Early Risers.

[Andrew P]

15 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

 

You might be too late. Next door neighbour's daughter has just popped in for a chat  and saw it so a large slab has just disappeared out the door for her and her sister.  

I suspect that when her Dad (my mate Russ) sees it he'll be demanding some as well. (They're all quite big with large appetites, the two girls are 6'1")

I'll be able to get there quicker when I move back to Amp Sher, haha.

[BoD]

1 hour ago, grandadbob said:

I think my cake making is better than my layout building. This seems to have worked:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look at all of that blood.

Edited February 13, 2020 by BoD

[AndyB]

6 minutes ago, Andrew P said:

I'll be able to get there quicker when I move back to Amp Sher, haha.

You reckon. 

Seriously which part of the county are you planning on moving to?

[Andrew P]

10 minutes ago, AndyB said:

You reckon. 

Seriously which part of the county are you planning on moving to?

Back to the Waterlooville area where we came from, and with no Family ties up here now, and with all the 4 Kids, and their Husbands, Wives, Grandchildren, Great Grandchildren, it should be fun.

[The Stationmaster]

44 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I have PCs and Macs, the BT Mcafee product claims to be suitable for both. It is “free” for two devices and you can pay for more devices. I don’t use it anyway, I use another paid for product (10 devices PC, Mac, Android) that I am happy with.

I have been with BT for years for internet and I’ve never used their home page. I just use google.co.uk.

Tony

I didn'r t even know that BT have got a home page!!  The only ones I go to are our account and the fault guides.

[Joseph_Pestell]

Just now, Andrew P said:

Back to the Waterlooville area where we came from, and with no Family ties up here now, and with all the 4 Kids, and their Husbands, Wives, Grandchildren, Great Grandchildren, it should be fun.

 

My in-laws are just north of Portsmouth. Initially in Waterlooville before they moved to Cosham. I agree that it is a nice part of the country and you should indeed enjoy it.

 

QE park at Petersfield in great with kids and so much to do in Portsmouth.

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, PeterBB said:

Blu needs replacing at intervals and costs=a=packet but the current car does seem to run better than its predecessor.

 

 

By itself BLU (aka Diesel Exhaust Fluid or DEF) doesn't do anything to improve performance. All it does is treats the exhaust to reduce oxides of nitrogen which are bad for a number of reasons. But because your new car does use DEF the manufacturer might have been able to relax some of the tuning constraints that the older model had to reduce emissions.

 

But it sounds like you are getting "the treatment". Ten liters of DEF costs me around $10 and keeps my truck going for at least six months. I run a lot of miles. The truck has a gauge to indicate how much DEF is left in the tank and there is a filler behind the fuel flap. The biggest problem is holding the box of DEF up to fill the tank. I usually get MrsID to help me.

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, Barry O said:

The same asblue got into the engine (possibly via a leaking gasket)

 

Doesn't that seem a bit unlikely? DEF is injected into the exhaust system.

[New Haven Neil]

Evening.

 

Nice Paneer Garden, Richard.  

 

GDB's cake is causing havoc here, not having had a slice since May when the diabolical was diagnosed.  Oh how I love(d) cake..... 

 

A really strange feeling this evening - it is dead still.  It felt wrong, somehow, after the last few days.  Never mind, storm Dennis is going to wreck the joint again by the weekend.

[AndyID]

Rats! Cold last night and not a cloud in the sky today. I would have gone skiing today but I had a bit of a sore throat Tues and Wed. Might go tomorrow but it looks like it's going to be snowing up high.

 

Oh well - all part of life's rich blah blah bla....

[AndyB]

I believe on the Peugeot it has a 5 litre tank which lasts 16000 miles. They sell a refill kit for £8. 

That's cheaper than if I made it myself with several pints of bitter. I guess it'd have to be Fuller's. 

[PeterBB]

2 hours ago, grandadbob said:

 

Peter, I've got BT Phone and Broadband and BT Virus Protect/ Mcafee is included with my package. 

I too have all those but the home page has changed and the BT Virus Protect aka McAfee does not install.  The main gripe is the sudden loss of the News that was the home page - that is my main source of news, not being an avid TV viewer.

 

[PeterBB]

1 hour ago, AndyB said:

You reckon. 

Seriously which part of the county are you planning on moving to? 

He'll be 'volting over' at electrifying speed from Amp Shar.

Edited February 13, 2020 by PeterBB
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[JohnDMJ]

 

1 hour ago, Andrew P said:

Back to the Waterlooville area where we came from, and with no Family ties up here now, and with all the 4 Kids, and their Husbands, Wives, Grandchildren, Great Grandchildren, it should be fun.

 

Nice area. Having lived (on and off but based at my Parents' home in Petersfield) for 42 years, I've now moved closer to 'work'. If your travels take you anywhere near Ford (for reasons unmentionable without incurring the wrath of The Awl), present to a shop colleague (MTWTF) and I'll be happy to pop down for a chat.

 

Don't normally 'work' Saturdays or Sundays, but am happy to arrange to meet you there anyway.

Edited February 13, 2020 by JohnDMJ

[tigerburnie]

Evening all, we survived the half term grand parents emergency call out today, we blighters, I mean charmers enjoyed the day too with a lot less fighting than usual. No idea what tomorrow may bring, but as it's that card company con day tomorrow I may be obliged to buy lunch...…………….

Early night all that running around playing rugby with the kids has fair worn me out.

G'night all

[newbryford]

On 10/02/2020 at 19:11, BoD said:

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.

 

 

GDB's phone has blood type recognition

[JohnDMJ]

 

2 minutes ago, newbryford said:

 

GDB's phone has blood type recognition

 

Amongst other safety and health related detail

[newbryford]

On 11/02/2020 at 11:41, tigerburnie said:

Have any of you taken off and landed at the airport on Fuerteventura? I seem to recall someone said it is extremely short on the runway, I found it most entertaining, quite a few on the plane said they wouldn't go there again. 

 

My first ever flight - and therefore landing - was to Fuerteventura in a Dan-Air 727.

On the return, we had to refuel at Faro because the max takeoff weight meant that the return journey couldn't carry enough fuel due to headwinds on the return journey.

 

I haven't been back since, but that's not because of the runway......

[newbryford]

On 11/02/2020 at 14:24, tetsudofan said:

Yes, landing at Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport was interesting. Before dropping between the skyscraper slums the plane was heading for a chequerboard on the side of the mountain and at the last moment would do a sharp righthand turn and there just ahead was the runway.

 

I often flew in on a NWA 747 from Tokyo and many times got the window seat on the first row on the main deck in the nose of the plane from which you could just about see the chequerboard that the plane was heading for...… interesting!

 

Luckily no planes made contact with the chequerboard (although a couple of planes did ditch into the harbour when landing the other way) but I was told that the hospital closest to the airport was built with very wide passages etc. so that if a plane did come down they would have enough space to deal with all the trolleys etc.

 

Keith

 

I went to Beijing via HK in 1990 on a BA 747-400. Managed to get in the cockpit for a visit on the HK-Beijing leg.

The chequerboard is there as a visibility distance marker. They fly on ALS towards the chequerboard and at a certain point get a signal to turn to land. If they can't see the chequerboard, they won't see the runway.

 

Apparently they put enough fuel on board at HK for the return Beijing trip, as they didn't trust the fuel quality in China!

When taking off, I could almost swear that he backed the aircraft up to make maximum use of the takeoff towards the harbour

 

On the same trip, we returned to Beijing in a Chines built copy of a Russian designed twin turbprop, complete with fold-down seats.

My adjacent passenger was an ex-Chinese Air Force bomber navigator, just transferring to civilian flying and due to go on a course for 737s. (Another Chinese regional airline had just "parked" one in a mountain the previous week.

We had a great conversation as he was learning English and wanted to know about the uses of "could" and "would".

 

The return was a Lufthansa 747 from Beijing to Frankfurt, so that was my one and only trip to HK.

[roundhouse]

7 minutes ago, newbryford said:

 

My first ever flight - and therefore landing - was to Fuerteventura in a Dan-Air 727.

On the return, we had to refuel at Faro because the max takeoff weight meant that the return journey couldn't carry enough fuel due to headwinds on the return journey.

 

I haven't been back since, but that's not because of the runway......

Two airports that I have yet to visit although I have seen Faro airport form the train.

 

Talking of which our return trip from East Croydon our train was delayed by 12 minutes as usual but just missed one that departed bang on time as is par for the course so  a reasonable wait for a very crowded train as others had all gone late. Should have caught the bus  as it would have been quicker despite it taking half hour longer. Whilst waiting there was a train terminating at 'Gatwick  not calling at Sanderstead, Upper Warlingham, Woldingham, Oxted....'  - it was a diverted East Grinstead train due to a landslip!!

[newbryford]

On 12/02/2020 at 12:56, The Lurker said:

Of those I have only not flown into Oakland. I can add Faro where planes fly over the airport out to sea and turn round to fly back in, and Schipohl which is built on land reclaimed from the sea. In some ways it makes sense - a plane ditching in the sea might kill all on board rather than hundreds in surrounding housing.

 

 

 

I've been through Schipol a few times.

Once landed at one of the outer runways and it felt like the taxiing to the stand took longer than the flight from Manchester.

[Tony_S]

8 minutes ago, newbryford said:

 

I've been through Schipol a few times.

Once landed at one of the outer runways and it felt like the taxiing to the stand took longer than the flight from Manchester.

Flying from Southend to Schipol definitely feels like the flying time is less than the taxi time. 

[Ozexpatriate]

3 minutes ago, newbryford said:

... it felt like the taxiing to the stand took longer than the flight ...

The hustle through the airport to change 'planes at Schipol can be exhausting, but it's not quite as bad as Frankfurt.

 

Airports with very long taxiing after touchdown (depending on which runway and which airline terminal is used, often compounded by waiting for a gate) include:

• DFW / Dallas Fort Worth
• ORD / Chicago O'Hare
• FRA / Frankfurt Am Main
• DEN / Denver

Gate waiting at DFW can be particularly bad if lightning is spotted. The apron will be closed and you have to wait until 15 minutes elapses since the last lightning visible from the airport. Gate waiting is often not an issue at FRA since they will park at remote spots and bus to the terminal.

[Tony_S]

At least at Schipol it doesn’t take long to get to the trains from the planes. 

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, PeterBB said:

I too have all those but the home page has changed and the BT Virus Protect aka McAfee does not install.  The main gripe is the sudden loss of the News that was the home page - that is my main source of news, not being an avid TV viewer.

 

Just set the homepage to your preferred news provider.