Early Risers.

[PupCam]

5 minutes ago, polybear said:

Worth bearing in mind if you are unlucky enough to catch the dreaded lurgy:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56717486

That's good news BUT presupposes that you could get anywhere near a GP or even a telephone appointment to get it prescribed in the first instance.

    

If Pupper's recent experience is anything to go by that might be a big ask!

[Gwiwer]

3 hours ago, polybear said:

Just what is this desperation for a Pub + booze?  Bear confused.

And where is the antisocial distancing, pray, when folk gather in droves (provided the drove is no more than two households  ) sink ales as fast as they can be served and then depart arm-in-arm doing something they call "singing" but which often turns out to be a raucous noise prior to arguing, vomiting and / or falling over?  

 

3 hours ago, polybear said:

Wot no Chips??

My thoughts exactly.  However salad was requested tonight.  I need a rabbit on stand-by.  

 

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Primark

My friend who is employed at their Thanet store had today off as rostered.  She reports her colleagues noted a queue over a half-mile long at 7am.  

 

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IKEA

The store allegedly responsible for more divorces than any other  It seems that the female half of our society can cope with the weird notion that everyone wishes to spend the day shuffling through a pre-determined route through the entire store when what is required is already known and only needs to be collected from the "Collection Point".  And how, pray, does one return to something seen earlier on the off-chance that it might actually be required after all?  Is a second lap of the store required?   H0m0 sapiens (jokingly the "wise man") stays at home and orders online

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Because the profanity filter objects to the correct nomenclature for a human

[simontaylor484]

Re primark i believe they were opening till 10pm 

 

Personally i find the stuff is rubbish the t shirts dont wash right and the leggings we used to see women wearing on our round at work. You could always tell they were primark because you could see their knickers through them. Sadly in most cases it was not the nicest view.

[tigerburnie]

Evening all, nice day today, so another drive up to the Glens of Angus, Glen Clova then on into Glen Doll, the car park was rammed with cars, so we just turned around and made our way back watching all the wildlife. Not much snow now with temperature of 7 degrees, large group of Red Deer had come down off the hills to feed on the lower meadows, it's been a tough winter up there, we found 3 dead deer on the hill sides. Still no sign of any spring migrant birds up there yet, though a few coastal birds have moved onto the breeding fields. Nice to be able to go up there, the air is so different somehow.

[Coombe Barton]

... and something worked ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/long-queues-but/

[pH]

26 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

It seems that the female half of our society can cope with the weird notion that everyone wishes to spend the day shuffling through a pre-determined route through the entire store when what is required is already known and only needs to be collected from the "Collection Point".  

Go often enough to the same store and you get to know the hidden shortcuts. (They are there!)

[polybear]

29 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

@polybear Nbc report from you tube

 

 

 

He really, really doesn't do himself any favours.  Smart enough to turn the dashcam around to film the proceedings I note....

 

28 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

My friend who is employed at their Thanet store had today off as rostered.  She reports her colleagues noted a queue over a half-mile long at 7am.  

 

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. I have never been inside an IKEA store AFAIK but they keep sending me catalogues which usually remain in their plastic bags until they go into the recycling. I have never bought anything from them either. Time to put the kettle on.

[Erichill16]

4 hours ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

"What Barnsley needs is some better shops like Primark" At least her wish came true. God only knows what the shops there must have been like at the time.

We certainly do need some better shops, a WHSmiths would be a start.

 

[PhilJ W]

Primark stuff was/is terrible. The shirts were so misshapen after only a few washes that they were impossible to iron. 

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

Thoughts for Gordon S and a full recovery.

Committee meeting of the local wheel tappers and shunters club at the new premises. Work is progressing slowly but when we get the paperwork sorted things can start moving faster. Small amount of shed time and a couple of films. 
Interesting report highlighted by Polybear, its a very common product, let’s hope it doesn’t go short. 
Anyway, Goodnight,

Robert

[PeterBB]

7 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

As far as I know maintenance  is not a valid reason, only, buying, renting or letting. Several of our friends are trying to find ways to get round the regs.  

 

Jamie

Pay you instead?

 

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[TheSignalEngineer]

1 hour ago, Gwiwer said:

And how, pray, does one return to something seen earlier on the off-chance that it might actually be required after all?  Is a second lap of the store required?

We used to refer to the Manchester store as the Ashton under Lyne 10Km Walk. Probably designed by the Department of Health to help counter obesity.

A careful study of where the hidden shortcuts were meant I could get to any department in two minutes from the car park. Then on each of the upper floors behind a set of double doors was a lift which takes you direct to the warehouse section near to the checkouts.

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

The weather has been glorious, sunshine all day, but the temperature didn’t get above 9C. 

 

All the pegging and shuttering has been done for the wheelbarrow run and the tench prepared for gravel and sand that will form the sub base for the paving. The next stage is to get the sand and gravel in the trench so it can be levelled and a start can be made laying the pavers on a bed of mortar. However, in the meantime, I’ve put a few large pieces of old paving in the bottom of the trench, to act as stepping stones, thus preventing muddy footprints being spread about the patio and not to mention the house! Further work will probably get started towards the end of the week, but probably more like next week, as I need more pavers. I have some pavers left over from when I relaid the patio, but I do need to get just over a hundred more for the path. I’d finished this work before dinner, so I cleaned off all my tools and put them away before locking up and heading in for dinner. After dinner I made a start on preparing putting away various tins of paint etc, prior to pulling the ceiling down. Tomorrow I’ll carry on painting the brace of dining chairs that I started working a couple of weeks ago, as I want to get them finished before I continue the path. 

 

This evening I completed the Sainsbury’s Grand Prix, it seemed quieter than normal, but the streets were busier, perhaps everyone had gone to the pub!

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[The Stationmaster]

5 hours ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

Makes a change from queueing to get out at closing time.

They had that problem when they opened a large branch just outside Reading - easy enough-ish to get out of the shop but it was then taking people well over an hour to drive out of the car park.

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all

[monkeysarefun]

5 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

yet policing seems to have a different set of perceptions.

 

Maybe they need to tweak their recruitment ads.

 

I've always been a  fan of the whacky  New Zealand police recruitment ads. Looks like a life of great fun, makes even me want to join up (Which I can apparently  as an  Australian citizen...)

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 13, 2021 by monkeysarefun

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[Ozexpatriate]

24 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

I've always been a  fan of the whacky  New Zealand police recruitment ads.

Are these on television, or just online?

 

Air New Zealand always has the best pre-flight safety videos. I'm a bit biased but really liked the Middle Earth ones.

 

I laughed at one of the fence jumping scenes. My cousin's husband is a police officer in Australia, currently in the retirement glide path. According to my cousin, his trousers always wore out in the same spot - the point on his backside where he would slide over a fence, rather than vaulting it.

[monkeysarefun]

12 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Are these on television, or just online?

 

 

I'm not sure, but I assume those ads would be a bit jarring during  typical New Zealand TV programmes....

 

 

[Ozexpatriate]

8 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

... typical New Zealand TV programmes

The contribution of sheepdog herding to the NZ cultural scene cannot be underestimated.

 

"Footrot Flats" was regularly published in the newspaper, 'back in the day'. I note that the cartoonist is no longer with us.

 

It may not surprise you to know that there are corporate gigs where corporate townie types are put in a paddock with the sheep, only to be shown up by the dog - to the amusement of their colleagues.

[monkeysarefun]

10 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

I thought that you already did if various things I heard when working in Sydney were to be believed.  I got a strong impression that Tasmania (and Tassies) was to Sydneysiders as the Forest of Dean is to folk brought up in Gloucester  

 

 

As  a Sydneysider who has actually spent more time in Tassie than in  any other state except this one  I don't make the usual "She may not be  my wife any more  but we'll always stay cousins" jokes about the  place! 

 

 For such a small (by Australian standards) island it has a truly  amazing variety.  In fact if I was more entrepreneurial  I'd set up a specialised travel business for all those here finding Australia too confining after being locked up on our island for the last year or so and who wish to see other parts of the planet.

 

Tasmania's  huge variety when it comes to scenery makes it capable of standing in for these various  other parts of the world. My travel agency would enable  the wannabe traveller to get the impression of world travel without breaking our international travel bans, I'd just choose the bit of Tasmania that most resembles the potential travellers desired destination and send them there. 

 

For instance - For anyone wanting to see Englands Emily Bronte country with its gentle hills and Georgian buildings of golden stone , Monkeysarefun Travel has just the destination - the midlands area of Tasmania:

 

Or maybe your taste runs more to the wild frontiers, such as North Canadas Klondike region with its snow  covered mountains and mining towns. Let Monkeyarefun travel send you off to Queenstown on the west coast. A rugged mining town atmosphere but you don't have to drive on the wrong side of the road to get there:

 

Or do you hanker  to experience those European rack and pinion railways, climbing peaks and skirting heart-stopping chasms?

 

No problem for Monkeyarefun travel and the Tasmanian Wilderness Railway:

 

Or maybe the backblocks of the US southern states are calling to you , Deliverance country where banjos are plucked and pigs are scared?

 

 No worries mates - thats the rest of Tasmania!

 

Hmmm, maybe I DO make the usual jokes about the place, I guess I can't help it - that last bit  just came so naturally...

 

 

 

Edited April 13, 2021 by monkeysarefun