Early Risers.

[J. S. Bach]

On 14/08/2021 at 14:41, pH said:

Pardon? At 2.30pm?

I was very tired (knackered, you say over there?) and decided to drop the pan early.

 

17 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Good morning all,

First day of holiday, hurrah! I am planning to go completely off grid so this is probably going to be one of my last online postings for awhile. ...snip...

iD

You will be missed! Please do not stay away too long.

 

 

I punched out early yesterday; I must have been sick because just before I did, I ended up on Hatton's website and almost ordered an O scale green pannier. Anyway, I am out of here as a great book about the Naval war in the Pacific and my recliner awaits me. It is the story of US Admiral Nimitz and a Captain Evans and the Japanese Admirals Kurita and Ozawa. It tells of their march to the Battle of Leyte Gulf where they meet so: Night Owl from the Piedmont.

Edited August 15, 2021 by J. S. Bach

[Ozexpatriate]

38 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

... a Captain Evans ...

Presumably Commander Ernest E. Evans, USN (posthumous Medal of Honor), C.O. of USS Johnston?

 

The Johnston along with two other destroyers and four Escort Destroyers attacked Kurita's main force (which included four battleships) off Samar to defend the Taffy3 task unit which was supporting landings, and otherwise a sitting duck.

 

The full account of the Battle of Samar is in "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors". (I don't know if that's the book.)

[andyram]

Evening all. I hope everyone is well. As of a couple of hours ago, I have completed the 46th circuit of the big orange ball. A interesting book on the Isle of Wight Railways was received from my parents who are well aware of my interest in this particular rail network. Judging by the pre-orders received for the Island versions of the EFE Rail 02’s, I am not alone. It looks like I will be busy wrapping a few of these when they arrive early in the week. Still some left and there may be one that somehow becomes a shop demonstration model ahead of joining my own collection.

[Andrew P]

Just now, andyram said:

Evening all. I hope everyone is well. As of a couple of hours ago, I have completed the 46th circuit of the big orange ball. A interesting book on the Isle of Wight Railways was received from my parents who are well aware of my interest in this particular rail network. Judging by the pre-orders received for the Island versions of the EFE Rail 02’s, I am not alone. It looks like I will be busy wrapping a few of these when they arrive early in the week. Still some left and there may be one that somehow becomes a shop demonstration model ahead of joining my own collection.

Happy belated Birthday Andy, just a mere kid compared to most of us on here I recon mate. Hope it was goodun.

[Andrew P]

Is it to early to say good morning all?

[southern42]

Just time to squeeze in a Happy Birthday Andy for yesterday before a bit of shut eye.

’ night all and nos da.

[laurenceb]

Birthday greetings Andy

Night awl

[PhilJ W]

Birthday greetings Andy.

[leopardml2341]

Awake at stupid o'clock  AGAIN!

 

Cuppa time again.

 

Happy Birthday @andyram

 

Whilst I'm awake I might as well regale you all with my car list.....

 

Mk2 Ford Escort

Open Manta (trashed by vandals) hence following boring car(s)

Vauxhall Nova

Rover Montego (bad decision but cheap; BAe staff discount)

VW Golf

Vauxhall Cavalier 

Ford Mondeo

Ford Mondeo

Peugeot 106

Mitsubishi Colt

Dacia Sandero

 

Oh, and two buses:

Leyland Leooard PSU3/3R

Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1A/13

 

Edited August 16, 2021 by leopardml2341
Corrected Tiger Cub model designation

[pH]

2 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

I was very tired (knackered, you say over there?)

I’m not “over there” - I’m 3 hours west of you!

[Ozexpatriate]

I can see little puffy clouds! And blue sky. Hooray! 

 

The smoke is gone.

 

My son informed me that the ABBA song Chiquitita (click at your peril* and isn't that snowman creepy?) is currently featuring on myriad TikTok videos. I couldn't place it exactly and I searched for ABBA songs, and sure enough Chiquitita is the first listed, rather than Dancing Queen, which you would normally expect. The internet (and in particular TikTok) is indeed a strange place.

 

* I had a dreadful earworm this morning.

 

This conversation came up when I mentioned that Stevie Nicks had cancelled a concert tour due to CoViD concerns. My son told me that Stevie Nicks now has some sort of Goddess status amongst Gen-Z - perhaps influenced by a viral TikTok using the incongruous combination of Fleetwood Mac's Dreams, skateboarding and cranberry juice.

[monkeysarefun]

5 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

 

Anyway, I am out of here as a great book about the Naval war in the Pacific and my recliner awaits me. It is the story of US Admiral Nimitz and a Captain Evans and the Japanese Admirals Kurita and Ozawa. It tells of their march to the Battle of Leyte Gulf where they meet so: Night Owl from the Piedmont.

 

 

When I was growing up we lived next door to a bloke who'd been at Leyte Gulf on board HMAS Australia.  He used to come over for a Sunday sherry and tell me and my brother  about the  kamikazes. One hit the bridge of the Australia before the battle and killed a bunch of his mates and the ships captain.

 

He sure hated anything Japanese and was pretty p!ssed off  when Dad bought a Toyota Crown.

 

  As was I  -  I wanted a Holden Kingswood or a  Ford Falcon  like all my mates dads had.

Edited August 16, 2021 by monkeysarefun

[jamie92208]

16 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

When I was growing up we lived next door to a bloke who'd been at Leyte Gulf on board HMAS Australia.  He used to come over for a Sunday sherry and tell me and my brother  about the  kamikazes. One hit the bridge of the Australia before the battle and killed a bunch of his mates and the ships captain.

 

He sure hated anything Japanese and was pretty p!ssed off  when Dad bought a Toyota Crown.

 

  As was I  -  I wanted a Holden Kingswood or a  Ford Falcon  like all my mates dads had.

I worked forva few months in 71 with a guy who had been a prisoner onnthevBurma railway. Like your acquaintance  he wouln't buy anything Japanese.  He was a very good bridge player but wouldn't play  aas he had been forced to play with his camp commandant for extra rice rations to stay alive..

 

Jamie

[jamie92208]

Good moan8ng from a still quiet part of Yorkshire.  Due to a mix up in communication  we had a bitbof a wasted day yesterday but Beth roasted a cluck bird and we had a good dinner tilll Emily had a meltdown.  Anyway this morning Beth and I are babysitting which hopefully  will go well.  Apart from tht therevis not a lot to report.

 

Happy birthday to Andy.

 

Jamie

[chrisf]

Greetings one and all, with belated birthday greetings to Andyram.

 

That ruddy virus keeps on giving.  The latest sting in its tail is the news that those attending certain society meetings will have to have their temperatures taken at the door.  I am sure that this is meant kindly but I do not recall being subjected to this when I visited my aunt in her care home two weeks ago.  Meanwhile, my propensity for untidiness has come back to bite me yet again.  I have mislaid my tickets for two forthcoming and much postponed concerts.  Rather than keep turning the house upside down looking for them I will have to contact the box office for advice.  Oh, the shame.

 

A few interesting things are due to occur this week.  On Tuesday members of the Bedford branch of the LCGB will be visiting Corby.  They will be travelling on one of the second-hand electric trains that replaced the Midland Main Line trains which used to call at Bedford on their way to Kettering and beyond.  It will be my first trip on a train in well over a year.  On Wednesday Chilterns Area Group will be meeting via Zoom to discuss among other things where and how it should meet in future.  The group counts among its members some fine m*d*ll*rs who are bound to have been more productive than yours truly.  Thursday is to be the day when Professor Oncologist tells me what was found in my recent bone scan.  Other events may pop up when I least expect them.

 

Best wishes to all

 

Chris   

[Barry O]

Ey up!

 

Looks like a gardening day lies ahead of me today. PAH!

Although I could clean Beastie and apply some TLC to him.. not sure what will happen yet.

 

Leeds roads are in chaos again. Major gas pipe installation work, council laying tar and chippings (to refresh the road surface) etc are making travel difficult. Normally everyone would be away.. but not this year.

 

I have a Committee meeting to attend tonight. It will probably be all about an Exhibiin October.

 

Keep well!

Hope our "missing" ERs are safe and well.

 

Baz

[PupCam]

Clear Prop!      No, on second thoughts it's too early for flying ......

 

1 hour ago, chrisf said:

Thursday is to be the day when Professor Oncologist tells me what was found in my recent bone scan.  Other events may pop up when I least expect them.

 

 

Well, the most important things to do are to wish Chris well and good luck for Thursday.  Fingers are crossed!   

And to wish Andy a happy birthday

 

In other news:

 

Awake at Stupid o'clock and was tempted to get up and fire up the PC and I had the next idea in  the quest to solve the software problem with the little WiFi module for the unmemtionable controller.    Development work on it has been "intense" over the weekend with huge amounts of additional debugging code added to the open source WiFi library code in order to track down the problem.    At least I can see where things are happening now and I'm getting a bit of a handle on it (I think it's a corrupted ring buffer but why?  If you haven't nodded off ......)

 

Anyway, have a good day everyone.

 

Alan

 

 

 

 

Edited August 16, 2021 by PupCam

[Sir TophamHatt]

Good morning all.

 

Been a busy few weeks for me.  Doing nothing particular, just work and cleaning around the house.

 

Had my 2nd jab yesterday.  Not sure I understand why people don't want to have it.  If anyone can tell me how a liquid is supposed to "track" people... unless they think a microchip is inserted at the same time?  But then it won't have power so can only be "read" by something.  Where are all these "readers" going to be?  Far too much thinking for me to bother with.

[The Lurker]

Greetings all from a Sidcup where the promising early blue skies have been replaced with a hazy cloud layer.

 

Happy birthday for yesterday to Andyram.

 

Back to work today with a long list of stuff to do that I would rather not and a few meetings where there will be a lot of talk and people will ask me what I think should be done; to which I will answer that they need to obtain the information that I have been asking for over the course of the past few weeks which they have not provided. I predict we will be having the same meeting in a couple of weeks time.

 

The weekend was quiet - probably I did not use it wisely although I did use the Friday to deal with some chores.

 

Anyway, back to some work now.

[polybear]

9 hours ago, simontaylor484 said:

@polybear Well done

 

Afghanistan has turned into a complete fustercluck what a waste of just short of 500 British lives for it to end this way.

All that money spent on training the Afghan national army and they run away. The U S Embassy looked like Saigon in 1975 with fires on the lawns and Helicopters taking off from the compound.

 

One smells corruption running rife in the ANA 

 

Won't say anything more because it will be too political 

 

It didn't even occur to Bear that my OP could be regarded as P*****cal - it was more intended as having a humanitarian and a "what complete f****** waste" kinda post.  Apologies if I've crossed the line, though Awls have yet to be spotted on Radar.  Extra security around the cake store has been posted, just in case.

 

7 hours ago, Erichill16 said:

I was hoping to get an invite to his shed so I can run something than runs on parallel strips of metal with a bit of DCC but it wasn’t forthcoming.

 

 

Didn't suggestive remarks such as "how's the railway coming along?" not have the desired effect

 

4 hours ago, leopardml2341 said:

Whilst I'm awake I might as well regale you all with my car list.....

Rover Montego (bad decision but cheap; BAe staff discount)

 

 

 

I never known anyone brave enough to admit to buying a Montego before.  Respect.....

We used (mid 80's) to get them a lot as company hire cars.  Bear's first ever company jolly was to BAe Warton/Lytham St. Annes in Dec 1985 with JC and Kev driving.  'Orrible smell for many, many miles - with much finger pointing and "was that you?" comments made.  So in the dark, fast lane of the M1 (or M6?), raining stair rods, Kev driving at a ton+ (he was a mad, mad b'steward) and the radio goes off.  Then the wipers pack up, followed by all the lights going out.....

Getting to the hard shoulder in one piece was, er, "interesting" to say the least.  Mr AA man declared that the regulator had fried, which meant the alternator had been overcharging the battery for many, many miles (remember the fumes we'd all been breathing?) and eventually all the electrics were fried.  We got towed to (I think) East Midlands Airport for a car swap.

 

In other news:

Fancy a holiday with a difference:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-58104539

 

Bear heard the very faint sounds of a new-born pink terrorist coming from nearly-new neighbours next door this morning.  That might be first SPT in this block of five terraced houses since Bear was a Cub, too many moons ago.

 

Today sees some "fettling" jobs in the kitchen today, primarily involving a sealant gun and a paint brush.  I may also lay out a few tiles to come up with suitable wall "patterns" using the random shades of colour - and then marking the reverse with a marker pen to guide the tiler.  Fortunately the tiles are only four rows high, and the wall areas divided into five distinct, not very large areas so the task shouldn't be too bad.  I hope....

[polybear]

19 minutes ago, PupCam said:

Clear Prop!     

 

 

Hmmm......could be tricky, that one.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-58226712

 

In other news:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDY

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Arthur Itis was doing his worst this morning so Nurofen has been deployed. Time to run a bath, be back later.

[TheQ]

Mooring Awl, Inner Temple Hare, 475/297.,

 A poor nights sleep 3.5 hours followed by not a lot, usual problem, which ever side was supporting body hurt, added to knee and back complaining..

 

Ben the I hate pigeons Collie saw one on the grass as I opened the door and hurtled out, giving a loud WOOF!!!  Whereupon many scattered from grass and trees.. After that he was quite happy snuffling around, no dew this morning a cool north westerly breeze instead..

 

Some of the time awake, brain was thinking of the supports for the flying shelving, solution acquired, fairly easy to make and should be solid.. Also thoughts on the back facing the stairs, it's been decided the walls will be adorned with SWMBOs paintings of former canine companions,  So a paneled effect will be made , each panel will contain  one of the six  paintings.  I now need to find one of the paintings to measure up.

First however is to replace a Halfmoon molding along the landing floor support beam, I believe it was chiseled off in the 1960s during a Barry Bucknel 1960's cover up everything with hardboard refit.. The Half moon molding will go on top of the plywood matching the remaining piece on the section above your head as you climb the stairs

 

Piece from a local reporter in Afgan yesterday, local district "rulers" have been negotiating with the Taliban for months for a easy hand over of power, so the situation is not surprising. 

Afgan is not really a state, but a loose assembly of tribal areas. Central government doesn't really have much to say about the rest of country, it's merely a figure head..

 

The Macarthy and Stone site next to Tesco's seems remarkably popular, most of the separate houses seem to now be occupied, even though the main building of flats and social facilities still doesn't have windows in yet. Which reminds me I must speak to the MRC about getting out leaflets in there when it opens..

 

You may have noticed above, less than 300 working days left....

 

This weeks major system was ready and waiting for me which was a surprise, so I'm measuring DCV at the moment.

 

 Time to continue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[New Haven Neil]

1 hour ago, Sir TophamHatt said:

Good morning all.

 

Been a busy few weeks for me.  Doing nothing particular, just work and cleaning around the house.

 

Had my 2nd jab yesterday.  Not sure I understand why people don't want to have it.  If anyone can tell me how a liquid is supposed to "track" people... unless they think a microchip is inserted at the same time?  But then it won't have power so can only be "read" by something.  Where are all these "readers" going to be?  Far too much thinking for me to bother with.

 

Morning.

 

Yes indeed, yet those same people are quite happy to have a phone in their pocket that IS tracking them!

 

A dull windy morning but at least it is dry, washing machine action awaits.  Oh joy. 

 

I need to feed, more waffle later.

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

Neil pipped me to the post with his comment about anti-vaxer’s and mobile phones, it appears to me that some folk have more mobile phones than brain cells!

 

On to today, it is mainly getting things organised in the cellar, I need to retrieve some paint from the underfloor storage area, but of course, I have temporarily put stuff in the way when I cleared the cellar for plastering, so that has to be sorted. I will then be able to make a start on stencilling the cupboard doors and drawer front. Yesterday, Sheila had a text message saying that her Zumba class today has been cancelled, so I shall leave the outside tap until next week, but as it only leaks when it is use, it isn’t urgent. To do the job properly, I will need the water to be ‘OFF’ for a couple of hours and that is a BIG no no when Sheila is trying to do the laundry! So I’ll wait until she is out to do that job. 

 

Andy. Happy birthday 

 

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

 

Brian