Early Risers.

[grandadbob]

Evenin' each.

Good news, not so good news and bad news from the Land of Sutt tonight.

Good news is that I spent time in the shed and all old boards now cleared of track, ballast and wiring so new construction can commence.

Not so good news is that The Knee is protesting. A lot. And more.

Bad news is that today's expected parcel (which I paid extra postage for nominated day delivery) is not coming until tomorrow so I'll have to wait in again. Tomorrow I was going to take The Boss out for the day. Oops.  The only good thing about that is the place where we were going to is mainly outside and the weather forecast tomorrow is not very good.

At least the young lady at the supplier took full blame, apologised profusely and within 10 minutes of me putting the phone down I had an email apologising again and notifying me of a refund of the extra postage in excess of what I'd paid.

We are going out on Thursday for a double celebration so Herself is not too miffed.

I.D. Odgedabullet.

Edited June 11, 2019 by grandadbob

[Tony_S]

My neighbours who travel to Wales frequently to see family have had some nightmare journeys due to strange things happening with their car. They are taking it to the Land Rover dealer in Chelmsford tomorrow. They wanted it seen soon so rather than wait until a loan car or collection is available they are going tomorrow. I said I will go and collect them. Their car has a mysterious battery charging fault and I suspect as mine did (it had a mysterious charging failure too) they will not get it back until the following day. 

Aditi’s car has a tiny windscreen stonechip. The approved insurance repairer can’t fit it in for 10 days at their depot or for 2 weeks for a home visit. The approved repairer is in Romford. So I told them to forget it and I’ll pay for a repair locally. The car did pass the mot with the chip but Aditi was recommended to get it seen to. 

Our fridge bits arrived and now Aditi doesn’t have to feel bad everytime she opened the door and saw the bit I had to repair. I have a model railway related parcel coming tomorrow. Hopefully while one of us is at home.  I have started putting scenic stuff back on my layout after all the garage modifications. I couldn’t really get too enthusiastic about hobbies this year but I have been planning bits and pieces. 

Tony

[New Haven Neil]

Evening, from a bungalow at a towering 30m ASL.  The village church is much the same.  Our garden does drain poorly (clay base) and is worse since next door build an extension out back. Water gets to within 10cm or so of our floor level on a really bad day but then runs away across the lawn to lower land at the back.

 

Good news from the Q's dad.  The customers need a new AVO.  Or a Fluke if well off.....   Never mind all that fancy stuff.

[Northroader]

A trip through London today I saw railway staff with “GWR”, “LNER”, and “Southern” on the backs of their jackets, not one “LMS”, though?

[Compound2632]

I gather LNWR is current, which I find even more confusing. Nearly as retro as the sign on the M25 approaching the junction with the A2, advertising London SE&C.

[JohnDMJ]

9 minutes ago, Northroader said:

A trip through London today I saw railway staff with “GWR”, “LNER”, and “Southern” on the backs of their jackets, not one “LMS”, though?

 

That would have been Virgin on the rediculous!

[brianusa]

Interesting little tidbits today.  Its fairly common to be fingered by the passed car, some don't think they should be overtaken.  A w/s chip bothers the MOT?  Year ago I had a new windscreen installed and within a week it had a small chip show up after some lorry passed the car.  I certainly wasn't going to get another and it has presented no problem but there would be a general uproar if every owner had to replace for just a chip.  They do seem very fussy in the UK about such things as this and dents, etc. All that is done here is the tail pipe emission and for the last twenty years or so, I've had to pay $15 every couple of years for nothing as the car met all requirements.  Its being done away with this year but not before I have to get a last test to renew the plates on the car and another $15!

      Brian.

[BoD]

Evening all.

 

Wind a little brisk here but (as yet) no rain at all.  Yesterday was wall to wall sunshine for most of the day.  You can blame the North/South divide if you like but I think it’s more of a diagonal thing.

This afternoon I visited a modelling emporium, a veritable Aladdin's cave. It sells a little bit of rolling stick, quite a fair bit of scenery making stuff, a fair bit of radio control material and a lot of gaming stuff and plastic kits.  It also sells all the little bits and pieces that it’s not worth, individually, buying over the interwebby thingy.  I could quite happily have spent a lot on a  major purchase but didn’t. I spent even more on lots of little bits and pieces.  Still, they will keep me busy.

Until the next time.

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, Tony_S said:

 

Aditi’s car has a tiny windscreen stonechip. The approved insurance repairer can’t fit it in for 10 days at their depot or for 2 weeks for a home visit. The approved repairer is in Romford. So I told them to forget it and I’ll pay for a repair locally.

 

 

That would really frost my horns. In this state at least the insurance companies can't get away with that. They are only allowed to recommend repair shops. You are not obliged to use them.

 

You could try asking for compensation on the basis that in ten days a small chip can quite easily develop into a gigantic crack requiring a windshield replacement.

[jamie92208]

A folllw up to my post about the death of my friend Mel. His daughter contacted me this afternoon and told me that she had had the redults of the PM.  It turns out that the cause of death was a burst aortic aneurism.  This was also what my mother and several of her siblings either died, of or with.  My brother and I get scanned as often as possible.  I'm not sure what the current NHS policy is with regard to the tests but can I encourage everyone to get tested.  It's simple and pain free and can detect problems well in advance.  If Mel had been che ked he would probably still have been modelling.

 

The only up side of this is that his daughter no longer feels that she had not done CPR well enough to save him.

 

Jamie

[AndyID]

9 minutes ago, brianusa said:

Interesting little tidbits today.  Its fairly common to be fingered by the passed car, some don't think they should be overtaken.  A w/s chip bothers the MOT?  Year ago I had a new windscreen installed and within a week it had a small chip show up after some lorry passed the car.  I certainly wasn't going to get another and it has presented no problem but there would be a general uproar if every owner had to replace for just a chip.  They do seem very fussy in the UK about such things as this and dents, etc. All that is done here is the tail pipe emission and for the last twenty years or so, I've had to pay $15 every couple of years for nothing as the car met all requirements.  Its being done away with this year but not before I have to get a last test to renew the plates on the car and another $15!

      Brian.

 

No emission tests here (yet), although they do have them further South. I too think the MOT stuff in the UK has turned into a bit of a racket although I also think the gendarmes here could do with enforcing the laws concerning downright dangerous and anti-social vehicle modifications.

[Coombe Barton]

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2019/06/11/sandys-treatment-day-175/

[tigerburnie]

Long day on Grandad duties tomorrow so an earlier night...……………..night all

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

Evening, from a bungalow at a towering 30m ASL. 

 

A blistering 29C here at 677m ASL. Unfortunately that's only 30m above lake level which I doubt will be quite enough if Lake Missoula happens to pop its cork again.

[laurenceb]

Condolences John

Night awl

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Didn't do much today, I decided to get the stuff out late this afternoon to continue with the young mans layout. By the time I'd got it all ready the heavens opened so I had to put it all away again.

[bbishop]

51 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

A folllw up to my post about the death of my friend Mel. His daughter contacted me this afternoon and told me that she had had the redults of the PM.  It turns out that the cause of death was a burst aortic aneurism.    I'm not sure what the current NHS policy is with regard to the tests but can I encourage everyone to get tested.  It's simple and pain free and can detect problems well in advance. 

 

Jamie

 

Men are offered a check at the age of about 65.  If you pass, that's it for life.  If you fail, it's an (annual?) check.  About 1 in 1000 get a trip in a yellow truck.

I passed.

Bill

[Ozexpatriate]

44 minutes ago, AndyID said:

I doubt will be quite enough if Lake Missoula happens to pop its cork again

Since the topic is climate change-related sea-level rise, I think you're pretty safe from a prospective Missoula flood - since we'd need quite a substantial ice age to rebuild the glacial dams before that could happen again.

 

Everywhere around here is covered in Missoula flood clay deposits. They are rock hard. In my previous house my spouse wanted some plants moved to a different spot. Shovels didn't do the trick. I needed a crow bar to break the clay. Essentially I scooped out a virtual clay pot in the ground and filled it with more plant-friendly soil. It was much harder work than I signed up for.

 

South of here in the middle of the Willamette Valley (which is all Missoula Flood clay underneath) are so called "glacial erratics". Boulders trapped in icebergs floated all the way down here to ultimately be deposited in the middle what would become the Willamette Valley where such irregular geological items had no business residing.

 

EDIT
We're at 33°C and the mercury is rising.

 

The TV weather people were on about Jupiter the last couple of nights with Jupiter in opposition, at perigee and very bright in the sky. Sunday, I couldn't see anything, but last night was clear. Sure enough, Jovian moons were visible through hand-held binoculars, though I couldn't hold steady enough to clearly identify more than one. I did set up a little telescope (intended for the eclipse) and three of the Galilean Moons were brightly on display. (It didn't help that I had an eye exam - the pupil dilating one - earlier in the afternoon and my vision was still returning to normal.)

 

Edited June 11, 2019 by Ozexpatriate

[Tony_S]

I collected a car at Calgary airport. I think I picked up 4 stone chips in the screen on a short trip from the airport to the university. The hire company didn’t seem bothered. 

The insurance companies here will let you use anyone but the excess is increased and the max cover reduced if you use anyone other than the approved company. They will repair chipped screens free too. However the paid for repair isn’t much. If they can’t repair the chip it will have to go the approved place for replacement.

The insurance company telephoned for a reference., We said they were great but the company they had approved were not. 

[PeterBB]

Jamie, as you say, although not good because of the result Mel's daughter must be relieved to know that she could not have done more.  Burst aortic aneurism - from fat deposits on the blood vessel walls that make them weaker and the aorta has maximum pressure.  Remember one who survived - twenty pints taken in the ambulance, cross-matched  while they were on their way  'the old manual two-hour technique' at the old GRH in the 70s, with the results telephoned to the BRI before the ambulance arrived.  Thankfully I was in the lab already on a call-out (it was a Saturday afternoon) but it was one h8ll of an afternoon session but with a good end result. You remember these times and like now with the 'trigger' you can still picture them.

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[AndyID]

37 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

The TV weather people were on about Jupiter the last couple of nights with Jupiter in opposition, at perigee and very bright in the sky. Sunday, I couldn't see anything, but last night was clear. Sure enough, Jovian moons were visible through hand-held binoculars, though I couldn't hold steady enough to clearly identify more than one. I did set up a little telescope (intended for the eclipse) and three of the Galilean Moons were brightly on display.

 

Looks like it might be clear here tonight. I'll try to drag out the big reflector. (Cut it out you lot. It's a telescope!)

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

It’s still raining, I don’t think it’s stopped all day! It’s also been quite cold, almost autumnal, you wouldn’t think it was almost the middle of June, even the heating came on this morning!

 

Tea went down well with our guests, mind you, fish and chips always does, especially when served with mushy peas. Mind you, we both might live to regret that choice later on!

 

Goodnight all 

[Tony_S]

I had my aorta scan just before my 65th birthday.  I was ok. My father died when his aorta went but it wasn’t the usual aneurism. He had a tumour that had spread from the lung and attached itself to the aorta. It was inoperable (they did try) and for the last few months after the cancer had spread  we were told he could pass away at any moment. 

[Barry O]

Goodnight to most!

Evening or morning to others.

Baz

[Ozexpatriate]

1 minute ago, BSW01 said:

Tea went down well with our guests, mind you, fish and chips always does, especially when served with mushy peas. Mind you, we both might live to regret that choice later on!

I think I would regret the inclusion of mushy peas with fish and chips immediately.

 

Having said that, My dad did like pie and peas (which some Aussies call a floater). But he liked canned peas as well.

 

Personally I do like peas and pea soup. I would probably find mushy peas quite acceptable, but find the idea unappetizing and have avoided them.  In the US, fish and chips is commonly accompanied by coleslaw.