Early Risers.

[woodenhead]

19 minutes ago, BoD said:

Morning all

 

I am currently sitting in waiting room at local Eye Infirmary for my regular consultation/checkup. Have been here since 8 for field and other tests. 

 

Why is there always bright sunshine when I have my pupils dilated?

It's the law!  Our local eye infirmary has a glass roof in the main area, how thoughtful.  Discovered the delights of Primark once having forgotten to bring sunglasses for Mrs W, she staggered in with me leading and we got a rather nice pair for a few pounds.  Once her eyes were covered she then went on a spree.

[jjb1970]

It takes a lot to make me cross,  but getting a bowl of stew with a bit of pastry on top if I order a pie in a restaurant fills me with rage, I can forgive many things but that is going too far.

[Hroth]

4 minutes ago, jjb1970 said:

It takes a lot to make me cross,  but getting a bowl of stew with a bit of pastry on top if I order a pie in a restaurant fills me with rage, I can forgive many things but that is going too far.

 

I don't know.  Serving your meal on a discarded roofing slate is pretty shabby too. You'd think they could get in some cheap plates from the market...

 

[jjb1970]

Just got back from Bangkok, a very unusual flight. The aircraft was a B787-10 and was almost as immaculate and well presented as the flight crew who looked like they'd walked out of a fashion shoot,  so typical Singapore Airlines.  However the flight was very bumpy to the point that the seat belt signs stayed on and the crew ordered to remain seated for most of the flight. Cruising at 12000m the aircraft was still below clouds and the sky was very dark (it was the lunchtime departure). Some big lurches on final approach. Don't want many flights like that.

[DaveF]

3 hours ago, polybear said:

Bear here........

 

Yet another mediocre night caused by an enforced awakening at 03-58, followed by Snoozybearland proving rather elusive as usual; I got the 'ump just before 5am and gave up.  I asked Alexa to cancel the 05-30 alarm, only to be met with "No Alarm has been set" - now I'm pretty sure I did set one, so that's a bit weird.  I've learnt not to rely on Alexa alarms when it really matters (if you have a flight, for example) as I'm pretty sure even a brief glitch on the mains supplies will cause it to restart and alarm settings lost.

 

 

I have given up setting alarms for those important to get up mornings on both Alexa and Google nest.  If it is not a morning when I need to get up, they work.  If it is vital to be up and about they don't work.  I've gone back to my alarm/clock radio - but I have to set it to "bleep" as if the radio comes on I am quite likely to want to stay in bed and listen to it.

 

It's a dry bright fresh morning with a bit of sun but increasing cloud and not much wind.  The rain is supposed to arrive mid afternoon and the wind about the same.  Gusts here are forecast to reach about 45mph from the south east so it is bound to feel raw and once again everything will be covered in salt.  I think it will be the end for the rest of the summer plants.

 

So far I have had breakfast and had a good look in the garage, I am quite pleased with the progress but I must give some thought as to how to move things a bit more to make it easy to reach the control for the garage door and the light switch for the light just inside the door.  It isn't urgent, I usually use the remote.  I have retrieved the garden bin which was emptied about 08.00 and have given it a clean on the outside.

 

The kitchen has also been given a thorough clean which is why I do not appear to be an early riser here as it needed some extra things doing.   In a few minutes I am going out for some fresh air, just to the beach.  Then it will probably more moving of things in the garage, I am hoping to find at least some bits I no longer need want to have cluttering up the place.  However, like most people, when I throw something out the then very next day I find I need it!

 

David

[Hroth]

3 hours ago, DaveF said:

However, like most people, when I throw something out the then very next day I find I need it!

 

But if you keep it because it might come in useful,  you store it away for safety somewhere, like the garage, and sometime later.....

 

Its garage clearing time again!

 

What everyone needs is a shed, dedicated to storing possibly useful items.  The size of such a shed is left as an exercise for the reader.  JRR Tolkien had the concept nailed, such things, called "mathoms", were  kept in a "mathom house", indicating how big the storage shed might have to be... 🤔

 

Edited September 27, 2023 by Hroth
The missing "s"...

[New Haven Neil]

The rainfall radar looks pretty grim, the big wet looks like it will be here at any moment.  

 

I had a walk to the shop earlier to post a letter and put a few wheelie bins away for the less able folk around us, but not the (young, relatively) lazy gits next door who will leave theirs until they blow over and make a racket, get smashed then they'll want free new ones.  Drives me nuts.  Used to mow his open plan front lawn when I did ours but he never, ever reciprocated, even when he knew I was ill and unable to walk for three months. Git.  /rant.

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

Well thankfully, the visit from Agnes never happened so we woke to blue skies and sunshine, although it’s going a little grey as I’m typing! The plans for today are, if the weather remains dry, to get the last few plants in the ground. If it starts to rain, then I’ll continue working in the cellar.

 

Back later. 
 

Brian

[Hroth]

@BSW01

 

Quote

remember amateurs built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic

 

Its a bit of a throwaway line, but as I understand the process...

 

The Titanic.

1. Specified by entrepreneurs.
2. Designed by naval architects
3. Costed by accountants (Cheapest rivets and steel!)
4. Built by the working class
5. Used by rich and poor alike
6. Sunk by professionals steaming the ship at full speed into a known icefield.

I'd be inclined to blame 1 and 2 for designing a ship with lowered bulkheads so the 1st class didn't have to pass through watertight doors, 3 for choosing the cheapest materials for the hull and 6 for not having any sense at all. The actual builders (4) did the best they could with the materials they were given.

 

 

[tigerburnie]

12 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

I noticed that there is a 'copy link' feature in the top right corner of the film, right click on that and it should copy. Then just right click where you want to post it and when the box comes up click paste.

https://youtu.be/fCaeCPpsXV8

 

I do exactly the same thing on other forums and it works fine, not a huge problem, but most odd.

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. A good nights sleep last night, six hours and only one trip to the bathroom. Only a few minor grumbles from the joints this morning as well. Will be pruning the bottom of the shrubs later but first there's a pile of washing up and clothes washing to do first. Fortunately we are missing storm Agnes entirely, just some cloud and blustery winds.

[tigerburnie]

1 hour ago, jjb1970 said:

Just got back from Bangkok, a very unusual flight. The aircraft was a B787-10 and was almost as immaculate and well presented as the flight crew who looked like they'd walked out of a fashion shoot,  so typical Singapore Airlines.  However the flight was very bumpy to the point that the seat belt signs stayed on and the crew ordered to remain seated for most of the flight. Cruising at 12000m the aircraft was still below clouds and the sky was very dark (it was the lunchtime departure). Some big lurches on final approach. Don't want many flights like that.

In the early 1980's I was required for an emergency breakdown on a rig in the Brent Oil field, as it was a Sunday, the quickest way to get me to Aberdeen airport and a Chinook flight out,  was to first told to drive to Heathrow, get on a plane to Glasgow and then get on a mail plane to Dyce. There was a storm blowing when I got to Glasgow and once on the mail plane it was a very bumpy ride to Aberdeen, I would have done up my seat belt, but the seat didn't have one fitted, so the pilot told me to sit on the parcels as I'd have less distance to fall. The pilot could talk to me as the door into the cockpit was wedged open with mail, I watched over his shoulder as we came into land, with our nose into the wind we hit the tarmac(quite gently which was surprising) at about 45 degrees to the lights either side of the runway, quite an experience that was.

[monkeysarefun]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

Used to mow his open plan front lawn when I did ours

 

I went out to cut my front grass on Sunday to find that the bloke next door had already done it for me. He has a ride-on mower and I reckon he likes driving around on it. I already owe him the annual 6-pack that I give him to make up for the huge hand-sized  leaves that blow off my Illawarra Flame Tree and cover his backyard at this time of year, now  I'll have to get him 2!

[pgcroc]

This is scary! 😵

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12565517/Hippo-attacks-zoo-keeper-China.html

 

Any relation to somebody on here?

[Hroth]

10 minutes ago, pgcroc said:

This is scary! 😵

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12565517/Hippo-attacks-zoo-keeper-China.html

 

Any relation to somebody on here?

 

Scary indeed, but the keeper probably shouldn't have been in a live enclosure or trying to break up a fight between two hippos in the first place.  And its the Daily Mail reporting it...

 

[BoD]

Afternoon all

 

Back from the eye infirmary and I'm quite pleased.  I was there to check  up my glaucoma and any deterioration since the last check up has been minimal.  It is unusual for there to be no deterioration it is usually either classified as slow deterioration or fast deterioration.  Mine is, so far, very slow... and it clouded over, so a light pub lunch was had as a celebration/show of relief/thanksgiving.

[Tim Dubya]

30 minutes ago, pgcroc said:

This is scary! 😵

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12565517/Hippo-attacks-zoo-keeper-China.html

 

Any relation to somebody on here?

 

Ah, another for a Darwin award.  Now I don't know anything about hippos but my gut instinct would be to steer clear.

[pH]

13 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

 

Ah, another for a Darwin award.  Now I don't know anything about hippos but my gut instinct would be to steer clear.

From descriptions of a certain phenomenon provided on here, steering clear of a hippo’s gut would seem to be a very good idea.

[The White Rabbit]

Speaking of Darwin awards, here is (allegedly!) the list from 2010. It's not just hippos' guts it's best to steer clear of... :

 

Eighth Place 

In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.

Seventh Place

A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when he ran", accidentally jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on his daily run.

Sixth Place  

While at the beach, Daniel Jones, 21, dug an 8 foot hole for protection from the wind and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom when it collapsed, burying him beneath five feet of sand. People on the beach used their hands and shovels trying to get him out but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Fifth Place 

Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed as he fell through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth to keep his hands free rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor. 

Fourth Place 

Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger.

Third Place 

After stepping around a marked police patrol car parked at the front door, a man walked into H&J Leather & Firearms intent on  robbing the store. The shop was full of customers and a uniformed officer was standing at the counter. Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a hold-up and fired a few wild shots from a target pistol. The officer and a clerk promptly returned fire, and several customers also drew their guns and fired.

The robber was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. Crime scene investigators located 47 expended cartridge cases in the shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot wounds. Ballistics identified rounds from 7 different weapons. No one else was hurt.

HONOURABLE MENTION

Paul Stiller, 47, and his wife Bonnie were bored just driving around at 2 A.M. So they lit a quarter stick of dynamite to toss out the window to see what would happen. Apparently they failed to notice that the window was closed. 

RUNNER UP  

Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from a local bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more excited, and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 AM.

Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge, they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable lay nearby. They secured one end around Bingham's leg and then tied the other to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. Bingham's foot was never located. 

AND THE WINNER IS....

Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt (Paderborn, Germany) fed his constipated elephant 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally got relief. Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded.

The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr Riesfeldt to the ground where he struck his head on a rock as the elephant continued to evacuate 200 pounds of dung on top of him. It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that proves.... 'sh*t happens'. 

So ladies and gents, of the important life lessons you may take away from RMW today - always take care when you are near a constipated elephant... 

[Tim Dubya]

Re: lifts & lardarses,

 

Old lifts on campus: 10 persons or 750kg

 

New lifts on campus: 10 persons or 800kg

 

So our lift suppliers have upped the capacity of our blubber movers.

 

 

 

Edited September 27, 2023 by Tim Dubya
Lardarse and proud (well type 2 diabetic).

[TheQ]

Afternoon Awl,

Hedge lopped for another 10 ft ....arms aching

 

MRC bills paid,

 

A bit of filling on board 1 , 

 

Ben taken for his long walk, which enjoyed greatly. He found partridges, pheasants , and a muntjac to chase out of the under growth. He was very pleased with himself.. 

 

Board 2 end plate fitted and glued.

Board 3, front panel joined to base .

 

Mentions of this project will now reduce because...

Scattered showers are now forecast, it's getting dark..

Edited September 27, 2023 by TheQ

[PhilJ W]

1 hour ago, The White Rabbit said:

AND THE WINNER IS....

Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt (Paderborn, Germany) fed his constipated elephant 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally got relief. Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded.

The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr Riesfeldt to the ground where he struck his head on a rock as the elephant continued to evacuate 200 pounds of dung on top of him. It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that proves.... 'sh*t happens'. 

So ladies and gents, of the important life lessons you may take away from RMW today - always take care when you are near a constipated elephant... 

And I thought hippo's were bad enough.

[Ozexpatriate]

9 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

Until @enz pops up again, I will!

Looking it up, I think furthest west actually goes to @pH who might be around a tenth of a degree west of me.

[Ozexpatriate]

6 hours ago, jjb1970 said:

Cruising at 12000m the aircraft was still below clouds

Those were very high storm clouds at almost 40,000'. Are you sure it wasn't 12,000'?

 

I've had fairground-ride takeoffs where the pilot circles and banks around towering thunderstorms to avoid storm cells. They do get very high, but cumulonimbus tops out around 12,000m. The stratosphere is 6,000 - 20,000m.

 

Edited September 27, 2023 by Ozexpatriate

[pH]

12 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Looking it up, I think furthest west actually goes to @pH who might be around a tenth of a degree west of me.

No, I can’t claim that honour. There are at least three members west of me:

 

- britishcolumbian in Vancouver

- John dew in North Vancouver

- peach james in Victoria BC

 

There may be others, but of those three, peach james is furthest out!