Early Risers.

[jamie92208]

10 hours ago, Tony_S said:

I utterly and totally loathed the Sing Something Simple programme. 

I couldn't agree more.  If my memories are correct it was broadcast on a Sunday night before Top of the Pops. Our ministers son and I used to listen to TOTP's whilst our parents were at the chapel. The valve radio was turned on and we tried to record songs of TOTP.  Happy days but As the radio took time to warm up we always got the tail end of Sing Something Simple.

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

Good moaning to all. It's not actually raining at the moment for a change.  Fish and Chips were consumed in Aulnay last night.  This morning I'll be painting shutters and filing square holes. 21 done, 15 to go in this batch.  Hopefully at so e point today we will finally complete the sale of the house we owned in Morley.  In the afternoon I may even be able to attach some wheels to some bits of plastic and brass.

 

Baz, I hope you have a good flight.

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie

 

 

[roundhouse]

14 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

 

Fortunately I was blessed with a very nice mother-in-law who used to accompany me out to the garage or back garden for a smoke (swmbo banned such awful habits indoors).  Alas MIL went somewhat senile in her later years but swmbo got her settled into a very nice family run old folks home just outside Plymouth, in Plympton, where she was very well looked after.  Nice and convenient too for herself to visit her mum as her old school friend, who lives in Saltash,  would pick her up off the train in Plymouth and ran her out to the home so regular visits were no problem over the years,.  Swmbo's sister - who still lives in Plymouth - visited her mother once in all the years she was in the home; seems you can't chose your family.

 

 

I recall similar situation with dad as his memory got worse that very few of his long time friends would go to visit him in the care home and one of his best friends did not go at all. After dad passed away this friend of his said he couldn't bare to see him in the state and wanted to remember him how he used to be. I used to go at least once a week but towards the ned I very rarely saw him awake as by the time I got back from the smoke by late running / cancelled trains then drive to the home a few miles away he was often fast asleep. I wold leave the office at London Bridge promptly at 5pm and would be luckily to get to the care home by 7pm - A journey of just over 20 miles with a 15 minute walk home if we missed the bus. One reason why I got so fed up with commuting.

 

Morning all from a sunny Surrey which is good as need to open the garage to get the layout ready and then load for this weekends Freemo South meet in Epsom. Fort Myers is now 26 and still getting out a few times a year. Layout transporter has had a quick run this morning to drop other half off at the station to make sure all is well with our vehicle which is now approaching 16. Must book it in for an MOT and service this month. Its got a few long distance trips this year, first is Bristol show then Devon Freemo and the longest is Perth show in the Summer as long as the virus doesnt affect such events. I was hoping to do a few Flybe trips to and from airports that I have not yet visited. Those visited currently stands at a nice round 100 in various parts of the world, some many times yet never been to the Channel Islands and only by ferry to IOM.

[Kingzance]

Morning each and every,

 

The sun, it shineth and doeth cast shadows upon much of the KZ estate. Rabbits are a-plenty, chomping at any succulent young grass but so far, the brass monkeys fear to put in an appearance as they are seemingly concerned about hanging onto their appendages.
 

Last night’s talk on winter wildlife was quite interesting. It was given by a female EasyJet pilot who is always rostered for extra flights during the summer period so takes her holidays in winter. She shared images of the sub-Arctic forests and plains and the creatures that inhabit them, including sections on Finland, Iceland, Yellowstone and Scotland. It was all very interesting and she is certainly very good at the art of capturing animal and bird life. That she then chose to give an environmentalist pitch didn’t sit well in my mind, given the amount of CO2 her job creates and which she then compounds by her choice to that in following her interests. 

 

Favourite Sunday lunchtime radio programmes had to include Beyond our Ken and Round the Horne. In third place sat The Navy Lark, well we had a larger Navy then which meant we frequently saw Grey Funnel Line vessels in and around Pompey, us being on that very nearby Channel Island at the time. Plumbing the depths of popularity in my mind were the programmes that were The Billy Cotton Band Show and those scheduled later including Sing Something Simple and that which may have spawned the present leader of the SNP: The Clitheroe Kid. Pick of the Pops with Alan Freeman was on the schedule for me as I was tasked with recording this on a Cossor reel-to-reel tape machine so we had muswick at the Youff Club later in the week.

 

And now for today. A further load of logs is due to be delivered this morning. Once stacked in the log store, I shall wander off to a local hostelry to natter and photograph some old men drinking beer and posing as cribbage players. It has been decreed that we shall visit the food side of a retail partnership whose staff are getting nothing like the bonus this year that they have enjoyed in previous years. The next update in our endless spiral towards Corvid-geddon will no doubt be relayed to me by Sybil Fawlty SWMBO as she listens to and watches the world according to daytime news tv shows.

 

Am I ready to take on the challenge of this day? No, but I suppose one must. Be good, be careful and (on behalf of our intrepid aviator travelling up from Sidney to Sinkers) seize it.

[tigerburnie]

57 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

I couldn't agree more.  If my memories are correct it was broadcast on a Sunday night before Top of the Pops. Our ministers son and I used to listen to TOTP's whilst our parents were at the chapel. The valve radio was turned on and we tried to record songs of TOTP.  Happy days but As the radio took time to warm up we always got the tail end of Sing Something Simple.

 

Jamie

Wasn't TOTP on telly on Thursdays? are you thinking of Pick of the Pops with Alan "Fluff" Freeman?

If my memory serves me right(which isn't that often these days lol) the question to follow " put the cat out" was "Why" and the reply was "because it's on fire"...…………….

I have a vinyl record of a couple of Goon shows, one side is "Insurance, the white mans burden" quite prophetic...………………..

[AndrewC]

 

Greetings all from the boring borough. Builders from next door still making a lot of noise but it looks like most of the heavy construction is done. Repairs to the party wall have been made. As a bonus the existing crack that goes through on both sides all the way from the footings to the roof has been underpinned, strapped, and repaired all the way up. Bonus for me as it saved me a couple of thousand £s in having to get the wall repaired on my side. 

 

Not much else to say really. No Epsom Freemo for us this weekend. Other commitments mean it is the first one I've missed. 

 

Work is work and at the moment the suckage factor is pretty much in the red on the dial. Meh. Roll on 16:00 and beer o clock. 

 

Enjoy the weekend. 

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

It’s a sunny, but frosty start to the day, but there is a slight possibility of some rain later. I will shortly be heading off to complete the Asda and Trafford Centre Grand Prix, my return journey will take me to the butchers where I’ll pick up the weekly meat rations and hopefully a pastie for dinner. Last night Sheila expressed a wish to accompany me on this sojourn, but as she is still in the pit bed, I suspect she’ll now not bother. 

 

Hopefully on my return I can sit at the dining room table and get a little bit done with the soldering iron.

 

Enjoy the day, back later. 

[BoD]

10 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

Wasn't TOTP on telly on Thursdays? are you thinking of Pick of the Pops with Alan "Fluff" Freeman?

I don’t remember what it was called but the top twenty were played on Radio 2 on a Sunday night after Sing Something Simple. 
It may even have been the release of the ‘new’ chart for that week. Not sure about that though.

[Dave Hunt]

Greetings from a bright North Salopshire, forecast not to be so bright as the day progresses. We will soon be setting off for the wilds of sunny wet and windy Wales (the conditions not actually caused by the Muddy Hollow gang though it's tempting to think so) but since I've paid extra for the luxury indoor accommodation with roof and everything we should stay dry - unless the roof blows off, of course. Must remember to take Jill's birthday cards with me for tomorrow; I forgot them last year when we went to Portmerion.

 

Neddy Seagoon - "Major Bloodnock, get all your men on parade."

"Why?"

"I'm looking for a thief."

"Go and find your own, it's taken me years to get this lot!"

 

Have a good day folks.

 

Dave

Edited March 6, 2020 by Dave Hunt
Forgot some

[leopardml2341]

Mornin'

 

At work, fat boy breakfast had in the works canteen staff restaurant and now back to sleep sorry, work

 

Have a good day folks.

[Tony_S]

7 hours ago, Lantavian said:

 

"Two-Way Family Favourites" sounds like a bizarre sexual practice.

The BBC in the 1950s insisted that the presenters were married (to each other) and didn’t even broadcast from the same studio.

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

Sunny here. 
I believe I may be encouraged to do some light dusting as we are having visitors from Bexley tomorrow. Apparently the 5 year old is looking forward to meeting me as I have been to Houston and he is obsessed with NASA related stuff. Must sort the photos out. 
Tony
 

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. No ones mentioned Radio Luxembourg yet. I suppose its because it was almost impossible to listen too let alone record anything off of it. The signal used to go up and down like a yoyo, one minute blasting away and the next barely audible. What finally finished it off was the pirate stations. Living in Estuary-Land at one time we had a choice of Radio Caroline, Radio Essex and several more stations to listen too. Some of those other stations were a bit dodgey to say the least. They were probably more of a danger to themselves rather than other shipping with several sinkings fortunately with no fatalities. ChrisF, theres a bit about the Navy Lark here.>>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Navy_Lark

[Tony_S]

I was woken up this morning by Justin from BT Openreach wishing me a “Good Morning”. I am certain he was John earlier in the week. I very politely said that I didn’t think he was John or worked for BT. 
Tony

[Tony_S]

In the Midlands Radio Luxembourg was very prone to fading. When Caroline started my mother was convinced we would be arrested for listening to pirates and made us go away from the house to listen. 

[TheQ]

7 hours ago, BR60103 said:

I thought that was the resistance he was measuring.

since I don't have a test tank I have to calculate hull resistance not measure it,,,

Edited March 6, 2020 by TheQ

[Happy Hippo]

20 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

How far is it to the pyramid Bloodnock?

Roughly twenty miles.

How far is it exactly?

Exactly it's twenty three miles.

Right, we'll go roughly - it's three miles nearer.

That sounds like the briefing for a deliberate fire mission, courtesy of the Royal Regiment of Artillery!

 

For those interested in military, both the Royal Engineers and the Royal Artillery share a common motto.

 

        Ubique

 

In the case of the RE it means:

 

Everywhere

 

But the RA?

 

All over the effing place!

Edited March 6, 2020 by Happy Hippo

[TheQ]

24 minutes ago, TheQ said:

since I don't have a test tank I have to calculate hull resistance not measure it,,,

should I admit thats all written into a computer programme I now have so you plug in the basic dimensions and it works it all out it's self (doesn't do keels though).

Edited March 6, 2020 by TheQ

[TheQ]

6 hours ago, 45568 said:

I remember when colour TV was first widely available in the UK, (1967??), 

Not in the hebridies it wasn't, colour TV didn't arrive there until the Early 1980s.

 

 in Deepest Wiltshire non of the pirate chanels was available and as mentioned LUxembourg used to fade in and out.. I think we lived in a radio black hole..

Edited March 6, 2020 by TheQ

[jamie92208]

2 hours ago, tigerburnie said:

Wasn't TOTP on telly on Thursdays? are you thinking of Pick of the Pops with Alan "Fluff" Freeman?

If my memory serves me right(which isn't that often these days lol) the question to follow " put the cat out" was "Why" and the reply was "because it's on fire"...…………….

I have a vinyl record of a couple of Goon shows, one side is "Insurance, the white mans burden" quite prophetic...………………..

Yes you're right and the charts were announced as it was presented so we all waited with baited breath to see what the No 1 was.  We had Radio Caroline North which IIRC was anchored just off Fraggle Rock.  Up in the Upper Ribbke Valley 208 Radio Luxembourg  was very hit and miss.  Once Radio 1 started , dare I mentioned it, Saville's travels was required listening.

 

Here plans havd been slightly amended as 4 stears (approx 4 tons) of logs were delivered in 1 stear bundles.  2 bundles have been neatly stacked. The other 2 have been sheted and will be stacked tomorrow.  Tea is now being drunk.

 

Jamie

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, Dave Hunt said:

 We will soon be setting off for the wilds of sunny wet and windy Wales (the conditions not actually caused by the Muddy Hollow gang though it's tempting to think so)

It's comments like this that remind me why I drink Irish fighting water.  (Guinness and Bushmills chasers.)

 

That'll put the wind up most people!

 

But a word to the wise:

 

Remember where you are on Saturday when you are watching the Rugby

 

 

[34theletterbetweenB&D]

2 hours ago, roundhouse said:

I recall similar situation with dad as his memory got worse that very few of his long time friends would go to visit him in the care home and one of his best friends did not go at all. After dad passed away this friend of his said he couldn't bear to see him in the state and wanted to remember him how he used to be. I used to go at least once a week but towards the end I very rarely saw him awake as by the time I got back from the smoke by late running / cancelled trains then drive to the home a few miles away he was often fast asleep...

This is very typical experience (my parents and in-laws all 90+ now diagnosed with dementing conditions) and to make it worse, they have now outlived all their acquaintance who were nearby enough to make visits feasible and did so. At least with my Pa he said some time ago 'if asleep leave me be, sleep is good'; seen him to talk to twice this year so far as a result. Father in law is still trying to organise the world, but very frustrated that there's no mention of Margaret Thatcher, who would make a far better fist of it than this fatty blond chap...

[chrisf]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

ChrisF, theres a bit about the Navy Lark here.>>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Navy_Lark

 

Many thanks for that!  It filled many gaps in my recollection.

 

Chris

[southern42]

2 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

We will soon be setting off for the wilds of sunny wet and windy Wales (the conditions not actually caused by the Muddy Hollow gang though it's tempting to think so) but since I've paid extra for the luxury indoor accommodation with roof and everything we should stay dry - unless the roof blows off, of course. 

 

It's sunny - you were right the first time - and not a lot of wind. Rain has kept at bay and muddy hollows are drying out - for now.

 Enjoy...

 

' morning all from red dragon land.

Eventually, I managed to get to the big store in Bangor for some daffs in bud for home.  None on show to buy in Betws that I could see, not that I went any further than a 10 minute walk from the station.  I did intend to take home the fallen ones at Betws but as I forgot to pick them up, I decided to leave them in the workshop - still looking good on Wednesday and cheering the place up, and hopefully for the weekend!  A bit of colour does wonders to the spirit.

 

Anyway, home daffs are gradually opening and looking better by the minute. 

 

Have a blooming day, all

________

Best wishes

Polly

 

Edited March 6, 2020 by southern42

[The Lurker]

1 hour ago, TheQ said:

Not in the hebridies it wasn't, colour TV didn't arrive there until the Early 1980s.

 

 

Nor in our house in Kent. But that was because my parents kept their black and white monster telly till it broke when I was around 13. It needed me and my Dad to carry it down the road to the tip.

 

Around the same time, a lot of the old radio programmes were repeated of a weekend lunchtime so I have listened to and loved Beyond our Ken and Round the Horne and the Goons, and the Take it From Here. I liked the goons so much I got a book of their scripts from the local library and laughed myself silly.

 

Mrs Lurker didn't get the same exposure and so does not get that sort of humour....