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I saw a programme a couple of days ago where they mentioned the cost of food to the average person was 60% of wages just post WW2, but today it's 5 to 10%... Of costs just noticed this... the light grey is the Cremated Swan, the brick is the house including the former shop, that went with it ( three bedrooms three bathrooms 3 reception rooms).. as in mostly burnt down. the brick encases medieval flint walling that was part of the friary . Note, the house behind means there's not much garden, yes that's a busy road on two sides... Yours for £665,000!!! Brownie points reclaimed, stand for new loom built, loom frame part built and now gluing and screwing. That's odd. Having told me the sailcloth is coming by Evri herpes yesterday, today it's been updated to say it's coming by Royal mail second class...

Mooring Awl, Couldn't get to sleep again , but when i did it was solid for 5.5hours. Paws left knee and right ankle were complaining of imminent soggyness. This proved to be correct as everything was dripping when I took Ben the patiently waiting Collie out. Before failing to sleep, I read a book by Professor Angela Gallop, " When Dogs Don't Bark" it's about the science side of forensic investigation. Her start being very much a junior on site at one of the Yorkshire Ripper murders. It then goes through various improvements to the science, using examples from her / her teams/ her company. Later being involved with cold or still slightly warm investigation reviews , leading to eventual prosecution and jailing of suspects, mentioned are Stephen Lawrence, Damiola Taylor and Rachel Nickell's cases. It's a slightly disjointed book but a very interesting read. Oh the book title? It's from a review of a case where the original investigation team failed to work out why, not only did they not find the perpetrator's DNA, they failed to find the victims DNA from the body, which is an impossibility. Hmm email yesterday from the sailcloth supplier with the tracking number for the parcel. The tracking number has 12 digits, the delivery companies site won't work because it requires either an eight or 16 digit number.. needless to say it's Evri case of Herpes. Meanwhile while a parcel from the house of strong ladies has gone walkabout, instead of arriving here today on prime it's arrived at Birmingham instead of Norwich!!! Luckily neither are urgent.. Time, I think, for breaky. Just got considerably darker it's chuckinitdarn...

I am on Facebook, having joined because we have a family group on there or rather younger members of the family have a group on there. I very rarely post myself. Then because I was on, I joined the Facebook equivalent of various forums I'm on. For example 3RR.uk therefore FB " The Three Rivers Race".. as for Twatter and poserin no chance. Oh and of course FB "RMWeb Andy", page aka is it's broke again.. This morning after seeing swmbo off to her art group I had another hours kip on the sofa.. I needed that because the next thing was two hours doing the MRC accounts.. as a break from that, Ben took me on his normal long walk, where we got wet, cos it rained a bit. The marsh side track is firming up, but the puddles are deeper due to recent rain. No rats were seen, the daffs are begining to go over.. On return swmbo had also returned, so I made a quick trip to the MRC to get the meter reading for the landlord 31479 and cash up the tea bar money for the year.. The tea bar is making about £10 per month, so I won't be making a request for increased monies at the AGM in a couple of weeks. I've extracted some money from the cash tin again and when I next go into town, this years T bar profits will go into the bank account along with various donations etc.

It's now developed another problem, I can't emoticon... Belay that , on changing pages to see Gwiwer's comment I can emote again. Evening Awl, Ben's long walk was unusual due to rats, no less than 6 were separately seen running across fields or roads and muddy tracks. That and one deer got frightened and legged it across several fields. For several years there has been no spraying on some of the fields around us. I believe the new farmer had ideas of getting some sort of rating for that.. It obviously didn't pay, because all the fields around us have been sprayed or pelleted in the last few days. I'm guessing at this time of year that'll be fertilizer of some sort. Just back from the MRC where I learnt I'm not paying to go into the exhibition of unmentionables on Saturday. That'll be because I'll be making an exhibition of myself behind a club unmentionable as some one has dropped out. That'll make for a long day... Must find the club shirt... On the way to the MRC there was one deer in the undergrowth by the side of the road on the way back there was a couple... Oh and one rat. Also on the way back it was starting to rain. Muggachoccy gone, goodnight Awl.

Brownie points lost.. Swmbo looked at a clock that is radio controlled but decided to not to listen.. she's left an hour late for her weaving... Reset clock wave button, it's now sitting outside where it might get a signal. Not felt too bright today, returned some tools from the landrover to the workshop, sanded 4 bits of future loom. Cut 5 bits ( spacers ) of future loom. Took Ben for his walk. And that's it.. Oh when returning tools to their proper places, found a jar of needles, thread and sailmakers palm. This has been placed with other sail making materials including sufficient sailmakers double sided tape. Eye lid inspection required.

Mooring Awl, Just couldn't get to sleep till well after midnight, then got about 4 hours sleep, then about a hour and a halves sleep. Ben the I want out Collie then demanded out.. At first he seemed to want comforting, then bounded around and said " fooled ya", he then had a good snuffle about, a deer or two had been right down to the house looking at The footprints . The sleep thoughts were mostly about the jib, I've decided to make one myself, and have perused eBay ordering the correct material. As its in effect an offcut from a big manufacturer, it's only about 1/3 of a deltic delivered, whereas going to a sail manufacturer it's likely to cost 3 deltics or more. Sadly sail cost does not reduce in proportion to the size. Straight line sewing is cheap and easy. The complicated stuff at the corners takes time, and is needed whether the sail be 2.5 square meters on BM or 25 SQM on a big yacht. I've been thinking of where I'll lay out the sail mark it up, cut and stick it together***. Then I realized there is the radar history room with a nice clean carpeted flooring enough to take a yacht sized jib. There is a 50/50 chance it will arrive in time for this week's museum session. ***Stick it together? Yep sails these days are often assembled using double sided tape, then sewn through. Must check on my stocks of double sided sail tape. Also need to find one of sail making books to remind myself on curves in a straight line... Plans for today, There is an event at Hellesdon School, Norwich Saturday 6th April, 10am to 4pm with 25 units of interest I'd like to see. So brownie points are needed. Therefore very shortly it will be overalls time, then out the do more work on Swmbo's next loom. But first Muggacoffee time.

A large proportion on said liquid is recycled out of the rear of UK cattle, fertilizing the grass and the water content continues into the ground with only a slight delay. What the US does with the liquids in their factory farming I don't know.

Me thinks that graph must be for American factory beef. Here in the UK most of our beef cattle live in grass fields, and while they have access to troughs, a lot of their food is grass that except in extreme conditions is unwatered..

Afternoon Awl, When I got to the boat I found the cover torn, we've had 50 mph winds a couple of days ago. BM is now six inches longer when sailing, as I've moved the jib club mount backwards by that amount. The jib now sets nicely, ( but could do with a slightly shorter foot to allow it to be really tight when required) took the advantage of it being off the boat to heat shrink the ends of the all four jib sheets. Drilling the jib club which is 3 mm thick stainless steel tube went surprisingly well considering it was just sat on an outside bench. By wrapping a kevlar rope ( 4 mm) round the mast ( 3 times) just above the gooseneck, then taking it back each side to the shroud hoops, hopefully the mast will have reduced bend at that point both sideways and forwards. There is still much mast bend higher up, when all tensioned up, I'm thinking it needs another spacer to move the starting position further forward, but I didn't have the materials with me today. Several other rope ends were also heat shrinked. The jib was measured, and thoughts are going on to it's replacement. With the new setup, it needs a foot more on the luff, a couple of inches less on the foot, the leech stays the same. With rain forecast I can't take the cover home for repair, so when BM was put away. I've crossed some ropes over the cover to hold it in place... She's now in her summer mooring next to the motorboat..

Mooring Awl, 4 hours sleep, long awake, 2 hours sleep. Ben the considerate Collie let me sleep in a bit, very soggy out there, drizzling , dull grey welkin, ground soft again. Ben just wandered around , no strong interesting smells with all the rain I suppose. Spent the long awake, thinking ways to reduce mast bend at the gooseneck, I think its still bending too far forward and sideways. but at a most stressed part of the mast I don't want to drill holes for fittings. Boats built with such fittings are quite high performance but most of their ideas are too expensive or otherwise unsuitable for BM. Yep just had the two minute circle of wait again... Need to check what size rivets I have in the boat box in the landrover, this is for the jib club modification, then check I've the correct size drill bits. Time to finish this muggacoffee before setting off.

Afternoon Awl, Forecast soggyness arrival 17:00, actual soggyness arrival about 12:00. So we all got soggy.. forecast windspeed 15 to 24, actual windspeed mostly 25 to 30mph.. Hard work sailing especially due to the changes to BM, now require additional changes. Poor turn out, 5 keelboats and 5 dinghies, Race one , course 4p, Xs, 5s, 3s, 2s, 1s 4 laps X is a mark on the course . On the broad 1,2,3,4 form a square at the limits of the broad X was roughly in the middle today and 5 put near 4 but on the way to 1. Started with the fleet, but not in a favourable position, gradually lost out and was well behind at the finish. BM isn't pointing well because I've had to raise up the jib, effectively making the jib club shorter, putting way too much belly in the jib. lost my hat during a tack, but a laser behind me picked it up and returned it to me at the end of racing. Race 2, much the same as before, Race 3, made a good start, but it was raining, I was cold wet and not happy, retired back to the club house.. Cheese and onion sandwich and muggacoffee . Put boat partly away. It's on the clubhouse quay with cover on but sails are just rolled up on the boom, they're wet so there's no point putting them away bagged up in the boat. Needed something hot, ended up buying a grot noodle, first I've had in many years.. They haven't improved. Tomorrow is a down river, but I really need to sort the jib, re rig the vang and a few other things.. So tomorrow I'll do that... Then put BM in her proper mooring., If I finish early enough I'll then go home and take swmbo to a nearby art exhibition and earn some brownie points.

Mooring Awl, 4 hours sleep, short awake, 2 hours sleep. Not prompted by Ben the tired Collie. I took have increasingly seen the message along with increasingly seeing pages freeze grey and the circle of wait. Quite often opening another page will prompt the first to awake. This is on an Android tablet. In took Ben out on patrol he was happy, but not running around, just strolling. , Ben is due a visit to the vet when his current batch of pills is finished, so that's in less than a month... Low tide today is around about 11:00 which means not a lot as we are sailing on the broad today where while the water level goes up and down a foot unless you are near the broad entrance there's no tide. The wind is easterly 15 to 24 mph , just about perfect, and straight down the length of the broad, so course setting should be easy. Being on the broad is also good for testing BM if it goes all wrong.... If all goes well there is a down river race tomorrow then the tide is important.. Muggacoffee to finish, then Time to head for the SC.

I remember someone trying to get a blacksmiths closed down near Kings Lynn due to noise. The blacksmiths had been on that site for over 500 years....

Mr Amazon man has delivered 10,200 pins, they are as described and very similar to the peco blackened pins. But silver.

We've got three of those clocks , one I can see here in the living room, one in our bedroom, the third is my boating clock. Which reminds me, after this winters reengineering I've not made a new site for it on Blue Moon. Hmm I don't know what's got into Ben today, but he's just taken me for his longest walk ever.. we got to our normal turning point and he wanted to go.. and on... Then on crossing our muddly lane starting point, he asked to go round again... I refused, I'm knackered . I wondered why the trench digging equipment had been left at the bottom of the field, they've continued on, crossing the bottom muddy lane, split into two, then feeds two fields on the marsh with water. Two troughs have been set up, with heavy ballast hard standing around them. The feet and two sides of the next loom have been cut out, lots of sanding to do yet. My package of pins says 2 stops away. Time to struggle off the sofa..

There is an assumption anyone who's worked in or on radar must have seen or know about UFOs.. Not one ever..

Mooring Awl, About 5 hours sleep , woke with back of right thigh trying to cramp, shortly followed by right calf. Didn't actually happen, but I could feel it was close, eventually got back to sleep, woke 2 hours later and it happened again. After a bit, rose and took Ben the impatient Collie round the jungle, I sneezed on going out and Ben kept coming back to me to check i was ok. He now assaulting me with a foot ball, throwing it around the place and having his morning mad half hour.. I just hope those pins are ok, my delivery should arrive tonight.. I have to plant pins every 3 mm, round a square ish of 18 inches by 18 inches, if that's OK, then there will be another Todo in the future... They are being buried deep so only about 4 mm sticks above the diorama. Then I'm considering using very fine mesh as the fence mesh. This is in imitation of the security fence fitted round RAF Neatishead in 1958. The concrete pillars are probably still original today, but the wire has been altered since then. At least once someone has attempted to cut their way in and other damage has occurred at times. When it comes to the diorama of today, there has to be a taller inner compound for today's radar, a double ring round the dome and an outer perimeter inside the original base. and a much lower fence round the inner sides of the museum. Ben is clambering all over me trying to persuade me to put this gadget down.. oh now I'm being assaulted by a fish, Ben's 2 foot long stuffed Nemo toy. I spent a long time considering what to use as fencing, its impossible to do a perfect representation of the fencing at 1 to 1000 scale, if it were it would be so sharp it would be a hazard to my own let alone little fingers... That's weird, two of those photos showed failed to load!!

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Evening Awl just back from the MRC which went well. Prior to that I was at the radar museum which was quite busy today. A small amount of muddling done which included putting in fine pins from Beer with the code SL-14. I ran out I need a lot more, after some research I found the are 14mm long and less than 0.5 mm in diameter. Sl 14 doesn't get you many pins. But I've found you can get 10,200 of the same size in silver colour for £15 against about 50 black pins sl- 14 for £2.95... Oh what was I using the pins for? ... Fence posts. At that scale though each pin scaled up is 18 inches across Goodnight Awl muggachoccy gone.

Awe rite me owd Lovers, I think teenagers have officially been eliminated, suddenly young people are children till 18 and adults afterwards. In the UK , Pre 1880 you worked when you could, prior to industrialization that would at your parents work, minor work from age 4 or 5... 1880 you were a child till age 10, then you started work. 1893, age 11, 1899 age 12 1918 age 14, 1944 age 15 1972 age 16, 2013 age 17 England only 2015 age 18, England only. No wonder they are putting the pension age up, or soon you'd finish school and retire.. "Country and western" as such no longer exists, generally it's "country music" in the USA as an equivalent to UK's " folk music". Calling it "country and western" annoys many. Though there are many regional variations of country music. As there were in old folk music in the UK.

Having worked in Saudi, where the outside temperature officially don't go above 50C, but we put a thermometer on a chair in the shade behind the packing case 8ft tall, 4ft wide and deep that we were filling. It hit over 70C, were were surrounded by tarmac... The guys on the flight line would change overalls half a dozen times a day. It's also a high humidity area on the coast where we were. In the winter, it would go down to 25C in the mornings, the locals would be swathed in heavy cloaks and scalves we would be wearing T shirts. I built my boat outside in that... Yep regularly changing overalls, I'd take a 2 gallon insulated water container full of ice and flavoured water out with me , drink the lot and still weigh less by the end of the day. Yes it's hot, I couldn't work in that now, Mooring Awl, 5 hours solid sleep, half hour awake, 2 hours sleep, helped by one pink pill, as left knee, forepaws and right ankle are complaining. This weather changes particularly the pressure changes are not good for the joints. Blazer, matching trousers, white shirt are all ready, not seen my RAF tie, nor my museum tag plus badges, so a search party will be needed this morning. I have alternative ties, but which one? Oh must give my shoes a polish.. Ben has surfaced for his head polish, so Ben the moaning hints like a teenager Collie will get a surprise in a minute or two as I'll move early due to the search required. Time to move..

Reading on an American sailing forum, It became law in America for bridges to have dolphins or other protection to the bridge piers in 1990 after a previous accident. The Baltimore bridge was designed in 1970...

Afternoon Awl, Occasional soggyness , increasing wind, not nice out side, but the long walk with Ben was perfectly timed and it was quite nice.. The lane by the marshes is drying out, down to few puddles, and six inches of soggy mud in places. Muddling consisted of tidying up and pondering.. I need to have a wiring session or two I really miss having sources of cheap wire, all my light duty stocks have long since been used up, 3 Phase heavy duty cabling and even mains 32A cable is somewhat over size for a muddle railway. Finally agreed on a design for SWMBO's next loom, which is a card loom ( not jacquard loom), one board has been marked up for two pieces, which when cut out will be turned over on the board to mark out to total 4 pieces. We have in stock enough wood to complete the loom. Only difficulty is some cogs to hold two rollers in place. Research will be required on that. Many brownie points scored, I was going to use them and go on the down river race on Monday. But the forecast is for Monday is rain and strong winds. The signs for the road works have been removed, so that's good news.

The artic I think just made it, probably the last vehicle off the bridge safely.

You obviously haven't had rats eating through the floor of your modelling shed before you got the roof on.. Our late cat was quite a hunter and kept the rats and mice down. The problems have return since she got run over.