Early Risers.

[leopardml2341]

It's too darn hot!

[leopardml2341]

Late and not caught up simply cos I can't be @rsed

 

I have taken next week off work and had hoped to make a start on repainting mi canal boat, looks like that won't happen because of the forecast temperatures. It's not often that one takes time off work and hopes for cool dry weather...... Timed it wrong again.

 

Tea time (as in mug of), stay safe, sane, well and above all hydrated folks.

Edited July 18, 2021 by leopardml2341

[leopardml2341]

18 hours ago, jonny777 said:

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But BST in the winter was tried in the late 1960s and rejected because it was too dark in the mornings.

I remember that we had yellow fire engines - apparently more visible than red in sodium street lighting. Those of a nervous disposition look awy now, for the link be to a m@del.

 

https://www.hattons.co.uk/95283/corgi_collectables_97360_aec_pump_escape_rotherham_fire_brigade/stockdetail.aspx

 

 

[Coombe Barton]

... with mutated lifeforms from the fridge and Karcher challenging IKEA on the instructions front ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2021/07/18/u-or-handbrake-turn/

[polybear]

Bear had a GDB moment today whilst accurately trimming the wallpaper to accommodate the wall tiles; not an easy job in many places because the trim line was very close to the underside of numerous wall units, meaning not much room for a Bear with big paws to control the (very sharp) scalpel fitted with a No. 10 blade (that's the vicious pointy one).  Anyway, the inevitable happened (and when I was close to finishing too, as normally happens) and I managed to stab my middle finger with the pointy end of the blade and with some force.  Fortunately the damage wasn't too severe as the tip of the blade was halted when it hit the bone.... - a rather fetching triangular battle scar results, with claret all over the fur.  Fortunately Bear has managed to fix it most professionally with a sheet of kitchen roll and some masking tape.  @iL Dottore would be proud....

 

I also managed to discover that there is a noticeable dip in one wall which will be taken care of by the Tiler in order to ensure the tiles remain parallel to the front edge of the Granite upstand along it's length.  It will however involve the sacrificing of some additional LDC vouchers

 

Breaking News:

Christian Horner "isn't happy"..... 

[simontaylor484]

Good Afternoon all 

 

 

Been in garden again though not done much due to being too hot. 

 

Somebody forgot to charge the batteries for the drill/driver last night

We managed to fit 3 boards before the batteries died. We did a few pottering type jobs including cutting reinforcement pieces for joists and notching out where needed to miss bolt heads.

 

 

[Erichill16]

11 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

 

. Emojis help return some of the nuances of the English language when used in social media  but, like adding salt to your meal, emojis are best use sparingly and in carefully selected places. 

Welcome aboard. 
 

iD

I can’t seem to use emojis on my iPad. I get an error message  saying ‘ the value entered includes a character that is not allowed such as an Emoji.’ Can anyone help?

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. The TV has been going into scan mode again. Up until the last few days its been behaving itself but as soon as the weather warms up it starts playing up. Fortunately I was able to get it working again this afternoon and was able to catch the last twenty minutes of the British GP, I won't give the result in case anyone is going to watch it later. Arthur Itis has been full of himself today and Nurofen has been deployed and is keeping him quiet for now. Tea has brewed so its be back later.

[polybear]

Bear's Sunday Funnies:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I saw a TV show in the Radio Times called "It's me or the dog"
You can imagine my disappointment when I tuned in at the appropriate time and it wasn't a game show about who had just farted.

 

A butcher is shooing a dog from his shop, he sees £20 and a note in his mouth, reading: "10 lamb chops, please." Amazed, he takes the money, puts a bag of chops in the dog's mouth, and quickly closes the shop. He follows the dog and watches him wait for a green light, look both ways, then trots across the road to a bus-stop.
The dog checks the timetable and sits on the bench. When a bus arrives, he walks around to the front and looks at the number, then boards the bus. The butcher follows, dumbstruck.
As the bus travels out into the suburbs, the dog takes in the scenery. After a while he stands on his back paws to push the "stop" bell, and then the butcher follows him off. The dog runs up to a house and drops his bag on the step.
He barks repeatedly. No answer.
He goes back down the path, takes a big run, and throws himself (Whap!) against the door. He does this again and again. No answer. So he jumps on a wall, walks around the garden, barks repeatedly at a window, jumps off, and waits at the front door.
Eventually a small guy opens it and starts cursing and shouting at the dog. The butcher runs up and screams at the guy: "What the hell are you doing? This dog's a genius!
The owner responds, "Genius, my arse. This is the second time this week he's forgotten his key!"

 

And here's a few that are relevant to recent threads (or fellow ER interests):

 

 

 

The graduate in Chemical Engineering builds explosives.
The graduate in Electrical Engineering builds guidance systems.
The graduate in Aeronautical Engineering builds delivery platforms.
The graduate in Mechanical Engineering builds weapons.
The graduate in Civil Engineering builds targets!!!!

 

 

[simontaylor484]

40 minutes ago, Erichill16 said:

I can’t seem to use emojis on my iPad. I get an error message  saying ‘ the value entered includes a character that is not allowed such as an Emoji.’ Can anyone help?

The emojis are at the top of the text entry box the ones on your phone/tablet/I pad.

There is a B an italic I an underline option then a smiley face thats the emoji button.

 

Hope this helps 

[Erichill16]

 

35 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

The emojis are at the top of the text entry box the ones on your phone/tablet/I pad.

There is a B an italic I an underline option then a smiley face thats the emoji button.

 

Hope this helps 

[iL Dottore]

7 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Morning all from Estuary-Land. The rating system has been a feature of RMweb from the beginning. ….

I didn’t know that Phil!

I was thinking about those little icons that appear at the bottom of the post and are placed by others. These, I believe, were put into place not that long ago, though I don’t know when (but I could be wrong). Certainly they weren’t present in older posts (I needed to look something up I had posted on RMWeb the other day so did a search and the older ones had no little icons associated with them).

 

I must be a very non-savvy social media user, if I am not chasing after “likes” and ratings on my preferred social media platform (RMWeb)

6 hours ago, JohnDMJ said:

….I will be most upset and extremely jealous if it be the Dragon model you have!..

Alas, no! Although for the past three decades I have been a very happy DINKY (Dual Income No Kids),  there were certain things that were put off limits by Captain Cynical’s CFO (Mrs iD), the Nakamichi Dragon was one of them…

3 hours ago, tigerburnie said:

Always surprises me how many people have no hobbies, I have had dozens over the years, some like flying a falcon ended when she passed away and I decided I was getting too old for chasing across fields after errant birds of prey. Fishing has always been my main hobby which began at the age of 4 when my Grand mother used to take me as my Grandad lacked the patience to teach a nipper. Trainspotting on the Great Central led to an interest in steam, which led to an interest in muddling. Always gardened, used to help my Dad from an early age and he made my first greenhouse, that wasn't tall enough to stand up in, but I loved it. Hill walking and mountain climbing began when I moved to Scotland and the wildlife photography has also gathered speed since living up here, though I have done photography for around 50 years. Wine, beer and cider making is another hobby I've had for over 50 years as well, no time to wonder what to do and boredom does not exist.

I am envious, my dear feline friend. Flying a Falcon sounds absolutely splendid (and I’m sure it was a very sad day for you when she died),  Fishing I have dabbled in and found fascinating (but not fascinating enough to take up as a hobby) and my forays into gardening are best described as “environmentally disastrous“ (the “environment” that was ruined was my self esteem and ego as well as the conceit that I could give Percy Thrower a run for his money . The sad story about my pea plants will have wait until another day….)

 

Perhaps it is as well that I am not a rich person, as I’m afraid I would spend far, far too much money on hobbies (already existing or currently just outside my financial reach. I’ve always fancied owning a helicopter or a small twin engined aircraft…..)

Unfortunately, at the moment, I am not doing three of my four current hobbies (model railways, guitar playing, cooking and reading) and the only reason I’m cooking is because if I don’t cook nobody gets fed at Schloss iD. I can’t really explain this listlessness and ennui but I hope that it does pass (if nothing else I have invested a noticeable sum of money in acquiring everything I need to build a m***l r*****y, and SWMBO would be most upset if I didn’t, finally, build the damn thing).

 

And on that downbeat note, I apathetically bid you an acceptable Sunday Evening.

 

iD

 

Edited July 18, 2021 by iL Dottore
Typo

[JohnDMJ]

12 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Alas, no! Although for the past three decades I have been a very happy DINKY (Dual Income No Kids),  there were certain things that were put off limits by Captain Cynical’s CFO (Mrs iD), the Nakamichi Dragon was one of them…

 

Whilst being in possession of a pair of B&W speakers, unfortunately, (B&W were the UK Nakamichi agents, IIRC) I have nothing of Nakamichi's manufacture in my setup. (For the uninitiated, the Dragon was an autoreverse cassette player / recorder but only had two pickups. To play the other side, it would open the cassette door, rotate the cassette then close for continued playing.)

[simontaylor484]

As long as you don't try falconry by a Motorway

 

[Barry O]

Cricket.. watched.

 

It was very warm and quite a lively crowd at Headingley.  England bowled well and fielded well. Some big ball bashing too!

 

One minor problem.. some of the lads supporting the away team fired a lot of verbal abuse at Jonny Bairstow while he was fielding near by. 

 

Shame.

 

Baz

[J. S. Bach]

9 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

 ...snip... I still have a very high quality Nakamichi cassette deck ...snip...

iD

The Dragon? I see that you answered "no" in a later post. Anyway, I have somewhere, a Nak 1000.

Edited July 18, 2021 by J. S. Bach
To add some information and change some text.

[zarniwhoop]

13 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Good Morning Zarniwhoop (and all),

[ I'll cut most of this because before social meeja arrived I was on mailing lists. But I've taken all of this onboard. Oh, and respect to someone who can play the scale lengths of fenders - my heros mostly played strats, but I prefer gibsons and humbuckers - not that I can play.

 

13 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

In addition, and one of the great things about ER, is that you will get a lot of support from ER posters if you have problems or concerns that you might want to just “bounce off“ somebody else to see if your thinking is going in the right direction or if you are genuinely at a loss at what to do next. Such support may take the form of a posting with a response to your issue or, often, a PM from someone with insider knowledge providing some useful hints, tips and observations.

 

For the moment, I'll try not to burden people with my problems - and anyway many of them are definitely political.  While trying not to give too much information, I've been Type 1 diabetic since about the age of 35, and I was a semi-competitive cyclist - with a little running and XC skiing (in track) when I was able to afford it. That changed in February 1999 (knocked off the bike, spin cord injury). I got lucky - able to walk a bit, but never got back to fulltime work (too tired). Developed an interest in linux to fill in the time (ha!). Redundant in late 2003, but in a mirror pension scheme (ex Electricity Supply) with payment from age 50 on redundancy.

 

I can see that many people here will think I've fallen on my feet.

 

Renewed my interest in the forbidden subject in about 2007, both narrow variants (Swiss, Austrian, various real and imaginary British) and OO with a third rail. But enough of that here.

 

Meanwhile, I now spend significant time sleeping, and most of the rest is either watching my previous sports on TV, or hacking on the linux distro I support (a glorified "HOWTO" really).

 

13 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

The rating of posts is a relatively new development for ER (I believe it was put in place with the last major platform software update. Possibly to attract the younger, social media savvy, railway modeller). It is certainly optional and, to be honest, I still haven’t figured it out how it is used as sometimes there seems to be - to my eyes - a disconnect between the content of the post and the responses that that post garners.

When people post long replies with many different points, the rating will typically only be appropriate to one of the points.  On other threads I'm often tempted to rate things as funny if I consider them to show political views with which I disagree.

 

13 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

 

One final thought: I recommend occasionally using emojis to help convey nuance in your posts. Without the inflections, tones and emphasis of the spoken word a statement such as “ my hamster got CoVID-19 and now I have to self-isolate“ could be construed as anything from a whinge to a sarcastic or cynical comment. Emojis help return some of the nuances of the English language when used in social media  but, like adding salt to your meal, emojis are best use sparingly and in carefully selected places. 

Welcome aboard. 
 

iD

Thanks. I usually post from my laptop, the trackpad broke months ago and I'm using an add-on trackpad but it is oversensitive and randomly moves the cursor when I'm replying (or randomly clicks on things). For selecting emojis I really need stronger specs, but the optician declined and asked my GP to refer me to the eye hospital re possible diabetic issues - but at least I can still meet the standard for driving in my good eye.

 

Thanks for the welcome.

 

ĸen

[J. S. Bach]

2 hours ago, Erichill16 said:

I can’t seem to use emojis on my iPad. I get an error message  saying ‘ the value entered includes a character that is not allowed such as an Emoji.’ Can anyone help?

Well, you did say iPad! A friend has a similar problem with his when on ebayusa.

Edited July 18, 2021 by J. S. Bach
To add some information.

[PupCam]

4 hours ago, tigerburnie said:

Always surprises me how many people have no hobbies, I have had dozens over the years, some like flying a falcon ended when she passed away and I decided I was getting too old for chasing across fields after errant birds of prey. Fishing has always been my main hobby which began at the age of 4 when my Grand mother used to take me as my Grandad lacked the patience to teach a nipper. Trainspotting on the Great Central led to an interest in steam, which led to an interest in muddling. Always gardened, used to help my Dad from an early age and he made my first greenhouse, that wasn't tall enough to stand up in, but I loved it. Hill walking and mountain climbing began when I moved to Scotland and the wildlife photography has also gathered speed since living up here, though I have done photography for around 50 years. Wine, beer and cider making is another hobby I've had for over 50 years as well, no time to wonder what to do and boredom does not exist.

Yes I'm always staggered by people with "no hobbies or interests"!   

 

What on earth do they do with their time?  Sit and vegetate in front of the telly?   What a complete and utter waste.   

 

Aeromodelling, m*d@l r*#lw&ys, tinkering with old motorcycles, riding old motorcycles, repairing Smiths Chronometric speedos and tachos (I may have mentioned previously the awe with which I view these wondrous mechanical devices even if they are essentially a French design - Pah!), studying my families history,  in years gone by "proper photography", building little Arduino based projects (helps keep all those engineering skills alive without any of the carp associated with real work), discovering and understanding new (to me) technologies for example, building a telecine machine to transfer old Standard 8 cine to a modern digital format in a half decent manner.   I remember discovering the "Pendon" method for making miniature replicas of buildings (that was close, I nearly mentioned ......) and was fascinated to learn of the multitude of manners in which bricks can be arranged to build a wall.  I then of course had to give it a go although having a degree of "sub-optimal" colour vision turned the colouring phase from an "artistic" to a "painting by numbers" process which of course applies to other similarly colourful activities  as well.    

 

Many years ago I was a keen DIYer (case of have to couldn't afford to get someone in) but I'm pleased to say I've managed to completely eradicate any interest in such activities.    So, with the daily Bear updates on the progress with the luxury kitchen construction I don't know whether to feel pity that he's wasting spending so much time on something with so little intrinsic interest value or marvel at his dedication and tenacious determination to see it through.  I suppose the ability to prepare and clear up one's meals is a significant driver though!

I wish I could get interested in such things as decorating but I'm afraid I just can't.   Fortunately Mrs Puppers has more drive in that direction and is a wonderful gardener.

 

 

2 hours ago, polybear said:

..... meaning not much room for a Bear with big paws to control the (very sharp) scalpel fitted with a No. 10 blade (that's the vicious pointy one). 

No that's the beginner's one.  The really pointy one is my friend,  No. 11.      Has bear considered the larger SM scalpel equipped with a No. 26?    Such a device might be better matched to big paws?    That reminds me, I must put in another order for boxes of Nos. 10, 11 & 26, my stockpile is running low.  Which also reminds me, my box of used scalpel blades is nearly big enough to weigh-in and collect a tidy sum.   I must look up the price of scrap steel.

 

Try and stay cool everyone, I'm off to tip another big glass of H2O down my neck.    My current condition makes it only too clear when I'm dehydrated.

 

Switches Off, Shutting down.

 

[polybear]

30 minutes ago, Barry O said:

One minor problem.. some of the lads supporting the away team fired a lot of verbal abuse at Jonny Bairstow while he was fielding near by.
 

 

Does he play for Spurs?

[J. S. Bach]

2 hours ago, polybear said:

Bear's Sunday Funnies:

 

 

That one made me really laugh out loud! Although I would probably substitute a different name for the last one. And, no, probably not who you might be thinking of.

NB: Until I came to ER, the last PM of yours (when they were in office) that I knew the name of was Mrs.Thatcher. I remember a few others but they (probably) should remain nameless.

[monkeysarefun]

22 hours ago, jonny777 said:

 

So you would not mind it being dark by 9pm in July and 8pm in August? 

 

 

 

Strewth , what  time does the sun set there?? Are you in the land of the midnight sun or something?

 

Here even in the height of summer its sunset around 8.15.

 

The issue here though is that much of our native wildlife is nocturnal and so if the sun set much later that would badly affect them.

Edited July 18, 2021 by monkeysarefun

[simontaylor484]

Just watching Salvage Hunters the restorer. Some folk have extraordinary  talents although you don't get an idea of how much time its taken or the cost of the work

[New Haven Neil]

Evening orl.

 

Well, archery was a battle royal, with Mrs NHN scoring one point short of her PB, and joint winner together with one of the older very experienced field archers - great round!  Usually they have a shoot-off when there's a tie, but everyone was too knackered due to the heat, after more than three hours shooting.

 

The new arrow rest working well once she tuned in to the slightly different characteristic of her bow as opposed to using the pressure button type.  It was scorchio down the glen, a few targets moved around by the guy that runs the club so it felt a little different too.  The undergrowth is 'somewhat' verdant, it really is a 'Dr Livingstone' moment down there at the moment.  Lot of insect repellent in use too.

[J. S. Bach]

17 minutes ago, PupCam said:

 ...snip... What on earth do they do with their time?  Sit and vegetate ...snip...

That is me right now but instead of imitating a carrot, I read a lot. I am currently reading the first volume of THE LAST LION about Winston Churchill, in fact, yesterday I had just gotten beyond the Tonypandy affair; oddly, that was brought up yesterday in a thread. Weird timing.