Early Risers.

[TheQ]

Afternoon Awl,

 Sailing went a bit better this weekend, 

Race 1, jib worked much better, though the furling arrangement didn't. Just after I passed the finishing line, the mainsheet caught on the bank bringing the sail to an abrupt stop.

A couple of rivets on the jib club broke.

 

Race two. I was still riveting...

 

Race three, sailed reasonably well nothing spectacular.

 

Race 4, this race is a Bermudan rigged boats only series.  For which BM qualifies to win a trophy if sailed well.

Kept up with the others fairly well up wind, but down wind they pulled up their Spinnakers and off they went... However at the end of the race the other competitors reckoned it would be close on handicap...

 

Consideration is being made for further jib modifications.

Not next weekend though, I need to earn lots of brownie points on the Friday, it's the Norwich show next Saturday.

 

Met my sailing compatriots brother in law, sadly my sailing compatriot is still not fit, unable to work or sail.. come August that will 3 years since the motorbike accident.

 

Edited April 3, 2022 by TheQ

[polybear]

52 minutes ago, Erichill16 said:

 

We’ve been having issues with the discharge of SWMBO’s car battery over the last few months and wondered if it was due to the glove box light staying on when the box was closed. We used a mobile phone camera to check. The light did go out so not the cause of the battery issue. In the end a new battery was purchased, £160, ouch, but it’s a ‘stop/start’ battery.

 

Buddy ex-next door had problems with a car battery keep going flat.  Eventually it was traced to the Bluetooth discharging the battery somehow.  Once that was disabled everything was fine.  Never had all these hocus-pocus problems thirty years ago.....

 

Bear here,

Right, Bear is now ready to start danglin' bits of wallpaper tomorrow - let the fun commence.....

Apart from that, notalot; a space film (Ad Astra) watched finished watching via the Fire Stick - Beary verdict?  Don't bother - it was one of those where you stick with it then at the end think "Well, that was cr@p.....".  Oh well.

 

And finally....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[monkeysarefun]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

My idea was to video call Mrs NHN's mobile on Whatsapp, leave my phone in the fridge and shut the door.....no hefelumps harmed in this process😜

 

Mate I proved to myself  that the fridge light goes out back in the 90's by setting the self-timer on my camera.

 

Having to wait  til I'd used up the rest of the film, then the  3 day wait to get the prints back from the photo place did detract from the scientific awesomeness of it  but.

Edited April 3, 2022 by monkeysarefun

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

its not unusual to hit a tree, less usual to get so far through one!  These are powerful weapons.

I bet that Tribble thought it was safe behind a tree too.

[Gwiwer]

9 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

That probably means I shall be told what to do later as she “does some g****ning” 🙄

Yup.

 

Panel of trellis purchased.  Bag of stones purchased.  Green leafy things purchased.  Trellis, as expected, far too big to fit inside the Little Red Driving Box.  So, as expected, Dr. SWMBO took the Box home with her other purchases while I carried the trellis the mile or so along the road.  It's not heavy and being full of holes makes it easy to hold and carry so there was no real problem.  

 

The problem arose trying to place it where intended.  The gap is 91cm wide.  The trellis is 90cm wide.  But neither house nor garden walls are perfectly plumb after 90 years meaning it was necessary to shave a decent amount off both sides at the base before it would slot in.  But slot in it did and it look good.  The Terrace looks better than ever.  The previous little piece of trellis we had there has been relocated to the other end where it has been fixed to the plant shelves with nails and superglue.  

 

And that, very largely, was that.  Other domestic engineering functions were completed and a roasted cluckbird enjoyed for dinner.  Her Birthday Weekend.  Gone.  Just like that.  For the next seven weeks Dr. SWMBO is only nine years my junior but I'll redress the balance soon enough.  I'm thinking about having a "Not The Retirement Drinks" somewhen around the appropriate date.  I'm told pubs are open again and we are free to go in and enjoy.  Though it's not free to enjoy once inside but hey - the brewer and staff have to be paid somehow!  

 

Stay well.  

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Its amazing how not doing very much takes so much time. Not helped by Si Attica jumping in but my exercises and some Nurofen sent him on his way.

[brianusa]

13 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

uestion - comfort! I am far too old for last minute-economy flight-hostel holidays.

Thats you and me both, doc!😩

     Brian.

[tetsudofan]

Looks as though I've lost my Gold status, getting dammed cheesed off for getting "This day in ...... " adverts taking up a third of the right-hand side of the screen.

 

Funny the system has kept my little picture thing in top left hand corner but lost my gold status......

 

Keith

[zarniwhoop]

10 minutes ago, tetsudofan said:

Looks as though I've lost my Gold status, getting dammed cheesed off for getting "This day in ...... " adverts taking up a third of the right-hand side of the screen.

 

Funny the system has kept my little picture thing in top left hand corner but lost my gold status......

 

Keith

If you follow the link to AY's comments on the outage and data loss, several people have reported loss of gold status there, I guess it will probably get restored in the next few days but read that (long) thread for more details.

 

ĸen

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

Not been around much lately as I’ve had a lot on. Started back at work a fortnight ago and so been busy with that as well as doing the bookwork and managing the move to new premises. I’ll be glad when this is all over. Anyway an early night is in order as I have a truss to fit on my way into work tomorrow so will have to be up early.

Goodnight

Robert 

[PhilJ W]

Woolwich ferry 1961.

 

[Ozexpatriate]

3:00pm on a Sunday afternoon - the "long dark teatime of the soul" time.

 

Miami Open tennis is long finished.

The forecast rain is yet to arrive and skies continue to be grey but glary.

The home (English football) team is two goals and a man down at half-time.

 

Not much to report really.

 

EDIT - followed by a yellow card at 47 minutes.

 

Edited April 3, 2022 by Ozexpatriate

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

I didn’t get the time to log in this morning as I overslept. So, once up, dressed and fed I went straight outside and installed a couple of sets of solar lights in the garden. Just as I was finishing off, it started to rain, so I decamped to the workshop and did a bit more work on the turntable, I’d only just got my tools to hand when the rain stopped, but at decided to carry on in the workshop instead. I’ve started to add a few small detailing bits and pieces. I started painting and weathering the buffer stop, glueing down a pile of old sleepers and glazing a small cabin that will sit close to the turntable. This can then be permanently fixed in place once the glazing has dried. 

 

After dinner, carried on in the workshop for an hour or so, but after I’d packed up and before heading inside I watered all the seedlings and the few potted plants. Over the past few weeks the garden has really started to come to life, lots of new growth about, but unfortunately it looks as though our rhubarb plant hasn’t survived, ho hum. 

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[Winslow Boy]

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

I bet that Tribble thought it was safe behind a tree too.

 

I just want to know how there going to get it out that's all.

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[laurenceb]

Night awl

[iL Dottore]

9 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

…It was an archery day, Mrs NHN won.  Everyone had a good round so things were quite tight, and all decided on the last target.  Pal Steve though, managed to do this....poor tree.  It is a very tight shot through some close trees, so its not unusual to hit a tree, less usual to get so far through one!  These are powerful weapons.

I think that with the advent of the rifle, pistols and revolvers people have forgotten how powerful and deadly a longbow can be. The French certainly found out at Crécy and Agincourt (at Crécy, according to modern research, a longbow could send an arrow through the plate armour of the time at 225 meters).
 

I wonder how a kevlar vest (or any other modern body armour) would fare against a longbow?

 

Correct me if I’m wrong @New Haven Neil, but aren’t bows to all intents and purposes silent as well?

[Robert]

Morning All,

 

Thought I would put in an appearance after the outage!

 

There isn't a lot to report.  Spring seems to have disappeared for the moment and Winter has returned.

 

Have a good day everyone...

[iL Dottore]

Good Morning All,

 

Another Monday rolls around and today promises to officially be Not A Fun Day at all: I have PT scheduled for my hip - which has been playing silly bu99ers over the past few days. So an entertaining and pain-filled morning awaits.

 

Work is very quiet, so I can take the day off (nothing to deliver until Thursday) and hunt for a hotel in Edinburgh. I’m off to Edinburgh in October and I’ve already booked my flights, but I still have to book a hotel - and the prices in Edinburgh are as high as in London (and that’s off-season, heaven knows what the prices are like during the Ednburgh Festival).

 

There’s one place which looks most intriguing - a hotel in a brew pub (with loads of freebies in each room), but at £254/night I may pass up on it. I may end up with a reliable Accor hotel (Novotel,  Mercure, Adagio) or perhaps try the Ibis Styles (also by Accor) and recycle the money saved into whisky.  I’ll have to find out whether or not the Accor hotels offer a “Full Scottish” for breakfast as opposed to a “Continental Breakfast”, the absence or presence of the opportunity to scoff soss, black pud, bacon, eggs, haggis and mushrooms to start the day may be the deciding factor

 

Any suggestions as to a decent place to stay will be welcomed.

 

Enjoy Monday

Edited April 4, 2022 by iL Dottore

[iL Dottore]

As a coda to the above: anyone had experience with Premier Inn (they have a self-service breakfast buffet 🤑)

 

iD

p.s. I wish we could have the old emojis back, the current collection isn’t inspiring

[jamie92208]

30 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

As a coda to the above: anyone had experience with Premier Inn (they have a self-service breakfast buffet 🤑)

 

iD

p.s. I wish we could have the old emojis back, the current collection isn’t inspiring

We can definitely  recommend  the Premier Inn.  Their breakfasts are good.  We will be having a couple of nights in one in May.

 

Jamie

[TheQ]

7 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

I just want to know how there going to get it out that's all.

Never pick up unexploded ordinance...

I have no live rounds Misfires etc....

[jamie92208]

Good moaning from a very cool Charente.  It did wonder if I would see some brass monkrys with missing piarts when I went to get the hens up.  Fortunately  the log burner has come back to life and I am nice and warm and enjoying a muggacoffee after my cereal.  The main event of the day will be taking Beth's car the The Danglies for it's annual service.  As it's 22 miles away I will take a book and a magazine for whilst I wait.  If the big yellow heater does appear I may head for the shed this afternoon.

 

Regards to all and hope to get some reports from Chris.

 

Jamie