. Unloading her luggage and looking up, there were all these plastic shopping bags hanging outside every window, and they were used as supplementary fridges for food. Next year she and her pals organised renting an old Victorian terraced, four girls and a dozy boy to make up the numbers. You wouldn’t believe the state they allowed the sink to get into.

the grand finale was she rang me in a high state of panic at the end of term. “Dad, we’ve just had the electricity bill, it can’t be right!!!” “Well, go and look at the meter, you should see the edge of a disc, what’s it doing?” “It’s going round and round” “what have you got switched on?” “Nothing” “how do you get your hot water?” “Off the central heating, oh, and there’s an immersion heater” “is that on?” “ er, oh,” “well, switch it off and go and look at the meter” “er, oh” it turned out the dozy boy always left the immersion heater switched on.

Edited September 28, 2020 by Northroader

[Coombe Barton]

4 hours ago, Ian Abel said:

Carry on, excuse me while I slump over the keyboard, I'm NOT napping honest.

[polybear]

Bear has had a friend request from Farcebook.....

 

Δημητριος Παναγιωτης Κουτσομυτης

 

Bear can't even read it, let alone 'effin say it.  Are they 'avin a larf, or what?

[Northroader]

Time to worry is when you get the ones from Thailand.

[brianusa]

15 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

 

All this talk about boilers and central heating leads me to puzzle about how many British approach using their central heating. From what I understand, and I may be totally wrong, it is very common to turn the central heating off before leaving for work and turn it back on again upon returning home, all in the name of “economy“.

 

Upon leaving home in the early sixties, my folks had a hot water boiler in the attic with an electric heating element to be switched on.  Not very successful as I remember baths about  only two inches deep.  Subsequent visits revealed a basic hot water system for heating the house but still not much water for baths.  Now we have forty or fifty gallon tanks which should ensure sufficient hot water all round . We were tempted to get a tankless heater but had recently installed  a new fifty gallon tank.

Other attempts at heating was coke fired cooker (forget the brand) that heated water on the side (not enough) and a fireplace that had to be stoked overnight which made the house cosy and warm all day.  All this can now be solved easily although there are still many who have not passed phase one as yet both back home and in this country!

       Brian.

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[Coombe Barton]

... and getting excited about a vacuum cleaner ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2020/09/28/marking-then-admin/

[Sidecar Racer]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

Bear has had a friend request from Farcebook.....

 

Δημητριος Παναγιωτης Κουτσομυτης

 

Bear can't even read it, let alone 'effin say it.  Are they 'avin a larf, or what?

 

Δημητριος Παναγιωτης Κουτσομυτης  becomes  Dimitrios Panagiotis Koutsomytis

 

 

[Pacific231G]

3 hours ago, Andrew P said:

In case anyone hasn't already seen this posted on Face Book.

 

An automated call saying from AMAZON from 01294 604197 asking if I’m ok to renew my amazon prime and will take the money from my account but need to press 1 I ended the call so be aware. it’s a scam

I seem to get that one about twice a day. The one's from "Microsoft" have died down a bit but I've had a couple from "Visa and Mastercard". 

Edited September 28, 2020 by Pacific231G

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. I normally just rely on the thermostat and don't bother with the timer on the heating. since I'm very rarely out for more than a day there's no reason to muck about with times.

1 hour ago, polybear said:

Bear has had a friend request from Farcebook.....

 

Δημητριος Παναγιωτης Κουτσομυτης

 

Bear can't even read it, let alone 'effin say it.  Are they 'avin a larf, or what?

I've had a few friend requests from young ladies (ladies in the loosest sense of the word). There must be a gynaecologist somewhere with the same name as me and they get confused.

[Tony_S]

3 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

Evening all from Estuary-Land. I normally just rely on the thermostat and don't bother with the timer on the heating. since I'm very rarely out for more than a day there's no reason to muck about with times.

I've had a few friend requests from young ladies (ladies in the loosest sense of the word). There must be a gynaecologist somewhere with the same name as me and they get confused.

I get messages from Sooty and Sweep...

And the Clangers.

Edited September 28, 2020 by Tony_S

[Barry O]

Tried to cancel a van hire today...offices closed..left message on answering machine..no response..

Broke a tooth.. no response from the Dentist..

Trip away next month now badgered due to super lockdown in County Durham..

 

Pah!!!

 

 

Her indoors has a significant birthday tomorrow..meal arranged but youngest Herbert has the day and time wrong..he may regret it if he can't make it!

 

Baz

 

[J. S. Bach]

41 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I get messages from Sooty and Sweep...

And the Clangers.

Sounds like a rock band.

[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

Baz

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

Well the workshop bench is looking a bit tidier now as it was getting a bit too messy. Despite the fact that I have a bench that’s approximately 7 ft long and 2 ft deep, I always end up using the central couple of feet and the rest is just a dumping ground for ‘stuff’, so I decided to do something about it. First I decided to have the tools I use regularly close to the central work area, slightly further away are other tools that are handy, but only used occasionally. I’ve also labelled the drawer units, so that I can see at a glance what is in what drawers without actually having to open them to have a look. I’ve then made a rack to stand my various crimping tools on, these are used extensively when doing any sort of wiring job. The crimping tools, about 8 all together (all different), are quite bulky and took up quite a bit of space in one of the cupboards and the one I wanted was ALWAYS at the bottom of the pile. Making and putting them on the rack means I can now see them when needed, has left a bit more cupboard space and also used up a few ‘useful off cuts’ that were stacked up beside the door!

 

Whilst I was in the workshop this morning, I had a phone call from my oncologist’s secretary about Wednesday’s consultation, asking if I minded if it was done via another phone call, I was expecting this, as since lockdown, they have been via a phone call, so I agreed, as it means I don’t have to fight the rush hour traffic to get to ‘The Christie’. However, they want me to have another PSA test tomorrow morning at 8:30, so that’s an early start for me in the morning!

 

Just as we were finishing tea it started to rain, not heavy, but a light drizzle, but it continued to fall for the rest of the evening. Later in the evening I completed the Sainsbury’s Grand Prix. On the whole it wasn’t too bad, 99% of shoppers were wearing masks, the other 1% had a mask on, but not properly, so they might as well not bothered at all!

 

We heard from James this morning and he informed us that his daughter Amelia has tested positive for Covid 19. She’s already been off school for a week with suspected tonsillitis but will have to stay off school for another 2 weeks. Luckily we haven’t had contact with either of them for well over 6 weeks so we aren’t concerned for ourselves, but needless to say it’s still a worry. 

 

Goodnight all 

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.