Early Risers.

[Tony_S]

After the window lever “came off in my hand” the other day (quote  from Aditi)  I checked some more and replaced them today. I think being short, Aditi pulls down on the levers on the higher windows. I think the replacements are better quality than the originals so that should do,for a few more years.  I bought enough to replace all of them. Aditi said her back hurt so I was despatched to do some weeding. MiLs sofas are really uncomfortable and Aditi thinks that was what did for her back. I had managed to escape for a while to wield a power tool at her sister’s house. Our chairs and sofas at home are quite comfortable. We spent a lot of time choosing them. We found them by accident, we were in a shop looking at carpet samples and suddenly realised the sofa we were sitting on was comfortable for both of us. 

Edited September 4, 2023 by Tony_S

[monkeysarefun]

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

 

 

The hot summer temperatures of Saturday are forgotten. The week ahead looks nice with temperatures in the mid-20s°C.

 

YOu say that like its a  pleasant reprieve........

 

 

 

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

 its predicted to drop a bit but we've got temperatures in the mid twenties at least until next week.

 

And YOU say that like its hell on earth!

Edited September 4, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[Coombe Barton]

... trying to do something about teaching ratios, proportions and percentages. Yes, we have to ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/09/04/still-going-up-testing-to-be-scaled-up/

[roundhouse]

13 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Morning, from an autumnal feeling but pleasant rock, 11c, dead still, sun rising and all is well - for now!

 

A day of housework beckons, but perhaps may be interrupted by a bike ride.

 

Afraid Liverpool isn't my favourite place, 3 years being edumocated there in the 70's left a deep scar.  I'm sure it is a much improved city now, but I avoid the place whenever possible.  Sorry Dave H!

I didn't enjoy visiting Liverpool when seeing Mums parents in Bins Lane and relatives from Dads side elsewhere around the city. It wasn't very nice in the 70's. So many places were very run down and the terrace house that grandparents lived in became a parking area for Plessy's. I did enjoy getting boxes of broken biscuits that grandma got from the Crawfords factory that she worked for after working in the well known model train / toy factory.

 

However I am quite happy visiting these days but we normally travel in during the day and out before it gets crazy busy in the evenings.

 

We stayed just outside Chester last night and this afternoon, we nearly got side swiped on the M25 by a BMW that hadnt seen us and didn't use it indicators when it tried to move into our lane. My other half had to swerve onto the rumble strip next to the concrete barriers. Liverpool show could have been the last for the layout but luckily the BMW realised at the last second and did acknowledge their error. That certainly woke me up in the front passenger seat. So the car and the layout lives for the Tolworth show in November.

[Hroth]

1 minute ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

And YOU say that like its hell on earth!

 

It is, if you've spent enough years in the UK, the advent of September (once the back-to-school week is done and dusted) then a gradual decline towards 16C through the month is much appreciated...

 

[New Haven Neil]

17c at 9pm on Fraggle Rock - unheard of at this time of year!

[BoD]

13 hours ago, DaveF said:

t's 11C in Northumberland too, a glorious blue sky - well a tiny bit of cloud in the far south, it looks like being nice and warm.  There will be a sea breeze later so it shouldn't get too hot.

It was very warm away from that sea breeze.

We ended up at Wallington.  It was uncomfortable in the open but a walk through the woods and along the riverbank proved very pleasant indeed.

 

I have been up into the loft and opened all of the windows as I plan to spend tomorrow up there doing something unmentionable.

[monkeysarefun]

25 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

It is, if you've spent enough years in the UK, the advent of September (once the back-to-school week is done and dusted) then a gradual decline towards 16C through the month is much appreciated...

 

How did you's ever manage to  acquire an empire!?

Edited September 4, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[Ozexpatriate]

39 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

You say that like its a  pleasant reprieve...

It will be. We've had mostly "above normal" for the summer. We used to have delightful summers. Dry after July 5, and above 30°C only on the warmest days. This year the 'dry' started at the end of May. It 'feels' much hotter than it did when I moved here 25 years ago.

 

The evidence suggests that it is:

 

This is a interesting pictorial view of how much we see temperatures over 90°F / 32°C.

 

The bigger reprieve has been the precipitation. Not much today despite the grey overcast and dim light. It was raining very lightly a few minutes ago. It seems to have stopped. We have a month to catch up on our total rainfall deficit of 35mm for the 'rain year'.

 

It appears that the rain I saw during Saturday night's thunderstorm did not appear in the bucket at the official recording station at the airport.

 

Edited September 4, 2023 by Ozexpatriate

[monkeysarefun]

2 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

It will be. We've had mostly "above normal" for the summer. We used to have delightful summers. Dry after July 5, and above 30°C only on the warmest days. This year the 'dry' started at the end of May. It 'feels' much hotter than it did when I moved here 25 years ago.

 

The evidence suggests that it is:

 

This is a interesting pictorial view of how much we see temperatures over 90°F / 32°C,

 

No doubt  at some time some Fox News type has   singled out July 31 1938 as proof that hot weather is not new. 

[polybear]

3 hours ago, jjb1970 said:

It's not helped by a culture in UK (and to be fair, in other European and US procurement) that the way to win contracts is to bid low and then wait for the variation orders to start rolling in. I'm sure commercial people in the defence sector have sleepless nights with nightmares about what might happen if their clients managed to order something with the right specification and contract first time around with no need for any variations.

 

And when the contract goes over budget it's all the fault of the Engineers.....

 

2 hours ago, grandadbob said:

 

 

 

Cor, look at all those luvvly offcuts.....

 

2 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

I’ve never understood the rationale of going for the lowest bidder and then see the overall cost rocket past the highest submitted bid because of variation orders (a.k.a. “change orders” in my biz where CROs who bid stupidly low to get the contract then - whenever something even vaguely, remotely,  “out of scope” comes along - whack up the price via a CO).

 

A certain Great Empire decided that they'd be better at building a Test Set than a certain company Oop North would be - despite the latter having a well proven record in doing so.  The result?  Well the Great Empire spent OODLES more than the quote from those Oop North - and the Test Set was (IIRC) "some years" late.  A complete Flustercluck, in fact.

 

2 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

......like the Astronaut’s multi-million dollar write anywhere pen

 

Bear's Buddy at school (early 70's) got a Fischer Price(?) Space Pen for his Birthday (or Chrimbo) - IIRC they cost about six quid then, which was rather a lot of money in the early 70's to many.

 

44 minutes ago, PupCam said:

Do I buy a much better telescope and mount or for the same amount a nice air cooled RD250?   

 

RD's work when it's cloudy......

[Ozexpatriate]

Yet another gender reveal fatality in the news - this time in Mexico.

 

These things really are a bad idea. There's nothing wrong with pink or blue food dye in the cake if people must have a 'gender reveal'.

 

CNN: Plane crashes during gender reveal

 

The video is a bit nasty. The port-side wing falls off, apparently as the pilot pulls up - after dropping pink 'stuff' on the party. Presumably this was a crop dusting aircraft that was about to fail catastrophically anyway but still.

 

Edited September 4, 2023 by Ozexpatriate

[Ozexpatriate]

10 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

the Cosmonaut’s 50 kopek lead pencil

Was there a special sealed cannister pencil sharpener so cosmonauts weren't inhaling all the graphite shavings floating around every time they sharpened the pencil?

 

Of course NASA would have designed a vacuum one.

[Andy Hayter]

47 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

How did you's ever manage to  acquire an empire!?

 

I would have thought the need to find a better climate was obvious!!  😄

[PupCam]

10 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

I’ve never understood the rationale of going for the lowest bidder and then see the overall cost rocket past the highest submitted bid because of variation orders (a.k.a. “change orders” in my biz where CROs who bid stupidly low to get the contract then - whenever something even vaguely, remotely,  “out of scope” comes along - whack up the price via a CO).

 

I read an interesting comment from a US astronaut who had visited the Soviet Space Programme (back in the days of Detente), who wondered how NASA ever got to the moon, as “NASA built down to a price, the Russians up to a specification” (but this could be an urban myth - like the Astronaut’s multi-million dollar write anywhere pen vs the Cosmonaut’s 50 kopek lead pencil story).

 

And the other well known astronaut story regarding lowest bidders and Government contracts.    By all accounts a number of astronauts have come out with a variation on the theme over the years although John Glenn and Alan Shepard are the leading contenders for the original.   As Gene Kranz apparently stated it was Alan Shepard in "Failure Is Not an Option" I'd be tempted to go with that.   I've always admired Gene Kranz probably because he appeared to be the face of NASA at the time, at least to this small boy.

 

 

12 minutes ago, polybear said:

RD's work when it's cloudy......

 

 

Although Puppers doesn't do   rain  or   dark   or  fog   or   icy    on a bike these days 🤣

 

In Other News

 

I tried to phone @polybear's  Izzy 2 today but there was no reply.     Either Izzy 2 has got the 'ump  or Bear was dangling from a vacuum cleaner at the time.

 

I have been amusing my self shunting a couple of wagons with an 08 on the very complicated facility you saw earlier.     A very simple pleasure but such fun!    

I'll have to be careful otherwise thoughts of a "model railway layout" might come dribbling into my mind and that would never do .....

 

[jamie92208]

It s dropped to 25 here from a scorching 37

  Time to say bon nuit. 

 

Jamie

[monkeysarefun]

2 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

 

  Time to say bon nuit. 

 

Jamie

 

 

And a bon scott  to you.

Edited September 4, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[Dave Hunt]

15 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Afraid Liverpool isn't my favourite place, 3 years being edumocated there in the 70's left a deep scar.  I'm sure it is a much improved city now, but I avoid the place whenever possible.  Sorry Dave H!

 

I left in 1966; it went rapidly downhill after that.

 

Dave

[polybear]

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

Our chairs and sofas at home are quite comfortable. We spent a lot of time choosing them. We found them by accident, we were in a shop looking at carpet samples and suddenly realised the sofa we were sitting on was comfortable for both of us. 

 

Were there a lot of fish around by any chance? 😉

If so then you'll not get carpet from them again - they've stopped selling it ☹️

 

1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said:

... trying to do something about teaching ratios, proportions and percentages. Yes, we have to ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/09/04/still-going-up-testing-to-be-scaled-up/

 

RAAC reminds me rather a lot of lightweight breeze blocks - whilst the latter (hopefully....) shouldn't have been used for similar structural situations I do wonder if there are problems that'll come back to haunt us?  They've been rather popular in house building for a lot of years now.

 

Bear here.....

Yet more cleaning  ☹️ - a Very Big Tick Day cos' I've now done 95%+ of the smallest bedroom (= the last room to do); just the window & frame to do tomorrow, plus a bit of damp cloth wiping down of woodwork & fitted wardrobes.

 

Whilst this was going on I spotted that one of the drive gates was partially open - on investigation I discovered yet another Amazon delivery left outside - although this time they'd at least made an effort to place it discretely rather than dumped in plain view on the doorstep.  It's possible they rung the doorbell and I never heard it as I've been using Mickey the Miele "rather a lot" today.

But when I unpacked it (a plastic storage box that I plan to use for the sewing stuff that was in the cabinet) I spotted that one corner was badly cracked 🤬  Piggin' Turdycurses.  So I reported it straight away and a new one was delivered around 6pm - and actually handed to me after ringing the bell.  Stunned - I actually mentioned it made a nice change to the guy delivering it; the broken one gets collected by RM tomorrow - that's one sale that The Big River won't be making a lot of profit on.

 

Bear Gone

Edited September 4, 2023 by polybear

[polybear]

28 minutes ago, PupCam said:

In Other News

 

I tried to phone @polybear's  Izzy 2 today but there was no reply.     Either Izzy 2 has got the 'ump  or Bear was dangling from a vacuum cleaner at the time.

 

 

Oops.  Highly likely that danglin' was in progress....

[Barry O]

It has been refreshingly warm today. I much prefer warm days to cold damp ones. Only complaint is when it goes abovec45C as it can get a tad gloopy.

 

Night awl

 

Baz

 

PS no news from these insultants..pah!

[Dave Hunt]

2 hours ago, roundhouse said:

I didn't enjoy visiting Liverpool when seeing Mums parents in Bins Lane and relatives from Dads side elsewhere around the city. It wasn't very nice in the 70's. So many places were very run down and the terrace house that grandparents lived in became a parking area for Plessy's. I did enjoy getting boxes of broken biscuits that grandma got from the Crawfords factory that she worked for after working in the well known model train / toy factory.

 

Between the ages of six and twelve I lived about half a mile from Binns Road and used to get over the factory fence at weekends to rummage in the reject bins for nearly OK Dinky toys. My Mum worked for a while at the Crawford's biscuit factory too. But the best thing was that my uncle was a leading fitter at Edge Hill shed so I got to spend quite a lot of time there.

 

Dave

[tigerburnie]

During the past 18 mons or so  with three trips to the hospital for three different things, I have to say the treatment from the NHS has been marvellous, but(there usually is one) recovery in a hospital is impossible, too noisy for a start and as for getting any feed back from biopsies etc, even harder to get. I rang my GP, who had heard nothing either, but they told me if you want results, ring the ward you were in, a nurse will find you a doctor, who then looks at the screen in front of them and you get all the info you want. Marvelouos service, but the paperwork is non existant up 'ere, which in  the big scheme of things is kinda the right way round really.

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. The temp here is currently 17C. and it's just turned 11pm. Just had a quick dip in the bath and feeling a lot fresher. Now to catch up on the rest of RMweb.

[Tony_S]

40 minutes ago, polybear said:

Were there a lot of fish around by any chance? 😉

If so then you'll not get carpet from them again - they've stopped selling it ☹️

Pools of fish in fact. I am not surprised about them no longer selling carpet. The final quote for the supply and fitting was ridiculous. The furniture price and delivery was fine. 
Has the bear cave been furnished from that business?