Early Risers.

[Ozexpatriate]

It's Friday but I'm feeling 'meh'. A rough morning after some bad choices last night involving potent potables where I knew better.

 

I need to shop but want to cocoon at home, though there's nothing I feel like watching/doing. On top of that after a couple of pleasant enough days (partly sunny and low-to-mid 20°Cs) it's now heavy cloud with persistent rain and 15°C. The plants will enjoy it. The weeds growing between the pavers on my patio are laughing at me. Cool, rainy weather will continue for a few days.

 

The CoViD-19 diagnosis rate in Oregon is now definitely up and to the right, a graph that is nice for an investment portfolio but very bad for daily infections. We set another new record for total daily diagnoses yesterday. The Governor has paused reopening and the state's largest county remains locked down. In a related development, the Oregon Supreme Court issued a peremptory writ of mandamus vacating a district court injunction that voided the Governor's "Stay Home Save Lives" order. So despite the impenetrable legalese, that's a good thing - the Governor's emergency powers remain in place and can order limits on the size of gatherings.

 

This weekend marks the first return to the PGA tour (pro-golf). The second round is being broadcast this afternoon, but I'm not really the least bit interested. (It's on for background babble. I love this golf parody commercial. "That may not be enough club.")  EDIT: The pros are a bit rusty - there are a lot of bad shots - arguably more entertaining than their regular excellence.

 

Speaking of HP ink refills, I need a blue cartridge. That's one more stop shopping today. When HP split into two companies many observed with irony that the printer business became HP Inc. (aka HP ink) which is where the profits are.

 

Edited June 12, 2020 by Ozexpatriate

[Sir TophamHatt]

Evening all.

 

A pretty successful day.

 

Went to IKEA (30 min queue) but straight to the warehouse to get a bigger unit than what we have.

 

Managed to take the old one down and sell for £15 less than what we originally paid, so not too bad there.

 

Sold a Razor late last night for £60 (bought for £40, but that was cheap, and it wasn't for me in the end).

 

However, spent £130 odd on signal control boards, £70 on signals and I still haven't got my coach lighting sets or couplings paid for.

 

But it's all swings and roundabouts - sell some stuff, buy other stuff!

 

Cheerio 

Edited June 12, 2020 by Sir TophamHatt

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Nothing done in the garden today, raining when I was going to do it. I done the fodder run this afternoon and managed to forget the eggs and some apples but not a problem as a local garden centre has re-opened its 'farm shop' just down the road so I'll give it a try this weekend. I have a Lexmark laser printer, not the normal home printer but a full size commercial printer. In fact the reason I purchased it was although the ink cartridges are twice the price of HP the cartridges hold at least three times the amount of ink. Despite regular use over the 7 or 8 years I've had it I've not yet had to replace the ink cartridges.

[iL Dottore]

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

Due to the fact that the pilots of German bombers did not match the revolutions of the two propellers  via the pitch control units.  Run the engines up to full power and full pitch and the engines sound as if they are  all going:  Whum whum whum whum whum.   Once you have adjusted the throttles for cruise setting and then adjusted the pitch, the engines should settle down to 'a sonorous hum'.   If you didn't synchronise, then the aircraft continued to make the racket. British bombers tended to have a flight engineer, who were past masters at balancing the prop speeds.

The Germans were far too good as pilots not to be able to do that, I understand that desynchronised engines were thought to create a more terrifying sound than synchronised engines and were part of the “psychological warfare” aspects of the blitzkrieg, together with sirens mounted on JU87s (to get that screaming Stuka sound as they dived) and whistles on bombs. 

in the Second World War, under Goebbels, the Germans were masters at propaganda and everything we think is true about the blitzkrieg, isn’t really. For example, whilst we have the impression that the Wehrmact was fully motorised with state-of-the-art lorries and half-tracks, the truth was that most of the German infantry still relied on horse drawn transport (it’s really eye-opening and amazing what you find out and then when you start reading “proper“ history books as opposed to the superficial accounts we were taught in school).

Well, Mrs ID returned from the holiday hovel today and now everything is back to our routine: Lucy, as is her wont, is lying at the foot of my bed and slowly, but surely, pushing me into a small corner of my bed.

So, good night all. I’m off to reclaim some sleeping space from my dog.

Sweet dreams

iD

[PhilJ W]

9 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

 

. For example, whilst we have the impression that the Wehrmacht was fully motorised with state-of-the-art lorries and half-tracks, the truth was that most of the German infantry still relied on horse drawn transport (it’s really eye-opening and amazing what you find out and then when you start reading “proper“ history books as opposed to the superficial accounts we were taught in school).

 

iD

The British Army was probably the most mechanised army in the world at the out break of WW2. In fact the only horses were used for ceremonial duties. Most of the British army horses were obtained from Ireland and many were sold back to Irish dealers when they were no longer required. And many of those were sold on to the Wehrmacht.

Edited June 12, 2020 by PhilJ W

[Ian Abel]

Late afternoon all, on a fine POETS day.

 

Busy working on the never ending changes to reports, amazing how much work the can create to track the COVID revenue and expenses!

 

Various visits from people to help solve our basement water issues, all good overall, more grading/landscaping as part of it, but we'll get there eventually (he says hopefully!!)

Not much in store for the weekend, although we're hosting our travelling companions for a happy-hour tomorrow and I've been volunteered by the Mrs to make my "famous" home-made ice cream. That puts paid to any meaningful lazing around this evening for sure

Jemma will be over briefly tomorrow to drop Whitney off, she has to go to Atlanta for her six-month sim training/review - not exactly a happy camper about it as they're NOT flying at present anyway, just sitting on "long reserve", so it's rather a pointless exercise...

 

We're a pair of wrens nesting in a bird-house under the eaves, we're hoping to catch a glimpse of the young ones at some point...

 

Weather has been much nicer here with pleasant temperatures, partly sunny and a light breeze.

Today a high of 25, overnight low of 11 but supposed to get back into the low-mid 30's next week.

 

Stay safe and well...

Edited June 12, 2020 by Ian Abel

[Coombe Barton]

... and the extra terrestrials ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2020/06/12/el-bandito-raiding-party-of-one/

[PeterBB]

Hi Guys,

 

Having got into the site I thought of adding a comment before it cut me off.  You will have noticed that at times I have been able to 'like' etc. for a time and then told that I 'did not have permission'.  On the basis that it is my end - my intent went down to 'time to get a cuppa' before I needed to do tenet thing.  Hopefully, after once agin clearing all 'cookies' and resetting as well as one or two other aspects I hope that 'the problem' is solved this time ... time will tell.

 

Hope everyone is getting on well and that BoD's concern has eased.  Liked the poem from  memory loss for the minute but the lady from North Wales.

 

Clubwise an 'external Extraordinary General Meeting' has been organised to formerly vote in a co-opted during Covid-19 Treasurer via proposals from the Chair and myself.  It is surprising how many members do not have email so they have been sent out letters with a voting slip to either support or decline formal status while email members had other means to vote.  It is interesting as all four voting options needed for completion are working so I know that all members received the covering letter in one way or another.  The 'external meeting' has been given a reasonable time to allow the post to get through with time to respond.  One to two members also provided a note on how they were coping - rather nice to see.

 

Let's go onto 'content I follow' and see what happens.

 

Best wishes, Peter

[Gwiwer]

45 minutes ago, southern42 said:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Alleged to be the longest single-word place-name in the UK but to my mind it is two words.  Not even Welsh has four letter l's together in one word anywhere.  However let's not spoil their fun   

 

My Welsh colleague at the House of Fun speaks three languages, the others being English and Polish.  I suggested we have a Welsh-speaking day greeting everyone with "Croeso i Cyffordd Clapham" to which his response was a mildly surprised "How did you know cyffordd?"  How do I know anything?  I learned it along the road through life.  Sad, innit? 

 

One item of note from earlier.  Today saw the first train-spotter return to the House of Fun since March.  Normally we have a handful every day and a much larger number if anything steamy or really unusual is about.  They have been conspicuous by their absence of late.  While that helps to keep total numbers down they don't mingle with the regular passengers and prefer the solace of platform ends.  At no time has there been any specific directive about "no train spotting" though whether it would have constituted an "essential journey" might have been a moot point.  

 

Pizza followed Friday Drinks earlier and was washed down with some more Friday drinks.  The result is that I now have no dishes to wash from tonight, a couple of boxes and some bottles to recycle and may have a strange sensation in the head tomorrow morning.  I'll let you know .....  

 

Stay well.

[TheQ]

I'm lying on my pit,  having just had some crumpets for supper,  if it had been a ham sandwich,  Ben the I can smell that a mile off Collie would have been here giving me the big stare... 

 

I've just returned from the MhRC,  I decided to fill the face of the aerial with lightweight filler,  which having ordered several day ago wasn't due till Monday,  however it arrived today.  It looks good on the initial fill,  which will be sanded Next Week,  before a finishing coat. With it enclosed on all but the face in plastic,  I'm allowing a good time for it to dry. 

Other than that the radar building was given a first coat of white,  and a non RAF,   station building, was also painted white.. 

 

At the moment our printer hasn't done anything for a couple of years,  it was being used so infrequently the ink was drying up between uses. So I just print at work. Once I've retired we'll need a new one,  but it will have to be of a type  chosen so it can stand a long time between uses. 

 

I to will sleep shortly,  I've taken some painkillers,  and that normally gets me away.. 

 

 

 

[PeterBB]

The last recorded page was 8701 ... so no way will I be able to 'catch-up' but, as you can see I have been able to go on to other threads and have been able to return.  All going well I will be able to follow this thread from now on.

[PeterBB]

2 minutes ago, TheQ said:

I'm lying on my pit,  having just had some crumpets for supper,  if it had been a ham sandwich,  Ben the I can smell that a mile off Collie would have been here giving me the big stare... 

 

I've just returned from the MhRC,  I decided to fill the face of the aerial with lightweight filler,  which having ordered several day ago wasn't due till Monday,  however it arrived today.  It looks good on the initial fill,  which will be sanded Next Week,  before a finishing coat. With it enclosed on all but the face in plastic,  I'm allowing a good time for it to dry. 

Other than that the radar building was given a first coat of white,  and a non RAF,   station building, was also painted white.. 

 

At the moment our printer hasn't done anything for a couple of years,  it was being used so infrequently the ink was drying up between uses. So I just print at work. Once I've retired we'll need a new one,  but it will have to be of a type  chosen so it can stand a long time between uses. 

 

I to will sleep shortly,  I've taken some painkillers,  and that normally gets me away.. 

 

 

 

Looks like the crumpets are repeating!

[Chris116]

3 minutes ago, PeterBB said:

The last recorded page was 8701 ... so no way will I be able to 'catch-up' but, as you can see I have been able to go on to other threads and have been able to return.  All going well I will be able to follow this thread from now on.

Looks like you have some nice night time reading. It should only keep you up for a few hours! 

[Gwiwer]

3 minutes ago, PeterBB said:

the crumpets are repeating

 

3 minutes ago, PeterBB said:

the crumpets are repeating

 

3 minutes ago, PeterBB said:

the crumpets are repeating!

 

3 minutes ago, PeterBB said:

the crumpets are repeating!

 

So they are.  

[tigerburnie]

4 hours ago, AndyID said:

 

Thanks! Yes, the plumage does look more like a Red Tail. It also seemed a bit on the small side for an eagle.

I used to be a falconer years ago, I very nearly bought a Red Tail to fly at Rabbits, but got a Saker falcon instead, the Red Tails are a nice bird if a little feisty.

Edited June 12, 2020 by tigerburnie

[Erichill16]

Funnily enough SWMBO orders printer cartridges  from Switzerland. The website appears to be from the UK but when they cartridges arrive they are post marked Switzerland. When we order a full set the order is split into two parcelS in order that we don’t have to pay import duty.
Fortunately we haven’t had any ‘duffers’  and our business does go through a few.

RegardsRobert 

[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

Baz

[Erichill16]

And it’s a goodnight from me.

 Robert

 

[The Stationmaster]

10 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

Didn't you get fed up looking at Brian Rolley and Rob Gunstone?

 

I think the program you had to endure was Heddiw,  which means Today, whereas Heddlu are the Feds! 

 

 

Yes, I realised some time later during the day that I'd put in the wrong word so I thought I'd wait to see who sussed it (apart from you that is  ).  And it was indeed Heddiw, as it happens said Mr Rolley never happened to report his presence to me back in those days, maybe he was train spotting working  under cover?

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

Ive been lucky with the weather today, not real heavy rain, just a few spots mid morning, so I went to the workshop and had my muggertea. However, the weather was where my luck ended. Before I started on the bench I gave it another wipe down and some of the primer started to flake off, so I gave another section a rub and more paint came off. Upon closer inspection it appears that I’ve not rubbed it down thoroughly enough, so I set about it all again, with a courser grade of sand paper, it’s now looking a lot better, but I’ve not yet completed the job, just one end to finish, which I’ll do tomorrow if the weather is good. 

 

Goodnight all 

[Happy Hippo]

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Did you provide the sheep for the first balloon flight too?

I can't take all the credit;

 

That was Danemouth

[The Stationmaster]

6 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

 

Yes, my Grandparents knew the sound of the German bombers - many had radial engines, different sound.  

 

Interesting thing about grandparents war time memories - my paternal grand parents knew the sound of a Zeppelin's engines although generally they shut their engines off over target areas and restarted them in order to move on or return to base.  In the street where my grandmother was brought up there is still a gap in the houses where one had to be demolished after being hit by a bomb dropped by a Zeppelin.  My dad was given what was claimed to be a fragment of that bomb which I still have somewhere.

 

 

[J. S. Bach]

Good night owl from the Piedmont.

[The Stationmaster]

4 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

It is generally considered good form to use the loco  screw coupling between the loco and the first wagon and not the other way around.

 

It would also help the fireman considerably if one was to get around to fitting the bunker steps.

On the matter of coupling - NHN 10/10, HH 0/10.  When an engine is attached  to a loose coupled freight vehicle the freight vehicle coupling must be used.  The engine screw coupling must not be used.

 

Bunker steps - NHN 0/10, HH 10/10

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all