Early Risers.

[BoD]

I would still be out there but was summoned in to sort out the coffee machine that was showing a General Alarm error. Soon sorted, turn off at mains, count to 10 and turn back on.

Tony

I seem to recall that you recently had to do the same for a printer.

You obviously didn't explain that this is a transferable skill.

[Barry O]

Umpires..observed...I may be back on umpiring duties tomorrow though...

 

Totally worn to a frazzle so 

 

 

Night All!

 

Baz

[Simon G]

Second UU team arrived about an hour after the first team had left and were not impressed that the hole had been filled in. Two more large holes were dug adjacent to previous holes, but the pipe was still not located. According to the gear they use for finding these pipes, they just didn’t dig deep enough, despite having got to nearly 5 feet deep! Plan B has now been agreed to ignore the old leaking pipe, and install a new one all the way from our meter near the road to our stopcock. This will involve some crawling around under floorboards, which in turn will need the freezer in the kitchen to be moved to access the hatch to get under the floorboards. This is planned for Thursday, and possibly carrying over into Friday. I dread to think what will go wrong next!

  

You should write a song about all this!

I think that Bernard Cribbins beat me to it when singing songs about holes the wrong size and in the wrong place!

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yShvgXZQBTs

[PeterBB]

Everything fried ... over; no nothing about Banana Splits in any version but do rather like HHs new avatar.

 

Have a great August everyone.

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone

 

Well things didn’t quite go to plan this morning, next door have got landscaping going on and there was a delivery that blocked my exit for a couple of hours. By the time it had been cleared and I’d loaded the car up, it was too late to go to the tip, I’d have got caught in traffic! But, as the car is loaded up readythe plan is to go first thing tomorrow morning.

 

After dinner I spent the afternoon in the workshop, where I repaired a micro servo that refused to move. Once it was stripped down cleaned and then re-assembled it worked a treat.

 

Goodnight all.

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all

 

Our bags are packed and ready to go .... fingers crossed.

[chrisf]

For the last time in the present series, good morning one and all

 

I’m off to Sidmouth in the [early] morning for FolkWeek – nine days of choice music, a few beers and the antidote to creature comforts that is the festival campsite.  A correctly inflated airbed can lead to a surprisingly good night’s sleep and it is good for the soul if not the small of the back.  Early purchases will include the latest Festival T shirt and a new hessian carrier bag to accommodate the purchases of CDs.  Among those on my hit list is the latest by Stream of Sound, a youth choir from Stourbridge that I know well.  They came up with a particularly fine version of “Bread and Roses” last year.  Who knows what else I will find?

 

On the way home I plan to drop into RailWells and not trail too much campsite mud into Warleggans Bank, aka Wells town hall.  Surely you recognised it?  After all that merriment it will be a strain to be back here on Sunday 12^th August but that’s the plan.  There may be breaking news but that is for me to know and you to ponder …

 

Warm thoughts as always to all in distress or missing.

 

Chris

[jamie92208]

G'night all

 

Our bags are packed and ready to go

 

But you're not leaving on a jet plane. I hope that the week goes well and that SWMBO continues to improve.

 

 

Good morning from La Charente. Up early as the roofers were meant to be here by 6.30. I volunteered to be up to greet them as neither of the females in the house seemed to like this idea. However when I got up, Teddy the Golden Retriever came to welcome me and wanted letting out, so I had a wander round the garden with mug of hot coffee in hand whilst Teddy did what he needed to do. He's gone back to bed but the builders have still not arrived.

 

 

Yesterday morning was a bit hectic, but the grass was cut and the roofers got to work. Various things needed doing during the morning, such as getting them a power lead outside and sorting out where they can drive the telehandler. I was very impressed with the care they took as I had shown them where they could drive it up and over a sort of border flower bed. Old tiles were carefully placed as markers and no rose bushes have been harmed. We have also acquired a nice neat stack of complete old tiles that we'll use to cover the top of the wall in years to come. Beth has also acquired a lot of good rubble to line the bases of some planters. In the meantime I got to work in the shed and made a new ramp that gets the lawn mower and wheelbarrows, etc onto the raised garden area. The old one was rather rotten.

 

Beth set off to the Dr's, with an interpreter friend, and I then spent half an hour at the chemist in the afternoon. We are nearly there in getting her rather complex pain meds sorted out. By the end of the afternoon the front half of the roof had been re done. The two lads worked hard and we are very impressed so far.

 

 

I'm off back to the DIY shed this morning for various things, including a new type of fly screen that I can permanently install outside our bedroom windows. These are actually , wait for it,,,,,,French Windows..... and the screen also needs to allow for the shutters to be closed. I've discovered a screen that is like a roller blind in an aluminium frame. With the addition of a little panel of screen material above it this should do the job. It will hopefully allow us to have the doors/windows open at night without the mozzies getting in.

 

 

Anyway that's enough drivelling from me so I will wish all present, and those not present, a good day. I also hope that Chrisf enjoys his travels.

 

 

Jamie

Edited August 1, 2018 by jamie92208

[TheQ]

At the moorings Awl, Inner Temple here,

A very good nights sleep was had after a good Quiz Night we came 5th out of 20 teams 1/2 a point from being 3rd.

A pair doctors of... On the team helped..

An AVO 8 15 to 150 pounds depending on condition.

 

It rained till 09:00 yesterday so I had bacon butties first before putting out the buoys.

 

Two incidents one a single person or two at a squeeze, speedboat was planeing through the fleet, I had to put my rescue boat in front to stop him, I reminded him the limit was 5mph, at that point. He was on a short stay visitor toll..

 

The other, a hire boat complained at being shouted at by racing boats, since the visitor was going along the river correctly, the commodore will read the riot act later, fundamental rule 2, fair sailing, and rule 69, gross misconduct applies..

 

Muggacoffee finished time to finish getting the boats out..

Edited August 1, 2018 by TheQ

[Barry O]

White Yorkshire Day Rabbits!

 

Have a great day and

 

TTFN

Edited August 1, 2018 by Barry O

[Black Marlin]

Greetings all, and hello to Jason Isaacs.

I woke up at 4 this morning from a dream in which I was in the middle of ordering - but had not yet started - an enormous fried breakfast. Although no mars bars were included, I nevertheless blame the discussion here for it - I woke up salivating!

I have not much else to report. I'm at my desk waiting for work to come in, because a subcontractor didn't read the instructions and did their task wrong and thus has to do it all again. Since their re-work hasn't returned to us yet, I am at something of a loose end. Ah well - muggatea time.

Kind regards pogoing up the driveways of the incapacitated;
Tinkety-tonk, etc.,
Gavin

 

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

It is a very pleasant morning, clear blue sky with a gentle breeze. There is some cloud to the southwest. If Mike’s vessel does visit the Thames Estuary he should have some calm seas to observe the lovely coast. I wondered if Trinity House deal with bouys in the Port of London Authority area. There is a marker at Chalkwell in Southend showing where the PLA rules end.

Tony

[newbryford]

At the moorings Awl, Inner Temple here,

A very good nights sleep was had after a good Quiz Night we came 5th out of 20 teams 1/2 a point from being 3rd.

A pair doctors of... On the team helped..

An AVO 8 download.jpeg 15 to 150 pounds depending on condition.

 

 

 

That looks like an AVO 8 Mk1. Recognisable by the all black terminal posts - later versions had a red Positive terminal.

 

(I had to go and look them up on this site)

 

The name Avometer comes from Amps/volts/ohms.

 

Cheers,

Mick

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Weather as reported by Tony, not sure of the limit of Trinity House's juristriction but I have seen their vessels as far up river as Gravesend. There was (is) a TH depot further up river beyond Greenwich but I can't recall exactly where. My own family were watermen working out of Gravesend and until the 1880's provided such services as pilotage between Gravesend and the sea until TH took over such matters. Not planning to do a lot today except to tidy the car up, my friend was eating something with flaky pastry at the weekend and made a bit of a mess, his 10 year old son however managed without making a mess (though ice cream is a different matter). Muggatee awaits, be back later.

[Happy Hippo]

Everything fried ... over; no nothing about Banana Splits in any version but do rather like HHs new avatar.

 

Have a great August everyone.

Thank you.

 

However, I can claim no credit for this new look; it is is entirely down to Shortliner (Jack).

 

He has given me a complete makeover as well as trying to tempt me into building something based on US switching.

[Tony_S]

Phil’s local knowledge suggests that if Mike’s vessel does go up to Tilbury or Gravesend he could sail past our house. Patricia wouldn’t be able to get to Benfleet but I suspect the tender Mike has photographed before could. Benfleet was once a haunt of smugglers.

[81C]

Morning Peeps 

Her has decreed the hallway WILL be painted today having put off the job for weeks,

it's so easy to say when you are retired I'll do it tomorrow or next week the garage got 

finished off yesterday after Her buqqered off out to get some trellis I must get to the quackery 

surgery to get my 3 monthly script and try to get an appointment as my ears & sinarses are

playing up I'm sure it's the latest drug upsetting things.

I hope Mike & Mrs. SM enjoy their trip do wave if you see the boat.  

I better get on there is a scowl approaching.  

 

                                                                                                                enjoy your day Vinny Van Goth 

[PhilJ W]

Phil’s local knowledge suggests that if Mike’s vessel does go up to Tilbury or Gravesend he could sail past our house. Patricia wouldn’t be able to get to Benfleet but I suspect the tender Mike has photographed before could. Benfleet was once a haunt of smugglers.

I have a book in my library titled 'London's lost riverscape'. It is actually a photograph album showing both banks of the Thames from London Bridge to Greenwich in 1937. The photographs were commissioned by the PLA and form a continuous montage of the docks , boatyards, wharehouses and other industries on both banks of the river with some of the vessels visiting them thrown in for good measure. The TH yard features in the photographs complete with buoys under repair.

[Horsetan]

New Exide 74Ah battery ordered for the CX. Supposedly maintenance-free. Might as well.

[45156]

Morning All

 

First off, the usual generic greeetings, and a hope that Mrs Stationmaster manages to make the trip on the Patricia - I know of old how much both she and Mike enjoy the voyage.

 

Got a viewing on the house this afternoon, first for manys the day week month so 30747 decided that we should "do a little tidying" of the house "We won't need to do all that much" - grass got cut, hedges got trimmed, all the strimming got done (well it didn't get done last week as the strimmer line broke, and I didn't have a replacement as "I should have done" - well when I checked it, there was at least three feet of line on each part of the spool - but thanks to Amazon, that was quickly and cheaply rectified £4.35 instead of £8 at the local DIY shed), the bathroom got bottomed, as did the kitchen, and the downstairs carpets were shampooed. If that's "a little tidying, I'd hate to be doing the spring cleaning.

 

Not a great deal else to report, so back tomorrow.

 

Regards to All

Stewart

[newbryford]

New Exide 74Ah battery ordered for the CX. Supposedly maintenance-free. Might as well.

 

Pity about the rest of the car...……….

 

 

Cheers,

Mick

[Ian Abel]

HUMP day even here on Long Island, funny how that happens

 

Nothing to report from yesterday, although there appears to be some undercurrent of significant "happenings" here soon.

The hospital I'm working at has "affiliated" (waaayyy to much of an explanation needed for those from non-FOR PROFIT health care systems) with another larger place, the larger place has told them they need to close their books each month by the 3-4 day - this for a place that routinely doesn't close their books within the next MONTH!

Example, they've NOT closed June yet - may happen today?!?!?     Expecting some MAJOR panics going on soon around here....

 

Some drizzle yesterday evening so convertible remained "un-converted", same went for this AM

 

24 and occasional drizzle this AM, very humid. Expecting 29 and a humid and/or rainy day all day.

 

Carry on...

[Horsetan]

Pity about the rest of the car...……….

 

 

….and you can get in the sea with that one.

[BSW01]

Afternoon all

 

Late on parade as we had a bit of a lie-in this morning, not getting out of bed until after 9:00! So I came downstairs and ate my breakfast and went straight out to the tip, dumped the rumble and came home, re-filled the car and did a second run! On the way home I topped the tank up as the fuel low light came on. Then it was home for a large muggertea, followed by a bit more work in the garden. More rubble has been gathered for the next couple of tip runs, which will be completed next week!

 

This afternoon we have Ava, Evie and Max round for tea, a roast chicken dinner is the menu for tonight, so i'll soon be making a start on the veggies.

 

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