Early Risers.

[brianusa]

17 hours ago, AndyID said:

 

Most likely a Southern V Class "Schools" although, according to my 1959 Observer's Book Of Railway Locomotives Of Britain, possibly a LNER V-2 as one of them was named "St. Peter's School, York, A.D.627" (Not sure how they managed to fit that on the nameplate.)

 

ACE trains did a pink St Trinians

 

  Brian.

[Barry O]

With a brilliant bit of work (watched a video) beast 2 baz 4...can now use Waze direct on car screen.

 

Chris..brilliant boots. Wear them at Pride with pride! Make sure you break them in. I have a colleague who wears Doc Martin shoes to work. He reckons they are very comfortable.

 

Close match today . Yorkshire Ridings over 60s defeating Cheshire in the last over.

 

TTFN

Baz

 

[BoD]

8 minutes ago, bbishop said:

 

....... a gentleman by the mane of Donald J Trump .....

 

 

I see see what you did there.

[tigerburnie]

Evening all, a pleasant day again with grass cutting one of the main chores done, with SWMBO poorly I've also been doubling as a nurse, scary sight 6 foot 4 of bearded ex rugby player trying to be gentle lol (think Sebastian Chabal, though I have now had a hair cut).

A bit more muddling done with more fiddle yarding going on, now need to source a lot points as I've run out. New road bridge ordered as the ones I built  previously were , well, very home made looking, I intend to make as much as I can, but I want this looking the part.

Hope all are well.

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. I'm with Dave on not having a smart phone, in fact I don't even have a mobile. I have a credit card and they keep asking me to sign up for text messages when an internet transaction takes place to confirm that I have made a transaction. As the only internet payments I make are via Paypal I'm not too concerned.

[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

Baz

[Tony_S]

Aditi knows people who don’t have smartphones or internet at home. They seem quite good at asking her to do things for them. 

[Coombe Barton]

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[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

Good progress has been made in the cellar, Ian was initially hoping to finish all in one day, but due to the complexity of the rooms shape, I had my doubts. But he has done all the downstairs walls and some the downstairs ceiling, all that’s left is the ceiling and wall above the stairs, he’s coming back tomorrow morning to finish it all off. I haven’t done an awful lot, mainly act as he’s labourer and generally tidying up the areas where he’d finished and keeping the mixing tools clean so he could carry on with the plastering. 

 

This evening James and Amelia came round for tea, but they were very late getting here tonight. They usually arrive here between 4:45 - 5:00, but it was almost 5:35 when they got here, apparently the traffic was very heavy for some reason. I generally start tea so we can sit down to eat just after 5:00. Tonight we had sausage, beans and chips, luckily I’d not started cooking the sausages, as they would have been cinders by the time they actually got here. I’d put the chips in the oven about 4:30, when it looked like they were going to be late, I turned them right down, so they too wouldn’t get burnt to a crisp.

 

Chris, love the boots!

 

Goodnight all 

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all

[AndyID]

2 hours ago, Barry O said:

With a brilliant bit of work (watched a video) beast 2 baz 4...can now use Waze direct on car screen.

 

Chris..brilliant boots. Wear them at Pride with pride! Make sure you break them in. I have a colleague who wears Doc Martin shoes to work. He reckons they are very comfortable.

 

Close match today . Yorkshire Ridings over 60s defeating Cheshire in the last over.

 

TTFN

Baz

 

 

You might try Navmii too. It works without a network connection.

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[chrisf]

Good morning one and all

 

It is so good to read in these hallowed portals of shawms and crumhorns.  I have been a sucker for the latter ever since I stumbled across that wonderful band Gryphon circa 1973.  If you see someone blowing a reed instrument that looks like an overgrown walking stick, that’s a crumhorn.  Even better is the mention by Coombe Barton of Blondel.  I should take time out from my pursuit of new music and investigate that band, though how available their records are I dread to think.  How fortunate we are to be blessed with lovers of culture.  If the day should ever come when we all like the same music, it will be a sad one indeed.  I was, by the way, delighted to find on YouTube a video of the Young’uns performing Be The Man at Glastonbury.  In the next month or so I will be seeing two choirs.  One I don’t yet know but the other I know very well indeed and they know me.  There will be words in ears about a certain song and we’ll see what happens.

 

Many thanks for the helpful suggestions about my new boots!  I have another pair which are not of DM parentage and learned at Exeter in May that I cannot dance in them, which is a bit unhelpful when you discover this at a ceilidh.  As soon as I have configured the laces to my satisfaction I will put the boots into service for short periods.  81C, the whole point of those boots is their rainbow colour scheme!  A fellow traveller on the Antipodean made me aware of their existence but had I bought a pair in Auckland I would never have got them in my suitcase.  Dave, sunglasses are a good idea, unaccustomed as I am to the cool dude look.  You may rest assured that I will not be wearing The Tie on Saturday but one of three suitable T shirts, two of which I am very lucky to have just acquired.  The Tie could well appear on Thursday evening though as I will be in distinguished company at the Independent conference.  Even I have to look the part once in a while.

 

Best wishes to all

 

Chris

[pH]

21 hours ago, AndrewC said:

PH  AndyID: Beware of Transat. They have a nasty habit of last minute cancellations and changes. MiL had her outbound flight from YYC to LGW cancelled in May. They rebooked her via YVR making a 9 hour direct flight a 14 hour misery. Throw in the issue around them trying to move her from Club Class without offering a refund. They lost that battle. At least they've moved to the North terminal at LGW instead of that awful basement pit checkin zone they used to have.  Another friend had a direct flight from Vancouver cancelled and had to fly to Toronto a day earlier and spend a night in a hotel at his expense when Trans-shat cancelled his flight and rebooked him via YYZ. Who knows how bad they will get once Air Canada buys them out. Meh. WestJet for me. 

 

I probably shouldn't say this, as it will likely jinx all my future flights. However ...

 

We've used Transat from Vancouver to and from the UK (usually Glasgow, but Gatwick on a few occasions) for many years with only one flight having any problems. That was last year, from Gatwick to Vancouver. The incoming aircraft had mechanical problems, we left several hours late and made up very little time on the way. 

 

I thought I would try for compensation (several on here advised this as well). There are websites giving advice and instruction, but they all warn it's not just a case of writing a letter and cashing a cheque. Turns out, that was all it involved! There's a sliding scale taking account of length of flight and degree of lateness, and what we got back was only a few dollars short of the original cost of the round trip.

 

I was surprised that Transat paid compensation without any grumbling, but I'll give them credit for doing so. Based on their response to the problems with that flight, and the satisfactory service we'd had up till then, I will have no problem using them again in the future.

 

(I do have to declare a connection with Transat. My late cousin's daughter, whom I last met 51 years ago, is employed in their head office. I do not know in what capacity. )

[jamie92208]

Morning all from foreign parts (to some).   It looks as if it will be sunny all day and the seaweed twirlers are promising a high of 27.    

 

I had a good afternoon making the small parts needed for the fly screen door. Here are the three of them.

 

They may not look very much, just 31mm by 7mm but they work and hopefully I won't have to keep re-hanging the door.  The pegs needed to be 3.7mm diameter and I only had 4mm brass rod. I also only had a 4mm drill for drilling the plate.  I managed to solve that by using the Unimat lathe that I got at Christmas for the first time.   I managed to turn a 9mm section on the end of the rod down to 3.7mm then soldered the rod into the 4mm hole before cutting the excess off with a hacksaw.  This was repeated another 5 times and worked.   Whether I gain any brownie points for using modelling items for household tasks remains to be seen.

 

This morning I'm off to help a friend dismantle a rather dangerous and unguarded home built circular saw.   he doesn't want his grandchildren injuring themselves on it.  It should be an enjoyable morning.   Apart from that, not a lot to report.

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie

 

[TheQ]

Mooring Awl, Inner Temple Hare,

I got home yesterday prepared my evening meal and a hot toddy, had them and....

Woke up 3 hours later, when Ben the Border Collie started charging around, to tell me our car with SWMBO had arrived home..

 

I needed the sleep, but it made it difficult to get to sleep later and it was one hour sleeps with wake up to roll over and have a coughing fit.. the muscles in my chest hurt now..,

 

I've realised there's missing a parcel (fendering for the boat) which was supposed to be here Monday, on a 48 hour delivery. When I get home i'll make the appropriate emails..

 

The route home has now changed to the summer avoid as many "effin pedestrian clowns" as possible, this avoids the two traffic lighted pedestrian crossings, the narrow river bridge, and the section where the Effin clowns like to think they can wander across the traffic on an A road. Another advantage of this route is there is about to be more roadworks on the normal route as another watermain has burst.. 

 

It's bright sunny and cloudless out there, and we should get more sunlight in the lab through the plastic as the builders are due back today for more work. 

 

I'm still working on the major system and have to rerun two 48 minute sections this morning,  before I can go on, as you paste good results into the spread sheets, it often reveals other  bits that need a rerun later.

The "Owners" of this unit are getting upset as to why it isn't back, well it wouldn't be back yet even on a perfect run. But I don't think they will get it until tomorrow.

 

But first 

 

Time to check the company spam..

 

 

 

[Barry O]

Good morning to most! ( other times are available in ER land).

Nice and sunny this morning.

Mugatea has been delivered by her indoors so I had better drink it.

Enjoy whatever you do today.

Baz

[Robert]

Morning All,

 

I am slightly later on parade this morning as I had a couple of things to sort out in the office.

 

We have a very pleasant morning temperature wise - Much better!

 

Time for a coffee.  Have a good day everyone...

[Kingzance]

Clear blue-ish skies over north Herts, hopefully this will be maintained over the Isle of Wight for the next week. Last night’s cribbage wasn’t too successful as I was on the winning side only twice out of seven games but it’s good company all the same. Prior to that, a purchaser arrived to collect my old dSLR camera and he left with us both happy bunnies. The G word was acted upon yesterday afternoon so Chateau KZ looks neat and tidy.

 

Car to be packed after a leisurely breakfast then orf we jolly well go but via local town to pay in a few crisp notes from yesterday’s trading. SWMBO has decreed that we should visit Gunwharf Keys for some retail therapy before our appointed ferry departs from Portsmouth. I hope it is the Victoria of Wight as I am keen to see this vessel that is far less environmentally damaging than its predecessors. My next contribution should be from the garden of our temporary home on the island, sipping something alcoholic and taking in the less polluted evening air.

 

Have a good day one and all (whatever you may be getting up to) and as Baz Lurman crooned a few years ago, wear sunscreen!

[bbishop]

Jamie said "This morning I'm off to help a friend dismantle a rather dangerous and unguarded home built circular saw.   he doesn't want his grandchildren injuring themselves on it.  It should be an enjoyable morning.   Apart from that, not a lot to report."

 

Jamie, if you need a third pair of hands, whatever you do, don't invite GDB, otherwise there won't be a third pair of hands assisting you!

 

Signed by the GDB Preservation Society.

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

The sun is shining and another fine day is promised.

X-ray result received at last over 2 weeks from when it  was done. Result? "Satisfactory."  Try telling that to my bloody knee!

Errant point fixed, it wasn't level, it is now.

Kids came and cheered me up and they in turn were cheered up by a small addition to their funds.

Garden man who was hopefully going to start next week told me yesterday it's looking more like the 3rd week in August.  

Today I'm going out to look for a new BBQ, I was going to wait until the garden was done but at this rate the summer will be over before that happens!

Have a good one,

F. Edup.

 

 

 

 

[Kingzance]

2 hours ago, chrisf said:

  If the day should ever come when we all like the same music, it will be a sad one indeed. 

You make a very important point there Chrisf, one that should perhaps extend to cover opinions and even thoughts given today’s verbal and even physical assaults on those who don’t hold the same view as the perpetrator.

It is all very well blaming such behaviour on politicians but it is something that pervades our society and is fuelled by the unaccountability of today’s communication methods. In days of old, it was a case of “you're as entitled to your opinion as I am to mine”. That may have occasioned the very rare punch in the nose but it Almost never went beyond that. Today, we see and hear of so many organised protests about so much, it seems we are in a society that searches for reasons to be offended.

Rant over!

[grandadbob]

6 minutes ago, bbishop said:

Jamie said "This morning I'm off to help a friend dismantle a rather dangerous and unguarded home built circular saw.   he doesn't want his grandchildren injuring themselves on it.  It should be an enjoyable morning.   Apart from that, not a lot to report."

 

Jamie, if you need a third pair of hands, whatever you do, don't invite GDB, otherwise there won't be a third pair of hands assisting you!

 

Signed by the GDB Preservation Society.

 

I thought this was supposed to be  "Be kind to GDB week?"  

[tigerburnie]

Morning all, bright and a bit of light cloud scudding about, looks like it might be nice, a visit to the nurse to have my blood pressure checked ( put on a bit of weight and pressure crept up a bit, this was however taken just I was going to the operating theatre for an extraction of Gall bladder so hardly surprising I thought) then the day is mine. Might go for a cycle ride or fishing if the river has dropped after all the rain.

[BoD]

25 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

 

I thought this was supposed to be  "Be kind to GDB week?"  

 

That was the kind version.

You only lost your hands.