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Mooring Awl again

Did get 5 hours sleep in the end followed by some indeterminate dozing.

Ben  the sleepy Collie didn't get up till I got my boots out. But he had a good snuffle about.

A somewhat damp patrol, !ight drizzle,  grey skies promises of intense soggyness later.

He's very by my side at the moment something to do with the BLT I'm eating between gerfingerpoken on this screen.

I can see Tesla going down a very deep hole, shares down, sales down , so the shareholders vote the musk $45-$54 billion pay this year...

To cut that meadow as hay you'd really need scythe mower.

However it's my understanding horses are very picky on what it is suitable to feed them. Owners go to great lengths to have nearly pure grass , many common plants do horses a real nasty. https://www.bluecross.org.uk/advice/horse/poisonous-plants-horses-should-avoid#:~:text=The most common poisonous plants,%2C privet%2C laurel and rhododendron.

Leaving it long before cutting just means collecting it up for disposal, or having large lumps of rotting mess on the grass.  I suspect many councils that have fallen for "rewilding" of verges with seeded meadow plants will soon find tougher stuff will over run the verges. Alexander, nettles, brambles.

Time to get suited and booted, its museum time.

Evening sorry mooring Awl,

Can't sleep just read a book cover to cover, now thinking about it.

Probably of no interest to you but.

It's about ( George) Christopher Davis, and his life.

When he qualified as a solicitor in 1871, he decided to take up a post in Norwich because he read an article in "The Field" about the broads  his family however were from Oswestry.

He at the time had a Rob Roy canoe, anyone into canoes knows that one.

Except for few years early on in his career in Newcastle, he otherwise lived and worked in Norfolk.

He wrote many books, most importantly " The Handbook of the Rivers and Broads in Norfolk" published almost annually from 1883 through to 1929. This book did much to publicise the broads as a holiday destination.

In the book about him, it mentions,

Several people who were the grandparents or great grandparents of people I know. 

A yacht built 1893 that now resides at my sailing club and is still racing.

Loynes hire boats in the 1880s, who became "faircraft loynes" and now trade as " Norfolk Broads Direct"

With that 

Time to try for some sleep.

One wonders how many register as a student, get the loans which they otherwise could not get, buy cars etc and then go off to work, not attending university. Something they would not admit on surveys.

The fact they've paid for the course won't worry them, that chicken will come home to roost many years in the future..

It would seem from the lack of attendance of many on JCs courses that there may be many that do that.

A new email from the club secretary and it's worked!!!

LD have always been the most common signs here, even when this area had a huge blue majority. Boundaries have moved this time so anything could happen.

I'm sure the only people who pay attention to them are the " true believers" the rest of us think it's annoying wallpaper Whatever Party they are from.

Meanwhile I passed signs of almost all colours except monster raving loony  on the way to pick up a unit of unmentionables.

That's now in the back of the landrover till Saturday morning, when it will move to a temporary position in the mobile home. Measurements have been taken sketches will be drawn...

Hmm a certain prime minister as born 1980, sky TV didn't start till 1989, and then it took some time till it really going. No many of his age will have had sky, wealthy or not..

Evening Awl,

Just looking at that pizza has sent my blood sugar climbing..

Cutting and shutting 1/150 people is difficult, as is making a warrant officers hat for one.

Not bought mount board for muddling for years, 

But I Have for SWMBO, for her paintings, 

The fact I get all the off cuts has nothing to do with it .

My formula for getting in a car in Aus.

Open door, throw in poison gas bomb, shut door.

Come back an hour later, open door,

Get in wearing full nbc suit, and respirator shut door .

Then drive.

2 hours ago, polybear said:

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Second from bottom line, " the very best !ocal produce"

Hmmm

Chocolate from Africa

Sugar from? 

Rice from Asia or America.

And assembled in cotgrave, just outside sNottingham..

Not very local...

1 hour ago, The Lurker said:

probably - the urge to cover up is not limited to private organisations; the NHS infected blood scandal, and the babies that kept on dying at maternity leave hospitals are just too recently reported examples in the public sector.

Remembering of course almost all government departments including the NHS, had crown immunity until around 1987 -91, so anything government controlled would most likely be not investigated at all. You can guarantee there's scandals from before that, that have been well and truly buried, probably literally in some cases.

Hedge 40 ft of which has been trimmed both sides, the top has had a once over, needs levelling but arms have had enough for today.  There was a 15 minute mid break due to rain..

Wind returned with the rain.

Now I'm having a break, before the long walk with Ben.

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

I wonder if the Post Office scandal would have occurred had the Post Office not been privatised? I'm aware that the computer system was instigated before privatisation but the cover up was post privatisation. Privatisation can work in some instances such as BT but being driven by political dogma as here in the UK it can be a disaster. 

Not wouldn't have happened like that, it would have been worse, the civil service are masters of cover ups, and of course are would have been directly under the " control" of politicians. They'd still be trying to bury the story now...

Many years ago, 45 ish. Suddenly many people , all ranks, on an RAF station I was on, were suddenly hit with self assessment tax forms, someone at HMRC decided we needed investigating.. Only happened the once no one ever found out the reason why.

Rural studies they did at my first secondary school, a large part of which was digging the gardens to provide more veg for the kitchens. The only time I've done double digging.

25 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

We are currently being hauled by P&O!

 

I usually cruise later in the year.

Has the valve gear caught fire yet?

Put a heart for the disruption to our far out west correspondent, but it could have been a tick for the final outcome...

Suspect the car might not have been owned by those in it.

Like Gwiwer I often don't recognise people I know, even if the face is familiar the name won't appear in my brain. Embarrassing when everyone remembers my odd name...

Accounts done except for the teabar. A trial print out was done, it's going to need an A3 folder...

Decorative stuff looks worse due to filler, but that cane be sanded tomorrow.

Still a hoolie out side, but the weather radar says there's a Collie walking Gap in the soggyness due soon..

A motorcycle stopped outside, rider and bike all in black. Bike cut out.. it took some minutes before he got it going againafter several tries...

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10 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

I've now had 5 messages telling me that today's the day, he's on his way etc!!!

With this wind, stopping at your place might be the problem...

3/4s of an hour ago it was all quiet on the eastern front...

Then it hit in one big go..

It's howling wind out there, green leaves are coming off the trees. With intermittent horizontal rain.. 

Then the TV tells us we have a yellow warning for wind.

Morning Awl,

A good night's 3 piece sleep

Ben the surprised Collie, was not expecting me to ask hm out on patrol, but I could hear it wasn't raining at that point.

He enjoyed his patrol having a good snuffle while wagging his tail..

Although not listed on any " part of the spectrum" my late little brother was told he'd never get anywhere because he didn't study... A* or  distinctions in every exam he took,  plus learning about 6 languages, soon changed their minds..

Plans for today,

Some filling of joins of decorative woodwork  on the under stairs cupboard. Then it will be the final paint up of the cupboard before proceeding to decorate up the stairs.

Accounting.

But first we have an unusually high pile of washing up to do.

Time to get moving.

The Bear definitely wasn't staying at the Antrobus Arms in Amesbury... That had the definite yellow white smoked walls.

As the Bear would say, poo...

The BBC did tell porkies, no 3 Rivers Race.

Mooring Awl,

Couldn't get to sleep, then eventually 3 hours short awake 2.5 hours sleep.

Ben the waking in a hurry Collie, was suddenly awake when I stood on one of his squeaky toys... So then we had to go out.

He happily wandered around wagging his tail.

Sunny, breezy from the west.

Low tide is around 08:30 , not that it matters as we are up on Black Horse Broad today.  The only effect of tide there is to raise and lower the water by about 6 inches. Except of course the broad entrance, it will be a hard paddle to get back out.

Time finish this muggacoffee and then set off.

Dad was a smoker for much of his life, but he didn't get cancer..

Just a severe dose of COPD.

Cigs AUS, 8 x 25 is 200 = approx £264

Cigs UK , 200/20= 10 packs at £13.00( cheap cigs) per pack so £130

Afternoon Awl, 

Much writing done.

Took Ben for his walk, did about 200 yards, then could hear a roar of rain coming across the fields, then it hit.. Heavily.... Ben said xxx  this I'm going home, I agreed, but we were thoroughly soaked.

Strangely it's warmed up since the rain, the house was at 18C now it's 20C.

I've often home  made pizza,

aka cheese on toast, with tomatoes and any other topping I fancy favourites being bacon and or mushrooms..

I know all about the Henlow museums closure, because the mentioned radar consoles are coming my way. I mean not just to the radar museum but to the radar history room I does my bit in.

I've slightly been involved with the future placement of said items .

In said room today, I only got to do two full tours, and there were only 9 visitors to my room, out of 16, a very quiet day.

Much of the day was spent repairing switches for the operations room control panels. A couple are so broken up it's got to be a multistage rebuild waiting for each bit of repair to solidly set before the next bit of work.

One of the smashed / repaired notices was put back in place.

The other had the next stage of repairs done.

After that I played with flight radar, a red hairy plane took off from Coningsby, flew lots of randomly shaped circuits round the north Yorkshire moors, then went back to Coningsby.

A US aircraft I suspect to be Elint, flew from Romania, up our side of the current iron curtain did some circuits round Estonia, then went back to Romania. The Russians were jamming GPS again over the black sea, aircraft were apparently flying in the wrong direction for their destinations, then suddenly out accelerating a SR71, back onto their proper course.

Of naps i had one mid afternoon, as it was so quiet in the room, . Since spending half my working life on shifts, I can fall asleep anywhere any place.

On to the MRC, 13 chimneys fitted, 3,tiny people painted in RAF blues, one is a station WO, an N other is on hands and knees painting kerbstones white...