AndyID

6 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

I can't see what all the fuss is about.

 

Here is a picture of my helmet:

 

At this altitude a helmet and a brandy to calm the nerves ain't all bad 😂

53 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

joule

But you can go to work on an erg. Joules might not be too happy. 😄

7 minutes ago, DenysW said:

Never really used. Ft-lb, yes, as in 550 ft-lb-wt/sec = 1 hp.

It was a wind-up 🤣

38 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

joule

What's wrong with the inch-ounce?

I've spent the last few weeks in Utah and Colorado doing this sort of stuff. This is at Snowmass ski area, Aspen.

Weather at Buttermilk, Aspen yesterday was great. Seven inches of new snow overnight then not a cloud all day.

11 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

As expected today was taken up with burning papers containing sensitive information, sorting my part of a wardrobe, taking a load of stuff to a charity shop, food shopping and a couple of '5 minute' jobs. The frustrating bit was when the clever press a button key thingy failed to connect with the car in order to open the doors so I was stuck in Moreasons carpark until Jill could bring me the second key thingy from home. It's a good job that neither of us I was a hundred miles away. I'll have to contact the VW agents but I bet it will be expensive to get a new key dongler thingy.

At least my activities over the last couple of days have earned me a weekend of modelling and watching 6 nations rugby so there is a silver lining.

 

Dave

If this is up to date you should be able to replace the battery and there is a slide out key in the fob.

https://www.stohlman-vw.com/service-tips-and-tricks/change-battery-in-vw-key/

2 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

As expected today was taken up with burning papers containing sensitive information, sorting my part of a wardrobe, taking a load of stuff to a charity shop, food shopping and a couple of '5 minute' jobs. The frustrating bit was when the clever press a button key thingy failed to connect with the car in order to open the doors so I was stuck in Moreasons carpark until Jill could bring me the second key thingy from home. It's a good job that neither of us I was a hundred miles away. I'll have to contact the VW agents but I bet it will be expensive to get a new key dongler thingy.

At least my activities over the last couple of days have earned me a weekend of modelling and watching 6 nations rugby so there is a silver lining.

 

Dave

The thingy for my Fiat has a battery that needs to be replaced every so often. It also has an actual key that slides out in case the battery is flat. Maybe your's does too?

Gratings from Sandy, Utah. I'm staying with friends who have a house near the Little Cottonwood Canyon. There are two ski areas there, Alta and Snowbird. A serious storm has passed now and it dumped a lot of snow up there.

Despite our close proximity to the ski resorts it took two hours to get there yesterday. The road was closed due to avalanche control work and by the time it opened there was an enormous line of cars. We still managed to run out of skiing energy well before the lifts stopped running.

Tomorrow we plan to ski at Deer Valley although I prefer to call it "Dear Valet" because it's rather posh.

16 hours ago, pH said:

I went through to Edinburgh on several international rugby days, but I only ever went to one game!

But you did spend a fair bit of time on Rose Street 😄

I ordered a pair of compression socks for my very-close-veins from Amazon Prime. They arrived on Friday then they arrived again, today, Saturday. Same order number and I was only charged for one pair.

So I decided to keep them and pay for them. Unfortunately Amazon didn't think of that scenario on their web interface so I eventually managed to talk to someone in some distant land or possibly on another planet. Unfortunately I think my request banjaxed his system 🤣  After a long "please hold" he asked me to call back later.

55 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

My learned (???) take on the first weekend of the 6 Nations:

 

England - the jury is out.

Wales - oops but had they turned up before half time things could have been quite different.

Scotland - the jury is also out.

Ireland - Grand Slam highly likely.

France - not what they were last year.

Italy - as for France but in a positive way.

 

Dave

The last time I went to a rugby match 😟

All being well I'll be posting annoying pics of me and my ski buddies in Utah and Colorado for a few weeks 😂

Funny the people you meet. I was at our local last night and I was chatting with a guy who turned out to be the pathologist at the hospital in town. He and his wife were both in the Air Force and she is now a 747 pilot for an airfreight company 😆

3 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

I tried some Guinness ........................ once! ☹️

It's an acquired taste that I failed to acquire, although they used to make some very entertaining clocks, at least I thought so at the time.

13 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

You've obviously been reading Baldrick's book on how to make a cunning plan. 

 

Jamie

OK, just as long as it's not being used for cunning stunts.

18 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Sometime ago, a certain constable of this parish - a Jamie  (badge 92208) - threatened me with an official visit so that I could "help him with his enquiries". Now obviously I don't want the authorities looking too closely at some of my extracurricular "business interests", so I distracted him be extolling the trainspotting virtues of the Peter Merian tram stop and it's bridge, which provides unequalled views of the SBB Basel station throat.

 

Tonight I was at the Peter Merian tramstop and I saw these lads doing some permanent way work:

There were also some empty stock movement and a loco running light.

 

And, yes, the other tracks were running trains as usual...

It's probably just me but did anyone else wonder if some members of the crew are whizzing on the graffiti?

4 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

We did demolish a 3 bedroomed house in North Wales a few years back, and replace it with another.

 

The full demolition and  the new build worked out cheaper than the partial demolition and rebuild to bring it up to the current standards for insulation which we had originally envisaged.

 

Improving an old property attracts VAT, yet new builds are exempt!

 

Another bunch who are intend on doing it the expensive way🤣.

Slightly different for us colonials, in New Jersey at least. We lived in an area where there were a lot of smallish houses on rather large lots. Typically half an acre. They were built in the 50s.

Demolishing and building a much larger home was not allowed, but you could add an extension to an existing home so the thing to do was add an extension that was bigger than the house. After five years it was OK to demolish the original house  :)

3 hours ago, SM42 said:

On my way home this evening, a BMW pulled out ahead of me. 

 

The reg number was POL 155H. 

 

I'm wondering what nationality the driver was. 

 

Andy

Being a skier my Volvo in California sported ED4ZHLS and a Scotland emblem. I was buzzed on the freeway one morning by a Lexus bearing EBYGUM.

Obviously he was either from Cornwall or Devon.

I'm quite partial to the aroma from valve (tube) amplifiers. Probably because it takes me back to when I was a yoot.

The city of Lewiston in Idaho, near the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers, has a big pulp mill. It doesn't half pong. I don't think I could live there.

19 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

I had an auntie who used to work at Williams's toffee factory in Bootle who would always have some misshapes in a bowl in her house. Yummy stuff!

 

Dave

Canal station in Paisley was adjacent to a Robertson's jam factory. There was a wonderful aroma of whatever they were making that day while waiting for a train.

On 26/01/2024 at 21:59, Hroth said:

 

She'll probably get out the branch loppers and trim them herself!

 

 

 

 

Where sheds are concerned, there's always more than one!

 

I call the conservatory on the back of the house the "glass shed", if that helps...

 

As the saying goes:

" Two sheds are better than one."

2 hours ago, pH said:

90% of white males are born in the USA?

Context laddie! Context 😁

1 hour ago, AndyID said:

Or born in the USA. 90% of white males are.

Come to think of it I saw a urologist recently who said he could fix that PDQ. I politely declined 😮