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Are doctors always so kind ? 🙊

As someone who rarely touches the uisge (other spellings are available for Irish correspondents) I prefer to start with the guiness and use whiskey (in this case) as the chaser. To my surprise I was out of Jameson's, but I had a little Dún Léire left (got that from Saint S'bury's at some point. To celebrate the day, and since this is TNM so early hours are not required, for those in GB who are not working and like rock music I commend to you BBC4 (Thin Lizzy in concert now, followed by a short program of Irish Rock at the BBC). But a question for Ben's minder/servant when he wakes up - I thought the scots gaelic for 'the whisky' was an t-ùisge beatha - I can understand that google translate drops the accents (damned modern orthography) but it came up with uisge na beatha which seems all wrong ? Maybe google translate is written by slaves who do not use a definite article ? 🤣

So this week I have mostly been ... sleeping. Having now p155'ed off those who do not have that luxury in daytime hours, as a vegetarian I will attempt to annoy omnivorous eaters. 😄 What was, for me, Sunday[1] dinner was based around red cabbage. The meal would not be suitable for Type 2 diabetics, unless on insulin, and would probably be too unsweet' for those heading that way. A week or two ago I bought a small red cabbage in case I could not get any greens for the weekend - but then I I got some sprouts so the red cabbage has been sitting around, hoping I could get a red pepper. Yesterday I got a red pepper, I already had a red onion, and in my fridge was half a pack of pre-cooked chestnuts. So: Slice a (floury) potato (about 220gm) and cook in a saucepan in olive oil, in batches, removing when cooked and putting on kitchen paper. I consider this shallow-frying in a flat pan is sautéing, but in GB that usually means 'parboil, then cook in oil'. After that, slice the red onion, fry, add sliced and chopped red pepper and a little garlic. Chop half the red pepper into small pieces, add to the pan, fry a little, add plenty of red wine vinegar - for those with a sweet tooth, probably too sweet. Add a small tin of tomatoes (220gm), the half-pack of chestnuts, some broken walnuts, a little salt, plenty of sweet smoked paprika, the cooked potatoes, bring to the boil, simmer. Served with a slice of seeded bread (I'm out of my own sourdough at the moment), red wine (Saintsbury's house pinot noir - romanian, rated as 'C' in the A-E red wine divisions - plonk, totally nothing like a burgundy - but then I wouldn't drink a good burgundy with this dish. Add some san pellegrino, follow with a banana (peeled from the 'growing' end, of course). To me, that all rated as "yummy". The rest of you can keep your artisanal and cheffy meals, although baked bean pizza would be attractive if it used reduced-sugar baked beans 🤣 1. Other timezones are available, but definitely Sunday in +6 and beyond. Getting up at sunset seems perfectly normal to me - hey, don't bring that sharpened stake here!

If they are anything like many people around here, particularly young-ish women who either think the world revolves around them or cannot look up from their phones, then probably not. Do what you can to force your place on the pavement.😀 And before anyone says *I* should give way to people, I do if they have more apparent mobility issues than I do - but I tend to hold back because if I fall or get knocked over I won't be able to stand up again. People who have mobility issues, apart from a few of the people on supermarket mobility devices, are rarely a problem - but able-bodied people who assume everyone can move around like they do are a big problem. ĸen, either walking with two sticks, or pushing a shopping trolley while using one stick and with the other stick in the trolley.

Competence can often only be judged later, when facts become known. At the risk of shutting down the thread, consider Germany from 1933 to before the war - the (ethnically pure, in nazi terms, and conforming) majority of the population appeared to benefit from the general construction of new housing / holiday housing / autobahnen and the prospect of people's cars. Nevertheless, I think most people will now agree that they were intrinsically evil.

David, are you sure it was delivered by a postie ? From time to time I get some mail for one or other neighbour and redeliver that a a time convenient to me.

Were you driving in the Hangleton to Shoreham area of Sussex in the past couple of months ? I've seen two Beemers with working and correctly used indicators. One was electric so maybe doesn't count but the other was signing correctly and driving at legal speeds : it was shocking.

Taking this a bit further beyond the basic circle, if you need to run-in multiple units it helps greatly if you have a long enough straight section to at least fit a rerailer to get them properly on the rails (maybe not so bad in OO) and then get them coupled on the straight.

Not on here much at the moment and generally skimming - I've got problems with my desktop systems - but just got this one booted with a 1024x768 display on what is actually a 1920x1200 monitor, and looking at a few things before trying memtest. Went to BBC local news, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-64865322 : "On Wednesday, a yellow snow warning is also in place with up to 2cm (0.8in) possibly falling in parts of the region." I think they probably meant a yellow (severity) warning of snow. 2cm of yellow snow sounds a lot 😄

Waitrose do not stock my favourite wholemeal bread flour, nor many of my other favourite products. They used to stock Moo milk (longlife) but now all the longlife "milk" are oatley and similar. And Waitrose have always been poor at stocking reduced-sugar spreads for those of us with diabetes.

But what we call a wabbit should actually be a hare - look at Bugs Bunny's long ears! https://www.countryliving.com/life/a41715/easter-bunny-origins/ For Oz, a hare would be an equally unwanted import, but in most of non-Iberian Europe the hare has been native since well before rabbits were imported. But as long as the animals are made of chocolate I think most people here will not be too concerned about what kind of animal they are, although I think one or two will be horrified at the thought of eating chocolate bears 🐻

I remember in Junior school, so aged 9 or 10 and probably in relation to a day trip we would be taking to the Isle of Wight (on 2-BILs and 2-HALs) a teacher mentioned the smell of ozone on the motorcoaches of the electric trains. Personally I tend to think that the smell was like the smell of paxolin (circuit board - the type you could put pins in to connect components and leads to).

For 'mostly harmless' I totally agree. And those who self-identify as bears, whether male or female (or perhaps that was only under the influence of the painkillers, and on TNM) should be respected.

Not long back from the local supermarkets (I go when it is quieter), no turnips !

https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html 😄

No idea how many non-Southern parcels vans there were, nor (offhand) how many BR CCTs or BGs, but (ignoring the SECR-style even planked CCTs which were all withdrawn by the mid 1960s) I did some counting (from books) a while ago (with a view to hoping to model 1966-71) and the numbers were: uneven planked CCT 50, 46 still in use in 1971 plywood CCT 250, most still in use in 1971 PMV, even planked (built 1936-9, earlier builds withdrawn in 1950s) 250, most still in use in 1971 PMV, even planked with pressed steel sections (1942 build) 120, most still in use in 1971 PMV, uneven planked (built 1939-51) 300 built, Larkin asserts that repairs often used wide planking plywood PMV 110 For my interest, the SR bogie vans are out of scope (I'm not going to model a newspaper train) so I haven't counted them, but I'm sure I've seen some in photos from late 60s or later on the South western division. By my counting about 1080 SR CCT and PMV in the mid to late 1960s. of which 780 were PMVs. But that is all hearsay numbers, the books I read might be wrong, and I might have miscounted.

Good luck with this - I guess if you fit the continuous circuit you could run Bergstrecke trains, although I suppose that running those West of Lunz (mid 2010s onwards) but in snow would be a bit "rule 1" (does it show that I've got some Bergstrecke stock ?) I just hope the necessary foreshortening of the station lets you accomodate an adequate length of train.

Although you are an abstainer, might I suggest that more conventional forms of muscle relaxant and some peanuts to sustain you during the phone call might be a less drastic approach ? But best wishes for getting physio or similar (knowing how much physio therapy hurts and terrifies the recipient - I don't wish you the pain or the terror).

Turdycurses! I've split my (right) thumbnail again. Being of the sinistral persuasion, I am perforce slightly ambidextrous and use that thumbnail for opening things such as yoghurt ports and anything with a stuck-on covering (yoghurts with a tab to pull, etc). Every few months I seem to get it to a stage where the top no longer has a gap in the middle, and then either catch it on something when shopping in a supermarket, or when unpacking afterwards. I did that at the weekend, so it was already cut short after that, but now it's trimmed down as far as I can and still has a gap in the middle. At this rate I'll need a handmaid to peel my grapes 😉 [1] Strangely, that is the only one of my nails which has heavy vertical striation. 1. For those who have not read it, a reference to Pyramids by Sir Pterry.

Mmm, pancakes. Actually, at this time of year most Tuesdays I have pancakes, usually with a blood orange but using sunflower oil instead of butter. Tonight, two courses of pancakes with butter - first should have been galettes but it turned out I only had a little buckwheat flour, so mostly wholemeal. With smoked tofu (the main supermarket oak-smoked sort, not the beech-smoked stuff with firm edges which is now almost never available), leeks, olive oil and a little za'atar. Those could have used a little more salt. Oh, and with french crême fraĉhe mixed in. For afters plain pancakes (no sugar for me) with all wholemeal flour and a little peppermint and rosewater flavouring, with a little crême fraîche on the top instead of in the pancakes. Ça marche.

No idea, but it looks like a proper parcels train - unless I'm mistaken (possible) the middle van is Southern, coloured in shades of dirt.

On the lists where I see it, and sometimes use it, it is an admission of a mistake (e.g. posting to the wrong list, or forgetting to push a git commit). I suspect it comes from American.

I think it must be about 60 years since I last saw a Johnny onion man.

For me, I particularly associate Pearly Gates with pups (pickups - the transducers, nothing to do with doggies). When I had received my initial compensation for my injury, and was only working part-time so had time on my hands, I decided to try to resume playing (slide) guitar. I had something cheap and nasty from the late 1970s, so got an epihone 'SG' (SG400). After a while, and once I had a better amp, I realised that the sound of the bridge pup was inadequate, so I looked at alternatives. In the end I got a Seymour Duncan Seth Lover (replicating the original gibson PAFs, although with balanced coils), but I considered the Seymour Pearly Gates before deciding that it probably wasn't what I wanted (for me, middle frequencies good, piercing treble bad). More recently, I've wasted hours listening to pup reviews on youtube (not a good idea, the Opus codec claims to allow high-quality sounds , but it is still lossy and my headphones are not the best). Given that the sound is a combination of the construction of, and tonewoods of, the axe (and probably even the brazilian rosewood of the fingerboard on a genuine '59 might make a difference), the pups, and the individual player, nobody will ever match BFG - but for those (yourself excluded - I know you have views on the 'inspired by gibson' headstock) who want to get close perhaps an Epiphone 'inspired by gibson' 59 is a start - and then add a pair of Whiskerbuckers from Cream RT pickups. OTOH, that will cost a significant number of deltics. But please don't call me Zed while the current war is happening, it can be regarded as alignment with Putain's army symbol. I chose zarniwhoop when I got broadband - all the good hitchhiker's names were already taken. But my real name is Ken, and I usually sign online as ĸen - I got into unicode/UTF-8 (funnily enough, prompted by a russian) and eventually discovered the default linux gb keymap [1] included ĸ on AltGr-k : it's actually an obsolete greenlandic letter, but it looks like a greek lowercase k which went down well with the greek guy I was corresponding with and who helped me with comments on creating text fonts for use in the linux console. Any resemblance to cyrillic is coincidental and could as well be ukrainian as russian. 1. Except, probably, on debian and derivatives such as ubuntu. Best, ĸen

Nothing to do with Billy F. Gibbons as far as I know.