Early Risers.

[PupCam]

Morning All!

 

Not  a lot to report other than I seem to need a lot more sleep these days.   I managed about 8.5 hours last night with only one brief disturbance about 6:00am for the usual.   

 

I wish I could get motivated to get on and get cracking, so much that could be done with just a small splodge of inclination!

 

2 hours ago, polybear said:

After that I plan to turn thoughts to the construction of a chassis that is split, which will be a first.  In fact constructing one that isn't split would be a first too.  Puppers will be most shocked/impressed/need a lie down/faint/all of the above when he reads that.....

By the way Puppers, how's that plane coming along? 

 

I do hope the Bear is not trying to show Puppers up!

 

BTW - the 6 year layer of dust on the Sopwith is, unfortunately, maturing nicely.

 

Alan

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Had a good nights sleep, didn't wake up until gone nine and even then considered going back to sleep. Had to get up though as I will be going to my brothers place to see how he's doing and deliver a few items that I'd promised him before the pandemic got in the way. Muggatee is ready, be back later.

[Pacific231G]

Good morning all

Anotherr dull damp morning in W. London but I didn't get my normal daily walk in yesterday so must do so today.

Yesterday we  had an actual meeting of one of my groups in Hertfordshire yesterday, just five of us all lateral flow tested.  After not seeing one another for almost two years it's been great to actually meet people again though very carefully.

We have a tradition of an annual curry evening dedicated to absent friends in January but this year we decided that a take-away lunch was safer. Nasty foggy weather heading up to it but what spoilt a very pleasant day was an accident on the M25 that held me up for about 45 minutes on the way back . Eventually they cleared what looked like just a car and a van onto the hard shoulder but, unfortunately, the sat nav came up with its warning a few hundred yards  after I'd passed the junction that would have enabled me to divert round it so I was stuck. Doubly annoying was that I only went on the M25 to avoid any congestion on the North Circular between Staples Corner and the Hangar Lane gyratory.    Rats!

Main meal today will be roast duck, the last of the standby Christmas dinner intended for deployment had anyone in my family tested positive on Christmas Day which, fortunately, nobody did. 

 

Walkies!!

 

[polybear]

50 minutes ago, PupCam said:

I do hope the Bear is not trying to show Puppers up!

 

 

As if......

 

In other news.....

Bear discovered a lot more small reamers that I never even knew I had; I found many small ones (in 64th" steps) that strangely have totally plain shanks - no square on the end for a wrench etc.

 

It seems that a certain person has been escorted to the Airport......

 

And finally...

 

[PupCam]

25 minutes ago, polybear said:

I found many small ones (in 64th" steps) that strangely have totally plain shanks - no square on the end for a wrench etc.

 

Machine reamers?   Sounds like they'd go in (my) the Unimat very nicely

[45156]

17 hours ago, Tony_S said:

If you think the books are only going to get pulped  and have no value we discovered that one of our local charity shops (Sue Ryder) like academic books (and cookery books) as they are heavy and they get paid by weight by World of Books. 

It was the same at Age UK when I did the books, and also at Oxfam (where I did the books) - at LASAR, they ran all the books through "We Buy Books" and if it was wanted, it went - all the others were sold at 50p per sackful - and the sacks had to be full.  At Oxfam I specialised in the transport section, and on my first day, the manager had a pile of railway books - he suggested that I should price them using Bookfinder, but I went my own way, and priced them based on my knowledge and experience as a railway book dealer - and was right first time against bookfinder with every one.  There was only one which flummoxed me, and that was a very obscure book published in New Zealand, and which we had to send off to the specialist team to be priced and put on the internet.

Edited January 16, 2022 by 45156

[45156]

Afternoon All

 

With the now obligatory apologies for absence due to packing, and other "legitimate" activities, which have prevented my being here as often as I'd have liked - and also many pages have been skipped - so as ever, all I can offer is generic greetings.

 

Not a great deal to report here, but for the guitarists among us - and also the George Benson fans - here's the latest from the amazing Gabriella Quevedo

 

 

Regards to All

Stewart

 

 

 

[TheQ]

Afternoon Awl,

Now lying here with pain from the undercarriage, three days off and two of them working on the boat. Changing from a standing position to kneeling or sitting on the edge of the trailer then standing again, and repeat, has just about done them in..

 

Sanded one  side of the hull above the water line, Pre-koted that, gave other side its second coat of Pre-Kote, took Ben for his long walk where we played with Saun the Sheep and friends again.

Returned put second coat of Pre-Kote on the other side.

 

So the hull will be left for at least a week for the Pre-Kote to harden.

And the first dry days off after that at 5C or above I can give the hull a final light sanding and topcoat.

 

Boat seat now given 2nd coat of varnish on its front face.

 

Started the day dull and overcast, then the great fried egg put in an appearance for an hour. Now it's gone decidedly dark...

 

Excuse me ocular shutters require testing..

[Coombe Barton]

Specs collected, Sainsbury's and relative visited, lunch now cooking (actually a find in Sainsbury's much reduced. Then it's on with the hole filling and sanding and hole filling and sanding and ...

[tigerburnie]

Afternoon all, been having difficulty getting on here, site not opening?? Had a great day fishing on Friday, just what I needed to clear the mind and soul. Not read everyone's posts, will try and catch up later.

[Pacific231G]

Walkies  (4.3kms) duly accomplished under grey skies. The sun then came out in a mocking sort of way just as I got back home and it's been blue skies ever since. Oh well, the walk did me good.

 

Ever since a friend recommended it I've become addicted to "Death in Paradise". The first three series have just been  reshown on Alibi (one of the UKTV channels) but are only on their catch-up service for a few more days so I've been bingeing on them. Totally absurd of course. Saint Marie, a formerly French  Carribean Island transferred from France in the 1970s and now a British Overseas Territory supposedly half the size of Guadeloupe (where it's actually filmed) with a total police force of just four plus a commissioner, one of them a fish out of water DI seconded from the Met, equipped with one landrover and a motorcycle plus sidecar but more murders than Somerville or even Morse's Oxford.  It's a BBC- France 2 co-production so I'd love to know what the French version looks like.

Very lightweight but, in a dull grey British winter, the Carribean does look attractive. 

Edited January 16, 2022 by Pacific231G
typo

[J. S. Bach]

Speaking of "my" ice storm, here are a few photos taken around 0950 this morning (it's still p!$$!ng down):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jamie92208]

2 hours ago, Pacific231G said:

Walkies  (4.3kms) duly accomplished under grey skies. The sun then came out in a mocking sort of way just as I got back home and it's been blue skies ever since. Oh well, the walk did me good.

 

Ever since a friend recommended it I've become addicted to "Death in Paradise". The first three series have just been  reshown on Alibi (one of the UKTV channels) but are only on their catch-up service for a few more days so I've been bingeing on them. Totally absurd of course. Saint Marie, a formerly French  Carribean Island transferred from France in the 1970s and now a British Overseas Territory supplosedly half the size of Guadeloupe (where it's filmed) with a total police force of just four plus a commissioner, one of them a fish out of water DI seconded from the Met, equipped with one landrover and a motorcycle plus sidecar but more murders than Somerville or even Morse's Oxford.  It's a BBC- France 2 co-production so I'd love to know what the French version looks like.

Very lightweight but, in a dull grey British winter, the Carribean does look attractive. 

We also like the series despite the formulaic nature. The latest series has improved with the return of DS Cassell.

 

Jamie

Edited January 16, 2022 by jamie92208

[simontaylor484]

Spent another day on the freezing garage. The new sockets are all ready to connect I couldn't connect because i couldn't turn the power off because Swmbo needed to use the washer even though we have her ample opportunity to use it yesterday. Turdeycurses 

 

Planted out the 3 mini xmas trees I bought a 30 litre bag of ericaceaus compost the other day and wondered why it was so heavy it was soaking wet.

 

[polybear]

2 hours ago, PupCam said:

 

Machine reamers?   Sounds like they'd go in (my) the Unimat very nicely

 

Must be....and Bear might just have some duplicates in various sizes....

 

In other news....

Bear decided to plonk some waste paper into the recycling box that lives near the front door.  What do I discover?  A delivery from Amazon literally on the front doorstep - no email/message/Alexa notification...s0d all, in fact.  Only fifty quid's worth of Hippo detectors, so nothing valuable...  T0ssers.

 

And finally....

Bear's Sunday Funnies....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change.org petition for Putin to invade Ukraine as soon as possible has 2 signatures so far.
Boris Johnson
Prince Andrew

 

Welcome to Word Of The Day.
Now today’s word is Starmer ... Starmer
A Starmer is the name given to a vacuum enclosed by a posh suit.

 

Just when you think the lies told by MPs can't get any more far fetched.
A man stands up in parliament and claims to be upset that his mother in law has died.

 

Got a ticket for undertaking on the M3. Running late yesterday and so I've opted to use the motorway instead of the A303. I joined just before they closed the slip road to allow a royal motorcade with Prince Charles and Camilla in heading to Cornwall. They were travelling along under police protection but so bloody slow. They were doing 48 in lane three. I waited and waited hoping they would move over. Hoping they would speed up. But they didn't. I got impatient and used lane 1 to pass them at 65 as they continued to do less than 50. Stopped by lead police motorcade biker. He told me off and wrote me a ticket. I asked "why?" He said it’s because I saw you "pass the duchy on the left hand side”.

 

I entered a bus, A woman and her 7 years old son were sitting beside me in the bus. It was raining and all the twilight girls (Pr*stitutes) were standing by the roadside
The boy asked; “Mummy, what are all those women doing?.
His Mother replied; “They are waiting for their husbands to come back from work.”
The bus driver turned around and said; “Why don’t you tell him the truth?"
"Little boy, they are pr*stitutes, they sleep with men for money" Said the Driver”
The boy’s eyes got wide and asked; “Mummy is that true?”
His mother, glaring hard at the driver replied; “Yes!”
After a few minutes, the boy asked; “Mummy, what happens to the babies those women have?”
She replied; “Most of them become bus drivers"

 

A man goes into the doctor and says, "Doc, you gotta check my leg. Something's wrong. Just put your ear up to my thigh, you'll hear it!"
The doctor cautiously placed his ear to the man's thigh only to hear, "Gimme 20 bucks, I really need 20 bucks."
"I've never seen or heard anything like this before, how long has this been going on." The doctor asked.
"That's nothing Doc. put your ear to my knee."
The doctor put his ear to the man's knee and heard it say "Man, I really need 10 bucks, just lend me 10 bucks!!"
"Sir, I really don't know what to tell you. I've never seen anything like this." The doctor was dumbfounded.
"Wait Doc, that's not it. There's more, just put your ear up to my ankle," the man urged him.
The doctor did as the man said and was blown away to hear his ankle plead, "Please, I just need 5 bucks. Lend me 5 bucks please if you can."
I have no idea what to tell you," the doctor said. "There's nothing about it in my books," he said as he frantically searched all his medical reference books.
"I can make a well-educated guess though.
Based on life and all my previous experience I can tell you that your leg seems to be broke in three places."

 

[tigerburnie]

We need that groan button again

Edited January 16, 2022 by tigerburnie

[Barry O]

Beware of Holes!

Baz

[Pacific231G]

1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:

We also like thevseries despite the formulaic nature. Thevlatest series has improved with the return of DS Cassell.

 

Jamie

Do you see the British or the French version?

I think they have just one plot and simply change the location and characters and the "get all the suspects together and reveal who is guilty" is a straight steal from Agatha Christie.

[simontaylor484]

I just cannot get warm I am sat near the radiator in our bedroom covered in a blanket 

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Agatha Christie only ever wrote about five stories at best. With various permutations of detectives, murderers, locations and weapons. Not forgetting the contrived clues that solves the case. I didn't visit my brother this afternoon. He was supposed to call me before hand but decided do do something else. Its typical of him not to inform me or anyone else of his change of plans.

[Erichill16]

Surprised Poly didn’t post this one.

Ive stolen’ it from ‘ things that make you :-)’

Something  that you might find in Flávio’s fridge?

 

Edited January 16, 2022 by Erichill16

[jamie92208]

53 minutes ago, Pacific231G said:

Do you see the British or the French version?

I think they have just one plot and simply change the location and characters and the "get all the suspects together and reveal who is guilty" is a straight steal from Agatha Christie.

The English version. Until today I wasn't awzre of the French version but Wikipedia was my friend.

 

Jamie

[monkeysarefun]

6 hours ago, polybear said:

It seems that a certain person has been escorted to the Airport..

The English cricket team has been spotted taking notes.

[New Haven Neil]

Well today's archery didn't go to plan really, Debs had an off day and was 4th (just!) from 12, everyone bar the winner today was having a poor day really but the guy that is usually last beat the cheat bloke and was second!  Adequate recompense.

 

At a mid point in the round there is a rope that hangs from a tree over a river with an old ball or something tied into it.  The shooting group decided to have a pop at it as it was sunny at that point and breezy so it was swinging a bit - really difficult target - everyone hit it!  If the rest of the round had been as good.....

 

[New Haven Neil]

Cheating bloke on left, then the guy that beat him today, Debs then Geoff who is the best archer in the cub.