Early Risers.

[polybear]

14 minutes ago, TheQ said:

Sodium Chlorate weed killer, creosote as mentioned before, TBT a boat antifouling that worked..

 

Oh yes, SC....you could have "fun" with that stuff.  Mind you, the Teachers were less than happy when a certain small furry schoolcub put a match to some in the boy's changing rooms at a Sailing Base during a Games lesson.  Seems they got panicky when clouds of smoke went billowing past their office window, which was directly upstairs.  Got a team b*llockin' but nothing worse, fortunately.

As for Creosote, still available I believe but in 25L drums to Farmers etc.  Rumour has it that old engine oil mixed with white spirit is a DIY substitute, but without that lovely smell.....

[simontaylor484]

9Afternoon all 

 

Bathroom refit continues apace so have been missing for most of the day.

 

Can i add Verdone weedkiller to the list.

Oh and I don't think Brasso is as good as it used to be. Maybe it was because it was Brasso wedding o bought.

 

Upvc cleaner doesn't seem to be as potent these days. I got some from a customer of ours in around 2003 it was brilliant shifted ingrained dirt. Some had leaked down the side of the bottle and it ate through it like putting poly cement on expanded polystyrene.

 

 

 

 

 

[PeterBB]

Twp triggers so far  - hydrangers - snap replanted a number today and Chrisf - not god that you are in constant pain but you gave the reminder that I will be at Tolworth with Salisbury's Bodmin General.

 

[Tony_S]

We removed everything from the summerhouse today. I found mouse city in one of the storage boxes for paint sheets and cushions. Many of which were dumped as they were not in a nice condition. The inside of the shed was washed down with diluted bleach . Everything that had been in the summerhouse was wiped down. After the trip  to the tip (sorry, recycling centre)  I was going to go to Wickes to get some expanding foam filler but remembered that I would have to pass a proper builders merchant so went there instead. The mouse hole is thoroughly blocked now with steel wool and expanding foam. Not a pretty job but I can tidy it later. I think the mice have been travelling between the summerhouse and the compost bin. I will clear that tomorrow. 
Tony

 

Edited November 10, 2022 by Tony_S

[45156]

Afternoon All

 

Have been away for a few days - got back late last evening - 6.45 after an over 4 hour drive from Lancaster - A49 was closed, and diversion route had a 2m tailback due to a roundabout between 2 A roads, and "our" road, of course carrying about twice its normal traffic - but it was interesting that the Radio 2 traffic reports did not mention this closure at all.

 

Other than that, greetings are on offer as I have skipped many pages, as I wasn't able to use the hotel wifi for more than 30 minutes a night, and one urgent email used up most of that on night 1, and reading the response and visiting the various websites took up the other - I was too knackered last night to even switch on the laptop.

 

Regards to All

Stewart

[chrisf]

I am likely to be off line for at least part of tomorrow and probably longer.  This afternoon I was all set to print the labels for my seasonal greetings cards and some other paperwork relatng to the festive season.  My printer had other ideas and refused to co-operate.  The trouble is probably something trivial and piffling but I won't know until the nice people in the repair shop have made me feel a fool at my expense for not being able to fix it myself.  I will be waiting for the shop to open first thing in the morning and fear the worst.  I shall have to entrust them with both laptop and printer for the duration.  Later, all being well, I will be havng lunch with a mate.  With any luck he will cheer me up but I'm not betting on it.  Does anyone else hate technology?

 

Chris

[TheQ]

After yesterday and today I hate Excel...

Yesterday, excel managed to have two identically named files open something it's not supposed to do.

This was I while I had another file open with similar data, it all got very confusing.. after closing excel down I was left with two files!!!!

 

Today, I found someone had been moving files adding numbers to their folders and file names, without telling me the one who uses these files the most. Some have been moved to or created in strange places.. I've spent most of the calibration waiting time today Storting out the mess, and there's more to do.

 

Because of that I had to merge some files, transfering graphs, at one point I'd transferred the graphs saved the file, then shut it down ... When I turned it back on the graph was missing, it did it again in front of a disbelieving witness ...

[monkeysarefun]

5 hours ago, polybear said:

The discussion progressed into the various uses and techniques of PS, including "The Nasty Stuff" (= old Nitromors) containing DCM; it seems that there were moves the ban it completely some years back, partly as the result of a couple of deaths in Germany apparently.  The problem is the fumes rise; after a while people can't smell it anymore and think it's all gone - but they're hiding up near the ceiling....so not ideal for a H/S/L refurb in an occupied Bear Towers....

Now the Nasty Stuff is for Trade Use (incl. Bears) only and not DIY, which was sufficient to fend off The Dogs in the EU and stop it from getting banned completely. 

 

Well when you give the  two finger salute to the faithful Commonwealth to run off and join the Common Market don't come crying now this kind of thing has happenned.

 

Here we can get it just down the road at Bunnings AND a sausage sandwich too, and to really p!ss  you off, we've  stuck your name on it.

 

 

 

Edited November 10, 2022 by monkeysarefun

[New Haven Neil]

Windoze 10 deleted the wireless driver for my printer last month - just like that, because it felt like it.  Took about an hour to sort out, a very annoyed ranty hour.

 

Kitchen's finished, and mates rates turned out to be less than I had allowed for - bonus.  Cracking job, he's a proper craftsman, very happy.  An un-rant?

[chrisf]

1 hour ago, PeterBB said:

Twp triggers so far  - hydrangers - snap replanted a number today and Chrisf - not god that you are in constant pain but you gave the reminder that I will be at Tolworth with Salisbury's Bodmin General.

 

I was hoping to be there too but it's not looking good - the evil combination of computer related trouble and bodily pain

 

Chris

[Ozexpatriate]

Recent conversation/observation/squabbles on police vehicles puts me in mind of old the Top Gear.

 

In this country they were routinely similar, usually large sedans from the likes of Ford, Dodge or Chevrolet. (The Bluesmobile is a good example, though I cannot comment on whether their cigarette lighters function.) They interested me little and I preferred to avoid any interactions with them.

 

One of the weirder outcomes of the law of unintended consequences resulted from what became known as "1033" - from Section 1033 of the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 1997; (which had a precedent from 1990) where the "Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services, Law Enforcement Support Office" (LESO) coordinated the transfer of excess military equipment to non-military law enforcement agencies. 

 

It resulted in  police forces owning and operating 'tactical' vehicles that no police agency in a democracy should have any business operating under 'normal' circumstances, leading to silly behavior like this Portland-area episode a few years ago.

 

Edited November 10, 2022 by Ozexpatriate

[grandadbob]

1 hour ago, PeterBB said:

Twp triggers so far  - hydrangers - snap replanted a number today and Chrisf - not god that you are in constant pain but you gave the reminder that I will be at Tolworth with Salisbury's Bodmin General.

 

17 minutes ago, chrisf said:

I was hoping to be there too but it's not looking good - the evil combination of computer related trouble and bodily pain

 

Sorry to hear of your woes Chris. 

All being well I will be visiting Tolworth at the weekend, probably on Saturday but that may change.  Look forward to (hopefully) meeting you Peter after missing you at the Farnham show.  Along with Epsom this is the nearest show to home and is only a 15-20 minute drive away.

 

Edited November 10, 2022 by grandadbob

[grandadbob]

5 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

Deleted, somehow I went into idiot mode and duplicated it.

 

Edited November 10, 2022 by grandadbob

[monkeysarefun]

5 hours ago, The White Rabbit said:

The last time I saw a village police station was when I tried to report a lost dog - it was running loose on an A road and I couldn't catch it myself, so drove in to the nearest village and to my surprise, found one. Unattended, he/she/they were dealing with other things, so just left a message. 

 

 

Theres one just up the road from here, someone has given it 5 stars on Google reviews.

 

Thats a tradie parked out front, its not the Police Ute.

 

[The White Rabbit]

Good evening. Or noswaith dda. 

 

Various tasks done today. In between these, some more memories of walking a bit and photographing a bit in mid-Wales have been rekindled. I'll stick with the Fathew and Dysinni valleys for another post, as the photos so far have been well received. 

 

Going back to the Dysinni 'Bird Rock' walk, I found another frame of the valley between the main Dysinni/Fathew valley the TR runs down and the lower Dysinni valley parallel to it further north. Abergynolwyn village is somewhere below the white longhouse in the centre of the picture, with the wooded hill flank to the right being the hill (Foel Fawr) between Nant Gwernol and Abergynolwyn TR stations. We're looking more or less towards Machynlleth, maybe six or seven miles away, though several million (if not billion?) tons of rock obscure the view. 

 

 

At Bird Rock/Craig yr Aderyn, the climb up from the valley floor road to the plateau on the top of the massive gets the blood flowing. Bird Rock and Gamallt (the latter close to Abergynolwyn) are two main peaks and the land slopes down to the west. A small valley runs across the centre and this has a few farms and a single tracked access road. Below, a view of this valley, with Bird Rock left, Cadair Idris in the distance centre and Gamallt to the right. One of the houses in the centre of the frame was for sale a few years ago and I was very tempted - but it wouldn't have worked out with employment and I wasn't able to afford to give that up or buy as a second property. 

 

 

A little further on, the valley turns back towards the Dysinni and the road crosses a small rise and then descends another hill. On this day, looking down the lower Dysinni valley, we had (distant) sea views of the coast somewhere between Tywyn and Llwyngwril. 

 

 

[Below], the road descends past a small group of houses/farms at Ty Mawr and into a hanging valley leading into the Fathew valley. The TR is visible between the line of trees from the lower centre to lower right, though you would need a very expensive and heavy telephoto lens to see the trains nearly a mile away. Dolgoch station is out of sight but would be about lower centre left - you can see the valley with the falls in leading away from the centre to centre left. Having walked up to the top of the hill, we now walked all the way down again! 

 

 

Having reached the B road at the bottom, we went up to Dolgoch station and took some frames there. One non-railway frame was of an unofficial bus-stop shelter at the end of one of the farm drives. Perhaps not as scenic as the mountains but I thought it was a nice piece of work and somehow summed up that part of the world. 

 

[BoD]

29 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

somehow I went into idiot mode

You mean you were once out of idiot mode?

[BoD]

13 hours ago, chrisf said:

When I do remember to buy tickets I get a lucky dip.  What if one or more of the tickets that I should have bought had been a winner?

Just imagine  though, if you bought tickets with the same numbers rather than lucky dip, forgot one week, and …

 

… ouch.

 

 

Sorry to hear of your various trials and tribulations. Hang on in there.

[simontaylor484]

My 12 year old set up his new laptop tonight with no help. Apart from borrowing a phone to get the password reset. 

Wonder if I can get him to learn Templot.

 

He has gone on to a Windows laptop after using Chromebooks for the lastcouple of years

[Coombe Barton]

... as tomorrow is 11th November, we’ll have an appropriate photo ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2022/11/10/trend-uncertain-again/

[polybear]

3 hours ago, TheQ said:

Because of that I had to merge some files, transfering graphs, at one point I'd transferred the graphs saved the file, then shut it down ... When I turned it back on the graph was missing, it did it again in front of a disbelieving witness ...

 

Just wait, you'll be missing all this fun next year.....🤣

 

Bear here......

An evening of fun at the M.E. Group at College, including watching very clever buddy - he's a retired Jeweller - making the stuff [very, VERY top-end stuff too] silver soldering some bits of a steam engine one of the other guys is making.

Bear managed to finish the mods. to the chassis construction jig - a bit of minor bench work at home left to do and that's it.  Result - and all without blood or pain.

[J. S. Bach]

An early Night owl from the Piedmont.

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

Absent again due to preparations for the upcoming exhibition and earning brownie points to make sure thing run smoothly. 
Still feeling cr@p, still got head cold and now a bit off a cough.Thought I might try Baz’s cure but didn’t really fancy anything to eat at teatime so th3 curry Ive got will have to wait. I’m hoping it’s be a bit better by the weekend but it’s awfully close now. Up to Normanton tomorrow to fetch 35 tables and then the set up begins. As I’m not taking a layout I’m hoping to be away a bit sooner than the usual Friday time. 
Anyway Goodnight,

 

[Barry O]

@BoD, @Two_sugars.. this is a baz alert. I shall be arriving in Horden at about 14:30 tomorrow.  Off to our school reunion at the Coms Club later then back to Leeds on Saturday for a Kaiser Chiefs gig (and yes we are in the mosh pit!)

 

No concussion after my accident but boy are my neck muscles giving me jip!

 

Sleep wellall!

 

Baz

Edited November 11, 2022 by Barry O

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

For most of the day I’ve kept thinking that today was Friday! Anyway, the shopping is now done and this leaves tomorrow free so we can both go to the RHS Bridgewater and take a walk through the woodlands. Given its location so close to the M60 it’s a very peaceful and quiet walk and we both enjoy it. 

 

After dinner, I headed downstairs to the office and did a bit more work on the turntable circuit board diagrams. I redrew the circuit board for the variable speed controller for the turntable drive motor. I then went through all my drawings and deleted all duplicate drawings, of which there were quite a few. I then set up 2 separate files, one for my original set of drawings, with 4 pole relay boards and the other for the modified drawings, with 2 pole relays. Each file has a full set of drawings in them. 

 

This evening after tea, we sat down and watched this afternoon’s episode of ‘The Repair Shop’ and then we finally got round to watching the first 2 episodes of the current BBC drama about the origins of the SAS. Surprisingly Sheila enjoyed it. 

[BSW01]

Goodnight all