RMweb Premium Barry O Posted June 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 21, 2020 19 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: Lose the pipes and the front number plate and fit standard three links!! From the Standard Gauge Industrial section of RM web (2016) and no defence from you either HH also from Woodcraft! 3 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted June 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 21, 2020 Those look more like dibbers than awls! 2 9 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post PhilJ W Posted June 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2020 Evening all from Estuary-Land. A bit warm and sticky tonight as a prelude to the weather for the coming week which in one word is going to be HOT, low 30's predicted. 3 minutes ago, Tony_S said: Those look more like dibbers than awls! I found a couple of dibbers in the old shed today. As with many tools I have more than one of most. The same applies to things like cutlery. This is because my dad came to live with me after mum died and he bought a lot of stuff with him. Thats it for now, be back later. 18 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erichill16 Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Today’s topics go from bad to worse, first food now pannier tanks. Pha! Good job really as I haven’t had chance to read all reports as been busy. After finishing the pharmacy screen I called at B andQ to get some supplies to allow SWMBO to finish the patio mods she started last week. I did the mixing of the mortar and the fetching and carrying while she did the rest. Didn’t get finished until 7:30 and hands ached so no modelling done. Maybe tomorrow? Goodnight, Robert 1 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted June 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 21, 2020 18 minutes ago, Tony_S said: Those look more like dibbers than awls! specialist awls apparently .. more aerodynamic but also of a mass and l to D ration to be very accurate and ......sharp... Baz 5 3 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post newbryford Posted June 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2020 (edited) Golf was golfed yesterday. It was a "normal" singles round, but at my suggestion to the Competition committee, it was also used as a qualifier for the various knockout competitions. As the early part of the season was curtailed due to C-19 restrictions, it was deemed that there would not be enough time to complete all the rounds, so the decision was taken to take the top eight in each of the categories -based upon the Saturday comp scores - and go from the quarter final stages. I finished 10th in the category for Division 1 singles - so that put's me out of defending the title I won last year. However - I'm through in three other categories that I'm eligible for Main doubles, Senior doubles and senior singles. (Semi final loss/final loss/semi final loss last year) My opponent in the senior singles is my main doubles partner. The joust has already been arranged for this coming Friday evening. I awoke Father's Day to a quiet house. Mrs and Junior NB were up and out early volunteering to help SiL as she had a busy day at work. So present number 1 was an undisturbed lie-in. Present number 2 is a re-grip on my beloved putter after Junior had seen how worn away it is. Present number 3 was a couple of T-shirts wrapped around two vodka miniatures of premium brands. I am a man of simple tastes! The late and quiet morning morphed into grass cutting and finally fixing the broken wire on the up and over garage door. Thanks to a couple of youtube videos of how to replace them - the repair kit was purchased a couple of weeks ago and duly installed. I now have a door that lifts straight again instead of lop-sided. The broken wire was replaced in 5 minutes. The non-broken one took an hour! The recommendation is always to swap both wires. A fulfilling task for less than £20 for the parts and some of my spare time. Mountain biking for tomorrow evening is scheduled - not the usual Gisburn Forest, but Longridge Fell (that's the lump that was visible in my Stonyhurst College pics from a week or two ago). As it's a bit more sedate (i.e less bumpy) I shall take bike#2 - the little hardtail with the good forks. It's been sometime, since I've taken that off road. I am quite looking forward to it. Have a good Monday folks. Cheers, Mick Edited June 21, 2020 by newbryford 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 11 hours ago, Tony_S said: After visiting his wife’s family in Florida my brother tried to import a deep fat fryer capable of deep frying a whole turkey. Or even a turducken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken 4 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerburnie Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 G'night all 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post laurenceb Posted June 21, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2020 Just worked out that I have spoken to 6 people that I know by name in the last 3 months Night awl 2 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 2 hours ago, Coombe Barton said: Been innundated with work this week. Only blogging for relaxation. John, hopefully your summer break is not too far away. Even if travel is not possible, at least the marking will cease. 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 20 minutes ago, laurenceb said: Just worked out that I have spoken to 6 people that I know by name in the last 3 months In person or by telephone? In person, it's about the same for me. Seven counting people to whom I have been introduced but see rarely - otherwise just four whose names I reliably remember. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Popular Post The Stationmaster Posted June 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2020 4 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said: Indeed, as Mike suggested: One wonders where the term came from? Perhaps the kitchen appliance? As the word had been in use in the family since before the Great War if not earlier as descriptive of a chicken which was off lay and also past its best for cooking - hence needing a lot longer cooking time to get it anywhere approaching tender - it might well be that the chicken arrived before the cooking device. Incidentally chicken which were otherwise, very rarely, slaughtered for the pot weren't called broilers but just 'hens' or 'chicken' and one of them usually provided Christmas Dinner (on Christmas day at my grandmother's and Christmas Dinner on Boxing Day at my aunts - it was presumably considered very badf form to offer up a broiler for Christmas Dinner. Incidentally chicken roast in a brick was Father's Day dinner this evening and no way would I have called that one - from Waitrose - a broiler, nice and tender, duly helped by being cooked in the chicken brick. Fitrst taste of this year's carrots out of the garden as well - no others ever taste as good as home grown, freshly pulled, carrots. 17 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 21, 2020 Goodnight all. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Florence Locomotive Works Posted June 21, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2020 Evening awl, Got the base and foundation for the engine varnished today, it’s much darker in real life than in the photo. I did this so that it looks old, rather than brand new. Once the inlet valve gets here, all should be complete. I drilled some holes in the foundation to make it a bit more ship like, whether or not it achieves that I’m not sure. After dinner I will be having some excellent multi-fruit cake, and will wait for a thunderous roar from the northeast. Hopefully I will have been finished by then however. Relatively cool outside today, only about 85, so I could open my window for a while. Trump didn’t cause much dismay last night, to my great surprise and relief. However I did have the pleasure of falling asleep to the sounds of gunshots and fireworks, not exactly uncommon here. Oh well. 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post BSW01 Posted June 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2020 Good evening everyone Like yesterday I didn’t log in this morning, but that was because we both slept in and I was then treated to breakfast in bed, I’d have preferred it in a bowl to be honest So by the time I’d come downstairs it was well after 11:30. I then spoke to Mike and thanked him for the card and money he’d kindly dropped off yesterday. Shortly after that we had a visit from Vickie, who brought me cards and gifts. We chatted (whilst social distancing) for about 20 minutes before she set off back home. Whilst we we chatting we discussed the recent bad weather, in-particular the recent thunder storms we’d had. She mentioned that one flash of lightning sounded as though it was very close, as the flash was immediately followed by the thunder and the whole house shook and when she looked out of the living room window, there was a wheelie bin lying in the road. They later found out that it struck one of their neighbours from across the road, it hit his TV aerial and took out his CCTV, sky TV box, WiFi router, digital recorder, DVD player, the bathroom lights (they had transformers) central heating, some of his plug sockets, put a hole in his roof and even burnt some of his dogs fur ! I just about managed to get an hour or so in the workshop before dinner. After dinner it was James turn to call round and drop off cards and gifts. We haven’t seen James since March. It was nice to see him and we chatted for getting on for 90 minutes (again maintaining social distancing) before he headed back home. By the time he’d left for home it was getting late, so I locked up the workshop and came back inside for a late afternoon muggertea. Goodnight all 19 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Happy Hippo Posted June 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2020 Against the awl I have a magic shield. In fact more than one, and armour too: But in the unlikely event of a stray awl getting through: I'm used to HEAT but have a large plaster, just in case they use APDS 1 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted June 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Florence Locomotive Works said: ...snip... However I did have the pleasure of falling asleep to the sounds of gunshots and fireworks, not exactly uncommon here. Oh well. Well, you DO live in the wild west! 1 9 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted June 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 22, 2020 Good night owl from the Piedmont. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florence Locomotive Works Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 48 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said: Well, you DO live in the wild west! But it’s the supposed to be the BORING Wild West. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BR60103 Posted June 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 22, 2020 19 hours ago, AndyID said: I didn't realize New Jersey was in the Midwest Isn't it in New England? (along with New Hampshire and New York?) 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florence Locomotive Works Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 2 minutes ago, BR60103 said: Isn't it in New England? (along with New Hampshire and New York?) It is, just south of New York. 2 3 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 3 hours ago, The Stationmaster said: ... it might well be that the chicken arrived before the cooking device. Etymology of "broil" Middle English broillen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”), Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of two Old French verbs: bruir (“to burn”), from Frankish *brōjan (“to burn, scald”) usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustulō (“to scorch”) As usual with terms that go back to Saxon/Norman times - prepared food (and preparation terms) are Norman (poultry / pouleterie) and the animal is Saxon (hen / hænn). 3 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said: Well, you DO live in the wild west! 44 minutes ago, Florence Locomotive Works said: But it’s the supposed to be the BORING Wild West. From my vantage point Tulsa is in the tenderfoot east! I would have to cross most of at least five states to the east to get there! I'm hard pressed to call anything east of the Rockies "the West". It's only one state away from the Mississippi. I wouldn't argue with "heartland" though. 12 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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