Early Risers.

[AndrewC]

8 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

Andrew C,

If you want an evening away from the hotel when you are stuck in Telford, PM me and I'll let you have our 'phone number then if we're in you would be welcome to come up for a visit - we're only about 25 minutes up the road.

 

 

Dave

 

You may live to regret that offer.  Depending on whether I can escape my co-workers I'd like that. Stay tuned. 

[bbishop]

1 hour ago, AndrewC said:

  As far as work goes it looks like I'll be spending at least 2 nights a week in a hotel in Telford to attend "meetings" and planning sessions over the next 2 1/2 months. Joy unbound. 

 

 

 

Beware the muddy hollows, you never know who inhabits them .....

Bill

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

It’s still raining! Not a lot planned for today, but I do have to go and pick up a parcel that the post office tried to deliver yesterday when we were out!

 

Back later. 

[Kingzance]

Mawning,

 

Late on parade as a a lot of ER’s to wade through, and yes, it is still rather wet in NEHerts so wading could be the order of the day/week/month. Moist atmospherics has brought a return of hip trouble - bu&&er! Limited items planned for today must include some photographical editing and perhaps railways too! Stoney Stratford this evening to meet up with fellow male residents from our old village for an OBNO - old boy’s night out, we can still remember each other’s names so aren’t totally past it yet.

 

I have to admit I love cheese, but please don’t tell my doctor. Anything from nice stinking runny stuff through strong cow’s and sheep’s milk white and blue cheeses down to creamy white cheeses such as Vallage or Cheshire, I love them all. If we are out, SWMBO will have a desert but I will usually have cheese. I do however avoid cheeses that have all manner of fruit bits impregnated (cranberry, apricot etc.) as I may have the odd grape or stick of celery but tend to get my five-a-day elsewhere. I bake my own bread from locally ground flours and cheese with a slice/wedge/doorstep is a significant reason why KZ must diet!

 

The Speyside malt was delicious, happy birthday again Brian!

Edited June 13, 2019 by Kingzance
Carp triping

[BoD]

When it comes to the deployment of glue and the use of a scalpel my levels of stupidity know no bounds. 

Just saying.

 

Did I tell you it's still raining?

[bbishop]

4 minutes ago, BoD said:

When it comes to the deployment of glue and the use of a scalpel my levels of stupidity know no bounds. 

Just saying.

 

Did I tell you it's still raining?

 

Meanwhile, I was worried that GDB had posted mid sentence.  He may be safe with scalpels and glues - but doors etc ......

 

Bill

[tigerburnie]

12 hours ago, bbishop said:

 

Try Wickes - where I get mine.

 

Bill

I did, they no longer sell them it seems

[Barry O]

Congratulations to Mr & Mrs GDB. 49 years..

 

Doctors visited. Horse tablets of an antibiotic kind  provided. Sent to local cottage hospital in Otley. Chest X ray took all of fifteen minutes from walking in to walking out.Great!

And.....it has stopped raining for a minute or two. Lummy!

 

BoD ...sounds like GDB injury syndrome is catching.

 

Baz

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. A bit late on parade as well as the pages on RMweb seem to 'stick'. Sunny but a bit windy but dry at the mo. Onion is the perfect addition to cheddar cheese, I forgot to mention it was with the cheddar/scrumpy. When I make cheese on toast there is usually a layer of chopped onion between the bread and the cheese.

[southern42]

' Morning all from red dragon land.

Raining...

Congratulations to Mr & Mrs GDB from us as well.

 

Phew! What a year!  Busy...busy...busy...

Not a lot of m*ddling apart from a bit on the cakebox challenge to keep me sane (?).

 

Latest acquisiton is a bowler hat to wear when we take Hunslet Maid Marion out for a run (when the rain stops!?!) - not perfect but it does come with elasticated band to keep it on my wee head!  Though several sizes too big, youngest says it looks OK and and taught me a fun way of putting it on.

That got me started...

 

 

A few more ways to entertain the kids at West Shore, then?

 

Wishing you all well.

 

____________________

Best wishes

Polly 

[Extracted from previous (RMweb) Signature...  So many changes!  I will get to grips with it eventually.]

 

 

Edited June 13, 2019 by southern42

[AndyID]

Something woke me up or maybe I was dreaming. Now a robin is "geeing it laldy" . Sheesh!

[grandadbob]

Well we enjoyed our pre shopping breakfast at 'Spoons and I even managed to hobble around Sainsbury's albeit in a bit lot of discomfort from The Knee although unlike Andrew I haven't had to resort to a brace.  I have had to resort to Tramadol on occasions though. Seeing the Doc tomorrow.

On returning home I phoned the model railway emporium about the wrong wagon and have come to an arrangement. At my suggestion they will now send the right wagon but in the wrong box ie for the wagon I've got *    and also have given me a bit of extra discount so full marks to them. 

 

* I keep all boxes so that in the event of me popping my clogs hopefully it may help sell my collection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[tigerburnie]

Commiserations...…………………….er I mean congratulations Mr and Mrs GDB...………………………………..

[The Lurker]

12 hours ago, AndyID said:

 

#1 Daughter sent me a selection of UK cheeses for my recent 70th orbit. There was some Red Leicester. I enjoyed it but MrsID was less keen.

Mrs Lurker discovered some mature Red Leicester, which was much better than the normal processed stuff available - a much richer flavour

[TheQ]

Someone turned the hose on.. I'm glad i'm not out there..it's some of the heaviest I've seen.. There is a roaring sound coming from the tin roof...

[The Lurker]

Greetings from LBG where it is now raining - although it did have the decency to wait until I had popped out of the office to get some lunch. Congratulations to GDB and Mrs GDB and also to BrianUSA for reaching their respective milestones.

 

Not too much to report today. Spreadsheet King resigned a couple of weeks ago and we will have to find someone to do his role. Once he's gone it will be all hands to the pumps to cover it til we do. And I have a 2 1/2 week holiday booked! I am pressing him to do work much earlier this year....

 

 

[Ian Abel]

Happy anniversary to GDB and the Mrs...

 

BIN day, hope the Mrs gets them out early enough

 

More crazy report re-writes yesterday.

Panic usually sets in here the day before I leave. For some reason they mostly ignore my presence for the first couple of days, as if I'm not even here!

 

Rain once again the order of the day here too, "supposed" to end around 1PM and just be cloudy for the remained of the day.

Hopefully meaning my flight won't be affected - FAT CHANCE, this is JFK we're talking about

 

13 and just started raining as I drove in, only supposed to reach 17 for a high. Meanwhile supposed to be another delightful day back home, sunny and highs in the low-mid 20's.

 

Bon chance mes amis!

[tigerburnie]

Found a source on ebay for some 3mm cork sheets, much to my delight, a bit cheaper than the tiles too.

[lightengine]

It's mostly raining quite a lot in sunny Teignmouth today although Babbacombe is still visible.

 

Herve is my favourite stinky cheese but being Belgian it's probably not available here.  Newton Abbot market stocks Stinking Bishop, so it's not all bad.

 

 

[The Stationmaster]

Afternoon all,

 

It is (obviously) raining here too although this morning it wasn't - so herself popped down to the town to collect an undelivered parcel, frequent the local Clarks shoe shop before it closes at the end of the week, and visit it Waitrose,  By the time I was called to collect her the rain had started so she had an even more welcome lift home marred only by some halfwit motorist ahead of us for whom logic about road positioning and the way in which traffic lights work seemed to have been forgotten (assuming it had ever existed).

 

I see that yesterday's local push-bike cycling event managed to produce one collision ('somewhere near Didcot') although nothing as serious as the one in France.  Oddly the DT doesn't seem to have got the message that yesterday involved  'a battle of the hills'  (two of them) one of which was Pishill  -  I bet that one gave some commentators a bit of a pronunciation puzzle

 

Enjoy the rest of your day.

[Kingzance]

45 minutes ago, lightengine said:

 

 

Herve is my favourite stinky cheese but being Belgian it's probably not available here.  Newton Abbot market stocks Stinking Bishop, so it's not all bad.

 

 

Livarot and Vacheran Mont Door are "mellow" cheeses that "make their presence known in advance" and both are have been purchased in this country when I have really wanted to Pish off SWMBO.

Still raining here, CowboysRUs continue their games across a lunar landscape such that it could be named The Sea of Mudquility. I feel sorry for those who will buy these erections, the inter-wall insulation comprises some form of bagged insulating man-made wool that the cowboys stuff into place when they can be bothered but which has been exposed to the precipitation for weeks! Given up on latest session of photo-editing because I have confirmed that you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Muggertea beckons, may even sneak un peu de fromage.

[Happy Hippo]

Local precipitation over the past 48 hours have ensured that Muddy Hollow (Forward) is now at full capacity and is ready to create a first class wallowing pit.

 

Perhaps it is an opportune moment to remind potential users that being an elephant free zone, trunks are not permitted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BSW01]

Sheila asked me earlier if I still plannec on going swimming tonight. I said yes, as I can't get much wetter once I'm in the water. She then commented on the fact that, as we're having baked beans with tonight's tea added to the mushy peas last night, that I may be jet propelled! 

[lightengine]

14 minutes ago, BSW01 said:

Sheila asked me earlier if I still plannec on going swimming tonight. I said yes, as I can't get much wetter once I'm in the water. She then commented on the fact that, as we're having baked beans with tonight's tea added to the mushy peas last night, that I may be jet propelled! 

Don't want to be behind her at zumba

[Gwiwer]

Welcome back to my occasional ER interruptions!

 

I haven't made any attempt to read the past  few days-worth so my apologies are proffered for anything I might have overlooked.  

 

It has been wet Upon the Hill.  Wetter than any previous June.  We recorded 67mm of rain on Moanday and have so far notched up another 12mm today.  The forecast suggests there is plenty more to come.  This will go down as the wettest June on record.  

 

The heavy rain of course produced its share of flooding with the Mitcham area being completely awash after the River Wandle found itself unable to cope.  Puddles were seen in the formation through several platforms at the House of Fun which gave rise to some concern but in the event cause no delays.  The biggest problem arose yesterday with all water supplies for miles around running dry around 8am after overnight pressure losses.  Ah the irony - so much rain leads to no water!

 

The outage was all over the news of course.  Thames Water's main pumping station at Hampton suffered  "a major burst".  The effects were that SWMBO was unable to go to work because she was unable to shower - a facility required rather than preferred in her particular situation - and of course we were unable to either flush toilets or wash hands after using them.  The local shop still had some bottled water at the time I got home but was limiting it to 3 per customer.  I came away with 3x1.5L bottles keeping two for us and giving one to Neighbour (Upstairs).  Soon after we learned there had been a fight over the last remaining bottles.  

 

Any business can have a bad day.  It is how they manage events which determines how well that business is regarded.  A major regional water outage affecting an area up to 15 miles in all directions instantly produced a deluge of enquiries and messages to the various social media portals.  Schools were forced to close.  Teddington Hospital was also forced to close.  Yet we got nothing from Thames Water beyond a very vague apology at 10.45 saying they had "specialist teams investigating the problem".  After that they went silent ignoring customers, official approaches from local councils, Teddington Hospital and at least one MP.  Furthermore no bottled supplies were made available in many areas and possibly none at all.

 

We are not impressed.  You cannot predict such an event but you can plan for it and swing that plan into action as soon as it happens.  Thames Water appeared to us to do nothing.  It's not as though we have a choice of supplier or an alternative pipe.

 

In other news Tuesday evening saw us aboard the Sunset Steam Express for dinner.  Steam Dreams provided a green kettle called Mayflower and (for us) an East Coast Pullman called Topaz to dine most comfortably in.  SWMBO was absolutely stunned to discover our places included a frilly table lamp, soft armchairs and outstanding at-seat service.  She spent the whole trip beaming and smiling, revelling in the experience and commenting on the "chuffing" from the sharp end.  The food and drink was of top quality and we felt we had enjoyed very good value for money indeed.  I even managed a couple of minutes on the footplate back at Waterloo chatting with the crew.  That isn't something one can do every day!!!

 

Best wishes to all.  It continues to rain.  I guess it depends how you stress "Flaming June"