Early Risers.

[polybear]

Bear has just returned from the Loft.....

Bl00dy Hell, it's a good job that everything possible was covered with dust sheets; the mess isn't the roofers fault - it's to be expected as the nature of the job.   If they weren't such a pain to use I would've covered the dust sheets with those cheapo plastic drop-sheets sold by the likes of Poundland in order to keep the dust sheets clean; however even in perfect circumstances I find those sheets rip if you so much as look at them, and unfolding and positioning them in a loft full of cr@p would be nigh on impossible.  So I'll wait a few days for the dust to finish settling then have to fold each dust sheet in on itself very carefully and stuff them into numerous dustbin liners in order to get them out of the house for shaking (with the help of buddy next door).  I'm hoping that will be sufficient and that they come clean without washing, but since 2/3rds of them were borrowed from buddy then that decision may well be out of my paws....

[Compound2632]

3 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

I'm not big on road traffic stuff as we only really dealt with speeders and no insurance type things in youth justice (you can drive at 16 here) they didn't seem to get done for parking offences, but our Highway Code is much the same as the UK version, so the quotes from our Compounded friend apply equally - but the Highway Code isn't law, just (strong) advice.

 

The Introduction to the Highway Code states:

 

"Many of the rules in the Code are legal requirements, and if you disobey these rules you are committing a criminal offence. You may be fined, given penalty points on your licence or be disqualified from driving. In the most serious cases you may be sent to prison. Such rules are identified by the use of the words ‘MUST/MUST NOT’. "

 

So, in the Rules I cited, parking on the pavement is illegal in London and disapproved of elsewhere; parking against the direction of flow is illegal at night and discouraged by day.

[PhilJ W]

I know of someone who accidently hit a car parked on a double yellow line. He reported it to his insurers and the other driver tried to make a claim but it was turned down because the car was illegally parked. Apparently this is in case law that though the driver who hit the car is deemed at fault it was deemed by the insurers that the accident wouldn't have happened if the car wasn't illegally parked.

[Ozexpatriate]

The weekend weather forecast through Monday continues to be for temperatures in the 39°C range - over the century mark in Fahrenheit. Sunday is expected to see (all time) record temperatures which may be in the range of 44°C - 46°C.

 

Hopefully my electrical and air conditioning infrastructure will be up to the task. I don't plan to spend much time out of doors.

[Coombe Barton]

... and apart from Matt Hancock's bum steer ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2021/06/25/and-six-months-today-is/

[brianusa]

7 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

* Many Cornish folk object to Cornwall being included as part of England, myself included.  This is not the place to score political points.  Other opinions are available.

Being half Cornish and as much as I would like to agree with this subject, like it or not Cornwall is most certainly a part of England, notwithstanding the  presence of the Tamar.  It does not provide a demarcation line as much as we would like to think it is but it does provide a suitable barrier to invasion from either side!  It has been this way for countless eons and in spite of Kernow and its klansmen will remain so as Mr. Trelawney nearly found out the hard way.

    Brian

[leopardml2341]

1 hour ago, simontaylor484 said:

 

  One thing I have noticed about the modern bus is the overhang over the front axle of the bus presumably to allow the step to be lowered to make the bus accessible. The problem is buses cannot get round corners without taking the whole road.

 

Agreed, and even the not so modern. The bus in which I learned to drive (Western SMT ML2341 as it happens) has a reasonably long front overhang, as did most of the ones I subsequently drove in service.

 

The first time I drove a (preserved) half-cab bus, with very little in the way of front overhang, I positioned the vehicle to make a right turn as I would for all the previously driven vehicles and promptly 'kerbed' the front nearside wheel; only did it the once mind.

 

[brianusa]

15 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

The weekend weather forecast through Monday continues to be for temperatures in the 39°C range - over the century mark in Fahrenheit. Sunday is expected to see (all time) record temperatures which may be in the range of 44°C - 46°C.

 

Hopefully my electrical and air conditioning infrastructure will be up to the task. I don't plan to spend much time out of doors.

Mike, in old fashioned terms for the us in the US, highs around 104F are forecast as well as for the next few days as well.  Hopefully the A/C will hold up as we hope ours will also and that the power company can cope.

     Brian.

[Ozexpatriate]

2 minutes ago, brianusa said:

... around 104F are forecast as well as for the next few days as well

Yes, both the Portland and Puget Sound areas are forecast to record their highest ever temperatures.

 

There is plenty of water behind the hydroelectric dams on the Columbia so hopefully there will be sufficient electricity.

 

My son does not have air conditioning*. He borrowed some fans yesterday. Of course I offered to have him stay here if it got too hot, but I think he might try to macho it out.

 

* Not at all unusual in the Pacific Northwest.

[brianusa]

1 minute ago, Ozexpatriate said:

 

* Not at all unusual in the Pacific Northwest.

But that was usually an excuse if you didn't have A/C!

   Brian

[pH]

1 hour ago, simontaylor484 said:

One thing I have noticed about the modern bus is the overhang over the front axle of the bus presumably to allow the step to be lowered to make the bus accessible. The problem is buses cannot get round corners without taking the whole road.

 

 

5 minutes ago, leopardml2341 said:

Agreed, and even the not so modern. The bus in which I learned to drive (Western SMT ML2341 as it happens) has a reasonably long front overhang, as did most of the ones I subsequently drove in service.

 

I knew someone who was charged as being at fault when he clipped the front of a bus coming the other way on a corner in the Highlands. He swore the front overhang on the bus swung over the centre line and that he was completely on his side of the road.

 

There was a trial, and the bus driver, by then retired, was a witness. A picture was shown as evidence, with a bus on that corner, completely on its own side of the road. The driver agreed that it showed no part of the bus over the line, then said “But that’s not the type of bus I was driving that day. Those buses were taken off that route because they overhung too far on corners.” Case immediately dismissed.

 

Jim said he didn’t care how it looked - he took the driver straight to the pub across the road from the court and bought him a drink.

[Ozexpatriate]

17 minutes ago, brianusa said:

... that was usually an excuse if you didn't have A/C!

After our first summer in Portland (having moved from Chicago) my wife decreed that we install air conditioning. The house faced southwest* (as does my current home) and it made an enormous difference.

 

* The metal sheathed front door had a semicircular light (window) with a plasticky/vinyl trim. The trim and glue eventually warped/melted in he heat.

 

Edited June 25, 2021 by Ozexpatriate

[pH]

22 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

There is plenty of water behind the hydroelectric dams on the Columbia so hopefully there will be sufficient electricity.

Ah, but is the transmission system up to it?

 

The Lower Mainland of BC is also expecting record temperatures through till Tuesday at least. We don’t have AC - we’ll be retreating to the basement. Large parts of the province are also possibly going to be breaking records - apparently we are under a phenomenon known as a ‘heat dome’.

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Its persisting down at the moment with hail in the mix as well. No thunder or lightening, yet. Time to put the kettle on, be back later.

[The White Rabbit]

1 hour ago, JohnDMJ said:

... So the UK (currently) comprises 5 distinct regions: Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, The Isle of Wight* and England! ...

 

I make that six...

 

Those hailing from Romney Marsh regard that as the fifth quarter of the globe. (Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia being the less important ones). Quite how that is reconciled into UK (or British) regions is another matter. 

 

Others may know more but I thought the UK's 'regions' were a device the EU formulated. If we're not in that club any more, then do their eight English 'regions' exist any longer? I can see a case for the UK being comprised of nations (in which case I'd count Cornwall in) and counties ('independence' for both Cornwall & IoW) and member countries (potentially much trickier and more controversial depending on your point of view - some would argue for recognition for (amongst others) Wessex, Northumbria or Powys). Regions always struck me as being rather artificial. Unless of course they are defined by the areas covered by the Big Four? 

 

As a penance for mentioning certain things (once and which I haven't got away with) I shall now retire to bed without any supper... normal service resumed tomorrow...

[Gwiwer]

Cornwall as a part of the UK - yes 

Cornwall as a part of England - no. 
 

As per my earlier post other opinions are available.  However we do, in common with the Scots, Irish, Welsh, Manx and (arguably) the Cumbrian have our own language which is commonly understood and spoken daily by some of us. 
 

 

[Barry O]

Depends on where you live. Yorkshire folk think England is part of Yorkshire.

 

With its own Prince Bishop Durham has aways seen the rest of England as an "Annex".

 

Of course as King Arthur had his round table in Northumbria one starts to wonder wether England contains any county and how it stays as a country.. could it be something to do with money???

 

Baz

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

Had a busy day again today and haven’t kept up, you lot seem to have spent the whole day posting on here.

A day of surprises here.

Took Sydney for a walk and ended up getting the train in Penistone and went to Huddersfield for the afternoon. As it was cold and we had Sydney we went into the pub at the station, The Head of Steam for a swift one. None of this was planned so made a change. Even completed some paperwork when I got home.

Im hoping the weather is going to be a bit better for Donington Park on Sunday.

Anyway Goodnight,

Robert

 

[New Haven Neil]

2 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

The Introduction to the Highway Code states:

 

"Many of the rules in the Code are legal requirements, and if you disobey these rules you are committing a criminal offence. You may be fined, given penalty points on your licence or be disqualified from driving. In the most serious cases you may be sent to prison. Such rules are identified by the use of the words ‘MUST/MUST NOT’. "

 

So, in the Rules I cited, parking on the pavement is illegal in London and disapproved of elsewhere; parking against the direction of flow is illegal at night and discouraged by day.

 

The Highway Code is not law.  It may refer to the law, but the actual law is the relevant parts of the Road Traffic Act etc.  It is perhaps best described as a guide to the law.  

[Compound2632]

8 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

The Highway Code is not law.  It may refer to the law, but the actual law is the relevant parts of the Road Traffic Act etc.  It is perhaps best described as a guide to the law.  

 

Indeed. But it is clear that when it uses MUST or MUST NOT, it is stating the law. Quibbling over this point won't get you off if you're caught parking on the pavement in London!

[Gwiwer]

2 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Indeed. But it is clear that when it uses MUST or MUST NOT, it is stating the law. Quibbling over this point won't get you off if you're caught parking on the pavement in London!

Except where the bays are marked and you are required to park across the pavement. In default of which you might in fact be parked unlawfully for being outside (or partially outside) the marked bay and potentially obstructing the carriageway. 

[PupCam]

2 hours ago, JohnDMJ said:

......... to a former brewery in Horndean, Hampshire;

 

Ah, Gales!       What a fine pint HSB was!

 

Not having driven through Horndean for 20+ years I hadn't realised (until I looked it up) that that fine brewery closed in 2006.    

I see they were taken over by Fullers and that HSB is apparently still available.   I bet it's not the same .....

[TheQ]

It's just closed rmweb while I was looking at the screen thinking of the next line to insult you all with.

And lost the text.

 

The most common place to find cars parked on the pavement? Out side the North Norwich police station, now they all seem to have their own individual cop car to drive, there's not enough parking for their own cars so they're all half parked on the pavement.

 

Districts that are separate?

The Norwegian Orkneys and Shetlands.

The Gaidhlig Highlands,

The viking lords of the isles would say the Hebrides,

Northumbria of course includes the east of Scotland up to and including Edinburgh, thats part of the reason the Scots speak English.

Cumbria which included much of south west Scotland.

And as for you Wessex folk you can keep out of the Danelaw...

Me I'm a foreigner every where and a local...

 

Just back from the MRC, a whole two of us out of the six person bubble, one is off playing with kettles , in some part of wales he normally brings another with him. One has left due to ill health, and one just didn't turn up..

After a difficult start with recalcitrant woodwork, once that was sorted I did a reasonable amount of muddling..

 

Now partaking of some liquid that travelled through many of the aforesaid regions, to get to me..

 

Time to sleep said Zebedee.. goodnight Awl.

[Winslow Boy]

5 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

Better than using a plastic waste bin with cigarette burn holes in it. All the diced carrot got caught.

 

Jamie

 

I'm assuming that's something from personal experience Jamie?

[JohnDMJ]

Mixed responses.

 

1 hour ago, The White Rabbit said:

 

I make that six...

 

Those hailing from Romney Marsh regard that as the fifth quarter of the globe. (Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia being the less important ones). Quite how that is reconciled into UK (or British) regions is another matter. 

 

Others may know more but I thought the UK's 'regions' were a device the EU formulated. If we're not in that club any more, then do their eight English 'regions' exist any longer? I can see a case for the UK being comprised of nations (in which case I'd count Cornwall in) and counties ('independence' for both Cornwall & IoW) and member countries (potentially much trickier and more controversial depending on your point of view - some would argue for recognition for (amongst others) Wessex, Northumbria or Powys). Regions always struck me as being rather artificial. Unless of course they are defined by the areas covered by the Big Four?

 

I agree that I added IoW after stating '5'. As an Engineer, one day I may learn to count*!

 

24 minutes ago, PupCam said:

 

Ah, Gales!       What a fine pint HSB was!

 

Not having driven through Horndean for 20+ years I hadn't realised (until I looked it up) that that fine brewery closed in 2006.    

I see they were taken over by Fullers and that HSB is apparently still available.   I bet it's not the same .....

 

The water used to make the brew was, I believe, the major factor; Chiswick being a tad remote from Horndean, much adjustment to the brew was necessary to try and retain the flavour!

 

* Counting (especially as company stock take is looming!), doesn't that comprise 1, 2, many? (Will be interesting to see who gets the double entendre therein!)

 

Edited June 25, 2021 by JohnDMJ