Early Risers.

[polybear]

11 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Not much to do over the weekend but I will not be watching a certain show from Liverpool, thats a certainty.

 

From what little I've seen (and even that was too much) on the News this Bear has heard better tunes out of a Wine Glass....

 

Bear here......

I typed the following at about 8am this morning but never hit the send button......

 

In other news.....

The Supermarkets are claiming they're not profiteering on prices....

...well the egg farmer on the TV last night says it's costing him something like £1.27 to produce 6 eggs (his G & L Bill for a year is now £80K) yet the Supermarkets won't pay more for the eggs (£1.18?) so he's running at a loss - yet they've jacked the prices right up in the shops.  B'sterds.

 

In other, other news.....

ISTR one of our US Correspondents has a Peleton - this is in the news:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65563993

BG

 

 

 

[Ozexpatriate]

1 minute ago, polybear said:

Peleton - this is in the news

"They don't like it up 'em" comes to mind. (Only the PL-01 is being recalled for seat-post issues.)

[roundhouse]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

The venue was pleasant (and easy to get to), food was good and priced about right, but the beer? £7.25 a pint!

Furthermore there was no cake or curly fries! (I think the BT food and drink subcommittee may be having a rethink on the venue before the next Brains Trust meeting).

 

If you were drinking the same as me, the Gypsy Hill Brewery craft beer which is dearer than the normal ales. £7.25 is about right for such a beer in London.

[Gwiwer]

We live in one of those London Boroughs which has adopted a 20mph everywhere speed limit. This therefore applies on all roads other than those under TfL (rather than borough) control and which are designated through routes. This amounts to one road in the entire local area every exit from which is limited to 20mph. Which effectively means the 30mph stretch is restricted to 20mph by dint of the congestion caused as the limit lowers. 
 

I have recorded my objections and concerns when we discussed this topic previously. Nothing has changed; road rage is up (due to frustration and slower-than horsan-cart speeds), air pollution is up (due to to higher engine speeds in the lower gears required), casualty figures are actually up not down (as people take chances with slower traffic) etc …. 
 

Unofficially there should be tolerance with speeding fines. No speedometer is 100% accurate.  I am advised by former officers of various constabularies that a margin for error of 10% has to be built in. Over and above that there is discretion for situation. A speeding vehicle may have briefly accelerated to avoid or prevent a dangerous situation. The traffic may have all been moving above the limit; they might all get “pinged” and this does not mitigate excess speed but there may be a greater danger in being the one who slows down. And the excess must have been recorded over a minimum distance not just a brief spurt. 
 

Whatever happened in the case of the Very Rev. Dr. Welby is between him and the police. It is commonplace for traffic to be moving at speeds up to 25mph in 20mph limits (and 35 in 30 limits and so on) but it is uncommon for drivers to be fined in such circumstances. 
 

Of note the authorities also turn blind eyes to buses exceeding speed limits (sometimes by significant amounts) provided they are being driven professionally and courteously. 
 

My driving instructor always taught me to stick to the limits unless “going with the flow” was clearly the safer option. 

[Gwiwer]

7 minutes ago, roundhouse said:

If you were drinking the same as me, the Gypsy Hill Brewery craft beer which is dearer than the normal ales. £7.25 is about right for such a beer in London.

Tribute was £5.70 a pint. In that location and as it was also well kept and served I thought that to be top-end but not excessive. 

[Coombe Barton]

... Tomorrow I’m going to have some ‘me’ time. ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/05/12/decline-continues-and-people-in-hospital-data/

[Coombe Barton]

Bracknell calls ...

[Hroth]

33 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

... Tomorrow I’m going to have some ‘me’ time. ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/05/12/decline-continues-and-people-in-hospital-data/

 

Thoinot Arbeau compiled a book, Orchésographie , on the dance practices of late 16th century France in the form of a dialogue between Arbeau and a student, Capriol. If I remember correctly, “Belle qui tiens ma vie” was the only completely worked out piece in the book*, the rest were melodic lines and drum beats, with descriptions of the dance figures. The appendix of the Dover Publications edition (1967) has Labanotation illustrations for the benefit of modern performers.  When I performed in an "early dance and music" group, it was a key reference work.

 

* Pavan in four parts with the drum rhythm.

 

Edited May 12, 2023 by Hroth
minor errors corrected, I still have the book to hand...

[polybear]

9 hours ago, Erichill16 said:

Don't go Bear, its a cunning trap. I bet you've  been promised a free all you can eat pizza lunch!

 

 

Not Pizza...but Swiss Choccies instead.......  😁

 

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

A splendid times pleasant (and easy to get to), the food was good and priced about right, but the beer? £7.25 a pint!

 

That got Bear thinking......

After a quick check I realised they'd seemingly charged a certain Bear......£6.80 for a Lemonade & Blackcurrant.  That's a half by the way, not a Pint......😮

Bear, thinking that all is not well here, phoned them a few minutes ago to check if they'd charged correctly; it seems they'd incorrectly charged for a Pint and not a half - and some of the £6.80 is actually a service charge for the meal anyway (which is fair enough).  In fairness for their c0ckup (and with absolutely no prompting or whingin' from Bear) they're refunding the cost of the drink (four quid) - which is fair enough in this Bear's Book.  Tick.

 

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

Swiss chocolates were dispensed to those who had requested such a boon from Captain Cynical

 

...and very nice they are too 😃 - many thanks iD; they're currently under test in Bear Towers as I type.  Of course they may have been spiked by a certain scurrilous Doc and Bear could awake in the morning thinking Curly Fries, Oven Chips and Pizza are highly toxic....

 

An excellent day today in the company of Puppers and The Brains Trust (very many thanks to iD and all concerned); parking at Cockfosters was a little eventful but we got there in the end.  The tube into London was after the rush hour so was a doddle - the Tube out again was right at the start of the rush (4pm) so was standing room only; I pity anyone that has to do that every day - Puppers & I did ponder that if anyone was planning such a service now then the H&S Police would probably never allow it.

BG

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

Ive had a day out, unfortunately not to London but to see the UK’s tallest free standing structure. Unfortunately it was cloudy so didn’t see it in its full glory. Funny day really, we couldn’t decide what to do so decided to take the old motor home out for a spin but didn’t know where we were going when we set off.. Called off at motorway services for a takeout sarnie and ended up at Emley Moor where we used the facilities in the van to make a hot drink. Another example of our extravagant lifestyle. What shall we do tomorrow?

Goodnight.

Edited May 12, 2023 by Erichill16
Grammar

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon/evening all from Estuary-Land. Like @grandadbob I've had a slow day. Just had toad-in-the-hole for dinner so now rather full. The arthritis has calmed down now but its still grumbling on occasion. I have been slow today, I started this post three hours ago.

[PupCam]

Evening All!

 

It appears that I managed to get to the North Pole in good time this morning where I found a certain Bear ready to be transported to a north London tube terminal (the name of which would probably be censored on here) and onward conveyance to a hostelry "Up the Smoke".   Previously displayed photographic evidence suggests we managed to find the correct one!        It appears that the world has indeed been put to rights (including references to certain manufacturers of mobile items that run on parallel strips of metal supplied in red boxes).   All-in-all a most enjoyable time was had before Bear and I had to leave and were turned into John West's Finest Sardines on the return journey.     Many thanks to Captain Cynical for the rather tasty chocolate 👍   The only slight disappointment for Mr Bear was that no cake was harmed during the day.  

 

Whilst I was out of the house and loafing about quaffing beer and filling my face Mrs Puppers was hard at work baking.   We are due to go to a friends Charity Afternoon Tea and she offered to provide some suitable comestibles.

 

Don't tell the furry one that both LDC  and Chocolate Brownie have been seen loitering in the kitchen! 

 

 

 

On a rather more distressing note.   She has tested the chocolate that I was clutching on my return for quality and acceptability.    Unfortunately she declared it to be of very high quality and most acceptable.     

 

Turdycurses!    That means I'm going to have to hide it!

 

37 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

Unofficially there should be tolerance with speeding fines. No speedometer is 100% accurate.  I am advised by former officers of various constabularies that a margin for error of 10% has to be built in.

 

I believe the error is usually 10% + a constant (generally 2mph) although this varies across counties.   The error spec on speedos is asymmetric  (+ Something  - Nothing)  so they must not display a value lower than the actual speed of the vehicle.

 

Night All

 

 

[Tony_S]

I haven’t done much today. I did venture out to visit Mick the barber and get my hair cut. I also collected my sack of medication from the pharmacy on the way home. I did go out again as Aditi hinted she wanted to go to Canvey, but not drive herself, to collect some M&S packages she had delivered to the food store there.  She was a while but I suspected she would have a wander round so I listened to the radio. 
Tony
 

[Erichill16]

Further to my early post, Emley Moor transmitting  station’s tower is a grade 2 listed structure and when completed in the early 70’s was the sixth tallest freestanding structure in the world. (Now 25th) and can be clearly seen from our kitchen window.

More information for those with insomniac tendencies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emley_Moor_transmitting_station

Thankyou for your attention.

[Ian Abel]

2 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Portland has a campaign called "Twenty is plenty!" (20mph in neighbourhood streets) ostensibly to reduce pedestrian accidents - which represented 44% (the leading cause) of traffic deaths in Portland in 2022.

 

Minneapolis "proper" (we're in an inner-ring suburb) which we enter eastbound barely 1.5 miles from here, has a "Twenty is plenty" also. Times two is the norm and often more, I try and maintain 25 but fear for being rear-ended at that speed even by the nut jobs around.

 

2 hours ago, polybear said:

 

In other, other news.....

ISTR one of our US Correspondents has a Peleton - this is in the news:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65563993

BG

If you were thinking of me, I was directly in the other direction to the NordicTrack, VERY QUICKLY by many reviews and personal references, so not affected 👍

Mine is the Nordictrack S22i Studio cycle.

Edited May 12, 2023 by Ian Abel

[jamie92208]

13 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Is Mrs iD also a member of the wolfpack?

No she's the only person who can keep both ID and Captain Cynical in order.  I was told on good authority that if she switches from English to German you are in bother.. 

6 minutes ago, Erichill16 said:

Further to my early post, Emley Moor transmitting  station’s tower is a grade 2 listed structure and when completed in the early 70’s was the sixth tallest freestanding structure in the world. (Now 25th) and can be clearly seen from our kitchen window.

More information for those with insomniac tendencies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emley_Moor_transmitting_station

Thankyou for your attention.

On the only night, in my adult life, that I have spent in hospital, the guy in the next bed to me was a rigger who fixed the radio mast on top of it.  He'd hurt his back mending his car. 

 

Jamie

[Erichill16]

10 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

 

On the only night, in my adult life, that I have spent in hospital, the guy in the next bed to me was a rigger who fixed the radio mast on top of it.  He'd hurt his back mending his car. 

 

Jamie

The only night I spent in hospital as child was spent in a bed next to a ‘Mr  Moon’.

Probably about 6 years old at the time and no paediatric ward. 

[TheQ]

Evening Awl,

Radar museum had a busy day, I didn't... I didn't see 1/10 of the people who arrived at the museum, they are now investigating better signage for my room.

So  I spent lots of time working on the model of RAF Neatishead in 1958, based on this photo.

More type 13 and 14 radars were built still working on the GCI  radar system in the bottom left hand corner, that was mobile, so have trucks, and trailers with a radar on to to make in 1/1000 scale.

One thing unnoticed is just above the east Gate sign is a shadow that's the unmistakable outline of an FPS radar.

Similar to that photo. So I've started making that.. but in 1/000 scale 1mm wide plasticard is equivalent to 1 metre wide. The equipment cabin on the tower is a ten foot square box. so I have a construction problem. Still working on that...

If you look at the Happidrome, that's the WW2 radar operators building used until 1958, then again from 1966 to the early 1990s, , it's left hand side was enlarged with a 64 ft long 20 ft wide giant lean to, in the 1960s, that's the room I reside in in the museum.

 

At the MRC I continued making seco huts, still more to do , I got paw cramp while working on it so had to give up.

Edited May 12, 2023 by TheQ

[monkeysarefun]

14 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Good Morning all from a very quiet Londonium, presumably due to the reduced numbers of opus Britanni due to, in no small part undoubtedly, the ferriviaria exactoris percutiens.

 

 

 

 

Because I don't speak Gobbledygook I cut andpasted that phrase into google and the first result said

  Percutiens is a roulette godspell that creates a large lightning bolt towards the caster's mouse. The lightning bolt does a large amount of damage and inflicts high knockback. The impact of the lightning bolt creates a smoke-screen effect. This spell also sound like a gunshot.

 

  No wonder there's nobody out on the bloody streets mate, what were you thinking!? 

 

Edited May 12, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[monkeysarefun]

16 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Bear was awake (and up) at 05.40....was Puppers?? 😁

 

In other news.....

There's dumb....and very, very DUMB.....

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65567519

 

BG

Youtube is taking up an increasing role in eliminating the world of stupid people and as a bonus they film it for us.

 

Remember that bloke in the US a while back who got his girlfriend to shoot him in the chest from close range, he assumed it would be a bullet proof plan (Nyuk nyuk!) because he was using a copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica as a kind of Kevlar  vest? 

 

The weak link in the plan was choosing  to use The Desert Eagle Handgun -"  a gas-operated, semi-automatic pistol known for chambering the .50 Action Express, the largest centerfire cartridge of any magazine-fed, self-loading pistol" 

 

It killed him and his GF got 6 months in prison. The equally weird thing is that there were 30 onlookers cheering him on, none of whom suggested he should maybe shoot the book first without him standing behind it to see what might happen.

 

Oh, found it, just had to put enough words into the google search!

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43410816

 

This act has driven the misconception that many US Republican  states are banning books due to their content when in fact it is  due to their inability to  stop incoming rounds. 

 

Edited May 13, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[monkeysarefun]

13 hours ago, The White Rabbit said:

A farmer's son I knew some years ago had a Toyota pickup,

Here its hard to find someone who doesn't know anyone with a Toyota pickup,  Its like 6 degrees of separation if you took 4 degrees away. The Hilux ute  has been the most popular " family car"  here by far ever since Ford and Holden packed up local manufacturing, helped mainly by generous subsidies on diesel utes intended to help Primary  industries but which all buyers benefit from.

 

Four of the highest selling cars last year were utes. Toyota HiLux was the nation’s top-selling car with 64,391 sales, closely followed by the new Ford Ranger (47,479 sales), Mitsubishi Triton (27,436 sales) and Isuzu Ute D-Max (24,336 sales).

 

 

https://www.racv.com.au/royalauto/transport/cars/australian-new-car-sales-2022.html#:~:text=Toyota HiLux is Australia's top,Mitsubishi and Tesla sales jump&text=The HiLux muscled out the,Australia's top-selling car brand.

Edited May 12, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[PhilJ W]

14 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Good Morning all from a very quiet Londonium, presumably due to the reduced numbers of opus Britanni due to, in no small part undoubtedly, the ferriviaria exactoris percutiens.

 

 

33 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

Because I don't speak Gobbledygook I cut and pasted that phrase into google and the first result said

  Percutiens is a roulette godspell that creates a large lightning bolt towards the caster's mouse. The lightning bolt does a large amount of damage and inflicts high knockback. The impact of the lightning bolt creates a smoke-screen effect. This spell also sound like a gunshot.

 

  No wonder there's nobody out on the bloody streets mate, what were you thinking!? 

 

I tried it on Google translate and it came out as 'Striking the railway driver'.

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[monkeysarefun]

5 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

The pedestrian fatalities are reported on the news (to my way of thinking) in an appalling manner - all focus on the number, no focus on what streets, in what conditions and with whom.

 

Number hit shoulder or head high  by Behemoth SUVs who then drive over the top of them VS those hit by sedans etc at knee high  that absorb some of the impact and flick them onto the bonnet. (oops hood)

Edited May 13, 2023 by monkeysarefun