Early Risers.

[Barry O]

4 minutes ago, BoD said:

 

..... and not forgetting H'Angus the Monkey.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1965569.stm

I understand he did a good job of being Mayor of Hartlepool.. obviously he made sure he never spoke in French!

 

Baz

[polybear]

7 minutes ago, BoD said:

 

..... and not forgetting H'Angus the Monkey.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1965569.stm

 

Brilliant; he did the job for eleven years so must've been reasonable at it.

edit:  I wonder if he kept his promise for "free bananas for schoolchildren"?

edit 2:  Just thought that Bear could run for Mayor, but no way am I giving away free cake to the little bleed*rs so I guess it's not for me after all.

Edited November 6, 2020 by polybear

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

It was sunny earlier but is cloudier now but definitely warmer. Aditi was very pleased with the birthday card I had got for her. “Did you ask a neighbour to buy it?” , I said I had chosen it and purchased through Amazon.  At least I had a card to send as our local letter post seems to be in disarray, strange postmarks and mail arriving after quite a few days (parcels not affected).

Anyway Aditi is planting bulbs today which is something she will enjoy as a birthday treat. We don’t have a birthday cake but there is everyday cake. I won’t need to sing Happy Birthday again, with my singing voice it was probably safer when she wasn’t fully awake this morning. We have a photo of a special cake as my cousin posted a cake photo to Aditi! 
I booked my car in for a service and MoT in December. They are not (unlike Ford) doing collections but I will drop it off and collect later in  the day or next day, it isn’t likely I will be going anywhere. The garage is in Chelmsford but it doesn’t take long to get there and back. 
Tony

[Gwiwer]

Afternoon all.  Happy Friday.  Welcome to POETS Day and the weekend.  For those not currently doing much beyond their own four walls welcome to another random 24-hour period.

 

Clod with fatchy pog was definitely the order of the day at the House of Fun.  Within those walls there is (as yet) no evidence of any lockdown.  True there are fewer casual and off-peak travellers than there were but that could still be attributed to the weather.  

 

We were introduced to the term POTUS some years ago whilst SWMBO was following The West Wing.  We have recently been introduced to derivatives used in more recent TV shows including POTal and POTish.  I don't think I upset too many in the room when I referred to the current post-holder as Piece of T**d Underneath Shoe though it might also stand for Promulgator Of Tripe Under Stress.  He who proffered his partner a baseball cap branded FLOTUS which she wears in some images seen here with all the ostentation she can muster.  Growing up in a modest fishing village I was familiar with the term flotsam.  There was often flotsam washing in.  Our schoolboy minds turned to other things and the related term "floatus" was coined for those irritating small pieces of solid which defy flushing at the end of your requirements.  I cannot re-train my mind to avoid that thought when the term FLOTUS is used.  

 

 SWMBO is also a huge fan of Grand Designs which is known to her as The Kevin Show.  We have occasionally spotted "Kevin Houses" in our travels around the nation.  The pink one on the hillside in Shaldon is obvious and can be seen from trains passing through Teignmouth.  Aussie Grand Designs just hasn't grabbed her interest at all; I suspect she has a secret something for Mr. McCloud   

 

It's Friday.  It is time for drinks.  It won't be Chateau Supermarket here but DOCG Cotes du Rhône.  OK it arrived via Ocado but it is Mis en Bouteille au Château.  There is Rum and Shrub for later when the cold of the evening returns - that warms the hearts of yer cockles.  

 

[Tony_S]

There is apparently a birthday cake. Aditi found a gooseberry cake she made two years ago (we had a lot of gooseberries that year). It isn’t stale, it was in the freezer. 
Aditi’s occasional cake slice doesn’t upset her diabetes condition. Her diabetic nurse is very happy with her control.  It was out of control while she was at work but is fine now. What she is good at is adapting cake recipes. Apparently you can get away with a great deal less sugar than many recipes suggest. One of the other things is salt. When we used to eat out (remember that, sometime last year in our case I think) it always amazes me just how salty  restaurant prepared food is. 
Tony

[Tony_S]

Aditi has just received flowers and a birthday cake from friends. DPD courier delivered. 
Gooseberry cake now downgraded to “normal teatime” status. 

[simontaylor484]

6 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

Oh that I could buy mince pies at Intermarché.

 

I remember that branch of Tess & Co's well. The entrance to it's delivery bay was opposite the entrannce to our car park and sometimes we would gave to wait to get out whilst an artic reversed into the store loading bay.  We also had to cope with sugar tankers reversing  past the nick into the Haribo factory and beer drays delivering to the Working Men's club that was opposite the entrance to the cell area. Fun.

 

Jamie

I remember a sugar tanker taking the front off a patrol car there it was quite amusing.  My Fil was Secretary at the Wmc incidently.

I also remember the police station when it was parking underneath before the cells were extended.

.

 

[Tony_S]

Aditi has designated the slippers she bought for winter as her birthday present and has ordered a Bundt cake tin as she doesn’t like the look of our similar cake tins and they are too small anyway. 
Tony

[simontaylor484]

Was up at 230am to a solid wall of smog could hardly see past the back fence. 

Still no result from the US.

We looked into the Grants for energy saving windows/doors we miss out because our house was built in 2007 but the french doors are useless to quote a certain bear turdycurses

[The Stationmaster]

Many happy returns to Aditi.

[simontaylor484]

13 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Aditi has designated the slippers she bought for winter as her birthday present and has ordered a Bundt cake tin as she doesn’t like the look of our similar cake tins and they are too small anyway. 
Tony

Hope the tins bear  and hippo proof

Birthday greetings to Aditi

Edited November 6, 2020 by simontaylor484

[TheQ]

Afternoon awl, 

The permanent dividing walls of the workshop are in place, 

The back wall is from the centre post, one full width sheet plus a 20inch wide strip then the gap for a doorway,  then 20 inches of shelving to the wall.

The 40 inches from the door gap I've started shelving, 2 shelves so far,  two more to do. The rest to the center post will be a built in seat with storage beneath. 

 

From the centre post forwards is the other 28 inches of the part sheet used on the back wall.   Then the gap through to the work bench is 38 inches. 

 

Tomorrow I'll clad the side of the workbench,  and do the door above it . Build the corner seat,  and maybe start more electrics. 

 

Also done was the sealing of the back ripples of the asbestos roof which went fairly well.. 

SWMBO took Ben for his walk,  he refused fairly shortly after, due to being frightened by a pheasant cackling.. So he cut his walk short.. 

Later he was out sunning himself,  when he came running into the garage frightened again so I put him in the house.. 

 

We too have had the grant phone calls.. We don't qualify even if the phone call we're genuine. 

 

 

Edited November 6, 2020 by TheQ

[Tony_S]

15 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

Hope the tins bear  and hippo proof

Birthday greetings to Aditi

Probably is bear resistant. It is made in France , land of cake tins. Going round kitchen shops in France is fun, trying to work out what something is used for.  

Edited November 6, 2020 by Tony_S

[jamie92208]

43 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

I remember a sugar tanker taking the front off a patrol car there it was quite amusing.  My Fil was Secretary at the Wmc incidently.

I also remember the police station when it was parking underneath before the cells were extended.

 

Yes I remember the sugar tankers well. Their unloading dock was just sized for an artic but backing down the lane past the nick and the wmc took skill and time.  Two of the lads on my shift were rather surprised one morning, about 03.30 when they radioed in to say that there was a lost lorry driver in Tess & Co's car park but he only spoke french. I told the control room I'd walk over and sort it. I don't know who was more surprised, my two PC's or the lorry driver when  a Lieutenant  of the gendarmarie in uniform spoke to him in reasonable French and directed him to the aforementioned unloading dock.  

 

My french came in useful another night when we had an Italian shoplifter and they couldn't get an interpreter. I found out that he'd been in the Foreign Legion. I went into his cell and he shot to attention. I managed to remember the words for thief and lawyer and he agreed that he would stay the night and be interviewed in the morning. The custody Sgt was in stitches out in the cell passage. I then had to write some appropriate words on the custody record.  All good stuff and the mug of tea afterwards was excellent.

 

Jamie

[Barry O]

Happy Birthday Aditi!

 

Next door neighbour of 32 years is moving out at the end of November.  Sad to see her go but she can no longer manage the house on her own.

 

Baz

[jamie92208]

Oh, I forgot.  Happy Birthday to Aditi.  Relaxing time now, more jungle has been cleared and we have discovered a Bay tree and a Young Yew tree, both ofvwhich will be kept. The bramble, and the convoluted Cottoneaster that it's wrapped round will go however.

 

Jamie

Edited November 6, 2020 by jamie92208

[polybear]

33 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

Hope the tins bear  and hippo proof

 

No such thing....

 

20 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Probably is bear resistant.

 

 

Bear has cut the grass for the last time this year and picked all the leaves up (including those from buddy-next-door's front garden too - he's lent me his SDS drill so fairs fair)

Just looked out of the bedroom window to see....leaves landed in the front garden Barstewards.  Still, very few left on the tree now, in the grand scheme of things - so hopefully I've pretty much seen the last of them.

 

I see the sensible one has taken the lead in Pennsylvannia - get that one and he's in.  Seems the orange one actively discouraged his supporters from voting by post.  What a donut.

 

Tomorrow?  I might just fit the new kitchen window.

[polybear]

18 minutes ago, Barry O said:

Happy Birthday Aditi!

 

Next door neighbour of 32 years is moving out at the end of November.  Sad to see her go but she can no longer manage the house on her own.

 

Baz

 

Always a worry, that.  Losing a neighbour/friend and the trepidation of what the replacement will be like....

 

In other news:

I see the parasites have stooped to a new low:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54839434

Edited November 6, 2020 by polybear

[iL Dottore]

A "FRIENDLY" WARNING TO MR BEAR AND MR HIPPO

 

It has come to my attention that a certain Mr Bear, possibly aided by a Mr Hippo, are planning a pre-emptive raid on Captain Cynical's Alpine Redoubt(tm) in order to acquire cake. IF they can find the Captain's Alpine Redoubt, shown here:

Or maybe not - such data is classified.

 

Given the current CST (cake stealing threat) level is at Red 4, Captain Cynical cakes are now all being made inside a secure area within the redoubt. Raw ingredients are shipped in via the secret underground railway, which is heavily protected by Sentry Guns with AI:

Cake is then produced in a well protected, fully automated, AI Bakery

And checked by Captain Cynical's Baking Minions

Each finished cake is stored in a special xenon-argon-lithium liquid hydrogen laser bar cage. Such lasers can slice through a bear or a hipoo without even meeting resistance

All of which is overseen from a beyond-state-of-the art command centre (which makes "cutting edge technology" look blunt)

Finally Captain Cynical has many, many highly trained, ruthless, minions placed to protect the facility (here are some of the Light Brigade Lads on a tea-break. The Heavy Mob are off shooting trespassers)

And finally, the Wolfpack (Lucy and Schotty) have taken responsibility for Captain Cynical's personal safety and lead a team of well trained, merciless killer hounds Below is Charlie, our latest recruit.

 

So, Mr Bear and Mr Hippo, trying to remove CAKE from Captain Cynical's Alpine Redoubt (tm) by force or without CC's approval would be a terminally fatal exercise.

However, CC is entirely reasonable and is happy to trade CAKE for M***l R*****y supplies.

iD (on behalf of Captain Cynical)

Edited November 6, 2020 by iL Dottore
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[simontaylor484]

Has the Orange one got an ulterior motive regarding the postal vote? God knows what he is trying to do 

Why cant he man up and just thank his supporters tell em its not over till all votes are counted then if he has to go he goes with his head held high not like a spoilt 5 year old .

 

Or is that too simple? 

In other news could it be another time Parliament has been misled by Scientists with the Coronavirus figures. Who knows ,the Gov have to follow their scientific advisors, what if they were wrong we end up with less dead a positive but what about the economic damage?.

Fences round a halls of residence in Manchester. What is going on there, what a strange situation my immediate thought is what a set of Snowflakes but then i thought what would i say if it were a care home. I am reminded of a quote pinned on the door of my English class room at school i cant remember exactly but it went something like.

When they came for the Communists i said nothing

When they came for the Trade Unionists i said nothing. 

When they came for the Jews i said nothing 

When they came for me no one said anything becauses there was nobody left.

 

Im not trying to be political im trying to get things of my cheast

[simontaylor484]

I cant believe this one but its true 

 

My wife has just come in and is having to report an assistant in our chemist to the Police for threatening behaviour i wont say too much more but i am livid. 

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Happy birthday to Aditi, hope you have a great day. Due to the internet going down last night I've got a lot of Farcebook to catch up on so I'd better get on with it.

[Ian Abel]

Happy birthday Aditi...

 

POETS, fine with me. 

Yesterday replete with changes to reports for the Long Island client.

 

Added to that, the Mrs and I are getting election weary even though we are deliberately avoiding all the media since it's nothing more than speculation interrupted by sh!t-for-brains ranting and declaring everything on the planet is either a fraud or fake news. Pity there's no John Wilkes-Booth around IMHO!

 

Today will almost certainly see the final results roll in and then more stupidity will start. As previously stated, given bum-stain insists there is massive voter fraud going on, IF he wins how will he answer that charge, does it suddenly become "sorry, my mistake"?!?!?

Such a dimwitted moron, still amazed he manages to crawl out of bed from under his rock every day <sigh>

 

The weekend will be quieter since our "pod" friends are now in Arizona, but possibly getting together on the patio with the Mrs niece and family as the weather is nice.

 

11 first thing, 23 the expected high. All weekend is supposed to be much the same, then we plunge to highs of 5 or less after Tuesday...

 

Have a good start to the weekend everyone.

 

[polybear]

1 hour ago, Ian Abel said:

Added to that, the Mrs and I are getting election weary even though we are deliberately avoiding all the media since it's nothing more than speculation interrupted by sh!t-for-brains ranting and declaring everything on the planet is either a fraud or fake news. Pity there's no John Wilkes-Booth around IMHO!

 

I'd love to meet one of sh1t fer brain's bodyguards and ask:

"Would you REALLY take a bullet for that pr*ck?"

 

1 hour ago, Ian Abel said:

Today will almost certainly see the final results roll in and then more stupidity will start. As previously stated, given bum-stain insists there is massive voter fraud going on, IF he wins how will he answer that charge, does it suddenly become "sorry, my mistake"?!?!?

 

 

Surely if he does win then he'll have to declare the whole vote null and void and have to start all over again.....

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

Captain Cynical has many, many highly trained, ruthless, minions placed to protect the facility (here are some of the Light Brigade Lads on a tea-break.

Aditi has been to the Swiss Evil Henchperson Training Centre. No one ever saw that Bond again. She has had considerable success in liberating cakes in Switzerland.