Winslow Boy

45 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

May we enquire exactly how many fingers are needed for good DIY.  Just asking for a friend. 

 

Jamie

I didn't know you were ambidextrous.

10 hours ago, KNP said:

What no Pannier!!!

 

If squint and hold your head to the right I think you can just make out one about to enter the station from the black hole.....!

 

😉

 

 

 

I'm in two mines about this photo. Firstly it is good that there are no prairies to be seen, but then one begins to wonder where are they and more importantly what are they up to. 

6 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

Watching films shot round where I grew up is the same.  There is a shot in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves where, IIRC, Robin is hiding in a cave. The view in one direction was next to Barden Tower in Wharfedale,from the other direction it was near Fountains Abbey. 

 

Jamie 

I remember that they filmed the encampment for that film in Burnham Beeches which is definitely not in Nottinghamshire.

4 hours ago, Tony_S said:

I looked up some international salt consumption results. UK is nearer the bottom than the top. Lowest in Western Europe and only Ukraine is lower in all Europe. Every country(worldwide) has higher (some only slightly higher though) than recommended levels. 

3/4 of a teaspoon of salt goes in our bread machine loaves. It doesn’t get eaten by one person in a day anyway. I do add a hint of salt to chips. I don’t like unsalted butter on sandwiches so we have salted butter but it is from happy cows. 

 

I was telephoned by the GP surgery this morning and have been to a blood test form. This one is for routine diabetes monitoring. Collected and booked. Aditi asked me to buy a baguette and some ice cream on the way home. The baguette, as we have some French cheese for lunch and she thought the baguette might be better with it than the homemade loaf. The current one is rye so perhaps not. The cheese is Pié d’Angloys and it has a rind rather than a pastry top and bottom. I think the ice cream is to go with a rhubarb crumble. The rhubarb was the last of our garden rhubarb frozen last year. Aditi uprooted the crown as it was well past its best. It will be replaced I believe, but the former rhubarb patch is now full of wallflowers. 

Having had four crowns donated for the community garden we have been quite flush with rhubarb this year. The important thing when planting them is to ensure they sit on top of good dollop of compost.

12 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

Yup!

 

Glad I wasn't standing next to that when it went.

 

 

Oh I don't know a bit of arodite and t-cut and it'll be as right as rain.

14 minutes ago, SM42 said:

I left SM42 Towers just after 9.15 this morning. 

 

The neighbour was out washing their car. 

That were at the chammy leather stage

 

I returned just after 2pm

 

They were still at it. 

 

It does look very shiny though

 

Andy

It's the two layers of polish that takes the time.

1 hour ago, SM42 said:

 

I use the supplied ground fixing, but dig a hole to put it in and then pack th soil back round it. 

 

Andy

I've found them quite flimsy and prone to rusting away hence the scaffold tube.

7 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

Going to our friend’s new house near Oswestry to continue helping with getting things sorted for her. One of my jobs is to fix the ground socket for the garden clothes drier then we’ll be going out for lunch. After that I suspect that fitting a cat flap in the back door will be on the cards so I’m loading plenty of tools in the car. What’s the betting that I forget something necessary and have to go out to buy one?

 

Dave

As one who has done a few of these I've found the best thing is to not use the provided ground fixing, but instead obtain a short piece of scaffolding and simply hammer it into the ground. If you want to have it taller simply leave the piece of tubing protruding out of the ground.  

3 minutes ago, figworthy said:

 

Highly unlikely.

 

Adrian

Well that's good because I got return tickets. See you New York.

5 minutes ago, figworthy said:

 

Informed opinion says that it is impossible to be exposed to too many Panniers.

 

Adrian

This wouldn't be the same informed opinion that said the Titanic was unsinkable would it.

5 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I think I do the aging on behalf of my wife. 

I thought that was included in the marriage vows but could be mistaken it might just be a variation to the contract.

3 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 

 I'm pretty sure mine comes from pigs , but hey , whatever floats your boat , or flies your plane .

 

Two comments here. Firstly make certain someone isn't telling you porkies - get it yes I know but you have to try; and secondary, don't get caught.

35 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

I think this applies to all service personnel.

 

I'm convinced that armed forces medics have a secret file, which is destroyed when you are discharged.

 

It is a forecast of when and where you are going to start disintegrating, and your retirement is planned by the appropriate personnel branch, to start  six months before you start falling to bits.

 

Since the file is destroyed, they then claim that you were fighting fit when you left and that any ailment you subsequently suffer from cannot be attributable to your military service, so you don't get any additional pension or cash payout.

 

Fortunately for me, my arthritis of the left ankle kicked in 18 months before I was due to leave, so when I did leave, I got an additional lump sum. 

 

It wasn't much, but I was able to buy a couple of cakes with it! 

So not like that chap then who had a picture of himself in the attic which carried on aging while he stayed young.

1 hour ago, SM42 said:

 

"Just a sharp scratch"

 

Andy

Followed by - you won't feel a thing honest.

Just to cheer our Irish Sea correspondent up the sun is shining here in the vast metropolis of Manutopea.

So I will offer my thanks to him and his fellow inhabitants for doing an excellent job of impeding the water globules as they pass over the briney between him and me. Thanks for taking one for the team Neil. Much appreciated as the Hound is not to keen on wet weather being a summer baby.

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.