Early Risers.

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. RMweb looks a bit strange this morning but I seem to be able to rate posts as normal. I just had a quick look at the Great War forum which also uses the same software as RMweb and its the same there as the Q's boat forum and RMweb. I have an Essex accent though it doesn't appear unless I'm with other people with an Essex accent. It comes from my grandmother who was Essex born and bred. Tea is ready to be poured, be back later.

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

A bright sunny day with blue skies, a few clouds but quite cool at 4C. Today’s plan is to spend some time in the garden, dead heading the hydrangeas and pruning the roses ready for their spring growth. It’ll be nice to spend a bit of time in the fresh air. I’ve also got some leaves to sweep up at the front so I’ll probably spend most of the day out there. 

 

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

 

Brian 

[tigerburnie]

Morning all, looks like a nice day which I intend to spend most of outside doing something, a walk and probably some of the "G" word, take care all.

[New Haven Neil]

RMWeb seems to be settled now, thankfully.  I thought I was going to have to resort to doing something.....

 

Just had the call to say I'm going to be Pfizered tomorrow at 14.15, and the second on the 23rd.  I already have loads of paracetamol handy.  Don't care, I think it is important personally (I have several of the 'underlying conditions') and a social duty to be inoculated.  I doubt it can be as bad (famous last words...) as the yellow fever one we used to get in the Merch.

[The Lurker]

Greetings all from Sidcup where the sun might be trying to break through the grey overcast sky. It was certainly colder out there than in the last few days when I got the bins back in earlier.

 

Glad to see that NHN is getting his jab. SiL (47) gets hers today; I think it is because she ha asthma. I also heard my BiL got his last week. He's early 50s but had a heart attack a couple of years ago (despite being skinny and pretty fit).

 

As for reaction to jabs, the only I really remember reacting to was the cholera/typhoid jabs I had as a child, which made me very sick.

 

Glad to see RMweb is back running properly.

 

[The Stationmaster]

Morning all,  

 

Currently a day of mist and mellow fruitfulness although the great yellow orb is planned to appear according to eth seaweed of the west.  No doubt if their 'puters get things wrong they will try to blame it on the Luftwaffe but their premises is quite a way from the site of the bang.  Unfortunately it looks as if things might not have gone exactly as planned (hoped?) with the detonation and it set off the bomb instead of destroying it.   Mrs Stationmaster is in touch with a former work colleague whose daughter commands a bomb disposal unit so we might one day get to hear more about it - as we did about certain events in Afghanistan (which were  somewhat different from things teh media had to say). 

 

Presumably there's trouble in't cloud mucking up various wesites although somebody will probably blame on which ever villainous nation they happen to think of first.   As for old school fellows we  go out for a meal (when officially permitted to do so) with a couple I've re-established contact with since moving back.  One of them was in my ear at infants and junior while the other one and i went through in the same class from infant school to A Level although we weren't close friends.  Unlike some of our vintage we all acquired wives from not exactly local places and they all hget on well together. The latter organises an annual (well it used to be) get-together for various folk from our year at secondary school but it seems to major around a golf course so - sorry Mick - it might not entirely be my scene.

 

Today I must try to suss out haow 'We Transfer' works as while I can get it set up as regards addresses I can't for the life of me work out how to load photo files into it!  Sort of defeats the object of it.

 

Havea godo day one and all and stay safe - presumably the weekend lemmings will now all be back in their boxes (I hope).

[TheSignalEngineer]

Nice sunny morning and less cold. Gardening and the allotment beckon. 

I feel it is getting near lunch time as Anne had to go to the surgery for a pre-breakfast blood letting this morning. 

Will do a catch-up read later as the last three days have been busy with other things.

[Coombe Barton]

2 hours ago, PeterBB said:

Wow, the work gone into that.

 

Only about twenty minutes. The major task was changing the blues to reds where appropriate.

[Gwiwer]

2 hours ago, jonny777 said:

My tooth/gum ache is becoming more random and more unfathomable by the day.

 

What can this be? It is the pain from hell while my head is vertical, but vanishes immediately the head is horizontal? 

Sorry to hear of this.  I suspect (and I'm sure I shall sit corrected by our resident Doctor if I am wildly off the mark) that it relates to the eustachian tube.   All the bits inside our heads are inter-connected in some way.  If there is infection under the teeth it may well be affecting the eustachian tube which manages balance.  If the pain is worse when in one position than in another then I am reasonably  confident there could be a connection there.  What might feel like a gum problem could be an infection elsewhere.  Dr. SWMBO suffered Labyrinthitis some years ago from which she never fully recovered.  Not a dental infection at all but the same considerations applied namely that she was often OK when lying down but couldn't stand without the world spinning and her head hurting in a manner she described as "About to burst" and whilst having severe dizziness and nausea.  I hope your problem gets resolved quickly. 

 

In other news I dropped into the pharmacy this morning and bought some dental putty which now occupies the space where half a tooth recently was.  It might last until the 11th when I am due to be relieved of a large number of modelling vouchers by the local tooth-wrangler.  There's enough in the pack to replace the "blob" if it falls out and a second pack is in the mail.  Chances are I shall need more in the future if the last couple of years are anything to go by.  

 

The velocipede was delivered to the essentially-open bike shop this morning for its annual service and a new rear tyre.  They decided I needed a new chain too but for the amount of use it gets I declined their generous offer of parting with another £50.  Collection is later today or tomorrow morning.  

 

The items missed from Ocado's delivery yesterday are all on the van today as arranged with their customer service person.  Nothing was out of stock except perhaps a picker / packer in the warehouse.  

 

Other than that it's grey, unnecessarily cold and no white rabbits have been sighted.  Welsh people with daffodils, yes.  Welsh flags, even.  Happy St. David's Day to all with red-dragon blood in their systems. 

 

But what could be more Welsh than a leak???  

 

 

 

 

Edited March 1, 2021 by Gwiwer

[polybear]

3 hours ago, chrisf said:

At 7 am yesterday I was booking a set for an evening theatre performance of Riverdance six months hence.  Whether it would have been better, or more user-friendly of the website, at a later hour is difficult to assess but one glance at the seating plan for my chosen evening told me that I was not a moment too soon.  I have a seat in the back row of the circle, which should not be too bad for a show in which the stage will be filled with dancers. 

 

Bear would suggest that the back row of the circle is a mighty good place to sit - all the others attending will be in front of you, and therefore breathing away from you.....  Bear does express some concern at your choice of performance though - taking advantage of animals is not acceptable entertainment, surely?

 

 

2 hours ago, jonny777 said:

Managed to find an old can of thick black Hammerite in the garage, and so I painted the ceramic bird bath which has a crack in it, and water leaks out. My thinking is that once the paint dries over the crack, then it will provide the seal. Fingers crossed, but I gave it two coats just to be on the safe side and left it to dry in yesterdays sunshine. 

 

Would that be the REAL (and much missed) Finnigan's Hammerite by any chance?  The junk they sell now (after Mr. F sold up - to ICI?) isn't a patch on it, no doubt screwed up by our friends in Brussels

 

[Tony_S]

Hello again.

It seems safe to post now. I wasn’t very well yesterday and the symptoms seemed remarkably similar to common side effects when starting metformin but I suspect now it was due to some fish we ate as Aditi was a little unwell too. 
I have a dermatology appointment some time this afternoon. I don’t think the skin condition has returned so should be able to satisfy the consultant. I had another call on Friday about my skin but it was from the team that did the stenting asking if I had developed any skin redness on back or chest. I said I hadn’t, and the call was just to check there hadn’t been any affects from the radiation dose I had received due to the long time the procedure had taken. 
Aditi had a Zoom call with the chap who will present the next French Circle lecture. They had swapped emails about suitable times but Aditi became concerned that the chap was based in France on CET time. He emailed to say he had been based in England since 2003 so not to worry. 
MiL is upset. One of her younger sisters in India has just died. It wasn’t Covid related. Aditi’s aunt had been ill for some time but seemed to just give up after her husband died recently of heart failure. In any other circumstances Aditi would have gone over to see her Mum but we can’t now. MiL is upset she can’t go to India to see the family but she isn’t well enough to travel any more anyway. She was recently wondering about going to California soon but needed to be gently told it wasn’t possible even if Covid ended. 
Tony
 

[Barry O]

Ey up!

 

gave up trying to get on here this morning.  I have again avoided any of the "g" word.. it has been very foggy here but it has now lifted enough to be "grey clouds blotting out the sun" and it is chillier than yesterday.

 

Some muddling accomplished then ran out of various bits I need so time to spend some of my muddling tokens..

 

@The White Rabbit.. have you got an updated list of what you have available please?

 

 

Stay safe,,

enjoy Monday!

 

Baz

[Tony_S]

I had a couple of technological challenges this morning. Some of my slot cars wouldn’t trigger the lap counter. I noticed that the ones that didn’t register laps had blue guides (the bit that goes in the track slot) rather than the more common black. This gave me something to base my Google searches on and it turns out the guide has to be black otherwise the infra red detector doesn’t work. I have painted the blue guide black but will see if there is a direct replacement.

The next task was to sort out why Aditi’s PC wasn’t sending emails. It received them perfectly. Windows kept insisting it was a password or sync error. I don’t think Aditi has used that PC to send an email since BTYahoo mail ceased as the send server was some Yahoo server. I said that there seemed to be some other Mail stuck in the outbox too. Anyway I changed the outgoing mail server to something more sensible and today’s messages went. She hadn’t wanted to lose them as they were condolence messages to cousins in India . It would appear that until today Aditi had used her Mac or Android tablet to send all her emails. Anyway all sorted now. 

Edited March 1, 2021 by Tony_S
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[Ian Abel]

Morning all!

Busy enough doing mostly nothing it seemed all weekend, so never managed to get on RMWeb.

 

What with dog walking, and a bunch of small chores, home "to do" items, the weekend seemed to past by disturbingly quickly with little substantial to show for it

 

We did manage to remove two more suspects from our murder mystery, it's getting quite exciting, especially since the four of us have "side bets" as to who the killer is.

Sadly it's starting to look a lot like my preferred suspect may in fact NOT be the culprit. Ah well, the dizzying excitement of it all, eh

 

Weather a mixed bag over the weekend, we had some light snow, about an inch, and then warmer temps and sunny. Then overnight another couple of inches of snow.

Back at work today, we'll see what arises.

 

-11 and sunny, heading for a high of -6.

 

Carry on.

 

[New Haven Neil]

A'noon.

 

Despite the glorious sunshine and clear blue sky, a certain dampness in the wind and 7c is making it feel quite chilly out.  When I went for my walk I ended up with gloves on and an extra layer than conditions appeared to need. 

 

Stopped to chat to new neighbours, who had come from 'across' and out of recent self-isolation, as they bought the house when things were not locked down, but everything got tied up for them.  Eventually they got permission to come here as they had nowhere to live in the UK, but had to have 3 tests and isolate for 21 days.  No third heads noticed, I think they'll be OK!

[Tony_S]

The slot car spares I ordered from Spain on Friday have been cleared by customs at Heathrow and the parcel is now on its way to me according to the Royal Mail app. This all seems very efficient so far. They are not expensive so perhaps that helps. 

[simontaylor484]

Bit late on as i couldn't get on earlier so had to interest my self in other tasks greetings to all and happy St Davids Day to our Welsh Bretheren 

[simontaylor484]

Tony do you have a "layout" for the slot cars with scenery and the like. 

[Erichill16]

Bit of an anniversary today, been an Early Riser for a year. Thanks for being there.

Robert

[Sir TophamHatt]

11 minutes ago, Erichill16 said:

Bit of an anniversary today, been an Early Riser for a year. Thanks for being there.

Robert

Happy Anniversary!

 

 

 

Got so much planned for my days off this week.
Must get back on the 3D printing wagon again.  Need to call Bosch to claim on my warranty for the washing machine (the seal has broken - they have so far said it's not covered) .  Also need to read / send off the meter readings, set up new internet stuff (although that may have to wait now as Mrs. STH is still working from home so don't want to mess it up for her).  But I may be able to get some of this out the way tomorrow.

 

But the most difficult and stupid job I'm not looking forward to is putting up a shelf.  It fell down and brought a little of the plaster (not plasterboard) with it, not to mention crumbling a bit of the brick.  So I tried using filler mixed with PVA glue but it won't stick to the brick.  Apart from drilling a deeper hole and using a longer screw (not sure I have one!) there doesn't seem to be another option.

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Just been trying to sort out my will. The old one was written over thirty years ago and is way out of date. I've decided to use a will writing service as I did last time only last time it was free as it was through my trade union but the price is very reasonable this time.

8 hours ago, jonny777 said:

 

My tooth/gum ache is becoming more random and more unfathomable by the day. Yesterday evening at about 9pm, it suddenly became "throw myself off a ten storey building rather than endure this" severe pain bottom left. In the end I went to bed after trying to watch The Ranganathan, and within two minutes of lying down the pain vanished, and has not returned since. 

 

What can this be? It is the pain from hell while my head is vertical, but vanishes immediately the head is horizontal? 

 

I had something similar a couple of weeks ago affecting my sinuses. It was only occasionally painful, mostly when I pressed on the swelling on my face. It stopped when the fluid (mostly a water like fluid) burst into my mouth. It turned out that a fruit pip had got lodged between a tooth and the gum and started an infection. No amount of brushing or mouthwash would dislodge it but it came out after I kept sucking on it followed by the watery fluid. 

[monkeysarefun]

I don't have an accent and nor does anyone I know, we all just sound normal.

[brianusa]

21 hours ago, Andrew P said:

Those that have met me will vouch for my still fairly strong Devon accent,

Its hard to lose.  I've been here in the US these last fifty years or so and those in the know still recognise my Plymouth accent  which is similar - but different!

     Brian.

[brianusa]

4 hours ago, Ian Abel said:

Morning all!

Busy enough doing mostly nothing it seemed all weekend, so never managed to get on RMWeb.

 

What with dog walking, and a bunch of small chores, home "to do" items, the weekend seemed to past by disturbingly quickly with little substantial to show for it

 

We did manage to remove two more suspects from our murder mystery, it's getting quite exciting, especially since the four of us have "side bets" as to who the killer is.

Sadly it's starting to look a lot like my preferred suspect may in fact NOT be the culprit. Ah well, the dizzying excitement of it all, eh

 

Weather a mixed bag over the weekend, we had some light snow, about an inch, and then warmer temps and sunny. Then overnight another couple of inches of snow.

Back at work today, we'll see what arises.

 

-11 and sunny, heading for a high of -6.

 

Carry on.

 

"Busy doing nothing, working the whole day through

trying to find lots if things not to do" 

  Yesterday was a busy day for us, we had our second shots locally.  Not much to it, a couple of pretty nurses (female) were doing the deed which brightened things up and then we went shopping for dinner treat.  Pretty heady stuff for one day!

      Brian.

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Where has everybody gone? It seems very quiet on RMweb at the moment even here on ER's. Dinner this evening was cottage pie courtesy of the sell by date lottery, tomorrow its tandori chicken. Tea has brewed and then I'm off to tackle Farcebook.