Early Risers.

[AndyID]

The filament has suddenly stopped advancing on my 3D printer. Either it's been hacked by one of the neighbors or a transistor decided to go ftang    Not unlike some of the early computers I worked on. The worst thing you could do to them was turn them off. You could almost guarantee something wouldn't work when you turned them back on. It was never clear whether it was the off or the on that was responsible for the enknackerment.

[AndyID]

Prof. Adrian Hill and his team at Oxford are doing excellent work. I hope they have access to all the resources they need. I'll be happy to chip in what I can to help.

[TheQ]

Mooring awl, inner Temple Hare, 

5 hours snooze so far more to come I hope. 

 

I'd like to get proper internet to the railway shed and mobile home,  problems are:

 It's over 100yards away .

Round a corner of the back garden, with trees along the boundary. 

The internet router is at the front of the house with solid brick walls throughout. 

The house and mobile home are on different phases of electricity. 

 

As it is, if I wander down the garden with this gadget,  in line with the hall way,  I get halfway to the corner before the signal fails.

If I used power line adaptors in a window I suspect it would reach to the corner and I'd need a repeater from there. 

If I used cable or fibre after the problems of getting through the house, with door ways both sides of the hallway and mouldings on the ceiling making it difficult to hide a cable. There is a concrete pathway to cross. Then there would be the long dig to the MhRC.

 

My current favourite solution would be a power line adaptor to the back of the house or possibly the garage,  which is part way and  off set giving a partial angle to the corner.  Then a receiving aerial and repeater for the shed and MrCH. 

 

And with those thoughts 

 

 time for zzzzzzzz

[chrisf]

Greetings one and all

 

Keen as I am to rid my jungle of the nettles which infest it, I draw the line at doing it in the rain so the job did not get done yesterday.  Priority today must be given to the fodder run and the garnering of essential supplies so that is how it will be.  Butter, cheese, grapes, bananas, milk and the increasingly fictional Radio Times are just the start.  I am still not used to menu planning, good discipline though it undoubtedly is.  There is plenty of scope for acting on whim and inspiration but Sunday roasts and the trimmings have much to commend them.  My only hard and fast rule is that I will not eat fish on a Friday.  Why should I?

 

During the one minute silence yesterday the presenter on the BBC news channel was far from silent.  Some mistake, surely?  During the live coverage of the various places where men and women stood with heads bowed, a caption at the bottom of the screen could have reminded anyone who had forgotten that the silence was taking place and that speech of any sort was inappropriate.  I wonder how many complaints there will be and what will happen as a result?

 

Tonight I should have been at a HMRS meeting in Bletchley.  Instead, the Society is dipping its toe in the Zoom pool and branch members will discuss whatever falls to be discussed.  I have a little secret to share here.  At half time in a normal meeting there is tea and biscuits.  That is the only time during the month when I eat biscuits.  It will be good for me not to eat biscuits, which I more or less gave up when I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, but I do like them.  Mmmmm, chocolate digestives.

 

Best wishes to all

 

Chris

[AndyID]

It seems the printer didn't stop due to a whacked transistor. Kindly excuse the techno-babble but those of us in the trade refer to the problem as a "bunged-up nozzle". Exactly why the nozzle decided to become enbunged at that precise moment is likely to remain a mystery.

 

I had been thinking about swapping to a slightly smaller nozzle anyway (0.3 mm diameter) so I did that and the results seem to be quite pleasing. It's basically a trade-off between detail resolution and print time although strength factors into it as well, but 0.3 mm looks like a reasonable compromise.

 

Today MrsID decided some bedding plants to decorate the deck were essential and as we had to pick-up some prescriptions at the pharmacy drive-through we took a jaunt into town in IDSPIDY sans top. The weather was perfect. Later, when we were sitting on our deck an Austin Metropolitan drove past. It might be owned by someone who just moved into our community. I might be able to give them a few pointers regarding BMC motors.

 

Marmalade has been made. Most US marmalade is orange colored jelly with a few bits of orange peel to make you think it's actually marmalade. We made some industrial strength stuff by buying Ma-Made (Robertsons) cans containing actual Seville oranges and cooking it up in the jam maker. It's pretty inexpensive and jolly good too.

 

 

[leopardml2341]

3 hours ago, AndyID said:

The worst thing you could do to them was turn them off. You could almost guarantee something wouldn't work when you turned them back on.

Unlike today's standard 'IT support line' solution.......

 

Morning all. Sleep interrupted as forecast.

 

Morning  cuppa made, shower next then back to the home 'office' feels a bit chilly today - might have to re-instate the heating for a while to 'take the edge off'.

 

Doggo is resolutely staying put.......

 

May the day bring great things for all, see you later.

[Barry O]

1 hour ago, chrisf said:

Tonight I should have been at a HMRS meeting in Bletchley.  Instead, the Society is dipping its toe in the Zoom pool and branch members will discuss whatever falls to be discussed.  I have a little secret to share here.  At half time in a normal meeting there is tea and biscuits.  That is the only time during the month when I eat biscuits.  It will be good for me not to eat biscuits, which I more or less gave up when I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, but I do like them.  Mmmmm, chocolate digestives.

 

Best wishes to all

 

Chris

 

Chris, moreasons do a sugar free selection of biscuits including chocolate doigestives and chocolate chip cookies......made by a French firm.

 

While not perfect they makea change

Baz

[Barry O]

Ey up!

Cold and damp here this morning.  Pah!

 

I notice Debs was mentioned elsewhere on ERs yesterday. Someone was praising her supply of gauges to keep bits of nickel silver at the right distance apart and to keep them parallel.

 

And what, i may ask, has Wednesday got in store for all ERs?

 

On my slop chit I have so e household chores, a bit of furniture moving, some tidying and..when that is done, abit of muddling.

 

I do have some work to do but that can only happen later this week when civil engineering activities are completed around my work room.

 

Lets all go and sort Wednesday out! 

Lots of positive thoughts to all ERs especially our missing ones!

 

Baz

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

It is overcast and has been raining. It wasn’t raining when I went out with the rubbish bags. 
Tony

[Ozexpatriate]

I have a precise use of language question for the ER grammarians.

 

In the following hypothetical situation:

Car A is a performance vehicle with a top speed of 300mph.

Car B is a high efficiency commuter vehicle with a top speed of 60mph.

 

Statement 1. The top speed of Car A is five times (5X) the top speed of Car B.

 

Restated:

Statement 2. Car A is five times as fast as Car B.

 

I have seen people try to state this as:

Statement 3. Car A is five times faster than Car B.

 

Do you interpret statement 2 to be precisely the same as statement 3?

 

Answers on a postcard. Replies will only be sent with a stamped, self-addressed envelope. (I do have an opinion but am looking for your opinion.) Thanks!

 

Answers from the back of the class with non-sequiturs will get a "ha ha ha".

Edited April 29, 2020 by Ozexpatriate
Preemption

[roundhouse]

Morning

 

Latest news - 'I have decided not to wear a face mask so I can look people in the eye' - I think someone might have the wrong idea how they are worn.

 

The garden had a good soaking yesterday and so did I to a point for being out there in the rain.

 

Today the sun has briefly broken through the cloud but more ran due so it may well be a shed day today.

 

I also think that its going to be another strong beer day as I mood was lifted yesterday after such but my mood isn't feeling so great at the moment with the news that BA are going to shed thousands of jobs plus all those affected on top of that in their suppliers etc. and this is just the start of airlines contracting. It will affect us in this area as many jobs expected to go around Gatwick airport / Crawley area.

 

Patio extension is now delayed till the rainy weather passes but at least the path next to the sheds and log pile is now looking much tidier ready for more paving.

Edited April 29, 2020 by roundhouse

[leopardml2341]

35 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Answers on a postcard. 

Is that like twitter?

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

After yesterday's continual downpours the sun is shining at the moment but more rain is forecast.

BA news not good for anyone in the travel industry like Steve and Abbie who are already under threat of redundancy. Steve is still WFH and Abbie was furloughed but on Monday was called back to WFH.  It seems they possibly furloughed too many people and have now got some extra work from the government. She is now doing shift work for 6 days a week including Sundays and has told her boss she'll do whatever is needed. Sensible girl as that may possibly stand her in good stead when choices have to be made.

Bloody Reynard came back and finished what he started so there are food scraps all along the alley which I'll shortly have to clear up. I have got a couple of ideas to thwart the little so and so though.

Didn't get to The Shed yesterday as other things got in the way. No walk either because of the rain and I may not be going for one today. There's a couple of parcels due including prescription drugs which need to be received in person.

Better go and sort out the mess outside,

Have a good one,

Bob.

Edited April 29, 2020 by grandadbob

[Dave Hunt]

This is a postcard on which is my response to Ozex's question:

 

Although generally used as having the same meaning, I think that B and C are different linguistically. B means that the top speed of the faster car is five times that of the slower car, I.e., 300 mph in the example. C means that the difference between the slower car's top speed and that of the faster car is five times the former, which is 300 mph over the slower car's top speed of 60 mph, giving a total of 360 mph. Since I don't have an American stamp for the self-addressed reply envelope I am enclosing a carrier pigeon; please feed before returning.

 

Dull and grey this morning and the weather isn't much better. After muggocoffee, which I am forced to prepare for myself since SWMBO appears to be on strike and is still in the land of Nod, according to last night's issue of routine orders we are going to spend the morning preparing various meals for the freezer. This is due to a recent delivery of comestibles that need using before their best by dates but were ordered when delivery slots were available rather than when actually needed. Logistics get somewhat complicated in the current situation.

 

Speaking of logistics, I have nothing but praise for the traders that we Railway modellers are dependant upon to enable us to continue our activities and stay sane. In addition to the Fraggle Rock guys (or is it more like Alcatraz these days Neil?) several other suppliers have all given excellent service recently and I'd just like to say thank you - in my opinion key workers.

 

As Bugs Bunny would have it, that's all folks. Grab your Wednesday and stay safe.

 

Dave

[TheQ]

Mooring awl again, 

Ben the I don't care about the rain Collie dragged me out to get wet again.  Though it's not at mooring levels, just a constant light rain / heavy drizzle.. 

 

Porridge is added lemon flavour this morning,  I'm on the last packet of the porridge of a not to good flavour. 

 

We've made contact with SWMBOs friend again so another red cross parcel from Tescos should arrive today.  Bread milk butter and mushrooms.. 

 

Normal weather having resumed I'm about to head to the garage for lead cutting,  with underside of the roof inspection for drips first to see if I've missed anything. 

 

It's sad the celebrations for VE remembrance are disrupted, it's important to remember.  By this time Granddad had been released from being a POW,  but one of his sons was still fighting in Burma.. Luckily he came home as well,  many families were not so lucky. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mike Bellamy]

9 hours ago, Barry O said:

 

  RAF airways is busy tonight as I see an A400-M is flying around parts of Scotland.

 

 

According to a local news report, that may have been the one that went from Brize Norton to Aldergrove to transport a medical emergency from Northern Ireland to East Midlands for onward travel to Leicester.

 

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/burton/raf-aircraft-landed-east-midlands-4086292

 

EDIT. Whilst it might have been the same plane, it wasn't the same flight. Just looked again at dates and times. Your report was Tuesday evening and the arrival at EMA was 2.00am Tuesday morning.

.

Edited April 29, 2020 by Mike Bellamy

[jamie92208]

Good moaning from a temporarily dry Charente Maritime. However that is due to changevin the next couple of hours.  Beth has been out for a 5km bike ride and enjoyed it.  I actually  had a lie in but am now girding my loins for a morning of DIY or should I say bricolage.  This afternoon I hope to either spend in the shed or doing some more negative scanning. I've almost finished 1974, 15 films.  That was the year I bought my first SLR, a Yashica TLElectro with an extra zoom lens.  

 

Here the parliament is discussing how to end the lockdown. I saw the Dr yesterday and she told me that our area is virus free and they want to keep it that way. The big potential  problem is second homers arriving from badly hit areas and she was very vehement that the Parisians should be kept in Paris.  Our small village has about 10 holiday homes of which 4 are gites that wouldvsee multiple occupants over the summer, Most of the others belong to expats.  It will be interesting to see what strategy emerges.

 

As to internet to sheds. It's a difficult route from the house to the shed. 40 yards at least. The first half is garden with trees and paving in the way. The second is hard standing in very rocky ground.  A buried cable would be difficult.  I might experiment with a wireless extender.  One has worked very well to the other endvof the house so I might give it a try.

 

Stay safe out there.

 

Jamie

[Happy Hippo]

2 hours ago, AndyID said:

It seems the printer didn't stop due to a whacked transistor. Kindly excuse the techno-babble but those of us in the trade refer to the problem as a "bunged-up nozzle". 

My GP assures me that this is not uncommon once a gentleman reaches a certain age.

[Happy Hippo]

45 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

 

Bloody Reynard came back and finished what he started so there are food scraps all along the alley which I'll shortly have to clear up. I have got a couple of ideas to thwart the little so and so though.

 

 

Before anyone gets too jumpy, it's a shotgun, not an assault rifle,

 

However, taking it on grouse shoot would not be considered sporting.

[AndyB]

Morning all. 

Looks sunnier today.  

Long days in the office continue. 

My 2 hr commute has been easily filled by extra workload. 

Nevertheless the clematis is in full bloom and all are healthy here.

Warm wishes to all.

[Compound2632]

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

I have a precise use of language question for the ER grammarians.

 

In the following hypothetical situation:

Car A is a performance vehicle with a top speed of 300mph.

Car B is a high efficiency commuter vehicle with a top speed of 60mph.

 

Statement 1. The top speed of Car A is five times (5X) the top speed of Car B.

 

Restated:

Statement 2. Car A is five times as fast as Car B.

 

I have seen people try to state this as:

Statement 3. Car A is five times faster than Car B.

 

Do you interpret statement 2 to be precisely the same as statement 3?

 

Answers on a postcard. Replies will only be sent with a stamped, self-addressed envelope. (I do have an opinion but am looking for your opinion.) Thanks!

 

Answers from the back of the class with non-sequiturs will get a "ha ha ha".

 

My resident lexicographer says the two are equivalent; at times (n) the dictionary gives:

• three times as long
• three times longer
• three times the length

as equivalent. The dictionary records usage, not the rule according to some theorist.

 

For my part, 3 sounds more natural. 

 

 

[iL Dottore]

14 hours ago, polybear said:

I've come to the conclusion that my house is broken

Some weeks ago I spent bloody ages cleaning and dusting the house from top to bottom (*one bitch of a room still to do).

However, I've just discovered signs of a build up of dust.  That can't be right.  What's broken, and can it be fixed?

Polybear, dust is mostly us (dead skin cells), so unless you propose to live inside a plastic bag for the duration, dusting will - alas - be a feature in your future life.

Having said that, a friend of mine who lives in Canada seems to have a solution: being both a smoker and quite relaxed about housekeeping, my friend has acquired a portable, stand-alone, air filtration/air cleaner/air scrubber device which is so efficient that not only is there no dust in the big room it services but there is also no smell of cigarettes (my friend smokes > 40/day!). Something to investigate, perhaps?

11 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

...Quite a good day. I got most of my French tax return done yesterday...

You are truly a brave man. I face, on a yearly basis, the Swiss Gemeinde, Kanton and Bundessteuerverwaltungen, so I certainly take advantage of an accountant’s expertise. Taking on l’etat Francaise (even if only filling out forms) is something even a native francophone finds daunting! So indeed you are a hero amongst les Rosbifs 

On 28/04/2020 at 10:21, Kingzance said:

Re reduced numbers in A&E, sister in law is a “mature” nurse in the Newport Gwent area, usually in A&E at the RGH but occasionally elsewhere. She has been saying for ages that well over half those turning up at A&E did not need to come. Perhaps fear of WuFlu may reset their mindless / selfish clogging of what is basically a system to treat real and not virtual health issues / demand second opinions if they disagreed with their GP / expected some support for their drug cravings / get a free meal ticket if they were hungry - and yes, I kid you not!..

Sadly, with the NHS - as with so many things - the perception of it being “free” encourages some people to abuse the system. Perhaps (says he, tongue more or less firmly in cheek) there should be an inverse payment scale charged to patients: so slicing your finger open whilst modelling would cost you £0.00, whilst turning up with a paper cut incurred whilst drunk would cost you ££££.

On a serious note, there does seem to be a correlation between how a society views ownership of public property and services and the quality of (and abuse of) said property and services - which goes a long way to explaining the difference in sheer quality of public property, space and services between Japan and the UK (or the US for that matter)

On 28/04/2020 at 10:43, Coombe Barton said:

Two spaces after a full stop became outdated fifty years ago with the IBM proportionally spaced golfball typewriter, as did the insistence on serif typefaces...

For some, perhaps, for some. Like some posters, that’s the way I was taught (correctly in my view) and that’s the way it’s gonna stay!
America whilst admirable and great in so many ways, is also guilty of inflicting the most evil business practices on a hapless world (may I say three words and three words only? OPEN  PLAN  OFFICES!!!).

22 hours ago, Tony_S said:

...When Aditi wrote her doctoral submission she turned off all spelling/style/grammar support except for the formatting of references. This was after too many comments from Word about long sentences.
Tony..

Word, IMHO, is designed for those whose “communications” (for want of a better word) tend towards the - Ahem - less complicated end of the spectrum. I recall when MS Word was first introduced, at that time many of my colleagues were working with WordPerfect, which they preferred. Was WordPerfect the better system? Discuss.

21 hours ago, Sir TophamHatt said:

...Until I found out that child care could be as much as £500 a month...

By Jove, you ARE an old softy, aren’t you Sir Topham? You should do with the kids what my parents did with me: send ‘em down the mines as soon as they could walk! Child minding and income stream rolled into one. A perfect solution!

3 hours ago, chrisf said:

...It will be good for me not to eat biscuits, which I more or less gave up when I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, but I do like them.  Mmmmm, chocolate digestives....

Certainly, foodstuffs with a high sugar content are problematic, but - as the research I did before I started a Very Low Carbohydrate diet revealed- too many of them are things that we would not normally think of as “sugary” (such as ham! A number of supermarket sliced hams contain high fructose corn syrup). Reading the label is both eye opening and vital for keeping those Devil Carbs low.

2 hours ago, Barry O said:

...Chris, moreasons do a sugar free selection of biscuits including chocolate doigestives and chocolate chip cookies......made by a French firm.

While not perfect they make a change...

Maybe, but they also tend to be loaded with fats (and not necessarily the “good” fats either) and contain artificial sweeteners. Apart from the metallic aftertaste left by many (most?) artificial sweeteners, data suggest that artificial sweeteners may be as bad for you as too much sugar. Ultimately, I reckon, the solution to the biscuit craving is to only have a minimum number - consistent with one’s daily carbohydrate allowance OR make your own biscuits - thus controlling the amount of sugar going in, or even substituting honey for sugar in the recipe.

2 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

I have a precise use of language question for the ER grammarians.

 

In the following hypothetical situation:

Car A is a performance vehicle with a top speed of 300mph.

Car B is a high efficiency commuter vehicle with a top speed of 60mph.

 

Statement 1. The top speed of Car A is five times (5X) the top speed of Car B.

Restated:

Statement 2. Car A is five times as fast as Car B.

I have seen people try to state this as:

Statement 3. Car A is five times faster than Car B.

 

Do you interpret statement 2 to be precisely the same as statement 3?

 

Answers on a postcard. Replies will only be sent with a stamped, self-addressed envelope. (I do have an opinion but am looking for your opinion.) Thanks!...a "ha ha ha".

Hmm, that’s an interesting conundrum! I would argue that, for many people, Statement 2 = Statement 3. However I would argue that neither Statement 2 or Statement 3 truly reflect Statement 1. If I would say “A Lamborghini travelling at 30 mph is 5 times as fast/faster than a Reliant Robin travelling at 6mph” then that statement is both true (and is reflected in your Statement 2 and Statement 3) and also false (compared to your Statement 1) as only the ratio is present in the statement made with no reference to top speed. I think that the qualifier (Top Speed) is the key here, without it you could argue S2 and S3 do not = S1

However, grammatically, I think that “five times as fast” is probably the correct ‘formal’ usage, whereas “five times faster” is, I think, the more widely used and understood version. Personally, I would use “faster than” because to me, it implies a consistent across-the-board ratio difference, whereas, again to just to me, “as fast as” implies a single time point/comparison.

 

Cheers 

iD

[Kingzance]

Good morning,

 

Decidedly dull and damp here again although not presently precipitating. It would appear that my package of coloured electrical string has been lost by Royal Mail as it was despatched 1st Class eight days ago and still has not reached my place, only some 40 miles south of where it was despatched! Unfortunately Spiratronics, a company that I have used for the best part of a decade and have recommended to numerous people, are unable to respond to my enquiries. I shall give them to the end of the week but next week I will have to advise Paypal that I need a refund. The lack of these wires will result in either a) the Up and Down Mains remaining closed or b) a less than perfect bodge wherein wires of identical colours are used in two different circuits, the latter being the more likely outcome.

 

Whilst hugely sympathetic to anyone whose job disappears as a result of WuFlu, the massive growth in air transport seen over the past two decades was always going to be curtailed soon. Cheap air travel is something now of the past. This was just as likely as the Greta Effect impacted the thoughts of politicians, and more so voters who are from closer to her age group becoming enfranchised. The EU was also leading the push towards carbon emissions trading which the airline industry had managed to evade but plans are afoot to ensure the pollution generated by the air traffic industry will be equally taxed, air transport accounting for a significant amount of carbon emissions as the world actually moves towards a decarbonised energy profile in which the UK is actually leading! After all, the shipping industry has already faced up to this by addressing the fuel used in and the emissions from ships. Of course any cutbacks in air traffic will also impact a wider range of businesses, including some whose market have been built on exporting fresh produce - Scottish salmon being an example. Your thoughts on whether the UK taxpayer should be expected to pay taxes to give to Mr Branson’s empire, located as it is on one of the BVI tax havens or to help a Spanish company called IAG who own BA or even that extremely pleasant Mr O’Leary who calls “foul” if anyone gets something his Ryanair business doesn’t get whilst we remaining taxpayers here get to settle the bill for the significant amounts of money pumped in to save our economy over the past two months are welcome. I will be the first to admit that, with the exceptions of the Polar continents, I have been able through work or for pleasure to visit all the other continents and I am sure travel has widened my perspectives. This is however something that was available to the more affluent and isn’t a global option.

 

Anyways, and after that depressing tirade, today will bring not a great variety of new places to go, people to see or things to do. KZ Towers remains generally in lockdown, even if SWMBO wants to go for a drive! One of the things that I miss most is the ability to browse and select fresh vegetables and fruit. Two online deliveries from the Rose of Waits has shown that their pickers tend to select the produce left by in store shoppers, I.e. the shortest expiry dated stuff is what we get. Although I wanted to support our local pub as it strive to keep its suppliers going by acting as a fruit and veg shop, the quality of what they made available was also not what I would have selected from browsing the shelves of any of the retailers, be that small specialists or supermarkets. And yes, before you say it, non-seasonal produce is only available due to the mass of airfreight that supports our airports and airlines. I still have a few kits of things to run on parallel bits of nickel silver that can occupy me but Her Ladyship has no hobbies and other interests, hence why she is prowling like a cat on a hot tin roof. My suggestions of “chill, chill” seem not to be heard.

 

With that, I will bid you adieu until later. Be safe and careful and we’ll see light at the end of this rather long tunnel soon.

[AndrewC]

Good moaning all from the boring borough. 

 

Interwebby in the shed is behaving. I should say it is about 25m from router to router via the cable. I could have gone fibre but as the routers can only handle 1.3Gbit it was overkill and 5 times the cost. The second cable is used currently for the Sonos speaker. They are flaky & very sensitive and I've found that the SonosNet isn't as good as claimed. It really works best connected directly to the Sonos Boost. For the geeks out there, I'm running a 3 node AI mesh using Asus routers. By using an ethernet backhaul it means I'm getting a full 1.3Gbit between nodes. It also means my wifi in the shed is getting me the full 380Mbit speeds of my broadband provider. This is good for work and so I can also keep an offsite(ish) mirrored backup of the nas drives in the house.

 

The shed has now been sufficiently cleared as well so that [edit](premature post happened. ) today's arrival of a replacement dartboard and removable raised oche means the Blue Shed public (err private club) house will be open this evening for beer, music, and darts. The old board warped after around 18 years. 

 

In other news it is a Wednesday that feels like a Monday that doesn't feel like any day at all. 

 

On that note, enjoy the day.  

Edited April 29, 2020 by AndrewC

[Kingzance]

Il Dottore is clearly, like KZ, not too pressured at this moment (and no, I won’t use that detestable phrase “at this moment in time”), being able to read and eruditely respond to so many earlier posts. Both of us probably have plenty of time for our present journey to work and I would venture to suggest that we both are able to have more than one fresh cup of ground beans as we wend our merry ways.  If he is anything like me however, significant input of such beverage requires a corresponding and seemingly greater quantity to be expelled!

 

With that, I’m off to point Percy at the porcelain........