Early Risers.

[Barry O]

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!

[Tony_S]

Those look more like dibbers than awls!

[PhilJ W]

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.

[Erichill16]

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

[Barry O]

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

[newbryford]

 

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

[pH]

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

 

 

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[laurenceb]

Just worked out that I have spoken to 6 people that I know by name in the last 3 months

Night awl

[Ozexpatriate]

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.

[Ozexpatriate]

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.

[laurenceb]

Both

[The Stationmaster]

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.

 

 

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all

[Florence Locomotive Works]

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. 

[BSW01]

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 

[Happy Hippo]

 

 

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

[J. S. Bach]

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!

[J. S. Bach]

Good night owl from the Piedmont.

[Florence Locomotive Works]

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.

[BR60103]

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?)

 

[Florence Locomotive Works]

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.

[Ozexpatriate]

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).

[Ozexpatriate]

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.