RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted 8 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 8 hours ago Evening all from Estuary-Land. The joints were aching more than usual after the shopping trip so I took an eyelid inspection. Feeling better after that and a muggatee and a couple of mince tarts. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted 8 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 8 hours ago Norfolk schools start half term 28th, and I think the radar museum closes to the public for the winter a week after that. Evening Awl, Radar museum very quiet in the morning, I saw no visitors till 13:00 then it got busy, I was still talking to visitors till 16:59... So the morning was spent muddling, so I built a bloodhound missile and a type 259 radar in 1/1000 scale.. This very pair, though a 259 has nowt to do with bloodhound. As a matter of scale that cube the T259 aerial sits on is a 8 ft square it's very economical in materials is 1/1000 scale. Then I went to the Chinese and for a change had Chicken satay Thai style, I think the peanuts are still in Thailand, but other than that it tasted good.. MRC went well, wire knitting mostly,though I gave up early as so much muddling had upset my back. Still clear skies outside and it's quite chilly, but the weather radar shows soggy on the way here soon. A heavy bit of farm machinery has just gone past all yellow flashy lights, at 21:56 I suspect he's of home to bed.. I'm already there, Muggachoccy gone goodnight Awl... 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted 8 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 8 hours ago Goodnight all. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted 8 hours ago RMweb Gold Share Posted 8 hours ago 57 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said: Well I got it, even if nobody else did! 22 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said: Early night not happening - Blues Brothers on the tellybox. Surely you meant Caeruleum fratis non somnambulus 1 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erichill16 Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago 13 hours ago, Barry O said: I hope @Erichill16is OK.. he iwas trying to retire soon. I wish him well. Drink my mugatea! TTFN Baz Thanks for the thought but plans not going particularly well. Ideally everything should be wrapped up next Friday, in time for the budget and should have been according to my team. Unfortunately financial institutions are also having reservations and are apparently very risk averse until things become more clear after the budget. A Mexican standoff is developing. Some sort of compromise on my part may be needed but I have already bent over backwards (financially) to facilitate other peoples needs. Very difficult and stressful situation which has certainly let the dark one out of his cage on allowed him to run amok. When one reads about what’s happening in the world at the minute my problems do seem trivial. Goodnight All 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago Good morning from an unbearably warm (it is supposed to hit 30°C today!) and soon to be rainy Tokyo. Yesterday, in the company of @railsquid I went to the famous electronic store Adobashi camera, where I was incredibly self disciplined and only purchased an MP3 player to the one I have with me which has failed. The MP3 players were stored on the same floor as the TVs and it does seem that, nowadays, big is better. As the photo shows: As you can see you have 97 inch, 100 inch and 115 inch TVs available which use the micro LED system. The most expensive of which comes in at an equivalent of £8000. I really wonder where you would put such a television in a typical Japanese flat or apartment, given that such dwellings are incredibly tiny. In regards to charities, I really think that a shake up in how charities are defined, funded and run is long overdue. To be brutally frank, I find it totally obscene that for certain charities up to 80% of a donation goes to “administration”. I would cap the salary of the CEO at £100,000 (which is more than generous enough), I would prohibit “chuggers“ and the like - making it illegal to make money off of donations made to a charity. Of course such changes are unlikely to happen in the UK (or at least happen soon) as a lot of people make a nice comfortable living at the top of the big charity organisational pyramid. My wife insists on supporting a number of big name charities, but as I am the one who makes payments and disperses funds, I have stopped giving donations to all but or two. Instead, I support some local charities which I know are not over burdened by expensive administration. There are certain large charities which are worthy of support, but ideally – if you can – provide that support in the form of your labour or by buying the charity what they need (So if a charity wants to raise funds for X and you can afford to do so, ask them how many X would they like you to buy for them - I suspect their answer would be very illuminative of how they view the purpose of donations to the charity). 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darlington_Shed Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago 3 hours ago, polybear said: Bear's ideal strides are 30" rather than 31" long , which of course is "the norm" I used to be a 30" leg, which was standard, and then manufacturers moved to odd-numbered lengths. Under the force of gravity and ageing I'm now a 29" leg. Sometimes things work for you, sometimes against you. I'll take the win where I find it. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Snowdon Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago 47 minutes ago, Darlington_Shed said: I used to be a 30" leg, which was standard, and then manufacturers moved to odd-numbered lengths. Under the force of gravity and ageing I'm now a 29" leg. Sometimes things work for you, sometimes against you. I'll take the win where I find it. Similar experience. Still coming to terms after >20 years with a well known brand offering trousers of 42"W/25"L, but since then have had a couple of good experiences. Wherever Austin Reed are now, they did some decent OTP suits in their last few years, but since their demise I've used another firm which uses 0.5" increments, and seems pretty accurate. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 1 hour ago, Darlington_Shed said: I used to be a 30" leg, which was standard, and then manufacturers moved to odd-numbered lengths. Even inseam lengths in Imperial units are still the norm here. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erichill16 Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said: Even inseam lengths in Imperial units are still the norm here. Never even thought about imperial v metric in trouser sizing! Think I’d better try and get some sleep, thinking of other imperial v metric anomalies may help. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erichill16 Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago Shoe sizes, what’s all that about, UK, US and European? It’s a rhetorical question. I think it may be breakfast time. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted 1 hour ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 1 hour ago (edited) On charities, although I still support the RNLI my recommendation is to support local good causes where you can see what they do and whether they actually benefit the cause they claim to or are more about virtue politics and assuaging middle class angst. Some of them are sewers. And never, never, include a gift of X% of your estate to a charity in your will. Always write it as £Y if you want to leave them something. Charities are notorious for their mercenary approach to chasing bunce left to them in wills. Edited 1 hour ago by jjb1970 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted 29 minutes ago Share Posted 29 minutes ago As I said, @jjb1970, the whole "charity" industry (and it IS an industry) needs a complete overhaul. I really wonder how many of the highly paid charity "executives" and CEOs would stay if you halved their very generous salaries - damn few, I would say. The charities to support are those small charities, like a dog sanctuary or a hedgehog hospital, run by one or two people who are devoted to their charges, plough every penny they get into their charities and sometimes go without so the dogs/hedgehogs/etc don't. They have neither the time, inclination or need to "virtue signal" (how do you "de-colonise" a hedgehog hospital???). Quite frankly, and I am being very cynical here, charities - from the Red Cross to the RNLI - would work better and achieve a lot more if they dumped 50% of the paid (hem-hem) "professionals" and turned it over to the volunteers. Middle/Upper Middle Class Angst, self-loathing and meaningless agenda driven virtue signalling has done much to Bu99er up Britain (and charities) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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