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[The Lurker]

4 hours ago, TheQ said:

As with Jonny777 I check the weather radar if it's important.. You can see the rain coming..

https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar

 

 

either that or your new phone might have a weather app on it already (so no need to instal)

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Managed to watch the local weather news about an hour ago, about 10% chance of rain. Seeing as the garden railway is gauge 3 running battery powered and live steam locomotives there shouldn't be any problems. Though if it is persisting down the shed might get a bit crowded .

[TheQ]

43 minutes ago, PupCam said:

 

Here, let me pass you your glasses.. 

would that be Bi focals?

[45156]

Afternoon All

 

Another lack of mojo excuse - I've got to say that this house selling business is getting me down just a little  big bit now - a member of staff who works for the agent handling the sale came round the other day, after his partner had been very impressed the night before - and he implied as he left that he would make an offer for the place - yes, he did, for £17.5k less than the asking price, and that was his final word on it - guess what my answer was.

 

But a very successful viewing by a pleasant young lady solicitor, who now works from home and who wants to come back to have a more thorough look seems a bit more hopeful.

 

Anyhow, I proffer the usual generic greetings, and birthday wishes current and belated.

 

Regards to All

Stewart

 

 

[Ian Abel]

BIN day...

 

Yesterday, two events;

1) They are re-laying the gas lines for the neighborhood - a right mess that's going to be, so many trucks and JCBs all in one place, together with loads of bods in hi-viz wandering around marking all kinds of things with spray paint and digging up all over! Expected to continue for at least a week best I can tell by the rate of progress!

2) Had a happy-hour with a few of my choir friends - the establishment we usually/used to frequent, first time in over 18 months. Followed by a rehearsal for todays memorial service.

It turns out that with the rise of COVID again, we're NOT restarting choir as soon as expected. We will only start in late September/early October and will be limited to the schola ONLY, singing at select services until the dreaded COVID shows significant signs of going away.

That ALSO meant the 75th Anniversary celebration scheduled for September has also been postponed out of an abundance of caution

 

Today, leaving soon, for the memorial service for our friend and choir member Mary.

Later today, fortunately in spite of the spike in COVID carp, we are having a choir happy-hour for all choir members. This was planned weeks ago, and since this is outside on the grounds, it's been "allowed" to continue.

 

20 and sunny first thing, air quality deteriorating. High of 32 expected.

 

Tally ho.

 

[simontaylor484]

Good Afternoon from a wet West Yorkshire 

 

Set off fine this morning checked the met office forecasts it said dry all Day. I know I will paint part of the decking got it done Then guess what 

A) the colour looks nowt like it says on tin and its cuprinol 

B) its persisting it down now

 

The BBC have destroyed regional programming on both TV and Radio allegedly to save money. 

I can tell em how to save money 

 

A sack the overpaid talentless Linekar and other likewise individuals

B plough the billions made by BBC worldwide back into programming then there would be no need for the telly tax

[TheQ]

Got home, tried to get Amazon.. no wouldn't work  the way they said on line, go back online read the way for a much later box.. yep that worked no need to update box, the info says it did it itself a couple of days ago. Many brownie points scored....

 

And for an encore, 

 

Found a suitable app for speed and time, (sailfreegps) for the tablet computer.

Tried that and that worked as well

There aren't that many apps with speed and real time , most have speed and time elapsed. Or a count down timer.

 

A curry has been eaten, I think a eyelid inspection is required in celebration...

[tigerburnie]

Had the afternoon trout fishing on my local stream, got a lovely wild Brown Trout, but as I caught it not far down stream from the outfall from the water treatment works(old fashioned sewage farm) I decided I wasn't that hungry and returned to the river to swim another day.

 

[polybear]

4 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

Looks like a perfectly good biplane to me.

 

.....after a dogfight with The Red Baron...

 

2 hours ago, 45156 said:

Afternoon All

 

Another lack of mojo excuse - I've got to say that this house selling business is getting me down just a little  big bit now - a member of staff who works for the agent handling the sale came round the other day, after his partner had been very impressed the night before - and he implied as he left that he would make an offer for the place - yes, he did, for £17.5k less than the asking price, and that was his final word on it - guess what my answer was.

 

 

Hmmm....let me see now.....did it include the word "Off" by any chance?

Call Bear suspicious, but I'm sure that some EA's have a little sideline in identifying suitable candidates to buy at a P.Take price (perhaps via an associate) then re-listing them after a few months in order to make a nice little profit.

Bearing in mind the average house prices in Lancaster are less than half that of the area in the general vicinity of Bear Towers (where an offer £17.5K under the asking price would be a kick in the nuts, especially in the current climate) then such an offer in the Lancaster area could well be considered not only a kick but also a subsequent trampling by a Hippo.....

 

In other news:

Splurge squirted, boxes sorted & tidied, tile cutter rescued from the loft and tested on a wall tile "just in case", general sorting carried out; the upvc door frame was cleaned up with v.fine wet & dry (800 grit) to remove traces of adhesive where plastic trim was removed.  Not exactly an earth shattering list of fine achievements, but every little helps.

[Pacific231G]

Evening All

Hmm. I was supposed to be going down to Popham today for the airfield's latest monthly (in the  summer) BBQ but had to cry off because of editorial deadlines. I just had a look at the webcams to see what I had missed and saw the rain starting and now persisiting down. It's also a fly in (free landings and £10 for the BBQ) but it doesn't look like more than about five aircraft did: last month it was more like fifty. Oh well, with any luck I'll be able to break  the surly bonds next week.

 

I had my "daily" 4K brisk walk late this afternoon in warm sunshine but the rain is now spitting here a bit too. First proper walk since the weekend due to above mentiioned deadline so I was a bit slow, about 12m30s/km and it ideally should be a tad under 12m though my cadence was about 130 steps/m. How did any of us ever get any exercise before we had smartphones and GPS to measure eveything 

 

Ther rain is now getting organised. It always amuses me when the forecasters say that . Does the rain have planning meetings to decide whose day to spoil?

Time to put a pie in the oven

 

Mind how you go.

[simontaylor484]

This is the colour for the decking we (her ladyship) picked 

 

 

Edited August 19, 2021 by simontaylor484

[simontaylor484]

This is the colour it has come out

 

It originally looked cream its only had one coat. The photo doesnt really do the difference justice. And I paid twice the B&m price

Edited August 19, 2021 by simontaylor484
Further thoughts

[JohnDMJ]

Good Evening Awl, for anything could happen to make it so!

 

Having been informed of an appointment for a check-up followed by a covid test 3 days later, my suspicions were aroused. Today, I received three letters, two confirming the aforementioned whilst the third invited me to the Day Surgery Unit on a particular afternoon, presumably for an operation I am expecting. However, there is no indication of for how long the latter will affect me and, if it is the operation which I am expecting, I want it under general anaesthetic, not local! 'Phone calls will be made tomorrow. My circumstances dictate that I will need post anaesthesia care which I am unable to provide at home! Meanwhile, this is planned for the Tuesday after which I return from two weeks' leave and for which I already have a morning appointment with another hospital department (curiously, under a different hospital trust!)! Interesting times!

 

However, in the words of the song, "La vie continue malgré tout"!

 

Elsewhere:

 

13 hours ago, chrisf said:

My suspicious nature kicked in and I marked it as Spam.

 

Others hereon may advise differently but, as your previous signature used to wisely proclaim: "An expert is someone who disagrees with other Experts!"

 

I believe you can do much more than simply marking it as spam. My own take is to select the message then hold the SHIFT key down whilst I press the DELETE key. This, as I understand it, bypasses the Deleted folder, the Spam folder and just obliterates the message as best your operating system can whilst rendering it irretrievable.

 

The same trick also works in (I'm guessing you're tarred with windoze) in Explorer and will remove a file permanently without troubling your recycle bin (waste bin?).

 

I can never understand why people want to colour perfectly good-looking timber!

 

6 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

This is the colour it has come out

 

It originally looked cream its only had one coat

 

At my last house, three similar properties on the estate were of similar design to mine. All had a flat roof at the front supported by Sapele timber posts. One house stained them green. Another clad them in uPVC. For the 42 years my father and I were owners of the house, we coated ours in yacht varnish! This brought out the natural colour of the wood whilst giving protection. If we asked a decorator to quote for a repaint of the house and they mentioned staining the posts, forget it, you ain't got the job!

 

I shudder (but no longer care) what the new owners of the house have done with said posts or the staircase which was also varnished Sapele.

 

Often, woods have their own characteristics which are worth accentuating rather than hiding!

[Coombe Barton]

Blogged

 

... and a distant fire plume ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2021/08/19/uncertainty/

 

[simontaylor484]

3 hours ago, tigerburnie said:

Had the afternoon trout fishing on my local stream, got a lovely wild Brown Trout, but as I caught it not far down stream from the outfall from the water treatment works(old fashioned sewage farm) I decided I wasn't that hungry and returned to the river to swim another day.

 

I once read a study that was done in Czech republic i think regarding trout caught near sewage p plants and the effect of meth amphetamine levels in the water nearby. The meth passed in users urine was not removed by the water treatment process. The trout preferred to swim in water contaminated by meth over fresh water. 

[andyram]

Evening one and all and generic greetings with particular good wishes to ChrisF in hope the news is positive. 

 

I am just checking in during an all too brief quiet moment today. Things have been hectic. An early start was required in order to pay cash into the bank via the ATM. I would have let it wait another day, but some of it was Sarah's Avon money and she "insisted". 

 

 There was a couple of deliveries to the shop this morning, with further supplies of the much discussed 02's (well they are much discussed on the 02 thread. I for one really like them! 

 The shop proved to be busy. The most number of people through the door since before the first lockdown. Sadly many of them were of the browsing variety so takings ended up being about average. 

 

I was tired when I arrived home and probably did not need the in-laws visit. One of the needs for the current black dog fight is a bit of down time. The evening resulted in a late meal, promised help with Avon deliveries and Amber being late to bed. None helped the coiled spring mode!

 

Tomorrow promises to be busy again with another early start and lots to do either side of the time in the shop. At least there is a weekend away to look forward to.

 

Stay safe and sane.

 

Andy 

[Barry O]

Chuckinitdarn here!

 

In a moment of clear thinking i have organised a company to fit a concrete panel garden fence on our side of the line between our neighbours and ourselves. The last straw was when he fitted some land drain pipe running into our garden. Not any more pal! So he should get a nice flooded area at the end of his land drain.. 

Yorkshire water replaced his stop tap and have fitted a new cover. Tarmac to be fitted tomorrow apparently. (I do wonder how he explained the damage to them. He wants to turn the water off to remove the water meter..he can do anything..or so he thinks.

 

Baz

 

 

[Barry O]

Goodnight all!

Baz

[simontaylor484]

5 minutes ago, Barry O said:

Chuckinitdarn here!

 

In a moment of clear thinking i have organised a company to fit a concrete panel garden fence on our side of the line between our neighbours and ourselves. The last straw was when he fitted some land drain pipe running into our garden. Not any more pal! So he should get a nice flooded area at the end of his land drain.. 

Yorkshire water replaced his stop tap and have fitted a new cover. Tarmac to be fitted tomorrow apparently. (I do wonder how he explained the damage to them. He wants to turn the water off to remove the water meter..he can do anything..or so he thinks.

 

Baz

 

 

He sounds like a complete and utter  fu£#wit

[laurenceb]

Methinks you understate the case

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Had a very enjoyable evening playing trains setting the world to rights, drinking tea and eating cake and biscuits. The playing of trains being left to the younger contingent, my friends young son and another young man of similar age. It was getting quite dark when we left but the rain held off until I was less than half a mile from home. I forgot about using my smart phone camera but never mind as no doubt the opportunity will arise before long.

[Tony_S]

25 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

He sounds like a complete and utter  fu£#wit

I wonder how long it will be before he starts putting in a basement swimming pool and home theatre which seems to be the “thing” in some of the pricier parts of London. 

[simontaylor484]

Sounds like he won't need much help with a basement swimming pool once Baz puts the fence in

[tigerburnie]

G'night all

[leopardml2341]

Goodnight folks.

 

 

Edited August 19, 2021 by leopardml2341