Early Risers.

[The Lurker]

Greetings all.

 

just been over the Golden Gate on a bus tour hearing about the magnificent views. 

 

It it was however foggy!

 

we did however come across it yesterday when it was sunny so not all was lost!

 

we also did another tourist thing and had a ride on one of these;

 

 

[TheQ]

Mooring Awl,  Inner Temple Hare, 

A poor nights sleep very broken up, much turning over and I have back ache.  When I came down stairs at stupid o clock,  SWMBO was already there,  she then went back to bed... 

 

Yesterday,  after unloading the landrover,  loading the washing machine.  There was a quick trip to town for essential food supplies.  After which I mowed main parts of the jungle,  much of the drier grass leaving horizontally in the direction of the north sea in the high winds.

Many clouds moving at high speeds... 

 

After that it was semi dozing on the sofa, catching up on the few things I watch on TV.. 

 

Today, some work on the boat and altering it's supports to allow installation of the keel. 

 

But first, 

time to hit the snooze button.. 

[brianusa]

One of the GGT bus drivers frequently told tourists that if look out the ocean side you can see Hawaii.  Little did they know they were looking at the Farallon Islands eighteen miles out!

      Brian.

[chrisf]

Good morning one and all!  I'm back fron Sidmouth after an interesting week.

 

The cafe that used to keep me happy with breakfast now opens at 11 am.  I have explored most of those that open at more sensible hours but as yet have no favourite.  In the name of reducing the waste caused by disposable plastic glasses I have a sturdy branded plastic glass which cost £1.  What are the odds against my losing it before next year?   The campsite bus still has elastic walls so late at night we get back to camp in remarkable conditions of overcrowding.  As for the music, I attended over 40 events from a choice of 700.  Let's pick three of the most superb - Le Vent Du Nord, Peatbog Faeries and Merry Hell.  Ah, but that omits the tribute concert for the late Roy Bailey, much loved by all on the folk scene.  Two of his songs always did make me cry.  My two friends Mike and Jon somehow persuaded me to enter the hallowed portals of the Middle Bar Singers, who no longer meet in the Middle Bar but in the Captain's Table.  There I thought "OMG, I can do better than that", which is fatal, and when called upon to sing performed "Be The Man", which I have been trying to learn for a year.  Thankfully it was well received.  In the process I ticked off another of my objectives.

 

What else?  Not enough beer, because one of my friends is under doctor's orders and is finding it difficult.  One has to be supportive.  The stash of cash I took with me was not enough.  As Barclays gave up on Sidmouth a year ago it  was a case of raiding the HSBC cash point before it was emptied again.  How many CDs did I buy?  I'll count them and get back to you.  On Thursday the Festival pushed the panic button on the basis of the weather forecast - a good call as it turned out, except that the replacement venue for the final concert was not a good choice and was declared unstable after half an hour.   On Saturday morning the brakes on my car seized again despite the dealership assuring me that they had been fixed.  Getting off the campsite was a very noisy process.  There will be another full and frank exchange of views with the dealership when the thing goes in for its MOT.

 

Among the pile of mail on the doormat was the renewal notice for my car insurance.  Someone is having a laugh but I do not find it funny and neither will they when I've finished with them.

 

Best wishes to all

 

Chris

[BoD]

Good morning one and all.

 

Still damp.

[Barry O]

Ey up!

Not raining here yet.

Trip to Ampleforth today via another train delivery for Shap.

 

Her indoors making a mugatea  so TTFN.

Baz

[81C]

Morning All

Bright and sunny at the moment , up early for painkillers which are not enough to dull the pain some sports injury cream will be rubbed in and maybe another hours sleep 

Going to see my friend today she wants to go for a walk around the local area to find a route across the lower parts of the Hogs Back and maybe a refreshment stop.

Enjoy you day I will S.Mitten. 

[Kingzance]

Mawning,

 

The sun shines and the trees move less energetically than over the last couple of days. We are off to a friend’s celebration later but this was scheduled to be a garden party whereas seaweed twirlers state that rain will be present from an hour before until an hour after his “bash” in Kidderminster. I hope they are wrong for his sake and for anyone planning on spending the afternoon on the Severn Valley Railway.

 

Chrisf’s final paragraph brought to mind that I renewed the insurance for my motorcycle last week. On a well known comparison website that doesn’t use stupid rodents with Russian accents, my policy could be renewed for a whole £3 more than I paid last year through Swinton, who provide the policy as agents for Ageas. Swinton  also sent me their best offer by post which turned out to be the same cover through Ageas but this “best offer” was 32% more expensive than buying it online. I can’t be bothered to waste my time investigating the difference.

 

I am envious of those who can have runner beans now as the lovely little sparrows that populate the trees, bushes and hedges here have decided that my beans’ flowers are the current must-eat delicacy. I will succeed next year as my beans (like my cherries) will be kept under varmint-defying netting. This will also require the construction of a raised bed some 3.6m x 0.6m along a section of wooden fencing which is of the “hit and miss” form so netting will be on the front AND back. In the words of Bob Dylan / Joan Baez etc., “we shall overcome somedayeeeeeee”.

 

Whilst SWMBO catches a few more zzzzz’s I shall now go and reload the week’s pill boxes and allow some crushed wheat with milk past my lips. I do know how to live the good life .

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. No lie-in this morning as I'll be off to Canvey in about half an hour. Weather forecast looks good with the very slim possibility of a shower if a bit windy. Tea to be drunk, be back later.

[81C]

Back again 

Did anyone see the news this morning where a jet liner landed yesterday with the main cabin full of smoke, the chutes were deployed

and many selfish #rse'oles slide down them with their suit cases in their hands, absolutely unbelievable.  

[Happy Hippo]

12 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

Well you did used to throw yourself out of perfectly serviceable aircraft so perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that you obviously crave being mAWLed.

 

Jamie

Being mawled is preferable to being Lamb shanked by NHY 581

[New Haven Neil]

Morning, a bit draughty here, showers and generally not a nice day - apols to the Hunts.

 

I have to go and cut a tree down at a friend's, prior to a conservatory/garden room sort of thing being constructed.  It's an apple so the wood will be on our log burner in a year come November.  Not a good day for it though, windy to say the least.

[Kingzance]

5 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

I have to go and cut a tree down at a friend's, prior to a conservatory/garden room sort of thing being constructed.  It's an apple so the wood will be on our log burner in a year come November.  Not a good day for it though, windy to say the least.

Queue for songs:
Woodman, spare that tree
The Lumberjack Song

Don't sit under the apple tree

And all because you just like wearing chain-mail gloves and pantaloons!

[newbryford]

52 minutes ago, 81C said:

Back again 

Did anyone see the news this morning where a jet liner landed yesterday with the main cabin full of smoke, the chutes were deployed

and many selfish #rse'oles slide down them with their suit cases in their hands, absolutely unbelievable.  

 

Duty free I can understand, but dirty underwear - no.

 

Work to be worked - catch up later.

 

Cheers,

Mick

 

Edited August 11, 2019 by newbryford

[New Haven Neil]

Kevlar thread trousers and gloves nowadays, KZ!  Chainmail is so yesterday.

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

Being mawled is preferable to being Lamb shanked by NHY 581

A photographer’s Bentley? That could be painful. 

 

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

I have had breakfast. I have been invited to have lunch next door so I suspect I won’t need much to eat this evening. 

PhilJW should be enjoying the bus rally as the weather is bright and breezy. 

Tony

[jamie92208]

Morning all from a rather wet and cool Charente.   It's only 24 hours to TDD (T*rd departure day) YIPPEE.   Yesterday afternoon Beth and I decided that the pool needed inspecting from the inside.  It's the only place we can talk in private at the moment.  Anyway, there was me, quietly hoovering the base of the pool when there was a shriek from behind me.   I eventually turned round to find that a small lizard had got onto Beth's back and nipped her.   He's a braver one than me Gunga Din.   Anyway I caught the little reptile (About 6" long) in the skimming net but then got into trouble again for taking care to place it right side up and in the sun.   Apparently my concern that the lizard might be suffering from hypothermia, should have been directed to my other half.   I was struggling to stop laughing.  Such is life in rural France.   The T*rd and family then took us out for a very nice meal at a local restaurant.  He excelled himself at lunchtime yesterday by watching the Leeds match on his phone with his headphones on at the table while we ate lunch.   I was very tempted to throw the phone, headphones and him in the bin.

 

This morning we woke to liquid sunshine and I thought that I was in Hippo Land.  Anyway we departed for a Broccante (Car Boot) which was held in a field.  The parking field was quickly becoming a large muddy hollow.   Most of the stall holders hadn't turned up but we got some bargains and are now back home.   Not a lot else on the agenda for today so I might head for the shed.   At least the end is in sight.

 

3 hours ago, 81C said:

Morning All

Bright and sunny at the moment , up early for painkillers which are not enough to dull the pain some sports injury cream will be rubbed in and maybe another hours sleep 

Going to see my friend today she wants to go for a walk around the local area to find a route across the lower parts of the Hogs Back and maybe a refreshment stop.

Enjoy you day I will S.Mitten. 

 

 

Just make sure you wash your hands carefully...…….  I remember someone at school spilling a bottle of Fiery Jack on part of his anatomy....

 

Jamie

 

Edited August 11, 2019 by jamie92208

[The Stationmaster]

Morning all,

 

The wind has dropped but hasn't gone away although the runner beans are no longer v beset by it.  However the very spindly elm and the fairly spindly sycamore in the highest part of the back garden are still flapping about a bit but nit as much as they were yesterday.  The first tomato to ripen of this year's crop may be sampled today (but not with tonight's roast pork) and a further three capsicum peppers were harvested yesterday.

 

No major plans for today apart from paying, in some way or another, the plumber's bill - whether that will by fancy electronic means or having a trip out to pop a cheque through his letterbox is as yet undecided.  Tesco will be visited for the purchase of the 'papers but probably not much else - until she gets there and decides she might well really want a lot of something elses.

 

Have a good day one and all, and good night to any Sydneysider who might be looking in

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

 

 

 

Just make sure you wash your hands carefully...…….  I remember someone at school spilling a bottle of Fiery Jack on part of his anatomy....

 

Jamie

 

I recall a fellow soldier who rubbed deep heat into one of his legs and then retired for the night.

 

I don't know what he did next, (nudge, nudge) but he shot off into the ablutions and was found with his appendage dangling in a sink of cold water.

 

It put a whole new meaning to the term:  Hot S*x Action!

 

Perhaps you should smear the t*rd's ear buds with something similar?

 

(Edited to include cunning plan.)

Edited August 11, 2019 by Happy Hippo

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

Just make sure you wash your hands carefully...…….  I remember someone at school spilling a bottle of Fiery Jack on part of his anatomy

Eyelids?

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

We had a long lie in this morning and so I’m a bit late on parade. Muggertea No2 has just been consumed and once Sheila has come downstairs I’ll put some eye drops in for her and then I’m off to the cellar to start sanding down the bannister and spindles. 

 

Enjoy the day, back later 

[Rugd1022]

A'noon all, hope all ills aren't too harsh for those afflicted, it's persistently chucking it down outside, the sky above our little corner of Warwickshire is distinctly grey of hue so I thought a timely splash of colour would be rather nice...

 

Random Fabs trivia ahoy - hot on the heels of the Abbey Road cover photo anniversary comes another in Beatles folk lore - tis fifty years ago today on 11th August 1967 that ye olde Fab Four gathered together in a photographic studio in the Grays Inn Road in swinging London to pose in front of American photographer Richard Avedon's camera for a set of photographs which would be turned into some very attractive posters, highly colourful and very sought after posters to be sold via mail order by 'Look' magazine in January 1968...

 

Stay cool (man)!

 

 

[Two_sugars]

Was't there a story . . . probably apocryphal, a few years ago about someone swapping the contents of a vaseline jar with Fiery Jack before giving it to some newly-weds?

 

 

John

[jamie92208]

38 minutes ago, Two_sugars said:

Was't there a story . . . probably apocryphal, a few years ago about someone swapping the contents of a vaseline jar with Fiery Jack before giving it to some newly-weds?

 

 

John

There were certainly such jokes around. At least one had a punchline " who the ****** put the fiery jack in the vaseline."

 

The guy who spilt the stuff in our school changing rooms spent most of the afternoon in front of a cold shower.

 

Jamie