RMweb Premium 45156 Posted February 11, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2012 Morning all. Best of luck with the op Stewart - sounds slightly less inviting than my starting Jury Service the day before, a 'civic duty' I don't really relish to be honest. Thanks - been there, done that with the jnury service - not a bundle of laughs, I have to say. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Evening all. Good luck for the op when it comes Stewart. I was lucky enough not to be selected when I was called for jury service. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 11, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 11, 2012 Hello. Now back home after a day of extreme model railway clubbing! It got colder as I got to the lands beyond Colchester. Our farmer landlord said it was -15C at 5am but it was a manageable -2 by the time we set off home in the afternoon. I did jury service in Southend about 30 years ago and was selected again about 10 years ago but got an exemption at the time due to health reasons. It isn't like it looks on television drama! Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted February 12, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2012 Morning all. Close to -11° again and I'll be of to the bakery around eight. Girlfriend was struck by a migraine around noon yesterday, and thus spent most of the afternoon resting...not really the sort of thing you'd wish for on a birthday, I'm rather sure! However, once she was feeling better I prepared dinner and we're planning to eat out at a Korean restaurant tonight. Weather forecast predicts snow by tonight, so commuting to work tomorrow may get interesting! Cheers everyone - enjoy your day . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted February 12, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2012 Morning all, an early start for a Sunday going to Carlisle complete with inlaws so a full Zafira for the first time later today. Cold out but no frost on the car so very dry air. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Morning all. Cold and crisp. Mrs S says may thanks for all your good wishes. A good day was had by all, although the curry and red wine combination is paying its toll this morning. Good day for London v the NE yesterday. Just heard another of my pop icons from the 70's has gone. RIP Whitney. Loads of fond memories from my Hadleigh days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonBradley Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Hi there this fine Sunday morning. Partly cloudy with a max temp of 21C. Quite cool but again no wind so fine in the sun. Happy Sunday to you all. May all your plans come to tuition! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Morning all. Just to line up with Don but in an opposite direction 21f with 40 mph wind just outside Gotham. As you know we English have a very technical term for such cold weather....... Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelintrev Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Good morning all, Bit late on parade today (well tis Sunday!). Remembering the cold from school days, does any one else ever remember those 1/3 pint (?) bottles of school milk? Our used to freeze, milk would be standing up like an ice cream, and then would be brought into the class room to have the crate stood on the radiator to thaw out by break time........but the milk then tasted disgusting.........I still dont like it! OK, well enjoy your day Trev Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Yep used to pop the tops up! Conversely in Summer they were hot = I still like slightly "off" milk.......but then I liked custard on my potatoes. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 12, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2012 Morning all. I remember school milk and all its disgusting variations. We stopped having "doorstep" milk when Matthew was little as the local dairy seemed incapable of delivering milk that was drinkable or couldn't cope with not delivering while we were on holiday. It is below zero here at the moment. I really would like to get all the mud and salt off my car but it will have to wait for another day. I'll drive to Basildon today as I want a couple of XLR connectors. Andrew (Andrew C) very kindly allowed me to purchase the modules he had made for our club layout. They were incorporated into the main part of the layout yesterday but now I've got them at home I need the connectors to make a lead up for my DCC system. Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted February 12, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2012 Belated morning all - but the shopping's done and, having taken the lad to work at 05.00 this morning, I have seen the temperature rise from -5 to +3C in a space of about 5 hours. So now everything is damp instead of being dry and crisply frozen. And as for that appalling school milk - ugh! I refused it from the age of 5 onwards as it often made me sick; I wonder why we couldn't had orange juice instead as it did appear from time to time? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 We used to receive our milk in little triangular cartons. I quite liked it but I was a bit of a wee porker anyway. Just a big one now! Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 I think that school milk had finished by the time I hit school. Certainly don't remember it! Been out swimming with Jamie this morning. Just had bacon rolls for lunch and then off for a drive this pm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 12, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2012 I think that school milk had finished by the time I hit school. Certainly don't remember it! 1971 for the over sevens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Yep used to pop the tops up! Conversely in Summer they were hot = I still like slightly "off" milk.......but then I liked custard on my potatoes. Best, Pete. Oddly that was mentioned on Radio4 on The Food Program at lunchtime - My comment then was the same as now "EEUUCCCH!" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 12, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2012 (edited) Oddly that was mentioned on Radio4 on The Food Program at lunchtime - My comment then was the same as now "EEUUCCCH!" I think Frites avec Crème Anglaise may be preferable to some of the recipes discussed on the radio and television for instance "snail porridge". Edited February 12, 2012 by Tony_S Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 45156 Posted February 12, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2012 Afternoon All Temperature just into positive figures now - and we are back to dreichness again here with a promise of winds to come on the week. Thanks for your early good wishes for my forthcoming surgery - TBH I can't wait, as the hip screw has been causing me gyp now for months, and it'll be better out than in - oddly one of the health workers at my GP's surgery had the same op about ten years ago, and still has the metalwork in situ, and she also walks without a limp. So clearly I am one of the less fortunate in that regard - the consultant did say that just under half the people who have a hip screw fitted do suffer some sort of pain or irritation. I am old enough to remember school milk - it was stored outside the janitor's hut (ie outside) where the little bottles suffered the vagaries of the Scottish weather - freezing and thawed out in a warm classroom, going partly turned in summer, whatever, the condition, you had to drink it - made me throw up on the classroom floor, and thereafter I was excused boots - but since then I have only taken milk with cereal - I take tea and coffee black even now. Regards to All - I'm off for my dinner. Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 12, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2012 Robbie has just had his walk. I've come back more bruised than before I went out. One of his mildly irritating habits is that he likes to deposit that which I have to pick up in "challenging" locations, in the summer he favours nettle beds. Today it was half way down the slope on the flood protection that is a footpath in the park. Unlike Robbie I fell over. I'm not sure why my left hip hurts when I fell on my right side! I've spent the rest of the day helping Aditi with some word processing problems. I can get all the software to work with new documents but for documents that have evolved over many versions it is playing up. I've given up and found an inelegant solution that works and retains sanity at home. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 1971 for the over sevens. Yep, definitely before my time! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted February 12, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2012 (edited) Evening all, have returned from celebrating DD1's 21st birthday, patchy fog was the only problem, no back seat driving from the inlaws and only a Fiat with the strangest headlamp pattern I have ever seen slowed us down over the hills. Edited February 12, 2012 by skipepsi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 12, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2012 My brother was out somewhere in icy weather years ago and a car with very strange headlights was heading towards, him so he moved out of its way. It was actually on its roof skidding along. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted February 12, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2012 A week off. Exam papers marked. Data entry completed. Medium term plans done for next half term. Now what shall I do ......... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 12, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2012 A week off. Exam papers marked. Data entry completed. Medium term plans done for next half term. Now what shall I do ......... Some light housework? Fill the freezer with exotic dinners for the next half term? Play with trains? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Rest on your laurels if they're hardy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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