Early Risers.

[Tony_S]

3 hours ago, Ian Abel said:

The Turtles,

I was trying to recall when The Turtles had their hits. While searching I noticed a 1975 video from a German TV station of Steeleye Span. So,I spent about 30 minutes watching that. 

[Hroth]

1 hour ago, Tony_S said:

I was trying to recall when The Turtles had their hits. While searching I noticed a 1975 video from a German TV station of Steeleye Span. So,I spent about 30 minutes watching that. 

 

Sounds reasonable!

 

Just looked it up, its marvellous stuff and an excellent quality recording too. But 30 minutes? You must have become engrossed in it, the running time is 55 minutes...

 

 

Edited August 29, 2023 by Hroth
further comment on Steeleye Span...

[Two_sugars]

2 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

..

What you said about algebra struck a chord , , (Dm7 sus 4 I think)   . . . . . '87ish I was talked into a "computer" job from my nice,  cozy?, dispatcher job in the taxi office . . 

Boss was of the opinion that it would be easier for me to re-learn my lost computing skills, that to teach  a computer savvy recruit about our business . . Taxi and coaches.

 

First job was to  create a cash flow projection for the  Bank . . .First thing I did was t buy a copy of Lotus 123 2.2 for dummies. . . .Worked a treat. . .as I neared the end of that first project,

I said to myself . . . ."Self . . . this is just like the algebra  that you couldn't get yer heed rund at skyull.

 

DaveF . . whenever I'm prescribed Doxycyclin,  for a chest infection, I'm prescribed  a course of steriods straight after . . . 

 

 

Anyways . .bumped into a (female) neighbour today . . she introduced me as her TOYBOY!!!!!!!!! . . . . She's 4 years younger than me . . laff . . .I nearly  . . .. . . 

 

Goodnight all. . .keep smiling . . 

 

John

 

 

Edited August 29, 2023 by Two_sugars

[polybear]

Bear here....(again.....)

 

The muddlin' room is now 99% super-duper cleaned - just a small amount of work (1/2 hour) to finish it off in the morning; I also took the opportunity to touch-in various tiny areas of ceiling paintwork at the same time.

The fun continued with doin' the washing, changing the sheets on the Bear Pit and cleaning off some limescale build-up around the bath mixer tap valve/shower hose outlet - I wrap those with loo roll then soak with viakal and leave it for much of the day to work it's magic - which it does rather well.

 

In other news:

 

This from the latest Martin Lewis (MSE) email:

"Standing charges are up again - it'll cost over £300/yr just for the facility of having gas and electricity"

 B'Sterds.

 

Bear Gone.

 

[polybear]

Beyond belief - I do hope the other inmates think the same:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-66649434

[Hroth]

30 minutes ago, polybear said:

This from the latest Martin Lewis (MSE) email:

"Standing charges are up again - it'll cost over £300/yr just for the facility of having gas and electricity"

 B'Sterds.

 

Given that, there's almost no point in saving energy, is there.

 

22 minutes ago, polybear said:

Beyond belief - I do hope the other inmates think the same:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-66649434

 

Douse 'em in cleaning products and put 'em in an industrial tumble dryer and see how thay like it.  With any luck, they'll get broken necks too...

 

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[southern42]

Despite the sun coming out during the afternoon, the ground remained wet but I did venture out the front door to collect some blackberries. Plenty of other life around but I only managed to get a quick snap of this one. No idea exactly what it is, though I could look it up at some point. I refrained from moving it on and left this berry in place!

 

Not a bad afternoon's picking in the end...

 

which went into the making of a blackberry and apple crumble.

 

Time for mugacocoa and beddybyes.

 

So 'night all and nos da.

Polly

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

The repair to the sofa took a little longer than anticipated, but it’s now fixed, meaning I had something to sit on tonight. Just s I was packing away my tools, it started to rain, so the rest of the day was spent IN the workshop. Before I started, I took some photos of the 2 jigs I made yesterday. I also cleaned up all the joints on the inspection pits that were built yesterday. Then I began the job of chamfering the pile of short rails that I want to solder together. I then sorted them into to groups of 4, 2 end pieces, with a single chamfer and 2 intermediate pieces, which have a chamfer one each end. I then began soldering the rails together. Once the 4 pieces were soldered, I then cleaned up each completed length and then inserted that into the rail chairs of an inspection pit. Apart from painting and weathering, 4 are now complete, I’ll finish the last one tomorrow. 

 

The cutting jig.

 

A close up of a piece of rail cut and ready for soldering. 

 

The soldering jig, there are 3 uncut lengths in the jig and above it are 2 lengths cut and soldered together. 

 

Finally, the pile of rails cut and waiting to be soldered. 

 

I’ll take some photos of the finished inspection pits tomorrow.

Edited August 29, 2023 by BSW01

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

Much skipping as usual of late.

I had a @grandadbob moment this morning while emptying scrap metal from my van. Bashed my temple with a piece of Dexion upright. Got a lump there now.

Only just managed to get some cooking apples to go with the blackberries that we picked at the weekend. While I went to the MRC SWMBO made some jam.
Funny old bank holiday weekend, not much got done but spent Monday afternoon sitting with the old lady across the road while an ambulance arrived and prepared her for a visit to the local hospital. She’s 88 and broken both her tibia and fibula. One of the bank holidays last year she fell and broke her hip and again I spent the afternoon comforting her until the ambulance arrived.

Anyway ,Goodnight.

[monkeysarefun]

5 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

What’s your deep-fried pleasure?

 

 I havent cooked them at home but I've had them a ta bush-tucker themed night, they do taste very nutty.

 

 

[monkeysarefun]

4 hours ago, polybear said:

- they send me a code by text and I have to enter that as a part of the purchase process.

 

 

See right there you fell into their cunning security test trap.

 

To receive the text you obviously already have a phone!

[jjb1970]

2 hours ago, polybear said:

Beyond belief - I do hope the other inmates think the same:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-66649434

 

The sad thing is I don't find this in any way surprising. I was born and grew up in Carlisle, in many ways it's a wonderful city in a wonderful county (the view from Stanwix bank is glorious apart from the hideous civic center) but there are some seriously 'troubled' areas and people in the city.

[monkeysarefun]

The death of any animal in that way is disgusting but added to that case is that an  African Grey parrot  is not cheap to replace, here they are around $4000, I assume similar in the UK

[Ozexpatriate]

18 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

What I find annoying about the current approach to “decolonising” whatever is not just the selective re-telling and presentation of historical fact (annoying as it may be) but that by focusing on the past, current modern day slavery (which can take many forms) is ignored.

The possibility (?) of time travel notwithstanding, the events of the past are fixed. History however is a living evolving thing. History is the how, why and wherefore, with relevant context, for the events of the past - inevitably though a contemporary prism. It is constantly changing and not necessarily for the worse, even if it doesn't comport with the matching bound set of Encyclopedia Britannica from the 1950s that Oxbridge dons you often criticize presumably curated for you.

 

Often good research based on previously ignored original sources revolutionizes history. The view of the second president of the US is a great example. A seminal biography of John Adams (by David McCullough, 2002) based on correspondence between Adams and his wife Abigail totally renovated his reputation - which had previously been tarnished by a focus on his legacy with the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) - to a completely different perspective of Adams. The events didn't change, but history did.

 

One cannot study the history of western "civilization" and its rise to global dominance from (at a minimum) 1492 to 1865 without a deep contemplation of the odium of chattel slavery. It permeated everything.

[Ozexpatriate]

7 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Chips fried in beef dripping.

If you are going to do that - frites in duck fat with a little truffle oil and salt. And a Belgian Trappist brune ale.

[Ozexpatriate]

10 hours ago, Ian Abel said:

The Turtles, Little Anthony, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, The Vogues, The Classics IV and The Cowsills.

There's a bunch of one (maybe two) hit wonders. Between "Happy Together", "Young Girl"*, "Five O'Clock World" "Spooky", and "The Rain, the Park and Other Things" was there anything else on the set list?

 

* Which might get one arrested these days.

 

"Elenore" and "Lady Willpower" would (or should) have made the cut.

 

They needed We Five ("You were on my mind"), The Grass Roots ("Midnight Confessions") and The Left Banke ("Walk away Renee") to complete the set of 60's pop one (or two) hit wonders.

 

Edited August 30, 2023 by Ozexpatriate

[Ozexpatriate]

6 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

Wacky Wedding Car, a Landy

Looks like Mike and Mal accidentally drove through some nuptials on the beach in Queensland.

 

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S'truth Mike! That was a wedding you drove through. I was dodging the salties. Who gets married on the beach Mal?

 

[BR60103]

I may be straying into politics here.

There is a movement to rename one of the main streets in Toronto (and many miles beyond). It was named after a British politician. Apparently, when there was a bill to abolish slavery in Parliament, he added the word "gradually". This doesn't go down well with a number of people.  His supporters claim that the word was introduced to help the bill pass.  It didn't.

 

[Ozexpatriate]

5 minutes ago, BR60103 said:

His supporters claim that the word was introduced to help the bill pass.  It didn't.

There is a famous misquote incorrectly attributed to Bismarck that is apropos.

Quote

"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made,"

 

John Godfrey Saxe:

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Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.

 

Edited August 30, 2023 by Ozexpatriate

[AndyID]

The East Coast contingent (eldest daughter, husband and son) are on the Outer Banks of North Carolina through Sunday. There's a hurricane heading that way although it should dissipate a bit before it gets there. We asked if they planned to leave early. They don't. Hope they know what they are doing.

 

We are getting some "proper" rain here this evening. Should lower the fire risk a bit.

[Ozexpatriate]

16 minutes ago, AndyID said:

There's a hurricane heading that way although it should dissipate a bit before it gets there.

Which one? Idalia or Franklin?

 

Idalia looks really bad for the Florida west coast. It has appeared out of almost nowhere and will land as a cat 4 overnight and into the morning with the surge perhaps around Tampa tonight. It wasn't even a hurricane yesterday. They're projecting a 9' surge at Cedar Key (north of Tampa).

EDIT: 

Having looked it up, I guess Hurricane Franklin is projected to stay out to sea. Should make some rough surf on the eastern seaboard. It is category 4 as well.

 

Edited August 30, 2023 by Ozexpatriate

[Ozexpatriate]

8 minutes ago, AndyID said:

We are getting some "proper" rain here this evening.

Nice. Still dry here, though we've had overcast for two days. 70% chance of rain tomorrow. I'll believe it when I see it.

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

If you are going to do that - frites in duck fat with a little truffle oil and salt. And a Belgian Trappist brune ale.

 

OK with the chips, not so much with the ale. Last time I tried Trappist beer I got the impression it had been made by Manneken Pis.