lightengine

Catherine spinning continuously 

Parsley the lion

Oh yessss. You cannae beat it Jimmy.

Nah, too posh

drink a Leffe

Murs is best

The flying ants are off tonight. There are several hundred gulls wheeling around overhead, vacuuming them up.

If you laugh only once this week, laugh at this.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/17745148.hawks-are-used-to-stop-gulls-messing-on-beach/

GWR have created a slalom type queueing course outside the station entrance. With about a quarter of the car park taken up by this winding queueing space, Airshow watchers travelling home will be able to stand in the sun for a while in between trains. I can envisage over heating, fisticuffs, queue jumping, fainting and any other number of problems.  

Three aircraft flew over earlier in what looked like practice flights for tomorrow.  Wouldn't know what types, 2 had small wings on the fuselage in front of the wings. The other jet had delta wings. They were the whizzing through the sky very fast type of aircraft.

No update from The Stationmaster re an early morning parking/blocking manouevre this morning? I see the fight for the 4 spaces outside our place daily. 

Another breezeless day in sunny Teignmouth. The wispy clouds, what there are of them, are static.

Yesterday I noticed that the flying ants seem to be readying for flight. I didnt see any take off but there was action in the burrow.

Activity goes on in Teignmouth for the inaugural airshow. Car parks are closed, road parking is banned in certain streets, vessels cannot leave the harbour without permission tomorrow, an exclusion zone has been set up in the sea adjacent to the town beach and and the fair is in town.

An amusing item in the news from Worthing. Southern Water employed hawks to chase gulls away from part of the beach to stop water pollution from gull poo (I prefer the word pooh).  A few years ago the council here in Teignmouth wanted the "under pier nesting birds" removed as they poo in the sea.  I understand blue flags are nice to see for quality of water but next we will be harpooning sea creatures for defecating in the sea and lambasting small children who wee near the waters edge. Come on Southern Water/ South West Water, it might be better if firstly you stopped polluting beaches with your bad waste management.

Anybody any ideas from which station this sign may have come from?

Sad news today from Kentucky.  45,000 barrels of Jim Beam bourbon destroyed in a fire.

Freda eggy one

4 hours ago, mezzoman253 said:

Our men's team would do well to emulate the ladies at the next World Cup. Consecutive semi-finals is no mean feat.

 

The USA would have analysed ever member of our team to the Nth degree to find the strengths and weakness. It's the way American sports does it, stats, stats and more stats. So not so surprising the keeper went the right way.

 

I think Alex Scott go it spot on with her after match comments. 

 

Rob

 

 

Still a shame that she didn't leather it.

Anyhow I thought it was halfway for ladies.

21 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Aditi knows people who don’t have smartphones or internet at home. They seem quite good at asking her to do things for them. 

She'll need to be on stand by.  I saw a post last night where a car park ticket machine was being removed and tickets could only be obtained by mobile phone.

It's good to see women have reached equality with men and can hopelessly miss penalties. Next, farting under the duvet! 

Foot in it?

Late 50's early 60's on the bus from central London back to Enfield I used to play spot the "coloured man" with my parents.  I don't remember how often we scored but it was obviously a fairly rare sighting in those days.  Nobody got punched on the arm but I expect it would result in a punch if played these days.  

we're still Europeans.

a glory hunter

2 hours ago, brianusa said:

 

Awhile back we had a young female relative visit who went shopping with my wife and I.  She was taken aback when I declared I was going to get some pants but we had to explain that pants are perfectly respectable in mixed company as its the American term for trousers.  I've run into that problem back home before while shopping in Marks and Spencers although I think the term is understood by now.

Have you ever asked for a rubber in a US stationery shop?

storming about Trump

we've got silverplate

Yesterday turned out not to be hotter than Friday in sunny Teignmouth. It was in fact cooler.

I managed to started work painting my latest VW chest of drawers and to fix 3 boards to the wall for our coat rack construction. It just needs the hooks affixed today.

I was going to arise early today but another Nobel Peace prize attempt by the orange one has kept me in bed transfixed from watching paint dry.  It would have been funny if Kim had stayed at home.

9 minutes ago, brianusa said:

Is that a DMU on the up line?

      Brian.

Hard to tell but it's on the down, Brian.