Winslow Boy

4 hours ago, PupCam said:

Afternoon!

 

First of all, VSPBWs to @Gwiwer  That makes you not all that many days older than Puppers.   I think a beer or two is in order.   Go on, it's your birthday!

 

 

Oh you can.  Anyone can identify as anything these days and apparently that makes it right .....

 

 

What a great Pink Floyd track that is.

 

ION

 

Puppers has been wrestling with the BSA's gearbox and new kick-starter spring.    If I finally get it all back together, working and with all body parts intact it will be a miracle! 🤣 

 

Puppers has also been wrestling with the new type of "Arduino" (it's not one but you use the same development environment aka computer programme) to write code for it.  I'm trying and failing  miserably to interface it via the Raspberry Pi interface on the ePaper display.   Persistence (yet more) is required.   I WILL get it to work.

 

I went out on the monthly drugs collection run today.  It's a nice day so it seemed an ideal opportunity to go for a thrash on the RD.    Of course by some strange quirk of nature I ended up at Old Warden watching a chap and then a lady trying to start (hand swinging the prop) one of the Cambridge Flying Group's Tigers.    I did note at one point the chap diving under the cowling to tickle the carb just as we folk with old bikes with Amal carbs have to do.        The lady was relatively short and had to jump up a few inches to grab the prop tip to pull it down to the correct starting position.   All credit to her, it was she that got it started and not the 6' 2" chap!     

 

The front seat in that Tiger has got my name on it.    I really must get round to booking my birthday treat 😀

 

That's all for now

 

TTFN

Aye the man did the footwork and women swept in and got the credit.

1 minute ago, PhilJ W said:

After next door had an artificial lawn installed I scrounged the leftover piece, about three foot by twelve. Placed on the patio it stopped the weeds coming through and I only have to move it to clear another part of the patio. The only other thing is that something heavy has to be put around the edges to stop the foxes from pulling it away.

We could get HH to lie on it. That would not only stop it from being drag away but also scare the foxes.

5 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

I must say that I don't IDENTIFY as a "whippersnapper"!  🤪

 

A bit like sex then and you know that there are one hundred and seventy ways of identifying that.

5 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

My lack of skill in the railway modelling department is all Dave Hunt's fault.

 

Perhaps I should change tack and start modelling the Midland Railway and then drag him down with me.

I always put your lack of skill down to the fact that you found it difficult to pick up the welding iron with your hooves but there again I could be wrong.

2 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

Even though I say so myself, green and yellow are also the colours of snot and suppuration.

 

 

 

 

They also make sludge if that's any help.

2 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

He does call the the small pink terrorists. 

 

Jamie

I thought that was a term of endearment. You mean it's not.

1 hour ago, SM42 said:

 

Different style of painting  required 

 

Paint into the wet edge not out of it. 

 

On the positive side, when you started at the doorframe and have worked round the skirting, you can accidentally lean against the door frame to admire the job.

 

Amdy

Listen to this man he's painted a lot of wet wedges.

1 minute ago, Hroth said:

 

The same happens in "railway towns" like Swindon, where end terrace houses were to a better spec, for workers with "responsibilities".  Port Sunlight on the Wirral, built by Lever for the workers in their soap factory exhibits similar differentiation, though that has more of a Garden City vibe, rather than mere rows of brick terraces!

 

 Same for 'mill towns' two up, two down houses. One side of the street would have a little garden at the front, whilst the opposing side didn't. The other alternative was a 'lobby', so that when you entered the house you weren't in the front room. Of course this all meant the land lords could charge more rent.

5 minutes ago, SM42 said:

 

It's still everybody else's fault regardless. 

 

SOP  in politics worldwide

 

Andy

Plus we are going to do it and there's s&d all you can do about it.

Something that seems to be all to common these days and not just in the commercial world either.

1 hour ago, Hroth said:

 

Happy Birthday!

 

That makes you 8 days older than me...🤔

 

Wow I never had you down as a whippersnapper.

I will add my congratulations to another whipper snapper as well @Gwiwer. 

19 minutes ago, Benbow said:

I can't find Waiting Castle in my ABC book. 🤔

You need to look under Norman or possibly Tudor.

5 hours ago, roundhouse said:

I am fine most of the time but its been a bit full on the last few weeks but today is beer o'clock starting in Spoons in Horley before 10am and heading via Spoons in Gatwick (landside Spoons), Crawley then Horsham before heading back to Reigate to meet my other half. At least Spoons open early but many pubs change their opening hours that don't even reflect the times on there doors.

That's to keep you checking there website.

3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

You still manage to leave out the critical information:

 

Was the cup hurt?

 

Will it be putting in a claim for PTSD?

 

Is it still in one piece, or is it a kit of parts?

You've left out the most important question namely will more fresh flour be required to paint over the coffee stains.

On 14/05/2024 at 22:55, Winslow Boy said:

Well at least they've managed to do something although I'll believe it when I see it.

Well as predicted the ban on rainbow lanyards didn't last long forty eight hours. 

1 hour ago, southern42 said:

 

But....

10:19 this morning: The surprise of seeing the appearance of a tiny bit of purple 

 

 

And at 18:56...

 

And a few minutes ago...

 

I do hope it can survive to flowerhood after this little peekaboo showing.

 

 

I'm afraid that following a bit of a 'contratont' with the mower I too now have one of these. Like you I've rescued it and am waiting with fingers crossed in the hope it'll flower.

3 hours ago, grandadbob said:

Now here's a possibility Ian!  🤪

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Insanity-Technology-Storage-Rotating-Capacity/dp/B0BS4B8Y8Q/ref=sr_1_28?crid=3KLARZ2S

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Something tells me there's not going to be enough squirrels, pigeons, butterflies - insert target of choice.

2 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

My 42% Nigerian Princess scam seems to be going down well.

Especially with other Hippos.

2 hours ago, jjb1970 said:

There's something wrong with Chinese food here, none of it comes eith chips and nowhere does chips with curry sauce. It's worse in China, the food there is nothing like proper Chinese food, they need to import a few cooks from blighty so they can learn how to cook.

Don't worry we arrested three the other day.

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

Is there a small apperture at the rear for the tail so that you have a ready made propellor in the DD version. 

 

Jamie

Donald Duck?I didn't know HH was contracted to Disney. Is this one of his 'money raising' schemes that we're not to know about.

26 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Dave stops by to ask me about layout progress:

 

I take it that's a combined snorkel/radio antenna sticking out of the top of the tank.

21 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

And that is why I never delve into Dr. SWMBO's sewing box!  If I picked one out her reaction would be "Wrong Thread" 

 

 

Never thread where angels fear to thread. Or words to that effect.

25 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

The latest Governmemt rule is going to be banning rainbow lanyards for civil servants. 

Well at least they've managed to do something although I'll believe it when I see it.

9 minutes ago, Northmoor said:

For which reason it sounds like rather a good idea to me, if it means the MAFF can build a mailing list to contact people instantly if avian flu cases are confirmed within a given radius of their birds.  I remember the concerns my sister had when the last outbreak came within 15 miles of her TWO hens.

 

Similarly I always thought the removal of the dog licence was a mistake, if only so some bloke with two bull terriers who's previously been witnessed driving away from a dogfight, can be disqualified from owning anything more than a goldfish.

I think that often good ideas, which as you've highlighted this is, often go wrong due to overly bureaucratic implementation.

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

Dreaming for me is triggered by Ibuprofen - it's not known for it, but it sends my dream-ometer loopy, with often wild and sometimes quite disturbing and dark dreams.  I only take it when I really really need it.

 

IOmoreimportantN, a big plus today from our visit to the vet, Mrs NHN given the all-clear for bowel cancer, quite why the hospital gastro-enterology department doing all the tests couldn't communicate this is an unknown, but our GP was finally able to unearth the information with a bit of computer hackery.  It would appear she has some kind of pancreatic deficiency which is easily dealt with, and the sky-high (4x danger level) test marker for nasty illness has......become totally normal.  They cannot explain why.  Having done all the other things they could think of, they are now happy to say she's OK.  Relief does not cover it.

 

Fish and (a small portion) of chips each for dinner to celebrate!

That's  excellent news that Neil. I'm really delighted for you and the memsahib.

Put some out on Thursday and we'll find out.