Early Risers.

[jamie92208]

I also read JC's blog and thought the corn was not very ripe.   Around us the corn and now barley harvest is in full swing.   The last combine came past our house at 23.30 last night and they have worked later than that some nights.   The sunflowers have ripened in the last few days and the maize is growing well.   Some of the harvested wheat fields have had the straw baled and then been disc harrowed.

 

Jamie

[TheQ]

Too windy here on the coast for sunflowers I think..

 

Good news, both major systems passed, stress levels greatly reduced, especially when I found the bug in the new crosscheck review software..

Now gently proceeding with a temperature meter that was meant to ship yesterday, at least it's measurement only...no adjustment..

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

The sun is shining and there is a fair bit of blue sky  showing. Should be a mainly warm and dry day although there is the possibility of some showers later.

Enjoyed watching the cricket highlights last night. Good news is that it the Final will be shown on Channel 4 on Sunday. It will move to More 4 while the British Grand Prix is on. I suspect there may be disputes about who views what in certain households, especially if Tennis comes into the mix. 

The Boss doesn't watch any sport! We do have three TVs but the big one in the lounge is reserved for me when something "important" is showing. That sometimes  often causes friction.  

After yesterday's board altering disaster (even though I measured thrice  ) I may pay a visit to the shed today and start again. Luckily I have some ply left over from when the shed was lined. I'll probably c#ck it up again.

Have a good one,

P. Essimistic.

 

 

 

Edited July 12, 2019 by grandadbob

[New Haven Neil]

MOrning.

 

Scorchio day prediction was somewhat wide of the windy, showery truth.  Humbug.

 

So bike club will be the car club, then off to see one version of Sister Drac or another, pay the bills etc. Might get to see our Charlie while in the hospital, that'll cheer me up.  I'll message her to try to get a brew together, as a hospital social worker she's generally run off her feet.

[Kingzance]

Sending positive vibes to those who clearly need them (GDB amongst others), I have a day of mundane g-type tasks relating to previous residence to complete prior to being much in demand tomorrow at the Village Fete where I shall be one of the barbecue chefs, the official photographer and judge of the local Scout’s photography competition. We have then been assigned further grandchild sitting duties whilst their parents attend a black tie event at No1 son’s school (no ChrisF, rainbow dickies are not permitted).

Further bp readings this morning gave no comfort so a radical plan may be required . Years of abuse heaped on the temple that is my body have reached a peak it seems.

[Tony_S]

 Morning.

Fairly quiet here. A few birds tweeting away. Some builders in the next road are preparing for the day by cleaning their cement mixer. 

I may spend some time pottering about in the garage. Aditi is going out with the  neighbours and their grandson. Aditi arranged some guest passes for the gym/swimming pool for them. 

Tony

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

The early rain that was falling this morning has now stopped, but the sky is still grey with no blue or white for that matter visible at all. As it’s Friday that means a shopping expedition to the Trafford Centre is the plan, I’ll also call at Asda to get a few things that our local Sainsbury’s no longer stock. I was going to be accompanied this morning,  it Sheila had a bit of a lie-in this morning and has now decided to stay in instead. 

 

My return trip trip will take me to the butchers where I’ll pick up the weekly meat rations and a pastie for my dinner. 

 

**** breaking news

 

here is a weather update, the sun is shining, I might even have to put my sunglasses on!

 

enjoy the day. 

[BSW01]

I forgot to add, that we try and plant as many Bee friendly plants as we can and we do see quite a lot of bees (lots of different types) and butterflies in the garden.

The grandkids love watching them. 

[Coombe Barton]

3 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

I also read JC's blog and thought the corn was not very ripe.   Around us the corn and now barley harvest is in full swing.   The last combine came past our house at 23.30 last night and they have worked later than that some nights.   The sunflowers have ripened in the last few days and the maize is growing well.   Some of the harvested wheat fields have had the straw baled and then been disc harrowed.

 

Jamie

Thought that you spread the sowing so that you could spread the harvest. Coudn't do with everything ripening at once, you'd never get it successfully harvested.. Barley round here is golden and looks, to my completely untrained eye, ready.

Edited July 12, 2019 by Coombe Barton
Bl**dy autocorrect

[TheQ]

27 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

Thought that you spread the sewing so that you could spread the harvest. Coudn't do with everything ripening at once, you'd never get it successfully harvested.. Barley round here is golden and looks, to my completely untrained eye, ready.

You'll  have to Ask JCs wife about Sewing, but farmers do their Sowing these days in areas all together, because they hire in harvesters from outside, and it's cheaper to hire in the harvester that's in the area.

Often it's not even the farmers that do the sowing , they just contract out the fields to whoever wants to use them and then say, a brewer, will hire loads of fields in an area all planted and scheduled (they hope) to ripen in order to use one combining team to harvest the barley.

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Bright and sunny here this morning but the odd shower is predicted but a strong chance of missing a shower altogether. The butterfly I rescued yesterday I've identified as a large white, though it was neither large or completely white. Not a lot else to report, be back later.

[Tony_S]

The main crop when we moved to this area was wheat. Then that was replaced with purple or yellow oilseed crops. Now the fields have boot sales or traveller sites. Further north in Essex there still seems to be a lot of cabbage growing. 

[PhilJ W]

The principal crop in Essex and indeed other parts of East Anglia was malting barley. This was dispatched all over the country including to many Scottish distileries. Complete trains of grain wagons used to make their way north at one time. This has largely been displaced by oilseed rape, the bright yellow plant. The purple flowering plant is linseed, as I was informed by John Jolley when he grew it one year. Both plants are very attractive to bees  who are attracted to yellow and purple flowering plants.

Edited July 12, 2019 by PhilJ W

[roundhouse]

Good morning from Salt lake City. Our last full day here and its the trainshow where convention attendees get the morning to ourselves before the public are allowed in so its good for browsing the trade stands. I suspect my other half will buy more locos than me as per last year if she finds any Norfolk Southern or UP heritage livery locos.

 

Its been 100 F here the past few days so we have been riding the Front Runner trains to Ogden and Provo in the morning, back to convention hotel to do a few clinics before heading out on the light rail to various breweries that arent too far to walk in the heat. The problem with the clinics is that the meeting rooms have no natural light and I am not keen on the lighting so tend ot struggle to keep my eyse open despite some of the talks being very informative. I was struggling yesterday in the Soundtraxx talk on their Tsunami 2 decoders.

 

Tomorrow we fly to Portland whilst the friend we are with takes the California Zephyr to Oakland - hes hoping that he isnt sitting at the Amtrak shack many hours during the night waiting for it as they have all been quite late in recent days.

[BoD]

53 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

The main crop when we moved to this area was wheat. Then that was replaced with purple or yellow oilseed crops. Now the fields have boot sales or traveller sites. Further north in Essex there still seems to be a lot of cabbage growing. 

 

On our recent visit to Cornwall I kept my eye out for the fields of cream teas as we passed through Devon but they didn't seem to be growing any at all. 

All the Cornish Pasty mines seemed to have closed down too, although we saw many of the derelict remains.

 

Very clammy/muggy here.  I'm sure you all have your own dialect words to describe what I mean.

Edited July 12, 2019 by BoD

[Andrew P]

Just returned from a week in Devon, and a couple of pics from the accommodation at Otter Falls, near Honiton.

 

I gave our Greyhounds Duck a quack by the window, and a gaggle of REAL ONES, came up from the Lake to investigate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jamie92208]

2 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

Thought that you spread the sowing so that you could spread the harvest. Coudn't do with everything ripening at once, you'd never get it successfully harvested.. Barley round here is golden and looks, to my completely untrained eye, ready.

Yes they do stagger the sowing. Some of the farms round here still do their own harvesting but a lot is contracted out. The combines tend to be used on the wheat first then the barley, followed by the sunflowers then the maize.  It's fascinating to see adjacent fields coming ripe and being harvested a few days apart.

 

Jamie

[Ian Abel]

Ahhh POETS

 

Trip/training yesterday at the hospital was worthwhile. The lady I was training turns out to be the CNO (Chief Nursing Office) basically level #2 on the management heap, right below CEO.

Very well informed and interested person, who will "finally" be providing some feedback on the departmental dashboard/reports that have been stagnating for almost two years.

Her predecessor wasn't at all interested in information, but this lady and her assistant (a transplant from the finance department I deal directly with) are going to be an excellent change.

 

Nothing else to report from the day <yawn> just more/new versions of half of what's here already

 

Will bail out early for the flight home, already been informed they are looking for volunteers to give up their seats - put my bid in at $500 - we'll see if they take the bait, it's been nearly two years since I was successful.

 

22 already at 7AM driving in under partly cloudy skies - headed for 30 and steamy later but at least no clouds/rain predicted so perhaps the flight will be on time.

 

Tally ho.

[Stubby47]

2 hours ago, BoD said:

 

On our recent visit to Cornwall I kept my eye out for the fields of cream teas as we passed through Devon but they didn't seem to be growing any at all. 

All the Cornish Pasty mines seemed to have closed down too, although we saw many of the derelict remains.

 

Very clammy/muggy here.  I'm sure you all have your own dialect words to describe what I mean.

 

We don't tell the emmets where the real pasty mines are...

 

Grey here today, just outside Camborne.

 

Here's a fun website to pass the time with :  https://routecalculator.co.uk/elevation - how high are you ?

[TheQ]

11 minutes ago, Stubby47 said:

 

We don't tell the emmets where the real pasty mines are...

 

Grey here today, just outside Camborne.

 

Here's a fun website to pass the time with :  https://routecalculator.co.uk/elevation - how high are you ?

it says 16ft which is not quite correct its 19ft.. i live on a norfolk mountain.. work is however at 98ft.. I'll get altitued sickness up here..

[New Haven Neil]

It shows 75 ft for us, not bad as the OS 30m line passes through our garden.

 

The rain has stopped but it still mighty breezy.

 

Sister Drac was a rather male Glaswegian built like a brick outhouse today!  Good though, first time in, and I have deep arteries that can be an issue to get.

[Tony_S]

37metres. This is quite high locally. 

[BSW01]

It puts me at 82 feet (25m) above sea level.

I didn't realise I was that tall! 

[AndyID]

2,200 feet here (from Google Earth).

[jamie92208]

Our old house was at 525. I believe that our new one is similar.

 

Jamie