Early Risers.

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

The sun is shining and the sky is blue, but we must have had some rain last night, because the arbour roof is wet, but it's not raining now. I’ll shortly be setting off to the butchers for the weekly meat rations and a pork pie for today’s dinner. Then it’s off to the Trafford Centre for a few more bits and pieces, I’ll also call at the bank to get some money out for tomorrow’s visit to the model railway exhibition in Warrington.

 

Back later. 
 

Brian

[monkeysarefun]

9 hours ago, Andy Hayter said:

I believe you are in the track of a significant storm too.

 

 

 

I guess you meant  this one, currently  headed in from the west...

 

 

6 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Bet it didn't last too long like that.

 

 

Until about mid-day when the low-cloud went somewhere else. In winter days we can be inside the clouds all day. 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

@Grizz and @polybear hamming it up for the Japanese fans on their late 90s "Bearly Behaved" Bear-Metal Rock'n'Roll Tour

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeez, and I was thinking Ol Mick was the rocker that was showing his age!

 

      

 

 

Time to get some work done, mate!

 

 

 

 

Great news - I came home this arvo and saw that nice new neighbours have moved in to replace the crappy old Neigh-bours (LOL) .

 

Property prices have risen already!

 

 

 

Edited 21 hours ago by monkeysarefun

[Winslow Boy]

7 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

 

I guess you meant  this one, currently  headed in from the west...

 

 

 

 

Until about mid-day when the low-cloud went somewhere else. In winter days we can be inside the clouds all day. 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeez, and I was thinking Ol Mick was showing his age!

 

      

 

 

Time to get some work done, mate!

 

 

 

 

Great news - I came home this arvo and saw that nice new neighbours have moved in to replace the crappy old Neigh-bours (LOL) .

 

Property prices have risen already!

 

 

 

Hmm not so certain about that Chimpy me old chum. If you can't see them, you don't know what there getting up to. Better to keep them in sight, so that when they are 'attending the briefing' prior to going over the top, you'll at least have some warning to man the barricades.

Edited 22 hours ago by Winslow Boy

[Erichill16]

9 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

 

 

Now, given that I am in Tokyo this means an urgent trip to Akihabara beckons in order to relieve myself of this cash. For those of you not in the know, Akihabara is where they have all the high-tech shops (lots of model railway shops as well). 

 

And tea maids!

[monkeysarefun]

14 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

Better to keep them in sight, so that when they are 'attending the briefing' prior to going over the top, you'll at least have some warning to man the barricades.

 

Easy for you to say, you didnt have to put up with their rubbish  dance music booming out every Saturday night.

 - 

Say what you like about Hip Hop, but I'd take that every day over their stupid rip-off version -  Clip Clop, the lamest musical sub-genre of them all!!

Edited 21 hours ago by monkeysarefun

[DaveF]

Another fine morning  - which I need after a bad night.

 

Just after tea yesterday I suddenly felt very poorly and wondered what on earth was wrong.  I felt I couldn't concentrate, the weight of the world was suddenly on my shoulders and I felt like a good cry.  I didn't have to wait long, my IBS decided to play up so I spent a lot of the evening on the loo.  By bedtime I felt somewhat better but I went to bed feeling weak and weary.  I think I actually slept quite a lot but at the time it felt as though I was awake.  This morning I feel better but fragile.  Apart from going to the podiatrist I shall not do much today, certainly nothing involving much energy expenditure and I am not at all sure I will do much tomorrow.

 

I did work out that the main culprit was the salmon and its herby dressing (just don't ask how I worked it out) I ate on Wednesday but have also realised that in the past couple of weeks  I have eaten a number of things I don't often have becasue they can upset me.  So it is time to go back to a bland simple diet and to return to keeping a note of what I eat and how my gut behaves.  So simple Weetabix and toast, ordinary biscuits, basic salads, plain chicken, plain fish and so on.  Then it should settle down until the next time.

 

The only other things I have to do today is some church paperwork which should be done by lunchtime.

 

David

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Not a bad night last night, six hours sleep in all but when I went to move out of bed every joint protested vigorously so pills were taken. Couldn't see the moon last night as the fist and mog rolled in and it's still hanging about this morning. Not a lot of shopping to do, just a few essentials such as bread milk and eggs but thats for later.

[PhilJ W]

19 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

      

 

He looks as if he's been stuffed and mounted.

[Grizz]

1 minute ago, PhilJ W said:

He looks as if he's been stuffed and mounted.

Hey…don’t judge him man…..what happens on tour….stays on tour! 😆

[monkeysarefun]

4 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

He looks as if he's been stuffed and mounted.

 

 

....More than once!

[Grizz]

1 minute ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

....More than once!

Limitless groupies…..only one @polybear

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

 

Ahhh, not that 'ol excuse again.....

"It simply must be solid gold, Dear....or Platinum......

🤣

And not any old gold, 22 carat…

Aditi isn’t really in to jewellery as much of it affects her skin. 
She doesn’t wear a wedding ring and was told by a lecturer colleague she was “leading men astray” by not doing so.

[Coombe Barton]

As the weather forecast is iffy and changeable over the next few days and is subject to frequent modification I will have to judge the best time to give the lawn a trim prior to the garden bin collection on Wednesday.  The new presence of storm Ashley is changing the forecast.

The timing trick is to judge when the squelchiness has diminished before the next set of squelchiness causing precipitation.

It's an exciting life now I've retired.

I attended (and joined) the local history (for want of a better tem) society last night. Found that I was one of the youngest there. I also found some odd ideas present.

[Gwiwer]

59 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

He looks as if he's been stuffed and mounted.

 

 

....More than once

Mr Jagger too. On both counts. 🤣

[Andy Hayter]

8 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Satellite I'd think with the exposure needed to bring out those stars with that level of colour saturation. 

 

 

Maybe.   This is a peak time for meteors - debris left by the last passing of Hayley's comet.  Peak viewing is supposedly early on Monday morning (5 to sparrowf@rt  CET) when they predict 25ish meteors per hour.   

[polybear]

BH....

A pretty decent zed last night - Tick.  Then it was down to collect a pair of strides that have been shortened at the local Dry Cleaners - I've yet to try/inspect....

After that a quick dash into the Co-op for a container of Milk that I don't actually need yet - but the date on the bottle is long so it'll not get wasted; I also spied a collection of five items (none of which iD would approve of....) "on a very good deal" in the freezer cabinet - buddy over the road** will get one of them.

It seems NNND is foxtrotting off to Sicily for 12 days - Bear was given a bag of veg that would've been wasted otherwise, some of which has subsequently been shared with another neighbour.  I couldn't persuade her that the Celery was meant for her as well though.....

 

I did intend to chew the green stuff in the garden with Quentin the Qualcast this morning - but the mist has put paid to that idea.  Poo.  A certain strange orange ball in the sky is promised over Bear Towers later so it'll get done then, no matter what.

 

**Buddy OTR mentioned to Bear yesterday that he's decided that a certain organisation (famed for going round the streets knocking on doors 😉) weren't all they appeared to be after all; I was "somewhat concerned" when he told me some months ago that he was starting to attend their meetings (he'd never showed an interest in anything similar before) and suggested he go slowly and tread carefully etc.  Well now he's been seeing a side to them that he described as akin to bullying/controlling etc. and has decided he wants nothing more to do with them; he's now found that others have left for similar reasons.  I think he's done the right thing.

 

BG

[Sidecar Racer]

27 minutes ago, polybear said:

  Well now he's been seeing a side to them that he described as akin to bullying/controlling etc. and has decided he wants nothing more to do with them; he's now found that others have left for similar reasons.  I think he's done the right thing.

 

 

 That's the side I've seen with people I have known .

[Tony_S]

22 minutes ago, polybear said:

Buddy OTR mentioned to Bear yesterday that he's decided that a certain organisation (famed for going round the streets knocking on doors

They seem to have given up round here. What we do get are the charity sign up people, most commonly claiming to be the Red Cross. Usually very earnest looking young people whose mask slips when it is mentioned that we never ever sign up for anything to doorstep, unannounced callers. 

[monkeysarefun]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

Buddy OTR mentioned to Bear yesterday that he's decided that a certain organisation (famed for going round the streets knocking on doors 😉) weren't all they appeared to be after all;

 

 

Yeah, you let one Avon lady sell you some moisturiser  and before you know it they are like seagulls.

Edited 18 hours ago by monkeysarefun

[monkeysarefun]

30 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

They seem to have given up round here. What we do get are the charity sign up people, most commonly claiming to be the Red Cross. Usually very earnest looking young people whose mask slips when it is mentioned that we never ever sign up for anything to doorstep, unannounced callers. 

I had one of those last week. I said that I wasn't interested in signing up for a monthly amount but I'd give him a one-off donation. He wasn't interested in that, he told me that they weren't set up to take single donations.

 

What's that all about? Seems less about helping the charity they  are claiming to represent and more about sucking me dry.

Edited 18 hours ago by monkeysarefun

[Tony_S]

5 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

What's that all about? Seems less about helping the charity they  are claiming to represent and more about sucking me dry.

The “chugger” fees for generating the sign up can take almost a years worth of contributions. Charities use these paid collectors as one income stream. If I am going to give, I will initiate the process. 

[Hroth]

3 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

Great news - I came home this arvo and saw that nice new neighbours have moved in to replace the crappy old Neigh-bours (LOL) .

 

Property prices have risen already!

 

 

 

 

Don't start cheering too soon - cows are just as deadly as the former Neigh-bours*...

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8egk077x8o

 

* There's a song about that!

 

"Neighbours

Everybody hates the neighbours...."

 

 

Edited 18 hours ago by Hroth
cue for a song

[monkeysarefun]

9 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

Don't start cheering too soon - cows are just as deadly as the former Neigh-bours...

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8egk077x8o

 

 

 

 

 

Yes but don't equate pommy cows with the rest of the world.

 

Your lot were exposed to  Mad Cow disease, probably caught off of the Prime Minister at the time.

Edited 18 hours ago by monkeysarefun

[Hroth]

11 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

Yes but don't equate pommy cows with the rest of the world.

 

Your lot were exposed to  Mad Cow disease, probably caught off of the Prime Minister at the time.

 

Odd....

I'd have thought you'd appreciate cows with attitude!!! 🙃

 

Looking at your cow again, its got a Hereford face pattern though not the purebred underside so if nothing else, its related to a pommy cow...

 

Edited 18 hours ago by Hroth
Extra!

[monkeysarefun]

3 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

Odd....

I'd have thought you'd appreciate cows with attitude!!! 🙃

 

 

 

Yes, cows are freedom fighters,

 

 

 

 

 

horses are just interested in organised crime, hence the term  "Drug mule".