Early Risers.

[Ozexpatriate]

3 hours ago, brianusa said:

Small arms and those not so small can be readily obtained at the local Walmart

Brian, the big box stores are evolving on firearms. You can find an old corporate statement by Walmart here. After the tragedy in El Paso, Walmart has further changed their ammunition and open carry policy. Sporting goods provider Dick's Sporting Goods also announced they were scaling back availability of firearms.

[AndyID]

Second daughter was part of the team that produced a documentary on the life of the late Frieda Caplan (aka "The Queen Of Kiwi")

 

This is the crew. Producer was Mark Brian Smith (third from left). Daughter is second from left. I suspect she came up with the title for the documentary but I have not confirmed that.

 

 

 

[AndyID]

13 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

But it's horses for course I suppose and if you're prepared to put up with the extra build up of deposits in your chimney from burning resinous timber before its had its time of fully seasoning it will still burn,  provided it isn't soaking wet.

 

 

Longer seasoning does not remove the resin from resinous woods like fir. It removes the water by evaporation leaving the resin/gum in the wood. If the wood is still relatively "wet" when it's burned the flue gasses are cool and byproducts from the combustion of resin condense in the flue. The main thing is to get the water content down so that the wood burns hot and it's easy to determine the water content with a DVM.

 

[Barry O]

Wine tour concluded. Loadsawine bought. Some delivered direct in the uk.

Villa maria.. well their more expensive wines exceĺent..a bottle of reserve Syrah bought.

 

Lawsondryhills  Pink...not a normal pink..very nice and tasty 

 

Hunters..the Chase but their Resling was nice.. not sweet and syrupy!

 

Bladen..pinot gris, sauv Blanc and Reisling...ordered for uk delivery

 

Not a fan of Reisling but it is so good here. Some Germans on the trip agreed!!

 

Time for some tea then.....

 

Baz

Edited February 25, 2020 by Barry O

[chrisf]

Good morning one and all

 

Today is Shrove Tuesday.  Later I shall enjoy preparing a bowl full of batter and making however many pancakes I can with the contents.  Each one will be garnished with granulated sweetener and a shake of Jif lemon juice, not to be confused with household cleaner.  One of the many areas in my life where courage deserts me is turning over the pancake in the pan so that the other side may cook.  Those with a gift for showing off toss the pancake but I gently flip it with a slice or spatula.  Yes, gentle reader, I am not a t o s s e r and that’s official.

 

After trudging round Bedford last night I am cautiously optimistic that I have found a new home for the six-monthly meetings of Area Group.  It is a pub that served as the office local in those far-off days of the 70s, 80s and 90s and the venue for many half-remembered leaving dos.  It appears to be suitable for half a dozen bods to gather and put the world to rights over a pint.  Time will tell.  Earlier I signed up for the Dublin Pride afterparty.  The venue is a museum!  I may turn out to be the oldest person there but what the heck!  This is going to be one crazy trip.  Will my rapidly disappearing fitness and stamina stand up to it?  After last night’s trudging my knees ached but ache less after an application of Deep Heat.  Poor old soul. 

 

Best wishes to all

 

Chris

 

PS: I hate the profanity filter!

Edited February 25, 2020 by chrisf
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[leopardml2341]

1 hour ago, AndyID said:

 

Longer seasoning does not remove the resin from resinous woods like fir. It removes the water by evaporation leaving the resin/gum in the wood. If the wood is still relatively "wet" when it's burned the flue gasses are cool and byproducts from the combustion of resin condense in the flue. The main thing is to get the water content down so that the wood burns hot and it's easy to determine the water content with a DVM.

 

What sort of resistance would you be looking for, and how far apart do you have the probes?

[leopardml2341]

Mornin' all btw

[TheQ]

8 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

It was this:

 

 

Edwin Landseer, The Monarch of the Glen (1851) - currently in the Scottish National Gallery. Wikimedia Commons.

 

... though in cast metal at 4 mm/ft scale (I think) - ideal for a Crianlarich cameo scene I suppose

Part of one of my sisters view every day... Guess where she works..

[jamie92208]

Morning all from over here.  Much to do this norning. Trailer to coupke up then off to collect a friend and her garden tractor. Then off to deluver it for a service. Then the fair Veronique  will trim my locks, Grace and I will then head for the sawmill and pick up 2 stears of metre long oak offcuts. One for each household.  The sawmill produces staves for Cognac barrels and sells off the waste. Then back home unload one stear, on to Grace and Jill's to offload to other stear before loading a hen house. Lunch prepared by Jill and Beth is then promised before getting home and unloading the hen house.  I am then tasked with making a suitable enclosure for some chooks.  Pancakes will no doubt be made and consumed later.

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie

[TheQ]

11 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

Retirement.

1013 total days, 633 working days to go..

 

Mooring Awl, inner temple hare..

A better nights sleep, less hours in bed but more solid non awake time..

 

I'd been sailing nearly 15 years before the SuperNova was designed (1995), by that time I'd already moved up so something bigger and more relaxing.. A new one now, will knock an 8 grand hole in your pocket. Most of the Happy Hippos costs would not have been the sailing itself, but the travelling, accommodation etc required to go to the big open events.

I suppose that's where I'm lucky in that there are around 30 clubs on the broads, So I could chose to go to many opens without living away, and when I was entering Nationals they were local too, I even organised some..

 

In support of My sailing I came home via the woodscrew supply company aka Screwfix, and bought various things electric to rewire the garage, I had been sketching out what I needed yesterday and realised I needed more stuff. 

During last nights awake periods, I did think of a way of reducing the  amount of work cutting the keel beams to hydrodynamic shape. that will be implimented Saturday / Sunday. 

Pictures indicate they did go sailing at Snowflakes  on Sunday... The rescue boats were busy...

 

Ben the I'm going back to bed Collie didn't want out this morning , he was probably kept awake last night by the wind howling round the house..

It's dry practically no clouds out there and is now daylight, though when I got in the landrover lightness was only in the east.

 

Coming to work I followed what appeared to be three new drivers in convoy... They slowed at every junction even if going past it. they indicated correctly at every turn. Unfortunately the lead one was doing 10mph below the limit whether it be 30, 40 50  or 60mph. I was glad when two turned off and I came up behind the slow lead one.. It's not often in the landrover I get to over take a car.. I had to wait for a long straight though...

 

Yesterdays work went well ,

 

Time too.. go do some more...

A Supernova

A picture from Sunday @ Snowflake Sailing club https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/probablythebestclubintheworld?__cft__[0]=AZUKC_N9KK-2W9DQQ7JfsApS6LtpKBZZTCpMhPugk95isD_8Hh8X1VyTL7LPb3moaexGqvskYI1knDULLTKiqHlI_icTEux4JVxKjfA6OXi3hQ&__tn__=*NK-R

 

Edited February 25, 2020 by TheQ

[polybear]

14 minutes ago, TheQ said:

 I was glad when two turned off and I came up behind the slow lead one.. It's not often in the landrover I get to over take a car.. I had to wait for a long straight though...

 

 

Shunting 'em off at a bend is quite therapeutic I'm told...

 

[TheQ]

Just now, polybear said:

 

Shunting 'em off at a bend is quite therapeutic I'm told...

 

Tempting... very Tempting...

[polybear]

My Boss knew a guy with a Landie whose front bumper was a length of B/H Rail.  Or was it a Sleeper....

[TheQ]

4 minutes ago, polybear said:

My Boss knew a guy with a Landie whose front bumper was a length of B/H Rail.  Or was it a Sleeper....

 

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

It’s chuckinitdarn again, who’d have thought eh? I’ve been up over an hour and I’m ready to leave, Sheila has been up just over 40 minutes and is running round like a headless chicken as usual! Who’d have thought eh?

 

Back later. 

[BoD]

Good morning all

 

 

10 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

It was this:

 

 

Edwin Landseer, The Monarch of the Glen (1851) - currently in the Scottish National Gallery. Wikimedia Commons.

 

... though in cast metal at 4 mm/ft scale (I think) - ideal for a Crianlarich cameo scene I suppose

Yes, it was something like that, whithout which the whole post (and your follow up comment) is rather meaningless.

 

The whole business was strange.  I made the post and got an error page saying the site had timed out.  When the site was viewable again there were three copies of the post so I edited two of them and reported them.  Andy Y, or another moderator, deleted the two extra posts and the original remained.  A couple of hours later I looked back and the original image had disappeared too.  It had also gone from my ‘gallery’ so I couldn’t replace it.  Obviously some others had seen it and quoted it before this happened.  Ah the joys of I.T.

 

Have a good day.
 

 

 

 

Edited February 25, 2020 by BoD

[Kingzance]

Best wishes to Brian and Sheila for their respective checks! It is not chuckinitdarn here (yet?) and we have around 3/8s cloud. The singing of birds is being drowned by industrial ghetto blasters in the CowboysRUs site, occasionally interspersed with profanities.

 

Here today brings a need to collect medication for the next four weeks that I failed to manage last Friday. The fresh fish man cometh, not singing ditties by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann. Cribbage is planned for the evening but I shall need to wrap up against the elements before setting off on my way there.

 

When in Marlborough, we didn’t order direct but, under strict instructions, I always seek the few wines of which SWMBO approves from that area. I liked the Giessen SB but I don’t know if Baz went there. Kiwi Pinot Noirs I preferred came from the North Island and were not cheap!

 

Hoping that the national network of parallel strips operates smoothly for once so all users and staff can have a peaceful day, I will leave you with a comment I read that was made by a lady who was a mathematician for NASA and whose role was to check the calculation of early computers in terms of rocket trajectories and timings. She it was who confirmed the path of Alan Shepherd and John Glenn’s launches plus several of the early steps in the Gemini and Apollo programmes. The comment goes:

 

”My father taught us “You are as good as anybody in this town, but you’re no better.” I don’t have a feeling of inferiority, never had. I’m as good as anybody, no better”.

Katherine Johnson, who was born into an African-American West Virginia family in1918. She was the subject of the film “Hidden Figures”. She died at the weekend, aged 101.

 

Perhaps we should all remember that comment, it certainly would create more calmness!

Edited February 25, 2020 by Kingzance

[Dave Hunt]

Currently having a muggocoffee at son and DiL's place in Leatherhead having had a reasonable trip down yesterday when even the M25 was more of a road than a car park. Some excitement when in short succession on the M40 a series of police cars doing about 120 mph with blues and twos going hurtled past heading south as well as a white van carrying the legend 'Royal Navy bomb disposal' , albeit probably sub-ton, also with flashing lights went by. A bit later we passed the police cars on the hard shoulder surrounding a black car but no sign of the van. Isn't life interesting darn sarf? Jill and DiL have taken granddaughter to school then son and DiL are off to Brighton for the day and to see The Lighthouse Family in concert tonight leaving the aged grandparents in charge. My contribution will be making pancakes this evening though like Chris I chicken out of tossing and settle for a gentle flip instead.

 

Have the best day possible everyone and belated congrats to STH and GDB. 

 

Dave

[NGT6 1315]

Cheers, folks. Here’s some grindcore to get y‘all wakey-wakey!

 

 

Our rail grinders 5092 and 5091 were out for whatever last night as I was waiting for my next turn. 5092, as I may have mentioned before, was converted from the NFTW4 prototype, which in turn was the forerunner to what became the NGT6 eventually. The pair of them can operate in a back-to-back multiple formation.

 

The second pan on the rear end of 5092 is for OHLE de-icing, using a glycol applicator unit. 5091 with its observation dome can also perform OHLE inspection.

 

Bit rainy ATM but not really cold today. Still got a few hours to kill before work, thankfully.

 

Best wishes, congrats and commies as appropriate.

[tigerburnie]

Morning, some of the "G" word has taken place in the greenhouse, onion and leek seeds have been sown and are now hardening off under glass and out of the propagator. We have a nice sunny day with little wind, not sure how long that will last, being taken out for lunch, this upcoming birthday is turning into a marathon, now running at over a week it seems lol(I'll pretend to enjoy the fuss). Going with my muddling chum, so some virtual muddling may take place....verbally...………………..

[Kingzance]

7 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

Morning, some of the "G" word has taken place in the greenhouse, onion and leek seeds have been sown and are now hardening off under glass and out of the propagator. We have a nice sunny day with little wind, not sure how long that will last, being taken out for lunch, this upcoming birthday is turning into a marathon, now running at over a week it seems lol(I'll pretend to enjoy the fuss). Going with my muddling chum, so some virtual muddling may take place....verbally...………………..

If ithe birthday plans are anything like mine, you will be absolutely cream crackered at the conclusion but enjoy being pandered to - it will be a while before it happens again. 

[Tony_S]

4 hours ago, TheQ said:

Part of one of my sisters view every day... Guess where she works..

Baxter’s in Fochabers?

 

[Tony_S]

Morning. 
Not a lot happening today. 
Tony

[Simon G]

Once again a hailstorm has driven me back inside, with finger chilled to the bone after an hour outside.  Visit to Sister Drac this morning turned out to be a visit to Brother Drac, but no less uncomfortable for that.  Some people have the knack of inserting a needle with minimal discomfort, but others don’t.  I always seem to get the latter!.

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. The RMweb pages seem to be acting strangely at the moment. There is a blank space on the right taking up a third of the page? Everything else seems to be OK except there is no ads. Bright sunshine earlier but a bit more cloud has drifted across recently. Just had a call from my brother, He's now recovering from the heart op and sounds pretty good in the circumstances.