Early Risers.

[Northroader]

2 hours ago, TheQ said:

???

I’m expressing concern that the Bear has knocked over his blue ink bottle.

[TheQ]

 

The Bear has been forbotten to use blue Ink by the Authorities.

The Bear has been forbotten to use blue Ink by the Authorities.

The Bear has been forbotten to use blue Ink by the Authorities.

The Bear has been forbotten to use blue Ink by the Authorities.

The Bear has been forbotten to use blue Ink by the Authorities.

The Bear has been forbotten to use blue Ink by the Authorities.

 

Edited September 26, 2022 by TheQ

[PupCam]

25 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Call me an old cynic, but there are soft skills and there are soft skills. Too much of the "mandatory training" demanded by a client that I have had to endure over the past few years has been short on content and long on utter b0ll0cks.

 

You Old Cynic ......

 

I hadn't realised you'd worked in the aerospace engineering sector!   😀

 

Alan (another Old Cynic)

[iL Dottore]

Just now, TheQ said:

The Bear has been forbotten to use blue Ink by the Authorities.

I kinda miss the blue text.

 

Will they allow purple text?  Purple has traditionally been the colour of Emperors, Royalty and the Nobility. And I can't think of more noble personages on RMWeb than the citizens of ER

[TheQ]

or electronics...

[PupCam]

4 minutes ago, TheQ said:

 

The Bear has been forbotten to use blue Ink by the Authorities.

The Bear has been forbotten to use blue Ink by the Authorities.

The Bear has been forbotten to use blue Ink by the Authorities.

The Bear has been forbotten to use blue Ink by the Authorities.

The Bear has been forbotten to use blue Ink by the Authorities.

The Bear has been forbotten to use blue Ink by the Authorities.

 

 

I'm colour blind, why have you repeated the same sentence six times?  😉

 

[Ian Abel]

Moanday arrived far earlier than I'd have liked <yawn> - ooohhh, I like that!

 

Friday evening, we had friends over and actually prepared a meal! We've spent rather too many of the past several diners with guest result in ordering take-out from various establishments.

Prepared one of our favourites, discovered during the COVID shut-down - Creamy Tuscan Chicken - the "Tuscan" isn't necessarily objective, but who's complaining 😀

Very good time catching up with friends we haven't seen since the beginning of summer for various reasons/excuses.

 

Saturday, tasked with a variety of chores/challenges, including the latest Mrs home "improvement", adding a picture rail to the living room main wall.

With flexibility and various other key requirements, settled on this -> STAS Cliprail pro looks good, functions extremely well and easy to install, SORTED, more bonus points for yours truly...

Quiet evening to ourselves, especially since I needed to be up early Sunday.

 

Sunday, off to sing at both the 9AM and 11AM services for St. Francis. Pretty much stood for 4 hours without much of a break <sigh>. My back... arrggghhh...

Then, home, a quick relax and off to collect the remaining patio furniture we were getting from the friends who are moving/downsizing. 

Lastly, a decent evening meal and plenty of wine with those folks, here, because they are almost devoid of "anything" except the basic necessities int eh bedroom/bathroom, having boxed all else up to be taken by the movers in a day or two.

 

So here we are, Monday! Already called the city to have our new furnace/AC install inspected, scheduled for Friday AM.

Working and will be looking forward to a quiet relaxing evening 🤣

 

Weekend weather has been cool with lows around 6-8C, highs 15-17C and very windy. Overnight continuing to drop with Wednesday forecast to be 2C <brrr>

 

Carry on.

 

Edited September 26, 2022 by Ian Abel

[Northroader]

Ta, Q, I go off for the weekend, and CBA to go back six pages and that’s happened. Is nothing sacred?

[iL Dottore]

12 minutes ago, PupCam said:

 

I'm colour blind, why have you repeated the same sentence six times?  😉

 

Sorry to ruin a good joke, but unless you have Monochromacy/Achromatopsia you will see some colours:

 

First, normal vision

 

Monochromatic colour blindness - which occurs (according to a quick Wiki search) about 1 in 30,000 people - so very, very rare...

 

a more common form of colour blindness

[woodenhead]

8 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Sorry to ruin a good joke, but unless you have Monochromacy/Achromatopsia you will see some colours:

 

Perhaps @PupCam only has a monochrome monitor.

[southern42]

...watching the varnish dry.

 

' afternoon all from red dragon land.

Transfer of another load of fake weld lines and number plates has received a final coat of varnish.  All being well I will start using them tomorrow.

 

Toot on the flute a bit iffy. Room temp has dropped to 18oC. Outside 11oC. Flute was cold and took some warming up but also gathered more condensation from blowing than usual, and my hands were cold, too. 🥶 As I said, before, a few steps backward, sometimes...

 

Just ordered a wool snood for somebody's birthday leaving me with the temptation of getting one for myself as well. It could come in handy down on the trax as it gets colder. I will see if I feel the same tomorrow before ordering. 🥶

 

Gone dark again, rain stopped, a bit breezy.

 

Some good news has just entered my Inbox. Background - beginning of the year our NHS Dentist moved away leaving us without a dentist. Not to worry, one was recommended by a friend, albeit private. I had a couple of sessions with her. Then the practice closed. No dentist. Ray found out a new one is setting up, to open shortly. Filled in the online form, and hey presto, we are now registered with them.  Hoping it will not be too long before we hear from them.

🤞

That deserves a mugadecaf.

Be good, be patient... !!!

 

Polly

[Gwiwer]

Moanday. 
 

Here’s the task. 
 

[Tony_S]

6 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Boil in the bag?

iD would probably prefer sous-vide.

[polybear]

4 hours ago, Northroader said:

?????

 

We've been splatted.....

 

4 hours ago, PeterBB said:

c) is the one that especially causes the problems in terms of how much they can be paid.  MV normally have qualified by the apprentice route and definitely have the skills but not all are able to pass on information and will not take 'guidance' on the manner in which they approach students (even although how some of them get enrolled was/is sometimes a mystery (£sd is the college need as compared with schools they are insufficently appropriately funded and pay still lags far behind that of the schools).

 

 

Bear recalls an incident at the last College where we had a M.E. Group; the MV Workshop was next to the Machine Shop and so we got to see the Tutor there from time to time.  One particular day he'd really had enough - he told a couple of kids what to do on a car and when he came back they'd obviously been p1ssin' about and made a mess of it.  So he tried again - twice, in fact.  Eventually he lost all patience with them and told 'em straight - something along the lines of "FFS stop p1ssin' about before one of you gets hurt, start listening and start working - otherwise you'll be out".  What happened?  They complained to the College Principal - and he had to apologise to them.

Not long after that he told 'em to p0ke the job and he walked - and he'd been there a very long time and was very good.

 

3 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

Given your confessed tech skills I assume that is a yellow sticky note stuck to your screen  with "clean the top of the cupboard every 6 months" written on it?

 

No - the real deal, in fact - Puppers would be proud (if not amazed).  I currently have 30 active Reminders on the list to clear (and a lot, lot more not yet active cos' they haven't reached their date yet).  The oldest Reminder still to do is 395 days old.  Oops. 

 

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

I kinda miss the blue text.

 

Will they allow purple text?  Purple has traditionally been the colour of Emperors, Royalty and the Nobility. And I can't think of more noble personages on RMWeb than the citizens of ER

 

Perhaps we could all have a different colour.....🤣

 

Bear here......

I received an email today from the 'bay offering a deal on charges when selling items - so this afternoon has been a mad rush of identifying, photographing and listing items - with more to do.  It seems the deal expires at midnight, hence the rush.

[Gwiwer]

37 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

iD would probably prefer sous-vide.

As would I if the alternative was BitB 

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. He's hiding at the moment but Arthur Itis keeps popping his head up but Nurofen keeps him in place. This afternoon I popped down to Tess Coes and there I bumped into a gent I hadn't seen since before lockdown so we spent about fifteen minutes catching up.

[PupCam]

2 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Sorry to ruin a good joke, but unless you have Monochromacy/Achromatopsia you will see some colours:

 

Sorry to ruin a good technical explanation of my actual disability  (it would appear that I have reasonably severe anomalous trichromacy ,Red-weak/Protanomaly) but the all-black version was much quicker and much easier for the sake of the joke albeit founded on the truth 😀  

 

Edit:  Actually, I don't really see it as a disability just a right PITA.    There are so many people with real disabilities not being able to see red tulips against a green hedge sort of pales into insignificance doesn't it!   There are of course some who claim real disabilities but over-egg it for a multitude of reasons!

 

Edited September 26, 2022 by PupCam
Note added

[Ozexpatriate]

38 minutes ago, polybear said:

Perhaps we could all have a different colour ...

I will confess to not understanding why management would insist, but I find the standard font easier to read than bolded blue.

 

It is nice to have colour options for emphasis from time to time.

[Ozexpatriate]

8 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

The mind boggles….

https://www.nisbets.co.uk/dick-utility-tongs-10in/gd791

I'm not sure I follow how this boggles, other than the manufacturer's branding. I have a pair of long kitchen tongs* and thoroughly recommend them. I bought them for flipping thin slices (of things like ham or bacon) in a frying pan. They are incredibly useful and I use them all the time - much more often that I thought I would.

 

* They don't have the additional integral 'handle' illustrated.

 

I also have some smaller bamboo tongs with which I retrieve toast from the toaster - non-conductive and very handy - great for things like (English) muffins or even bagels that do not appear above the toaster even when they pop up.

 

Edited September 26, 2022 by Ozexpatriate

[BoD]

34 minutes ago, PupCam said:

There are so many people with real disabilities not being able to see red tulips against a green hedge sort of pales into insignificance doesn't it! 

…. and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green.

[simontaylor484]

After speaking to Kieran when I picked him up. He says the cancellations have been due to son construction work in the areas where they do the practical work as they are building areas where they will be able to work on hybrid/ev 

 

 

[simontaylor484]

It Looks like a new mobile phone last has been installed at the entrance to the park. I assume it will be 5G so I need to make myself a tin foil hat. I was thinking a fore and aft design like Princess Royal was wearing to one of the vigils 

[Coombe Barton]

When memory was scarce we had a call from a company saying that memory had been nicked from their ten PCs. We replaced it all

 

Next day we had a call from then saying that memory had been nicked from their ten PCs.

 

We replaced it with dummy chips.

 

The next day we had a call from the police saying that they'd caught them and could we identify the memory we'd put into the computers as it didn't seem to work in their test machines.

 

Result!!

 

[New Haven Neil]

Evening.

 

I shan't comment about blue text moderation, as last time I pointed something out that was wrong in a picture I got put on close moderation for a week.  The comment from the mod would have been easy to have proved incorrect but it wasn't worth a complete ban for arguing.    And I was right....the manuf agreed it was an error.  Obvs touched a nerve.

 

One of those days today, two destinations planned, both found closed on arrival!  70 miles of fuel wasted.  Third destination was OK though, but caused consternation for us both.  Sizergh Castle - we both know we have been there, and have stamps in our National Trust book to prove, but had no memory of it at all!  As it was just the gardens we visited today, not the house, perhaps we only went into the house last time, and the cafe was obviously quite recent so unfamiliar.  Weird day.

 

Not sure what to plan for tomorrow that may be open!

[Tony_S]

We had a day at the seaside. Aditi wanted to go to Brancaster beach as it had been a place she had studied for map work exercises years ago. It was very windy. The car park was very wet. I am not surprised the dunes are eroding the wind was moving the sand about. Not exactly crowded, a few people with dogs and some kite surfers. After leaving everywhere where we could get something more than a cup of soup seemed closed. So we went to Hunstanton and did the traditional thing of fish and chips. We sat in the restaurant rather than battle with gulls, not that they seemed too keen on approaching humans, apart from one young (but quite large)  one that seemed to want to be adopted. We didn’t bring it home. One family came into the chip restaurant and asked about the prices. When told, the chap said “ow much?” Rapid turn round, leading elderly relative (I assume) out into the rain saying something about “not eating here!”  
Tony