Early Risers.

[The Lurker]

actually looking at the times, two of those are from the evening before. Not sure why the actual morning  shot is so blurry. Looks fine on my phone!

[simontaylor484]

@New Haven Neil happen Donk and Scripps have conspired to have a fly past.? 

 

The day has been broken up by a hospital appointment for her ladyship meaning we haven't had a lot of time to do much.

 

Pebbles the dachshund has had 3 walks today. My knees are feeling it now 

[New Haven Neil]

Dave H type fast job just gone up the lake too, 500-600 feet this time. Donk is hiding from the noise. 

[Barry O]

attended the Marie Celeste for my Aortic Screening.. apparently I am fine .. shame about my knees then!

 

Been busy catching up with yet more paperwork. PAH!

 

Now for a mugadecaf.

 

Baz

[45156]

Afternoon All

 

Not all posts read - I was out on two longish days out, with Lily in kennels and with late dinners, etc it was just too much to do everything.  So greetings are all I can offer.

 

Believe it or not, I came downstairs after a session of tidying up a load of paperwork, and putting it in the loft, to find that THE STOVE HAD BEEN LIT - and the living room is warmer than it has been for weeks - it also seems to be permeating the rest of the house - as is the smell of unlit stove that has not been run for nearly two years.  The new flue seems to draw well too, the logs are well dried ash and the stove fan it whirling away merrily.  It's one of these, and I certainly didn't pay anything like the current price, but it does work, https://www.ukstovefans.com/product/t84-twin-blade-mini/

Now, what about the central heating.

 

And as to Timpson's lifetime guarantee - I have four watches on that and it cost about 1.75 times the single battery, and my TIssot is now on its 5th battery, I also have the lifetime guarantee on the batteries in both car keys, which I didn't ask for or pay for, as they made a mistake when filling out the new battery card, and they just said "have it on us".  When the battery runs out, they just put another one in at no charge to me.  Not a special battery at all, just keep replacing it.

 

Off to sit by the stove now before 30747 decides that enough is enough.

 

Regards to All

Stewart

 

 

[TheQ]

I suppose I'd ought to have one of those fans.. I'm qualified to work on a T84 (radar)

[PupCam]

Oh no, that's another project then.     Just had a call from a purveyor of models of mechanical devices that run on parallel strips of metal.   It seems that many moons ago I "Added to basket" on pre-order a 7mm/ft model of a small black locomotive from the Hell Of A Mess company of old.   The event happened so long ago that the card used for the initial transaction at the time has expired.  In fact it has ceased to be ... (but that's a different sketch completely).   Anyway, it seems that a box will be arriving at Puppers Towers at the end of week.    Now I have a suitable DCC decoder that should fit although currently it thinks its an 08.   I need to source a more suitable sound file for it so that it will sound like a Jinty and a means of squirting it in 🤔

 

It seems to be quite an expensive time at the moment; on Saturday I should be going on a mission that will hopefully result in a complete (may even be operational!) replacement engine for the little BSA that has been out of commission for a whole year now.    Looking forward to getting that back on the road as it's great fun to ride.

 

TTFN

 

Edited September 28, 2022 by PupCam

[simontaylor484]

I have recieved a copy of my Mortgage statement my payments have risen £146 since this time last year. 

[BoD]

Passing through Leeds station after a most enjoyable day out on the Settle and Carlisle line.

Waves towards the North West Highlands (of Leeds) and @Barry O

[jamie92208]

9 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Good idea.

But at the current exchange rate I’d be loosing money. If Chris bought SFr at 1.20 £100 would net him SFr120. If I bought his SFr at the current rate of parity (roughly 1:1 at present exchange rates) then I’d have to pay him £120 for his £100 of Swiss Francs.

 

Paradoxically, now is the time to buy £ as they are so cheap (stock up for my next 2 or 3 UK trips?)

 

 

I was assuming that you would buy them at their current value. If you bought at the market rate  Chris would be several cents per franc better off than exchanging at a High Street shop.

 

Jamie

[polybear]

3 hours ago, Erichill16 said:

We might have gone to Haarlem( beautiful station) ............
 

 

Did you get to see the Globetrotters too?

 

Bear here......

An afternoon in the loft - and more on Freecycle.  Progress is progress....

 

In other news:

It seems the Boss of ITV has moaned to Domino's Pizza cos' they posted (tweeted?) this 🤣

 

[Barry O]

When we first got a mortgage interest rates went up to 15%. We lived on toast and beans gor a while.. no tea or coffee, no trips to a pub... but, somehow we survived and didn't go hungry.. but it was hard.

 

Bas

[New Haven Neil]

Yup we were there too Baz.....but times change.  We always budgeted for a high interest rate so we didn't drop ourselves in it, meaning the mortgage got paid off a lot earlier as rates fell and we kept payments high.

[New Haven Neil]

50 minutes ago, PupCam said:

Oh no, that's another project then.     Just had a call from a purveyor of models of mechanical devices that run on parallel strips of metal.   It seems that many moons ago I "Added to basket" on pre-order a 7mm/ft model of a small black locomotive from the Hell Of A Mess company of old.   The event happened so long ago that the card used for the initial transaction at the time has expired.  In fact it has ceased to be ... (but that's a different sketch completely).   Anyway, it seems that a box will be arriving at Puppers Towers at the end of week.    Now I have a suitable DCC decoder that should fit although currently it thinks its an 08.   I need to source a more suitable sound file for it so that it will sound like a Jinty and a means of squirting it in 🤔

 

It seems to be quite an expensive time at the moment; on Saturday I should be going on a mission that will hopefully result in a complete (may even be operational!) replacement engine for the little BSA that has been out of commission for a whole year now.    Looking forward to getting that back on the road as it's great fun to ride.

 

TTFN

 

 

Oh great news Puppers, I didn't have any luck at all on the rock looking for parts for you.

 

I also have a one of those 6 wheeled things coming, but it'll give Dave apoplexy, it's the maroon preservation version!  Always wanted it after seeing the non-prototypical prototype!  Hadn't realised Dapol did it a couple (errr, 5) years ago, got a new in box one.  I'm a sucker for odd preservation liveries, if I have seen them in person, it's a sort of recall of the 70's era when ex-BR liveries weren't allowed.  Yup, I have 'THE' Pannier too........My daddy....

[pH]

8 hours ago, AndrewC said:

 Had a nasty hiccup with the shed while we were away. Something in the greenhouse tripped the rcd on the shed's consumer unit. Freezer with about £500 worth of bbq meat. I think you can see where this is going. Got home last night to find after 6 days there was still ice in the freezer and about 2/3 of the stuff was still very frozen. Internal temp was 1.5c. Hats off to Kenwood. In the end the loss was less than £100 worth. 

You were lucky. I once arrived home from a month-long holiday in the UK (fortunately alone, the rest of the family had stayed on longer) to a slight unpleasant smell in the house. However, we’d had friends checking the house occasionally and had heard nothing from them, so I assumed it was just stale air. Then I opened the fridge/freezer - have you ever seen liquid meat? I have. The compressor had failed, early in the month it would appear.

[polybear]

Bear here.....

An easy mistake to make:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/crime/watch-texas-couple-shocked-to-receive-small-armory-of-m16s/ar-AA12iIUO?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=aa3016ce86244d66861ff50ebac84e6c

 

And it seems that the Ar5ehole that murdered Stephen Lawrence has been rumbled taking selfie's in his cell whilst in Prison - with a TV and Games Console in the background.  Just whatever happened to punishment?

It also seems they've installed body scanners for visitors in various (all?) Prisons - and detected 20,000 attempts to smuggle contraband in over the last 2 years.  I bluddy well hope they got nicked for it - but somehow I suspect not (or at least not in any meaningful way).

 

And finally.....

Bear knows how to sort Poo Tin - it seems there's "a bit of a leak" in a gas pipe coming from Russia.  So put a match to it and blow the whole bluddy country up.  Sorted.

[pH]

4 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

On Windermere....got buzzed by a Hercles, maybe 100-150 feet! Dambusters stylee under the radar training?

My brother-in-law, who is not at all interested in aircraft, once described an aircraft he had seen fly under the Ballachulish bridge - big, four engines, large vertical tail … I’ve tried to work out clearances at low tide vs height of aircraft and I think it’s just possible.
 

The RCAF, at least, used to fly Hercs at extremely low level to perform extractions of cargo on pallets using only a drogue parachute. I believe they stopped after a parachute snagged and the aircraft crashed near Edmonton some years ago.

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Arthur Itis has been banging away since this morning, co-codamol and Voltarol gel seems  to have no affect at all. The only ease is to lay flat on my back which is not a good idea as I can't do much laying on my back. Time for dinner, lets have a look in the fridge. 

[Danemouth]

1 hour ago, Barry O said:

When we first got a mortgage interest rates went up to 15%. We lived on toast and beans gor a while.. no tea or coffee, no trips to a pub... but, somehow we survived and didn't go hungry.. but it was hard.

 

Bas

 

We were almost in the same position Bas with two young children. One of the nicest sounds I ever heard was on a Saturday morning about ten years ago when a  large package came through the letterbox - the deeds as the mortgage was paid. A couple of days later a letter from the Land Registry confirmed this.

 

Dave

[pH]

1 hour ago, Barry O said:

When we first got a mortgage interest rates went up to 15%. We lived on toast and beans gor a while.. no tea or coffee, no trips to a pub... but, somehow we survived and didn't go hungry.. but it was hard.

 

Bas

 

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

Yup we were there too Baz.....but times change.  We always budgeted for a high interest rate so we didn't drop ourselves in it, meaning the mortgage got paid off a lot earlier as rates fell and we kept payments high.

How about a mortgage at 19%, on a house the value of which was going down, while working for an employer who started laying staff off within a month of my starting with them?

 

(We got out of that mortgage, perhaps causing a bank loans officer some grief, the house is now ‘worth’ about 17 times what we paid for it, and I worked 26 years for that organization. But there were a few tough early years - including an 11 week strike.)

Edited September 28, 2022 by pH

[TheSignalEngineer]

5 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

On Windermere....got buzzed by a Hercles, maybe 100-150 feet! Dambusters stylee under the radar training?

When out cycling we often get that, at the correct location too. They pass over Derwent Dam at about 100 feet. Impressive but nowhere near as good when a pair of Lancasters did it  few years ago.

[Gwiwer]

2 hours ago, Barry O said:

When we first got a mortgage interest rates went up to 15%. We lived on toast and beans gor a while.. no tea or coffee, no trips to a pub... but, somehow we survived and didn't go hungry.. but it was hard.

 

Bas

Similarly. First mortgage was a fixed-rate so initially paying slightly over the odds. Then interest rates jumped. And jumped again. 15% and very hriefly 19/% (for just a few days iirc) meaning that although I was struggling to pay I was better off than many who had variable-rate loans. 
 

In other news the carpet-cleaning Upon the Hill of Strawberries has been completed. Three afternoons with the machine and crawling on all fours into corners with the edge-tool. 
 

Dr. SWMBO called earlier and appeared very happy despite claiming to be exhausted by a very intensive week’s conferencing in Melbourne. 
 

And an eagle-eyed Gwiwer spotted something amiss with the CIS screens today. Can you spot it?  
 

 

So now it’s time to move on from carpets to cleaning everything else I can find. Starting wirh showering the Gwiwer. 

[Coombe Barton]

... when I looked up it’s dark ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2022/09/28/harsh-and-dangerous-winter-ahead/

[TheSignalEngineer]

44 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

And an eagle-eyed Gwiwer spotted something amiss with the CIS screens today. Can you spot it?  

The train is expected to be on time?

[Gwiwer]

3 minutes ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

The train is expected to be on time?

It was indeed. But Wilton (which was actually Wilton South) closed in 1966.