Early Risers.

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. The wall bracket holding the shower head broke this morning so I will have to get a new one. I doubt very much that I will find one with identical screw fixing holes so that means I will have to drill new holes through the tiles .

1 hour ago, NGT6 1315 said:

Ah, the unintentional duplicate post gremlin has struck again. Sorry about that!

If you have a duplicate post just click on the three dots in the top right hand corner and then 'report post'. When that appears the second option is 'duplicate post' so just click on that.

27 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Morning All,

Now it looks like a travel schedule will actually be feasible this year (London, London, Hamburg, Edinburgh, Birmingham [NEC - fir Warley]), I’ll have to investigate how many of those trips can be classified as a business trip (at least one London trip).

Are you considering going by rail?

[New Haven Neil]

Morning, at the third time of clicking - site was dire earlier.

 

I was going to say I don't feel a day over 63, but it would be a lie, maybe 83.  Still, it's dry out (not for long - just looked at the radar) and 10c so not too bad.

 

The day will be washing, as usual on a Moanday.  Maybe a walk after the rain has passed and the joints ease up.

 

A few years ago a good friend here went to Crufts to to the obedience competition with her collie - the collie has trained her well - and they came 4th, pretty impressive.  It was only afterwards the judges noticed the dog only had one eye, and wondered why Helen hadn't competed the dog in the disabled classes. It was very much a point of honour NOT to have done so!  

 

I have an Arcam Alpha CD player, my Musical Fidelity A100 amp let the magic smoke out after many years so now just a Denon and a Kenwood mega oomph (but old) AV amp for movies.  A Musical Fidelity T1 tuner still gives very good service, a (second - first one got damaged in a household accident) Thorens record deck, but just a 280 this time with a Linn tonearm, my Dunlop Systemdek also didn't survive the move here when finally exhumed from boxes years later, the motor had died and they are NLA.  Cassettes? Don't darken my portals with the spawn of the devil..... and a Sony Walkman NWZ-F886 for portable sounds and in the garage through another Denon amp.  Nice little toy, getting old now.  Streaming is for rivers.

[PupCam]

Morning All!

 

RMWeb not working at all well again for me lately, good job I haven't paid for it then!

 

Not a great deal to report from Puppershire although it's a nice day today so I could be tempted by a chug on the AJ!

 

Laurie Hughes, a friend from the world of model flying posted a cracking photograph on Faceache yesterday.    He's one of those hardy souls who often stand on the top of Welsh mountains taking fantastic military aircraft photographs at the Mach Loop.    On this occasion he's ventured to the land of @tigerburnie to try and capture the Aurora and his patience appears to have been rewarded!       Posted here with Laurie's permission, I thought you might like to see it.

 

Alan

Edited March 14, 2022 by PupCam
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[New Haven Neil]

Oh forgot loudspeakers, Acoustic Energy Aegis Two floorstanders in the lounge, TDL Near Field Monitors in the garage.  Old skool cool.

[PhilJ W]

We haven't heard from @Kelly for a couple of days. Hope she's home now.

[jamie92208]

Good moaning,  just from a bright and sunny Charente.  I did try gettin on here earlier but as said above, things were dire. I could get on other threads but not ER's on either tablet or laptop.  Anyway I'm here now.  A successful time was had in the shed yesterday after oon and some bits that orocess electrickery seem to work..  this morning I've reinstalled the small distribution box in the new pool shed.  Nothing went bang when I powered it up.  As it's sunny there may be some grass cutting this afternoon.

 

As Phil said I hope that we hear good news from @Kelly.

 

regards to all.

 

jamie

[New Haven Neil]

Well that 10c is now '6 feels like 2', and it does - just got the firewood in before it rained, not very nice out there at all.

 

Spent an hour scanning an old photo of what is now Debs' office, or at least the original building - it was on the verge of collapse so a new one was built in its place, still looks OK though.  Can't post the cleaned up photo here, awls may be watching, it has those electrickery things that run on parallel steel bars on it.  The guys she works with are mostly newish here and don't recall the old building so wanted this for the office.

[Gwiwer]

Ah.  Good.  The desktop allows me in.  Eventually.  Still no service via the phone.

 

A good Spring day Upon the Hill of Strawberries followed a brisk start at the House of Fun with the sun having risen for the first time this season before I started work.  It has been a most uncommonly dry and mild winter and the first in this job when I have neither had to shovel snow off the platforms nor lay "Procoat" which is the gritty salty substance we use to prevent slipping in frosty / icy conditions.  I guess we'll have the hosepipe ban next, then

 

Dr. SWMBO has the day off today and has taken herself into the Tate Britain for entertainment.  That's a good step forward for her as it required use of a train more or less in the morning peak and travelling without me for support.  She would have passed very close by as I was working on the platform adjacent to that used by her train a half-hour later.  I'll find out later if she saw or heard me   

 

This afternoon could be busy.  I have two deliveries coming and a person to threaten the fridge and sloshing machine with a tool-kit.  the former is freezing stuff when it shouldn't and the latter isn't cleaning stuff when it should.  I might grab forty winks between now and then   

[simontaylor484]

Good Afternoon all 

Lovely morning and into the afternoon.

I agree about crufts I wouldn't watch it. There is a certain Dachshund sat near my feet that should win it but i am thoroughly biased of course.

The yard foreman in No 1 yard at Bison in Leeds used to show Red setters. He had the photos and rosettes in their yard cabin lovely looking dogs.

 

Have spent most of the morning taxi ing her ladyship chasing medication for Lucas that he needs to sleep. Boots couldn't get it (normal pharmacy)  ended up going to Featherstone they should get it Wednesday.

It was purely byvchance that she rang Boots to see if it was ready that we found out they couldn't get it 

 

 

[J. S. Bach]

11 hours ago, zarniwhoop said:

I'm (grumpily, as usual) testing how much this week's linux fixes for the latest spectre vulnerabilities slow down compiling on AMD machines (unlike intel, AMD used an 'lfence' instruction instead of a full 'retpoline' (reverse trampoline)) - but intel have now pointed out that is not always reliable :-( ...snip...

I wonder if you could translate that into English?

[J. S. Bach]

6 hours ago, AndrewC said:

 ...snip... All of our 1000+ cd collection has been ripped to mp3  ...snip...

Enjoy the day.

That must have taken quite a loooooooong time. I dread the thought of doing so with my 2500 or so records! Actually, I would probably really do about a third, but still..........

 

6 hours ago, AndrewC said:

 ...snip... Sennheiser 590 headphones.  ...snip...

Enjoy the day.

I was given (from a friend's estate sale) a nice set of Sennheiser HDR 170 wireless cans. When I first listened with them, I thought about giving up my speakers!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[AndrewC]

3 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

That must have taken quite a loooooooong time. I dread the thought of doing so with my 2500 or so records! Actually, I would probably really do about a third, but still..........

 

What I did was grab about 20 at a time and since I was working from home even way back when, it was a simple task to pop one into my own PC, then carry on working on the company laptop, when finished it auto-ejected. Lather, rinse, repeat. Took about 15 weeks in the end. 

 

[PupCam]

13 hours ago, zarniwhoop said:

As a hifi enthusiast, despite my deafness, I moved to a streamer for flac files years ago,after eventually installing enough filters to remove the noise. I find that 44.1/16 is often disappointing (although adequate for the ceol mór which would cause Ben the Collie to run to his safe place). 44.1/24 downloads tend to be "better", as do 48 and 96 Khz v

 

6 hours ago, polybear said:

Puppers.......HEEEELP.......

 

Sorry Bear I haven't got the foggiest idea!    I wonder if you still need to mark the edges of your CDs with a green felt pen* and as for my oxygen free cables lungs ....

 

Must re-visit the Not the 9 o'clock News Hi Fi sketch

 

* Probably not, time has moved on and my naked CD's play just fine not that they are played very often  as I mainly listen to the Wireless these days

 

 

Edited March 14, 2022 by PupCam

[tigerburnie]

14 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

 

I still use this Technics SL-1600MK2 as my daily driver:

 

But if I want to do some fast-spinning, I use this SL-1015:

 

This Onkyo TX-4500MK2 does the duty, note that it needs a few dial lights replaced:

 

 

Occasionally, I roll tape with this Tascam 112B:

 

Hmmmf, I have never taken any photos of my speakers.

 

My turntable is an SL-8210, basic but functional, an RS B605 tape deck(yes I have shed loads of cassettes to lol) a Rotel RA 11 amp with Polk speakers and a Marantz SA8005 cd deck. I tend to use the Harmon Kardon system attached to my computer as often as not for listening to youtube etc

[tigerburnie]

4 hours ago, PupCam said:

Morning All!

 

RMWeb not working at all well again for me lately, good job I haven't paid for it then!

 

Not a great deal to report from Puppershire although it's a nice day today so I could be tempted by a chug on the AJ!

 

Laurie Hughes, a friend from the world of model flying posted a cracking photograph on Faceache yesterday.    He's one of those hardy souls who often stand on the top of Welsh mountains taking fantastic military aircraft photographs at the Mach Loop.    On this occasion he's ventured to the land of @tigerburnie to try and capture the Aurora and his patience appears to have been rewarded!       Posted here with Laurie's permission, I thought you might like to see it.

 

Alan

We had cloud for most of the night and we missed it again.

[Gwiwer]

1 hour ago, Gwiwer said:

a person to threaten the fridge and sloshing machine with a tool-kit.  the former is freezing stuff when it shouldn't and the latter isn't cleaning stuff when it should.

Person duly arrived.  

 

Person duly perused.

 

Person duly proclaimed.

 

"Your washing machine's dead.  We'll organise a new one"  It seems the bearing has "gone" but where it has gone to has not been explained.  The fridge was emptied of its contents, save for air and a large build-up of ice.  Person took an industrial-sized screwdriver to the ice, prised it away, presented me with a cable-tie and told me "There - that's fixed".  

 

OK.  What do I do with the cable tie?  Do I use it to secure my lolling tongue to my inner cheek?  Do I pierce a nipple and thread it through?  Or do I hold it aloft and hope for 5G???

 

No.  Apparently I poke it through the tiny hole in the back wall to allow water to run away.  I tried explaining that this is what I have been doing (with the special-hole-poking-shaped-piece-of-plastic which was supplied with the fridge) and that the ice builds up relentlessly causing freezing of food.  No - Person was not interested in this. "We'll see how it goes" were his parting words.  Along with "Colin will be round with a new washer-dryer sometime."  

 

OK.  Cheers.  Right.  Yes.  

 

I now have a lot of ice to remove from the kitchen floor and the contents of a fridge to replace.  But at least Person has been and was right on time.  

 

[tigerburnie]

39 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

That must have taken quite a loooooooong time. I dread the thought of doing so with my 2500 or so records! Actually, I would probably really do about a third, but still..........

 

I was given (from a friend's estate sale) a nice set of Sennheiser HDR 170 wireless cans. When I first listened with them, I thought about giving up my speakers!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had Sennheiser cans, great when they worked but didn't last for very long, less than 5 years, now have OneOdio, which seem very good so far.

[TheSignalEngineer]

Bu%%eration.

After a good week of near normality last week, including three bike rides and a trip out on the shiny metal, a bit of a headache when I went to bed last night. Still there this morning so did a testy thing and two lines appeared. Until further notice all communication will come from House Arrest the isolation unit, AKA the spare bedroom, where my laptop is being set up.

 

There is one silver lining however. It has en-suite facilities shared by the Railway room. Currently that contains two folding crates of kits, detailing parts and RTR donors. Don't think I will be twidding my thumbs, just got to avoid doing a GDB with the craft knife.

[AndrewC]

6 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

 

No.  Apparently I poke it through the tiny hole in the back wall to allow water to run away.  I tried explaining that this is what I have been doing (with the special-hole-poking-shaped-piece-of-plastic which was supplied with the fridge) and that the ice builds up relentlessly causing freezing of food.  No - Person was not interested in this. "We'll see how it goes" were his parting words.  Along with "Colin will be round with a new washer-dryer sometime."  

 

Would it be a Samsung fridge perchance? Seems there is a design flaw in many of them. Ours ices up despite the so called "fix" being implemented several years ago. 

 

[New Haven Neil]

Enticed by sunshine, I walked around to the village shop.  Peed it down.  Back in now after half a mile in persisting rain....and its sunny again. Pah, I think the appropriate exclamation is.

 

We felt a bit off colour this weekend, but single lines only on the LFT's.  Mrs H not too well at all this morning, did another - still negative. Must be a 'normal' winter bug.  

 

 

[polybear]

1 hour ago, Gwiwer said:

Person duly arrived.  

 

Person duly perused.

 

Person duly proclaimed.

 

"Your washing machine's dead.  We'll organise a new one"  It seems the bearing has "gone" but where it has gone to has not been explained.  The fridge was emptied of its contents, save for air and a large build-up of ice.  Person took an industrial-sized screwdriver to the ice, prised it away, presented me with a cable-tie and told me "There - that's fixed".  

 

OK.  What do I do with the cable tie?  Do I use it to secure my lolling tongue to my inner cheek?  Do I pierce a nipple and thread it through?  Or do I hold it aloft and hope for 5G???

 

No.  Apparently I poke it through the tiny hole in the back wall to allow water to run away.  I tried explaining that this is what I have been doing (with the special-hole-poking-shaped-piece-of-plastic which was supplied with the fridge) and that the ice builds up relentlessly causing freezing of food.  No - Person was not interested in this. "We'll see how it goes" were his parting words.  Along with "Colin will be round with a new washer-dryer sometime."  

 

OK.  Cheers.  Right.  Yes.  

 

I now have a lot of ice to remove from the kitchen floor and the contents of a fridge to replace.  But at least Person has been and was right on time.  

 

 

Hmmm......not sure why a "gone" bearing would stop a washing machine from working, unless it was totally Fubar'd and seized; a "gone" bearing would normally cause a wiggly drum (if indeed it's a drum bearing) and/or be as noisy as hell.

Still, if the new washer is a freebie (some extra warranties offer this) then sounds like a fair swap to this Bear....

 

1 hour ago, AndrewC said:

Would it be a Samsung fridge perchance? Seems there is a design flaw in many of them. Ours ices up despite the so called "fix" being implemented several years ago. 

 

 

This site is often useful for such info:

https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/forums/forum/public-support-forums/help-and-support/fridge-and-freezer-forum/69330-samsung-rs21-refrigerator-over-icing

 

And....

https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/fix-it-yourself/refrigeration-self-help/2787-iced-up-fridges-a-freezers

Edited March 14, 2022 by polybear

[polybear]

Bear's Question Of The Day.....

 

How do Hermes - after being slaughtered recently for cr@p service - resolve the issues?

Answer: They rename themselves "Evri" instead.  Simples.

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/business/hermes-changes-its-name-to-evri-after-parcel-mishandling-allegations-b987530.html

[Ian Abel]

Happy Monday?!?!

 

Weekend completed;

Saturday afternoon, retrieved the newly purchased storm/screen door and toilet from two separate "big-box" stores. The Mrs. hadn't noticed, when she was looking for what she wanted, that she'd done that! No real problem as they're about 1/2 mile apart - surprised HER though when she started looking for her acknowledgements/pickup-receipts

Trevor and Meagan provided the heavy-lifting as the kids have decided I"m generally too old to do stuff without help - rubbish I say.

In their enthusiasm, they carried the toilet directly into the bathroom to same me the bother of moving it from the porch when I install it - then off they went

 

Problem was, I wasn't about to install it until next week - oh well, there's enough room to get around it and use all the facilities, and it gives the Mrs an opportunity to visualize (box is almost the same high and width as a smaller/newer vanity would be) what her NEXT planned bathroom modification may look like. 

 

Zoomed with friends in the evening and THEN... drum-roll, adjusted all the clock appropriately so they'd be correct in the morning.

Set an alarm - something I almost NEVER DO, relying on my body clock which is very good/accurate - so I was up in time to avoid the wrath of our choir director if I was late in AM.

THAT resulted in me barely sleeping as I was concerned the alarm wouldn't go off

 

Sunday - awoke (if you could call it that, see above) on time and was one of the earliest on the risers for the morning services. All went splendidly.

Weather Sunday was delightfully above zero and sunny. I ended up napping for about 2-hours, according to the Mrs, in the afternoon to recover from the sleepless night.

 

Today - much improved, EXCEPT THE WEATHER! We had an important REMINDER that this is MinneSNOWTA, so, ZERO and snowing first thing.

High of  4 later, then expected to be a high of 10 tomorrow and TWELVE on Wednesday...

 

Onward...

 

 

 

[Tony_S]

I have finished removing the old and fitting the new kitchen tap. It was chosen as it wasn’t too expensive and looked ok. It was claimed to be “easy fit” too. It looks ok and works well but I will avoid anything claiming Easyfit in future. I suspect when we get round to a kitchen refurb Aditi will choose a sink and tap fitting that is hideously expensive. She doesn’t look at the price, she just looks at something and decides if she likes it. This does of course mean sometimes stuff doesn’t get replaced. I think it took about 20 years after our lounge furniture needed replacing to find something she liked. Perhaps by the time we are finally replacing the kitchen worktops marble effect Formica will be fashionable again. 
 

Edited March 14, 2022 by Tony_S

[Barry O]

busy day so far.. assuming I had "finished" my cricket admin yesterday was .. incorrect!  I have had emails with questions which prove that the people sending them were ..

 

1. asleep all day or
2. can't read or
3. are the walking dead....

 

A bit of muddling done in between filling in forms for the Warley Show - yep I am demonstrating again...then being asked to take our Club  representation of Chapel en le Frith to Preston next March....woopppiiiiddddoooo!

 

Need to book tickets to attend a meeting in Lords on 4th/5th May --I get a night in London courtesy of the ECB.. ooh err!

 

Time to...

 

prepare, cook and eat tea!

 

Baz