Early Risers.

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

This dropped into my in-box the other day. Are people stupid enough to fall for it?

 

Attn:Beneficiary,

 

I am Mrs.Kristalina Georgieva,Managing Director(MD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).I am delighted to inform you that the contract/Inheritance Lottery panel of the UN/COVID19 Awarded Payment has been approved.All Governmental and Non-Governmental,NGO's,Finance Companies,Banks,Security Companies and Diplomat(s) which have been in contact with you of late have been instructed to back off from your transaction and you have been advised NOT to respond to them anymore since  the  International Monetary Fund(IMF) Head Office is now directly in  charge of your Covid-19/Contract/Lottery/Inheritance payment US$15,500,000.00(Fifteen Million, five  hundred thousand United State Dollars)

 

You are hereby advised NOT to remit further payment to any institution(s) with respect to your transaction as your fund will be transferred to you directly from our source.I hope this is clear.Any action contrary to this instruction is at your own risk.

 

In order for us to proceed you must get back to me with:

Your Full Name:

Your Address:

Your Age:

Your Direct Phone Numbers:

Your Profession:

 

Detailed information would be given to you immediately you respond.

Mrs Georgieva.

 

It's a lot more convincing than a lot of the complete crepe many in this nation are happy to believe. I better leave it at that 😀

[TheQ]

3 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Bear has never been presented with such a scenario (and I'm in no hurry to change that record).  If I ever am - and there's no second machine to use - then I'd take a photo of the machine (useful if the display indicates the machine is fubarred), maybe call them on the phone to report it busted (if there's a number displayed to call) and if anyone else has the same issue then swap contact numbers in case of a fine, as there's a good chance they'll have the same.  At least then it's two person's words against the Parking Company's.

And if that company still won't see sense (very common it seems) I'd use the Small Claims Court - it'll certainly cost them more to defend than the fine is worth.

Hope it works out for you without too much aggro.  Have some Cake.

 

 

There is a rumour that a certain Bear once got from BAe Warton to Hatfield in 3h 10m.  Allegedly.

 

Having spent many an hour sat in traffic jams on the Manchester ship canal bridge, it's not often I've got near that time for the shorter distance of MK to Bae Warton or back.

 

We had one guy who used to claim spectacularly short times for travel , after one such trip from Coningsby to MK, I pointed out to him, the only person losing out was himself,

A, he lost overtime, as at that time we often got back after normal working hours.

B, if he lost his licence he'd lose his job.

Then finally a light switched on in his brain ... He didn't do it again.

 

I often sat on motorways, at 70 in the inside lane of the motorway with two lanes of traffic hammering past... 

 

 

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[jjb1970]

I used to commute between Carlisle and Sellafield using the A595 (though there were several variations of route to give a bit of variety) and although most drivers were pretty decent in making progress at 60 there were plenty of monospeed 40 drivers and lunatics trying to see how quickly they could lose their license (the A595 was a favourite for mobile speed camera units). I hated driving in the day when we had a three shift system a changeover at 14:00 as that was when all the monospeed types in trilby hats were out. Night was when the real nutters came out, early doors was great as the only people on the road to get to Sellafield at 07:00 were people with somewhere to go but little interest in trying to break the land speed record. When we went to a 12-hour two shift system 07:00 to 19:00 it was great. What amused me driving home at night was being overtaken by some lunatic (usually in either an Impreza STi, Mitsubishi Evo, BMW 3 or any sort of Audi) doing crazy speeds only to see the same car a few vehicles ahead at a traffic light in Carlisle.

[pH]

What are the views of our resident connoisseurs of baked goods about this creation?

 

 

“Chocolate gingerbread dream donut” (sic)

[jjb1970]

I'll eat it.....

[jjb1970]

If there is one thing I like about the USA (and there are many) it is cinnamon buns, nowhere else does cinnamon buns like the US. Lovely soft bread rolled with heaps of cinnamon, lovely.

[AndyID]

49 minutes ago, jjb1970 said:

If there is one thing I like about the USA (and there are many) it is cinnamon buns, nowhere else does cinnamon buns like the US. Lovely soft bread rolled with heaps of cinnamon, lovely.

 

But those buns are in Canada eh?

 

[pH]

View from our hotel room this morning:

 

 

We drove off into those hills. A lot of snow on the ground, none falling, bright sunshine and heated car seats - a great drive. 
 

We met the ravens again at our regular lunch stop:

 

 

The roads had started off cleared and dry. However, as we got closer to the coast, the roads got wetter, and that combined with the grit spread on the road to produce this:

 

A trip will be made to the local car wash tomorrow.

Edited November 18, 2022 by pH

[jamie92208]

Good moaning from the Charente.   Still dark here but the fire is still going and the house is warm.  A good day ahead today with a Model,railway Group lunch and meeting.  Today's venue is a good 70 miles NNW from here but Andy and I are car sharing and might just have an hour at Poitiers watching trains on the way back.  

 

Not a bad day to look forward to.

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie

[chrisf]

My thighs have become very painful, to the extent that it took me a good 10 minutes to get out of bed this morning.  I hope that the pain will not persist, but if it does I will be in no fit state to drive to tomorrow's show.  This is particularly annoying because I have had to cancel a brief encounter with an old friend.  i do hate it when my body dictates what I can or cannot do.

 

Chris

[Barry O]

Ey up!

 

Hope @simontaylor484is OK..  he is very quiet at the moment.

 

Not chuckinitdarn here at the m9ment. Lots of rain.i wonder if the reservoirs are starting to fill up? If not then Yorkshire Water will pick from a number of excuses..

 

Wrong type of rain

Rain too heavy

Rain fall in wrong place

We have a leak

 

All of the above...

 

Pah!

 

More cricket homework arrived at 10pm last night. Downloaded, corrected, replied..

 

I did once do RAC Gunnery School (Lulworth) to Leeds in a shade over 3 hours.. no roadworks, no traffic jams and a veryclear and quiet road   ( it's just under 300 miles..the stupidity of young managers!

 

Time to drink my mugatea and take another pink pill.

 

Stay safe!

 

Baz

[Winslow Boy]

5 hours ago, TheQ said:

Having spent many an hour sat in traffic jams on the Manchester ship canal bridge, it's not often I've got near that time for the shorter distance of MK to Bae Warton or back.

 

We had one guy who used to claim spectacularly short times for travel , after one such trip from Coningsby to MK, I pointed out to him, the only person losing out was himself,

A, he lost overtime, as at that time we often got back after normal working hours.

B, if he lost his licence he'd lose his job.

Then finally a light switched on in his brain ... He didn't do it again.

 

I often sat on motorways, at 70 in the inside lane of the motorway with two lanes of traffic hammering past... 

 

 

 

Well I would have probably been the one behind you then young man as I was a regular on the M6 / M1 in days of yore.

[Erichill16]

Morning All,

A bit stiff myself this morning.

On Tuesday I slipped whilst out with the gang and fell down a flight on concrete steps and landed quite heavily.  I tried to protect my elbow, the one I broke in June and now have a stiff shoulder and bruised right hip. Can’t lay on it so an awkward nights sleep was had so I’m thinking of getting up and having breakfast. 
I think another long day may be coming up.

Have a good un all.

 

[TheQ]

Mooring Awl, at a more proper time.

3 hours sleep, long awake, 3 hours sleep short awake, short sleep.

 

Ben the I want Collie has been patrolled, he didn't snuffle much, he found little fishy, so he wanted to play instead,, which he took out last night, I wasn't going out in the rain to get it, so it's been well washed.. 

 

pH's car looks like ours does, we've long since given up trying to keep it clean, the roads outside are almost permanently muddy..

 

1975 -76 regularly M1-M6 - M74 up to Scotland,

1976-78 M5- M6- M74 to Scotland, 

1983-85 M74- M6 from Scotland, 

1986 M5- M6- M74 to Scotland

1988 to 1996 M1 / M6, I was a regular to Sealand, Warton , and  M74 on up to Scotland,

Since then it's rare to go that way as I normally go up the east side to Scotch corner and beyond.

Ps all the above included return journeys.

 

I'm getting hungry

 

Time for Breakfast.

 

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

Dry here, some blue sky and the hint of something bright appearing.  Sunny spells forecast but clouding over this afternoon with the chance of some rain or drizzle later.  Cool at 7°C, might get up to 12°C.

Spent a pleasant 3+hours chatting to some online friends yesterday afternoon.  It's surprising how quickly the time flies doing that.  

We then had a brief visit from Nicki & Darren before dinner which passed all too quickly but plans were cemented for the festive season. 

The Boss wanted to go to the garden centre yesterday but we didn't make it.  I have a feeling the subject will come up shortly.

Have a good one,

Bob.

 

 

Edited November 18, 2022 by grandadbob

[polybear]

8 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

This dropped into my in-box the other day. Are people stupid enough to fall for it?

 

After reading this one, most definitely yes:

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11299951/Woman-duped-27-000-Russian-astronaut-needed-rocket-landing-fees-marry-her.html

 

"Woman is duped out of £27,000 by 'Russian astronaut' who convinced her he'd marry her if she could pay his 'rocket landing fees' needed to leave the International Space Station"

 

🤣🤣🤣

 

3 hours ago, pH said:

What are the views of our resident connoisseurs of baked goods about this creation?

 

 

“Chocolate gingerbread dream donut” (sic)

 

The cream kills it 🤢

 

Mind you, Bear isn't the hugest Donut fan - though if they have jam in the middle (essential) then they're more than edible.

 

Bear here.....

Will Bear stick some landing coving on the wall today?  Or wimp out, do a Co-op run then priming of hall walls in readiness for coving (which is some way off cos' other stuff - such as boxing in some radiator pipes and consumer unit - need doing first) followed by MIUABGA?  The latter option is just in the lead at the moment....

 

In other news......

Anyone fancy a 1/4 scale Ducati for Chrimbo?  I know of at least one Bear that does - though I don't fancy the price quite so much ☹️)

https://uk.pocher.com/products/ducati-1299-pannigale-r-final-edition-hk117

[jjb1970]

3 hours ago, AndyID said:

 

But those buns are in Canada eh?

 

 

The home of Terence and Phillip 🤣

[Grizz]

Morning All

 

Periodically we do actually get rain in this part of the Deep South of East Sussex, then occasionally we get the odd storm….we did have The Great Flood of 2000, which saw the bottom part of the county town underwater for a least a week. 
 

Then in the Hamsey area north of Lewes we get this…..which is a result of the run off from the rain up stream, meeting the incoming tide up the Ouse. It looks amazing.

Hamsey island is now definitely smaller. The river has burst its banks.
 

Thinking of getting a boat. Yoho! 
 

 

Back in the boring world… the Honeywell programmer for the hot water system has mutinied and is tripping out the electrics. At 04:30…..Swearyswearysweary words.
 

….so it is cold showers all round at Grizz Castle until the emersion heater starts working (that’ll take three days to heat up and be eye wateringly expensive) or until our sparks can get here to fix it. 
 

So for some light relief in the meantime, I’ll mostly be back to continuing to building the stable and hay store….. great. 
 

Still we have the last bonfire out meeting of the season to look forward to tomorrow night, so it’ll be beer and rookies all round. 
 

Have a great day all….

 

ATB Grizz
 

 

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, TheQ said:

Mooring Awl, at a more proper time.

3 hours sleep, long awake, 3 hours sleep short awake, short sleep.

 

Ben the I want Collie has been patrolled, he didn't snuffle much, he found little fishy, so he wanted to play instead,, which he took out last night, I wasn't going out in the rain to get it, so it's been well washed.. 

 

pH's car looks like ours does, we've long since given up trying to keep it clean, the roads outside are almost permanently muddy..

 

1975 -76 regularly M1-M6 - M74 up to Scotland,

1976-78 M5- M6- M74 to Scotland, 

1983-85 M74- M6 from Scotland, 

1986 M5- M6- M74 to Scotland

1988 to 1996 M1 / M6, I was a regular to Sealand, Warton , and  M74 on up to Scotland,

Since then it's rare to go that way as I normally go up the east side to Scotch corner and beyond.

Ps all the above included return journeys.

 

I'm getting hungry

 

Time for Breakfast.

 

 

Bygum that's a lot of miles young man. I thought I was bad t with the M1/M6 but I'm nothing, I will add the M25/M11 only when they were moving of course, compared to that lot.

 

I think though  I only saw one accident in that time but probably sat in the queue dozens of times. It does make you wonder though what our parents thought about being able to jump in a vehicle and go from one end of the country to the other.

[iL Dottore]

2 hours ago, Barry O said:

Ey up!

 

Hope @simontaylor484is OK..  he is very quiet at the moment.

 

Not chuckinitdarn here at the m9ment. Lots of rain.i wonder if the reservoirs are starting to fill up? If not then Yorkshire Water will pick from a number of excuses..

 

Wrong type of rain

Rain too heavy

Rain fall in wrong place

We have a leak

 

All of the above...

 

Pah!

 

More cricket homework arrived at 10pm last night. Downloaded, corrected, replied..

 

I did once do RAC Gunnery School (Lulworth) to Leeds in a shade over 3 hours.. no roadworks, no traffic jams and a veryclear and quiet road   ( it's just under 300 miles..the stupidity of young managers!

 

Time to drink my mugatea and take another pink pill.

 

Stay safe!

 

Baz

You forgot a couple.

• Rain didn't meet our stringent safety standards - so was returned.
• Rain was left at the reservoir next door

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

Well the rain has finally stopped falling and there are very small gaps in the clouds were I can see bits of blue. We’re hoping it stays like this all day, as Sheila and I are taking Ava to visit RHS Bridgewater tonight to see their light show! 

 

But before that, I’ll shortly be heading off to the butchers for the weekly meat rations and a pork pie for my dinner. Then it’s a trip to the Trafford Centre for a few more bits and pieces.  The afternoon is free at the moment, but that could change. 

 

My quickest car run was returning from Carlisle after watching Man Utd. The game finished just before 5pm and we (there was 4 in the car) we’re back in our local at 7pm! That was M6, M61, M60 (but it called was the M63 then)! 

 

Back later. 

 

Brian 

[polybear]

Bear here....

Well Option 2 won the day - so it was Co-op first second**, T break then in a few minutes it'll be priming various areas of wall.  Yippee.  I've decided that there's only a certain amount of DIY in a Bear - and the amount left in this Bear is starting to disappear rapidly.  As to whether or not that amount gets replenished during quiet periods (and upon copious applications of cake) remains to be seen.....

 

(**Technically speaking, 1st Prize goes to fitting the spacers I made yesterday to the flux stand)

Right, pass the PVA Puppers....

Bear gone.

[DaveF]

I had a bad night last night with several urgent vists to the loo.  Obviously something I ate so as it has now happened twice I am going back to keeping a food diary for a few weeks.  I suspect it is oranges which from time to time upset me.

 

Yesterday it rained just about all day apart for half an hour after lunch.  In the morning I went to church as usual, this week both doing the reading and server duties.  On the way home I went via the harbour and beach, there were a number of fishing boats at the Quayside, possibly sheltering from the weather, the beach was deserted - I just looked at it from inside the car.

 

After lunch I had another trip to the beach and had a walk, there is a photo below.  The sea was not very rough - when it is the breaking waves obscure the lighthouse.

 

Then I used some mould killer on the silicone round a couple of windows - looking at the silicone it is time it was replaced as it is coming unstuck.  Lastly I did a bit of work on a model building.

 

Harbour lighthouse on a grey day.

 

David

[New Haven Neil]

Late, sorry.  I have a note.

 

A bad night here too, but the shoulder rather than the runs.  Ibuprofen taken, together with omeprazole to protect my stomach.

 

Then out to the Old Farts Bike Club breakfast, we have a new winter venue, that has more space than our previous one.  Usually no-one else there at 10 (presume we've frightened them off) so they're glad to have a half dozen or so of us all munching our way through much too big breakfasts and gallons of coffee.  The girls are a great laugh too, makes for a fun morning when we can't play out on the bikes.  Cold we can do, but not wet and cold nowadays.

 

 

It seems to be getting very dark suddenly, i suspect it is about to pleut big time. A damp and miserably windy 9c here today.