Early Risers.

[Barry O]

Had a thunk....dangerous at this time of day.. the carrot may be better than the stick.

 

You want to see family/friends/neighbours..well have the jab. Do you want to see a nurse/doctor/dentist..have the jab. For those who can have the jab.. provide them with a no jab passport.

 

The people spreading  deliberate misinformation should be used as cleaners in the covid wards.. well it doesn't exist..so they will be safe minus ppe and the jabs...

 

 

Baz

Edited February 8, 2021 by Barry O

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

HEALTH WARNING, VIEWERS OF A NERVOUS DISPOSITION SHOULD LOOK AWAY NOW

 

Whilst sorting out some photos for another thread I came across this specimen.  What do you call a group of ER's.   For various reasons  a group of us met for lunch one day in the Princess of Shoreditch for a pub lunch.  For the newer members of ER's here's a picture of what, for some very obscure reason was called  "The Brains Trust"

From Left to right, Flavio (Il Dottore), Chrisf, John (Bok Stein), Yours truly, Bill (BBishop), Mike (The Stationmaster) and Ian (Roundhouse). The table decoration is a chimbley for Green Ayre that Flavio had built and brought over from Switzerland for me. The date was the 11th November 2016.

 

Jamie 

A liquid lunch I take it.

[Erichill16]

59 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Bear admires your self restraint and calmness in the face of adversity.  Faced with a similar situation Bear would most definitely offend Cousin.  Should the worst happen to mil (and of course I hope it never does) then cousin will have something to think about...

 

....

From my experience these sort of people will blame someone else or ‘the system’.

 

Continuing good luck with the kitchen.

[jonny777]

Cold but bright here in North Somerset. Bedroom thermometer said 9.8C when I got up. Maybe I should have stayed under the duvet? 

 

The best pasty I had was bought in St Mary's, Isles Of Scilly - but as for the thick pastry rim around the side, they are supposed to be like that. The traditional pasty eaters, Cornish tin miners, would hold the pasty by the rim until they had eaten the contents and then throw the rim away, because of all the pollutants on their fingers. 

 

There is such a thing as the wrong kind of snow, technically snow grains, and it gets everywhere especially if it is windy at the same time. I remember it getting through my car's radiator grille on winter in the 1980s. There were no drifts around the car, but on opening the bonnet I found the entire engine compartment full of snow. I had deliberately parked with the back of the car into the wind, but somehow the swirling eddies had brought the snow in from the opposite direction. 

 

Big snowflakes only occur when the humidity is high and the smaller flakes stick together as they are falling, or if there are really active showers and the flakes keep getting caught in the updraught and collide with each other many times before emerging from the cloud. 

 

It is amazing how the disappearing wood pigeons have made instant changes to the bird feeding hierarchy. Collared Doves have re-appeared and a couple of blackbirds are now braving the food tray. The robin is now a regular visitor. The BTO weekly garden birdwatch has published Autumn 2020 and Wood Pigeons are now the bird most commonly recorded in gardens taking part in the scheme. Second place is Blue Tit and third, Robin. Sadly, Song Thrush is now 24th on the list and only seen in 9% of gardens, thanks mainly to slug pellets. 

[TheQ]

30 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

 

Bear phoned JL at dead on 8am and got straight through to a Customer Services Adviser.  Twenty-five minutes - and 3 people later - they need to talk to Neff (who don't open until 9am) and get back to me.  All very helpful people though.

Edit mis read how you wrote it..

Edited February 8, 2021 by TheQ

[Tony_S]

Morning all.

It didn’t snow overnight but has recently restarted.  Even so the total snowfall is less than a cm. Much less than other parts of Essex. 
It will remain below freezing all day so perhaps not a good day to go for a walk on slippery pavements. I will have to go out tomorrow for my Covid jab, but it isn’t far, well within my present walking range. 
Tony
 

[New Haven Neil]

Oh well, the surgery won't let me speak to the GP about meds, as they 'don't take requests over the phone'.  The fact I want to discuss possible changes, and two others aren't on the Patient Access on-line renewal system don't count, apparently.  I have to put it in the Patient Access request box.  But that has a limit of 200 characters - space to say nothing basically.  Temper tried this morning, we'll see what happens.  Pah!

 

Nice to see Kelly pop by, sorry to hear Richard is struggling to get his dates sorted.  This damn virus (that allegedly doesn't exist - pah again!).  Covidiots are waste of precious oxygen.

 

Also good to see Jamie's photo of the Brains Trust (I wouldn't be able to attend, being a small bear of little brain), I do like to put names to faces being a people person, although do understand when folk don't wish to be identified.  Used to be like that myself when I worked in the criminal justice system.  I have only met Mike of that crew, but I'm sure we'd all get on.

[laurenceb]

1 hour ago, Andrew P said:

I truly despair of Covidiots, and especially the ones that ended up getting a Mountain Rescuer seriously injured or PREACH their beliefs to the old and most vulnerable.

 

Monday morning Rant over, have a good day, one and all. 

Fit them with a ball & chain and a widows scold

Snowing

Mornin awl

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

The skies are blue, there are very few clouds around, the sun is shining, the temperature is 0C and there’s quite a stiff breeze, so it’ll probably feel a lot colder than 0C out there. We've had a little bit of snow, but there’s so little of it you can hardly see it, but it’s there, it the spaces between the paving on the patio and tiles on the the workshop roof! It reminds me very much of a cake that’s been dusted with icing sugar. 

 

The plan for today is to make a start with painting the chairs, they’ll both need 2 coats of primer/undercoat and 2 coats of topcoat, so they’ll probably take the best part of this week to complete. Once there done though, they can be moved elsewhere and not clutter up the cellar!

 

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

 

Brian 

 

 

[Tony_S]

This date 5 years ago (no snow, just windy)

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, Winslow Boy said:

A liquid lunch I take it.

A modicum of liquid but some good food as well, after all the location was chosen by ID, who by the way is now a rather more svelte version of himself.

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

44 minutes ago, laurenceb said:

Fit them with a ball & chain and a widows scold

Snowing

Mornin awl

The Widows scold is an interesting one. Our Church in Gildersome  once expellled two women for having "Railing Tongues". This was in the 18th century.

 

Jamie

[tigerburnie]

Morning, a good nights kip and feeling much better, it's been snowing and we currently have a "white out" and some daft person wants to go out for a walk in it, I am just stepping outside and may be gone for sometime................(though I do intend to return as I am no hero).

[Grizz]

About -2 here.... 

 

[The Lurker]

Greetings all from a snowy Sidcup. It is currently just about snowing and has been doing so on and off since about 8 o'clock this morning. It eventually settled yesterday after the temperature fell.

 

There are 11 pages since I last posted in here so no attempt to catch up.

 

My Mum was offered and had a jab last week, so they are dealing with the 70-80 age bracket in darkest Kent.

 

I read an article on the BBC the other day on Joe and Billy Root, Billy talking about his big brother and their childhood. I was reminded of Baz's favourable comments about the pair of them. Hopefully the dithering in the last hour and a half has not cost England the chance of a win in the first test. I have been pleased there has been some on terrestrial TV - i can't remember an overseas tour being on but my Dad occasionally reminisces about getting up early and watching a test from Perth; he can't remember any of the cricket but he remembers that the weather there was glorious and there were lots of boats on the Swan river.

[Grizz]

Not going to disturb the ballast today. Bit too cold. 
 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 8, 2021 by Grizz

[Barry O]

3 minutes ago, The Lurker said:

I read an article on the BBC the other day on Joe and Billy Root, Billy talking about his big brother and their childhood. I was reminded of Baz's favourable comments about the pair of them. Hopefully the dithering in the last hour and a half has not cost England the chance of a win in the first test. I have been pleased there has been some on terrestrial TV - i can't remember an overseas tour being on but my Dad occasionally reminisces about getting up early and watching a test from Perth; he can't remember any of the cricket but he remembers that the weather there was glorious and there were lots of boats on the Swan river.

yes.. and Grandad Don was a lovely gentleman..another Sheffield Collegiate Stalwart.

 

New glasses obtained and new lenses fitted into the old frames. These are designed to allow me to see to solder items of a metal nature together when place underneath a layer of ply. So I should no longer fall over backwards trying to get the right angle of dangle to see!

 

Snow Flurries hers..  mighty cold.. Beast likes All Wheel Drive in the snow.. I like the heated seats and steering wheel.

 

Time for coffee!

 

Baz

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. When I went to bed last night it was just starting to snow again. It was the very fine snow and where the damp road surfaces had turned to ice it was polishing them nicely. This morning there was a thin covering of snow over everything including the 'polished' ice. I won't be going out today thats for sure. 

[BoD]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

This damn virus (that allegedly doesn't exist - pah again!).  Covidiots are waste of precious oxygen.

 

 

I spoke to my sister last night. 

She is, and has been for a while giving vaccines.  

Finished at 8pm yesterday.

Starting another 7 day week this morning.

Hasn't been able to visit our mum for weeks.

Sometimes I feel like punching those ignoring rules or pushing the boundaries.

[Kelly]

Since posting earlier this morning, Nuneaton has had a spattering of snow , which quickly melted. Poppy is happily snoring away on the bed (I can hear her from the office across the landing!)

[iL Dottore]

4 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

... For the newer members of ER's here's a picture of what, for some very obscure reason was called  "The Brains Trust"

 

From Left to right, Flavio (Il Dottore), Chrisf, John (Bok Stein), Yours truly, Bill (BBishop), Mike (The Stationmaster) and Ian (Roundhouse). The table decoration is a chimbley for Green Ayre that Flavio had built and brought over from Switzerland for me. The date was the 11th November 2016.

 

Jamie 

I believe that it was “Unravelled“ (Dave) who took the photograph, (Dave is also a member of the “Brains Trust“).

As to why we have named ourselves as the “Brains Trust“ it’s because – believe it or not - sitting around the table are a few centuries worth of cumulative wisdom, sagacity and insight. The trust was originally formed, if memory serves me correctly, to provide me with some assistance and guidance with my - as yet still only partially built - model railway. But we have gone on to bigger and better things.

(By the way, I have just had an interesting thought: as we are a “trust“, could we not apply for charitable status? Such a status would go far in ameliorating the bar bill!)

2 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

A liquid lunch I take it.

Very!

It was a veritable tsunami of a liquid lunch, truly a Victoria Falls of free flowing CAMRA approved non-solid nourishment.

And all spectacularly beneficial for one’s body, soul and psyche (trust me on this! I’m a doctor!)

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

A modicum of liquid but some good food as well, after all the location was chosen by ID, who by the way is now a rather more svelte version of himself.

 

Jamie

The nibbles were indeed of high quality. Of course, as you quite rightly point out Jamie, that was over four years ago, back when I was (to quote the memorable Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket) a “disgusting fatbody”

 

Now, I can just about to pass for human (on a dark night with a candle light behind me), which I suppose IS an improvement.

 

Lunch is now over (bacon, sausage and black pudding with a mug of coffee), so I think I had better get back to work!

 

Have fun!

Edited February 8, 2021 by iL Dottore

[Mike Bellamy]

6 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

 

. . . if I was desperately hungry I would eat one of the tins of dog food that I buy for the Wolfpack. The reason being, having researched how they make petfood . .  I have found that the quality control of the meat they use and the sort of meat they use to be better than what is permitted in human food (if you don’t believe me, just google what goes in to an allowed-for-humans “meat product“ I think you’ll be horrified).
 

Okay, petfood is mostly offal (and some of the types of offal used are rarely consumed nowadays by humans outside of a haggis or a traditional fagg0t), but it’s a mile away from the reclaimed meat that they blast off bones with high-pressure water jets for use in “meat products“. Having tried some of the Wolfpack's food . . . 
 

 

 

About 50 years ago, I went with the local scouts to visit the Pedigree Petfoods factory at Melton Mowbray. On our tour, the production manager took us through their massive cold storage area and explained that most of what they used was originally for human consumption but for one reason or another had past its sell by date. He kept taking various tins off the line and gave them to us to carry - we then went into the canteen for tea and biscuits, and he opened all of the tins to show what was in each one and the consistency of the product. Some were in jelly and stood upright and others were in gravy and slumped all over the plate. He then said that Wiskas with Pilchards was his favourite and started eating it ! He said that as he knew exactly what went into their products he was quite happy eating any of them. As part of his job he visited many food factories but there were numerous items he wouldn't eat as he had seen how it was made.

 

 

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

Oh well, the surgery won't let me speak to the GP about meds, as they 'don't take requests over the phone'.  The fact I want to discuss possible changes, and two others aren't on the Patient Access on-line renewal system don't count, apparently.  I have to put it in the Patient Access request box.  But that has a limit of 200 characters - space to say nothing basically.  Temper tried this morning, we'll see what happens.  Pah!

 

 

Why not surprise them by sending a letter . . . . . ?

 

.

[The White Rabbit]

Morning awl.

 

Just a light dusting of snow overnight here. The sun's out but it's still very cold with a big windchill, so a day for paperwork I think. Not a pleasant day for those working outside. 

 

A Widow's scold was a new one to me, I knew it as a scold's bridle. Whatever it's called, perhaps we could give some blacksmiths a bit of work creating some PPE* for purveyors of fake news? 

 

Pasties - are another dish I've started creating myself, with some time and effort I can have something rather healthier and more wholesome than many ready made versions out there. The best of which was from a butchers in Crediton, good ingredients and sustaining. Perhaps making your own is a solution for  @brianusa and anyone else in a pasty waste-land? 

 

Time for some more work. 

 

* PPE for the good of others, not the wearer. 

[The White Rabbit]

2 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

... I have to put it in the Patient Access request box.  But that has a limit of 200 characters - space to say nothing basically.  Temper tried this morning, we'll see what happens.  Pah! ...

 

I had a similar problem recently with the local council. Having spent much of an afternoon going round in circles, that was the last straw and I made a complaint. Amazingly, the complaint handler actually got onto IT and they increased the character limit from 255 to 4000. Maybe that's what it takes? 

[grandadbob]

I've just read that the boxer Amir Khan has bought his son a £30,000 Rolex watch for his 1st birthday present and posted it on Instagram!!!!

Now Mr. Khan may possibly do lots of good for charity etc, I don't know but I do know that flaunting your wealth like that at a time when so many people are having a terrible time losing family, friends and jobs is just plain wrong.

Quite frankly it sickens me.

 

 

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/amir-khan-criticised-over-30000-19790069

 

Edited February 8, 2021 by grandadbob