Early Risers.

[TheQ]

Afternoon all,

Ben taken for long walk, coat on hot and sweaty, coat off freezing...

 

Mower mowed, until the rubber band to the blade broke.. most of the jungle done though.

Researched a new one...

List price genuine £65, but you can get it for £45. 

Copy part £12 to £30... still says it's a kevlar reinforced  belt... £14 ordered, as it will be here within a week.

I don't keep one in stock because rubber ages even when not used.

 

While preparing the mower, an Osprey flew over, propellered, not feathered, quite low, heading North.

 

Stew now slow cooking,

 

Dryer filled, washer filled, dryer on, washer awaits dryer to finish, they are on the same spur and I don't want to overload that.

 

This lap top upgraded to 16Gb from 4Gb, that should improve it's performance a bit.

 

After a check in on the stew, I'm off for a long bath, or I'll be as popular at the MRC tonight as an anorak wearing backpacker at a muddling show.

 

 

[southern42]

On 03/11/2023 at 23:01, TheQ said:

The RADAR Museum went well to, if painful on the ears...  We had a bus load of 10-12 year old school kids .. Do they ever shut up? Plus we had a good attendance of other members of the public who were somewhat quieter.

 

 

When I was a young teacher in London, accompanied by another adult, I took my class of 30+ lively 7-8 year olds to the science museum and got congratulated on their excellent behaviour.  It surprised me at the time, because I had never been accustomed to anything else on school or other childhood outings. Over the years, I have become more and more appreciative of the comment.

 

[PupCam]

Afternoon All!

 

A Junior Junior Puppers  "looking after day" today which included a drive (to get him to sleep) which just happened to end at a Garden Centre. 

That was convenient, someone having said only yesterday they wanted to go and a have a look around one for something for the front garden.

 

Anyway, while we were there Bear was spotted.   Clearly he's been doing a bit of moonlighting.    Isn't the pension adequate I wonder? 🤔

 

 

TTFN

 

[Hroth]

12 minutes ago, PupCam said:

Afternoon All!

 

A Junior Junior Puppers  "looking after day" today which included a drive (to get him to sleep) which just happened to end at a Garden Centre. 

That was convenient, someone having said only yesterday they wanted to go and a have a look around one for something for the front garden.

 

Anyway, while we were there Bear was spotted.   Clearly he's been doing a bit of moonlighting.    Isn't the pension adequate I wonder? 🤔

 

 

TTFN

 

 

Well spotted!

Though he looks rather constipated, I hope thats only a leaf...

 

Edited November 7, 2023 by Hroth
Miner spelin errer....

[New Haven Neil]

3 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

Rewilding - and not flattening everything for the sake if it.

 

Trimmed, not destroyed.  

[PhilJ W]

2 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

Trimmed, not destroyed.  

Opposite my house is a row of five ash trees. A couple of months ago the council sent round some 'tree surgeons' to trim them. they didn't trim them so much as hack them to pieces. They cut off most of the branches above about ten feet and one tree was pollarded. This was done when the leaves were still green instead of waiting for winter.

[Ozexpatriate]

Not looking to further this topic, but:

6 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

I think it's more to do with the donors/sponsorship of the gallery being an oil company

CNN opined:

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The painting is known for having been previously damaged in an act of protest by suffragette Mary Raleigh Richardson in 1914.

So, precedent with this painting. It's a stunt. There are better ways to protest 'big oil' than this sort of thing.

[Ozexpatriate]

6 hours ago, Mike Bellamy said:

Apologies for any offence but in my mind, if you need a 3XL shirt, you are not 'Slim Fit'

"Fashion" can be and often is ridiculous. A term that means the same thing is "Modern fit". It is a warning to most people who need a 3XL shirt that it won't fit them - having the opposite cut (narrow at the waist) than the "Classic fit" cut that most people who need a 3XL shirt will need.

 

I concur that most people who need a 3XL "shouldn't" be choosing a tight fitting garment - except for a handful of chiseled athletes who spend more time doing weight circuits than sleeping.

5 hours ago, TheQ said:

Rough translation, it's actually a 1XL, but we'll flog it as a 3XL slim fit to make more money by using less cloth.

Not really, but it does seem rather pointless selling it in a place like M&S. I'm not sure how many customers will have the shape required to actually wear the garment.

[woodenhead]

Over the weekend I split the three seat sofa into it's constituent parts ahead of our new sofa arriving at the end of the month.

 

Decided even in three bits it is too heavy for little old me to take down the stairs to the garage, brainwave, why don't we give the 2 seat sofa to the Heart Foundation now and son 1 can help with the three seater sofa bits nearer the time of the new sofa arriving.

 

Heart Foundation came for the two seater today and the palaver to get it down the stairs confirmed we'd made the right decision, but Mrs W is now worried how the big three seater we purchased that is one long bench will come up the stairs.  We did measure the space and it will come up the stairs and stand on end on the landing to pivot into the lounge, but until it arrives.........

[Hroth]

12 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

I'm not sure how many customers will have the shape required to actually wear the garment.

 

The people who design these things seem to imagine we live in a world of stick insects.

 

[woodenhead]

14 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

The people who design these things seem to imagine we live in a world of stick insects don't care.

 

Fixed it for you.

[DaveF]

I ended up being well occupied today.  After I'd dealt with e mails and put the groceries away I went to visit Betty who has the flat next to what was  Mum's and is now 98.  She was very pleased to see me as her son had a fall and broke his wrist a short time ago and he can't drive so she isn't seeing many people except her carers so we had a good gossip until it was time for her carer to take her to the dentist.  She does very well for her age.

 

I came home via the local Tesco Extra and bought the missing item from my delivery from Asda, Tesco's was over £1 cheaper.  Then I had coffee and read magazines and looked at my post - one magazine, I set of bible readings, 1 catalogue amd several items of junk mail. 

 

After lunch I decided to go out as the sun put in an appearance so went to Cramlington and had a look at the station and took photos, then I called at the garden centre and bought enough pansies and hyacinths to fill in a gap.  Finally I went to Northumberlandia, the big earthwork sculpture, and had a walk and looked at the autumn colours.

 

The journey home was somewhat slow, as I came down the hill from Cramlington towrads the sea the traffic stopped about 200 yards from the roundabout.  After some time a train of wood chips went acdross the road to Lynemouth Power Station.  However after that nothing much happened even though the crossing barriers went up.  There are the roadworks for the new station, the roadworks with 4 way traffic lights where they are moving a big water main and of course the level crossing itself.  Eventuually I reached the roundabout and went left to go the other way home, just as the schools came out so it was still very slow.  I was amazed at how poor the driving was, the car 2 in front of me managed to drive onto the verge on the way down the hill, the car just in front of me crossed the white line at least three times and one car went straight through a pedestrian set of lights on red.  I think I was almost the only car obeying the speed limits when the traffic was moving.

 

I was pleased to get home in one piece, having braked sharply at the last roundabout as the person on my left just ahead of me  decided he wanted to use both lanes!

 

Cramlington station artwork

 

Northumberlandia autumn treea

 

More autumn trees

 

Northumberlandia and small lake

 

Final autumn trees at Northumberlandia

 

David

Edited November 7, 2023 by DaveF

[iL Dottore]

It slowly dawned on @polybear that the best part of not eating cake for a month was the "falling off the wagon" afterwards...

[Erichill16]

Just arrived into Manchester and…….. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

its raining

[Hroth]

13 minutes ago, Erichill16 said:

Just arrived into Manchester and…….. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

its raining

 

Sounds about right...

 

[Tony_S]

Went shopping in York today…

[Coombe Barton]

... Will it develop as the blame game? Who knows? ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/11/07/covid-is-it-pass-the-buck-time-again-or-just-a-less-than-competent-prime-minister/

[BoD]

12 hours ago, Barry O said:

I will wave to @BoD and @Two_sugars en route.

Are you back up at Newcastle this weekend Baz? @Barry O
 

ps. no need to interrupt you presentation to reply - just deal with it in your ‘any questions’ time.

Edited November 7, 2023 by BoD

[Erichill16]

31 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

Sounds about right...

 

But M67 and Woodhead running freely!

[Sidecar Racer]

2 hours ago, woodenhead said:

 but Mrs W is now worried how the big three seater we purchased that is one long bench will come up the stairs.  We did measure the space and it will come up the stairs and stand on end on the landing to pivot into the lounge, but until it arrives.........

 

  

 

Edited November 7, 2023 by Sidecar Racer

[woodenhead]

@Sidecar Racer my use of pivot was very deliberate haha.

 

One of those scenes you remember forever.

[NGT6 1315]

1 hour ago, Erichill16 said:

Just arrived into Manchester and…….. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

its raining

It‘s the Mancunian way. 🤭

 

This is rad:

 

 

 

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Dinner was toad-in-the-hole and very nice it was too. The builder came round today and said he's coming round on Thursday to reseed the back garden. I'd forgotten about the prunings I'm going to shred, they've all turned brown but are now too wet to shred.

[jjb1970]

Greetings all from Geneva, it was lovely to meet Il Dottore this week, that is now two RMWeb friends met in person, Baz and Il Dottore. This is my first visit to Geneva for many many years, a lovely city, my only regular Swiss visits have been to Winterthur which is the HQ of a rather large engine company which used to power a lot of BR locomotives. This is what I consider to be proper office decoration.

 

[New Haven Neil]

That's a fine hull form, @jjb1970 made to do a few knots.