Early Risers.

[jamie92208]

Morning all (just) from a slightly damp Charente.  I've been and checked the fires at our friend's house. She, her daughter and grandson are en route after a rather rough crossing to Caen.  It's their first trip since Joan's husband John died in November. Bread, milk, butter and mouse poison has been purchased for them and the remains of two deceased mice have been incinerated. The house shoukd be warm for them when they arrive in an hour or so.  I've been out on a shopping expedition and have bought a new battery for the garden mower/tractor. The grass is growing well and needs a trim.  More shutter work is in order this afternoon. The rather tedious task of filing the holes in the hinges square will continue. Whoever built the shutters was lazy and left the nuts on the outside which us not terribly secure. 36 holes for each pair of shutters to go from a round 6mm hole to a square one.  What joy.

 

Regards to all and stay safe.

 

Jamie

[Tony_S]

17 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

6mm hole to a square one

Dad told me that producing a square hole was a task set for engineering apprentices when he was a lad. 
Morning all.

Quite a pleasant morning here, so we  will be off for a gentle walk somewhere. 
We stopped having milk delivered about 25 years ago. Something must have been wrong with the local distribution as it was often “off” when delivered.  Or delivered when we had cancelled. I just got fed up and started buying from the supermarket. When I was a child there were daily milk and bread deliveries. The  coop also had a laundry van. The coop milkman used to be paid in tokens that Mum bought at the shop. The laundry was Dad’s cow gowns, like a lab coat worn on the factory floor. 
Tony

Edited February 17, 2020 by Tony_S
Missing verb

[PhilJ W]

1 hour ago, Tony_S said:

Dad told me that producing a square hole was a task set for engineering apprentices when he was a lad. 
 

Tony

My dad trained as a mechanic in the army. One of his first tests he was given two cubes of iron, one 4 inches on all sides and one 2 inches on each side. The task was to cut a two inch hole through the larger cube, dead centre. And then he had to cut and shape the smaller cube into a piston. The piston then had to slide easily in and out of the hole cut into the larger cube as well as rotate in the hole with a maximum tolerance of 10 thou. All this had to be done with hand tools within IIRC 2 hours. My dad was in the artillery and the gun artificers had to do the same test but with even tighter tolerances. My dad did pass the test.

[The Lurker]

Greetings all from a cloudy LBG.

 

The weekend saw a very wet and windy Sidcup. Next door's fence broke a panel where he had replaced it last year, and then tried to cement it in. He's decided he will have to pay to get some proper concrete fence posts - for the top end of the garden; the fence has them further down. I think many years ago, the owners of our respective houses were related. It would not surprise me to learn that there had been a gate or even a gap in the fence. The old day he bought from lived there much longer than her daughter had lived in our house, but both houses have or had idiosyncracies; his had a solid plate of glass in front of the French windows; ours has a very strange sequence of light switches that is presumably designed to allow someone to move into the house and up the stairs turning the lights on and off as you go; they have long since been out of sequence, but you get things like turning the porch light on will turn off the hall light.

 

Marmalade - never liked it In fact I don't like anything orange flavoured, although I do like oranges. Mrs Lurker knows that if I buy her chocolate orange, it's a gift I have no intention of sharing with her!

[tigerburnie]

Lime Marmalade for me, never got that bitter stuff, we had the Roses stuff for as long as I can remember as a kid, a Weetabix with a slice of butter about an eight of an inch thick and as much Lime on it as would fit was a snack me and my little brothers made for ourselves in the late 1950's/ early 1960's...…………………….

[Joseph_Pestell]

3 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

Lime Marmalade for me, never got that bitter stuff, we had the Roses stuff for as long as I can remember as a kid, a Weetabix with a slice of butter about an eight of an inch thick and as much Lime on it as would fit was a snack me and my little brothers made for ourselves in the late 1950's/ early 1960's...…………………….

I like the flavour of lime marmalade. But limes have such thin skins and I do like some good thick cut peel in marmalade.

 

My favourite is lemon but I also like grapefruit or mixed fruit marmalade.

[Joseph_Pestell]

Storm Dennis had a little afterblast yesterday evening. Recycling bin overturned. Just off now to clear up mess from all over the car park.

[Tony_S]

I was looking at my tyre to see if the object in the tread was a stone or small rusty nail. I didn't want to remove so just scratched it with a pen knife blade. Had my thumb on the sharp side of the blade. I certainly have a puncture in me and the tyre. Thanks to the daily aspirin recently prescribed I am quite bloody. Typing with plasters on thumbs, yes I did cut both, is fun. Car first aid kit used again. 

[J. S. Bach]

Good morning owl from the Piedmont.

 

I have a T-shirt that shows:

I AM NOT LAZY

I JUST LIKE DOING NOTHING

 

That is my plan for today, other that reading more of Manchester's THE LAST LION    WINSTON S. CHURCHILL     ALONE     1932 - 1945  I have all three volumes and have finished the first; the third awaits my finishing of this one. A couple of more weeks of reading.

[TheQ]

Lime marmalade was always my favourite but being diabetic now..... 

 

Having battled with a non updated computer it's spent all day so far going from 7 to 10, all day? well an hours interlude with Ben getting chilled in the still strong wind.. 

So far I've had 4 hours away from a small room,  food has been eaten Muggacoffee or two drunk without consequences...

 

Yesterday was the first Anniversary of my youngest sisters husbands death from stomach cancer,  so she and the Two daughters  arranged to go an watch the Lion King on stage as a diversion... 

Edited February 17, 2020 by TheQ

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said:

Good morning owl from the Piedmont.

 

I have a T-shirt that shows:

I AM NOT LAZY

I JUST LIKE DOING NOTHING

 

That is my plan for today, other that reading more of Manchester's THE LAST LION    WINSTON S. CHURCHILL     ALONE     1932 - 1945  I have all three volumes and have finished the first; the third awaits my finishing of this one. A couple of more weeks of reading.

I like your plan. I've also read them and found out a lot about WSC. I've also got Churchill's History of the E glish Soeaking Peoples and his WW2 set. 

 

Jamie

[pH]

8 hours ago, grandadbob said:

PS. When I was about 10 years old myself a friend used to "invent" different sandwich fillings. My best effort was Marmalade and Mustard. 

 

Did you actually eat them?

 

Reminds me of a game very occasionally played late in an evening in the pub. One person made up a drink, another paid for it, and a third drank it. The almost sensible version restricted the ingredients to drinks - the ridiculous version allowed anything for sale at the bar.

[Happy Hippo]

6 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

 Bread, milk, butter and mouse poison has been purchased for them

If that's how you treat friends, the next time we meet I'll bring along my food taster!

 

I'll warn Dave Hunt that the lead shot he was getting from me, to give to you might have to be delivered more rapidly than he ever imagined!

 

[polybear]

8 hours ago, grandadbob said:

PS. When I was about 10 years old myself a friend used to "invent" different sandwich fillings. My best effort was Marmalade and Mustard. 

 

 

Marmite and strawberry jam works ok......

[tetsudofan]

Used to buy (Sainsbury's) thick cut orange & ginger marmalade but one day couple of years ago picked up a jar of ginger preserve by mistake (same design labelling etc.) and ever since then have been getting up on ginger preserve. Funny, I've always regarded Marmalade as something for breakfast and would never have it later in the day, that's the time for jam especially in the summer with scones and cream - with the cream on the top of the jam! Somehow marmalade with scones and cream does not sound right.

 

Going further back in time (late 50s/early 60s) bread was delivered by RACS (Royal Arsenal Cooperative Society) horse and red coloured cart whilst milk came from an Express Dairy blue & white electric van...… and, of course, the postman delivered three times a day!

 

On my last visit up there Harley Davidson had taken over the Express Dairy depot

[45156]

13 minutes ago, pH said:

Reminds me of a game very occasionally played late in an evening in the pub. One person made up a drink, another paid for it, and a third drank it. The almost sensible version restricted the ingredients to drinks - the ridiculous version allowed anything for sale at the bar.

The worst I ever heard of was gin and the juice from a jar of cockles

[Tony_S]

When we lived in Solihull families were either Coop or Midland Counties for milk delivery. There seemed to be some rivalry exhibited at times in our road. 
Tony

[45156]

4 hours ago, tigerburnie said:

Lime Marmalade for me, never got that bitter stuff, we had the Roses stuff for as long as I can remember as a kid, a Weetabix with a slice of butter about an eight of an inch thick and as much Lime on it as would fit was a snack me and my little brothers made for ourselves in the late 1950's/ early 1960's...…………………….

Morrisons do a rather nice (at least I think so) version at well under a quid a jar - it's got a fresher taste than Roses.  They also do a superior three fruits, but that is quite expensive - and at present Aldi have got the same at 99p

[grandadbob]

20 minutes ago, pH said:

 

Did you actually eat them?

 

Reminds me of a game very occasionally played late in an evening in the pub. One person made up a drink, another paid for it, and a third drank it. The almost sensible version restricted the ingredients to drinks - the ridiculous version allowed anything for sale at the bar.

 

Yes! I I really liked them.   My friend didn't.  

 

[roundhouse]

One for HH. I was tidying up various bits boxes and found a packet of Langley zoo animals. I know, unlikey passengers but hey the L and B would have taken what they could get.

 

Or were they just looking for water

[Tony_S]

When Matthew and his cousin Paul were about 10 they tried to press the result of mixing cola and milk into cheese. They were convinced it would make them a fortune. It never became popular. When I say never, I mean a few minutes...

[Happy Hippo]

16 minutes ago, roundhouse said:

One for HH. I was tidying up various bits boxes and found a packet of Langley zoo animals. I know, unlikey passengers but hey the L and B would have taken what they could get.

 

Or were they just looking for water

 

They both looked starved.

[polybear]

5 hours ago, Tony_S said:

We stopped having milk delivered about 25 years ago. Something must have been wrong with the local distribution as it was often “off” when delivered.  Or delivered when we had cancelled. I just got fed up and started buying from the supermarket.

 

We had milk delivered up until about 15-odd years ago; the milki was some old guy who'd been doing it for years.  Every now and then he'd announce that milk would be going up by a penny as from next week - we had several years of this, and thought little of it.

We he retired my mum stuck a few quid in an envelope for him.

 

When we got the next milk bill off the new guy my mum said the bill was wrong - he'd undercharged us.  After a bit of a conversation on the subject my mum asked " so when did the price of milk go down?"

The reply:  "It hasn't - it's always been that price....."

Not sure how much the old boy made out of it, or if it backfired on him.....

[Barry O]

Ey up!

It rained here overnight. Rain and tin roofs don't mix well. Apparently we had 0.8mm of rain..spread over 4 hours..yeh, right!

Still raining but its a move on day. Hopefully it will be clear enough to watch aircraft on their finals on the way to Queenstown. The road up Crown Point Ricdge has a parking area so you can watch the aircraft which, at that point, are lowere than you. Makes it like watching Tornadoes flying by in theLake District look sane!

 

Time for a mugacaff then breakfast!

Baz

 

PS as I said to the brewer..if I want to drink citrus drinks I would drink juice..I want something which tastes like proper beer..that was the porter

[polybear]

Just had a power cut for an hour, which totally stuffed a good chunk of "Sink The Bismark" on telly.

No telly

No Lights

No internet

No Radio

No S*ldering Irons

At least I've got a gas cooker, so toast and marmite wasn't interrupted.  Plus a few candles in the cupboards.

WW3?  The first to take out the Power Stations wins....