Early Risers.

[tigerburnie]

I saw the Floyd, you had to be of a certain persuasion to "get it", indeed for two decades I saw most of the musical acts except the Beatles, for me Floyd are still right up there even today, I do tend to listen to most of my favourites in bite sized chunks rather than whole albums these days, usually on youtube.

[grandadbob]

Evenin' each,

Yippee!  I had a call from the doctor and the pill problem is sorted.  I'm now back on the pills they took me off of 2 months ago because I'd been on them for too long!  However as there is a nationwide shortage of the new pills I can go back on these temporarily and the good thing is I've still got a supply of them so don't have to wait for a delivery.

Bangers & mash have been enjoyed but no wine, I'm having a night off.

Yet again nothing much on the box tonight so we'll probably watch a repeat of Vera.

 

[tigerburnie]

3 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

 

Ouch.  I take you're not quite up to re-joining a scrum at the moment then TB?

There's quite a lot of blood just now

[grandadbob]

I've never been a fan of Pink Floyd but as someone who has tried over the years and not coming anywhere  near being able to call myself a proper guitarist I have got the fullest admiration for Dave Gilmour's skills.  

[Ozexpatriate]

7 hours ago, DaveF said:

... it was once again time for a coffee and hot cross bun

I find myself Jonesing for a hot cross bun this time of year. 

 

Anything resembling the bun (still warm from the oven) from the bakery/cake/pie shop down the road that I remember from my youth is unobtainium here. They are forbidden to me anyway. I have seen supermarkets carry sorry little, sweet sticky, mass-produced things* wrapped in plastic but they are just not the same.

 

* With a frosting cross no less! Here I often hear the generalization that American foods are too sweet and, as much as I abhor the generalization, in this case it comports well.

 

My cousin tells me that they are now available in many flavours. That seems weird to me.

[Ozexpatriate]

3 hours ago, Ian Abel said:

It's way past time for it to start being Spring here ...

I remember that it was completely 'normal' to have the last heavy wet snow of winter in the first week of April in Chicago. I would have thought the land of lakes/arctic tundra would continue to see snow for a couple more weeks yet - baseball season or not.

 

My eldest was still playing baseball when we lived in Chicago. I remember him wanting to go out and 'catch' before the season started. It was cold enough that the ball would sting, even through the mitt.

[Ozexpatriate]

3 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

I have managed to get to the age I am without ever hearing a single Pink Floyd song. 

I find that very hard to believe - even unintentionally. I can remember my classmates discussing Pink Floyd at school at length, though with 'disco' in full swing I don't recall it at school dances.

 

Back in the day, before 'format' radio, Aussie am radio in the 1970s (even Auntie ABC) played pretty much everything - at least until punk* appeared.

 

* You had to tune into the brand new University-hosted FM stations to hear that.

[Ian Abel]

8 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

I remember that it was completely 'normal' to have the last heavy wet snow of winter in the first week of April in Chicago. I would have thought the land of lakes/arctic tundra would continue to see snow for a couple more weeks yet - baseball season or not.

 

My eldest was still playing baseball when we lived in Chicago. I remember him wanting to go out and 'catch' before the season started. It was cold enough that the ball would sting, even through the mitt.

Indeed, "technically" the whole of April is considered the snow season, but usually by now, even if we do get some, it's after the snow pack has disappeared.

This year, we've plenty on the ground still but the sun today is working hard to deplete that. The occasional light snow shower/fall happens through the end of April many years, but quickly disappears.

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

Just what is this Pink Floyd thingy that everyone's on about??  I've heard of the Pink Panther - and Floyd in the Muppet Show, but......

Yours,

A Mystified Bear

I never bought any of their LPs when they were first issued which perhaps shows I wasn’t that bothered. I do have a best of or greatest hits compilation on the iPad. Not sure why! 

[Ozexpatriate]

3 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

I also intend to continue to never see any Star Wars movie, ever play a round of golf and never read any books with hobbits in it.

I won't hold not playing golf against you! 😉

 

Golf is not something I plan to master. Friends live on a golf course and I have participated with them many times. I am not very coordinated and am very, very bad at golf. My putting is not an embarrassment but anything requiring a bigger swing than a short chip is beyond me.

[Ozexpatriate]

13 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I do have a best of or greatest hits compilation on the iPad. Not sure why! 

I have a best of/greatest hits compilation on audio CD. While I would say I do "like" Pink Floyd songs (including of course "Wish you were here") I find listening to the whole CD depresses my mood so I don't do it often.

 

1 hour ago, tigerburnie said:

... for me Floyd are still right up there even today,

Rather evident in your signature. 😉

1 hour ago, tigerburnie said:

I do tend to listen to most of my favourites in bite sized chunks rather than whole albums these days

Yes.

 

Edited April 6, 2023 by Ozexpatriate

[pH]

46 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

I find myself Jonesing for a hot cross bun this time of year. 

 

Anything resembling the bun (still warm from the oven) from the bakery/cake/pie shop down the road that I remember from my youth is unobtainium here. They are forbidden to me anyway. I have seen supermarkets carry sorry little, sweet sticky, mass-produced things* wrapped in plastic but they are just not the same.

You will probably not be happy to know that the best hot cross buns in this area are baked by Cobs Bread, the North American manifestation of Bakers Delight, which you will almost certainly know of. 
 

They do have a very few locations on the US, but none anywhere near you, unfortunately.

[Ozexpatriate]

2 minutes ago, pH said:

Bakers Delight, which you will almost certainly know of ...

I never overlapped with Bakers Delight while in Australia.

 

Apparently they began in 1980 in Victoria and while there is presently a location about 10km from 'home' but I don't remember them having a presence in Brisbane before I left in 1986. Mum and dad frequent smaller bake shops closer to home.

[TheQ]

Evening Awl, 

SWMBO brother and wife reappeared at 18:00 ish, though they did stop at a supermarket and pick up a Chinese meal once near here.

He's not happy, handed keys over to woman from flat company, who said there was no problem. But while driving back he gets email saying he owes a month's rent, and a deep clean of flat..

Since he paid rent a month in advance and never missed a payment, how do they work that one out?

Typical landlord company trying it on.

 

I love hot cross buns... But being a diabetic....

 

Crazy golf was a regular event during our summer holiday trips until 1971, from 71 onwards,  holidays just meant going home. 

 

We found the remote for the big TV and cables, after a retune all is well. 96 TV channels 30 radio, and a few data.. I need to work out how to set it up on the internet once in the house it looks like we'll need a WiFi adapter. Not sure if it has a PVR system built in, if it hasn't then I'll get a WiFi PVR for it.

 

Goodnight Awl.

[AndyID]

2 hours ago, tigerburnie said:

I saw the Floyd, you had to be of a certain persuasion to "get it", indeed for two decades I saw most of the musical acts except the Beatles, for me Floyd are still right up there even today, I do tend to listen to most of my favourites in bite sized chunks rather than whole albums these days, usually on youtube.

 

Fifty years ago I had other things on my mind 🙂

 

It also looks like I was more of a Bee Gees adherent.

[New Haven Neil]

A good general Floyd primer...

 

 

[Erichill16]

11 hours ago, PupCam said:

 

I wish I could play the guitar   😢 

 

What about one of these.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Inflatable-Air-Guitar-Choose-From-16-Colours-106cm-Blow-Up-Rock-Roll-Party/321554285314?pageci=d5b3b42f-d410-4731-88ac-325c27c70046&redirect=mobile

  And to go with it,

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ZZ-Top-Sharp-Dressed-Man-ZZ-Top-Duck-Hunter-Costume-Beard-Accessory/362396892099?pageci=19d042a1-167e-46b4-9b4c-ad77d623bee4&epid=1500807275&redirect=mobile

[AndyID]

14 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

So is there a large fleet of Jubilees in production with all the Empire names. 

 

 

The first steam loco I ever saw that wasn't black was "Invincible". It was shunting at the Saucel goods yard in Paisley. I was most impressed. I think I was six. Had to look up the meaning in a dictionary when I got home.

[tigerburnie]

I worked with quite a lot of bands, they tried to teach me to play the Bass and Rhythm guitar, with little success, I even wrote a poor song about the Sidmouth Folk Festival, but I didn't stick at it. I was a pretty good drummer(not my words), I could sing the blues and play a harmonica(still do now and again for my own entertainment), but what I really enjoyed was sound engineering, both on the road and in the studio, wanted to produce records, but then so did around another million people so it didn't happen.

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. I spoke too soon when I said Arthur Itis was not around. He must have heard me and came out, fortunately the Nurofen sent him packing.

[polybear]

40 minutes ago, TheQ said:

He's not happy, handed keys over to woman from flat company, who said there was no problem. But while driving back he gets email saying he owes a month's rent, and a deep clean of flat..

Since he paid rent a month in advance and never missed a payment, how do they work that one out?

Typical landlord company trying it on.

 

 

IIRC Isn't Brother Q going to live abroad?  If so then good luck claiming any money off him...

 

Bear here...

More wallpaper danglin' completed - plenty more to do, though tomorrow should be the last day involving any ladder acrobatics, after which all the remaining drops are short (2.3m) and easily accessible.

Following the Beary Snottogram to the Council regarding the missed Bin collection they returned PDQ to empty them, so they're off the hook.  Bear's claim for Cake compensation has gone unanswered, sadly.

 

In other news....

I got the following info in an OWL (Neighbourhood Watch) email message earlier - the same website has been mentioned on various websites, including BBC News:

 

"An international operation involving the National Crime Agency has taken down one of the biggest online marketplaces selling stolen credentials to criminals worldwide.

As a result, we are informing residents how to check if they have been affected:

You can check whether your data has been compromised and accessed by criminals on Genesis Market by visiting Check your hack | politie.nl and inputting your email address.

https://www.politie.nl/en/information/checkyourhack.html

This is a Dutch Police website - forces in Europe and across the world have worked together to bring down this criminal enterprise.

If your email address was on the list on the online market place, within minutes the police will notify you at that email address. Check both your inbox and your spambox for an email from the police. If you do not receive an email from the police, your email address was not on Genesis Market.

If you do receive an email back as a result of checking on this link you are encouraged to report it to Action Fraud, via its online portal at Action Fraud"

https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/

 

Bear Gone.

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

I had quite a busy morning in the garden today, although it did start to rain several times, but thankfully it stopped moments later. 

 

Charlie did call round this afternoon, but only stayed an hour, so we all sat in the living room and chatted, which meant that unfortunately, there was no workshop time today. This was a little disappointing, but it’s always nice to chat with him and it meant that Sheila saw a lot more of him than usual. 

 

However, there was some good news is that this afternoon, as the postman dropped off the results for my recent Pooh sticks game and I’ve been gathering all clear. 

 

This morning’s garden play list was;

Steely Dan - Can’t Buy A Thrill

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon 

 

I saw Pink Floyd play once, just after they’d released ’Animals’. The set was split into 2 halves, the first half was the whole of WYWH, the second half was Animals, and the encore was Money and Time from DSOTM, it was a great night that was. 

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[monkeysarefun]

3 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

I find that very hard to believe - even unintentionally. I can remember my classmates discussing Pink Floyd at school at length, though with 'disco' in full swing I don't recall it at school dances.

 

Back in the day, before 'format' radio, Aussie am radio in the 1970s (even Auntie ABC) played pretty much everything - at least until punk* appeared.

 

* You had to tune into the brand new University-hosted FM stations to hear that.

 

It is possible they were played in my vicinity without me realising who they were, if so I never thought Hmmm I like the sound of this, I wonder who it is.  I had no interest in music until the ABC radio station Double Jay launched in 1975  which I guess would have been the equivalent of Brisbane's 3RRR?   The  first song played when it launched was "You Only Like Me Cos I'm Good In Bed" by Skyhooks which was banned from airplay so if anyone was going to play  them I guess they would have. Commercial radio alternatives were strictly Top 40 only so they did flog that  PF "kids chanting about education" song for a while, the pimply DJ even gave it a spin at one of our school dances, but it cleared the dance floor pretty quick - it wasn't a song to pogo or do The Funky Chicken  to, he had to entice everyone back with a replay of "Nutbush City Limits".

 

The late 70's and early 80s for me were mainly local bands, I think we did live in a bit of a self-sufficient (some may say insular!) alternative universe from the rest of the world back then  when it came to culture and cars, certainly Australian bands like The Angels, Split Enz,  Cold Chisel, Midnight OIl, Skyhooks, Radio Birdman, The Radiators and so on were huge and dominated most record collections (or cassette collections as it was at the time!) , and most kids dream car was a local - either a  Monaro or Falcon V8,  or a Chrysler Charger if you were a maverick or a "new Australian".

 

 

 

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

A good general Floyd primer...

 

 

 

Another link for my negative bucket list!

Edited April 6, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[monkeysarefun]

34 minutes ago, polybear said:

You can check whether your data has been compromised and accessed by criminals on Genesis Market by visiting Check your hack | politie.nl and inputting your email address.

https://www.politie.nl/en/information/checkyourhack.html

 

 

Hmmmm, If I was a hacker, I would have just discovered an ingenious new ploy thanks to you!

 

Spam @polybearwith  scam emails saying  I was from the Dutch police or whatever  and "heres a link to click on to see if you've been hacked....."

Edited April 6, 2023 by monkeysarefun