The Night Mail

[J. S. Bach]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

I regret to report that my granddaughter's  pet Guinea Pig, 'Fluttershy' was put to sleep this morning.  Of course there will be another, as 'Fluttershy' had a companion, who is already very lonely.  It was made worse by the poor little thing falling ill whilst the family where away on holiday.

 

In less tragic news, my new outdoor woodworking room has arrived and is currently living in three large boxes stacked against the side of the garage.

 

I can guarantee that the floor, which has to go down first, will be in the box that is closest to the garage wall, so I will have to shift the other two first!

 

Construction will probably start tomorrow afternoon, and should be completed on Sunday.

 

It will then take the rest of the year to populated this mini palace with all my woodworking kit and spare timber.

 

Only then will I have enough space in the garage to breathe whenever I walk in there🤣.

 

You really should have split that post; I had a difficult time deciding whether to "rate" it for Fluttershy's passing or the arrival of the shed. I ended up going with the shed although the passing of a pet is never really ok.

[Dave Hunt]

Managed to log in to Avanti trains web site and book tickets with only one hiccup that required starting again (it wouldn't let me use my wrinkly railcard first time of trying for some reason) so not much shouting at the screen. One of us must be improving.

 

And the sciatica is calming down so shed here I come!

 

Dave

[TheQ]

2 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

It probably means that once the shed is filled to the brim, there will be enough room in the garage to start sorting the stuff remaining!

 

Highly unlikely, the stuff left in the garage will expand to fill the space..

[Hroth]

2 minutes ago, TheQ said:

Highly unlikely, the stuff left in the garage will expand to fill the space..

 

I know, but its best not to discourage HH by pointing out the obvious too soon...

 

[Happy Hippo]

2 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

 

And the sciatica is calming down so shed here I come!

 

Dave

Exercise is good for sciatica, so come over to my new shed, and help me put it up.

 

In other news of the catering variety, a friend gave us a block of fresh yeast, and I have been experimenting with it.

 

So far we have enjoyed a seeded white bloomer type loaf, and next off the mixing board will be some bread rolls.

 

Guidance on how much fresh yeast to use with 500 g of strong flour, seems variable with some saying 10g is enough, whilst the highest quoted figure has been 30g!

 

Having seen how well 15g (approx) of fresh yeast made the dough rise, I would expect 30g could be enough to raise the dead!

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 18, 2023 by Happy Hippo

[Happy Hippo]

Woe is me!

 

Fish, chips and mushy peas for our evening meal, and a can of Old Speckled Hen has just burst open and has to be drunk before it goes off.

 

I think his friend who is hiding in the fridge might also feel he needs more exposure.

[Dave Hunt]

4 hours ago, TheQ said:

Highly unlikely, the stuff left in the garage will expand to fill the space..

 

Garages are a sub-set of Terry Pratchett's L-space in that all garages are linked in G-space so that if one is partially emptied and/or tidied, things from other garages will filter through the thin membranes of reality and fill it up again; in the process the contents will be affected by the n-dimensions whirlwinds so that it will become untidy. This process is similar to other sub-sets such as C-space (modellers' cupboards) and the W-space of workshops.

 

Dave 

[AndyID]

6 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Matthew’s first hamster “Zippy’ died while we were in holiday. The owner of the hamster hotel where Zippy had been booked in while we were in Devon had been unable to contact us for a few days, there wasn’t a mobile signal where we were were staying. She asked us what we wanted to do with Zippy. I asked what she had done and she said Zippy was currently in the freezer. So we collected her  when we returned home. She was the first in what was a small pet rodent graveyard. 

 

RIP Zippy.

 

This Zippy lives on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippy_the_Pinhead

[Hroth]

34 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

Garages are a sub-set of Terry Pratchett's L-space in that all garages are linked in G-space so that if one is partially emptied and/or tidied, things from other garages will filter through the thin membranes of reality and fill it up again; in the process the contents will be affected by the n-dimensions whirlwinds so that it will become untidy. This process is similar to other sub-sets such as C-space (modellers' cupboards) and the W-space of workshops.

 

Dave 

 

This is so.

 

I may have mentioned, at some time or another, that I am attempting to "sort out" my garage, which is still filled with boxes unsorted since moving over 18 months ago.  I am constantly coming across boxes of stuff that I have no recollection of packing and don't know why I would have packed it!

 

Its a process of two steps forward, three steps back....

 

[Winslow Boy]

32 minutes ago, AndyID said:

 

RIP Zippy.

 

This Zippy lives on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippy_the_Pinhead

 

Where's Bungle then? For you

youngsters there was Zippy & Bungle puppets when I was mer slip of a lad. Pure innocent fun.

[polybear]

Just now, Winslow Boy said:

 

Where's Bungle then? For you

youngsters there was Zippy & Bungle puppets when I was a mere slip of a lad. Pure innocent fun.

 

Puppets?  They weren't Puppets.....

 

 

[Winslow Boy]

Just now, polybear said:

 

Puppets?  They weren't Puppets.....

 

 

Well they had hands shoved up there ....... I leave the rest of your imaginations. So if they weren't puppets someone was enjoying themselves.

 

And zips for mouths.

[Tim Dubya]

Remember the original Bungle?

 

 

I still wake up screaming 😱

 

[newbryford]

16 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

Where's Bungle then? For you

youngsters there was Zippy & Bungle puppets when I was mer slip of a lad. Pure innocent fun.

 

Not that innocent..

 

 

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, Hroth said:

 

This is so.

 

I may have mentioned, at some time or another, that I am attempting to "sort out" my garage, which is still filled with boxes unsorted since moving over 18 months ago.  I am constantly coming across boxes of stuff that I have no recollection of packing and don't know why I would have packed it!

 

Its a process of two steps forward, three steps back....

 

Only 18 months, that's nothing there are boxes in the dark recesses of our shed that have been there since we moved here 5 years ago.  Some have ivy growing over them.  AS to what's under the tarpaulin that was left by the previous owner I shudder to think.

 

Jamie

[PhilJ W]

I've lived in this house for 35 years, I still find things that I'd completely forgotten or didn't know I had.

[MrWolf]

12 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

Only 18 months, that's nothing there are boxes in the dark recesses of our shed that have been there since we moved here 5 years ago.  Some have ivy growing over them.  AS to what's under the tarpaulin that was left by the previous owner I shudder to think.

 

Jamie

 

Under those tarpaulin sheets could be either an old fitted kitchen they were going to reuse or a 1938 Mercedes / Lagonda / Talbot-Lago / Delahaye ...

[MrWolf]

33 minutes ago, newbryford said:

 

Not that innocent..

 

 

 

Zippy: "Bungle! Jeffrey's gone out!"

 

George: "Tip some more diesel on him..."

[jamie92208]

1 minute ago, MrWolf said:

 

Under those tarpaulin sheets could be either an old fitted kitchen they were going to reuse or a 1938 Mercedes / Lagonda / Talbot-Lago / Delahaye ...

Sadly the car that got left behind was a Rover 75, I gave that away this year.  Most of it is gardening tools from someone whose ex wife was renting space in the shed.   We know her as the Poison Dwarf.  

 

Jamie

[Tony_S]

3 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

 

Under those tarpaulin sheets could be either an old fitted kitchen they were going to reuse or a 1938 Mercedes / Lagonda / Talbot-Lago / Delahaye ...

It might be another Rover?

Just seen your reply about tools!

Edited August 18, 2023 by Tony_S

[Hroth]

Just now, MrWolf said:

 

Under those tarpaulin sheets could be either an old fitted kitchen they were going to reuse or a 1938 Mercedes / Lagonda / Talbot-Lago / Delahaye ...

 

Or a disconnected chest freezer containing the remains of an unwanted relative...

 

[MrWolf]

51 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

Well they had hands shoved up there ....... I leave the rest of your imaginations. So if they weren't puppets someone was enjoying themselves.

 

And zips for mouths.

 

Twenty years later Zippy starred as The Gimp in Pulp Fiction....

[MrWolf]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

Sadly the car that got left behind was a Rover 75, I gave that away this year.  Most of it is gardening tools from someone whose ex wife was renting space in the shed.   We know her as the Poison Dwarf.  

 

Jamie

 

I'd have been happy had it been a Rover 2000 from about 1965.

A 75? That's either a ponderous rust bucket from the fifties or a pound shop BMW, not good. 

But you have my sympathy when it comes to being lumbered with O.P.S. (Other People's  Shi... Stuff...) in your garage.

It was only going to be there for a couple of weeks wasn't it? 

You end up having to fall out with people half the time to get shot of it.

 

 

Edited August 18, 2023 by MrWolf
General illiteracy

[Happy Hippo]

2 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

Where's Bungle then? For you

youngsters there was Zippy & Bungle puppets when I was mer slip of a lad. Pure innocent fun.

Don't forget George

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

I've lived in this house for 35 years, I still find things that I'd completely forgotten or didn't know I had.

A bit like the old bloke who lives in our spare bedroom:

 

'What do you mean, my smelly old uncle? I thought he was your smelly old uncle!'