Early Risers.

[Winslow Boy]

4 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

You forgot a couple.

• Rain didn't meet our stringent safety standards - so was returned.
• Rain was left at the reservoir next door

And the obligatory

 

* You were out so we returned

    the rain to the reservoir.

[polybear]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

I have a note.

 

Of dubious origin - the presence of a hoof print being an obvious clue as to your partner in crime....

 

Bear here....

Several hours of fun priming various areas of wall (coving & cracks to be filled) - now completed.  That'll be a tick.  It looks like I've run out of excuses - tomorrow will see coving time.

Din dins done, so now it'll be MIUABGA - paperwork and also backing up the laptop to various external drives for safety in case it should decide to die unexpectedly.  That's the plan, anyway.

[andyram]

Afternoon all. A quick check in from a grey and wet Matlock Bath before I close up for the day. An early finish on account of Amber being called up for the girl's football team at school. It is an away game so I will be on taxi duty as well as getting to watch. I am sure that the early closure will not miss many customers at this time of year - much of my trade will be electronic at present.

 

I hope you are all well. I am still feeling quite run down after the Covid but things are slowly improving.

[Ian Abel]

POETS, we'll give it a go probably.

 

Yesterday, enjoyable Zoom with some friends, work and then off to choir rehearsal. Went long as we had a schola rehearsal immediately following.

Managed a happy hour pre-choir then done.

 

Seem to have had a sore throat the last couple of days, no other symptoms, lurgy test negative (precaution due to choir gathering). Nuisance more than anything.

 

-9C first thing with a high overcast. -5C the expected high, no precipitation forecast for the next few days, just blQQdy cold. 🤪

 

Carry on.

[southern42]

' afternoon all from red dragon land.

A wet and dry day. 8°C.

 

Family calendar taken up some of my time, today, along with the new twiddly bits on the flute - making progress in both areas.

 

Warning! Scarcity issue.

Eggs were obtained from a local farm so the seasonal Cake will be made earlier this year - this weekend.  Hopefully, the farm will have some eggs in 2-3 weeks time as well. I like to do the Icing 23-24 Dec and save the yolks for the Turkey stuffing.

 

Time to put the light on and have a mugadecaf. 

Keep safe, be good, be a step ahead. 

Polly

Edited November 18, 2022 by southern42

[southern42]

Road travel

A long time ago...we used to visit our parents, diagonally down via a chippy in Kidderminster to west of London. On a good day, it would take 7 1/4 hours. As bypasses became the fashion, the time decreased by +/-2 hours. As the M54 came into being to Telford, we went via the M6. Fine for a bit but the last time we took the M6, we spent the 2 hour saving stuck on the motorway! Now we contemplate the Toll Road.

 

Now, I really must go and put the light on, etc... 

 

Edited November 18, 2022 by southern42

[Compound2632]

10 minutes ago, southern42 said:

Now we contemplate the Toll Road.

 

I use it every time for M40/M42 to M6 or A38 (but not vice-versa in the latter case; in the southbound direction the A446 from Bassetts Pole gives a clear run to the M42, though there's usually a long tail-back northbound).

 

But M54 to / from the M6 Toll is a bit awkward.

[TheQ]

7 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

Bygum that's a lot of miles young man. I thought I was bad t with the M1/M6 but I'm nothing, I will add the M25/M11 only when they were moving of course, compared to that lot.

 

 

The 1988-96 period was about 40,000 a year... Just for work.

 

Went to get foam from shed for future project to find I'd already cut it up for something else... Ooops 1, I'll have to get another sheet. 

Replaced jackplug on spinny thing, was testing it and the magic smoke escaped...ooops 2,

yep from the jack plug.. much research later.. find out 1/4 jack plugs ain't like they used to be, many are now just 1A 12V rated gone are the days of them being bullet proof..

 

After a shopping expedition to tes and co for the stuff I forgot on the way home yesterday ooops 3.

 

I've temporarily rewired the foot switch directly, it runs ok, then I tried the bobbin brake.. it brakes but slows the flyer as well. I think it's pushing the bobbin shaft against the flyer shaft tube it runs in. It needs more braking and less pushing.

I'm now stuck for the moment while I think of a solution.

 

In days gone by I can remember trailing through Norwich, Newmarket , Cambridge, Bedford ,Bletchley Swindon and on to Weston super mud. Not a dual carriageway in sight.

Now it's all bypassed, or in Bletchleys case dual carriageways and many roundabouts.

The journey time taken is probably well under half what it was....

 

[Erichill16]

On 15/11/2022 at 08:28, polybear said:

 

TWO? Isn't that against the Geneva Convention?

 

 

Two more today AND a garden centre! 

[The Lurker]

I remember one family holiday, travelling from Kent to Broadhaven. It was long before the M25 (in fact it was the glorious summer of 76). 

 

My sister and I were got up very early and we travelled in our jim jams. Breakfast was at my Dad's Aunt in Cwmbran. (so probably 4 hours travelling as it took forever before we found any motorway). The rest of the day was taken getting to Broadhaven. My Dad forgot his razor blades so he grew a beard! It also started to finally rain while were down there so south Wales was much greener on the way back!

[polybear]

16 minutes ago, Erichill16 said:

Two more today AND a garden centre! 

 

That's gotta be War Crimes Territory....

[BoD]

I hope @tigerburnie is a good swimmer.

Seriously though, I hope he is keeping safe up there.

The same goes for any other ERs suffering from the current dampness.

[polybear]

1 hour ago, Erichill16 said:

As readers of ER will know we’re getting a dog on Sunday and been out looking for dog toys and came across these two ‘characters’!

They do kind of remind me of a couple of ‘characters’ on here.

 

Dog Toy?  DOG TOY??

 

 

[monkeysarefun]

2 hours ago, Erichill16 said:

Two more today AND a garden centre! 

 

...... meanwhile,  in a QLD Bunnings earlier in the week.

 

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Apart from some shopping I've done nothing today. Just eaten dinner, sausage and mash with onion gravy.  My own bread pudding for dessert.

[Ozexpatriate]

12 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

in a QLD Bunnings earlier in the week

That doesn't look like a native, though I suppose it could be one of many native pythons.

 

I'm no expert on snakes but it puts me in mind of a Burmese Python* (and looks full too). 

 

* An invasive pest in the Florida Everglades. They are devastating the ecosystem there. An 18 footer was found recently with a whole 5' alligator inside. (Lot's of gross photographs online.)

 

Edited November 18, 2022 by Ozexpatriate

[Erichill16]

4 hours ago, Erichill16 said:

Two more today AND a garden centre! 

 

1 hour ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

...... meanwhile,  in a QLD Bunnings earlier in the week.

 

Oh, that reminds me, a pet shop as well!

Edited November 18, 2022 by Erichill16

[monkeysarefun]

23 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

That doesn't look like a native.

 

I'm no expert on snakes but it puts me in mind of a Burmese Python* (and looks full too). 

 

* An invasive pest in the Florida Everglades. They are devastating the ecosystem there. An 18 footer was found recently with a whole 5' alligator inside. (Lot's of gross photographs online.)

 

 

Given its location I'd have said Spotted Python - its illegal to import or  keep non-native snakes  , so I'm assuming it'd have to be a wild  Aussie one. 

 

(tis also illegal to keep pretty much any native wildlife, except under license and with specimens that have been captive bred).

Edited November 18, 2022 by monkeysarefun

[monkeysarefun]

Actually, googled Bunnings  snake   and found this...  Bloody internet news sites -  Ive got to do the work for them! 

 

Edited November 18, 2022 by monkeysarefun

[NGT6 1315]

Cheerio all. Frellin‘ell, has it been cold today… Snow actually started to appear in the air by about 1500 hours, and the weekend forecast is now hovering around freezing.

 

I brought an assortment of various sausages back from Erfurt as I’d noticed a butcher’s just near the station when I arrived. I’m all for supporting independent bakeries and butchers when I can, because to my mind, it’s the right thing to do.

 

Do keep warm tonight!

[BoD]

49 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

Actually, googled Bunnings  snake   and found this...  Bloody internet news sites -  Ive got to do the work for them! 

 

So that’s how you get your fun in Australia.

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Just a few tweaks from Arthur Itis today, probably due to the lack of rain. I might have an early night tonight and skip Farcebook.

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[monkeysarefun]

59 minutes ago, BoD said:

So that’s how you get your fun in Australia.

Its all we have til the ashes start.

[Winslow Boy]

9 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

Its all we have til the ashes start.

 

What it's raining ashes now is it.

 

We had that from an Icelandic volcano. They're be grounding all of the planes next so you'll just have the wu flu cruise passengers to deal with.