Winslow Boy

I'm wondering what the purple/lilac dotted line is for?

Hmm on second thoughts I don't want to know as I suspect it's going to involve a saw and the phrase - now this won't hurt a bit.

2 hours ago, TheQ said:

That green stuff is nothing like what we have..

Where are the nettles, brambles, Alexander, thistles, and sycamore seedlings?

 

 

 

There's no need to brag you know.

2 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

..and Brown snakes?!

 

 

 

Don't forget the siders either.

45 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

Mine last year (and a few before but not this year):

 

 

A close-up of the yellow ones, I do not know what they are:

 

Looks very similar to a plant/weed called Ragwort. Poisonous to cattle but naturalists love it as there is a butterfly that feeds off it's nectar. 

28 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

"Up a bit, left a bit, left, left, left...  FIRE!!!" 

 

🤪

 

The Soviets thought Sputnik stopped working when its battery went flat.  WE know better....

 

I must say that's very impressive for a cappuccino maker. Does Donk get you to add the ingredients or does the coastguard drop it in for him.

2 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Back at the top of The List.  Oh, hang on....you were already were.  In that case.....

 

INCOMING.......

Watch Herr Doctarri it's a bunker buster!

26 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Sheds w a full complement of doors are in short supply hereabouts....

Don't mention that in front of the Panniers as they'll be round there in a shot and next thing we know there'll be doors flying off left right and centre.

56 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

I have that one.

 

Connected directly to my bladder...

 

Don't ask what the S is for

Well that's a stupid question isn't it. It's for Slumber can't be for anything else can it.

Innocent of Manutopea.

Washing out on a Sunday what will the neighbours think. Unheard of. Mixed colours as well. What's more I reckon they've been out all night.

2 hours ago, Worsdell forever said:

 

It was the panniers that did, saw them do it. 

 

They knocked the shed door off as well, saw one stood next to it... 

I knew it. I told you. You have watch them all of the time. If you let even one of them out of your sight for just a minute they get up to mischief. They can't help it. It's in their chassis's.

7 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

Our Grandfathers may well have known each other, as my Grandfather, who during the day was driving fuel tankers around,  was a 'firewatcher' and was often over at the gasworks.

 

Fortunately, for the rest of the family, one night when he was not on duty, as he had been on a late shift, a raid started and an incendiary bomb came through the roof of the house and started a fire on the half landing.  The family were all hiding 'under the stairs' directly below the fire.  My grandfather picked up the incendiary bomb with his bare hands and dropped it into a bucket of sand.  Despite being burned, he then ensured the small blaze that had started was extinguished.

 

If he had not heard the incendiary come through the roof and hitting the floor of the landing, then the house, and possibly most of the terrace, would have gone up in flames.

 

When the house was being refurbished in the early 70's, the builders exposed the place the incendiary had ignited and asked about how all the charring of the timbers in the staircase has occured. 

And just think there wouldn't have been a Hippo either.

So you could say he was Toof on Jedburgh then. Yes I know but I just can't help myself. Personally I think it's side effect from being exposed too many Panniers.

3 minutes ago, Grizz said:

See, see….they've done it again! 

 

Weightrose have done it again. They have reduced their Portuguese custard tarts to £1 each…….

 

This is a conspiracy. 
 

So I bought two…..

 

And their plan worked….the birty dastards. 
 

What's more they knew you were coming. Very suspicious that.

10 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

s'pose a head-to-head against Chimpy @monkeysarefun, @Grizz and Bunny @The White Rabbit could be a good wheeze.....

 

 

Just remember that not everything is the same down there as up here.

So the spiders can kill you. As can the snakes and the jellyfish. And thongs aren't, well I'll leave you figure that one out.

14 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Tough again!

Is that tough love or just tough. We need to know.

Has it gone yet! I closed my eyes once I saw the pannier.

You know how they effect me. Kevin I thought you'd told them at the photography club that they should warn you if they were going include them.

22 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Not even Bear is that sad.....

Besides, after just having a shufti at the 2024 cast every one of them looks high maintenance. 

 

 

Oh go on Bear there's nothing we wouldn't give, well apart from finger tips that is, to see you strutting your stuff down under. 

Ps just don't go trying to fit a silencer that's all.

6 minutes ago, polybear said:

They’re a Grad. - they don’t need training cos’ they know it all already….😇

Good heavens Bear you can't let a Graduate use something without first 'training/indoctrinating' them. They'll  be straight on to the HSE faster than a Bear can say LDC and then it'll be an employment tribunal.

3 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Does Mrs. Baz want a job?  We have Donuts - or cake.......

(There is one young "superstar"** at this place that spent the day steaming clothing.....how many did they manage?  Four.....in a day.....🤬) 

**It shouldn't be too hard for them as they've been to Uni.....

Ah yes but it was a very 'complicated' ie it had collars and cuffs, item to steam. Plus of course they had to have training because they'd never used this steamer before ( shouldn't mention that they'd never used any steaming devices before). 

14 minutes ago, Willie Whizz said:

Back in the 60s and 70s it was often the case that it wasn’t just “the best actor for the job”, but that X was “the only actor for [that sort of] job. 
 

You want an oily-looking, smarmy-sounding gent of vaguely Levantine appearance?  You need Steve Plytas!  You want an Eastern European, rather sinister looking, Putin before Putin type?  You want Vladek Sheybal!  A cynical, coldly calculating Nazi? Anton Diffring is your man!

 

A look at the cast lists of many of the series dramas of the day will see these guys appearing time after time. 

 

 

Probably because they all went to the same school Rada anyone.

39 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Probably🤣

 

I've already being trying to think up a couple of catch phrases, perhaps like Jack Lord had in the original Hawaii 5-0 TV series.

 

'Book 'em Danno' he used to say.

 

I was thinking more along the lines of:

 

'Kill 'em Bear!'

And I suppose Bears response would be - watch those tips Hippo.

2 hours ago, grandadbob said:

Good morning all,

Grey start to the day here with some heavy showers, possibly thundery, forecast.  It should clear this afternoon with the chance of some late sunshine. 9°C rising to a maximum of 17°C.

Nothing much to report.*  My iced bun got eaten with no ill effects.  However I did have a minor mishap as when I went to answer the front door (mate Tim from over the road visiting for a natter)  I caught my arm on the latch of the lounge door and ripped some skin off and drew blood.  Bobby has done a GDB for the first time in ages!

My mate next door Russ is somewhat hacked off.  A couple of weeks ago he got a large chip in the windscreen of his Kuga which was too big to be repaired so new screen required.  Fitter no 1 turned up last Friday, got set up to do the job and got screen out of van but had the wrong one so away he went.  On  Tuesday fitters 2 & 3 turned up in 2 vans but it then transpired that neither of them had the screen on board!  Yesterday 2 fitters turned up in 1 van and fitted the screen.  However they also managed to scratch the paintwork on both sides  of the top edge of the bonnet.  Russ is not happy and I believe multiple Snottocalls made and Snottograms are being sent.

I too am not happy, new Sim card still not arrived although the first direct debit has now been taken (for too bloody match).  A(nother) lengthy phone call has been made and BT/EE are again aware that they have a very unhappy customer.  Apologies have been given and I've been assured that a credit has already been raised after my last phone call but I just want the issue sorted.  Is that too much to ask? 

* Hmm, a bit more to report than I thought, how good is that, nothing beats a bit of a rant.

Timetogettamoveon, (The Boss is calling me)

Have a good one,

Bob.

The answer to your question 'Is that to much to ask' is Yes. You must realise that you are not a customer your somebody who they can extract money from that is all and they are doing you a 'favour' therefore you should be grateful to them. The fact that they couldn't organise a simply delivery isn't there fault. They had an unhappy childhood, didn't go to the right school, only took this job because there parents refused to pay for there round the world trip, failed at being an 'influencer', broke one of their nails etc etc etc.

Me cynical. No. Never.

9 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 

 Nope , trains passing can  be seen .

What! Report them immediately. We can't have that. Putting workers lives in danger. Not on.

10 minutes ago, Ponthir28 said:

Lurking in the undergrowth?

Behind the engine shed most likely.

2 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

Last of the Summer Wine was based of course in Holmfirth, where I was Sgt for 3 months in 1994.  A great place to work and filming provided a good income for the PC's.  The writer had been a police officer in the area in the 60's.  He also wrote a brilliant series about a rookie constable in the mini g districts of south/West Yorkshire, that was The Growing Pains of PC Penrose.  It was required viewing and could easily have been based on my first station at Rothwell. It later moved to Scarborough as Rosie, but wasn't quite the same.  

 

Jamie

So a bit like watching Coronation Street years ago so that you can find out what it was like up north then. Got to go as whippet needs a walk. Now where did I leave my flat cap.