Early Risers.

[polybear]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

Evening all from Estuary-Land. The use-by-date lottery gave me steak pie and chips with (tinned) broad beans this evening and has now left me with a quandary. Will tomorrows dinner be toad-in-the-hole or chicken tandori? decisions, decisions. Tea is brewing so I'll be back later. 

 

Since Bear is still limited to ding dinners it was jacket spud and beans, with a treacle pud & custard chaser.  Works for Bear, though I'm getting pizza withdrawal symptoms now - hopefully the floor will be finished in a couple of days or so and the cooker can be re-commissioned.

Tomorrow?  Let's see now...ah yes, the floor tiler's coming....

 

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

 

Baz

[Erichill16]

evining all,

spent most of the day pottering in the garden and spent the last couple of hours trying to find some pictures of Norway from a couple of years ago on the computer. Couldn't find them and thought they must have been lost when Windows 10 was installed last year. Fortunately I've found them on a memory card and think I must never of downloaded them. a very lucky escape. Anyway here's a picture of the northern lights from that holiday, taken from a moving ship. SWMBO and myself have had a couple of holidays dedicated to 'hunting the lights' and have seen them a few times.

Taken me far too long to get this image on here and early start tomorrow so I'll bid goodnight.

robert

[laurenceb]

Night awl

[andyram]

Evening all. Another week has started in the now all too familiar brain fog. It does not matter how much I sleep I consistently feel tired. The patience and temper are wearing very thin too.

 

Sarah was at work all day today and, with my delivery postponed until tomorrow, it was a day spent at home. Several assignments were marked, broken up only by sorting out a couple of wash loads. 
 

I did call the council regarding the parking attendant and have been asked to put my comments in writing as a formal complaint. This will be done in due course. 
 

There was a brief venture out in the afternoon to the local Post Office to despatch a couple of shop orders. On the way back I saw a certain one legged jogger, once again running in the road despite pavements on both sides. Despite my current “on edge” state I resisted the strong temptation to pull over and give him a lesson on the Highway Code which he claimed I knew nothing about the other week.

 

 Today effectively marks the first anniversary of the start of lockdown restrictions. If the government are thinking of banning overseas travel I would venture it would be a decision that is twelve months too late. Perhaps the bill got sent via Yodel or Hermes!

 

Stay safe and sane (if you can).

 

Andy

[PhilJ W]

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Sorry. I should have said "actor" AND "recording artist", William Shatner.   I trust that Canadians cringe every time they hear one of his recordings.

 

Please don't find his version of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" for us.

Here it is.

 

This is the shortened version.

[PhilJ W]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

 

Since Bear is still limited to ding dinners it was jacket spud and beans, with a treacle pud & custard chaser.  Works for Bear, though I'm getting pizza withdrawal symptoms now - hopefully the floor will be finished in a couple of days or so and the cooker can be re-commissioned.

Tomorrow?  Let's see now...ah yes, the floor tiler's coming....

 

The chicken tandori is a ding dinner. They come from Tess Coes (low calorie meals).

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

The weather today has stayed dull and cool, but like yesterday, by mid afternoon it had changed and the sun was shining. 

 

Anyway, I stayed in the cellar all day, apart from going outside to since out my bucket and an old cloth. The brickwork around the fireplace has been stripped of paint and is now ready for varnishing. The fireplace itself will be the next thing to tackle as I want to get all the old blacklead of it so that it can be painted. I’m going to spray paint it using a can, but instead of using a can indoors (not recommended) I’m going to decant some paint into a jar and use my airbrush. I’ll have more control over the amount of paint going on and it’ll also reduce the amount of overspray too! Before all that takes place, there are some small bits of pointing to do to the brickwork, to replace that which has been dislodged during the paint stripping process. 

 

Here’s a photo showing how it currently looks

 

After tea I collected our prescriptions and completed the Sainsbury’s Grand Prix. The last few items were acquired for the kids Easter presents, oh, and there was an offer on wine, so the wine cellar was restocked as well. 

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[Pacific231G]

Night night,

[Ozexpatriate]

39 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

Here it is.

I know better than to click on that!

 

It begs the question of 'What is the antonym for "earworm"?'

 

39 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

This is the shortened version.

Blessedly so.

 

Edited March 23, 2021 by Ozexpatriate

[southern42]

‘ night all and nos da.4

[skipepsi]

G'night Y'awl.

[BR60103]

Today was house cleaning and wash day (morning). However, we were told that we could register for our jabs. So Dayle spent 1 hour and 49 minutes on the phone checking/registering -- most of it on hold. I was on for the last few minutes. She was doing all the cleaning one-handed.  We still have not received anything deinite, but the clinic is across the street in the university so we plan to go over there tomorrow to try to talk to someone.

 

One of our neighbours has been on stage with W. Shatner in the first season of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival. Our friend after that summer went back to school and became an English professor.

 

[J. S. Bach]

5 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Sorry. I should have said "actor" AND "recording artist", William Shatner.   I trust that Canadians cringe every time they hear one of his recordings.

I cringe when I hear one of his (or Nemoy's) recordings!

[J. S. Bach]

3 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Here it is.

 

This is the shortened version.

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[monkeysarefun]

So after one last huge downpour that put another cm of water through my downstairs hobby room I'd just finished pumping out from yesterday, the last of the rain has left the state and is off to New Zealand. 

 

On the plus side of it all, many mice are presumed drowned and I have a water view, which is every Sydneysiders goal in life.

[pH]

2 hours ago, BR60103 said:

One of our neighbours has been on stage with W. Shatner in the first season of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival. Our friend after that summer went back to school and became an English professor.

 

 

Couldn't compete?

[chrisf]

Greetings one and all

 

Today, as we shall soon be sick of hearing, is the first anniversary of the Covid lockdown.  So many of us have lost people that we knew and loved.  So many of us have lost the way of life that we knew and have adjusted to a different one with varying degrees of difficulty and success.  Remarkably, so many of us are still here, looking ahead with much apprehension – more than a touch of fear of the unknown, I feel.  Fingers crossed we will still be here next year in some shape or form.

 

Last evening I spent much longer than expected reminiscing with the emeritus professor.  Among other things we helped each other recall names of notables in our past.  There is much more to do when circumstances permit.  A brief encounter, mask to mask, has been pencilled in for later in the year.  Best of all, the technology held up.   Earlier in the day I booked a two week holiday in Morocco for much later in the year - November, since you ask.  It is not my plan but that of my favourite travel company.  It includes a return flight with Easyjet which would not have been my first choice. 

 

Lurker, many thanks for the good wishes concerning the sleeping car.  As it happens, the departure times from Paris and Nice are given in the latest issue of Modern Railways.  I am now looking to visit the Cote d’Azur in mid 2022 but in these troubled times many plans for holidays can only be aspirations.  So much can go wrong between now and then. 

 

Best wishes to all

 

Chris

[TheQ]

Mooring Awl, Inner Temple Hare, 621/389

A much better night sleep 7 hours with just two wake up and turn overs..

 

Yesterday mid Morning the pain from the strains of keel shift got to much for me, so I took some little pink pills,,  Much better after that, but staying awake was a problem...

This morning I'm just left with pain from left elbow and tendons in lower arm, changing gear into 1,3 and 5 was somewhat painful.

 

Just when you think you're safe from changes, something else came to my attention.. Namely fish tail Rudders. No not side view, rudder shape but looking down directly from above.. Think an aircraft wing with two permanent sets of fixed solid flaps both sides of the wing... it turns out there are many thousands of boats with them.. They are a disaster for straight ahead movement as far as drag is concerned.. But make for a highly manouverable slow speed boat, such as a tug..

 

This lead to another article by a highly respected yacht designer/ naval architect, called David Vascanti. That showed that a rudder shape which is slightly concave between maximum width and the trailing edge, gives a much greater lift for a small amount of extra drag.. The rudder recovers from shifts in position much quicker too... Now I river sail, tacking and tacking well is what it's all about. On the 3 Rivers Race there is a section of the course where if the wind is northerly you can tack every thirty  seconds to a minute or two, for 5 hours!! Even on our round the buoys racing half the race of an hour will be tacking every minute..

So the plan for the rudder is undecided again while I look at what It's possible for me to build and make work...

 

SWMBO and myself spent a year on Ding dinners, we took one look at the cooking facilities , in the shared house between leaving the RAF and buying our own, and thought... No.. So we went out and bought a microwave with grill.. We got quite good at producing meals without resorting to chemical infused pre-prepared  meals..

 

Time I went down to the lab there's an equipment waiting for me on something semi Automatic..

 

[jamie92208]

Good moaning, sunny but 1 degree here.  Much chicken run completed yesterday. The framework even got Beth's approval as she felt up to a short walk round the garden in the afternoon sun.

 

Today I'm off for a haircut in about 20 minutes, then the supermarket.  However  this afternoon  it's trainspotting time. Yippee. Assistant nurse Ratchet has been granted a pass out.

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie