Early Risers.

[polybear]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

Added to that the timescale from first seeing the Vet to where I am now is a couple of days over a month.  And that's in the middle of a pandemic.

 

First class, and some.  And most deserving of Bear's Golden LDC Award

 

Bear should also have mentioned that the month in question had Chrimbo in the middle too.  Now corrected.

Edited January 13, 2021 by polybear

[leopardml2341]

Nowt much 'appened in the parish of Willington today.

 

Goodnight all.

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Just been watching Channel 5's  River Thames program with Tony Robinson. They were talking about Thames Gateway, I didn't realise that the place was as big as it was, its huge! Now to tackle a mug (or two) of tea.

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[PeterBB]

6 hours ago, AndyB said:

Afternoon all.

Very depressing email from the nursing home. 

Half of the residents and the majority of staff now have the virus. 

Vaccinations were due tomorrow but these have now been cancelled as there are insufficient tests available. 

Meanwhile the local schools have plenty of tests but with lockdown no need for them. 

 

Insufficient tests maybe but more likely ' not given to those with active virus'

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

Been off it today, my balance issue has come back with vengeance. Of all the jobs listed  yesterday that I expected/wanted/hoped to do taking Sydney for a walk was the only one done. Add to that the fact that the youngest nephew came for home schooling to our house including a zoom session with his music teacher, it’s not surprising I needed a lie down. After tea I realised I’d got a zoom meeting that I really shouldn’t duck and from that it looks like the pharmacy is going to get even busier. Details to be published tomorrow. Think that’s enough moaning and explains why I’ve not managed to read all today’s  posts, sorry.

Yesterday I had a (all day) breakfast for tea, bacon, sausage, tinned tomatoes, and scrambled egg and what I thought was a hash brown. It looked like a hash brown but was made from cauliflower but it tasted alright. Bit of tomato ketchup and Bobs your uncle (or grandad). You will of gathered perhaps that I usually have cereals for breakfast as in a morning it’s the easiest thing to get ready, but when on holiday at a hotel I usually take part in a full English. I’ve got to be careful though with the GF diet. Obviously no fried bread (my favourite), and usually no sausages (my second favourite) or hash browns (my third favourite). At least when I get the full English at home I (or SWMBO) makes sure it GF.

Opticians tomorrow so I think a trip to the supermarket is in order, I’ve decided to ignore the advice from the UK chief medical officer, like so many others have been doing and purchase a bottle of raspberry vodka.

Anyway, Goodnight and keep safe,

Robert

[simontaylor484]

Best part of a cooked breakfast is a fried slice imho,closely followed by bacon and sausage preferably a nice grilled tomato, fried egg mushrooms hash brown brown sauce 

 

Definatley NO beans disgusting things yuckky 

[Erichill16]

22 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

Best part of a cooked breakfast is a fried slice imho,closely followed by bacon and sausage preferably a nice grilled tomato, fried egg mushrooms hash brown brown sauce 

 

Definatley NO beans disgusting things yuckky 

I’m not that bothered about grilled tomatoes but beans are an acceptable alternative to tinned tomatoes.  If you noticed my fry-up wasn’t actually a fry up, most thing were grilled, it much easier to clean up afterwards. That why I had scrambled  egg rather that fried, saying that I usually prefer scrambled to fried anyway. 

[PhilJ W]

Has Donk got a girlfriend?

[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

Baz

[Tony_S]

Scrambled eggs at the moment look a bit odd but taste fine. We having been getting eggs with what are described as golden yolks but look orange to me. 
 

[Coombe Barton]

4 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Scrambled eggs at the moment look a bit odd but taste fine. We having been getting eggs with what are described as golden yolks but look orange to me. 
 

What's been added to the chicken feed?

[laurenceb]

Sometimes it is better not to know. having watched free range hens and seen what they eat

[The Stationmaster]

21 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

What's been added to the chicken feed?

Nice rich yellowy orange is what a free ranging farmyard hen will produce because they're eating all sorts of stuff they wouldn't get if they're being fed chicken meal.  As Laurence said it is far better not to ask if they have been eating natural things - one thing they are rather partial to is poisonous to humans!!

[Tony_S]

32 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

What's been added to the chicken feed?

Carrots probably. 

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[laurenceb]

Night awl

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

Another day and some more progress, although I haven’t quite got it finished, I’ve got about 1.5sq ft left to do. What’s left is in a corner which does restrict access a bit, the paint is also stubbornly refusing to come of the brickwork. Tomorrow should see it done though. During my mid-morning tea break I managed to alter the schematic diagram for the turntable control, I then printed off the 2 ‘new’ drawings and put them in the relevant file, so that’s now up to date. 

 

Goodnight all 

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all

[pH]

3 hours ago, simontaylor484 said:

Best part of a cooked breakfast is a fried slice ... 

 

'Fried slice'? You mean like this?

 

https://www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/photos/square-sausages.jpg

[BR60103]

8 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

... and if you take the batteries out of the thermostat and put them in the TV remote because you can't decide whose turn it is to buy batteries, then your heating won't work ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2021/01/13/another-unwanted-high/

One of the musical types around here told me that there is a recording of Spem in Alium in a chapel in the National Art Gallery in Ottawa. 

https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhibitions-and-galleries/janet-cardiff-forty-part-motet-2

 

[Gwiwer]

Good morning all

 

The sky is leaking profusely.  Why am I awake?  

[iL Dottore]

On 12/01/2021 at 23:08, Tony_S said:

....we had a new addition to our diet this evening, kale and turnip stir fry...

“Fusion Cuisine” non plus ultra n’cest pas?

On 13/01/2021 at 01:38, PeterBB said:

...Rant - Masks - to my mind if it is 'difficult' for someone to cope with breathing with a mask on they should not be out shopping anyway and as for COAD if they argue the toss they don't have it because they are breathing well and are therefore capable of breathing well with a mask in place! ...

I couldn’t agree more. All this nonsense about exemptions has only made things worse for everybody, for the simple reason that if I don’t want to wear a mask (and I’m perfectly capable of doing so) all I have to say is that I have “an exemption”. Utter madness!  There was an interesting comment to an opinion piece in the Guardian yesterday: the poster said that despite having asthma, they tried out several types of mask until they found the one that worked for them. So clearly, it can be done. And in worst case scenario there’s always a clear visor - which will help reduce transmission (but not as much as a mask)

Regarding the programme that concluded that women are biologically fitter than men, here’s some food for thought: if a foetus is “XO” instead of “XX” (so missing one of the two sex chromosomes) it is viable, albeit severely handicapped, whereas if it is “YO” instead of “XY” it is not viable at all...

16 hours ago, southern42 said:

 ...*C* cake nearly gone - 3 days worth left, I reckon.  It's very rich, sweet, sticky, gooey even, very moist and extremely tasty - cake-theft security is at its highest...

I’m sure it’s very, very tasty - but with all that sugar surely instant Type II Diabetes?

12 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

Having seen what statins did to my father, I declined them as well.

My GP friends reckons that one of the drugs that most benefited his patients were/are the statins which he said transformed (and for the better) patient management. Of course, as with all drugs [including OTC things like aspirin] it comes down to the risk/benefit ratio...

11 hours ago, Andrew P said:

The Good Lady had her first Covid Jab this morning, and I can report that so far NO extra arms have grown, she has NOT gone boss eyed, and can still tell me off when required.

Good Heaven’s man. What were you thinking when allowing her to get the jab? Not only will Bill Gates know where she is all the time (as another poster pointed out), but also - at a push of a button at Gates’ HQ - be made to vote for “soft-on-commies-lefty-do gooder-tree hugger-liberal-socialist-big government” politicians.

It’s positively unnatural!

10 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

...And I've not had a full English breakfast for years because its 'unhealthy' 

I “feel your pain”.

Britain hasn’t, over the centuries, gifted the culinary world with much, but the “Full English/Scottish/Irish Breakfast” is one of them (is there any such thing as a “Full Welsh”?). Along with steamed puddings (sweet and savoury) and pies (of all types).

Sausage, bacon, eggs (fried or scrambled), mushrooms and black pudding for breakfast and all is right with the world (oh, and if your daily carb allowance permits: a fried slice. But never tinned tomatoes [horrible] or tinned beans [even worse]).

10 hours ago, TheQ said:

It is bad for you..

Just leave out the fried bread and toast...... then it's good for you..

And lose the baked beans as well. In addition to being the Devil’s Frogspawn, most commercially produced baked beans - apart from being carb bombs - are absolutely loaded with sugars! So: Not Good! (in fact, so loaded are they, I would argue that substituting a “fried slice” for beans would be a healthy step forward).

 

Mrs iD has joined Farcebook (for dog related activities, she claims) but I continue to manage my life without the need to embrace Twatter or Farcebook - I am resolutely anti-social about social media. RMWeb is about as “social media” as it gets. Unlike other posters here, I foresee no Damascene conversion in my future...

 

Finally, two snippets of trivia: firstly, the straight-sided cake tin has arrived from A****n - so another attempt at the Fruit and Nut Chocolate Bar Cake will be made this weekend. Secondly, following on from the discussion about books and bookshelves, I have taken some snaps of my few books - which I’ll post later today.

 

Enjoy the day, I’m off to take some analgesia and then walk the doggies...

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[chrisf]

Greetings one and all

 

Yesterday evening was well spent in the e-company of the noted photographer Bob Masterson, who shared over two hours' worth of evocative images of railways in South Wales with more than 60 Zoom participants.  It could all have gone horribly wrong, though.  About five minutes before the start I suddenly realised that I had no link to click and nowhere to enter the row of figures serving as a password.   An anxious phone call to the branch secretary produced hurried and understandably rather testy instructions to google the Zoom website and where to type in the figures.   I had got used to other Zoom hosts sending out e-mails with a link that one clicks.  Clearly the South Wales battalion of the Royal Corps of Train Spotters does not do that.  One job  for this morning will be to bookmark Zoom!

 

My two penn'orth on the full, or nearly full, English breakfast is as follows.  Tomatoes must be fresh and only reluctantly if tinned.  I'm not fond of black pudding but look forward to meeting white pudding again when I eventually get my weekend in Dublin.  Scrambled eggs can be rubbery if overdone and I prefer fried in any case.  Fried bread of any quality is not easy to find on the road: the best I have found lately is that offered by the Harry Ramsdens at Michaelwood Services on the M5.  Bacon, sausages and mushrooms are of course staple ingredients.  Having said all that, I have to admit that this morning's fruhstuck will be a bowl of porridge garnished with wheat germ and runny honey, followed by toast and marmalade.  Those who rule us have, in their finite wisdom, caused my local Tesco to offer only takeaway baps for breakfast.  Ruddy virus!

 

Enough already.  Best wishes to all

 

Chris