Early Risers.

[45156]

Back for a quick revisit and to express my astonishment at how this year's flu jab is being organised - I just got a text from our GP to say that it is  going to be a drive through at Lancaster University on Sunday morning - apparently, we need to drive there, and follow the signs to the location, then get our sleeves rolled up, to be injected via the car window - sounds quite delightful - not.  It appears that having had a TIA, 30747 also qualifies for the jab now - not that she'd been contacted - it was only after I rang the surgery to ask if she qualified as an over 50 person that they checked, and then rang back to say that she did, after all, qualify as part of the first wave to be immunised, and that she would receive her jab on presentation of her arm on Sunday - joined up thinking - NOT,   God knows how the elderly without a car or a moblile phone will get theirs.

[Compound2632]

6 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

Being pedantic (who, me?), although the times are the same they are different in definition because GMT is a is a Time Zone and UTC is a time standard. Both names are in use for their own purposes.

 

 

 

To be even more pedantic, and having been a specialist in the field, GMT and UTC are things of the same kind - timescales. Historically, they have had different definitions, related to different conventions used by astronomers and civil timekeeping organisations but they are now legally the same thing, i.e. GMT = UTC + 00:00. The connection with astronomical time is now tenuous, UTC being defined as a timescale offset by a defined amount from the International Atomic Timescale (TAI), generated by combining data from atomic clocks and atomic frequency standards around the world. This offset is adjusted now and again by the insertion of leap seconds, to keep UTC approximately synchronous with mean solar time at 0° longitude - what was, in former times, GMT. 

 

A timescale derived from atomic clocks is now many orders of magnitude more precise than a timescale derived from astronomical observation.

 

A Time Zone is a geographical region over which a particular timescale is deemed (by government legislation) to apply. For example, the eastern states of the United States form part of a time zone in which the timescale UTC - 05:00 applies during the winter months. In the US, this time zone is called Eastern Time and the winter timescale, Eastern Standard Time (EST). In other countries that have time zones in which the timescale is UTC - 05:00, a different name will be used; in western Brazil, it is known as Acre Time (ACT). ACT = EST = UTC - 05:00.

[Erichill16]

18 hours ago, BR60103 said:

I don't know about ERs, but I think they used to run a hobby shop near me.

 

Or are they  The Rolling Stones?

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[New Haven Neil]

Evening.

 

Those brownie points ran out quickly this morning!  An innocent 'could we go to the tip before we go out' from the Mrs ended up with an hour and a half gardening to generate the reason for the trip to the tip.....so I was too late for the lunch stop I had wanted to go to. Grrr. Sorry, 'pah'.

 

Then went out on the bikes and....got wet.  Not forecast of course.

 

So...back to gardening....aaagh!

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Over-run on the eyelid inspection this afternoon but Arthur Itis kept a lot quieter so I now I should be bright eyed and bushy tailed. 

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000bjlf/dyfi/intensity

I notice that someone felt it north of Chelmsford, or more likely someone had the necessary gear to record it. I looked up earthquake zones in Europe and most as you might expect were in the eastern Mediterranean but surprisingly one stretches almost to the English Channel. https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/b8i58v/europe_earthquake_risk/

 

 

Edited September 8, 2020 by PhilJ W

[tigerburnie]

Been fishing on our local beach, one small flounder, returned to grow bigger, faggots for tea instead then................................

[5 C]

9 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Poor nights sleep last night thanks to Arthur Itis going at it hammer and tongs. Just as well there's only a bit of shopping to do today. Did anyone notice the earthquake?

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-uk-earthquake-39-magnitude-22646662#source=push

I didn't either but it was in the region of Slough so probably too far away. It was timed at 08:45 this morning.

I'm pleased to report that I survived the great Luton earthquake of 2020 (no jokes please about it causing thousands of pounds worth of improvements). I didn't notice it, mainly because I was having a rather fraught phone conversation at the time. Others in the office did notice it but as there's some building work going on we originally thought it might be that.

[The White Rabbit]

When we had an earthquake a few years ago I was actually trying to do some modelling at the time and when I felt a tremor and heard the rumbling, I thought it was just a big lorry going past outside. I realised the following morning when I saw the news. Still, gave me a new excuse for imprecise detail painting! 

[PeterBB]

The Dudley earthquake, but in retrospect it came after the next two mentioned, some time ago was quite big and on another occasion I was in the bath when an earthquake reached Burton.  Another earthquake reached Burton a few years later.  These all before Burton General Hospital site was raised to the ground and replaced by housing so some considerable time ago.

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[PhilJ W]

38 minutes ago, PeterBB said:

 I was in the bath when an earthquake reached Burton. 

I'd go easy on the brussell sprouts if I were you.

[pH]

Smoke from wildfires has been rolling in steadily all morning. It started out as just a light haze, but visibility is now down to about a mile, and you can definitely smell it. It’s coming from large fires south of here in Washington state. Environment Canada have issued a warning that “... children, the elderly and those with health problems should avoid strenuous outdoor activities altogether.“ Good, that’s the G word off the table for this afternoon, then.

[Gwiwer]

On 07/09/2020 at 21:20, Gwiwer said:

Evening all.  Not a lot of note today. ..... hope for some decent kip myself.  

 

Stay well.  

Groundhog Day.  That is all.  

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

Baz, I know how you feel. This is what my van looks like now and the wall I hit a couple of weeks ago whilst doing some deliveries for the pharmacy. I don’t think t-cut is going to be much help. At least nobody was injured.Robert

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[pH]

Fort Collins, Colorado had temperatures of 100F on Saturday and 99F on Sunday. Overnight on Monday, 3 inches of snow fell on the town.

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/08/910677557/in-48-hours-colorados-wild-weather-sets-records-for-both-heat-and-snow

 

(Frogs later today?)

 

[Dave Hunt]

The highlight of my day was spraying weedkiller on the paths and driveway. Says it all really. I had fully intended to do some muddling but when I got down to the shed I'd forgotten to take my mojo with me so nothing worthwhile got done.

 

Maybe a better attempt tomorrow after the morning chores. Still, it beats being in hospital with tubes and stuff stuck in various places.

 

Have a quiet and peaceful night all.

 

Dave 

[Erichill16]

Not much got done here. Started with the nephews school runs, one has be there at 8:30 and the other one at 9:15. What a pain and the have to be picked up at 3.00 and 3:45 again a pain. At least we had Syd for the day but tomorrow is a repeat of today. Made a couple of phone calls and printed some invoices off but that’s about it. Hopefully more work can be done tomorrow, as for shed time, don’t think so.

Goodnight 

Robert

[jamie92208]

22 minutes ago, pH said:

Fort Collins, Colorado had temperatures of 100F on Saturday and 99F on Sunday. Overnight on Monday, 3 inches of snow fell on the town.

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/08/910677557/in-48-hours-colorados-wild-weather-sets-records-for-both-heat-and-snow

 

(Frogs later today?)

 

Nice place Fort Collins. Just north of there is a place called Ted's Place, population zero.  They say that up there if you want differrnt weather just wait 10 minutes.

 

Jamie

[BoD]

20 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 I had fully intended to do some muddling but when I got down to the shed I'd forgotten to take my mojo with me so nothing worthwhile got done.

I went up to the loft today and took a load of mojo with me.

Soon ran out of it though.

 

Night all.

 

 

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[Barry O]

While visiting New Zealand a few years ago we were staying in a motel in Franz Joseph (near the glacier). Her indoors went for a shower. One minute I was sat on the bed..next thing I was sat on the floor. Herself didn't notice the quake.. but when she was bounced off the bed  half an hour lTer she believed my insistance that we had been in an earthquake....

 

Baz

[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

Baz

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all

[newbryford]

15 hours ago, grandadbob said:

 

 

P.S. I regret to say that I do look like my avatar.  However it's a bit better than some photos of me that have been used to frighten unruly children.

 

 

Are those the ones with bodily injuries/blood?

[Coombe Barton]

... and action too late?

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2020/09/08/video-produced/

[newbryford]

28 minutes ago, Barry O said:

 when she was bounced off the bed  half an hour later

 

Which does beg the absolutely blindingly obvious and cannot be avoided question.

 

"Did the earth move for you dear?"