Early Risers.

[simontaylor484]

Things must be getting bad McDonald's are increasing the price of cheeseburger

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62317453

[TheQ]

1 minute ago, simontaylor484 said:

Things must be getting bad McDonald's are increasing the price of cheeseburger

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62317453

I don't suspect they'll go back to their original size though..

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, simontaylor484 said:

Things must be getting bad McDonald's are increasing the price of cheeseburger

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62317453

We knew things were bad when the price of our local red wine wentbover €2 per litre.  The world's going to hell in a hand cart.

 

Jamie

[45156]

Afternoon All

 

As usual, much skipping, but I promise to do better - all I can offer is the usual generic greetings.

 

After Shrewsbury last week with all its delays and traffic, I was dreading Hereford today, but the run was posted as 32 minutes on AA travel, and it took 31!  Went to Carpetright, and spent about £1500 more that the originally estimated amount, but that was also due to having two more rooms carpeted, and also deciding on a much superior carpet, which was discounted to 50% off.  That offer ended on Sunday or Monday, but they honoured it anyway, as they had already quoted.  Also the vinyl was £1 cheaper per square metre, and they gave us that price as well.  It is all being fitted after the builder has been - booked for 5th September.

 

Hereford was not at all stressful, and we both really enjoyed seeing some big shops, as well as quite a few new charity shops.

 

Back later in the week.

 

Regards to All

Stewart

[simontaylor484]

Talking of Carpets

Those of us who reside in God's county may remember these

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/business/mikes-carpets-building-up-for-let-in-armley-for-first-time-in-ten-years-as-famous-owner-gives-update-3782198

 

For those unfamiliar 

 

 

[DaveF]

 

At long last I have a chance to say what I did yesterday.  For now I'll not mention today!

 

I decided to have a day out so having packed things for a morning snack and lunch in the picnic bag I got in the car, along with the camera and headed north.  About 30 minutes later I arrived in Warkworth and was able to park by the River Coquet as there was still penty of space, I drank my coffee and ate a jam doughnut while watching the mallard, black headed gulls and jackdaws on a gravel bank in the river.  After that I had a walk upstream as far as where the ferry goes to the Hermitage (not open on Tuesdays), taking photos as I went.  There were a lot of birds about including mallards and pochards. There should be a photo below of the castle seen from the river - it's a very well known view, Turner painted it in 1799, the trees have grown since then.

 

I decided to walk up the very steep path up the cliff to look at the castle - I almost got to the top without stopping for breath.  The castle has  along history, at one time it belonged to the Percy family, who later became the Dukes of Northumberland.  Today it is in the hands of English Heritage, I had a quick look round - I am a member so it was "free".  There was an event on so I didn't stay long but it was good to see it again, the first time since before Covid.  From tht castle there is an easy walk down the village street so I did a bit of window shopping before reaching the river again.

 

I then went to take a few photos of moving things on steel before having my lunch near Alnmouth.  Alnmouth was very busy, I didn't want to park at the beach as I knew I was not staying for a loing time - it is a private car park so you have to pay.  There was space in the village so I left the car there and walked down to the river, in this case the River Aln and took more photos.

 

Heading for home I decided to have a drive along Druridge Bay and stoped at Cresswell to look at the view to Coquet Island and saw a few surfers.

 

 

Warkworth Castle and the River Coquet

 

 

Warkworth village

 

 

Alnmouth - the River Aln estuary looking to St Cuthberts cross on on church hill.  The river used to pass behind the mound, church hill, until a storm on Christmas Day in 1806 created the present day channel.

 

 

David

Edited July 27, 2022 by DaveF

[simontaylor484]

@DaveF jam doughnuts how i miss them since I was diagnosed Type 2diabetic 

 

Swmbo has still not got meds sorted out. I feel a snottagram coming on

[PeterBB]

22 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

... sorting out the debris that I call home ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2022/07/26/postcards-from-the-periphery-2022-05/

Surprised to see that 8 million Covid case is more than London and Glasgow populations put together but you are the 'stats man'.  

[polybear]

10 hours ago, TheQ said:

Ben the Changeable Collie decided to have an extended Snuffle, he went off into parts of the garden he doesn't normally venture. He made a deposit... At the entrance to a rabbit hole.. 

 

 

I guess Ben is a Disciple of the "Never sh1t on your own doorstep fellowship".  So do it on someone else's instead.  Bear predicts a very p1ssed off Bunny shortly.

 

5 hours ago, simontaylor484 said:

Tv programmes 

A while since there were a load of DIY programmes on the networks decided there were too many.  

 

If only we could have some PROPER and IN-DEPTH DIY programmes instead of the usual cr@p that's dished out.

 

 

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. The young man came round and gave the lawn a shave at lunchtime but first I had to cut back the council shrubbery over the path leading to the back gate, otherwise he couldn't get his mower in. Had a late lunch but I wasn't feeling hungry so I might be having a late dinner.

[Gwiwer]

1 hour ago, PeterBB said:

Surprised to see that 8 million Covid case is more than London and Glasgow populations put together but you are the 'stats man'.  

London alone is home to 9,541,000 souls according to various sources although it depends upon how “London” is defined. This figure is for all the London Boroughs plus the City, in other words Greater London. You would get a significantly smaller number if you included only “London geographical postcodes” i.e. E, EC, SE, SW, N, NW, W and WC. Greater London includes many others and parts, but not all of, the TW postcode out this way for example. 
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Edited July 27, 2022 by Gwiwer
Auto-corrupt at work

[simontaylor484]

We could do with a British version of Norm Abram and The New Yankee Workshop

[BoD]

1 hour ago, DaveF said:

I decided to have a day out so having packed things for a morning snack and lunch in the picnic bag I got in the car, along with the camera and headed north. 

The Northumberland coast is a truly wonderful place.  History, nature, unspoilt beaches, those huge skies… but I guess I don’t need to tell you that.  We are having a run out up that way tomorrow.  

[Coombe Barton]

1 hour ago, PeterBB said:

Surprised to see that 8 million Covid case is more than London and Glasgow populations put together but you are the 'stats man'.  

2011 census figures - 2021 not yet released

[simontaylor484]

5 minutes ago, BoD said:

The Northumberland coast is a truly wonderful place.  History, nature, unspoilt beaches, those huge skies… but I guess I don’t need to tell you that.  We are having a run out up that way tomorrow.  

It is a lovely coastline its a good view out of the train window on the ECML.

Alnwick and Bamburgh castles are worth a visit too The gardens at Alnwick castle are nice too including the poison garden 

Then there is Cragside house as well 

[New Haven Neil]

21 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

One for NHN?

Was he on the poop deck?

 

Oddly inaccurate of our local paper - quelle suprise.  It was the Chief Officer, not the Old Man.  And if you believe his excuse.....LOL  Having seen the GPS track of the vessel, he must have had the trots for an hour or two. Not on the bridge for sure, doing something else for sure also.

[zarniwhoop]

10 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

We could do with a British version of Norm Abram and The New Yankee Workshop

I still watch Quest or Quest+1 (a mix of Discovery programs) when I'm awake in the early hours - seems to be repeats of various do-up-a-car programs, or buy old armamaents (WWII) stuff. Mostly the sort of people who you would expect to associate with Arfur Daly, or even worse #mercans. I'll exclude Fantom Works from that (seems to be in Norfolk Virginia, does very thorough restorations taking years and obviously costing a fortune).

 

For most of these I'd much rather watch 5th or 6th repeats of Norm and his biscuits (small pieces of wood in recesses to help glue two blocks together).

[Ian Abel]

8 hours ago, grandadbob said:

 

 Us too and that's a very rare event because as you have all probably realised by now I prefer to watch people play with funny shaped balls.

 

Ahh, so GDB is one of those hooked on "Naked Attraction" 🤣🤣🤣

 

If you truly want to see the lowest depths of humanity, there's "Chrisley Knows Best", about the lowest point I've ever seen US TV descend to. I fell over this one trawling the TV for something worth watching a few years back in the hotel.

I managed maybe 5 minutes just to take in how truly awful, self-centered and idiotic these "reality" people are. The ENTIRE family not just the parents...

They are now (parents, not sure about the adult children) facing years in jail for federal tax fraud amongst other things, couldn't have happened to a better group.

THAT is the "reality show" I'd like to watch. How they cope in jail after committing federal fraud and tax evasion, both felonies. 😃

 

HUMP day.

The Long Island client are rousing from their slumber, albeit slowly. A few short communications yesterday and a suggestion that they may be ramping up their changes to the "Cash Flow" statement, this stalled since late February!

Nothing else to report, quick trip to buy bird seed yesterday and that's about it.

 

There is much noise coming from across the railroad track, the adjacent street is getting resurfaced. Will be causing quiet a mess and bottleneck for weeks I'm sure.

 

Last evening saw a serious bout of thunder storms roll through the area, much lightening, but sadly only 1/2 inch of actually rain for all the flashing banging and crashing that went on.

 

Today 16 first thing breezy and mostly sunny, high forecast for a reasonable 25-26.

 

Tally ho... over the HUMP we go.

[simontaylor484]

9 minutes ago, zarniwhoop said:

I still watch Quest or Quest+1 (a mix of Discovery programs) when I'm awake in the early hours - seems to be repeats of various do-up-a-car programs, or buy old armamaents (WWII) stuff. Mostly the sort of people who you would expect to associate with Arfur Daly, or even worse #mercans. I'll exclude Fantom Works from that (seems to be in Norfolk Virginia, does very thorough restorations taking years and obviously costing a fortune).

 

For most of these I'd much rather watch 5th or 6th repeats of Norm and his biscuits (small pieces of wood in recesses to help glue two blocks together).

I also watch him on You Tube Norm also appeared on a show called This Old House.

 

I have a biscuit jointer very useful piece of kit it increases the area that can be glued 

[polybear]

5 hours ago, simontaylor484 said:

Things must be getting bad McDonald's are increasing the price of cheeseburger

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62317453

 

Bear had great fun in South Korea in various branches of Maccy D's with the staff....

"I'll 'ava da Burger withouta da Burger".  Were they confused?  Oh yes....

 

Bear here.....

A successful-ish day.  Lots of stuff delivered without drama to a very grateful Hospice Charity Warehouse; they didn't want a couple of pairs of scissors (I was expecting that so asked the question) and also (surprisingly) a decent computer keyboard.  Nottaproblem with the latter, cos' I went the short distance into town and the local Marie Curie shop said yes please, so that's a good 'un.  It's the first time there since early 2020 - the number of shops closed (probably for good) was noticeable, and the town in general seemed pretty quiet too.  The M.C. Charity Shop had a rather interesting leccy leather recliner armchair - only 3 month's use from new (under a year old) but apparently the owner "couldn't get on with it" so parked it in another room before donating it.  The leather looks a pretty close match to the leather reclining suite (very decent Sofa & "middle-aged thru' use" armchair) I currently have so I'm pondering the "new" one in place of the current armchair.  I'll need to decide quick I suspect.

Then it was maybe a couple of hours of fun (FUN??) looking at telly's and carpet in JL; I did think I was being a little ambitious asking the rather young person with numerous body piercings what the difference was between two different models of Samsung Telly.  Bear was correct...

Carpets?  Ah yes.....carpets.....

Mucho time looking at carpet.  All those makes...all those colours......almost enough to put a Bear off his LDC....

I did note a make (Adam Carpets) that appeared to be a higher quality that that I already had in mind (Brintons).  Downside?  Fourteen sixteen quid a metre dearer.  Yep, that's a Turdycurses.  Bear came away with "numerous" samples from both ranges.  I was a little dismayed to be told that a measure n' estimate visit takes 1-2 weeks, with fitting 4-6 weeks after that.  Yep, Turdycurses No. 2.  I've a sneaky feeling that I should've sorted a carpet earlier.

It was good to see that "the regular" Cafe has survived Covid unscathed (outwardly at least) - though I've a sneaky feeling the prices have been bumped somewhat.  Still fair value though. 

On the way home I went to a local independent Carpet shop (been trading 40 years) for a more detailed talk regarding the two ranges I have in mind; as they are 3 quid cheaper than JL on the Brintons I was hoping for similar on the Adam.  That'll be TC's No. 3....

They gave me numerous large samples (2ft x 2ft?) out of the showroom book so I could bring them home to view - they didn't even ask my name or address, it's all done on trust.  Tick.  I've also noted that their offering is four hundred and sixty notes cheaper than JL for the same thing.  Bear calls that a no-brainer.  

[polybear]

1 hour ago, simontaylor484 said:

We could do with a British version of Norm Abram and The New Yankee Workshop

 

Bert goes opens the door of the 6 x 4 shed, only to be greeted by tons of SWMBO's sh1t, kids beachballs etc. and spends an hour fighting thru' it all so he can fire up the power planer/radial arm saw/router table/biscuit jointer,  sorry, Black & Decker Workmate; all he needs to do now is track down his trusty Junior Hacksaw, club hammer and flat-bladed screwdriver (last seen being used as a cold chisel) so he can start work on his new hobby of Marquetry....

[Coombe Barton]

Last night went seeking dark skies. They were dark all right – cloud cover

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2022/07/27/postcards-from-the-periphery-2022-06/

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. BIN day tomorrow so I will have to get the bags out ready tonight. Not being interested in kick-ball I can find nothing of interest on the goggle-box so now to catch up with Farcebook.

[Tony_S]

49 minutes ago, polybear said:

fun (FUN??) looking at telly's and carpet in JL; I did think I was being a little ambitious asking the rather young person with numerous body piercings what the difference was between two different models of Samsung Telly. 

Our present tv is a Samsung and I haven’t been disappointed. One thing we did have to consider is that some almost similar models have different stand designs. We didn’t want to replace the piece of furniture the tv would sit on and some stands wouldn’t have worked. Of course if you are wall mounting it probably doesn’t matter as the stand isn’t used. 

[The White Rabbit]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

I guess Ben is a Disciple of the "Never sh1t on your own doorstep fellowship".  So do it on someone else's instead.  Bear predicts a very p1ssed off Bunny shortly.

 

Turdycurses... 

 

 

On the subject of TV, multiple channels with 24 hour schedules and distasteful programming, I can only offer the thought that that is why broadcast TV is sometimes known as a medium - as it is neither rare nor well-done. 

 

 

Hat, coat ... shovel ... 🙄