Early Risers.

[Hroth]

10 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

ION....

 

Carry-Case washed.  Tick.  Velcro Pad re-bonded onto Sanding Pad.  Another Tick.

Right, what's next?

 

BG

 

Stick the plug in one of those devices that'll tell you if its all wired correctly and that the internal insulation hasn't broken down?

 

Finally a power* test wearing rubber gloves and welly boots...

 

(All rather you than me!)

 

 

* While listening for your fuse board to go BANG!

 

Edited June 22 by Hroth
spelin, natch...

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

I’m not going to collect Ava this morning, she’s being dropped off here instead. Our first task will be to finishing making the chocolate orange cheesecake that I began making yesterday afternoon. After that there are no firm plans, but I’m sure we’ll find something to do. 
 

I’m also a land owner, as in, I own the land on which my house is built. When we bought the house in 1980, we had to rent the land for £4.25 a year. We were given the opportunity to buy the land, sometime in the late 90’s and as such, we’ve been living on the land rent free ever since. The down side is the land doesn’t have a ‘TITLE’ although I sometimes call myself lord of BSW towers! 
 

Back later. 
 

Brian

[monkeysarefun]

26 minutes ago, polybear said:

Carry-Case washed.  Tick.  Velcro Pad re-bonded onto Sanding Pad.  Another Tick.

Right, what's next?

 

 

Jeez this boss must be a bit of alright.

 

A bunch of flowers would have been easier!

[Hroth]

Just now, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

Jeez this boss must be a bit of alright.

 

A bunch of flowers would have been easier!

 

I believe she feeds him cake and doughnuts.  As they say, the way to a Bears heart is through his stomach...

 

[polybear]

20 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

Stick the plug in one of those devices that'll tell you if its all wired correctly and that the internal insulation hasn't broken down?

 

Finally a power* test wearing rubber gloves and welly boots...

 

(All rather you than me!)

 

 

* While listening for your fuse board to go BANG!

 

 

Double insulated, moulded on plug, proper fuse (not a nail), nothing scary inside.

Oh yes, and it works too, which is handy.

 

2 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

Jeez this boss must be a bit of alright.

 

 

Huge Tick...... 😂

[monkeysarefun]

3 hours ago, grandadbob said:

England are playing rugby in Japan as I write but haven't got access to viewing today as I forgot!!!

 

 

I'm one quarter into my  3rd AFL match of today. Its the depths of winter here right now and an outside temperature of 15 with clouds means that anywhere away from the heater is no place to be!

[Hroth]

2 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Double insulated, moulded on plug, proper fuse (not a nail), nothing scary inside.

Oh yes, and it works too, which is handy.

 

 

Remember those public information films with the bloke connecting his powerdrill by shoving the bare wires into a socket, held in by matchsticks, with predictable results?

 

Wasn't there one about wrapping a blown fuse in the foil from a packet of fags too?

 

They don't make 'em like they used to!

 

[iL Dottore]

2 hours ago, Barry O said:

@polybear.. what is a "Roller"? Obviously you have never travelled in a Royce?  If you mentioned roller at a certain factory in Crewe you would have been lucky to escape as anything other than a floor mat.

 

21 minutes ago, polybear said:

Common terminology - sometimes phrases such as "We'll go in the Rolls" are also used.

Given that the starting price for a RR Phantom is £369,020, I doubt that anyone using the term Roller (considered by Crewe as a vulgarity) has owned a Rolls Royce from new, made to customer specifications. As BaZ pointed out, Crewe soon disabuses you of the notion that they are called "Rollers" or just "Rolls"*

 

Of course you can buy a used 1980s RR Silver Spirit for as little as £12,000. But buying it used doesn't entitle you to the bespoke after-sales service RR provide to their customers nor does it grant you gain access to Whispers, an exclusive social network for RR owners.....

 

* I am sure it amuses the truly wealthy when the proles think they know what the UHNWI** live, say, do, eat...

** UHNWI = Ultra High Net Worth Individual. Someone who has more than £24 million (US $30 million) in liquid assets

[monkeysarefun]

2 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

Remember those public information films with the bloke connecting his powerdrill by shoving the bare wires into a socket, held in by matchsticks, with predictable results?

 

Wasn't there one about wrapping a blown fuse in the foil from a packet of fags too?

 

They don't make 'em like they used to!

 

Live faster!

 

[monkeysarefun]

6 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

 

Given that the starting price for a RR Phantom is £369,020, I doubt that anyone using the term Roller (considered by Crewe as a vulgarity) has owned a Rolls Royce from new, made to customer specifications. As BaZ pointed out, Crewe soon disabuses you of the notion that they are called "Rollers" or just "Rolls"*

 

Of course you can buy a used 1980s RR Silver Spirit for as little as £12,000. But buying it used doesn't entitle you to the bespoke after-sales service RR provide to their customers nor does it grant you gain access to Whispers, an exclusive social network for RR owners.....

 

* I am sure it amuses the truly wealthy when the proles think they know what the UHNWI** live, say, do, eat...

** UHNWI = Ultra High Net Worth Individual. Someone who has more than £24 million (US $30 million) in liquid assets

 

 

 

This is obviously  Australias Richest Man. Check out his paddock bashers!

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.8647204,150.6333162,3a,25.2y,175.93h,90.17t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sIJFNEb0lyzhCdnEVT5E16g!2e0!5s20190301T000000!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&coh=205409&entry=ttu

Edited June 22 by monkeysarefun

[Hroth]

8 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

UHNWI = Ultra High Net Worth Individual. Someone who has more than £24 million (US $30 million) in liquid assets

 

Also known as "Black Holes" for two reasons, because they are like the astronomical object, sucking wealth from their surroundings, never to release any, and because they have all the personal characteristics of ar$eholes.

 

Edited June 22 by Hroth
left out a word

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Rolls-Royce in Derby (aero engine makers) is always known as Royce's; never Rolls-Royce.

[iL Dottore]

3 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

 

This is obviously  Australias Richest Man. Check out his paddock bashers!

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@-33.8647204,150.6333162,3a,25.2y,175.93h,90.17t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sIJFNEb0lyzhCdnEVT5E16g!2e0!5s20190301T000000!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&coh=205409&entry=ttu

Looks like someone who has a Wedding Hire Car Business - all those 70s and 80s white RRs.

[monkeysarefun]

11 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Looks like someone who has a Wedding Hire Car Business - all those 70s and 80s white RRs.

 

No, I drive past there every work day and they haven't moved in years.  He's a hoarder who specialises in Mitsubishi L300 vans, ride-on mowers, Alpacas and Rolls Royces....

 

IF you select 2010 in the timeline along the bottom you can see they were still covered and the place was tidy. Something traumatic has seemingly happened since then going by the way the place has deteriorated and the junk builds up as you progress through the years.

Edited June 22 by monkeysarefun

[southern42]

On 21/06/2024 at 10:13, PhilJ W said:

I like the bit at the end about needing planning permission for a live steam garden railway. "You don't need planning permission for a layout on the dining room table." Don't you? but you need permission from SWMBO which is far more difficult than dealing with any planning authority.

 

...er...hum.

Where do you think my muddling bench is?

[iL Dottore]

4 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

Also known as "Black Holes" for two reasons, because they are like the astronomical object, sucking wealth from their surroundings, never to release any, and because they have all the personal characteristics of ar$eholes.

 

Well that's

• Paul McCartney
• Rowan Atkinson
• Roger Waters
• JK Rowling
• Sacha Baron Cohen
• Ricky Gervais
• Benedict Cumberbatch
• Adele

• Christopher Nolan

• Raheem Sterling

Well and truly told off.

 

It's lazy thinking (and class envy) to classify them as all the same. There are some very, very UHNWI who I think could deserve such disapprobation (such as Denise Coates [£7.47 billion]: the co-founder, majority shareholder and co-chief executive of Bet365, one of the world’s largest online gambling companies - a business that really does exploit the poor), but most of the UK's UHNWI individuals got there under their own steam and there are those who are doing their bit (https://patrioticmillionaires.uk/who-we-are) "despite" being rich....

[monkeysarefun]

43 minutes ago, Hroth said:

Also known as "Black Holes" for two reasons, because they are like the astronomical object, sucking wealth from their surroundings, never to release any, and because they have all the personal characteristics of ar$eholes.

 

 

 

 

Dont be such  a Negative Nancy !

 

Theres  nothing that a decent small block Chevy motor*, some Australian Falcon parts and a bloke in a shed cant fix.

 

 

https://www.streetmachine.com.au/features/1965-rolls-royce-silver-shadow-slammed

 

 

*a common conversion, its popular for  Jags too, and 1980's Porsches.

Edited June 22 by monkeysarefun

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Couldn't get to sleep last night because of the hay fever but nodded of as it was getting light (about 4) so I overslept this morning so a bit late on parade. Pollen is predicted to be very high for the next few days. 

[PhilJ W]

2 hours ago, DaveF said:

I tried oat "milk" this morning in my tea and on some Weetabix.  It is bearable but I prefer lactose free milk as the oat stuff leaves an aftertaste.  I will probably finish the carton to see if I get used to it. 

I don't have any problems with aftertaste but then I like my tea very strong. The teaspoon has to stand up straight in the cup for at least one minute (any longer and the teaspoon starts to dissolve).

 

2 hours ago, DaveF said:

I have a square foot too.  

David

Does that make it difficult getting your shoes on?

 

1 hour ago, grandadbob said:

This entailed a walk of just under a mile in total and The Hip is now shouting at me.   Whilst we were down South for a few days I managed an average of 3 miles a day without too much grief.  Strange.

It all depends on the weather, when the mercury starts rising Arthur Itis gets excited as I'm sure @TheQ and other sufferers can confirm.

[southern42]

' morning all from red dragon land.

Sunny. Some blue sky. !6.9C. Oooooooooh!

 

Nothing like that, yesterday, so I did a lot of repetitive work on my TOTF🎶. Time, shortly, to find out if it has done me any good!

 

Th garden looks tempting. Very tempting and I am not talking about the G word! Sitting in a secluded spot with a mugadecaf down by the Rock Rose sounds just up my street/right of way/walkway/daisy path/other description at your inventiveness.

 

Prongs = cat deterrent 🙀

Take care. Be good. Take advantage of any  😎

Edited June 22 by southern42
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[monkeysarefun]

2 hours ago, DaveF said:

I tried oat "milk" this morning in my tea and on some Weetabix. 

 

 

I was never a fan of weird milk until Covid arrived and we had to buy heaps of food in case we got locked down and couldn't go out to forage. I bought some longlife Soy milk which I figured would be used as a last resort.

 

One morning I tried it on my breakfast cereal just to test how bad my Last Days would be and it was surprisingly not bad. I then had it in coffee and it was awful but when it comes to cereal  I've got to the point where if I run out of Soy and have to use cow milk  it  seems  rather unpleasant and thin in comparison.

 

Soy Milk: 4 stars.

Edited June 22 by monkeysarefun

[pH]

1 hour ago, Hroth said:

 

Remember those public information films with the bloke connecting his powerdrill by shoving the bare wires into a socket, held in by matchsticks, with predictable results?

 

Wasn't there one about wrapping a blown fuse in the foil from a packet of fags too?

 

They don't make 'em like they used to!

 

I wonder if anyone thought they were instruction videos?

 

I used to visit a house which could have featured in films like that. Everyone did survive, though.

[polybear]

1 hour ago, Hroth said:

 

I believe she feeds him cake and doughnuts.  As they say, the way to a Bears heart is through his stomach...

 

 

Yes, Yes, and partly Yes.....

 

1 hour ago, Hroth said:

 

Remember those public information films with the bloke connecting his powerdrill by shoving the bare wires into a socket, held in by matchsticks, with predictable results?

 

 

We had to do that in Bombay - in the Flight Hangar, working on Sea King.....

 

59 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

 

Given that the starting price for a RR Phantom is £369,020, I doubt that anyone using the term Roller (considered by Crewe as a vulgarity) has owned a Rolls Royce from new, made to customer specifications. 

 

I'm sure there are one or two East End Scallywags, Kick-ball Players etc. that do.

[polybear]

2 minutes ago, pH said:

I wonder if anyone thought they were instruction videos?

 

I used to visit a house which could have featured in films like that. Everyone did survive, though.

 

One of Bear's buddies put a 13A Socket on the end of the flex connected to the Pillar Drill......and a 13A Plug on the end of the cable spur coming from the consumer unit.....😱

[pH]

3 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

One of Bear's buddies put a 13A Socket on the end of the flex connected to the Pillar Drill......and a 13A Plug on the end of the cable spur coming from the consumer unit.....😱

I remember my dad sketching out wiring for a new setup in his workshop and realizing late in the game that he’d drawn exactly that as part of the design.