Early Risers.

[monkeysarefun]

19 hours ago, Barry O said:

 

 

We are having a little trip next week so I may start packing.

 

 

 

 

 

Aww jeez, its not to here is it? - I woke up to this this morning as it is!

 

 

I made it into work but if the rain keeps up I may need to go the round-about route home.

 

 

 

T20 - USA vs Pakistan turned into an unexpected  nail-biter, they had to go to the super over to sort it out..

 

Edited June 7 by monkeysarefun

[Ozexpatriate]

4 hours ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

A maternal grandmother had a cousin killed in Palestine at the Battle of Jaffa in 1917 whilst serving with the Finsbury Rifles. He is buried near Tel Aviv.

A relative on mum's side (perhaps an uncle / great uncle of hers? I don't remember) was in the Australian Light Horse, which, attached to Allenby's forces, famously (at least in Australia) participated in the world's last successful cavalry charge (allegedly) during the Gaza campaign at the Battle of Beersheba, though I don't know whether my relative was there at the time.

 

Edited June 7 by Ozexpatriate

[jamie92208]

7 hours ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

A maternal grandmother had a cousin killed in Palestine at the Battle of Jaffa in 1917 whilst serving with the Finsbury Rifles. He is buried near Tel Aviv.

 

My Dad said that following VJ Day the British Army in India were effectively a peacetime army assisting the locals where they could. His unit were largely kept out of trouble during the Calcutta Riots, spending most of their time freeing up local police from routine matters, protecting or assisting assisting refugees who were trying to escape from the fighting and leaving the skull cracking to the local army and police. 

 

One story he did tell us was at the start of the monsoon season there were some particularly bad floods developing in their area. He was sent with a group of British soldiers to pick up some amphibian vehicles to use in flood relief. He was put in charge of a train to do the job so they set off to get the gear. He and the men had never driven a DUKW so as the the sergeant in charge he took the first one for a spin round the yard to find where the controls were then up the loading ramp and onto the train. His view was that driving 6 tons of 8 foot wide 6x6 vehicle along the full length of a train of flat wagons with the rest watching was pretty frightening.

 

My school housemaster had been in the Punjab police and described his actions at partition as follows". I had trouble getting g the Memsahib out to Bombay as the engi e driver wouldn't move the train.  The Sikhs had stopped it and killed everyone on board. I put my pistol to the drivers head and we got going, '

 

It was a very nasty time with a huge death toll. 

 

Anyway time to gerramoveon. 

 

Jamie

[polybear]

4 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

 

Aww jeez, its not to here is it? - I woke up to this this morning as it is!

 

 

I made it into work but if the rain keeps up I may need to go the round-about route home.

 

 

Ever thought of becoming a rice grower?

[Ozexpatriate]

40 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

It was a very nasty time with a huge death toll. 

A colleague's father (who is Punjabi) was caught up in the cross migration from what would become West Pakistan (later Pakistan) into India. He eventually settled in north central India.

 

Excess mortality of the period is estimated at one million - some sources estimate two million. Perhaps 15 - 18 people relocated.

 

As comparison, a BBC source estimated that 3,600 people were killed during the 30 years of the Northern Irish "Troubles".

 

Edited June 7 by Ozexpatriate

[polybear]

Bear here....

 

Nice snooze, albeit briefly spoilt by "that little B1tch" as usual.

Today sees Bear having all the joys of washing machine driving - still, it sure as hell beats what Momma Bear had to do in the days when we had a Hoover Twin Tub.

 

I think I'll also start work on prepping adverts for Harry the Honda.....

 

ION.....

 

Whilst delivering to one of the Hospice Shops yesterday I spotted this in the Stock Room:

 

 

 

Initial very early Beary impressions are that it's one of Bear's better purchases 🙂 as it now means that the weight of the Lappy is no longer resting on Bear's aft paws - I've found that this can become "a pain" after a while.  A quick search on the 'bay suggests there are several used examples, as well as what I suspect to be similar (new?) copies available from a little over twelve quid upwards (some with built-in USB powered cooling fans).

 

Right, time to start drivin' Bertie the Bosch ....

 

BG

[iL Dottore]

Good Morning All,

A busy morning of paying work ahead and then I have the whole weekend free to enjoy a bit of modelling (not r*****y, I’m building a VW camper van for Mrs iD - who has been pondering the purchase of one) and generally indulge in various misdemeanours. I may do a spot of rationalisation.

 

8 hours ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

Probably followed the advice of that AI Bot that said to hold the cheese in place you need to use non-toxic glue.

I thought that was de rigeuer for cheap UPF pizza.

9 hours ago, grandadbob said:

 

Well I had a large wedge with an extra large dollop of cream (just to wind up Bear) and very nice it was too.  The only problem is there is still some left so I'll have to suffer it all again tomorrow!   

Well Done That Man! 
 

The Bear is gonna have to learn that he is not the Oracle of Delphi when it comes to culinary matters and stop extrapolating his likes and dislikes to the wider population. He might not like cream, but there a millions of discerning diners - like your good self GDB - who do.

9 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

With one book barely off the slipway, if that is the right term to use following its launch, the next has been started with a mentally-planned publication date early next year.  

Well done. 
 

But I do have a question for you about how you judge your own work. I have written (and published) a fair amount, but this has always been scientific or hobby related material and whilst I have been sole author or lead author on many articles (including for the hobby press), generally scientific publications are team efforts.

I write things for my own amusement and Mrs iD thinks they are good enough to submit for publication . Which brings me to the question: how do you tread that fine line between rating your own writing as utter b0llocks (when actually it is at an acceptable standard) and rating that work as the best thing since sliced bread (even though it is utter b0llocks)?

 

One final thing about the forthcoming book, have you considered calling it “The Joy of Walks”? 😳😁

[polybear]

11 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

The Bear is gonna have to learn that he is not the Oracle of Delphi when it comes to culinary matters and stop extrapolating his likes and dislikes to the wider population. He might not like cream, but there a millions of discerning diners - like your good self GDB - who do.

Well done. 

 

Two words for iD....

 

Curly Fries.....

 

😁

[Barry O]

Ey up!

 

@monkeysarefun nope not travelling that far this time. Just play nicely in your new water play area avoiding the salties!!

 

@polybear herselfshorted, priced and put out for sale 149 garments yesterday..( same day last week 2 volunteers managed 390  so herself didn't do badly) they don't count bags as some have lots in them, others have lots of non saleable items (like used underwear).

 

Having had a 2 hour catchup with the local ECB man yesterday afternoon today is a cricket free day. This means some muddling should be completed.. wooppppiiiiddddooo!

 

I may have a walk around a local park and reward myself with a Yorkshire Rascal at  the cafe.

 

For those travelling today.. hope it goes well.

 

Baz

 

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

Blue sky and sunshine here and it should be a mainly dry and sunny day.  11°C rising to 20°C.

A walk to Asda has been scheduled after breakfast to collect some magazines and a couple of other things that The Boss has deemed "essential."

After that I'm on kitchen appliance maintenance duties with both the dishwasher and washing machine, particularly the latter, needing some cleaning in the filter and soap dispenser compartments. 

Steve is visiting at lunchtime  as he's leaving his car here while going to the US of A with (our)grandson Joe tomorrow.  He's got a cat sitter living in his place for a week to look after Tigerpuss so he's leaving her his parking space.  The lads are travelling in style and Steve has got them a business class club suite? on the plane.

Later on I may visit The Shed to work out how to safely dismantle the O gauge plank without dropping it  (or anything) on the OO layout beneath it.

Tea has been taken up to Her Bossness who is now on the move so I bestbeaboutitandgettamoveon.

Have a good one,

Bob.

Edited June 7 by grandadbob

[TheQ]

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

A colleague's father (who is Punjabi) was caught up in the cross migration from what would become West Pakistan (later Pakistan) into India. He eventually settled in north central India.

 

Excess mortality of the period is estimated at one million - some sources estimate two million. Perhaps 15 - 18 people relocated.

 

As comparison, a BBC source estimated that 3,600 people were killed during the 30 years of the Northern Irish "Troubles".

 

And in the same period of the troubles New York had in the ball park of 30,000 gun deaths let alone other illegal deaths...

[Erichill16]

Morning All,

Further to yesterday’s posts, we spent a couple of hours in the garden yesterday, me with my thick sweat shirt on. Not sure whats on the agenda today but it would be great if I could get the grass mowed but as all my recycling /composting bins are full a trip to the dump it site will be required. That’s not actually a bad thing as I’ve already got some stuff in the van ready to go and a cupboard carcass in the garage could do with removing.

Feeling drained so can’t imagine anything else strenuous getting done. Get up late, go to bed early and still run out of energy by mid afternoon.  Had a period of eyelid inspection one afternoon and woke up feeling even worse. Must admit it’s something i don’t usually do as I always seem to feel worse for it. The gardening yesterday was due to feeling groggy, needed the fresh air. More vitamins and less UPF may help.

Probably ought to make a move though nobody else in the house is awake. 
TTFN

[pH]

11 minutes ago, Erichill16 said:

Had a period of eyelid inspection one afternoon and woke up feeling even worse. Must admit it’s something i don’t usually do as I always seem to feel worse for it.

Napping affects me in the same way. I reckon it takes me as much time to get myself straight after a nap as the time I’ve napped for. My wife will happily fall asleep for 15 minutes or so on the couch in the evening. One of our sons used to stretch out and sleep on the couch for half an hour almost every day after school. I never could do anything like that.

 

Both my dad and my father-in-law could take 5 minute naps. Dad said he’d learned that in the forces during WW2 - if you had nothing else to do, you napped because you often weren’t sure when you might next have the opportunity.

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

We’ve had quite a bit of rain overnight, everywhere is wet, but thankfully it’s stopped and doesn’t look like it’ll rain again anytime soon.
 

It looks like the blue tits have fledged as the once frantic activity of the parents tooing an froing from the nest has stopped. We still see the dunnocks, but they’re slowing down too. 
 

Once I’ve finished breakfast, I’ll head off to the butchers for the weekly meat rations and a pork pie for my dinner. Then I’ll go and collect Sheila’s prescription before going to the Trafford Centre for a few more bits and pieces. 
 

There are no plans for the afternoon, so a bit of reading may be undertaken. 
 

Back later. 
 

Brian 

[Winslow Boy]

18 minutes ago, Erichill16 said:

Morning All,

Further to yesterday’s posts, we spent a couple of hours in the garden yesterday, me with my thick sweat shirt on. Not sure whats on the agenda today but it would be great if I could get the grass mowed but as all my recycling /composting bins are full a trip to the dump it site will be required. That’s not actually a bad thing as I’ve already got some stuff in the van ready to go and a cupboard carcass in the garage could do with removing.

Feeling drained so can’t imagine anything else strenuous getting done. Get up late, go to bed early and still run out of energy by mid afternoon.  Had a period of eyelid inspection one afternoon and woke up feeling even worse. Must admit it’s something i don’t usually do as I always seem to feel worse for it. The gardening yesterday was due to feeling groggy, needed the fresh air. More vitamins and less UPF may help.

Probably ought to make a move though nobody else in the house is awake. 
TTFN

Here we are limited to a certain number of visits- can never remember if it's twelve or eighteen, and as I've forgotten how many I've already done I'm expecting to be taken to one side and 'spoken to' at some point.

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. I woke up at six this morning and couldn't get back to sleep again. I have a lot to do today so no time for a nap and I'd better getonwithit.

[polybear]

2 hours ago, Barry O said:

@polybear...........others have lots of non saleable items (like used underwear).

 

 

Fortunately I don't get to deal with "that bit" in the Warehouse - though I've heard stories.....🤢

 

And thanks to some people donating complete cr@p (probably too lazy to go to the dump) or failing to read the "What items we don't (or can't) accept" information (or dumping it outside shops or the Warehouse when we're closed, despite signs asking people not to) the Hospice has a waste disposal bill of £75K every year.  

 

Someone had "donated" a Baby's Car Seat to a Shop yesterday (out of hours) - we can't sell them for legal reasons anyway as we never know if it's been involved in an accident.  The sticky tape holding it together wasn't a good selling point either.....

[tigerburnie]

A bit late on parade, yesterdays hospital trip went ok......ish, they removed the worst of the polyps, but more still need doing, so I have the joy of doing it all again in6 months or so's time. NHS service was superb, the sandwich for tea however would tested even the most un fussy Bears appetite though.

[iL Dottore]

11 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

A bit late on parade, yesterdays hospital trip went ok......ish, they removed the worst of the polyps, but more still need doing, so I have the joy of doing it all again in6 months or so's time. NHS service was superb, the sandwich for tea however would tested even the most un fussy Bears appetite though.

I'm not sure what merits the most sympathy: the polyp removal or the sandwich 😁😱

 

I'm assuming they'll send the polyps they removed to the path lab to ensure that nothing is amiss - better safe than sorry.

 

As polyp removal requires a colonoscopy - you do get some "serious" meds during the procedure (at least I did - I got propofol - seriously tasty 😁) so not unpleasant. The worst part is the pre-op prep work.

 

Overclocked peristalsis is NOT fun!

 

Good luck on the results and next time.

[Hroth]

10 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

... The part for the car has finally cleared customs and it’s booked in to be done. Thanks, Brexit....

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/06/06/reduced-covid-data-more-resits-and-admin/

 

 

The Master Masons who produced the stonework in your photo of Holy Trinity, Coventry were the medieval equivalent of your three top students, who then went on to years more practice and application.  The rest went on to build hovels....

 

[skipepsi]

I could use a little help. When air fryers were being discussed someone mentioned a cleaner they used successfully, I have searched the topic but the results don't give the information needed. I am hoping someone made a note at the time which I intended to do but failed...The pain from arthritc fingers was a clear reminder that there has to be a better way.

[The White Rabbit]

11 hours ago, Hroth said:

Good thing its a flat calm, otherwise it'd be rolling like a hippo in a wallow....

 

They did have a reputation for rolling on wet grass. And aka 'the Pekingese of the ocean'. So in the North Atlantic, especially given the messing and galley arrangements in the early versions, diet got a bit monotonous - cold soup and soggy sandwiches (in a bowl) probably both diluted a bit and with excessive salt garnishing. 

[45156]

Morning All

 

Can anybody direct me to the dog house, as I am most cetainly in it.

 

30747 wanted to pick uo some paint from the local Huws Gray builder's merchant, and said it was fine for me to stay at home to get on with some paperwork.  I duly told her to get the 9.43 bus, thinking that it was the one which comes back close to their premises.  About twenty minutes later, I got a phone call that she had got off the bus as it was not going the way I said it would, and that it was the next one which was the one she needed - so she's had to stand at the bus terminus for half an hour til the bus comes back on its next circular which will take her to where she wants to go. 

 

Stand by for a session of hot tongue and cold shoulder.

 

Regards to All

Stewart

[grandadbob]

@skipepsi

Mick, I use Oven Mate on our big oven which is pretty good .  It's a gel like substance, a bit like paint stripper, which you splodge on and leave for a while.  I then wipe off the resulting muck with kitchen towel and then wash off thoroughly with a damp cloth. 

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oven-Mate-Cleaning-Kit-Standard/dp/B01273WFQ4/ref=

 

Never used it on the air fryer though, ours doesn't get too messy so I use this:

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wpro-WPRO-Oven-Grill-Cleaner/dp/B07D6QTMY2/ref=sr_1_5?crid=3A

 

 

Not as effective as Oven mate though.

 

Both are available from espares if you don't like dealing with Amazon.

 

https://www.espares.co.uk/search?

 

They both sting so use gloves and watch your eyes,  guess how I know?

 

HTH

Edited June 7 by grandadbob

[Erichill16]

2 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

@skipepsi

Mick, I use Oven Mate on our big oven which is pretty good .  It's a gel like substance, a bit like paint stripper, which you splodge on and leave for a while.  I then wipe off then resulting muck with kitchen towel and then wipe off thoroughly with a damp cloth. 

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oven-Mate-Cleaning-Kit-Standard/dp/B01273WFQ4/ref=

 

Never used it on the air fryer though, ours doesn't get too messy so I use this:

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wpro-WPRO-Oven-Grill-Cleaner

 

Not as effective as Oven mate though.

 

Both are available from espares if you don't like dealing with Amazon.

 

https://www.espares.co.uk/search?

 

HTH

I feel a book coming,

’The Joy of Oven Cleaning’