Early Risers.

[Andrew P]

Its another damp morning, but the thought of all the GOODIES still lurking in the kitchen, and the Ocardo delivery about 09-30 should set the tone for the day. The Fridge is already full, BUT I have been instructed not to interfere, as the Good Lady says she will sort it.

 

Today will be a mix of doing stuff in the POD, and not doing stuff in the POD, so onward and upward, and off to the wash room I must go.

 

Have a good day one and all, stay safe and keep well.

[polybear]

6 hours ago, Erichill16 said:

Evening All,

Bit of the g word today and then the big event.

I think some young English lads aren’t going to sleep well tonight.

Work tomorrow so goodnight,

Robert

 

It seems that sh1t has been directed in their general directions already.    No surprises there, then.  Hopefully it'll not affect them overly, or for too long.  It's a game FFS.

 

In other news:

Bear hopes to finish sorting and finding homes for the remaining bits to go in the kitchen cupboards & drawers; I also have fifteen handles to fit, so that should keep me busy for a few hours.  I also need to check which of my saucepans are compatible with the new induction hob - and then ensure their bases aren't significantly marked from being used on the old cooker as this may lead to scratches on the new hob. 

I also have several pieces of old laminate worktop that may be of use to someone, so they'll appear on Freecycle (now Freegle) shortly.  Failing that they'll be off to the dump - Bear has offered to help buddy next door "do" the brakes on their Honda CRV on Wednedsay; the rear calipers sound a bit "graunchy" apparently, but the pads are fine - so they'll be cleaned, inspected and lubed (copper brake grease) and the system bled with new fluid for good measure.  I'm kinda hoping that a subsequent test via the local dump might be arranged.  It's been a few years (4+) since Bear has been grovelling under a car doing brakes, so I'm expecting pain will be involved.....

[Mike Bellamy]

5 minutes ago, polybear said:

ensure their bases aren't significantly marked from being used on the old cooker as this may lead to scratches on the new hob. 

 

Lakeland have what you need - an Induction Hob Protector which comes recommended by the boss of the kitchen - I keep well out of her way when she's in cooking and baking mode !  Only problem we have with it is that the cat likes to sleep on top of the hob so the protector gets covered in cat hair - but it's washable so gets cleaned regularly.

 

Click Here for Link to Lakeland Hob Protector

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[leopardml2341]

Mornin' all.

 

Today is Monday and it seems to be the worst Monday of all.  (nothing to do with match results btw)

 Nonetheless, stay safe, sane and well folks.

[Dave Hunt]

Back from house and animal sitting for our friends and at the threshold of another week with its crop of things to be done, problems to be solved, niffnaff and trivia to be dealt with but at least blessedly free from tennis and football so it can't be all bad. Have a good one everybody.

 

Dave

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Only one subject on the news this morning, its only a game FFS. Still didn't stop the idiots with the fireworks after midnight but the rain did. Speaking of which it was very damp this morning, paused at the moment but more promised for the rest of the day.

[iL Dottore]

Morning All,

 

At least the footie is finally over! I hadn’t intended watching it, but in the absence of anything else it went on (for some reason, yesterday’s Euro TV offerings were football, football, football, antique cooking programmes and boring). At least in the home cinema with the large (2m diagonal) screen you don’t end up squinting at 4mm scale sized players. Although I watched the match for the first 90 minutes of playing, I couldn’t be a***d to stay up for the extra time and penalty shootout.

 

More exciting was the sumo from Nagoya. As much as I admire the current Yokozuna Hakuhō, my favourite is the Georgian Tochinoshin, but he recently (since about 2019) has been plagued by a knee injury. I find sumo to be a very engrossing spectator sport, especially once you learn the traditions behind it. And although there are amateur sumo wrestling organisations, I think the various incredibly high demands Sumo wrestlers place upon their bodies precludes many from taking up the sport (the weight gain, the incredibly demanding and regimented training and the repeated high velocity large-mass impacts result in numerous musculoskeletal injuries, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. This is amply demonstrated by the fact that whilst the average lifespan of a Japanese male is in the mid 80s, Sumo wrestlers have a life expectancy of the mid 60s).

 

Three days off await me this week (well 2.5 to be pedantic). Mrs iD and the Wolfpack are off to the Holiday Hovel for 10 days and after completing an online review and a short teleconference, I will not be at my desk again until Thursday morning. I’m not sure what I’ll be doing, probably nothing - just charging up the batteries.

 

And on that work-shy note I bid you a great start to the week.

 

iD

Edited July 12, 2021 by iL Dottore

[Barry O]

Been chuckinitdarn since we got back home last night. This will mean.. no cricket.. pah!

 

Very quiet walk home.. even those who had been in the pubs with large acreens were quiet.

 

The pub we visited is a new wetherspoons. Her indoors was interested to see what they had done to an old workplace (It was the music department building for the Leeds Girls Grammar School.

 

The changes have been made with a minimum of destruction to the building.

 

We have to return sometime to check it out during the day..

 

With little prospect of cricket, no proapect of car cleaning or cutting grass I may be getting a day to do some other indoor work..like reading a new lease for the MRS CIO.

 

Stay safe!

 

Baz

[jonny777]

Dull, damp and misty here in North Somerset. Probably quite fitting given the activities of Sunday evening. 

 

I watched 2 hours of rather tedious football where (as far as I can remember) not a single shot on target was produced by an England striker. At the thought of the game going to penalties I switched off the telly and went to bed. 

 

However, I guessed that things had not gone well by the general silence from outside while I lay there and drifted off. I'm afraid that most England footballers will never win a penalty shot out because of the extreme pressure put on them by the media in the weeks before the game. They can probably score in training every time, because the pressure is off; but wall to wall media nonsense is not conducive to keeping one's nerve. 

 

On the night, the best team won - so congratulations to Italy. 

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

Well, after I had watered the garden last night , guess what happened? Yes, it rained, still, that means that it will not need doing this morning.

 

 Sheila is back at her Zumba class this morning and is determined to walk there, so I am keeping out of the way, but I am also ready should I be needed to act as chauffeur! After that, I shall return to my task of adding shelving to the underfloor storage area. I can then start to transfer items from the cellar to these shelves, there are still 2 shelving units still in the cellar and once they have been cleared, they can then be transferred to the shed, which will enable the workshop to be cleared. It will not all get done today so I am in for a fun packed week. 

 

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

 

Brian

[TheSignalEngineer]

37 minutes ago, Barry O said:

Her indoors was interested to see what they had done to an old workplace (It was the music department building for the Leeds Girls Grammar School.

My old workplaces have suffered various fates. I think three are still in railway use and two others are still office blocks. Two are apartments and at least two demolished. One is under a scrapyard and the other is the site of a supermarket car park.

We had an interesting experience on our last visit to Birmingham when we sat drinking coffee on the spot in a former banking hall where Mrs SE had her desk when working as a personal banker.

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

Dull, damp and dismal start but as I type I can see one tiny hint of blue through the clouds.  Heavy thundery showers with the risk of hail are forecast along with the odd brighter spell.

Apart from one large cheer early in the evening I heard nothing more and it was very peaceful in the Land of Sutt local to GDB Towers.  I watched a couple of recorded programmes whilst The Boss played games on her iPad.

Reading some news reports it seems that the morons started behaving as usual before, during and after the match which rather reinforces my decision never to watch football.

Not sure whether we'll risk a walk between the pauses in the showers (if there are any) so that leaves me free, I think, (I haven't been "asked" to do anything else) to visit The Shed.  

Have a good one,
Bob.

[TheQ]

Mooring Awl, Inner Temple hare,

A very poor night's lack of sleep, semi dozing till after midnight, then 4 hours ish sleep  and that was it.. Too hot, it was sunny yesterday afternoon and too many aches and pains..

 

Ben the I'm not happy Collie had to be comforted to go out, received more cuddles while out there and still returned to the house early..

 

 For some reason the brakes stuck on, just for a second,  I suspect the high humidity is causing rapid rusting.

 

Dark car bodies? try a Dark blue hulled sailing boat, forever showing up scum lines and splashes, those guys on Britannia must have been forever polishing..

As it is I don't bother cleaning the outside of the car, it gets a clean once a year at it's MOT and service and that's it. Being surrounded by muddy clay fields the car will be covered in mud within hours..

 

Paws stiff and sore after yesterday's work, they and the weather radar indicate imminent rain..  Alcohol sanitisers in the cuts don't help either.

 

 I'm not being given todays system today, so I'm doing the current shunts from Wednesdays planned system.

 

Still planning the steering gear for Blue Moon, in't brain.. Looking for anything I may have not thought of before..

Decided to paint the hatch tops, and a few bits of trim bright white. That should emphasise  the very light blue hull. This will require a visit to a marine shop this week.. What price? luckily 705ml is all that will be required..

 

Time to start the 3rd shunt since I started typing this..

[Winslow Boy]

2 hours ago, polybear said:

I'm kinda hoping that a subsequent test via the local dump might be arranged.  It's been a few years (4+) since Bear has been grovelling under a car doing brakes, so I'm expecting pain will be involved.....

Hmm not certain there PB don't think they would accept you. Not much market for 'used' Bears.

[PhilJ W]

The rain has stopped and there's now a strange shining object in the sky. My first job (1964) was working in a Victorian building that was demolished about ten years later and replaced by a glass and concrete edifice that in turn has now been demolished and replaced by a skyscraper. The original buildings address had some notoriety as it (Mitre Square) had been the site where Jack the Ripper had murdered Katherine Eddows. The square has been obliterated in the latest rebuilding.

[PhilJ W]

3 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

Hmm not certain there PB don't think they would accept you. Not much market for 'Self-Abused' Bears.

Corrected.

Edited July 12, 2021 by PhilJ W

[Winslow Boy]

4 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

Corrected.

 

I was being 'kind'. No use in kicking a Bear when he's down.

[Tony_S]

Morning. 
I think all the places I have worked at still exist and are in use for their original purpose. The first two factories where my mother worked were both bombed. I think her next job working in a shop involved less risk of destruction. 
Tony

[jamie92208]

4 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

I was being 'kind'. No use in kicking a Bear when he's down.

Why not, much more fun and probably safer.

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

I think a lot of my workplaces still exist but at least 5 of them have been demolished. 1 because of concrete cancer, 2 for housing and at least 1 as part of a PFI deal. Surprisingly the oldest one, Dewsbury Road in Leeds, is still in use as offices.

 

Jamie

Edited July 12, 2021 by jamie92208

[TheSignalEngineer]

Perhaps the yobs should try that (bear kicking) instead of following a windbag. A bear may be quite effective at dealing with them if riled.

Edited July 12, 2021 by TheSignalEngineer

[leopardml2341]

Job & site history*:

1st GEC Telecommunications Spon St Coventry - company gone. building gone

2nd BAe Warton - extant

3rd Metro Cammell Washwood Heath - company gone, building gone

4th Shorrock Security Systems Blackburn -  company gone, building rebuilt

5th Siemens Transport Systems Poole - extant

6th Shorrock Security Systems Blackburn -  company gone, building rebuilt

7th Bombardier Transportation Derby - company gone, building extant

8th Converteam Rugby - company gone, building extant

9th ESG Derby -  company gone, building extant

10th (and probably last) Siemens Mobility Derby - extant

 

* excludes some short term agency jobs when otherwise 'between' jobs 7&8

 

Edited July 12, 2021 by leopardml2341

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, leopardml2341 said:

Job & site history*:

1st GEC Telecommunications Spon St Coventry - company gone. building gone

2nd BAe Warton - extant

3rd Metro Cammell Washwood Heath - company gone, building extant

4th Shorrock Security Systems Blackburn -  company gone, building extant

5th Siemens Transport Systems Poole - extant

6th Shorrock Security Systems Blackburn -  company gone, building extant

7th Bombardier Transportation Derby - company gone, building extant

8th Converteam Rugby - company gone, building extant

9th ESG Derby -  company gone, building extant

10th (and probably last) Siemens Mobility Derby - extant

 

* excludes some short term agency jobs when otherwise 'between' jobs 7&8

 

I think that the Washwood Heath building may well gave gone. It's going to be the site of the big HS2 depot. At least still in railway use.

 

Jamie

Edited July 12, 2021 by jamie92208

[Tony_S]

25 minutes ago, leopardml2341 said:

1st GEC Telecommunications Spon St Coventry - company gone. building gone

My brother worked there. Allegedly it was the second highest fire risk site (whatever that meant)  in Coventry. One day there was an announcement that following a fire elsewhere they were now the top site. 

[leopardml2341]

16 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

I think that the Washwood Heat building may well gave gone. It's going go be the site of the big HS2 depot. At least still in railway use.

 

Jamie

Indeed it has:

 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Washwood+Heath,+Birmingham/@52.4990328,-1.8490389,567m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4870bad89bdd3425:0x9b2b9e9a726f4f7b!8m2!3d52.5004565!4d-1.8267882

 

Post duly edited.