Early Risers.

[Sidecar Racer]

8 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

@New Haven Neil was rather annoyed at the tiny portion of fish and chips he got when he dined at the new Celebrity Chef fish restaurant....

 

 I've never seen a fish drumstick before .     😄

[iL Dottore]

whilst @iL Dottore, being able to sign off his own expense forms, treated himself to the £175 all you can eat roast meat supper...

 

If the Roast Beef, Roast Pork, Roast Lamb, Yorkshire Puddings and Roast Potatoes (with a few sausages thrown in for good measure) weren't enough, having a wee dram of the Macallan 1926 was worth the price of the meal alone...

[The Lurker]

Roadworks have struck this part of the Boring Borough. This time they have dug and closed Station Road in one direction sending the traffic on a several miles diversion to the next opportunity to cross the Dartford Loop line. This of course means that the diverted traffic meets all the traffic trying to use that route (Bexley Lane/Foots Cray Lane). It took me nearly an hour to return from dropping Younger Lurker off at school and that was after bailing out and driving several further miles to Bexley. It was literally quicker to walk the 3 or so miles!

I got back to a message from my boss asking if was joining the call to Vietnam, where we have a politically driven tax case to deal with!

 

I have played home IT technician today. One of our laptops has an intermittent fault when it stops charging, even though plugged in. Over the 3 1/2 years we've had it, I have asked Curry's to repair it a number of times and they have replaced the transformer several times and the battery. The most recent time, when I was suggesting they replace it, they suggested I made sure all the windows updates had happened, which I did, and lo! it started to charge. This time, I referred to the notes I wrote down and managed to get it to update and start charging again.

 

Meanwhile we seem to be keeping the auditors at bay. I have proved that my proposed correction to Mexico's reporting is better than theirs...IMO of course. 

 

 

[polybear]

4 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Perhaps time to get a newer model PB?

 

If it ain't busted......

 

4 hours ago, jjb1970 said:

It's that time of year where I ask myself whether it is worth renewing my professional membership for next year. I really object to the system of professional registration in the UK which requires engineers to be a member of an institute. So to be registered as Chartered Engineer you have to be in an institute. I wouldn't mind, but I am genuinely struggling to point to anything useful any of them really do. At one time it was different, I remember when they published real technical papers, with original research, were forums for technical discussion, promoted learning, standards and improvements in safety, published learned journals etc. Now most of seem to publish magazines that are thinly disguised advertisement and they seem busier virtue signalling and showing their commitment to the current thing than doing anything remotely related to engineering.

 

No doubt the system is all controlled by a handful of people who are "on a nice little earner"

 

3 hours ago, TheQ said:

Have been looking at a more permanent solution. The three coming up are.

Complete replacement.

Putting a secondary roof on top , normally metal, sometimes with insulation between.

Encapsulation, but that's normally spray on and specialist.

Since I was going to insulate on the inside anyway, putting it on the outside appeals.

More research needed.

 

Bear put a second roof (metal) on top of the asbestos roof on the sh*d, separated by wooden battens.  That wasn't the original plan - but soon became Plan A when I discovered just what a PITA (and how expensive) it would be to dispose of the Asbestos sheets.

It seems to have worked rather well too; no insulation was involved.

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Shopping done and put away in the fridge and cupboards. Only Arthur Itis is complaining and how. Now to get dinner ready, be back later.

[polybear]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

....whilst @polybear was regretting getting the £2.50 " deconstructed baked beans on toast" daily

special.....

 

 

 

That was a mere snackaroonee......

Today's Din Dins was an altogether much more sophisticated affair......

 

 

 

[polybear]

....followed by a relaxing afternoon.....

 

[Hroth]

I'm avoiding BBC1 this evening, I have a number of charities I support, and I can't be doing with the BBC shaking a collecting bucket in front of my nose all night.

 

[New Haven Neil]

3 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

@New Haven Neil was rather annoyed at the tiny portion of fish and chips he got when he dined at the new Celebrity Chef fish restaurant....

 

Trubble is them sheepses in the background have no needed of the branch of Merchant Navy officer I was....pah.

 

What's that green crepe under my fish leg BTW?

[pH]

3 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 

 I've never seen a fish drumstick before .     😄

From this, perhaps?

 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Darwin_Fish_02.svg

[Hroth]

14 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

What's that green crepe under my fish leg BTW?

 

Probably the mandatory "healthy option".

 

It might offset the ketchup...

 

[DaveF]

One of the novels I am reading at the moment is set in the early years of the war, the Detective Inspector drives a Riley Lynx.

 

I was becomimng annoyed by the author mentioning the driver pressing the "gear change pedal" rather than calling it a clutch pedal.

 

Then light dawned and I remembered reading somewhere that some pre war Rileys had a preselector gear box.  The selector was on the steering column and having selected the next gear you pressed the "gear changed pedal" which was where the clutch would have been on a normal car.  The Riley Lynx was so fitted.

 

I suppose I should now congratulate the author for his attention to detail.  Actually the rest of the book was reasonably believable from what I have read and heard about the period.

 

David

Edited November 17, 2023 by DaveF
typo

[iL Dottore]

21 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

.What's that green crepe under my fish leg BTW?

Mushy peas?

[Hroth]

9 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Mushy peas?

 

That reminds me, I've a bag of dried marrowfat peas in the cupboard, I might do mushy peas when I have fish'n'chips next week...

 

btw the offering under the fishy drumstick looks like finely chopped cabbage.  Most nutritious!

 

 

Edited November 17, 2023 by Hroth

[New Haven Neil]

10 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Mushy peas?

 

Looks a little.....leafy.....for mushies!

[Sidecar Racer]

4 hours ago, DaveF said:

Back at home I got a jigsaw out to start in the next few days to try to make me stay in one place for a bit but not just reading. 

 

 

 Dave , if you are interested in an online jigsaw site this is worth a look . Puzzles

can be tuned to number of pieces and shape to suit you . On the top line choose explore

and then popular searches from the drop down . There is even a section for trains .

 

https://www.jigsawplanet.com/

[Dave Hunt]

34 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Mushy peas?

 

If they're mushy peas, Flavio, they've started sprouting and the green colour doesn't bode well for anyone consuming them.

 

Dave

[Winslow Boy]

59 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

Trubble is them sheepses in the background have no needed of the branch of Merchant Navy officer I was....pah.

 

What's that green crepe under my fish leg BTW?

Broccoli?

[TheQ]

Cubby?

 

[Winslow Boy]

Just so long as it's not sprouts.

[New Haven Neil]

12 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

If they're mushy peas, Flavio, they've started sprouting and the green colour doesn't bode well for anyone consuming them.

 

Dave

 

Indeed - I refer the honourable Swiss gentleman to:-

 

 

....for further identification purposes.

 

[Hroth]

2 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

Just so long as it's not sprouts.

 

You're safe, sprouts are still on the boil...

 

[PhilJ W]

54 minutes ago, DaveF said:

One of the novels I am reading at the moment is set in the early years of the war, the Detective Inspector drives a Riley Lynx.

 

I was becomimng annoyed by the author mentioning the driver pressing the "gear change pedal" rather than calling it a clutch pedal.

 

Then light dawned and I remembered reading somewhere that some pre war Rileys had a preselector gear box.  The selector was on the steering column and having selected the next gear you pressed the "gear changed pedal" which was where the clutch would have been on a normal car.  The Riley Lynx was so fitted.

 

I suppose I should now congratulate the author for his attention to detail.  Actually the rest of the book was reasonably believable from what I have read and heard about the period.

 

David

The pre-select gearbox goes back a long way, to the later WW1 tanks in fact. London Transport started fitting them to its buses in the mid thirties.

[PhilJ W]

2 hours ago, Hroth said:

I'm avoiding BBC1 this evening, I have a number of charities I support, and I can't be doing with the BBC shaking a collecting bucket in front of my nose all night.

I also avoided BBC1 this evening for the same reason. I watched the gardening programs on BBC2 instead. 

[polybear]

A mushy pea and curly fries pizza could prove promising......maybe I'll give it a try; bung an egg on top with some stilton cheese and chilli oil and it could be a winner....