Early Risers.

[AndyID]

22 hours ago, Barry O said:

When did you leave Great Britain?

 

 

What does that have to do with it?

 

[Ozexpatriate]

 

37 minutes ago, AndyID said:

Two dollar bills are OK

I don't know why more of them are not in circulation. They are a very useful denomination.

 

38 minutes ago, AndyID said:

. My granny used to put [silver thrupenny bits] in dumplings when we had birthday parties.

Australian pre-decimal silver currency remains a staple of my Aunt's (now my cousin's) Christmas plum pudding. The family collection of silver coins is an heirloom saved from 1966 and makes it's annual appearance in the pudding.

[Ozexpatriate]

2 hours ago, BR60103 said:

Can't help there, but I can get you a round tuit.

 

2 hours ago, BR60103 said:

I've been known to lay my forearm on a counter and say "It's about a cubit."

I asked the electrical shop for a fathom of cable.

Reminds me of the newbie being sent to the shop counter for a long weight.

[AndyID]

1 minute ago, Ozexpatriate said:

 

Reminds me of the newbie being sent to the shop counter for a long weight.

 

In Scottish shipyards it was a "long stand".

[Ozexpatriate]

After breakfast out at a local café (actually I would consider it a diner) my son helped me move most of what was left in the office.  Next week will be spent on some final tasks along with a sense of sand running through the hour glass.

 

We then spent the afternoon rearranging the garage to find spots for all the boxes we brought home. While we were doing this a FedEx truck arrived with some specialty LED garage lights I had ordered. (These are not the usual form factor, but an array of three posiitionable LED panels with integral heat sinks, at 120° to each other.) Wow do they make a difference. (I already had LED lamps that the builder installed but they weren't very bright.)

 

After my son left, I settled into late afternoon and evening collegiate American football. A paddling of ducks prevailed over an ecclesiastic shade of red and cougars presently are mauling some bears.

 

Edited September 22, 2019 by Ozexpatriate

[pH]

56 minutes ago, AndyID said:

 

I wish I had a few tons, or even tonnes, of silver thrupenny bits. My granny used to put them in dumplings when we had birthday parties.

 

Snap! And I still have a few of them.

 

I used (1960s) to collect all-silver UK coins. If I remember correctly, these were pre-1920. My mum found my collection in a jar one day, and bought me saving stamps with them! I was not well pleased.

 

We still have just one - an 1896 half-crown.   

[TheQ]

Much worse was for anyone sent for a pair of greased balls...... 

 

Mooring Awl inner Temple hare, 

A reasonable nights sleep of five hours ish but my attempts at further sleep are now being interuppted by SWMBO who's got up way to early to see her brother before he leaves in 2 hours. 

 

One thing with old coinage is banks will still take it in at face value forever.  Which is why I can remember spending farthings in the sweet shop on my way home from school which i didn't start till 63...

 

Rescue boat duty went well,  the only rescue .i did was a non competitor , they were in a small dinghy propelled by a hand cranked propeller and it jammed in the shaft.. 

 

My visit to my sailing compatriot also went well he is likely to escape hospital during the week providing he doesn't go down with something else. He is much More mobile using a "gutter walker" with care assistant escort.

How this for coincidence..  Across the ward is another sailor from my summer sailing club,  he used to sail the same type of boat,  until he went off into yacht cruising.  Sadly he has a type of dementia which is getting  worse, which means he is fully lucid for periods and then shuts down remembering nothing much. He's was in the ward though through breaking a femur in fall.  His wife did a what are you doing here?  When arrived. 

Now when he's lucid, both patients  can talk boats. They didn't know each other before.. 

 

SWMBOs brother is doing asbestos surveys on radio masts....  Yep what metal mast has asbestos in it?  But some jobs worth in the owning company decided every mast needs a asbestos free certificate.  So between real asbestos work he's touring the country taking photos of each mast, compiling a document all to say each metal mast has no asbestos in it. Indirectly you are paying for this stupidity.. 

He doesn't  mind an easy such an easy job, paid for... 

 

Now SWMBO has settled to look at weaving stuff on the net,  I'm hitting the snooze button

 

time to ZZZzzzzz

 

[jamie92208]

Good morning from a rather dark, and I think, Charente.  Yes we had quite a bit of rain yesterday.  We need it.  I believe that it is due to rain more this morning.  Off to the market later for a browse and a coffee.  Some Rugby may be watched when we return.

 

I think that coi s stopped bei g silver in 1947 in the UK.  

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie

[pH]

19 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

I think that coins stopped being silver in 1947 in the UK.  

 

Coins stopped having any silver in them in 1947.

 

Up until 1816 'silver' coins were pure silver, 1816 to 1920 - 92.5% silver, 1920 to 1946 - 50% silver, 1947 to 2011 - cupronickel, 2012 to date - nickel -plated steel.

 

(Edit - these dates are put together from a few different sources. I don't claim they are exact.)

Edited September 22, 2019 by pH

[Oldddudders]

Morning all

 

Just a drive-by, although I can say that if Jamie thinks they need rain in Charente, we certainly do in the dustbowl that Sarthe has become. The maize crop - widely grown to provide winter fodder for cattle - has been harvested several weeks early because it was drying out too fast in the fields. OTOH I hear that the wheat-growers have had a good year.

 

My agri-info all comes from my cleaner Alison, of course, and there are some - er - developments in her life. She has now been seeing farmer François for more than 6 years, and he remains as married as ever. In earlier times, their affair was largely conducted in his capacious barns, or out in the fields in a tractor actually working, but in the last year or more he has got all brave and been visiting her at home, typically in the small hours. But from time to time his wife gets all uppity and reads him the riot act, and he disappears back inside the farm for a period. Earlier this year he was spending longer and longer with Alison, getting back to the farm no long before daylight, and eventually, to her absolute delight - he moved in, toothbrush and all. Wifey didn't take kindly to this, as you might imagine, and one early morning turned up to make trouble, walking into the house and clouting Alison. I have a security cam video of some of this, which took place as Alison was getting her two elder sons ready to take them to the skool bus, which stops, as it happens, right outside François's farm! Alison rang me to ask what to do (yes, really!) and obviously I said call the fuzz. Much to François's consternation she did, and they politely informed his wife that she was trespassing, and that what her husband got up to was not a matter for the law. Sadly, perhaps, he only stayed for 10 days (actually 10 short nights, as he/they were working in the field until 3 or 4 in the morning). But that riot act was read again, and he slunk back home. 

 

You might think that would be that, but there have been several more confrontations between the women, and Alison was hit so hard that it displaced two teeth. She reported this assault to the Gendarmerie, and François and wife were then summoned to account for themselves. This then turned upside down, because wifey said her husband had been assaulting her - producing photos of cuts and bruises actually sustained in the course of work, as country people do, but blaming him. So she is now blackmailing him, saying if he goes near Alison she will press charges for assault, and he faces a a fine and probable custodial sentence. What won't a wife do to save her marriage? 

 

In recent weeks, however, tensions have been further heightened by unwelcome news. At the age of 54 years and 6 months, Alison is 14 weeks pregnant. She has no wish to terminate (!) and anyway that option closed some weeks ago - elective termination in France seems to be done much earlier than the UK, or not at all. Everything points to happiness, with the farmer's two children now seeing their inheritance being shared with a third sibling. 

 

Good 'ere, innit?

[Barry O]

2 hours ago, AndyID said:

 

What does that have to do with it?

 

You seem to be out of touch with what schools here have been teaching children regarding metric measures etc since the late 1970s. My years in the Six Form and University landed slap bang on the change over period. 

 

Mmost of our measurements were taken in both imperial and metric.

 

I asked as you may have left before the yeaching syllabus changed.

Baz

[Barry O]

Nice to hear from you dudders. What a complex life some people live!

You don't need to watch TV soaps...

Rather complicatted. Ihope it all pans out for the good in the end .

 

Very overcast but not raining. My match starts at 12 noon in Plumtree, Notts. It is supposed to be raining there now, should be dry from 10 ish to middayish* then chuckitdarn... looks a long drive to get wet to me but hey ho!

 

Have a great day! Positive thoughts to all who ail or are missing.

Baz

 

* ish being the term used on our Indian travels for time +/- 30 minutes or so

[grandadbob]

Good morning all and especially Ian, long time no see.

Up earlyish to catch some rugby so currently watching second half of Italy v Namibia.

Might be back later.

Have a good one,

Bob.

[Ashcombe]

Further to Ian's contribution on the Sarthe Saga (they really do need the rain over there to cool their ardour!) above, we shall be celebrating our Fourth Welding Anniversary next month. You might be interested to learn that, last month, Ian had his first experience of treading the boards in the Toads' production of “The Vicar of  Dibley” at The Little Theatre in Torquay. No words to learn, but an opportunity to raise the biggest laugh of the evening appearing as a Teletubby bridesmaid at Alice's welding. He was Lala and I played Tinky Winky! 

Edited September 22, 2019 by Ashcombe
Typo

[Barry O]

Very smart Ashers...does the thespian lifestyle suit dudders??

Baz

[grandadbob]

And now for Ireland v Scotland, hoping for a great match. Also hoping for the offer of breakfast whilst I'm watching. The Boss has not yet made an appearance but I did take her a cup of tea earlier which was appreciated so .........fingers crossed.

[Oldddudders]

9 minutes ago, Barry O said:

Very smart Ashers...does the thespian lifestyle suit dudders??

Baz

Of course! It was fun. We did 8 performances, before handing over to two ladies for the final 5, as we were due to go off cruising the Fjords. I also found myself covering FoH Manager one evening, due to a shortage of volunteers. As I haven't really been trained this was hard work, not least because of 4 stewards I should have had, one was absent and two were very unfamiliar with their job. It was a wet night and we had over 200 patrons, too, but we got by. Sherry bravely went out in the rain to park cars. Having handed the house back to the Stage Manager (octogenarian Cora) after the interval, I then went and got changed.

 

TOADS is perpetually short of males, so if I lived in Torbay I could easily get parts in plays. Brexit may just force that, sadly.  

[Debs.]

"Eh-oh!" 

 

 

[Oldddudders]

Ooh! Lovely to see Dr Debs is in town! Oddly enough, François is reducing his cattle numbers - and getting some sheep! 

[NHY 581]

2 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

Morning all

 

Just a drive-by, although I can say that if Jamie thinks they need rain in Charente, we certainly do in the dustbowl that Sarthe has become. The maize crop - widely grown to provide winter fodder for cattle - has been harvested several weeks early because it was drying out too fast in the fields. OTOH I hear that the wheat-growers have had a good year.

 

My agri-info all comes from my cleaner Alison, of course, and there are some - er - developments in her life. She has now been seeing farmer François for more than 6 years, and he remains as married as ever. In earlier times, their affair was largely conducted in his capacious barns, or out in the fields in a tractor actually working, but in the last year or more he has got all brave and been visiting her at home, typically in the small hours. But from time to time his wife gets all uppity and reads him the riot act, and he disappears back inside the farm for a period. Earlier this year he was spending longer and longer with Alison, getting back to the farm no long before daylight, and eventually, to her absolute delight - he moved in, toothbrush and all. Wifey didn't take kindly to this, as you might imagine, and one early morning turned up to make trouble, walking into the house and clouting Alison. I have a security cam video of some of this, which took place as Alison was getting her two elder sons ready to take them to the skool bus, which stops, as it happens, right outside François's farm! Alison rang me to ask what to do (yes, really!) and obviously I said call the fuzz. Much to François's consternation she did, and they politely informed his wife that she was trespassing, and that what her husband got up to was not a matter for the law. Sadly, perhaps, he only stayed for 10 days (actually 10 short nights, as he/they were working in the field until 3 or 4 in the morning). But that riot act was read again, and he slunk back home. 

 

You might think that would be that, but there have been several more confrontations between the women, and Alison was hit so hard that it displaced two teeth. She reported this assault to the Gendarmerie, and François and wife were then summoned to account for themselves. This then turned upside down, because wifey said her husband had been assaulting her - producing photos of cuts and bruises actually sustained in the course of work, as country people do, but blaming him. So she is now blackmailing him, saying if he goes near Alison she will press charges for assault, and he faces a a fine and probable custodial sentence. What won't a wife do to save her marriage? 

 

In recent weeks, however, tensions have been further heightened by unwelcome news. At the age of 54 years and 6 months, Alison is 14 weeks pregnant. She has no wish to terminate (!) and anyway that option closed some weeks ago - elective termination in France seems to be done much earlier than the UK, or not at all. Everything points to happiness, with the farmer's two children now seeing their inheritance being shared with a third sibling. 

 

Good 'ere, innit?

 

 

We need a 'Good lord!' button.........

 

Rob. 

[NHY 581]

31 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Oddly enough, François is reducing his cattle numbers - and getting some sheep! 

 

Damn fine!

[81C]

Morning All

sun is slowly burning the cloud off 

I flogged a load of stuff off to neighbours yesterday all garden stuff no use in a flat £200 better off some playthings for kids were given away.

Out for lunch today then back to the garage not a lot left out there to do, the slapped #rse will be here at some point in the day to pack her stuff

in the garage into boxes hopefully I will be out.

I've been left short of certain things with the carve up of the house so it looks as if I will have to go to Chavda & Sainsburys/Argos for some items tomorrow

maybe wander round town and see what's on offer in others stores if there is any not closed down.

Must get on enjoy your day Juan Sheet  

[tigerburnie]

3 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

Morning all

 

Just a drive-by, although I can say that if Jamie thinks they need rain in Charente, we certainly do in the dustbowl that Sarthe has become. The maize crop - widely grown to provide winter fodder for cattle - has been harvested several weeks early because it was drying out too fast in the fields. OTOH I hear that the wheat-growers have had a good year.

 

My agri-info all comes from my cleaner Alison, of course, and there are some - er - developments in her life. She has now been seeing farmer François for more than 6 years, and he remains as married as ever. In earlier times, their affair was largely conducted in his capacious barns, or out in the fields in a tractor actually working, but in the last year or more he has got all brave and been visiting her at home, typically in the small hours. But from time to time his wife gets all uppity and reads him the riot act, and he disappears back inside the farm for a period. Earlier this year he was spending longer and longer with Alison, getting back to the farm no long before daylight, and eventually, to her absolute delight - he moved in, toothbrush and all. Wifey didn't take kindly to this, as you might imagine, and one early morning turned up to make trouble, walking into the house and clouting Alison. I have a security cam video of some of this, which took place as Alison was getting her two elder sons ready to take them to the skool bus, which stops, as it happens, right outside François's farm! Alison rang me to ask what to do (yes, really!) and obviously I said call the fuzz. Much to François's consternation she did, and they politely informed his wife that she was trespassing, and that what her husband got up to was not a matter for the law. Sadly, perhaps, he only stayed for 10 days (actually 10 short nights, as he/they were working in the field until 3 or 4 in the morning). But that riot act was read again, and he slunk back home. 

 

You might think that would be that, but there have been several more confrontations between the women, and Alison was hit so hard that it displaced two teeth. She reported this assault to the Gendarmerie, and François and wife were then summoned to account for themselves. This then turned upside down, because wifey said her husband had been assaulting her - producing photos of cuts and bruises actually sustained in the course of work, as country people do, but blaming him. So she is now blackmailing him, saying if he goes near Alison she will press charges for assault, and he faces a a fine and probable custodial sentence. What won't a wife do to save her marriage? 

 

In recent weeks, however, tensions have been further heightened by unwelcome news. At the age of 54 years and 6 months, Alison is 14 weeks pregnant. She has no wish to terminate (!) and anyway that option closed some weeks ago - elective termination in France seems to be done much earlier than the UK, or not at all. Everything points to happiness, with the farmer's two children now seeing their inheritance being shared with a third sibling. 

 

Good 'ere, innit?

You could sell that story to make it into a movie lol.

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

Ooh! Lovely to see Dr Debs is in town! Oddly enough, François is reducing his cattle numbers - and getting some sheep! 

He hasn't got Welsh ancestry hidden away then.

 

Great to see the two if you back on here.  The only crop left us the maize. The sunflowers have all been harvested here now.  However no tractors are in the fields this morning as the drivers are busily engaged in 'le chasse.'. As they will shortly be partaki g of their usual long and liquid lunch we will not go out in the fields for a walk this afternoon when they resume.

 

Jamie

 

 

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Usual Sunday morning lie-in followed by a long soak in the bath. Nice to see Ian, Ashers and Debs back, Ians reporting of goings on in Sarth beats any soap opera. Now for breakfast, be back later.