Early Risers.

[lightengine]

BBC1 national news reports medication shortages.

Last night my wife said that Belgium is experiencing the same problem. Shortage of Ventolin inhalers being one concern.

[TheQ]

Iirc the inhaler mechanisms are made in kings Lynn by consort medical ( formerly called Bespak,)  but whether the inhaler mechanism or the drug is the shortage I don't know 

[Barry O]

Evening all!

 

After two weeks I have, today, received 50% of my new eye drop prescription..no stock available anywhere in the UK.

Hair cut achieved, Car tax refund paid into the Building Soc, table booked for my Birthday Bash this Friday (the most important task of the day) Modelling achieved successfully. (Photos on my bodging page on here).

 

Tea included home grown rhubarb in a crumble - diabetic mix of oats etc as the topping. Loverly!

 

Have a good evening!

 

Baz

 

[grandadbob]

Evenin' each.

Busy day here at GDB Towers. Various financial tasks and paperwork sorted this morning. 

Physio terrorism examination by telephone at lunchtime.  The result of that is that I now need to go for a "face to face assessment"  in , wait for it, a month hence on the 20th August! My suggestion that perhaps I needed an MRI scan was that " it was to early to be talking about that." I have been advised to exercise gently on the exercise bike for now until the appointment. If things don't improve soon I will be going back to the GP and erm "kicking up a fuss" although it might be difficult to kick given where the problem lies. 

A couple of hours were spent in the shed and although things are moving slowly there is some progress but my name is not Brunel.

 

 

 

 

 

The kids turned up and cheered me up as they always do.

Also had a painter/decorator come to look at the outside of the house to quote for redecorating after the window replacement. The front of the house needs doing completely as that gets all of the weather but the side and back are fine apart from a bit of retouching around the windows. Just got to wait and see how many  modelling tokens will be lost.

More beer needed so cheerio for now.

S.O. Reknee

 

 

 

[JohnDMJ]

Not sure I like the look of that implement on the bench by the clock! Too many teeth.

[southern42]

' Evening all from red dragon land.

Some good weather lately and the garden is coming on fantastically.  The main thing is that the pile of boulders and rubble from the old lean-to (demolished 34 years ago) is now, thanks to a very capable local dry stone waller, is being turned into an extension to the terrace at the side of the steps down to the garden to form a patio area.  Looking good after just a day's work.   Planting at the bottom of the garden is also making progress with the three-foot planter centred behind the square planter standing on top of the old ash stump.  Now filled with sifted earth from the terrace ( which has to be lowered to damp proof course) is waiting plant food and plants.  

 

Ticketing at West Shore got the thumbs up at the recent committee meeting, so it is all steam ahead for the rest of the season.  I managed to number some tickets for last Saturday, but the morning's weather (a bit wet!) seems to have put a lot of people coming down to the beach and playground so we did not get a chance to use them.  They should (weather permitting) start going this weekend.  The numbers start at 471 (470 tickets already printed) - none of this "Oooooh!  I have number 001....I'll put it on Ebay..."  Aren't I mean...?  

 

Wishing you all well.

_____________

Polly

 

Edited July 17, 2019 by southern42
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[brianusa]

On ‎10‎/‎07‎/‎2019 at 16:13, Ozexpatriate said:

 

 

 

What did the home inspection reveal?  Surely a problem of this magnitude would have been exposed!

     Brian.

Edited July 16, 2019 by brianusa
old response from prior post. These seem to show up often!

[Ozexpatriate]

15 minutes ago, brianusa said:

What did the home inspection reveal?  Surely a problem of this magnitude would have been exposed!

Brian, I am assuming you are asking about Ian's water problem:

6 hours ago, Ian Abel said:

Bit of a setback on the new house/moving front yesterday early evening as there was a huge storm here and we discovered there is some water coming in from the basement foundation in the bathroom

...

Days after we first purchased the house we noticed some water after a heavy rain, in the same spot, but were assured by the real  estate agent that it wasn't something that had occurred before.

it's the sort of thing I can imagine a home inspection missing, assuming the inspection was done in a dry spell, although basement leakage would normally show up at any time. It makes me wonder if there were cosmetic repairs to hide the problem, so it would pass inspection.

 

Edited July 16, 2019 by Ozexpatriate

[Ozexpatriate]

18 minutes ago, brianusa said:

old response from prior post. These seem to show up often!

With that quote, I assume your post buffer did not clear. If you click on the + sign handle at the top of a quote (It will say "click and drag to move" if you hover over it), you can delete the quote.

[brianusa]

7 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Brian, I am assuming you are asking about Ian's water problem:

it's the sort of thing I can imagine a home inspection missing, assuming the inspection was done in a dry spell, although basement leakage would normally show up at any time. It makes me wonder if there were cosmetic repairs to hide the problem, so it would pass inspection.

 

 

Hi Michael, you're right about the home inspections.  I have willingly paid for someone to crawl under the house to see what's going on.  Saves a lot of hassle perhaps later.

    Brian.

[Ozexpatriate]

22 minutes ago, brianusa said:

Saves a lot of hassle perhaps later.

The challenge can be finding someone reputable.

 

I moved from Chicago to Portland in 1998. My buyer's inspector in Chicago felt compelled to find fault (to demonstrate value to the buyer) and we had to replace the furnace to keep our deal from falling through. There was nothing wrong with the furnace, other than age.

 

On the Portland side an inspector was recommended to us. We had heard horror stories about a manufactured cement fibre siding product and specifically asked the inspector, "was the home we were purchasing clad in this material?"  He definitively said "no".

 

* This particular siding manufactured in the early 1990s was very susceptible to build up of organics (moss, moulds etc) and warp in the damp Pacific Northwest climate. (I don't remember whether it was Hardieplank or a product of LP.)

 

Turns out he was a buddy of the seller. (The seller had built the home himself.) The siding was that material and a patch of it went bad a couple of years into my ownership and scuttled a potential sale of the house about three or four years after I bought it.

 

I can't complain. For reasons not related to this anecdote, everything turned out well in the end. After widespread legal action (there may have been a class action suit) the manufacturer was required to offer an extended warranty and the sidings were replaced. For a while it felt like we were getting the short end of the stick from home inspectors on both sides of the deal.

 

Edited July 16, 2019 by Ozexpatriate

[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

Baz

[tigerburnie]

Evening all, pleasant day again, doesn't look that cloudy, but there's no moon, eclipsed or otherwise? Bit of shopping, bit of gardening and a bit more muddling, quite a nice balance really. We have a trip south of the border next week, old pal who I was at school with, did our apprenticeships together and used to sing a duet of Canned Heats, World in a Jug in his band passed away after a battle with the big C, just glad the end was pretty quick for him, doubt his son will see it that way though. To end the trip on a brighter note we will also visit my son and his family in deepest darkest Essex ,but  my inoculation's are up to date except for the swamp fever, hopefully it's not the rainy season lol.

There's a bit of innovation and winging it involved with todays muddling, just hope it doesn't all fall down overnight lol

 

[Coombe Barton]

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2019/07/16/sandys-treatment-day-210/

[Coombe Barton]

I've received some photos today of her Debship out in her new eco-car with her mum

 

Things progress with her, I'm very pleased to say

[Ozexpatriate]

16 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

... there's no moon, eclipsed or otherwise?

Moonrise is 9:05pm GMT. It will be full tonight at 10:38pm. The "Buck Moon" apparently.

 

We will not be able to see tonight's partial lunar eclipse in North America.

 

Edited July 16, 2019 by Ozexpatriate

[lightengine]

The Dawlish Warren coaches have had a refurb.

 

[laurenceb]

Affter reading Johns last line my reaction was bl^^^y h^^l it cant be that long!

Like the hon member for Sutton I have been having knee trouble. a visit to the Docs resulted in her prescribing asprin, scary! as I was told years ago that as I an asthmatic I was not to take asprin. So far no side afects and a conciderable redution in pain

Night awl

[Coombe Barton]

13 minutes ago, laurenceb said:

Affter reading Johns last line my reaction was bl^^^y h^^l it cant be that long!

I was at a geological symposium that weekend, and the internet (as was then) slowed.

[Ozexpatriate]

12 minutes ago, laurenceb said:

Affter reading Johns last line my reaction was bl^^^y h^^l it cant be that long!

And Gene Shoemaker died three years later (1997) in a car accident in the Australian outback on a trip to investigate impact craters.

 

In 1999 Gene Shoemaker's ashes were deposited on the surface of the moon in a controlled crash of the Lunar Prospector probe near the lunar south pole. 

[Dave Hunt]

It is said that there is no such thing as a free lunch; in my case there is no such thing as a free day as after taking The Toe for its twice weekly inspection and dressing (it's doing OK now with the infection cleared up and just waiting for an appointment for surgery - hurts like bu***ry at times though) SWMBO announced that the G word was being invoked and that I was taking part. Despite my pleas that The Toe was too sore, my back hurt, I had scrofula and was about to expire from a terminal allergy to anything containing chlorophyll, I was informed that since I'd had plenty of workshop time recently (hence the reference to a free day over the weekend) I should do the decent thing and get on with it.  I got on with it.

 

Later on I went to pick up Dad's car, which has finally been repaired and will shortly be SWMBO's car, and this evening I've been watching a programme about Apollo 11. I was living in Singapore at the time it happened and didn't have a TV but we listened to it on the radio and I can still remember the excitement and wonderment of it all. Can't believe fifty years have melted away since then.

 

Well, goodnight to European readers and appropriate wishes to those elsewhere. 

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

Apart from the Sainsbury’s Grand Prix this morning, I’ve had quite a relaxing day for a change. James and Amelia were both due round for tea tonight, but Amelia was unwell, so she couldn’t make it. However, James still came round and it was nice to see him.

 

James didn’t stay as long as he normally does as he thought he’d get home so he can go and take the dogs for a walk whilst it was still light outside.

 

Unfortunately we had cloud cover when the lunar eclipse was on so we were unable to view it. 

 

Goodnight all 

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Took my models to the SEERS track night this evening, regretably they did not run too well. The District box cab was quite happy to trundle around solo but was not happy with three old 00 Farish suburbans. The fact that the Farish stock had plain bearings and the locomotive is very light probably has something to do with it. I then tried my motorized EFE tube stock, it completed a couple of circuits then stalled. When I picked them up to examine them the motor bogies were red hot. the general consensus was that the gears had stripped/seized, a common problem with Tenshodo's.

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all.

 

(And I wonder if the moon is now round far enough for a second look - partial eclipse was well visible earlier in the ESE)

[AndyID]

4 hours ago, brianusa said:

 

What did the home inspection reveal?  Surely a problem of this magnitude would have been exposed!

     Brian.

 

In my experience home inspections are an expletive waste of time and money. Home inspectors are part of the real-estate "system" in the US and they are far too cozy with the realtors. Title companies are not much better.

 

I'll probably never buy another home in the US but if I do I'll require five year warranties on the roof, the basement and the septic system. (Yup! Got scrooged on every one of them.) Not to mention the boat-slip I bought that turned into the Brooklyn Bridge. I'm afraid I don't trust any of these chancers now.

 

Yours Truly,

 

I. M. Gullible

 

EDIT: I should say that the best experience we had was In California. We were the first owners. There were a few problems after we moved in but the builder resolved them immediately.

Edited July 17, 2019 by AndyID
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