AndyID

Looks suspiciously like something made in Glasgow.

Still, not something you'd want to get clonked on the head with I was looking at it again, and there is some tricky turning involved. The stack of eccentric disks are not terribly difficult, but the radius at the bottom of the column where it meets the base is interesting. I'm not sure how he did that. It's difficult because it is inside the flange at the edge of the base, and I don't think it would be possible to get a radius tool in there. He may have taken it down as a progression of cuts with a facing tool and tweaked the bumps out later.

Quite a lot actually. It's called Hydroelectric as opposed to Hippoelectric. I should also have mentioned the moat, but you'd probably enjoy that.

Easy-peasy. All we need to do is pool all instructions into the ER instruction pool, and assign a credit amount proportional to the particular assignment on completion.

It's a lot easier to press the button on the outside thermometer monitor.

LOL! Sorry Gordon, but I assumed everyone would realize I was talking utter nonsense. I know there is a common perception in the UK that many Americans are thicker than two short planks, but this punter grew up in Paisley.

A couple from the Northwest (US) today. This chickadee got a bit upset when I wandered into his territory. They look and behave just like coal tits, so I thought "maybe they'd like a coconut?". Evidently not, or at least they would rather throw everything out of the feeder to get at the sunflower seeds. That suits the turkey population just fine.

Yes, if you plan to stay in the US for keeps, it's a very good idea to get naturalized as Ian says. The downside is you cannot escape from the IRS if you do. The US seems to be a bit ambivalent about the dual nationality thing. First of all, if you are a UK citizen, it's extremely difficult to give up your citizenship. There's even some chat (or used to be anyway) in a UK passport that says the UK understands that you may be obliged get a passport from another country, and not to worry about it. I think Ian is right that you used to have to surrender a UK passport to the US if you became a US citizen (that is no longer the case) but according to a bloke I knew who had been UK/US for a long time, as the UK passport was the property of HM's gov, the US had to return it to the UK, whereupon, the UK sent it back to the owner with a nice note that said "you appear to have lost this". I've always been a bit nervous about travelling with two passports and switching back to UK half-way across the Atlantic. There could be some collusion between the US and the UK and it might set off a few alarms. Paranoia on my part though. I have no evidence that anything like that happens. Last year we were coming back from the UK via Iceland, and the immigration officer made some flip comment that we didn't sound like Americans. The red mist was rising in my eyes, but I managed to retain my composure. Then he made some comment that we had dual nationality. When his supervisor heard him say that, he barked out, "There is no such thing as dual nationality!" Now here's a question. I was born in Scotland and if Scotland had installed an electrified fence along the border with England, would I qualify for a UK passport, a Scottish passport, both, or none of the above?

Bit of a "scorcher" here, or as they might say in Glasgow, "it's affy waarm." This was in the morning as the fog was burning off. It got up to 71F. Now multiply by 5, divide by 9 and add 32. That makes it 71.4C. Huh! Must be one of those temperatures that's the same either way.

And, I might add, very realistic too. Is that O gauge?

Definitely "Clyde Built". Colonel Mustard would certainly appreciate that! (What on earth does it weigh?)

If he looks even remotely like Laurence Olivier, if I were you, I'd cancel.

Then again: If Richard had been king of Scotland, would he have been Dick the First? (OK, OK. That's the last one. Promise!)

I should have mentioned: If Richard had been king of Iceland, would he have been Richard the Ttlysunbeffingunpronouncable?

If Richard had been king of NY, would he have been Richard the Toid? If Richard had been king of Ireland, would he have been Richard the Turd?

If you were treated badly by the DOHS you might want to contact your local MP and explain what happened. If he raises an issue with the US, the US will at least respond.

There are also some mechanical issues to take care of. Depending on the vehicle, it may be necessary to ensure the transmission is being lubricated while being towed for long distances. IIRC, the Liberty is good because you can easily isolate the wheels from the transmission (on some models).

Yes, but think how much fun you could have mixing it up with all those silly motorbikes Yup - Looks like an ALCO

It's not unusual to tow a Liberty behind a motorhome. I have an "Idaho two-seater". It's a two-door 4x4 Dodge Ram 3/4 ton pickup with a 5.7 liter V-8. Goes like a bat out..... I got it to tow our little 21 foot caravan. Remarkably, the Ram does 22 mpg (US gallons) on the highways. The weather has improved here, a lot. Pic from today attached.

Oh, so the contractors were American then?

Continuing our series "Useful Things To Do With Old Sleepers". The domestic authorities made a greenhouse mandatory. Our back "garden" is basically a pile of basalt rubble. (The real-estate agent would probably call it "well drained soil".) I tried "nailing" the sleepers into the ground with rebar, but there is so much rock, that proved impossible. So I came up with this - The clue is in this pic. Those grey things are bits of pipe used as spacers on the two long pieces of rebar that thread through all the sleepers in the flight. It's basically a ladder made of sleepers. (A bit of ballast required here.) When I made the upper flight I used a much better drilling jig that sets the rebar lower down in the sleepers.

I thought it was one means no parking, two means no parking at all, and three means no parking at all at all.

Oh dear! One of the dogs just puked. I think I'm going to heave too.

I think I've done enough damage on RMWEB for one day. Time for bed methinks. Night all.

We are on a community well, and I'm the schmuck who has to I have the honor of collecting a sample every few months and having it tested. Anyway, I was talking to the nice lady at the test lab recently, and she told me that they can detect a single bacterium in a sample! She explained how - something to do with gas IIRC. Because of this I have to sterilize the faucet (what we aficionados in the water industry call a tap). I usually do that with a propane torch. Q: What's the cure for water on the knees? A: A tap on the head.