Early Risers.

[PatB]

17 hours ago, BokStein said:

 

 

Sir, may I respect to quote the ancient adage that a bad workman blames his tools?

 

As an eay adopter of Flying Fish brand hacksaw blades, originating in a certain SE Asian country, I would venture to suggest that particular adage became obsolete c1984 . 

[PatB]

15 hours ago, tigerburnie said:

We too have been shielding, however the next person that tells me "we have GOT to go out and start living and mixing with people" might just meet with a sticky and untimely end.

Frankly, I thought that sort of advice was a load of cobblers for decades before Covid. Why is it so unacceptable to be an introvert content with one's own company? 

[Barry O]

Ey up!

A long but good day umpiring yesterday. Everyone followed the covid rules.. made my job easier.

Club bar was open..village "ladies" and their children don't bother with  social distancing.

 

Bought in curry for tea then watched a couple of films to do a brain reset.

 

We have a water leak. Someone should be here this morning to fix it..8am on a Sunday..lummy!

Time for a mugatea I reckon. 

 

TTFN

Baz

Edited August 2, 2020 by Barry O
spellung

[iL Dottore]

7 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Be afraid, be very afraid. A new awl has just been delivered.

I think that is, gasp! shock! horrorI, a nuclear “Awl” and not, as suggested by skipepsi, a large nitrous oxide container. I suspect that her Debsship, realising that the M and R words have been used far too frequently as of late on ER, has decided to publicly announce what those in the AEG (Awl Evaluation Group) have long suspected: Debs has upgraded her Awl hurling ability to 21st-century standards. I believe that what is being carried on the flatbed is an Awl mothership which can launch countless drone Awls in a multi targeted strike.
 

Another August 1st - the Swiss national day - has passed, thank God. Normally, all the local councils sponsor big fireworks displays on the first (or very close to the first) which means that private use of fireworks is there, but not excessive. This year, as the public firework displays have been cancelled due to pandemic prevention regulations, this has meant everybody (and their moronic cousins) have been letting off fireworks. Friday night was pretty bad, despite being in the attic with me and despite having both the air-conditioning running and the radio playing, Poor Lucy was incredibly agitated. At one point she ran out of the attic room and down to the front door as though she wanted to run out of the house and escape. Then, just to underline how stressed she was, she vomited all over the carpet - at 3 o’clock in the morning. Needless to say I didn’t get much sleep Friday night. Fortunately, yesterday, we were invited to my wife’s cousins who live in a very nice house with large grounds, set away from the town. They also have a nicely appointed deep and soundproof cellar which they had kitted out as a canine refuge (my wife’s cousins have always had dogs until very recently and had set this up as a safe place for the dogs when Fireworks were being let off). Lucy and Shotty were introduced to the refuge and later in the evening, when the first fireworks started exploding, Lucy shot down into the cellar and found refuge in her little box. Mrs iD and The Wolfpack stayed overnight at her cousins, which was just as well: shortly after getting  home last night, some brain-dead morons started letting off what sounded like the opening barrage of the first day of the Battle of the Somme. TBH I wouldn’t be unhappy if they banned the sale to, and use of, fireworks to any but professional firework display companies, it would save a lot of stress, fear and worry to both many people in society and - of course – to our companion animals. Unfortunately, there is too much money to be made in selling explosive devices to the public for fireworks sales to be ever curtailed. I also have very evil thoughts about brain-dead morons, prematurely exploding firecrackers and fingers and hands (I won’t go into any politically incorrect detail, but I would imagine you get my drift).

Have a splendid Sunday

iD

[polybear]

6 hours ago, newbryford said:

 

Mr RH doing his impression of NHN's Donk?

 

 

With suitable apologies to NHN for borrowing a previous pic.

 

I feel an apology to Donk is called for too.....

[iL Dottore]

Reading through today’s posts, I saw that BaZ wrote “bought in curry for tea...” which - to me as a “continental” raises the intriguing, and possibly disturbing, image of mutton vindaloo on a scone with clotted cream and chapatis filled with either fish paste or egg mayonnaise.

Quite a few posters on ER refer to the evening meal as “Tea” and I wonder is this a regional usage or is it a class construct? As a German speaking “furriner” I have a single, catch-all, term to describe any foods taken after, say, 5 pm and that is “Abendessen”.  And when German speaking Swiss Anglophiles say “come over for tea on Sunday“ they mean what the Brits would describe as “afternoon tea“. Namely small sandwiches, small patisserie and, of course, a pot of tea (although, as we have discussed previously on ER, in Switzerland this is likely to be a teabag waved at a glass of hot water).

I also wonder if using the term “Tea” to describe the evening meal is perhaps a carryover from childhood. Although I was raised in a family that always ate “Dinner” in the evening, until I was about eight or nine years old I had my evening meal separate from my parents at about 6 pm and it was referred to as “Tea” presumably an abbreviated version of the term “High Tea“ (which I understand is a hot meal taken after luncheon but earlier than dinner).

Additionally , even if the continentals may agree that the evening meal is called “dinner“ in whatever language is being used, there is still the thorny topic of when do you eat “dinner“. I was horrified, when I first met Mrs iD, that she normally ate her evening meal at about 6 pm. Which I think is far too early. In Italy, the evening meal is taken about 8 pm, whilst in Spain the evening meal can be taken as late as 9pm or 10 pm (although you do hit the Tapas Bar before then).

So, a question to my esteemed colleagues on ER: whatever you may call your evening meal, when is the “correct” time to eat it?

[TheQ]

Ben the early collie wanted out at 05:30 ish, it's clear bright and for the moment cool. 

Breakfast as in straight bacon and eggs has been eaten.  Muggacoffee number 1 is being consumed. 

 

It's that time of year again, some insect has had breakfast on the back of my hand,  I need to give the jungle a good mow this week,   that reduces their numbers.. 

 

Elsewhere , not on this forum, there has been links to reports that locals are frightened to go out in Cornwall, due the covid ignoring tourists. It's getting that way here. We won't  be going down to the Beach,  and will be avoiding the local town for the duration,  unless necessary. It's actually less crowded in the "Extra " supermarket in Norwich than it is in the grokle infested local TES and Coe. 

 

Yesterday the strong ladies delivered a memory card for this tablet,  so the memory has gone from 98% used to 2% used. Also a set of metric ratchet spanners was delivered,  caused by the need to tighten up the keel bolts in a confined space,  most of my other tools are imperial. 

They put the parcels in one of the two self locking cupboards... And then pushed to lock the other one!? 

 

Tea time,   traditionally for me 17:00, that would not be the main meal as that was dinner was about 13:00.  Supper was a half hour before bed time,  milky coffee or chocolate with a biscuit or two. 

These days,  breakfast around 05:00 weekdays,  07:00 days off,  a sandwich at 12:00 at work,  main meal, dinner when I get home between 16:00 and 17:00. This is because SWMBO has two meals  a late breakfast about 09:00 and dinner when I get home,  with biscuits and a cup of tea later 

 

20 minutes or so it will be off trousers and on overalls , but first.. Muggacoffee no2.

Edited August 2, 2020 by TheQ

[AndyB]

Morning all.

The evening meal here is called "Saladagain".

 

Mike, like you I was also pleased to see the local emporium reopen. The hand sanitiser used is also great for finding any small cuts you may have in your fingers.  Paul also tends to put any magazine purchases in a discrete paper bag to help smuggling operations. 

 

So to cloudify, it's a shop where you ring a doorbell to be let in, can buy a magazine which they wrap up for you so no-one can see what you bought. No chance at all of a Sid James laugh out of that one. Not.

 

As a change from Abendsalad tonight I'll be harvesting some homegrown chillis, adding a nice dollop of Reaper chilli and mixing with a bit of chicken. And garlic.  And rice. I shall no doubt call it "regretable" sometime tomorrow morning. 

 

[jamie92208]

Good moaning from the Charente.   Oh that there was such an emporium as discussed above in close proximity.  There are rumours of one about 22 miles from here but I only know an approximate location. I need to solve the mystery.  The pool is now about half full.  Filling will resume soon. 

 

We had a pleasant evening last night with some friends who have now completed their 14 days self isolation. What was noticeable was that there was at least one contrail visible whenever I looked up.

 

Breakfast has been taken and after a shower we will be heading for the market. After lunch my main task will be to assemble the pump, filter and associated pipework ready for the grand commissioning aka splashdown.

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie

[simontaylor484]

Morning all

 

In our house tea time for the kids is 4-30 they are autistic and have a routine 

 

We have our tea a bit later usually 7 pm 

 

High tea is a sandwich up a ladder

 

 

 

 

 

[Dave Hunt]

During my forty years in the RAF, meals were always known as breakfast, lunch and dinner so now that is ingrained in me. Before my sentencing marriage I lived in officers' messes where the evening meal, or dinner, was served from 7pm so that is what I got used to and prefer to eat at about that time or later. Jill prefers to eat earlier though so nowadays we usually have dinner at about 6 - 6.30. Actually she would prefer to have the main meal at lunchtime but having spent my working life usually just grabbing a quick sandwich during the day I don't like a big meal until evening as it makes me feel full and lethargic throughout the afternoon. When we are in Spain staying with our best friend the meal times suit me very well as does just having a tapas at lunchtime. In RAF messes there is high tea at about 4 or 5 pm but very few people apart from early shift engineers and some adminers tend to be in the mess at that time and even when I lived in the mess I very rarely  would be there and it never became part of my eating schedule; not that I've ever really had a schedule though as the job meant that flexibility in eating habits was more or less forced on you.

 

All this talk of food is making me hungry. Bacon and eggs I think.

 

Have a good Sunday all.

 

Dave

Edited August 2, 2020 by Dave Hunt
Pore speling

[Barry O]

Tea for us is from 6pm onwards. I don't like eating too late but last night due to cricket we ate at about 8:30...

 

Chicken Puri and salad starter

followed by

Grand Slam Karahi with a Roti...

 

helped down by a large glass or tow of Shiraz...

 

Baz

[Andrew P]

19 minutes ago, Barry O said:

Tea for us is from 6pm onwards. I don't like eating too late but last night due to cricket we ate at about 8:30...

 

Chicken Puri and salad starter

followed by

Grand Slam Karahi with a Roti...

 

helped down by a large glass or tow of Shiraz...

 

Baz

Well Baz, just goes to show how un educated some of us (well me anyway) are, apart from the words Chicken and Salad, the rest of the me and you was Double Dutch to me, haha.

[Andrew P]

WOW Page 8904!

[Happy Hippo]

32 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

In RAF messes there is high tea

The last RAF high tea I had was a ration pack in the back of a tactically flown C130 of 47 Sqn.

 

The height of the tea really depended on whether we were skimming a ridge or hugging the bottom of a valley.

 

The effect of even slight negative G on a partially consumed egg and cress sandwich is quite amusing (providing you're not the one trying to eat it).

[tigerburnie]

1 hour ago, TheQ said:

Ben the early collie wanted out at 05:30 ish, it's clear bright and for the moment cool. 

Breakfast as in straight bacon and eggs has been eaten.  Muggacoffee number 1 is being consumed. 

 

It's that time of year again, some insect has had breakfast on the back of my hand,  I need to give the jungle a good mow this week,   that reduces their numbers.. 

 

Elsewhere , not on this forum, there has been links to reports that locals are frightened to go out in Cornwall, due the covid ignoring tourists. It's getting that way here. We won't  be going down to the Beach,  and will be avoiding the local town for the duration,  unless necessary. It's actually less crowded in the "Extra " supermarket in Norwich than it is in the grokle infested local TES and Coe. 

 

Yesterday the strong ladies delivered a memory card for this tablet,  so the memory has gone from 98% used to 2% used. Also a set of metric ratchet spanners was delivered,  caused by the need to tighten up the keel bolts in a confined space,  most of my other tools are imperial. 

They put the parcels in one of the two self locking cupboards... And then pushed to lock the other one!? 

 

Tea time,   traditionally for me 17:00, that would not be the main meal as that was dinner was about 13:00.  Supper was a half hour before bed time,  milky coffee or chocolate with a biscuit or two. 

These days,  breakfast around 05:00 weekdays,  07:00 days off,  a sandwich at 12:00 at work,  main meal, dinner when I get home between 16:00 and 17:00. This is because SWMBO has two meals  a late breakfast about 09:00 and dinner when I get home,  with biscuits and a cup of tea later 

 

20 minutes or so it will be off trousers and on overalls , but first.. Muggacoffee no2.

I thought "grockles" was a West Country thing, back in the day at this time of year Norfolk was full of "chizits" i.e. folk from Leicester who would ask in a shop "'owmuchchizit?"

[Barry O]

Phone call received to say our plumbing "engineer" is on his way..hopefully he can fix the leak (push togethere plastic pipe joint are carp!!!)

 

@Happy Hippo.. I can't get the image of a low flying egg and cress sandwich out of my head....

 

Baz

[Tony_S]

I don’t ever recall  having a RAF tea or lunch. The only two occasions I have dined with RAF people the catering was by someone else. One was a rather splendid lunch in a marquee at what is nowadays Cranfield University. Lots of RAF people mingling with senior educational types. My boss had a spare invitation and took me as he thought I would like a day out (I wasn’t senior management)  looking at all the stuff on display. The other occasion was also a lunch at the Barbican. Aditi’s doctoral award ceremony was delayed due to the Olympics and was held at the same time as those from the War Studies department who seemed to turn up in uniform. Aditi was a small person in the middle of a lot of tall uniformed chaps. 
Aditi’s cousin was in the Indian Air Force. He is now retired but was a Wing Commander.  It is possible in the Indian Air Force to work at altitude without flying. He at one time commanded a radar station in the Himalayas that provided early warning of Chinese incursions. He lives in Bangalore now and I did wonder if he could arrange for something to drop on the internet scammers who operate from that city!
Tony

[southern42]

' morning all from red dragon land.

 

High teas.

High...er...well...er...afternoon tea, anyway.

Three, in my case.  The closest I have come to what I call "posh" afternoon tea.

The Lyons Tea Rooms in York (and we all know what York is famous for :-) as the smaller ones were packed!  I don't remember much of it but we did remark on the napkins under the cups on the saucers!  We were on holiday with the kids and Mum staying near Pickering and we all know what that is famous for as well!  But for those who do not, a little hint:  On taking a ride, we had an afternoon tea in the Tea Room in Goathland.

 

 

The second location was inspired by all those afternoon teas in Agatha Christie TV programmes and a programme featuring the Art Deco architecture of The Washington, Mayfair.  I met Mum up in London for a day out at the Natural History Museum with a C*******s Afternoon Tea for Two at The Washington.  On Special Offer!!!!!   The architecture and Deco finishings were truly fabulous but the original furniture coverings in the tea room were sadly in need of much restoration.  It is looking so much smarter now, so job done, I guess.  Delighted.  

 

The third was a birthday present for me a couple of years ago in Liverpool with Afternoon Tea for Four - us and two (grown-up) kids - at The Richmond.

 

We have had our favourite afternoon teas at various places over the years.  The most visited by us are probably The Pink Geranium in Kirkby Stephen when taking the kids to uni and back and the Coffee Mill in Chester.

 

Locally, it is WAS (!) more usual to go for a coffee (and/or lunch) and a read of the m*d*ll*ng mags at the Beach Pavilion, Llanfairfechan which is currently still closed.  When we first went here, it only had a small cafe area, the rest of the space given over to a gift shop, slot machines, and a pool table.  Then it changed hands and the whole place was given over to cafe and it soon became very popular.  We started going here regularly to support it during the Foot and Mouth outbreak when visitors from outside were banned from venturing onto/near farmland - essentially the top left hand corner of Wales and beyond... Life repeating itself only, this time, human infection rather than animals and worldwide, of course.

 

Wow. And I only popped in to say hello!

 

Fitt  and Elfie  ready for a panad (cuppa).

 

Take care and play safe  (out of the way of those deadly bugs!)

_________

Best wishes

Polly

 

[Tony_S]

I have been to an afternoon tea at a hotel that allegedly specialises in such events. I hadn’t been to one before but my nephew was visiting the UK (until today he was living in Germany, moving to Switzerland today!) with his Austrian girlfriend. Although she had lived in England for a year a few years ago she hadn’t experienced “afternoon tea”. So lots of us went. The waiter did lean over and ask if I and my BiL would like an extra plate of sandwiches as the first lot disappeared quickly. Magda enjoyed the tea but I don’t think it has changed her afternoon cake and coffee habit. 
Tony

 

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. I used to take my main meal mid-day, when there was a canteen at work. But the management decided to close it so I went over to a packed lunch. The canteen served up some very good grub even though the menu was limited (steak and kidney pie so it must be Wednesday). Not long after it closed I started putting on weight and I put it down to having my main meal of an evening. I still have my main meal at evening time despite being retired for more than 12 years. 

[polybear]

11 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

........... we arrived after the rush at the shop.  very impressive Civid precautions with a new doorbell to ring to gain attention and seek admission and a santitiser station just in side the door  - I had in any case used a sanitising wipe to press the doorbell. 

 

[AndyB]

The most recent time I went to Cyprus I was staying in barracks used for those in transit (not Ford but Helmand). I was the lucky one and got a single room. My mates ended up for about 3 or 4 weeks in bunk beds, about 12 blokes to a room. 

Catering was courtesy of a contractor; we each had a chit for an evening meal. When I helped myself to a glass of water as well as the food the cashier made me pay for it as that hadn't been allowed for. 

Catering by the army in the makeshift FOB where we were working was a lot better!

 

Going back to my first visit to Cyprus we stayed in the mess at Akrotiri. Breakfast and PT was nice and early so as to get down to the flight line for 7 ish.  Evening meals were late. And jugs of brandy sours kept us hydrated (and in good spirits) till around 1 each morning, if memory serves. 

[polybear]

 

 

[The Lurker]

Greetings all from a sunny Sidcup - the middle of a week off and the in laws visiting. The usual stresses and strains of having people staying and lots of catering by Mrs Lurker. The weather has been good so we have got in the garden and on Friday Younger Lurker and I managed our walk before the heat was too intense. He has also enjoyed all the live F1 coverage this weekend and is building up to the race itself by playing F1 2020 on the PlayStation.

 

stay safe and enjoy your day