Early Risers.

[monkeysarefun]

1 hour ago, newbryford said:

 

Here's a question.

 

Say a golf course is owned by one person (ie, a proprietary club as opposed to the more numerous member-owned clubs). Can that open space be used by the owners family for their daily exercise? 

The golf course is within a few minutes walk, so no unnecessary car journey involved.

 

If yes - then is there a problem if said family members happen to knock a few balls around with sticks as part of that exercise?

 

Just wondering?

 

 

 

 

 

 

I guess its easier to ban everything than have a whole lot of (however seemingly logical) allowances and exemptions.  Here at least that seems to be the theory despite many example of seemingly ridiculous enforcements popping up each day in the media.

Overall though everyone here is doing it with good grace - the coverage on the news each day from Italy, Spain, US and now sadly even the UK is showing what the alternative might be.

 

If closed off beaches are our biggest problem right now then we are going pretty ok in comparison -we went through enough stress and heartache with the bushfires.

[newbryford]

27 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

From the Eastmoreland course website:

 

The Clubhouse is closed - except the restrooms.

 

Not a cloud in the sky right now - 20°C tomorrow.

 

I always make sure my balls are clean......

 

[JohnDMJ]

I heard from a customer in Romania who, being over 65, was confined to barracks except between 11:00 and 13:00 when carrying suitable ID and an Afir Davit, could go out for 'local exercise, essential shopping or collection of medication'.

 

 

[JohnDMJ]

4 minutes ago, newbryford said:

 

I always make sure my balls are clean......

 

 

Nothing worse than having dirty balls; it plays havoc with their aerodynamics!

 

Even more so if their dimples are compacted with mud!

Edited April 7, 2020 by JohnDMJ

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

Ive had quite a productive day today, my first task was to flip over the cellar door and give the reverse side a coat of paint, that was easily achieved. I then printed off the recipe for the scones I mentioned earlier. I then went to the workshop and sanded down and painted a pair of finials for the balustrade on the workshop decking, that I’d picked up from the big orange DIY shed last year. I then cut a piece of veroboard and cleaned the track area ready to start making the control circuit for the turntable. I also made a temporary bridge for the motor and gearbox so that I can test the limit switches (Hall effect switches) I want to use. The motor runs a bit too fast, even on 5 volts so I think I’ll have to gear it down even further, but I have plenty of gears etc to hand. 

 

After dinner I gave the cellar door a second coat of paint and hopefully I’ll be able to refit it to the door frame tomorrow morning. I then came back upstairs and changed before making a start on the scones, the6 didn’t take long to make and I’d finished in about an hour or so. I only made a half batch just to see how they went, but they went down very well, Sheila says that we’re not buying scones anymore!

 

After I’d finished baking them I made a start on the circuit board and managed to get in all the links before tea. 

 

Goodnight all 

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[BR60103]

I thought the whole idea of golf was for everybody to end up within 4" of each other.

 

 

[TheQ]

Mooring awl,  inner Temple Hare, 

5 hours sleep so far,  I'll try for more shortly. 

 

Sailing can also be self isolating,  single handed or quite often family couples sailing together.  Also on the broads most sailing boats fall. Into the six to eight ft width range so even with our close racing we would be roughly the right separation.  The problem is the clubhouse and facilities.. 

 

We had a police siren a couple of days ago,  most unusual for round here..  What was it?  A big party.  Due to the virus a family member came back from Spain,  to their holiday home on our coast. So they had a party for 20 odd family members and neighbours!!!! 

 

Plans for today,  

Work for an hour.  Useful spreadsheet time. 

While I've been semi dozing I've designed, roughly, the construction of the next board with the traverser on it. The wooden base may be glued and screwed this morning. 

 

The keel will get it's sanding. 

 

Some other work may happen.. 

 

Time to hit the snooze button... 

 

 

 

Edited April 8, 2020 by TheQ

[J. S. Bach]

Good night owl from a warming-up Piedmont.

[iL Dottore]

18 minutes ago, TheQ said:

...Due to the virus a family member came back from Spain,  to their holiday home on our coast. So they had a party for 20 odd family members and neighbours!!!

Morning All,

At the risk of sounding misanthropic (no, tell a lie, I am misanthropic) COVID-19 could have been an opportunity to “wash out the gene pool” - behaviour like this, by cockwombles like those, should be a prelude to the application of Darwinian principles to those *&£#@ (I hesitate to use the term “people” here) who - even in healthier times - are the grit and eggshell in the great cake-mix of humanity. Unfortunately, this strain of coronavirus has a motto akin to those of some of humanity’s more gung-ho military units: “kill ‘em all, let God sort ‘em out”

All black humour aside, I think that the cosmos is deeply unfair - seemingly protecting the moronic/selfish/inconsiderate/criminally-inclined/anti-social from the consequences of their own actions, whilst the good, the innocent and the blameless get caught in the fallout of such £&*#@ actions. (I would not wish this disease upon anyone, but sometimes, sometimes.....)

 

Mind you, I can see a solution here: (dons “Captain Misanthrope” spandex outfit, puts on black hat) why not allow these *&£#@ to ignore the lockdown - just have them obtain (with minimum fuss) a permit to do so and thus issue them with an ID card upon which, in big, bold, black letters it is written I AM ALLOWED TO VIOLATE THE LOCKDOWN AS I HAVE KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY AGREED THAT SHOULD I BECOME ILL DUE TO MY ACTIONS I WILL BE DENIED ANY AND ALL MEDICAL TREATMENT. Anyone violating the lockdown without the ID automatically gets 3 months in prison (given the number of *&£#@ out there, there would be good money to be made building prison camps ) And require that Goggle, farcebook and twatter to keep track of them for the authorities (they are already tracking us, might as well put the tech giants to good use)

 

Anyway, on to less contentious matters. Thanks to some kind RMWebbers on the GWR section of the forum, I have solved the problems I had with my outside framed monster (which sounds vaguely obscene, but isn’t) and my “thin wash” approach to painting the GWR wagons I’ve just built seems to be paying off. I have a teleconference this afternoon to discuss a project for my company and my knee is starting to behave itself. In all, it’s turning out to be a good “hump day”.

 

Off to unleash the Wolfpack

 

Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, Stay Sane

iD

[chrisf]

Greetings one and all

 

I found the missing socks.  They were in the laundry basket and are now on the clothes horse having been laundered with lots of other stuff.  That means, of course , that a less than jolly hour will be had later today wielding the steam iron.  Also on the agenda for this morning is marinading some strips of pork, later to be stir-fried and embalmed with the last of the kung po sauce.  This will be complemented with a detachment of black forest gateau.  It may not be cordon bleu but I like it and that is what matters.

 

After I had ventured out and bought the lottery ticket yesterday some time was spent rooting through books in search of photographs of trains long bygone.  Technically it was research but of the most pleasurable kind.  Long ago, gentle reader, when you and I were much, much younger, some of the most prestigious expresses were given names which they displayed proudly by means of headboards.  A friend is taking an interest in the Red Dragon for reasons which will become apparent later in the year and I was able to find what I think he wanted.  The process of placing bulky tomes on the scanner and capturing images for onward transmission was not without incident or bad language.  It's all part of the fun.

 

Some work was done last evening on the captions which I am charged with writing but there is more to be done.   No progress was made on any of the m*d*ll*ng projects but they are still there and will demand my attention in their own indefinable way.  I admire those who are able to focus long enough to get work done at home, as so many have been asked to do, but I am not of their number.  I suppose that working at home has its attractions, not being in close proximity to irritating workmates being one.  The line manager with whom I did not get on used to work at home two days a week.  Boy did I relish the peace and quiet.

 

Best wishes to all

 

Chris  

[Barry O]

Ey up!

This week is flying by!

 

Sunshine with scattered clouds greeted me this morning ( while peeking through the curtains)

Flavio, perhaps those who break the lockdown could "volunteer" as inoculation "testers" ..the UK Government did ask for some.

 

Things todo today include mowing of grass, house super cleaning, a bit of muddling but first..

A mugatea!

 

Thoughts are with all ERs , particularly those troubled by illness.

 

Right Wednesday..lets be having you!

Baz

[roundhouse]

Morning from an overcast Surrey.

 

A good day in the shed yesterday building the high level line. All timber brackets fabricated and fixed in place. Today should see all the remaining timberwork completed, cork laid then continue laying the track received from Fraggle Rock. Really looking forward to running stock continuously round.

 

We had our beer free day on Monday so the mini keg form the local brewery was opened yesterday evening and will be emptied today once I have finished using any power tools.

[45156]

Morning All

 

Couldn't get on at all yesterday, due to site/internet/my PC running slowly, there is a fault locally which is affecting some broadband access, and of course there is also the fact that all the kids are now online, not at school, and lots more people who are online to work from home, or in some cases, not to work from home.  And doing the fodder run which went well - too well as it cost a fortune with both of us having a trolley. 

 

Have had to skip two days posts, so I hope that all is well with all ERs.

 

30747 had a phone call from the TIA clinic at the hospital to advise that a consultant will call her this morning to carry out an initial assessment.  She may need tests, but they will let us know ASAP. 

 

On a more jolly note - yes there are some, thank goodness, the tidy ups which we've carried out mean that there is a bit more room to put more railway books - good news indeed,  as I have decided not to sell quite so many as and when the car boots resume. 

 

And round here (Lancaster and surroundings) there have been six cases of Covid19 reported, with two deaths both very elderly (89 and 90) with serious underlying health problems. 

 

Will try to get here tomorrow. 

Regards to All

Stewart

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

Sunny start again here and a fine warm day is promised.

Yesterday the pack of meat from Scotland arrived when promised and is now residing in the freezer.

Today I will be visiting The Shed, not so much to enter it but to surround it and start painting it with preservative. This will involve using a stepladder at the gable ends, one end in particular hasn't got a lot of room so I'll need to be a bit extremely careful.

The Boss has volunteered to help but I never let her anywhere near a paintbrush as the first  (and only) time I let her assist many years ago she dunked the the brush into the paint right up over the handle. No, it wasn't deliberate, she really wanted to help and still does but I've only  got a limited amount of white spirit (and patience ) She has decided to sit in the garden and watch.

Have a good one,

Bob.

[AndrewC]

10 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

I read some of the discussions earlier.  The word 'whoosh' came to mind, because that is what happened.  I'm sure Douglas Adams had a suitable quote but it doesn't come to mind currently.

 

I think this is the quote you were looking for: I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

 

Moaning all from the borough that has become a boring black hole of boring. Still feel crap and spending around 12 hours a day in bed. The rest is either working or cooking. I just don't have the energy to do much else. I'd love to be playing trains prototypically operating a sophisticated scale model recreation. That ain't happening until I spend at least 8 or 9 hours clearing and finishing the new floor in the shed. 

 

Building works next door continues. Really getting on my t*ts now. Some of the roof tarp has been removed on what was supposed to be a small dormer section to a loft conversion. Nope, it is a full 2nd story 10m² extension as well as a loft conversion. Ball park guess is the whole thing will exceed 40m³ which would require planning permission. The roof overhang of the extension and dormer appears to extend beyond the property boundary and over my roof. The shared chimney stack has also vanished without a party wall notice being issued. Time to call building control methinks. Maybe UKBF as well as I'm not convinced the builders are completely kosher. 

 

Day 2 of SWMBO's furlough. Wishing now I had put a lock on the office door. Hard to concentrate when I'm so used to having the house to myself apart from the cats all day. 

 

Oh well. Enjoy the day. I need more coffee. 

 

Blatant promotion: with the lockdown my usual coffee pusher has closed. We've now found a local small roaster called TortoiseTom. Lovely coffee, decent price, and free shipping over £25. 

[jamie92208]

Good Moaning to all, and of course sundry.  Baz, glad to hear news of Kingzance, please pass on regards if you are in touch again.  A good day was had yesterday and a small object propelled  itself along two strips of metal using electrickery for the first time.  Not a bad result.  

 

Here it is cloudy but warmish so I am girding my loins to go out and do battle with some Cottoneaster bushes that grow like weeds where they shouldn't.  This afternoon may involve more time in the shed. So a good day ahead  if I seize it.

 

I will certainly not be trying to visit any golf courses.

 

As to the brain dead who don't understand  social distancing, it seems that a certain 'special one' doesn't seem to be able to understand  it either.

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie

 

 

 

 

[Joseph_Pestell]

33 minutes ago, AndrewC said:

I think this is the quote you were looking for: I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

 

Moaning all from the borough that has become a boring black hole of boring. Still feel crap and spending around 12 hours a day in bed. The rest is either working or cooking. I just don't have the energy to do much else. I'd love to be playing trains prototypically operating a sophisticated scale model recreation. That ain't happening until I spend at least 8 or 9 hours clearing and finishing the new floor in the shed. 

 

Building works next door continues. Really getting on my t*ts now. Some of the roof tarp has been removed on what was supposed to be a small dormer section to a loft conversion. Nope, it is a full 2nd story 10m² extension as well as a loft conversion. Ball park guess is the whole thing will exceed 40m³ which would require planning permission. The roof overhang of the extension and dormer appears to extend beyond the property boundary and over my roof. The shared chimney stack has also vanished without a party wall notice being issued. Time to call building control methinks. Maybe UKBF as well as I'm not convinced the builders are completely kosher. 

 

Day 2 of SWMBO's furlough. Wishing now I had put a lock on the office door. Hard to concentrate when I'm so used to having the house to myself apart from the cats all day. 

 

Oh well. Enjoy the day. I need more coffee. 

 

Blatant promotion: with the lockdown my usual coffee pusher has closed. We've now found a local small roaster called TortoiseTom. Lovely coffee, decent price, and free shipping over £25. 

 

Generally, I think that we are over-regulated with regard to building work. So it is odd that people get away with such monstrosities when it comes to loft conversions/extensions. The London skyline is being completely ruined.

Taking down a shared chimney stack puts both properties at risk if not done properly. So you are more than within your rights to involve Building Control.

[Ozexpatriate]

45 minutes ago, AndrewC said:

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Thanks for that. It was hiding in the remote dark squishy parts of my memory, but I knew it was there. The Salmon of Doubt if I'm not mistaken. Brain usually goes first to the HHGTTG canon for Adams references.

 

It always reminds me of Jerome K. Jerome

Quote

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. 

 

"Procrastinators of the world unite! Tomorrow."

 

Edited April 8, 2020 by Ozexpatriate

[AndrewC]

22 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

 

"Procrastinators of the world unite! Tomorrow."

 

Dyslexics of the world, untie!

[tigerburnie]

Morning, cooler and a bit more cloud, but the fierce wind that made yesterdays bike ride less than comfortable has subsided, hoping for postie to deliver more plants for the garden pond so the G word may well come to the fore, have a good one all...………...

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

Greetings from sunny Essex. Forecast to be 23C or thereabouts later. A lovely day for a trip to the patio. A friend rang yesterday. He had just returned from New Zealand. They had arrived at Auckland airport, checked in their hire car and it was the day the lockdown began. Their flight was cancelled and they had accommodation in a small hotel provided by the airline. It was nine days rather than the “could be a month “. 
Today is bin day. I know our garden waste bin will have been topped up by neighbours and I suspect the bottle box will be too.  
Parcels are due to arrive. Amazon have despatched our printer cartridge by RM special delivery from Dunfermline rather than their own courier network. Other packages seem to be due today too. I think we only get post on alternate days now. 
Tony

[Happy Hippo]

53 minutes ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

Taking down a shared chimney stack puts both properties at risk if not done properly. So you are more than within your rights to involve Building Control.

Especially if the stack is still connected to the fireplace below and used when the weather turns inclement.

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Weather as Tony reported but I wont be out on my patio very much as the pollen count is way up, even more so than usual.

3 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Morning All,

At the risk of sounding misanthropic (no, tell a lie, I am misanthropic) COVID-19 could have been an opportunity to “wash out the gene pool” - behaviour like this, by cockwombles like those, should be a prelude to the application of Darwinian principles to those *&£#@ (I hesitate to use the term “people” here) who - even in healthier times - are the grit and eggshell in the great cake-mix of humanity. Unfortunately, this strain of coronavirus has a motto akin to those of some of humanity’s more gung-ho military units: “kill ‘em all, let God sort ‘em out”

All black humour aside, I think that the cosmos is deeply unfair - seemingly protecting the moronic/selfish/inconsiderate/criminally-inclined/anti-social from the consequences of their own actions, whilst the good, the innocent and the blameless get caught in the fallout of such £&*#@ actions. (I would not wish this disease upon anyone, but sometimes, sometimes.....)

 

Mind you, I can see a solution here: (dons “Captain Misanthrope” spandex outfit, puts on black hat) why not allow these *&£#@ to ignore the lockdown - just have them obtain (with minimum fuss) a permit to do so and thus issue them with an ID card upon which, in big, bold, black letters it is written I AM ALLOWED TO VIOLATE THE LOCKDOWN AS I HAVE KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY AGREED THAT SHOULD I BECOME ILL DUE TO MY ACTIONS I WILL BE DENIED ANY AND ALL MEDICAL TREATMENT. Anyone violating the lockdown without the ID automatically gets 3 months in prison (given the number of *&£#@ out there, there would be good money to be made building prison camps ) And require that Goggle, farcebook and twatter to keep track of them for the authorities (they are already tracking us, might as well put the tech giants to good use)

 

 

 

Off to unleash the Wolfpack

 

Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, Stay Sane

iD

On Farcebook yesterday was what looked like an official notice from HM government stating that lockdown was to be suspended for Easter for certain categories. It was when I read those categories that I realised that it was a spoof as the list included cockwombles, the brain dead, imbeciles etc. Its now been withdrawn almost certainly because it looked 'official'.

 

1 hour ago, grandadbob said:

Good morning all,

Sunny start again here and a fine warm day is promised.

Yesterday the pack of meat from Scotland arrived when promised and is now residing in the freezer.

Today I will be visiting The Shed, not so much to enter it but to surround it and start painting it with preservative. This will involve using a stepladder at the gable ends, one end in particular hasn't got a lot of room so I'll need to be a bit extremely careful.

The Boss has volunteered to help but I never let her anywhere near a paintbrush as the first  (and only) time I let her assist many years ago she dunked the the brush into the paint right up over the handle. No, it wasn't deliberate, she really wanted to help and still does but I've only  got a limited amount of white spirit (and patience ) She has decided to sit in the garden and watch with the first aid kit ready.

Have a good one,

Bob.

You forgot that bit Bob.