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This is great news!

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back to normal teenage distancing

Good news, recovery must mean the inability to construct sentences, excessive sleepiness and mood swings for no apparent reason.

Thats good news.

Fleeeeeeegs. Loads of Fleeeeeegs. Gawd save the Fleeeeeegs.

I've just put my 30cm in my mouth, argggh.

Imperial units do not, and have not for a very long time, form a system of units independent of the SI. 

By definition, 1 yard = 0.9144 m.

By definition, 1 pint = 568.26125 ml.

@Mallard60022 Thanks for upsetting my stomach.....

Of course, I'm sure you've all noticed that this suggestion about Imperial Measurement is a bit of a smokescreen for a bonfire of various "EU" rules and regs that are getting in the way of the swashbuckling Captains of Industry and also to get the more extreme members of the "Conservative" MPs back on side to protect the position of our esteemed PM.

Interesting Times, folk......

I work in procurement for injection moulded (plus other medium) items, from raw materials to doorsteps, so I have an idea.  At an individual item level the footprint is very small, a full production run, of a decent sized range (say Bachmann for instance) is pretty huge.  You may already have seen, but if not, have a look online at the landscape destruction in the Australian Ore Mines, which is where the majority of ore comes from to produce the steel used to make the moulds for injection moulded items.  Add to that the transportation by rail and huge ships over thousands of miles, then the steel works footprint themselves and all the fuels/electricity/gas.  Its quite jaw dropping,  significantly more than the recent a space trip.  Whether or not your models are 2nd hand and bought locally doesn't mean anything, they were still made from raw materials and transported to where you bought them from.

The fundamental point of my post is that people are very quick to tell successful rich people what to do with their money.  If someone suggested to me what to do with my money, they wouldn't like the response.  If I had the money to follow my dreams and go to space, damn right I would do it and wouldn't feel in the slightest bit guilty.

I understand where you're coming from, but of course the individual item (not the entire industry) is what should be compared to the individual trip to space. Also, by purchasing second hand models I am not adding any carbon emmisions to those already created. The products were manufactured to satisfy the demands of somebody else, often before I was born. I had nothing to do with that process and no action that I am able to take could prevent them from occuring. I am simply reusing what is now somebody else's waste. If there wasn't a second hand market, these items would go to landfill once their first owners had finished with them. That would be considerably worse for the environment.

Regarding the second point, I had realised that you were unhappy with the criticism of the spending of these two individuals. As I explained above, I would be happy to face such criticism myself. Clearly you would not be and that is the source of our difference of opinion on the morality of it. As this is personal to each of us, I find it unlikely that either of us will be persuaded to change our minds. It is perhaps best that we agree to disagree on this point, as further discussion will only become tediously repetetive, which is sure to lead to unneccessary frustration.

I agree with you, thank you for taking the time to join in the discussion, I've enjoyed it

I've just dug out some old photos I took of Fallowfield station after the track was lifted - there were piles of wooden sleepers scattered about - I guess that answers the question.

The pics aren't very good, not worth posting, I should have gone out with a camera when there was track, maybe even trains lol.

SPD Ltd (Speedy Prompt Delivery) was the distribution arm of Van den Burghs and a division of Unilever.  They had a number of sites around the country and, I think,  usually had a rail connection. Van den Burghs had a large factory at Port Sunlight and did a lot of distribution by rail. The SPD depots did local deliveries by road after receiving the main consignments from BR. They seem to have picked some unfortunate sites that seemed to suffer from the adjacent railway suffering closure. This was certainly the case at Newcastle-under-Lyme, Plodder Lane in Bolton and, indeed, your site at Wilbraham Road.

The line outlived their railway connection by at least 20 years, I think they shut the actual depot in the 1980s, a decade or more after they lost the rail connection.

"Look, pal - some people just don't do encouragement, or civilized discussion.

But it ain't bullying, argument, or snarling.

It's abrasive diplomacy - right ... !"

(Cue some waster delivering a "Glasgow kiss".)

Seriously though, it's just as well that a number of us aren't too keen on that stuff, either. Nice and friendly ... it most certainly is not!!

For me, it's when the lawyers (armchair or otherwise) get involved that a tread outlives its usefulness. Some haven't even got past the first page.

It's posts like that, that make me send 'Cease and Desist' letters....

come an ave a go if u fink ur ard enuf....

Sometimes I forget which Aldi I am in, the two local ones I use are very similar in layout, except for the nuts/crisps which is most odd - oh and one of them has doors on the refrigerators and the other doesn't

I once walked from my old house in Heptonstall to Howarth on a sunny day. Getting onto the tops, I seem to remember seeing a load of book sculptures. It's beautiful up there.

Been up on top a couple of times - first it was blowing a gale and wet - so we sat in the car, ate a picnic and gazed at the moors/hills.  Second time was this one, still windy, so despite a lovely sun shining it was flipping cold so I remained on the wrong side of the peak to look down onto Haworth and see the railway.  I could see the home signal for Oakworth and a short stretch of track from one location but nothing moved whilst I was watching - they waited till I moved.

In previous years Haworth has held a 1940s weekend which can be good fun.  The shops are bedecked in suitable decorations with many visitors wearing appropriate fashions and uniforms for the period.

This years event planned for mid-May has, understandably, been cancelled but next years event all being well should be held on 21-22 May if you and Mrs W are interested.

http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/events/haworth-events/more.asp?event=Haworth 1940s Weekend 

You can't beat a bit of drumming.

Just be glad they didn't get a set of bagpipes....

However, I'd be inclined to dig out my copy of HiFi News & Record Review Test CD HFN003, which has two excellent dynamic range tests:

Track thirteen is a one-and-a-half-minute solo drum kit.

Track fourteen is the infamous "The Garage Door Or The Dynamic Range Of Real Life" which really puts a system through it's paces. Played at a volume that is just on the safe side for your speakers, the garage door will have heads popping out to see what the racket is all the way down the street...

As long as the person is a refuse collector or has a large skip in their garden about to be taken away, you'll be ok.

It's going to be a looooooong two years....

However, there will be the entertainment value as they change Prime Minister every two months so all the members of the Cabinet have a go!

Musical chairs without the excitement.....

The Conservatives have always rejected PR, pointing to the example of Italy with coalitions repeatedly collapsing, reforming and multiple changes of Prime Minister each year.  It turns out they just see PR as unnecessary as they can deliver the latter on their own.

Of course, this move into furniture explains their adoption of sudden, frequent, DFS/SCS style ebay sales....

(15% off this weekend, I believe!)

Rails of Sheffield wine cellar, burgers and B1s or curry’s and DCC chips

we could be in for anything 😀

Instantly deleted when the email arrived! Ridiculous to go into such a competitive market.

Mine looked terrible, on the first attempt I was doing all capitals 😆

Now he says! I could have lent you a book 'the Pan book of Letter Writing' (price 3/6 or 17.5p in new money) - might have been some useful tips in there!

The Ladybird book Learnabout Handwriting might come in useful too! Original price 30p, a snip at £3.50!!!

(I found a box of my Ladybird books in the loft, I might have a copy...)

It's done and all I had to do (and failed) was deliver a Starbucks Toffee Nut Latte - ordered a Gingerbread one in error as I thought I'd got it wrong in my head.

Decided on London Clay for the sealing paint on the baseboard, you can't just get 'light brown' anymore.

Just noticed I called the IP Cobalts Configs.

Day job interfering lol

Not a bad day all 6 items including painting the top completed.

Day2: Point laying......

Nahhhhh....

To achieve correct colour, texture and bouquet, sprouts should be put on on the 22nd of November, after making the Christmas Pudding.  It is permissable to steam the pudding on top of the sprouts for the last few hours before serving on Christmas Day.

This is worrying how did people know I was cooking sprouts

Part read the Woodhead book, part wired the railway - tested - four tracks live, 2 dead - investigations tomorrow.

Hanging rail built, walk at dusk into dark on the old Worsley line and now cuppa tea and a bit of TV.

Power to all 6 roads in the station - I needed a crimper not a set of pliers.

Onwards to the station throat

The one downside that I'm finding is in sourcing those small requisites (paint, plastic sheet, etc.) that I need to progress the things that I'm working on.

I once reverse engineered a sofa back into wood and fabric and managed to stab myself in the arm with a Stanley knife   Been breaking up old decking during lockdown and extracted some sizeable unrotten bits that might become the basis of a garden layout. Didn't stab myself but did take a direct hit on my ankle with the hammer. Been telling the rest of the household to avoid doing anything that might result in a trip to A&E, need to listen to my own wise advice.

I got stabbed several times by the tripwire large woodworking staples that held the thing in it's Sofa form.

Glad to say I finished clearing the house just in time for lockdown, I figured Monday would be the last chance to get rid of stuff so I made hay whilst the sun shone.

I still wonder if they might actually be aware of the "quality" of some of their programme choices.

After all if, instead of offering us watchable programmes, they insist on plugging a load of ‽*##*¢¥$ - sorry, effluent - about sewers, this probably tells us all we need to know about how much notice they take of what the people who pay their wages really want to watch.

Just an observation, you understand ... .

Being a Netflix watcher I hardly view any of the terrestrial channels anymore and when I do take it look it's still mainly some form of convoluted reality/fly on the wall programme.

The only stuff I watch is the BBC news sometimes and I record the F1 highlights to watch at my leisure.

Well I'm currently watching the BBC - specifically BBC4 and the snooker.

Yes - they occasionally manage to show us some quality programmes.

Snooker usually hits the target for me - especially during prolonged "safety exchanges" - points during a break when everything "goes awkward" - and occasions when a player manages to get some "pot" that nobody thought possible.

Another thing I like is the way in which players readily admit could etc - even when referees haven't noticed and it really goes against them. The general expectation is that players conduct themselves in a civilized, "gentlemanly" manner - and very few of these guys disappoint.

A light bulb - in an example I've been looking for a parameter called page - but it had been passed in as 'count' - took me ages to see it as all the other parameters being passed bore the same name going in as listed in the function - I couldn't see how 'page' was being calculated till I saw it.

Does also help that I'd overcome the initial challenge on seeing some actual data come from once I'd found a suitable free API I could test on without needing credentials.

Progress is being made - now to rewrite the initial stuff to cycle through the pages.

Don't understand one word about data but then I remember I'm only human. Life can be one big learning curve so bear that in mind. If others can do it so can you!

And I no longer feel like the failure I did 3 hours ago.

Returned over 1000 lines of data in pages of 50 from an API.

I can sleep tonight now as I know I can do this - tomorrow it's doing it on the real API and adding in logon credentials - but that's just one additional function to play with.

Psychology works - admit your feelings and then begin to build yourself back up.

He didn't half look nervous going into the big P*nis shaped rocket.

Pleased he has gone into space, but he is not an astronaut, no matter how many times they say he is.

He was a passenger along with the other three on the 10 minute trip.

The days of astronauts piloting craft in to low earth orbit are in the past, the crews going to the ISS are passengers as well for the most part now as everything's automated.

Dr Evil didn't invite you to go on the second trip on his Phallic shaped ship then?  

No he didn't, not rich or famous enough.

However, I am pleased they have finally gotten themselves someone other than the single guy with an iPhone for the imagery - two on the rocket today, they need to learn some PR lessons from SpaceX.

The big p*nis is still a good rocket and it does what it sets out to with little fuss, also all the legal stuff with Nasa, he is doing himself no favours

The paint (lavender) was bought one week before the very first lockdown back in 2020..............ended up with no time to do the decorating and Mrs W hasn't had a weekend away since lockdown for me to be able to clear the bedroom.

I underestimated how long it would take - started 3pm on Friday, finished today at 3pm only took time out to eat and sleep.  Then rushed to the shops to stock on on fruit and salad for the return of memsaab.

One problem my 20 year old trusty edging pad is losing it's sponginess and I don't know if I can find a suitable replacement for the next room on the list.

I am absolutely knackered now and I missed the Warrington show that I was going to go to.

All in time for Mrs W to come back saying what a lovely time she's had and asks what else what else you've been up to.

She's already asked why her lotions and potions are not as she likes them - how the heck do I know which ones are important and which ones are for the bin.

I also have a pile of 'what the heck is this for' for her to sort through

You don't even need to invoke the communist societies.

During the interwar period, means testing in Britain resulted in similar spying on neighbours, with consequent ill-feeling.

Do politicians never learn from history? 

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Do politicians never learn from history? 

Rhetorical, I take it?

Definitely!

He's been to university, threatened not to come back but did and now he is looking at a house share with a couple of mates.

I'm realistic when it comes to whether he will see it through but this time he actually has house viewings lined up so no harm in dreaming.

The room was recently decorated and all his worldly goods fit in that one room so I see an empty room when he goes.

One fly in the ointment, son number two may lay claim, but I think Mrs W will reject this, his online chat voice is even louder than the other and she likes an early night.

If he doesn't go this time I think his long term girlfriend will snare him when she graduates with her masters in the summer.

Also learnt today that our car insurances still have under 16s logged and taking that out took £30 off Mrs W's premium today. 

Change the locks.

Ok, keeping calm and not getting excited, I can fit in a 9 foot by 6 layout with a central operating well plus my homeworking desk into the room.

Mrs W is eyeing up my current room as a Reike space.

Maybe I can bribe him

not sure.. I don't seem to use any of that...

I've got some Matt Vanish, but I can never find the tin...

Don't know, but he sounds dull. 

Was it the same petrol station both times?

@Nick C Yes, poured from pump straight into the bin

Perhaps they overfilled the first time and came back to make up the discrepancy?

It twas the belly sticking out under the t-shirt that did it.

Depends who is wearing the T-shirt

If you are that yellow I'd say the doctors is required! 

But when you import a .csv file into Excel, you can set what delimiter you want to use.  The default is a comma, because that's the most common delimiter in a .csv file, but it can be changed to a colon, tab, space or whatever you want it to use.

What I don't understand is why anyone would want to use a .csv to transfer text.

This is my issue, something in the file is setting off a comma for delimiting when not asked for, I think it is more a weakness in Excel than anything, the file itself looks sound in it's structure.  I've put in some logic to cover it off.

The transfer didn't originally have this free text in it, was meant to be data, then the recipient asked if we would add the last update comments and it went downhill from there.  It's been working fine for 12 months, then wham all of a sudden Excel wants to play.

Also just discovered by accident how RMweb secures itself from SQL Injection attempts.

Thought I'd been kicked out for good for a moment

And are you?

I'll let you know after prayers tomorrow if I am allowed out of the house after I have done my chores.....

That sounds like a case of "too much information" ... .