RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted November 21, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2023 Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. No papers today, they arrived at the newsagents to late for them to be distributed. Due to building works the newsagents are difficult to access so this afternoon I went down to Tesco's petrol filling station, easier than going into the store. As I had only filled up yesterday I parked near the air pump. The air pump also had a vacuum attachment for cleaning your car, I can see the logic in that but it also had a car deodorizer spray! 11 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 9 minutes ago, BoD said: Yes, it definitely gets late early. But worry not, in a month it starts getting early later again. And in seven months the nights will start drawing in again... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 One of our neighbours put up their Christmas tree last weekend. One is Canadian; maybe is it a Thanksgiving thing? 3 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted November 21, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 21, 2023 The Decorated/Illuminated Houses are starting to pop up here, I saw two last Saturday after I visited a Christmas Fair... 8 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted November 21, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 21, 2023 19 minutes ago, Peter Kazmierczak said: One of our neighbours put up their Christmas tree last weekend. One is Canadian; maybe is it a Thanksgiving thing? The festive skip arrived near here last week. Some tinsel has been applied to nearby street lamps too. There are a couple of houses in our road already decorated with outside lights and festive objects. Tony 11 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 43 minutes ago, Peter Kazmierczak said: One of our neighbours put up their Christmas tree last weekend. One is Canadian; maybe is it a Thanksgiving thing? You’re thinking of US Thanksgiving. Canadian Thanksgiving was October 9 this year. 3 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted November 21, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2023 43 minutes ago, Tony_S said: The festive skip arrived near here last week. Some tinsel has been applied to nearby street lamps too. There are a couple of houses in our road already decorated with outside lights and festive objects. Tony Style......a Chrimbo Tree in a Skip...... 4 1 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted November 21, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2023 (edited) Bear here..... More of the same - at least I'm discovering more "how to" plottin' tricks. ION...... Bear had "a bit of a result" a few minutes ago; as part of The Big River's "Black Friday" flog-off I ordered a pair of Jeans** - soon afterwards they sent me a twenty quid off a first order with Amazon Morrisons. Well I went to the relevant part of the site, only to be greeted with a different code that also gives the same discount. Anyway, I ordered a loada stuff (£77 to be precise) then entered my own email code, giving twenty quid off; it then gave me the option to enter another code..... Naturally Bear thinks that if I entered the "free for all" code for twenty quid off it'd just bounce, saying that only one offer could be applied - but it didn't bounce...... So Bear got forty quid off a £77 order. I call that a definite Tick........ **They actually fitted as well. Incidentally, I thought I'd see what the prices are like for Jeans in M&S - they've got two pairs where there's holes ripped in both knees. Huh? Edit: Hang on a Mo..... Bear just checked the order again - I only got twenty quid off after all; the rest was because I'd got credit in my account following stuff I'd returned and that made the total look cheaper than it really was. Rattin' Piggin' Turdycurses. I'll go back to hatin' 'em again. Edited November 21, 2023 by polybear 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Coombe Barton Posted November 21, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 21, 2023 ... 149 working days, 253 calendar days until I retire. Counting? Moi? ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/11/21/covid-sir-chris-in-the-spotlight/ 1 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Gwiwer Posted November 21, 2023 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 21, 2023 7 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said: ... 149 working days, 253 calendar days until I retire. Counting? Moi? ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/11/21/covid-sir-chris-in-the-spotlight/ At least you have a long countdown and an opportunity to prepare. Our circumstances shifted significantly (for the better) very quickly. Having decided I wasn’t about to retire as I approached my 66th birthday and “natural” age the tables were turned just a few weeks later. I think my countdown was in the region of 30 working days. 7 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted November 21, 2023 Share Posted November 21, 2023 1 minute ago, Gwiwer said: At least you have a long countdown and an opportunity to prepare. My spreadsheet is keeping count for me. :) 8 1 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted November 21, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 21, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said: ... 149 working days, 253 calendar days until I retire. Counting? Moi? ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/11/21/covid-sir-chris-in-the-spotlight/ A nice "chamber" version of Vom Himmel Hoch. I have always liked the "Christmas Mass" interpretation*, lots of colour! * I was browsing in the Classical section of a Virgin Megastore when the CD was first released. They were playing it as their featured CD at the time and I was so impressed that I left with a copy! Edited November 21, 2023 by Hroth Just a bit more... 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post TheQ Posted November 21, 2023 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 21, 2023 Two houses on the way to the MRC have increased their electricity bills, by causing confusion to moths. i used the MS retirement countdown app, which put it up in big numbers on the screen. The man from the house of strong ladies was using our drive to do a three point turn on the road, just as SWMBO came back from Weaving tonight. Unless something special turns up on this weeks discounts, that will probably be our last order from them this year. Not jeans but close, the delivery was heavy duty black work trousers with multiple pockets, for not going to work. Oh and 20 dpdt switch's for an unmentionable purpose. Several club members gave me loadsamoney, yep I'm collecting the money for the Christmas dinners. Il Dottore ( other person's may be available) may peruse the menus here. https://www.banninghamcrown.co.uk/menus First bit of electric smoke work went well. Then I discovered the unit that goes sideways will lots of parallel bits of metal hand gone for a dance. The dance being the twist.. That took considerable sorting then i found it wasn't level by a mm...... At that point i gave up and came home, hammers on the club tool board were looking attractive, big ones. i think I've upset this machine, it's stopped suggesting the next word. So I mentioned that and it changed its mind!! Muggachoccy gone Good night Awl. 18 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted November 21, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 21, 2023 1 hour ago, polybear said: Style......a Chrimbo Tree in a Skip...... At least there's no problem with disposing of it in January! 1 4 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PupCam Posted November 21, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 21, 2023 3 hours ago, polybear said: Note to @PupCam - watch the bit from 4m 5s and you'll realise it's Nottagoodidea...... I've just remembered, I can't participate in it. I'm washing my hair that weekend. 2 hours ago, Hroth said: The Decorated/Illuminated Houses are starting to pop up here, I saw two last Saturday after I visited a Christmas Fair... One of the neighbours, today 🙄 54 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said: My spreadsheet is keeping count for me. :) Mine did! Night All! 7 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted November 21, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2023 Goodnight all. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BSW01 Posted November 21, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2023 Good evening everyone My first task this morning was to change the filter in the water jug and give the jug a clean. It’s not a big job, but it takes about 30 minutes when you add the cleaning and rinsing of the new filter altogether, but that’s it now for another 4 weeks. Well tidying up took a lot longer than anticipated, but it’s still not all done. However, at least part of the garden looks neater. I did get some bulbs in, 19 giant alliums to be precise. I’ve still got another 100 or so bulbs, mainly tulips and snowdrops etc, to plant out yet. The weather forecast for tomorrow is for a dry day, so hopefully I’ll get some more of them planted out. We ended up having dinner a bit later than usual, consequently it was a bit late after dinner, so I stayed in the cellar and tidied up a bit. I also refitted the 2 shelves I took down when I started painting, which has now given me a bit more room to do the rest of the painting. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BSW01 Posted November 21, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2023 Goodnight all 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Barry O Posted November 22, 2023 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 22, 2023 (edited) I ventured across the M62 for a meeting in Cheshire tonight. Bad idea! Big accident had shut another motorway so everything was.. slow. Meeting went well, then set off back. Not too bad but then the grade A cockwombles who "plan" our roads in Leeds aided and abetted by our local braindead councillors intervened. By closing nearly every route across the city centre it took me a lot longer to get home.. the pollution created means a negative impact on the environment.. what a joke (except its not funny). Night to most, morning to some, afternoon to others. Baz Edited November 22, 2023 by Barry O 1 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted November 22, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2023 8 hours ago, pH said: How many times did you have to reload to do that kind of damage? 3 times I think he is an only 9 in the magazine kind of guy. 4 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ozexpatriate Posted November 22, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted November 22, 2023 6 hours ago, PhilJ W said: car deodorizer spray Fake "new car smell"? Is there a used car lot nearby? It doesn't seem so surprising. Reminds me of a rental car I hired at Gatwick many moons ago. Very strong smell of deodorizer and the fabric seats were damp. After being closed up for a partly sunny afternoon the reason became clear. A prior renter had upchucked into a vent (located between the front seats where a centre console would usually be.) On closer inspection, chunky dry detritus was still present. 3 1 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 6 hours ago, Peter Kazmierczak said: One of our neighbours put up their Christmas tree last weekend. 6 hours ago, Hroth said: The Decorated/Illuminated Houses are starting to pop up here, I saw two last Saturday after I visited a Christmas Fair... The seasonal winter holiday* decorations are proliferating wildly here. Many houses have external lights applied in the last week or so. Traditionally people in the US do this on the long weekend following Thanksgiving - starting (Black) Friday. * Christmas, Yule, Chanukah/Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, etc. 2 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 The Australian subsidiary of the retailer K-Mart (and employer of my cousin's two 20-somethings) had a bit of an own-goal lately. They had to withdraw this holiday promotion: All kinds of confusing, this is. So as not to appear to endorse terror organizations it was withdrawn. The overlap with prohibited foods is also unintentionally ironic. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BR60103 Posted November 22, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2023 Today was supposed to have ice all over from about noon. So we set off early (before I had my second coffee or read the second paper). We reached the mall before most stores were open. Back even before the bins were picked up. We never did get any ice. My cousins say that they have a movie of my father unwrapping a Christmas present that they did up for him. He very patiently and carefully undid the layers of giftwrap. When he came to the sucker, he undid it and ate it before continuing on to the next layer. I don't remember the event and I haven't seen the film. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 Random pictures from a local walk this afternoon: Mostly coho salmon with some chum salmon at the entrance to a hatchery on a local creek. They’re starting to die - some were already dead and the smell was pretty bad. We had missed the main part of the run. A woman we talked to said that a couple of days ago that stretch of water was just full of fish. The timbers at the top of the picture are the remains of a net frame over the water. It was demolished by a local bear who is treating the stream as an “all you can eat” buffet. A work in progress - one of a pair of cedar doors for the hatchery, by a First Nations carver. No, winter hasn’t arrived here yet. This is Zamboni (you can look it up) shavings from the local ice rink, just out of shot to the right. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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