Early Risers.

[pH]

2 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

There are unfounded rumors that corpses are buried in the concrete.

There is supposed to be a horse and cart buried in one of the piers of the Glenfinnan viaduct on the Mallaig extension - it fell in as it was crossing boards across a hollow pier during construction and wasn’t thought to be worth lifting out.
 

There is (allegedly) a compressor buried in a pier of the Kingston Bridge in Glasgow. The pier is bottle-shaped; the compressor was being used in the wider part at the bottom and wasn’t lifted out before the pouring of the narrower part was started.

[Coombe Barton]

... And of course (one of Bozo’s favourite phrases when he wants you to think that something is blindingly obvious) no action from government to increase the uptake of vaccinations. ...

 

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2022/11/07/is-bullying-the-only-way-they-can-win-arguments/

[simontaylor484]

In cake related news the youngest is making LDC next week at school

 

I am now hunting a pachyderm and ursineproof transport flask to get it home

[zarniwhoop]

42 minutes ago, PupCam said:

Evening All, a flying visit today .

 

 

A friend uses a continuous monitor (not certain if it is this one or not)  and whilst we were enjoying the Pie & Pint evening down the pub last week he mentioned he was having just that sort of problem with a newly installed sensor (if I recall they work for about 3-4 weeks, is that correct?).   He'd been told it was probably a duff sensor and as a consequence he'd just mounted another sensor on the other arm!

 

Seems like a good idea flawed in the execution ......

There are two brands, the one I have lasts 14 days per sensor.

 

FWIW, I'm now suspecting that the infernal bluetooth (aka "eats battery charge") might have been turned off although I'd selected an option over the weekend that claimed to turn it on - some suggestions it needs to be on when the sensor is initialized, and that alarms for loss of signal require it. Currently running with bluetooth on and alarm for low reading set, but alarm for loss of signal turned off. Not sure if that will work (currently nowhere near a low reading).

Edited November 7, 2022 by zarniwhoop
cannot proof-read

[PhilJ W]

49 minutes ago, pH said:

There is supposed to be a horse and cart buried in one of the piers of the Glenfinnan viaduct on the Mallaig extension - it fell in as it was crossing boards across a hollow pier during construction and wasn’t thought to be worth lifting out.
 

There is (allegedly) a compressor buried in a pier of the Kingston Bridge in Glasgow. The pier is bottle-shaped; the compressor was being used in the wider part at the bottom and wasn’t lifted out before the pouring of the narrower part was started.

There was (allegedly) a lorry buried under the pitch of the old Wembley stadium. When they built the bottling plant at the Romford brewery in the 1960's they found the remains of a Foden steam lorry. The scrapmen cut it up and carted it off.

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. No more fuss from Arthur Itis but I'll be taking some Nurofen when I go to bed. Dinner tonight was a chicken casserole with dumplings and very tasty it was too. Now to tackle Farcebook, be back later.

[monkeysarefun]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

There was (allegedly) a lorry buried under the pitch of the old Wembley stadium. When they built the bottling plant at the Romford brewery in the 1960's they found the remains of a Foden steam lorry. The scrapmen cut it up and carted it off.

 

Nearly 600  Spitfires, Mustangs, Kittyhawks, Boomerangs - many unbuilt still in crates,  transferred to an Australian airbase for destruction post-war.... but were they all? Local legends state many were instead  buried, hidden in mineshafts or stolen..  The search for the crated Spitfires has gone on for decades...

 

Cliffhanger:

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 8, 2022 by monkeysarefun

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

Not been around today. 
Been darn sarf to visit mum on her birthday and went out for the day together with little sis.  Bought a couple of second hand books whilst out which look interesting but I do know the basics of the story they tell.

Anyway Goodnight, up relatively early tomorrow as we’ll be having Syd.🙂

[Erichill16]

12 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

Nearly 600  Spitfires, Mustangs, Kittyhawks, Boomerangs - many unbuilt still in crates,  transferred to an Australian airbase for destruction post-war.... but were they? Local legends state many were instead  buried, hidden in mineshafts or stolen..  The search for the crated Spitfires has gone on for decades...

 

Cliffhanger:

 

 

 

 

 

And something for future generations.

From Wikipedia on Australian F-111.

 

Due to the airframe components of the F-111 containing asbestos, the remaining airframes were buried underground.[83][84][85] Only 6 of the last airframes were spared off for museum display.[86

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, simontaylor484 said:

In cake related news the youngest is making LDC next week at school

 

I am now hunting a pachyderm and ursineproof transport flask to get it home

 

A nucleur waste transport flask would probably do it. Might be a problem getting it to and from the school but at least you'd know the LDC was safe.

[monkeysarefun]

26 minutes ago, Erichill16 said:

And something for future generations.

From Wikipedia on Australian F-111.

 

Due to the airframe components of the F-111 containing asbestos, the remaining airframes were buried underground.[83][84][85] Only 6 of the last airframes were spared off for museum display.[86

 

 

I do miss them. No public event was complete here without at least one turning up to do a dump and burn.

 

 

 

 

 

I was working at their homebase at RAAF Amberley during the Sydney Olympics, when they were on high  activity doing training runs.  Our server room was right beside the runway, they sure do rattle your teeth when two take off at once.

[pH]

Snow on the ground, and more falling (somewhat sideways - there’s a wind with it.)
 

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

Well Sainsbury’s was very quite when I got there this morning, so much so that I was back home before Sheila had finished the ironing! Anyway, the cupboards are full once again, not that they were empty before, but more importantly the fridge is now well stocked, meaning there’s enough milk for my muggertea for the week. 

 

Once the shopping had all been put away, I headed back downstairs to the office and began to write a short description of how I’d designed and built my turntable control and indexing systems. Once I’ve done a short description, I’ll send it to the MERG journal editor to see if they are interested in it for a future edition. 

Edited November 8, 2022 by BSW01

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[iL Dottore]

7 hours ago, simontaylor484 said:

One of my bucket list items is to go to NY to ride the subway.

 

The other is to go to Vienna to visit the family of the guy I tried to save at my cousins wedding and his grave 

I doubt I will ever be able to afford either 

Sorry to rain on your parade, Simon. But I really, really wouldn’t go to New York to ride the subway (for other things – yes, but not the subway).

 

I was there recently and the New York subway is decrepit, dirty and (can be) dangerous. It makes London Underground at its worst look like the brand spanking new Singaporean MRT (there was a recently filmed video on YouTube that compared the New York subway – a subway of an incredibly rich city [GDP 1.5 trillion in 2020 according to one source] – with that of a small Chinese city - a city of a quite modest GDP. New York did not come out well). The Washington DC Metro is pretty nice – although somewhat “vanilla“ in character.
 

For Underground/Metro adventures I would recommend Berlin: both the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn are absolutely amazing to travel on and to explore – with the aesthetic bonus that most of the U-Bahn stations in the former East Berlin  are pretty much as they were built in the 20s and 30s (albeit modernised in terms of signalling et cetera).

 

Vienna has an interesting tram system -  part of it actually runs underground. However, I have never quite warmed to Vienna, I much prefer Berlin.

5 hours ago, simontaylor484 said:

In cake related news the youngest is making LDC next week at school

 

I am now hunting a pachyderm and ursineproof transport flask to get it home

Please contact CCI GmbH (secure transport) for your LDC shipment needs. 😀

[iL Dottore]

Morning all,

 

Up early: partly because I have an awful lot to do today before my GP chum arrives at 6 pm and partly because I did not have a restful night. So, up at 04:00 hours!

 

Thank you for the suggestions regarding travel to Japan. It does look like I will have to create my own travel plan and then go to various specialist travel agents to see what they can do to arrange it (and how much for). I am playing with the idea of flying via Changi with a stopover of a few days in Singapore. I’ve been to Singapore a few times, but never had the opportunity to really explore the place. And if @jjb1970 is around - then a meet up at a hawker stall for some serious nosh and some serious (model) railway talk could be on the cards.

 

Readers of my drivel will be aware that I am trying to be virtuous, I am dieting and exercising (mostly cycling). Yesterday, I had the most annoying experience with my bicycle. I got on it, pedalled a few feet at which point bits of the bike disintegrated. Or, to be accurate, a number of bolts and screws had loosened themselves (unbeknownst to me) and finally had come apart with the footpedals separating into their components. Fortunately, this happened just in front of my garage so I was able to collect all all the bits and then spent an expletive laden 30 minutes bolting everything back together again. Most tedious.

 

Interesting factoid: my current bike is a so-called “city bike“ and compared to my previous all-rounder bike is equipped with quite fat tyres. This, I think, makes it very slow, inasmuch as the same pedalling effort provides a lower speed than the same effort did on my previous bike (I don’t think it is the gearing, my current bike has 6 gears - the same as the old bike). Perhaps a change of wheels to something with a thinner tyre might improve the bikes speed?

 

Anyway, enough from me for the moment. Time for me to have a bit of a snooze, then get the ingredients out to prep at lunch for tonight’s dinner (bacon, onion and cabbage steamed in white wine with peppercorns and Juniper berries) before heading to the office and getting stuck in to the paperwork I have to do today.

 

Cheers

[AndyID]

35 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Interesting factoid: my current bike is a so-called “city bike“ and compared to my previous all-rounder bike is equipped with quite fat tyres. This, I think, makes it very slow, inasmuch as the same pedalling effort provides a lower speed than the same effort did on my previous bike (I don’t think it is the gearing, my current bike has 6 gears - the same as the old bike). Perhaps a change of wheels to something with a thinner tyre might improve the bikes speed?

 

Assuming the overall gear ratios are the same (taking into account any difference between the rolling radii  of the tires) the width should not make too much difference although narrow high pressure tires do consume less energy. Make sure your tires are at maximum pressure or even a bit higher. Soft tires do produce a lot of friction. When they are soft you are putting a lot of energy into flexing the tires which produces heat and you are the source of the energy that produces the heat 😀

[chrisf]

Yesterday my diary told me that I was due a blood test.  The trip from home to hospital is not arduous but does require a change of buses.  When I reached the hospital their diary told me that the blood test had been rescheduled for today.  "I do wish someone had told me" was my response.  I had the blood test.

 

Chris

[Barry O]

Dey up!

 

Gloody Ed Cold is being a pain...

 

Visitors today..house must be tidied.. (my work area has been done already!)

 

Tales of items buried in places reminds me that word had it a large steam railway locomotive had been buried at Scotswood works in Newcastle. Despite extensive searches it has never been found.

 

Time for my mugatea then..to infinity and beyond...

 

Stay safe!

 

Baz

[TheQ]

9 hours ago, pH said:

There is supposed to be a horse and cart buried in one of the piers of the Glenfinnan viaduct on the Mallaig extension - it fell in as it was crossing boards across a hollow pier during construction and wasn’t thought to be worth lifting out.
 

There is (allegedly) a compressor buried in a pier of the Kingston Bridge in Glasgow. The pier is bottle-shaped; the compressor was being used in the wider part at the bottom and wasn’t lifted out before the pouring of the narrower part was started.

The horse and cart isn't  in Glennfinnan Viaduct, it has been proved by using Radar to be in, Loch nan Uamh Viaduct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_nan_Uamh_Viaduct,

The story I read elsewhere is it was backed up to dump in the rubble infill and went to far..

 

In the Ceiling of one Tesco's I worked at is a bandolier of lighting in the ceiling space, obviously used during construction, but someone has built an internal wall over them as they crossed between rooms...

 

 Out in country areas scrap cars have been buried as it cost more to have them taken away in days gone buy .. I've not found one, but have found lots of old bits of cast iron fencing...

 

Mooring Awl, 

4.5 hours solid sleep followed by intermittent bits of half hours sleep, waking being caused by whatever side being down becoming painful.

 

Ben the I want out Collie surprisingly went for a full patrol, surprising because it was very dark, Very drizzly, and very windy.

Roads at home were at maximum puddle size, but as I travelled towards Norwich they gradually got drier but not totally dry.

 

Time I headed for the lab, they promise to let me us have this week's major system.

 

 

 

 

Edited November 8, 2022 by TheQ

[New Haven Neil]

Morning, from a rock that once again has had to use anchors overnight to maintain position, UK cut off as usual.  10c and wet wet wet.

 

Joiner/builder due again to continue in the kitchen he's very good indeed, very skilled.  He's making shelves and nook and cranny fittings from left-overs, utilising every space, most impressive thinking.  The best bit is how fastidious he is about clearing up, literally there was nothing to do after him last night.

 

Small black four wheeled industrial item arrived, decoder fitting will commence today.

[jamie92208]

14 hours ago, zarniwhoop said:

Had a 'webinar' this morning for freestyle libre2 (continuous glucose monitor). Sounded as if it was a good thing , webinar was very good.  Then I fitted it, scanned it with my phone to start it, waited an hour, got a reading. Decided to set up low and high alerts, those come with a 'loss of signal' alert (out of range for some minutes). Sensor on right arm, phone in left pocket.  Cooking, loss of signal alert. Scanned sensor. Eating meal, loss of signal alert, scanned sensor.  Phoned local diabetes people to ask about this, the lady I spoke to said to see if it happens again in next half hour, and if so phone the company, sensor might be faulty.

 

25 minutes later, happened again. Phoned, could not make out what the lady I spoke to was saying, beyond telling me to call back and get a different person (it's a freephone on landline). Did that, had partial success in speaking to a guy, but he eventually said I needed to speak to someone who could phone and hear what I was saying, suggested trying a pharmacy (details logged). Got an alert during that, had to take my shirt off to get the sensor to scan.

 

Not a happy bunny. Turned off alerts. Then googled - found a link at the diabetes.co.uk forum, it seems to be a not-uncommon problem. Have tried powering off the phone and then powering up and scanning.  Will maybe try alerts overnight.

Sounds like you've got a Freestyle Libre by Abbitt.  PM me for for more details. Beth has had one forva year with various adventures.

7 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

I do miss them. No public event was complete here without at least one turning up to do a dump and burn.

 

 

 

 

 

I was working at their homebase at RAAF Amberley during the Sydney Olympics, when they were on high  activity doing training runs.  Our server room was right beside the runway, they sure do rattle your teeth when two take off at once.

We found out about their noise whenbwe moored a canal boat near the end of the runwaybat Upper Heyford nezr Oxford.  Excellent alarm clocks

2 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Morning all,

 

Up early: partly because I have an awful lot to do today before my GP chum arrives at 6 pm and partly because I did not have a restful night. So, up at 04:00 hours!

 

Thank you for the suggestions regarding travel to Japan. It does look like I will have to create my own travel plan and then go to various specialist travel agents to see what they can do to arrange it (and how much for). I am playing with the idea of flying via Changi with a stopover of a few days in Singapore. I’ve been to Singapore a few times, but never had the opportunity to really explore the place. And if @jjb1970 is around - then a meet up at a hawker stall for some serious nosh and some serious (model) railway talk could be on the cards.

 

Readers of my drivel will be aware that I am trying to be virtuous, I am dieting and exercising (mostly cycling). Yesterday, I had the most annoying experience with my bicycle. I got on it, pedalled a few feet at which point bits of the bike disintegrated. Or, to be accurate, a number of bolts and screws had loosened themselves (unbeknownst to me) and finally had come apart with the footpedals separating into their components. Fortunately, this happened just in front of my garage so I was able to collect all all the bits and then spent an expletive laden 30 minutes bolting everything back together again. Most tedious.

 

Interesting factoid: my current bike is a so-called “city bike“ and compared to my previous all-rounder bike is equipped with quite fat tyres. This, I think, makes it very slow, inasmuch as the same pedalling effort provides a lower speed than the same effort did on my previous bike (I don’t think it is the gearing, my current bike has 6 gears - the same as the old bike). Perhaps a change of wheels to something with a thinner tyre might improve the bikes speed?

 

Anyway, enough from me for the moment. Time for me to have a bit of a snooze, then get the ingredients out to prep at lunch for tonight’s dinner (bacon, onion and cabbage steamed in white wine with peppercorns and Juniper berries) before heading to the office and getting stuck in to the paperwork I have to do today.

 

Cheers

There are allegedly some industrial locos in what us known as the Blue lagoon at Horton in Ribblesdale.

 

Jamie

[Winslow Boy]

13 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

Morning, from a rock that once again has had to use anchors overnight to maintain position, UK cut off as usual.  10c and wet wet wet.

 

Joiner/builder due again to continue in the kitchen he's very good indeed, very skilled.  He's making shelves and nook and cranny fittings from left-overs, utilising every space, most impressive thinking.  The best bit is how fastidious he is about clearing up, literally there was nothing to do after him last night.

 

Small black four wheeled industrial item arrived, decoder fitting will commence today.

 

That is because he's a mate and if he didn't clean up after himself you would be falling out with him not just as an 'employee' but also as a friend.

 

I always remember being told never to take on a paid job for a neighbour as you run the risk of falling out with them and then having the problem of seeing them everyday.

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

It was raining earlier at 06.00 but has stopped for now.  A breezy day with some sunny spells and one or two more showers forecast.  Very  mild at 12°C and it may reach 16°C.

Yesterday's main excitement was using the new microwave. Pushed a button and it worked . Wow!!  The old appliance has been left outside to see if the metal fairies want it, if they don't then a trip to the dump  "Household reuse and recycling centre (HRRC) will have to be scheduled.

Today I'm on cat feeding duties and there are a couple of small parcels due.  There always seem to be parcels due here. 

Just waiting for notification of delivery of my large Christmas wine case which is apparently awaiting dispatch at the warehouse.

Time for some porridge,

Have a good one,

Bob.

 

 

Edited November 8, 2022 by grandadbob