Simon G

Hedges duly trimmed yesterday - I was knackered when I finished! I was hoping for a nice clear evening to take a picture of the hedge with the Isle of Man & Irish Sea in the background, but it was too hazy - could only just make out the IoM. Back to work for a rest - still nice and sunny here though.

At least the loco is the right way up! The number of ebay entries I see with the photos upside down amazes me - dont people think how daft it looks to have it the wrong way up - and how easy it is to correct?

Morning all. Lovely sunny day - hedge trimming beckons!

So sometimes I am pleasantly surprised when they do work, or just need a wire reconnecting to run.

This reminds me of a cricket match I played in in the 1980s in the North Lancs League. One of our batsman went to hook a short-pitched ball and missed, so got hit on the head (no helmets in those days!). When he got to his feet rather groggily, the opposition captain held his hand up and asked how many fingers the injured batsman could see. After a short while, he replied - "Six", to which the opposition captain said "He's OK!" - he actually had 5 fingers and his thumb. The rest of us fell about laughing at the 'trick' he had just played on our batsman.

Definitely not an urban myth. A large monitoring cell at a certain well known nuclear plant was built using steel from ships in Scapa Flow. This was to allow them to detect extremely low radiation levels in people, without getting any background from the steel, as it pre-dated nuclear testing. The gas mantles also mentioned recently were high in Thorium, which is why they emitted alpha radiation.

That will be some cans of Fosters then! Dull here today, same as yesterday. Hopefully it will improve.

If it is any consolation, Talktalk arent any better. I currently cant send email via my Talktalk email address due to problems within Talktalk (them having been blacklisted according to their own Community forum). This is the second time this has happened recently, and I get no indication that the emails I have tried to send are not getting to their destinations, ie they disappear into the ether. Talktalk's Help Support phone line people havent got a clue and keep trying to get me to check my settings in Outlook, even though the problem is with them. I have now avoided this by setting up a hotmail account and this works perfectly, and I have linked it into Outlook, so I will gradually move my contacts off the Talktalk one. When that is done, Talktalk will no longer have my business!

And it has 1 Watcher! Probably watching to see if anyone is stupid enough to pay that kind of money for it!

My google translation of Rasensprenger and sprengen came up with "blow them up with a lawn sprinkler"?? But I am not good with languages.

I have had problems with flying ants as well, so I would also be interested to find out if WD40 gets rid of them.

I sometimes wonder if it is habitual, like gambling. I do trawl ebay quite a lot and find myself putting bids on things - only mine are usually speculative ones that occasionally win.

I wish! I have walked on Derwentwater before, but it was very solidly frozen at the time!

Just been out for a walk around Crummock Water, only to get 'tricked' by Mrs G. Having walked 1 3/4 hours from the bottom of Crummock to Buttermere Village, she then asks how my legs are, to which I reply that they are fine. She then suggests including Buttermere lake in our walk! Fortified by an excellent ice cream from the Buttermere Farm Shop, we did both, and now the legs are tired. It was glorious today, but with some cloud, which was a bit of a relief, as I would have been too hot in full sun all day. Now for a restful evening & a bottle of wine.

About a year ago, I bought a "loco drive" Hornby 9F from Rails, only for it to be an old Margate tender drive model when it arrived. If they cant tell the difference, they are in the wrong business. To be fair, they did refund my money and postage when I returned it.

Freudian slip? I know marriage is supposed to get you together, but welding?? On the subject, today is our 33rd wedding anniversary, so the welding seems to have worked!

Congratulations to Matthew. Either his results are early, or my son's are later, as he doesn't get his final results until about 7 July. If he manages a 2:1, I will be very happy!

Another variation on this - the unpopular officer says to his men "I bet you wish I were dead, so that you could stamp on my grave" to which the reply comes "Not me sir, I dont like standing in queues"

Another variation on the brain cell insult - what did his/her last brain cell die of - loneliness?

I have heard a similar insult, where someone was being described 'as thick as two short planks', only for another to comment that this was possibly an insult to the second short plank. Warm and sunny again here today - I just hope that it lasts through the weekend.

Congratulations Robert! Nice and sunny here, but threatened by a sea mist. Off to deliver a Manual handling training course to a bunch of people who dont really want it - at least I get paid to do it!

As someone who doesnt live very far from NHN as the crow flies, I have to agree with him. 20C is a very pleasant temperature indeed, and that is about what it has been today, so I have been confortably warm. Stuck at work, so cant really enjoy it though!

Jock - guilty of stealing the sun today, and I have every intention of hanging onto it! Today has been absolutely glorious, and largely spent in the garden fighting the weeds, mowing the lawn etc. Now have a stiff back (as usual) from doing too much. Father's Day cards received from both of my offspring, then good long phone calls from them both.

Duly watched the 8F accelerating hard uphill out of St Bees station. Called in on a friend whose patio is about 15 to 20 feet from the line, and he and his patio had been covered in 'smuts' as 48151 went by. He wasn't too upset, saying it was a pleasant change from "those smelly diesels" (aka Class 37s on nuclear flask trains).

If it was on terrestrial TV here, I would! I don't fancy Wales' chances much though. They will do well to avoid a hammering.