Early Risers.

[81C]

Afternoon All

The bloody dormer window is leaking again the t0ssers that done the repair must have there ears burning.

Off to see the dog shortly then back to do more painting felt like #h!te this morning so apart from the laundry nothing has been done.

BTW I had a bacon buttie for lunch today. 

Must get on  I.N. Atiss

 

[Tony_S]

Aditi has finished her visit to the tyre emporium and I have been given a time to get lunch ready by. I am sure I will get feedback on all the daytime television she has watched while waiting. It isn’t like the old sheds where tyres used to be sold. Comfy chairs coffee and magazines. You can see your car being worked on and I am sure Aditi will have enjoyed the tracking display explanation. As she had clouted a kerb hard enough to damage a tyre (not something she does normally) it wasn’t too far out of alignment. We didn’t need a new wheel either. 
Tony
 

[Kingzance]

As expected, Adam's Ale has arrived quite forcefully to clean the outside of our windows. My plan to do unmentionable things in the garage was deferred as SWMBO needed to be chauffeured once more, this tie to the GP surgery, the adjacent chemist and - just so we could get three in a bed - Waitrose. I think a plate of eggs and bacon could find its way (no carbs you notice) stomach-wards soon, still 4.5Kg less than when I started this but I will need to improve to reach my target of 20Kg by June 1. If it all goes pear-shaped, I can always say that I never claimed which year that would be!

[Tony_S]

Aditi said it wasn’t daytime television this morning. Pirelli motoring videos instead. 

[Ian Abel]

Moaning from a wet Long Island...

 

Saturday went as planned/expected, a very enjoyable evening with our travelling companions. Starting to consider/plan a couple of trips for the year.

 

Sunday the forecast winter storm arrived and dropped about 8 inches of snow in the early hours. Good opportunity to relax inside and watch others shovel/plow.

I did have to go out first thing and partially shovel the path to find the paper - delivered before the snow fell, but wasn't too hard to find.

The weather covered much of the mid-west and resulted in a lot of air travel "issues", which netted me being delayed about an hour in the evening since the pilots for my flight were inbound from Detroit which had suffered the storm during the day and messed up their departure.

Good news was that with all the general disruption, the plane was half full and I was upgraded to first class

 

5 and light rain first thing, expected to rain off and on here all day, high of 8

 

Tally ho.

 

 

[PeterBB]

Just a recent bit of fantastic service on my Proxxon table saw by the manufacturersTBS GmbH Wers* from Aachen.  After quite a delay after it stopped working it was missed so then considered it worth the expense to send it to them for repair - probably for something that I did not do right in use.  I wondered what had happened as there had been no response but by a stoke of luck the person now living at the address occupied when it was first ordered knew my son.  To cut a longish story short my son was able to pick it up so, 200 miles later I opened the package and found that they had replaced it FoC.  Fantastic service!

 

* not full name stated

[Shedman5]

Afternoon , Cold ,windy but dry here. A slight chance of waking up to snow tomorrow according to the weather people but I doubt it.

 

Neighbours felt roof got ripped off his shed yesterday in the wind so glad I went for box metal sheets a few years ago. Other than that not much to report.

 

Enjoy the rest of the day

 

Alan

[J. S. Bach]

On 08/02/2020 at 01:12, TheQ said:

Mooring awl, inner Temple Hare, ...snip...  I ended up following an enormous piece of farm machinery touching the grass both sides,  I ...snip...

I followed this for awhile in west Texas a couple of years ago:

 

 

 

[PeterBB]

In our village in the Swad area we have had a hailstorm and it is now snowing.  Yesterday it currently appears that we had little damage but the wind moved a metal table and four attached chairs, tied as a precaution in terms of the weather, across the patio as well as re-positioning a number of potted trees and plants. 

[Andrew P]

22 minutes ago, PeterBB said:

In our village in the Swad area we have had a hailstorm and it is now snowing.  Yesterday it currently appears that we had little damage but the wind moved a metal table and four attached chairs, tied as a precaution in terms of the weather, across the patio as well as re-positioning a number of potted trees and plants. 

Still Snowing and laying on the right side of Swad Peter, and has been since I woke up after lunch, about 13.30.

Edited February 10, 2020 by Andrew P

[tigerburnie]

Tried snowing up here too, but the suns out again now.

[leopardml2341]

I also had a post 'go up the ether' last night.......

 

to summarise, the journey I alluded to earlier took me nearly 10 hours and I passed through Burton 3 times on the first leg of the journey from Burton - New Street.........

[TheSignalEngineer]

Just had to chuckle at this headline which came up on the BBC Science page whilst I was running in a small copy of a (Parcel moving device seen in the Black Country c1957)

 

'Climate assembly considers flying bananas'

 

 

[TheSignalEngineer]

4 hours ago, BoD said:

I'm sure that Mr Dyson's designs for his motor/suction system are very clever - but the overall design of the cleaner and its tools is appallingly bad making them very difficult to use.

After our first Dyson hand-held died we bought a slightly better model, The big problem with that is it has a great max suction mode but it drains the battery in about 7 minutes. Nice on low power for cleaning round the strips of metal fixed to wooded cross pieces, advantage being I empty it before starting and again, this time on to newspaper, at the end. Carpet Fairy has lost a couple of trophies that way.

For serious cleaning my our daughter has a large Germanic machine which on full power would probably take the tarmac off the road.

[The Stationmaster]

Afternoon all,

 

 I well remember the triangular runway layout at LHR - in fact I actually once landed on an 'angled' runway there,  directly into a very strong headwind and in an IL18 of all things.  But whatever you might think of Russian 'built' aircraft, and apart from a noise from 'somewhere' (which sounded like the door of an outdoor khazi swinging in the wind) after the driver had lowered the undercarriage, it was without doubt the smoothest landing I have ever experienced in an aircraft, hardly noticed it touching down.  and the tricycle style undercarriage made it a much less memorable arrival back on the ground that travelling in a BEA 'Pionair' (i.e. a DC3 aka Dakota in some of its many forms).  But it was nice and reassuring watching the propellors going round on those older aircraft.

 

We have had some very strong winds again today and this time from more or less due west so they come belting up the side of the house but fortunately so far without creating chaos and havoc.  and of course when I was tasked to head for Tesco for various comestibles and the 'paper the bloomin' heavens opened, with considerable downforce.  Apart from the dash across the car park that didn't worry me but the goon I unfortunately followed out of the car park and along the main road seems to have thought that in heavy rain the slower you go the better.  And when I say slow I mean blinkin' well crawling along, a pity the halfwit didn't stall in the big flooddle at the exit from Tesco's car park as I'd love to have seen him get out with the water sloshing round his ankles but that bit of fun was denied me, can't win 'em all.  

 

The lad is due back from Albania in the not too distant, his flight seemingly ran more or less punctually from that end but no doubt met headwinds on the way.  Hopefully the trains from LGW to Reading will running with a degree of reliability.

 

Enh joy the rest of your day folks and well done Mrs Rick.

[Din]

I was up in Derby at the hospital when it started snowing. Quite heavy as I drove home too!

 

Thankfully its eased off and mostly gone by now.

[jamie92208]

Evening all from the ferry qurue at Pompey. We are now heading for Cherbourg rather than St Mslo fue to 'weather'. I suspect that thr potholes in La Manchr will be quite bad.  Last nights crossing took the same route and tracking it was interesting. They havr to 'lose' about 4 hours of time as the crossing is about half the normal distance.  Last night they went due south nearly to Caen then turnef right and went slowly round to Cherbourg obbiously hugging thecoadt to get shelter from the storm

 The car us now jogging on it's springs but without any action from it"s occupants  just the wind.  The kaw of dod now means an extra 100 miles of driving tomorroj

[TheSignalEngineer]

On 09/02/2020 at 02:01, pH said:

Humour me please, people. A post on this site started a train of thought which is now really nagging me. Who remembers a cartoon in the Daily Express in the early 1960s called "4 D Jones"? It was about a time-travelling cowboy and was pretty weird (and funny!). I remember characters who appeared at intervals called the Trolleymen. They had wheels instead of feet, hence the name. I can only find one internet reference to 'Trolleymen', and that seems to imply that they had a comic strip of their own.

 

Did the Trolleymen appear in the "4 D Jones" strip? Did they appear in a strip of their own? Did they appear in both "4 D Jones" and in their own strip?

'Four D. Jones' drawn by Peter Maddocks was in the Daily Express from 1955 to 1965. I don't remember The Trolleymen being in it but haven't looked at it for about 60 years.

[petethemole]

We had the Express delivered when I was at School and I followed the Four D. Jones strip. I remember the characters on wheels but don't remember what they were called.

[Tony_S]

My grandmother (Mum’s Mom) had the Express and Mirror. Half her family approved of one and not the other. They split differently about local football team support. My Dad didn’t approve of national papers and used to buy the Birmingham Evening Mail on his way home. Always looking for “situations vacant”. 
Tony

[roundhouse]

Bl@@dy RMweb keeps locking up on my mobile but hopefully works this time.

 

My brother in HK is also having mobile issues as his face recognition wont work on his iPhone

[Barry O]

Ey up!

House is ok according to our housesitter. Noah is building an Ark in the front garden.

 

Using the miracle of the internet I have booked a service for some time in March..last year that ended up occuring in May due to "Operational " difficulties.. pah!

 

Landing at leedsbradford..point aircraft towrds control tower (off to the right of the runway), allow aircraft to move with the wind shear over the end of the runway, land the other side of the hump in the runwat, throw at anchor, stop and taxi in.

Rick Boeings have awful flying characteristics..757, 767, 777 and 787 bounce about a lot in anything more than still air. Perhaps they need to use Airbus wings?

 

Today, apparently I am going to visit some caves...why? Cos her indoors has tole me so.

Very concerned as we are getting near to the south pole.. not sure my fingernails can keep me attached to the world.

 

Stay safe and warm...

 

Baz

[BoD]

23 minutes ago, roundhouse said:

 

My brother in HK is also having mobile issues as his face recognition wont work on his iPhone

 

I was muddling the other day and got PVA on my thumb.  My phone wouldn’t recognise my thumbprint.

Fortunately it wasn’t superglue and I could just peel it off.
 I don’t know how GDB’s phone manages with all those cuts and abrasions.

 

[New Haven Neil]

Evening.

 

Today wasn't so bad, but has degraded this evening to howling wind and reet cold once more.  5c feels like 0.

 

The airfield just yards from here has triangular runways as it was an RAF training base, but they only use one now I think, for the flying club.  The rest is a mini industrial estate - ie a scrapyard and a bike tuners!  The reduced the size of the village church tower to stop the crabs hitting it while learning to fly, but didn't put it back after the war - can we claim?

 

Congrats to Sharon, Rick - nearly there!

 

Vacuums (not hoovers....) we have a hand held Dyson which works well but gets Mrs NHN's discarded long hair bits tangled in the works, so occasionally needs a strip down to clean the works.  For tough stuff we have a Miele 'Cat and Dog'  (I think Tony has one too) which is fantastic but heavy and a bit big for a small bungalow.  As we are between cats currently it is in semi retirement.

 

 

[AndyID]

"It was a dark and stormy night.....

 

And I was returning from Belfast to Prestwick in a BA Viscount. I had a lovely view all the way down the runway as we were landing. It felt like 45 degrees. The little Viscount straightened out PDQ when we made contact.