Early Risers.

[iL Dottore]

11 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Bear is with Chimpy on this one - I rather like Big Yanks too.

Big Yanks?

Let's hope that no one from Viz is listening in...

 

 

[New Haven Neil]

Evening.

 

It was summer again today, shockingly this coincided with the Southern agricultural show, so orf we went and, agric-ed.  Or wandered around for hours anyway, it wasn't bad at all really, pleasant day out with Mrs NHN and friend Jayne.  Jayne has taken a big step and booked her first holiday alone since she lost Gary, on a single person (NOT 'singles') specialist tour of Italy.  Nobody will ever replace Gary in her life, but for her to actually do something on her own is a huge step for her.  Happy day.

[iL Dottore]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

edit:  On yesterday's wander in Hertford I spotted a Barber that was charging £17 for a Buzz Cut 😲 - and I thought to myself "mine is only twelve quid".  And then today I booked an ear-lowering session for Tuesday....and the 'sterds now want seventeen quid....🤬

I think I might try a No. 3 instead of 4 to make it last a bit longer....

Yep, Rant.

 

I

Jeez Bear, you really do resent people making a living, don't you.

 

With the price of everything for a small trader heading ever further skywards (with no sign of price rise stopping), be grateful it hadn't gone up to £25!

[skipepsi]

9 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

You are merely asserting your belief in the cultural supremacy of the English over lesser races - an attitude to reflect upon, I suggest.

Eer who you calling a lesser race eh?

[PhilJ W]

25 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

There WAS a little coupe parked at the end of the Ford Prefect section. I wonder if that is what it was?

 

I rechecked the pics, the best I have is this one, the black car top left.

 

 

 

Not sure but it looks to big to be a CX which was one of the smallest cars produced by Ford

[Gwiwer]

7 hours ago, polybear said:

the Welsh word for Zebra is…..Zebra.  When I queried this with a Welsh work buddy he said it’s because “Welsh is a very old and ancient language - and there aren’t any Zebra’s in Wales”. 
 

Just as the Welsh for Cappucino is Ffrothi Koffee 

 

The French may not have their own name for Manchester but the Welsh do - Manceinion. But “Manchester Piccadilly” is “Manceinion Picadilly” and “Portsmouth Harbour” is “Harbŵr Portsmouth”. 

[Erichill16]

11 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Morning all from Estuary-Land. A very good night last night, five hours plus two hours. Not interrupted by bladder control but I went between the two sleeps anyway as a precaution. If like @polybear or @Erichill16 you are troubled by the wee fairy I would suggest having the prostate checked out. 

I’ve seen my GP regarding the problem and have an enlargement but nothing more serious.

Things are ok but he suggested I take some medication but have tried to manage the condition my self. This was a few years ago so it’s iperhaps time to make another appointment to discuss the matter further.

[monkeysarefun]

25 minutes ago, iL Dottore said:

Big Yanks?

Let's hope that no one from Viz is listening in...

 

 

 

 

Its Il Detore Saunders and his Double Entendres!

 

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[Coombe Barton]

... One major failure was me forgetting to pick up the coffee grinder. ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/07/28/postcards-from-the-periphery-2024-01/

[iL Dottore]

It's been a week since I had my accident and ended up in the accident and casualty unit. And, unfortunately, it still hurts like hell and as various muscle groups start to heal their improvement reveals yet other muscle groups that are still hurting. So every day is an adventurous exploration of the uncharted lands of pain!. However, on the positive side, all the various serious complications that potentially could be associated with such a fall have not emerged. 
 

Such injuries usually resolve themselves within 4 to 6 weeks with treatment and in about a month to a month and a half without. So it looks like I will continue to be curmudgeonly and misanthropic for the foreseeable future!
 

Last night was a particularly unpleasant night because we were right underneath a thunderstorm. Thunderstorms make Schotty go frantic, so you can imagine how he reacted with one right overhead (and in the middle of the night to boot) Anyway, to make a long story short, our usual "doggy calming" strategy didn't work with the thunderstorm above us so we finally resorted to giving him a dosage of a doggy anti-anxiolytic benzodiazepine and I spent an hour or so - in the middle of the night tending to him before he zonked out. And by the time he was zonked out, all my back muscles decided that they would join in the fun. Very little sleep was had!.

 

And now to bed with a handful of painkillers, muscle relaxants and other mind ordering substances!

 

Mind how you go!

Edited July 28 by iL Dottore

[Erichill16]

5 hours ago, Hroth said:

@Erichill16 Today wasn't a good day to be in York, hot, sticky, crocodiles of tourists following a bloke/blokess with a banner, a gang in the Minster going bonkers on the bells...

 

Sil has relatives in York and it’s someone’s birthday so that was why the rush to get their.

Being a school teacher she’s off work next week so we anticipate a journey will be made sometime this week but as usual we’ve not been informed if doggy sitting duties will be needed. 
According to younger nephew, age 12, they’re going to Spain at the beginning of August. We’ve not been informed and I know for a fact Syd won’t be going!

Not been to NRM for about five years now but intending to go with a neighbor who I’ve just found out is also interested in things that run on parallel strips of metal. 
 

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

We had a great time in Preston, lovely meal. However, since getting back from Preston, I've been a very naughty boy. I succumbed and took up the offer from the shop in Sheffield of 15% off a noisy D1 4-4-0 in SR green 😁. 

Edited July 29 by BSW01

[BSW01]

16 minutes ago, BSW01 said:

Good evening everyone 

 

We had a great time in Preston, lovely meal. However, since getting back from Preston, I've been a very naughty boy. I succumbed and took up the offer from the shop N Sheffield of 15% off a noisy D1 4-4-0 in SR green 😁. 

But in all fairness, I did have permission And it's my birthday next month, so it's an early present. 

[BSW01]

Goodnight everyone 

[Erichill16]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

Jeez Bear, you really do resent people making a living, don't you.

 

With the price of everything for a small trader heading ever further skywards (with no sign of price rise stopping), be grateful it hadn't gone up to £25!

Here’s a position which might be right up @polybear ‘s street (and keep him off here and TNM).

From the BBC website.

 

The chancellor will also announce a new “Office of Value for Money” aimed at identifying and recommending savings, including in the current financial year, so “poor value spending is cut off before it begins”.

Edited July 28 by Erichill16

[Hroth]

2 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

 

Did somebody get murdered in a village?

 

They're all what Amazon calls "cozy murders".  I've no clue whats "cozy" about murder...

 

[PupCam]

Evening

 

A chug was chugged to Chrisf Town for a VMCC breakfast.     Very nice chug, a rather indifferent breakfast.   We came back via Great Barford over the lovely bridge* and the Great Ouse was looking somewhat more normal than it did during the "Rainy Season"!

 

* The video is of a passage over the bridge in the reverse direction a few years ago

 

 

The  lock which is about 100 yards downstream on the other side of the bridge normally has a drop of ~7' not the 6" seen in this photograph taken in February! 

 

 

 

 

This afternoon I watched a film via YouTube on the Cheapside Hoard, a stash of beautiful 17th Century jewellery unearthed in 1912.  

 

A very interesting story with an amusing twist for us:

 

When "Up the Smoke" last Friday we'd bought lunch  in the subterranean Marks & Sparks buried in the "One New Change" Shopping Centre on Cheapside.   The shopping centre sits on the site where the hoard was discovered and the M&S is probably only 20-30 yards away from the exact spot.    At the time we'd never heard of the story as Mrs Puppers learnt of it listening to a Podcast yesterday evening and further research this morning revealed the film.    It seems there was an exhibition of the hoard in the Museum of London but unfortunately we are 10 years too late; it closed in 2014 and now even the Museum of London has gone apparently and it won't be re-incarnated as the London Museum until 2026.   I think that qualifies for a Turdycurses then!

 

This evening I watched the Belgian Grand Prix, Spa is one of my favourite circuits.  Well, what an exciting race and a twist at the end!

 

Right, it's bed time.

 

Night All.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 28 by PupCam
One day this forum will work properly! I'll not be holding my breath.

[TheQ]

At  the Moorings Awl,

Apologies for spelling, I'm flying blind, I've left the classes in the motorboat.

This moorings pretty photo.

The programme for the week.

Note, some starts can be sub divided if there are two many boats for the start line.

 

Had a very good night's sleep, first fell asleep,  book on unmentionsbles residing on chest at about 20:30,  woke skortly after but was out cold again before 21:00 had about 8.5 hours sleep.

 

Very heavy dew this morning...

 

Muggacoffee number 1 in consumption, 

 

Time to wait till buoy launching time.

 

 

 

 

 

[TheQ]

Ok it was a triple post..

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 29 by TheQ

[TheQ]

Double post

 

 

Edited July 29 by TheQ

[Barry O]

Ey up!

 

Nice trip to Thirsk..traffic was light.. parked OK..  show was visited (bacon sarnie was excellent!).

 

Some second hand wagon type items forcoal delivery were purchased. Now regauged for my little view of a place close to my former home.

 

Numknuts next door was caught photographing our front room yesterday. He is now in hiding.. he may get a gentle word in his ear when I see him next. I am beginning to think he needs some mental help.

 

Our local airort is Leds Bradford Airport.. aka Yeadon airfield. It is LBA and a busy little place it is too!

 

Time to wander off in search of a mugatea..

 

TTFN.

Baz

 

 

 

[polybear]

10 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Big Yanks?

Let's hope that no one from Viz is listening in...

 

 

 

Bear Googled that one - and somehow this came up......

 

 

It's true - the simplest ideas are often the best.....

 

9 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Jeez Bear, you really do resent people making a living, don't you.

 

With the price of everything for a small trader heading ever further skywards (with no sign of price rise stopping), be grateful it hadn't gone up to £25!

 

Not at all - though an overnight 42% increase would take some justifying in this Bear's Book.  I've noticed recently that the last couple of times I've booked a slot via the website they do seem to be "rather busy" for most of the time - perhaps they're cashing in on that success by taking the p1ss?  Cynical?  Moi?

 

ION.....

 

Today's fun starts with the ironing of a couple of pairs of strides (one pair has to be ironed inside-out apparently - so how do you turn them, er, inside-in again without creasing them?) and a couple of shirts.  Yippee.

After that it'll be loading up a new speed cam database to the GPS (never did get it done yesterday...).

And after that I really must get some muddlin' done.....

 

BG

[jamie92208]

21 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

Is that still “Sleth-it” or has it become “Slaw’t”? 
 

 

Many years ago I lodged, for a short time, with the Methodist minister for that circuit. As he was from Bedford the locals allowed him to get away with calling it Slath weight. 

 

Good moaning from a very warm Charente.  We had a good afternoon eating and drinking in a village about 11 miles away.  Apparently these affairs are called Méchoui.  Today is French class then do not a lot day as a Caniculevor or heatwave has been declared. 38°expected this afternoon.  

 

Jamie

Edited July 29 by jamie92208

[Mike Bellamy]

1 hour ago, TheQ said:

 

Had a very good night's sleep, first fell asleep,  book on unmentionsbles residing on chest at about 20:30,  woke skortly after but was out cold again before 21:00 had about 8.5 hours sleep.

 

Looks like you should stay there - that's about double the amount of sleep you get at home !!  When we are away in the caravan, we both sleep much better - perhaps that's because it's twin single beds. After sleeping together for 46 years we can manage a few weeks apart on either side of the van !!

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