Early Risers.

[Ozexpatriate]

5 hours ago, 45156 said:

Ah music - it is one of the things keeping me sane at the moment - my tastes do vary a great deal - I still like the Beatles, Bee Gees, Abba (never did when they were current - my late father was the one to point out that the music was brilliantly composed), ...

 

36 minutes ago, PeterBB said:

... For some reason I do like Dire Straits, Abba from the days of Waterloo and have a collection of Buddy Holly records of which 'Peggy Sue' is my favourite.

Abba exploded in Australia. Even my Grandma had a copy of "Arrival" (on vinyl). Other albums in her collection were things like "Sing along with Mitch" (Miller). At that time (mid-70s) as an adolescent boy in high school they were not cool. Nevertheless they were completely ubiquitous and their catchy pop music was a soundtrack to everything at that time - though by the end of the 70s, school dances were more of the "disco" sound (think Donna Summer etc).

 

Abba parody was big too. "There was something in my hair last night, it was Vegemite, Fernando" has remained un-erased in my mind.

 

The Abba influence on Australia is easily seen in the film "Muriel's Wedding" (1994) which used an integral Abba soundtrack long before the musical and Hollywood "Mamma Mia!" series.

 

A university friend of mine attended the same school as the Bee Gees who had by then moved on to bigger things.

[laurenceb]

21 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

 

 

In our global world, 'kay-sonn' is the generally accepted pronunciation elsewhere in engineering professions.

 

 

That makes me think of large aircraft flying over and diving suddenly

Going stir crazy

Night awl

[pH]

Cryptic question - is someone on here making a model of 45371, or are they one of the people in that photograph?

[Coombe Barton]

Sawdust.

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2020/04/11/rebuilding/

[Ozexpatriate]

16 minutes ago, laurenceb said:

That makes me think of large aircraft flying over and diving suddenly

The attack on Hill 902 (Ka-San) and the defense of the whole Pusan perimeter bought time for the flanking Inchon landings in mid-September of 1950.

 

Of course the US had landed troops at Inchon in September 8, 1945 to hold the Soviets to the 38th parallel. Just five years earlier.

 

All these years later and despite the recent theatrics of the dear leader and the orange one there is still no peace treaty.

[Barry O]

4 hours ago, pH said:

 

 

Helston: https://maps.app.goo.gl/eP8qGF7GzLLMzc5v8  The selection changes regularly.

 

As an aside - I love the street name! 

Ooh err! Two Chieftains ( one in Berlin camouflage), an Abbott and a scimitar/sabre (30mm gun CVR(T).

 

Everyone has been busy making me think of happy times at Barnbow. Many thanks.

Baz

[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

Baz

[JohnDMJ]

 

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

In our global world, 'kay-sonn' is the generally accepted pronunciation elsewhere in engineering professions.

 

Much as I respect your view, pronounce it thus at ANY naval dockyard will have you hung, drawn and quartered. Even the OED lists their predominant phonetic pronunciation as kasoon.

[Ozexpatriate]

2 minutes ago, JohnDMJ said:

pronounce it thus at ANY naval dockyard will have you hung, drawn and quartered. Even the OED lists their predominant phonetic pronunciation as kasoon.

A genuine question out of curiosity, (I'm not being snarky or argumentative here since I don't know the answer) how does the royal artillery pronounce their historic equipment of the same name?

 

 

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

(late 17th century: from French, literally ‘large chest’,

 

I thought that was a bazoom.

[AndyID]

Speaking of pronunciation I imagine francophones must cringe when the hear Americans butchering "Grand Prix'.

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Not much to report this evening.

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone

 

Late up this morning and I just got stuck straight into the jobs I wanted to do, but I've been dropping in throughout the day. The sun has shone all day and the temperature has been warm enough to have the workshop windows open again today. So what have I been up to then? Well I did a bit of gardening this morning, pruning of some plants and a bit of weeding too, once I'd filled my green bag, I called it a day and then spent the rest of the day in the workshop. I made two different sized cones for two different sizes of the magnets, one 2mm diameter, the other 4mm diameter. When I came back inside, I carried out some tests using both magnets, with and without the cones fitted. The best results I got were with the 2mm magnet with cone fitted. I was able to get an operating width of about 1mm either way, but this was only holding the magnet on a small piece of wood.  I'll carry out more tests tomorrow fitting the magnet to the wooden turntable bridge I made the other day and fixing the hall effect switch on some sort of sheet below it. I should then be able to adjust the distances between the switch and the magnet with a bit more accuracy. 

 

Now I do like my music and I’ve got a very eclectic taste, the Beatles, The Stones, Led Zeppelin, 10cc, The Who, Kate Bush, Free, Bad Company, Cream, Jethro Tull, Elbow, Dodgy, are probably all the we’ll know British acts. As for US artists, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers, Steve Miller Band, Poco, Gordon Lightfoot (who strictly speaking is Canadian) Linda Ronstadt, Tori Amos, Suzanne Vega, to name a few. But my go to artist of all time has got to be the late but extremely talented multi instrumentalist Dan Fogelberg, a name that’s not very well known on this side of the pond but who was a multi platinum selling singer/song writer in the US. I also like classical music and we listen to classic fm constantly here. 

 

Goodnight all. 

 

 

Edited April 11, 2020 by BSW01

[newbryford]

8 minutes ago, AndyID said:

Speaking of pronunciation I imagine francophones must cringe when the hear Americans butchering "Grand Prix'.

 

Yeah - they pronounce it "Indy Car racing".....................

[Ozexpatriate]

8 minutes ago, AndyID said:

Americans butchering "Grand Prix'.

As in English "Grand" and French-ish "Prix"? (I've never heard someone say "pricks" who wasn't being facetious.)

[Ozexpatriate]

1 minute ago, newbryford said:

Yeah - they pronounce it "Indy Car racing".....................

Except in Austin. A former colleague has season tickets to the Circuit of the Americas, which includes (options to) the F1 Grand Prix event.

[Happy Hippo]

3 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Evening.

 

Another glorious day, if it was a normal Easter it would be snowing of course.

 

Garden works today, not railway.  Keith, I found rough sawn timber lasted longer than marine ply on the railway!  WBP ply lasted minutes.

 

More cooking on the wood burner, chicken this time, then had my ears lowered by Mrs NHN to No. 2 position, aka summer length.  Debs was shooting that scary bow in the garden again, having arranged a safe catch-net thing to catch any misses - not that she does miss. Ever.  This is about practicing technique apparently as obviously there is little range available.

 

 

 

Might I suggest that the left thumb is lifted away from over the top of the left index finger.

 

The wrap over encourages an over tight grip on the bow and increases tension.  This translates into vibration which I presume an archer wishes to avoid.

 

Well it does when you are shooting with a rifle, so I imagine certain aspects of control are similar if not identical.

[monkeysarefun]

3 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Disappearing from a 'hot spot' like Washington or California to retreat to a second home with lower infection rates in say Idaho, is of course the kind of gratuitous selfishness one can expect from the wealthy who believe there are two sets of societal rules.

 

Interestingly here too it seems the self-imposed entitled are the ones who think the rules don't apply to them, First there was the story of the NSW minister who relocated to his coastal holiday home after we were all told  - by his own government - that we were not to travel to the regions for fear of spreading it around. He had to resign and copped a $1000 fine that us plebs are subjected too. Now there are numerous stories of the rich driving to their holiday homes at Palm Beach for Easter. The locals have been happily calling the police on them though I guess the $1000 fine doesn't mean much to that kind of person.

 

Edited April 11, 2020 by monkeysarefun

[The Stationmaster]

1 hour ago, AndyID said:

 

I thought that was a bazoom.

Nah, that's what you use for sweeping up

[Coombe Barton]

1 hour ago, AndyID said:

Speaking of pronunciation I imagine francophones must cringe when the hear Americans butchering "Grand Prix'.

And, for me, Baroque.

Edited April 11, 2020 by Coombe Barton

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all

[newbryford]

1 hour ago, AndyID said:

 

I thought that was a bazoom.

 

Waits for our very own Barry O to reveal the definition of that one............... 

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[TheQ]

Mooring awl inner Temple Hare, 

 About 6 hours sleep so far as I fell asleep early. 

 

I wake with a slight headache and sore throat,  44 years of working in air conditioned buildings with no windows makes you Ill prepared for day after day working outside. 

 

I've never heard caisson pronounced anything but kay-sonn.

 

Yesterday the nearest neighbour cut the grass yet again, there can't be much left.  Many unknown walkers and cyclists going past,  including one stopping to use a map,  if you need a map you're not local. 

 

Plans for today, 

Sand the keel spreader board, 

Make like slartybartfast on something unmentionable. 

And maybe, just a chance of getting round to do that mowing I've been promising. 

 

Time to doze.. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[chrisf]

Greetings one and all

 

At considerable risk to life, limb and legality I did another fodder run yesterday.  The 45 minutes I spent in the queue to get into the supermarket gave me ample time to reflect on the improvement or otherwise that certain masks made to certain faces.  Nearly all the staff at Tesco were sporting the most unoriginal T shirts in 10 years.  “We’re all in it together” was hardly state of the art when rolled out by David Cameron and there will be those who did not believe it then.  At least I was able to get eggs this time.  I also bought a chicken for roasting.  I cannot recall the last time I did that and I will enjoy exploring just what can be done with the leftovers in the week ahead.

 

Several inmates point to the depressing and slanted content of the news.  Such is the scheduling practice that it is difficult to escape it.  The BBC has always been prone to going OTT, allowing news to overflow into mainstream channels and discarding any sense of proportion that it once had.  No-one, I believe, should criticise it for throwing everything it has at the most important and far-reaching story that any of us has ever known but this does not halt the frustration that a programme which one was expecting to watch has been replaced by yet another newscast.  Auden wrote that “men long for news”.  Indeed they do, but they long for distraction too.  That commodity may still be found in the schedules: yesterday I chose “The greatest story ever told” and “Indiana Jones and the temple of doom”.  Who cannot escape from grim reality by watching those?   

 

Best wishes to all, and for those to whom it matters, Happy Easter

 

Chris