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Mooring Awl, A poor nights sleep, hard to get to sleep in the first place , then woken by heavy rain, very broken sleep after. Then there is a I think a transit sized lorry thunders down our road at stupid o'clock then half an hour later goes back the other way, happens several times a week. Ben the happy Collie was taken on patrol then. It was dull grey and damp. While cooking Ben's breakfast , ok mine but he gets a small bit. It became sunny. Plans for today Modify loom and stand, Try to order card reader. Time to snooze.

Hmm just looked at cleaning the fan on the laptop. The fan is just under the cover at the bottom of the machine. Access? Take keyboard off the top and excavate your way down , removing battery, memory, DVD drive, hard drive, motherboard... Err no, that's an excavation too far.. Brushed as best I could from the fan grill and hoovered out...

Afternoon Awl, Loom sanded fitted to stand to find.... I'd ordered the wrong bolts, replacements ordered. Loom examined by SWMBO, modifications ordered for tomorrow.. Went to look at card reader that I wished to get for the MRC to find the company had discontinued it. That started the go round the models and all the makes loop again Discovered the following... If you drop a card reader it becomes a brick, they won't replace it, you'll have to buy another. If you let a card reader discharge, it becomes a brick, they won't replace it, you'll have to buy another. And the big one for us.. If you don't use the card reader often enough, it becomes a brick they won't replace it, you'll have to buy another. All the above applies on the pay as you go accounts, not necessarily to the accounts you pay monthly for, but they are way too expensive for the club. They tell you about dropping it, it becoming a brick, they tell you to keep it charged, but not that it becomes a brick if not. They don't tell you if you don't use it often enough they close the account and brick the reader.. I found that out from reviews, nor do they tell you the time period...... Anyway the current best solution is the Sumup Solo, which if I get it , I'll keep it alive by charging £1 to a credit card to it once a week. Which will cost the club 84.64p a year.. Final review tomorrow morning, then I'll gather the info needed to set up the account, then order it. The last bit of boat stuff ordered is still in the lost land of herpes. Took Ben for his long walk, he insisted on his full route. Lots of insects around, several flutterbies yellow, blue and red admiral. Four ducklings on a pond, no sign of parents. Time to think of something to eat..

You can buy from the UK and find it's a copy from elsewhere, I bought something from a UK seller "UK made" item.. When it arrived under the UK label was the original made in Pakistan label. Some years ago when doing a summer job we were called into the receiving warehouse to witness the opening of a case of whisky bottles.. three were missing from the sealed case. So you can guarantee 3 bottles from that case left the Bells factory by the back door.

Mooring Awl, 4 hours plus 4 hours solid sleep, I needed that. Ben the I'd like out Collie, took me on patrol , he seemed happy enough, but kept returning to me for a head polish. 100% blue Welkin, fairly cool. The first bluebell has opened, other plants, I have no idea what they are , are in flower. The grass is of course very wet and getting too long. The site is slow again, it took several attempts to get on this page. Plans for today, Sanding the loom, make a couple of pieces to hold the loom at the right angles. Investigate how to actually purchase card reader for the MRC. Time for a muggacoffee.

Evening Awl, Just horizontal drizzle here. So dry patches on the roads where trees and houses get in the way.. Just as I turned to leave the living room for the landrover my right hip went click again.. been quite painful all evening. Left knee didn't like pressing the clutch, right ankle has joined in just for the fun of it. Pink pills for supper. MRC went surprisingly well, task I'd decided on worked, also handed over the MRC accounts on a usb stick to the chairman, he can peruse them for mistokes before sending them off. Parts arrived for SWMBO's loom, 50:50 chance of having it completed ( except for painting) tomorrow morning before she gets back from her art group.. that would be worth many brownie points. Flood warning map has reduced the levels, had yesterday's occured we'd have been on an island, today it would just be a long way round to anywhere.

MRC accounts done, Laptop crashed twice during the work, not sure why, had to turn on again, transfer to a USB stick. Get back into the spreadsheets on another PC. Then having just done that an email came in via our secretary , one of our hall providers reckoned we hadn't paid a bill last August.. that would be because we prepaid and booked the hall the previous October... Then in the next couple of days I need to order a credit card reader for our next show... There are only two that would be economic, the functionally best, has a short battery life and if you let it go flat, it bricks, and they won't resuscitate it. It also doesn't like it not being used for some time... The other is quite a bit more expensive to run due to charges.... final discussion about that at the MRC tonight.. Before that modifications were done to the loom stand so it exactly fits the loom. It now needs sanding, but the sander arrived after I finished work on that for the day. Also arriving, were two jammers for sheets on BM, not cheap, but they are the best for the job. Later more sanding pads are due to arrive.. Herpes and parcel farce have picked up the other items.

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A favourite round here lately has been putting up road works lights, doing nothing, then taking them down again.. they've done that twice at the same point in the next village, and so far still haven't fixed the collapsed verge..( it's gone into a water filled ditch..) also leaving lights up for a week after the work has been completed has become common..

I don't recall ever getting a printed hand out at any of the 5 schools I attended. You worked from books, the teacher wrote things on blackboards, you wrote all exams in full long hand. Not till the RAF did I come across handouts and multiple choice questions.. RAF multiple choice often having 6 or 8 answers to choose from never just 4. There was the big TV on a trolley at one school, only used in the gym, from the back of the hall you couldn't see a lot. Though in my final year at my final school I was involved with filming the school " play" with a huge video camera and recorder. It wasn't actually a play that year, they were trying to do some sort of morecambe and wise type show. We got TV in time for the 66 world cup, we went to the outer Hebrides in 71 where there was only black and white BBC1 and snowy at that, until the early 1980s. TV has never been much of my life. I didn't get a TV till I left RAF trade training, then I bought a VCR in the mid 80s, to time shift Open university programmes that were on when I was at work. Swmbo uses the PVR, but other than initially setting it up I've never touched it. Mooring Awl, 2.5 hours sleep, 4 hours sleep I needed that. Ben can I go out please Collie has taken me on patrol, he wanted some reassurance, due I think, to the noise out there, it's windy again, but dull grey and damp. I do have the TV on while having breakfast, they are doing a bit about planting sycamores.. I don't need to be planting them this year, the grass is covered in little seedlings. Must get mowing, but it's too wet again. Hmm Hints from Ben and dirty looks from him at this gadget.. Where's my bit of bacon he's saying.. Time to head to the kitchen.

So you are going to self identify as Polina then?

Just spent 15 minutes looking for the envelope that contains the donation to the MRC for exhibiting on Saturday..... It was sat on the laptop I use to do banking for the MRC.. A Bluey in UK military parlance, is the blue Envelope / writing paper, that can be posted for free to / from military personnel serving overseas. The other bluey's meaning drives from , " blue pencil Lord Chamberlain " try typing that in for a clue.. Just had" This server is temporarily unobtainable " on screen

Afternoon Awl, Other than a few holes for the adjustment of angle of use, SWMBO's loom is built. There is the fitting of loom to stand though. I've measured both and they are correct to design. Once the above is done, a final sand and painting will be required.. However, the palm sander I use for the fine stuff, has just had it's Velcro fail, no option to replace the Velcro. So a replacement has been ordered. Ben was taken to the beach again, very quiet, which is what we like, this beach won't wake up again until the next half term when we'll stop using it. He had a good charge around. Shortly I have to print out a picture swmbo wants to paint. Then I'll go onto completing the club accounts for the year. Muggacoffee first though.

That disintegrating engine cover on the Boeing is on TV news at the moment.. I suspect someone will be in trouble for not locking down the catches... And shouldn't the pilot have picked that up on a pre flight walk round? Do they do that any more? Mooring Awl. 1 hours sleep, 1/2 hours sleep, 4 hours sleep, 2 hours sleep, half hours dozing.. Ben the I'd like out Collie was getting impatient, so we went on patrol, daffs definitely going over, several more trees flowering. Reasonably warm out there. The problem of all crimes is it's not often the penalty that discourages the crime but the chances of being caught, which for many crimes is not very often. Hmm, the weather womble on TV is now forecasting gusting 50 mph tomorrow, that's after the 45 we got yesterday.. Yesterday's sailing racing was abandoned, but some of the kids went out in their dinghies for some fun.. oh to be that indestructible again... Plans for today, More loom construction.

Afternoon Awl, Fitted two rollers to the new loom, the glue is setting on their shafts which will have a tightening handle . Ordered bits for BM, after much searching around got the bill down to 2/3 of a deltic. Ben given a car ride for his walk... Down to the beach, which he greatly enjoyed. We did get sandblasted, going the the gap between the dunes from the road.. but the beach itself was mostly sheltered by the dunes. He had a good run around. Me, I didn't enjoy it so much, my undercarriage was definitely unhappy on the soft sand. For some reason my chest is a bit painful, not inside, but surface as though heavy lift muscle pain, but I haven't done any. An eyelid inspection beckons..

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Too many Feathered rats here as well.. And too many unfeathered rats... Mooring Awl, A poor nights sleep, woke lots of times with much undercarriage pain. Wind is already above BMs speed range, I ache in many places , sailing will not take place. So it's going to be a sofa day with possibly an interruption of muddling. During the many awakes, it popped into brain, I'd miss-set the mast on BM, that can be changed. But thoughts then came into brain on better ways to do the weekly set up, once the miss-setting is corrected. A raid on eBay has already purchased some parts, more parts need buying, the total price will be about a Deltic. I need to check through my stocks of left turny things, I don't think I have the right model in stock and they didn't have the right model at yesterday's show. So that might need ordering later.. Thoughts are on breakfast.. but what? For some reason I don't fancy a bacon butty.. Time to look in the kitchen for non sugary breakfast items...

Not a lot happened on the layout, as I've been too busy.. For example, today we were at the Norwich Railway show with a club layout. It's an inherited layout from our late club chairman. Last week it was fully tested and run at the club... But it was it's first time out to a show since the chairman passed, and our first time of running it in a very long time. Today was a bit of a tale of woe.. On an early wander round the show my hip clicked and my maneuverability was much reduced... My feet / legs were knackered anyway from being on duty at the radar museum yesterday. One of our four club members ( Inc me) left for home early as he wasn't feeling well. First when the layout was unpacked the cross braces to the legs were missing. Luckily we found two wide school gymnasium benches on top of each other were the right height. Even for the fiddle yard stood on its own legs.. Then we had no power to the layout. I checked the psu, that was ok, but getting in under the layout was a problem for me, while attempting to do that, one of our club members went to the "Witham" layout to people he knows and are expert on this type of DCC system. The younger man was somewhat fitter, and found a broken wire under the layout, which he successfully bodged for us which worked for the rest of the show.. Thank you to those with the Witham layout who helped us. A point blade came off, and is the most serious long term problem, as the point will have to be cut out of a "cobbled" area by the dock and replaced.. The wrong box of wagons was brought, they didn't match up with the locos, the coupling were at the wrong height.. Bit of a problem with a shunting layout.. We got some permanently attached, and shuffled them around a lot. There was also a demu set that worked well, and several locos we could shuffle. We did manage to keep something moving for the whole show, there were !ots of discussions on various bits of our layout and other club layouts.. The show itself was good

Feathered rats as well... Our spuds come from a nearby farm and their own farm shop. Evening ish Awl. The show itself went extremely well, as for our own unmentionable, I'll be typing our tale of woe, on my Decoville thread shortly. Knackered I am, two days mostly on my feet was not good, especially as my right hip went click inside and I rapidly needed a sit down for a while , lying here on the sofa it's throbbing somewhat. Looking at the seaweeds inspectors words it will be too windy tomorrow to sail, so a day sofa surfing might be in order.. Now off to type on Decoville..

Mooring Awl, Off to play with things unmentionable in front of lots of people. Bye for now.

If whiskey is classified as a UPF I'm not surprised, you'd be much better off drinking whisky... Evening Awl, 71 visitors to the museum today, I saw about 15. That allowed me much muddling time. About 300 dress making pins with the same dimensions as pins for fixing down parallel bits of metal attached to plastic transoms , have been deployed as fencing posts. That's about half of them done. Then a cabin for a type 13 or 14 radar had many bits of trim glued to it, followed by assembling another side of a radar dish. At the MRC a bit later the drastic action of using a miniature drill with a cutting disk was used to remove something that changes direction. In 10&1/2 hours time in have to be at a school in Norwich where many unmentionables will be going round in circles or may be end to end.. Muggachoccy gone, Goodnight Awl.

Mooring Awl, 1 hour, 3 hours , 3 hours sleep.. Ben the I'd like out now cos it's not raining Collie. Took me on patrol, every time i got in front of him he stopped and waited only when I was behind or along side him would he proceed.. I've got a couple of those drawer towers displayed by the Bear for several years . One is at the MRC with my consumables in, the one at home in the muddling shed has more long term storage of unmentionables in it. My big suffered from a land grab at one end as an artists studio.. much effort is required to stop that expanding... Museum day, where I suspect the doors will be open , as it will be warmer outside than in.. Time to get blazer and tie on.

Bit like moving Australian magpies.

Traditionally you had a front / best room in which you would invite visitors. Kept immaculately neat and tidy. This was the one the vicar would be invited to for tea. The living room would be that the family would be in downstairs when not in the kitchen. If the house did not have a best room, then the family traditionally lived in the kitchen. This would be difficult in this house as it's a later addition and only 12ft square inside. Though there is a second conservatory with the white goods in. ( Except fridge freezer).