Early Risers.

[jamie92208]

Good afternoon.  Coffee has been consumed. Minor chores attended to and I'm doing tea tonight so a pass out to the shed for the afternoon has been granted.

Chris, can I second Flavio's comments about the diabetes check.

 

Jamie

Edited September 6, 2020 by jamie92208

[BSW01]

Good afternoon everyone 

 

Once again I'm late on parade today, but I've not been idle! So far today I've re-hung the freshly laundered shower curtain and prepared tonight's tea, a beef casserole which is currently in the oven. 

 

So far we've had sunshine, rain, sunshine, rain. At the moment it's dull but not raining. The plan is to spend this morning tidying up in the cellar and the afternoon in the workshop. 

 

Stay safe, stay sane, enjoy whatever you have planned for the day, back later. 

 

Brian 

[grandadbob]

Task Force GDB has completed his mission and all allotted tasks have been ticked off.  Also found time for a natter over the fence with my mate Russ next door.  We are joining forces on an anti fox mission.  The silly old s#d over the road keeps feeding the bloody things and even encouraging them into his house and they're now investigating all back doors.  The problem with the neighbour is that he is suffering from dementia. Talking to him is a waste of time because he just laughs and says they're lovely although he did have a moan about one that cr#pped all over his carpet.  We have spoken to his ex wife who lives next door to him and is also caring for him so will have to wait and see what happens

Time to get changed and prepare to pour beers and wines etc as Nicki and the kids should be here shortly.

Edited September 6, 2020 by grandadbob

[jamie92208]

32 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

Task Force GDB has completed his mission and all allotted tasks have been ticked off.  Also found time for a natter over the fence with my mate Russ next door.  We are joining forces on an anti fox mission.  The silly old s#d over the road keeps feeding the bloody things and even encouraging them into his house and they're now investigating all back doors.  The problem with the neighbour is that he is suffering from dementia. Talking to him is a waste of time because he just laughs and says they're lovely although he did have a moan about one that cr#pped all over his carpet.  We have spoken to his ex wife who lives next door to him and is also caring for him so will have to wait and see what happens

Time to get changed and prepare to pour beers and wines etc as Nicki and the kids should be here shortly.

I am sure that our resident Hippo would be willing to come and attend to the fox by giving it a lethal dose of lead. You might have to tempt him with cake and single malt.

 

Jamie

[BokStein]

Good afternoon from page 9000!

 

56 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said:

Morning (just) all,

 

Yes, I began to tripe this 2 minutes before the morning ended all you won't see it until after the morning (I regard the morning as ending at 12.00, others might not).

 

I, too, concur that morning ends at 12;00, said time often referred to as 'Noon' Thus anything that immediately follows must be After Noon!

 

However, I am aware of some variations to the conventions of time of day, most notably whether dinner occurs in the middle of the day (often referred to as lunch) or between the afternoon and evening. I will stop there as this has recently been discussed elsewhere on this thread!

[The Lurker]

Greetings all from Sidcup where clouds are closing in after a lovely sunny morning. Back to school seems to be going ok for Younger Lurker- he is not too overwhelmed by secondary school. Tomorrow will see if we can manage with me doing some work before I take him to school- if I can’t that will be a good hour of work missed that will have to be done at some other time. I am sure it will work out in the end.

 

have a good day all 

[simontaylor484]

Good Afternoon aĺl

Welcome to page 9000 been doing a bit of the g word this morning until rained off. The garden bin is nearly full it gets emptied Thursday so i was trying to get it up to capacity with the help of the kids whilst at home.

[iL Dottore]

53 minutes ago, chrisf said:

... If they were as effective as has been claimed, surely those who rule us in the UK would not have dallied for four months before making their use "obligatory"? 

Don’t confuse governmental incompetence with the fact that what we know about the CoVID-19 virus changes, almost literally, day-by-day.

There’s another consideration, at the start of the pandemic had the authorities- anywhere - said “masks ARE necessary, then the shelves would have been stripped bare of them leaving the medical frontline short of necessary PPE (it was bad enough as it was even in the absence of panic buying)

15 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

I am sure that our resident Hippo would be willing to come and attend to the fox by giving it a lethal dose of lead. You might have to tempt him with cake and single malt.

 

Jamie

I would not kill a fox unless I absolutely had to. The problem is that we are enroaching on their habitat and it’s far too easy to label them as “pests” and set out to exterminate them, than do something effective about their various habitats (and that goes for all wildlife). And it’s not just about “protecting the environment” (as important as that is), it also about enlightened self-interest. Researchers have found a lot of nasty viruses out there (some of which would make ebola look harmless), many found in small mammals (often rodents) which are kept in check by predators such as foxes, wild-cats, weasels and the like. Remove the predator, and the virus host-population expands and the possibility of the virus “jumping species” into humans, or animals that are in constant close proximity to humans, goes up. A process some believe, to be how CoVID-19 got into the human population.

[Gwiwer]

Good after-lunch all.  Here we are then.  9000 pages of friendship, support, advice, informative trivia and irreverent banter.  Long may it continue.  Best wishes to one and all.  

[New Haven Neil]

Ah, the Deltic page!

 

Sun has now been bestowed upon the Rock of the Fraggles, despite Mrs NHN going to archery!  I may take myself on walkies to the village shop for some milk soon, to enjoy the rays after yesterday's rather chilly day. Then, who knows......bike polishing or mudelling, both are in the same garage so perhaps a bit of both.  Or even (shudders) tidying up in there.....nah, not likely to happen until the layout is more complete. (An excuse - I vie with Chris for being terribly untidy).

[Andrew P]

Re Foxes, It is Humans that are encroaching on their habitat, they are entitled to life as much as we are. But WE should not feed or encourage them into our world. 

Edited September 6, 2020 by Andrew P

[45156]

Afternoon All

 

Hope this post makes it onto page 9000.

 

It did - happy homecoming Tony.   All posts read and rated, and of course, generic greetings are on offer to all fellow ERs - who'da thought that we'd make 9000 pages of drivel, erudite comment, and just about anything else, and all without the vituperation which seems to take place elsewhere in RMWeb.

 

D word has reared its ugly head again, with the victim recipient being the dining room - this was meant to happen "around Christmas" - happy Christmas everybody. 

 

Regards to All

Stewart

Edited September 6, 2020 by 45156

[simontaylor484]

Not wishing to belittle your fox problem GDB it could be worse like one of our American correspondents had problems with Bears coming round. 

I must admit shooting the bu99er would be high on my list

[simontaylor484]

50 minutes ago, Chris116 said:

Around which Christmas was that?

 

Breakfast was two rounds of toast and marmalade with a mug of coffee for me and a bagel with creme cheese and a mug of coffee for SWMBO.

 

Currently watching Virtual Railfan live feeds from Galesburg, Fort Madison, Big Sandy, Texarkana and Deshler. Lots of action around the USA.

Have just bern watching the fort madison feed myself watching a barge on the river. I love the scale of American trains, i often watch York and Crewe too all via you tube

[TheQ]

Afternoon awl, 

Barleywood colour paint,  is officially approved, it is to become the key colour,  on woodwork in the garden.  So as well as the second coat on the BBQ woodwork,  the pedestrian door to the garage has had a first coat. 

This happened after some boat work,  I started sanding the capping and corner fillet to find the one that didn't stick well before had came adrift.  That was cleaned up and refixed ,  with resin and clamped up.  A little other sanding was done but not much.  As the vibration was disturbing the clamps. 

 

So I went up to the BBQ area and cleaned all the tiles.  Followed by the painting  of the BBQ . Lunch was then had,  a bottle of Abbot Ale,  which was given to me yesterday,  for helping the neighbour with her camera. 

At that point,  SWMBO turned up,  and another discussion was had on various items including the Barleywood. 

Next week the decisions will come to pass,  namely cupboard doors,  under the shelving, and a slight change to one of the infill shapes which hasn't been built yet.

 

[Gwiwer]

2 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

Ah, the Deltic page!

 

A Deltic page    There were nearly two dozen of the droning blue-smoking things after all 

[Barry O]

@iL Dottore cricket is played with a hard ball. As an Umpire our job is to make sure we keep out of the way of it. By stopping the ball yesterday it stopped 4 runs being scored. It is no game for "softies".

 

Deltics. .hmmm. .Alycidon was my favourite. I went to Biggin Hill via London for some tests a long time ago. Alycidon pulled the train I travelled on..

 

(Passed all of the tests but my eye test so I didn't follow Mr Hunt into the flying job).

 

Talking of which, I hope  @Ian Abel is ok.

 

Baz

Edited September 6, 2020 by Barry O

[polybear]

3 hours ago, simontaylor484 said:

Not wishing to belittle your fox problem GDB it could be worse like one of our American correspondents had problems with Bears coming round. 

I must admit shooting the bu99er would be high on my list

 

What exactly did I do wrong?? 

 

In other news......

 

[The Stationmaster]

Afternoon all,

 

I must admit to having rather mixed views about foxes,  a couple years back some people a few houses away from the top end of our garden were complaining about the presence of rats - we weren't because Mr Fox was a frequent visitor (and probably still is especially when in pursuit, and more, of Lady Fox).  And we had a litter of delightful and very amusing cubs in the garden about 10 years back - they have the advantage of not smelling like the adults.  We also have muntjac from time-to-time and to be honest they do a lot more damage than foxy or the blasted squirrel although the latter very kindly plants the makings of oak trees all over the place for me to pull up once they're well above ground level.  If you don't like foxes get a nice brave, preferably country bred, cat - even our skinny little runt Simba could see off a fox.

 

As for 9000 worry not gentle readers because the ghosts of Talerdigg are out there and will no doubt see off those smelly, noisy, diseasal things.

[southern42]

‘ evening all from red dragon land.
Oh my! I have Just spent a magnificent afternoon In front of the tv watching T20. Can’t Remember the last time I had the chance to sit & watch cricket all day! I could make a habit of this. 

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Just watched the cricket and a cracking end and I've got to watch the F1 highlights, a few surprises there. Foxes, as ID said they help keep some of the carriers of some very nasty diseases down. A few years ago there was a bad rat problem in parts of the town, then the foxes arrived and no more rats, not visible ones anyway. The rats seem to like railway lines, when I lived in Romford my garden backed on to the railway embankment. One day I heard a squealing coming from the embankment, it was a very large dog fox with a rat in its mouth walking along the embankment, the squealing was coming from the rat.

[Tony_S]

7 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

May I ask, says he cheekily and not a little impertinently, is that a self assessment or one made by Aditi? If Aditi is anything like Mrs iD, then her opinion is the only one that counts. 

Definitely a self assessment. The stuff they fill you with for conscious sedation lingers for a while and in my case impairs decision making and also the ability to do mental arithmetic (I noticed this while watching a cricket match last night). Use for other procedures would preclude driving for 24 hours but the stenting  procedure I had requires no driving for 7 days.
Aditi is in “full protect” mode at the moment. However I expect she will be keen for me to obey any diet or exercise rules from the Rehab clinic. 
 

ChrisF. All the diabetics I know who are taking medication get reviews along with blood tests. Aditi’s are by a nurse practitioner at our gp surgery who is a diabetes management specialist. The pharmacist also enquires whether she is having reviews. Also annual diabetic retinopathy tests. 
Tony

[Tony_S]

The foxes round here walk about quite confidently in daytime. If they are observed running it is usually due to being seen off by one of the local cats. Before we had a dog we had lots of fox and squirrel visitors to the garden. They took their time reappearing after Robbie’s residence ended but they do now pass through rather than walking across the top of the fences. The foxes do seem to like sunbathing on our shed roof but so do some local cats. Not at the same time it would appear. 
Tony

[PhilJ W]

Here's to the next 1,000 pages.

[simontaylor484]

Only seen a fox once here it has come through the allotments but couldn't get out the gate. So off he disappeared back into the darkness we do get squirrels they usually go for next doors bird feeders usually upside down. Our dog Roll goes banana a when he sees a squirrel.

 

This mornings G word has really taken its toll on my knees fully painkillered up had warm shower and still hurts .