Early Risers.

[81C]

Afternoon All

Dog duties again today a fence was put round the flower bed in the garden Sunday he was outside in the garden then he disappeared he had pulled the fence down got onto the 

flower bed dug himself a hole slid into it and folded his ears back and he was gone out of sight, the flower bed is large so when I found him I had to trick him out and fix the hole.

Spent the next 2 hours in Wickes & B and Q Dulux don't do a brochure anymore a ~ickbrain in the Wickes store said you need to go on-line before you come to the store just then

one of the old workers Peter came across and helped me out after awhile I had a coffee in Howdens Kitchens then into B&Q the lad on the paint count was helpful I came away with the

colours he had recommended then grabbed a burger off the best burger van in the south of England.

Must get on  H.O.Mepaintin

 

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. More than a bit windy here but at least theres no dampness. The next door neighbours left just before Christmas so the landlord decided to repair the flat roof of the extension. The builder started early this morning but had to give up due to the wind. Time to put the kettle on, be back later.

[leopardml2341]

33 minutes ago, 81C said:

Spent the next 2 hours in Wickes & B and Q Dulux don't do a brochure anymore a ~ickbrain in the Wickes store said you need to go on-line before you come to the store.....

 

Strange that, I picked this up in my local Wickes about two weeks ago......

[leopardml2341]

10 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. More than a bit windy here but at least theres no dampness. The next door neighbours left just before Christmas so the landlord decided to repair the flat roof of the extension. The builder started early this morning but had to give up due to the wind. Time to put the kettle on, be back later.

Tea; tiny bit o' milk and no sugar for me please

[J. S. Bach]

13 hours ago, BR60103 said:

I am normal. Everyone else is eccentric. ...snip...

Can't be, I am the only normal one!!

 

13 hours ago, BR60103 said:

Mr Bach: How do they pronounce "Piedmont" around there?

PEEd mont is the way that I hear it pronounced here, I learned it that way in a different part of the country.

Edited February 4, 2020 by J. S. Bach

[J. S. Bach]

1 hour ago, newbryford said:

 

And there's me thinking with a name like that, you hailed from Lantavia……………….

That is all right, I read it as Latvian!

[grandadbob]

3 hours ago, newbryford said:

 

Madhouse?

I thought we were all normal here......

 

Nope Mick. I have it on very good authority that I am in fact quite strange. Apparently I reinforced this idea earlier today. In view of "us" trying to lose weight The Boss made a fat free tea loaf. It seems that my idea of plastering the proffered slices with butter is not what you should do!  Who knew?  

[Danemouth]

2 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

I  And in the summer of 1967 was working in Cardiff 'on loan' for almost a month based in the old TVR offices at Queen Street.

 

The TVR Offices - I remember those. I belonged to a Drama Group that met around the corner in Station Terrace.

You will doubtless remember the Trolley buses just outside the office going under Queen St Bridges.

 

When the trolleys started to replace the trams they couldn't go under those bridges as the trolleys were too tall - so Cardiff Corporation lowered the road!

 

Cheers,

 

Dave

[JohnDMJ]

Welcome Lantavian,

 

3 hours ago, newbryford said:

 

Madhouse?

I thought we were all normal here......

 

Everything is relative and varies from person to person; what someone might deem as 'normal' isn't for someone else. One thing's for sure that whatever our outlook on life and others, there's a great mix of (mostly) folk (HH) on here.

 

3 hours ago, Ian Abel said:

Welcome Lantavian, don't believe a word this lot say, they're all mad as hatters!

 

Correction: don't believe a word this lot say, they're we're all mad as hatters!

[New Haven Neil]

Evening, and welcome to Lantavian.

 

I did once pay off a ship in Honkers, had to wait five days for a flight as it was the height of tourist season, all on expenses.....but when you just want to go home after 4 months at sea it wasn't that much fun.

 

A steady, nay, busy but in control day at work getting those G scale vans out of the door, getting well through them now.  

 

As for homes, well I was born at home, in South Shields, spent three years in Liverpool at Kollege (as Ian would have it) seven years at sea, and moved to the Isle of Man 18 years ago due to a very, very bad day at work (an NHS manager by then).  Mrs NHN's story is far more interesting, being born in Cornwall, lived in Croydon, Caterham, New Zealand, back to Cornwall, Guernsey, South Shields (aha!) and now Fraggle Rock.  She went to more schools than there are wheels on a 9F.

 

Chilly tonight on the rock, frost predicted.  No doubt that will result in the usual batch of upside down cars in the morning.  It's a Manx affliction.

[Dave Hunt]

All the talk of knees and such reminds me of when I first met the consultant who did my two knees and one hip replacements (my younger son maintains that if I have any more bits replaced or rebuilt I'll have to re-register as an android). "Tell me about yourself", he began, "I like to get to know my patients. What do you do for a living?" "I'm retired but I used to be a fast jet pilot," I replied. "Ah, what about sports?" he asked so I told him that I played Rugby as a No. 8 for many a year and when I was in America had a go at Gridiron football. I also enjoyed playing squash, although I was never any good at it, and liked hill walking. "I bet you used to go jogging to keep fit, didn't you?" he said, to which I confessed. "Well," he said after a bit more chat, "You may like to know that we have a medical term for what has happened to your skeletal system." There was a pause that I realised I was supposed to fill. "What's that?" I asked. "You've bu**ered it," he replied. Luckily he is a very good surgeon.

 

I completely agree with the posts about what the kennel club has done with dog breeds but it could be worse - look what's happened to hippos recently.....

 

And welcome aboard Lantavian - does that mean something to do with birds?

 

Me, mad???  No, it's the rest of them.

 

Have a quiet and peaceful night all, or whatever part of the earth's rotation you are currently experiencing.

 

Dave  

[pH]

11 hours ago, Barry O said:

Off for a mugacaff then some sleep.car to collect tomorrow then off down sarf. 

 

Watch out for the keas (seriously!). They will investigate anything to see if they can eat it or make use of it in some way. They can unzip bags, pockets etc. We drove from Christchurch up to Arthur's Pass, where a kea actually unscrewed the aerial from the rental car and carried it off for about ten yards before deciding it wasn't edible or useful and dropping it.

[81C]

3 hours ago, leopardml2341 said:

Strange that, I picked this up in my local Wickes about two weeks ago......

I picked one up there's feck all in it, it's now in the recycling box now.

[81C]

1 hour ago, grandadbob said:

 

Nope Mick. I have it on very good authority that I am in fact quite strange. Apparently I reinforced this idea earlier today. In view of "us" trying to lose weight The Boss made a fat free tea loaf. It seems that my idea of plastering the proffered slices with butter is not what you should do!  Who knew?  

And swilled it down with 2 bottles of Merlot .

[Gwiwer]

23 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

There seems to be an outbreak of those across the site

 

There seems to be an outbreak of those across the site

Punxsutawney Phil has enlightened me as to the reason for this.

Apparently it was Groundhog Day.

 

Good evening all from a mightily cold Hill of Strawberries.  The morning shift was by far the least pleasant of the winter this far with a stiff breeze cutting through all attempts to rug up in what was  ostensibly 5C.  I was waiting for the polar bears to blow in.  It took several hours at home later to properly thaw out and has left me feeling drained.  Tomorrow is another day - with a much lower forecast temperature but not the wind.  And next week is the first of my rostered leave for the year so I may get to stay warmer than of late!

 

I'm going to have an early night and hope to feel much better in the morning.  Best wishes one and all.  

 

 

[leopardml2341]

15 minutes ago, 81C said:

I picked one up there's feck all in it, it's now in the recycling box now.

Must be different to the one I have then; has full colour swatches for many paint types and finishes, various decorating hints and tips as well as some room design ideas. 50pp in total.

Edited February 4, 2020 by leopardml2341
Added details of booklet contents

[leopardml2341]

Early night for me, still feeling a bit groggy, goodnight all.

 

Stay safe.

[Gwiwer]

5 hours ago, Danemouth said:

I am boring compared to you lot. I was born in Cardiff and lived here all my life.

I have to locate a Dead End for my final breath.  I was born in Bourne End after all.  Not in Cornwall because mother and father were up visiting mother's parents in Yiewsley and father had a job starting in Marlow (which lasted weeks rather than days but that's another story).  In between then and now I have variously lived in Cornwall, Hampshire, West Sussex, London, Cornwall, Devon, Cornwall, Australia and now the Hill of Strawberries.  With more addresses than I care to remember though I do remember every one bar the very first.  And as with Mrs NHN more schools than wheels on a 9F which didn't help in the making and keeping of friends one little bit.  After all - and influenced by father's attitude borne of the same background in his young days - we would be changing schools again in a few months so why make friends?  A good and a loving man - but extremely negative in outlook.  

 

 

[brianusa]

Compared to our parents, most get around much more these days; if you got out of the county years ago, it was  a rarity.  Considering the membership of this elite club and where they are, things have changed a bit!  

     Its lunchtime so why is it snowing outside?

        Brian.

[The Stationmaster]

32 minutes ago, 81C said:

I picked one up there's feck all in it, it's now in the recycling box now.

The best way to get at Dulux colours is to pick up the colour shade cards that go with the mixer paints.  But you'll need to find a decent stockist who does the mixer range to find them.

 

Dave Hunt's post reminds me taht Doctors always seem to take an interest in your past physical activities when you call in to talk about developing physical defect, or even for a medical.   Showing how much things have changed when I had my BR medical for entering permanent employment the MO, Dr Watney (really) took one look at my stomach and said 'Do you row?' as he thumped it quite hard with the flat of his hand  The answer of course was blindingly obvious otherwise I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have thumped it and had his hand bounce off my stomach muscles (yes - I was a very different shape back then).

 

The next time sport came up was when I had to do various heart test including the treadmill thing and when I said 'rowing' I got some sympathetic looks but fortunately I had never been exactly top anything class (never got out of a 'Junior' crew - the title is not age related incidentally) because rowing can lead to heart damage

[pH]

32 minutes ago, brianusa said:

Compared to our parents, most get around much more these days; if you got out of the county years ago, it was  a rarity. 

 

One definite exception was members of the armed forces, especially in wartime. During WW2,  my dad got as far as what became Israel during service around the Mediterranean,  my father-in-law saw Fremantle in Australia (via Singapore) and Halifax, Nova Scotia, and an uncle made it to Bermuda. 

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[tetsudofan]

Homes, I've had many of them. Was born in Crayford, Kent (so I'm a Kentish Man..... and not a Man of Kent) but was brought up in South East London. Things started moving when I shipped out to Hong Kong in 1966, onto Saigon in 1968 and after furlough ended up in Bombay in 1970. Stayed there for a couple of years before returning to the UK for a short break.

 

1975 saw me moving to Singapore and two years later moving to Tokyo for a year or so before heading to Seoul for three years. After that is was back to Tokyo where I stayed until 1999 and then returned to the UK and what is now home on the south east Kent coast.

 

So born a Kentish Man, now living in the land of the Men of Kent.

 

Keith

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land.

1 hour ago, pH said:

 

One definite exception was members of the armed forces, especially in wartime. During WW2,  my dad got as far as what became Israel during service around the Mediterranean,  my father-in-law saw Fremantle in Australia (via Singapore) and Halifax, Nova Scotia, and an uncle made it to Bermuda. 

My dad was sent to India and Burma, via South Africa by the army. He actually met up with my mums cousin out in Burma. My mums cousin was flying Daks in and out of Imphal were my dad was stationed. Another family friend travelled across Canada courtesy of the army and for a short part of the journey they were locked in the train as it detoured through the USA which was neutral at the time. Not sure where this was but I've no doubt someone will enlighten me.

[laurenceb]

Night awl