RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2021 1 minute ago, Coombe Barton said: Except with a very long pole I’m not sure if I have a Pole that long. I’ll have to Czech. 2 2 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Tony_S Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2021 I wasn’t the first patient of the day at the clinic but I was the first to turn up. The nurses asked if the traffic was busy. I said it wasn’t. Everyone else must have assumed the clinics were cancelled . Anyway I can stop taking one of my medications, the diuretic one, which will be nice. Apparently my lungs are clear and I have very nice ankles. Return in late February and depending on the echocardiogram either get discharged or a medication increase. I have already booked a blood test for a few days before the clinic visit. Tony 12 11 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2021 1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said: Except with a very long pole 16 feet 6 inches? 3 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 5 minutes ago, Tony_S said: 16 feet 6 inches? If it were square it might be a virgate 6 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 5 minutes ago, Tony_S said: 16 feet 6 inches? What's that in metric? 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post 45156 Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2021 Afternoon All Just a quick visit, and again a lot of skipping has happened. I am currently having a bit of a query about a historic tax assessment from 2016, and think I might need some of the paperwork. I am still not all that able to bend down, and the paperwork in question was in a large box at the back of the eaves, so had to seek the assistance of 30747 to get it all rooted out. It was not where we thought, and a thought from me that we had left one box of paperwork in the top landing cupboard - and so it transpired, but that left a load of boxes to replace, much to 30747's disgust that I hadn't remembered this sooner. Then 30747 had the inspired idea of not putting the car boot boxes back, and instead going through them and as we have no plans to do any more car boots, to put the stuff in the garage with a view to donating it all to Wolfwood, a local animal charity. So that's how we've spent the morning of our 42nd wedding anniversary. Generic greetings are as ever freely offered. Regards to All Stewart 1 2 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2021 19 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said: What's that in metric? 1/40 of a furlong. 1 2 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2021 6 minutes ago, BoD said: 1/40 of a furlong. Did you have those exercise books in primary school with all kinds of measurement units on the back cover? 10 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2021 58 minutes ago, Tony_S said: Did you have those exercise books in primary school with all kinds of measurement units on the back cover? Yes. Most of them I still remember. Nails, hands, rods, poles, perches ..... Avoirdupois versus Troy In other news white rain was reported by colleagues earlier today. Anyone arriving from south of the Croydon Ranges (those hilly bits beyond the Swan and Sugar Loaf ) would probably have woken to find the ground covered with fluffy stuff and more of it falling down. None of that in the blissful warmth of the House of Fun where the temperature remained stubbornly at 2C all morning and liquid rain gave way - eventually - to wan sun. Greetings all. Happy Wetness Day. 5 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Winslow Boy said: What's that in metric? 5.0292m Wrote this years ago ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/ancient-and-non-metric-measures/ Edited January 6, 2021 by Coombe Barton 9 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2021 3 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said: 5.0292m https://johncolby.wordpress.com/ancient-and-non-metric-measures/ 773.723 beespaces. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 2 hours ago, Coombe Barton said: Except with a very long pole 1 hour ago, Tony_S said: 16 feet 6 inches? Two parrots on a perch...... .....one said to the other can you smell fish? 4 1 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ian Abel Posted January 6, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2021 (edited) Moaning... HUMP day, and welcomed for sure. Yesterday was spent with myriad back-and-forth trying to get my access to the client servers sorted. All levels of folks involved, ALL initially inferring it was my issue, even several times asking if I was using a "," (comma) instead of a "." (period) in a domain name for christ-sake! I refrained from pointing out that I was using blqqdy domain names before most of the arsebandits were even BORN! Finally, around 3PM, the head of "Enterprise Applications" (one of the folks exchanging about 2 dozen emails with me) sent the following; "Can you disconnect from the VPN and try again, our team believes this to be resolved". I THINK, since it did now work perfectly, that is shorthand for; "we did something REALLY REALLY STUPID again with your access and it's taken 10 of us 3 days to figure it out. That's NOT to say we're IDIOTS, but it may LOOK LIKE THAT if we admit to it"... Nothing else going on here, the White House rant-meister continues to assail our senses, but everyone I know is counting down the days... COVID vaccinations here are going at a snails pace, local/state governments reporting that they've no real handle on what/when/where all the supplies are appearing, and the federal government (Trump and band of useless wannabees) insisting it's all going swimmingly! Supposedly 15+ million doses have bene shipped to states, but so far about 4.8 million have gotten a vaccine! Given sh!t-for-brains said there'd be at least 20 million vaccinated by the end of 2020, we simply add that WHOPPER to the lie total for him, I guess! Pah - nothing any of us in the real world can do about any of it anyways - just continuing the self-isolation until someone with some grain of common sense gets things going. -5 and overcast here, may reach +1 or +2 later. Tally ho. Edited January 6, 2021 by Ian Abel 1 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post BoD Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2021 2 hours ago, Tony_S said: Did you have those exercise books in primary school with all kinds of measurement units on the back cover? I’ve still got a couple. You didn’t think I’d actually remembered that did you? 5 1 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2021 4 minutes ago, BoD said: I’ve still got a couple. You didn’t think I’d actually remembered that did you? I can remember having to do £sd calculations and ounce, pound and stone conversions at primary school. I wasn’t very good at arithmetic then, so was quite pleased that at secondary school the metric system was used except in engineering and woodwork lessons. 11 1 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The Lurker Posted January 6, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2021 Greetings all from the fold in the side of the hill. No snow has been seen in this part of the boring borough although it did rain heavily enough in the night to wake me up. Groundhog day working from home. On the school front, Mrs Lurker and a number of other TAs spent a substantial part of yesterday morning printing work for the week for about 20 kids in the school whose parents told the school they could not access the google classroom and that they'd like the work. By the deadline for pickup of 12 yesterday, only 4 packs had been collected. The others will not be getting a pack from now on - it is a waste of time and resources. She does not work on a Wednesday though she did join her class' google meet anyway. And she is back in tomorrow, hoping there might have been a change in the heating situation.... 3 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Gwiwer Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2021 Just now, Tony_S said: I can remember having to do £sd calculations and ounce, pound and stone conversions at primary school. I wasn’t very good at arithmetic then, so was quite pleased that at secondary school the metric system was used except in engineering and woodwork lessons. I was never good at much more than the four basic arithmetic calculations but never had a problem with £sd or imperial measures. Possibly (knowing what I do now, many years later) the product of an Asperger's brain. I still convert freely between "new" and "old" money and while in Australia frequently double-converted between Aussie $, UK decimal and UK £sd. Easy enough. For me anyway. The Aussies use an expression "groat" to mean "dirty" (as in "groated up" - "filthy and in need of a decent shower") which I freely interpreted as "4d". 15 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2021 If you convert prices to pounds shillings and pence, then everything seems very expensive. 2 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2021 50 minutes ago, Ian Abel said: Finally, around 3PM, the head of "Enterprise Applications" (one of the folks exchanging about 2 dozen emails with me) sent the following; "Can you disconnect from the VPN and try again, our team believes this to be resolved". I THINK, since it did now work perfectly, that is shorthand for; "we did something REALLY REALLY STUPID again with your access and it's taken 10 of us 3 days to figure it out. That's NOT to say we're IDIOTS, but it may LOOK LIKE THAT if we admit to it"... Nothing else going on here, the White House rant-meister continues to assail our senses, but everyone I know is counting down the days... Please tell Bear that you couldn't resist sending an email saying "I told you so....." As for the Chief Cockwomble, we saw some of the current goings-on in the States on BBC News; Trumpie's bunch of cheerleaders are still convinced they've won/have been cheated etc. etc. I reckon there's a few street squabbles fast approaching and it ain't gonna be pretty. 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2021 Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. I see the Hornby generic coaches thread is still merrily frothing away, already on fourteen pages when only about three will do. I have obtained a copy of the 2021 Hornby catalogue, its on sale in Tess Coes from today. 11 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2021 Oops, pressed the submit button before I'd finished. My friend is at last going on line, a case of having to as his sons school has given his lad a tablet to continue his education under lock down. I'm trying to persuade him to join RMweb. 8 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2021 7 hours ago, Gwiwer said: Surely that is one of the jobs that cannot be done from home. Our window cleaner uses a pressure washer so maybe he could turn the wick up a bit and try it. (He already occasionally does some of our windows from next door's garden ) 2 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2021 3 hours ago, Gwiwer said: Yes. Most of them I still remember. Nails, hands, rods, poles, perches ..... Avoirdupois versus Troy Strangely 'Helen of Avoirdupois' doesn't have quite the same sort of ring to it. Hardly likely to launch many ships I'd have thought.. 2 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BokStein Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 Good Evening one and awl. Pride has been taken in deciding to buy some Hornby; 66773 and 9/11ths of 390 119 now on order. They'll look good in a TrainSafe wall display! In other news, an observation: 9 hours ago, BoD said: It’s hardly a job that they can do working from home. IIRC, nobody has explicitly stated form who's home one should work so, therefore, all window cleaners are working from home; it just happens to be yours! In a measured response, 5 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said: Strangely 'Helen of Avoirdupois' doesn't have quite the same sort of ring to it. Hardly likely to launch many ships I'd have thought.. Might take a while to fathom out! Meanwhile, 10 cricket pitches = 1 furlong. 12 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium The White Rabbit Posted January 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2021 14 hours ago, chrisf said: Meanwhile, amid all this excitement I neglected to charge my phone yesterday. It now appears lifeless. Why am I so hopeless with technology? I suggest that is the wrong question. Ask not why you are so hopeless with technology, but why technology is so hopeless with you? * In my experience, usually if you plug the phone in to recharge anyway, it splutters into life (eventually). It may require some button pressing and/or plug-pulling/inserting. * Not just a cheap gag based on a JFK speech but a serious gripe based on my own experience with technology. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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