Early Risers.

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. A bad time last night, Arthur Itis was having another party and every joint seemed to be joining in, actually the culprit was the rain. Pills have been taken. According to the weather reports the rain, accompanied by lightning will continue for the rest of the day.

[Tony_S]

3 minutes ago, Debs. said:

Morning awl!🙋‍♀️

I found a really good use for my awl recently. A bit of carpet seemed to move as we walked on it. I was concerned that perhaps there was a hole in the chipboard floor. I was going to remove the carpet but just prodded through with an awl. The floor is fine. I wonder if over enthusiastic carpet shampooing affected the underlay. I am not worried now. 

[monkeysarefun]

2 hours ago, rockershovel said:

Just been watching a clip of that Australian breakdancer in Paris. Good for an early morning smile..

 

 

Give us a break, not being a soccer playing country means we aren't very expert at  rolling around and around on the ground. .

Edited September 6 by monkeysarefun

[PhilJ W]

Great to see Debs back, and watch out for that awl!

[Hroth]

14 minutes ago, Debs. said:

Morning awl!🙋‍♀️

 

Is that the "one awl" warning, a metaphorical shot across the bows, as it were...?🤔

 

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

The sun is shining and the skies are blue with a few white fluffy clouds dotted here and there , there’s also a slight breeze too. Another day of staying inside today, as I’m still on light duties for now. I’m hoping to go out some time during the week and sit in the car, to see how I am behind the wheel. The surgeon said once I can do an emergency stop, without feeling pain, I should be ok to drive, so I can do that with the car on the drive, but I’ll leave that until late next week. We have a table booked at our favourite Indian restaurant next Sunday (15th) and I’m hoping to not only be able to go, but walk there and back too. I did ok walking round the hospital yesterday, so alls looking good there. 
 

The plan for today is more paper cutting and folding. 
 

Back later 

 

Brian

[Hroth]

ION

 

Bright, sunny, calm and hints of v. warm so far today.

 

Second wash* in progress, and a third prepped to follow.

 

While they are drying I will go unto the GARAGE (one for the list-makers there) and recommence my assult on the contents therein, in preparation for eventual installment of parallel strips of nickle-silver.

 

It will also mean that items currently in the SHED can then be transferred to the GARAGE (list-makers take note...) to enhance enjoyment!

 

All correctly propped and beamed?

 

* Just thought, I could follow PBs example and call the washing machine "Harriet the Hotpoint",  but giving a name to household appliances is a worrying trend...

 

 

Edited September 6 by Hroth

[tigerburnie]

I'm not on Bears list, but a few of you are on mine...........................................I have some Fava Beans and a nice bottle of Chianti...................................be afraid...................😎

[Barry O]

13 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

Is that the "one awl" warning, a metaphorical shot across the bows, as it were...?🤔

 

She has more than one awl.. and the array includes very sharp awls...but nice to hear from the awl holder @Debs.

 

Baz

[monkeysarefun]

49 minutes ago, DaveF said:

Amble from the River Coquet.  The marina and new flats.  The main quay is on the left

 

 

 

Theres  a 3 metre Saltie in there by the look of it!

 

 

 

Edited September 6 by monkeysarefun

[Hroth]

Speaking of Harriet the Hotpoint (for those of an anthropomorphical* bent), I've just noticed that she can wash Babies.  Luckily I have none to hand, so I cannot try this aspect of her abilities out...

 

@monkeysarefun  I think thats just a large floating log, isn't it...?

As for the flats, they look nothing like net drying sheds, despite the architects pretensions!

 

* I think that's the right word. 🤔

 

Edited September 6 by Hroth
a bit more

[monkeysarefun]

6 minutes ago, Hroth said:

@monkeysarefun  I think thats just a large floating log, isn't it...?

 

 

The last words of many an NT tourist!

[Coombe Barton]

1 hour ago, DaveF said:

A fine sunny morning with a little bit of cloud in the west.

I think I may be sitting under it, but it's clearing.

Breakfast had, making (shopping) list.

[Hroth]

2 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

...making (shopping) list.

 

 

Butt, tongue&groove, dovetail...?🤔

 

I make my shopping list by stacking progressively larger items on smaller ones!

 

[monkeysarefun]

 

 

A lovely balmy evening, 22 degrees and the smell of Jasmine is in the air.

 

The stars are putting on another brilliant display at the moment, I'd go out and try for a better pic of them but its the preliminary finals round  of the AFL, the Doggies are playing the Hawks in an elimination game and matching each other goal for goal  at the moment. Capacity crowd at the MCG -  90,000 plus,   great atmosphere.

 

 

   I might sneak out for a pic at halftime.

 

Edit: Crowd figure just announced - 97,340. @Gwiwer would have had  his work cut out getting them all home!

Edited September 6 by monkeysarefun

[Coombe Barton]

Shopping lists on hols are difficult - involved planning - something I'm not very good at taking to completion - at home I have a backup I can adapt in the freezer if I forget, but here in the woods (no bears to perform what bears normally do in the woods) I'm very relaxed - not to mention lazy.

[Tony_S]

52 minutes ago, Hroth said:

Speaking of Harriet the Hotpoint (for those of an anthropomorphical* bent), I've just noticed that she can wash Babies.  Luckily I have none to hand, so I cannot try this aspect of her abilities out...

Our washing machine had various (extra cost) options we didn’t opt for when we bought it. After nearly 10 years the programme control board failed and a new one was installed under warranty. The new one had all the options on board. The most interesting one is “plastic bricks”. 

[Hroth]

Speaking of my travails with clearing the junk out of the GARAGE, the other day I came across a stack of DVDs, given away by the Daily Wail.  Mainly films concerning WW2 ( Dambusters, Wooden Horse, Ice Cold In Alex, etc) but one was an unusual topic for the Wail, Fanny Hill, based on the 18th century epistolatory novel by John Cleland.  Having read the novel, I fear that the film is considerably abridged and bowdlerised compared with all the interesting situations lovingly described in the book...

 

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rephrased...

[Peter Kazmierczak]

It rained all day yesterday, and never got light. Still raining here now in Dorset.

[Andy Hayter]

My sympathies @Peter Kazmierczak.

 

Someone in the French Met Office turned the switch from summer to winter yesterday.  Tuesday 28°C, yesterday struggled into double figures until 17:00 when the sun eventually appeared.

 

Warmer today, but I am confined to the house awaiting a phone call about a delivery.

[Gwiwer]

1 hour ago, monkeysarefun said:

Crowd figure just announced - 97,340. @Gwiwer would have had  his work cut out getting them all home

We cleared an estimated 120,000 from the Grand Prix by tram within an hour. The system has to be seen and is a supremely impressive display of what public transport can do. 
 

At one stage the queue to leave after the main race was estimated at 1.5kms (or a mile in English) long but at no point was anyone stood still - everyone was always moving slowly forwards. 
 

Those of us on loading and dispatch duties received large numbers of favourable comments for how well the trams got everyone there and away. 
 

Much the same can be said of the tennis with the Australian Open seeing huge crowds moved without undue delay. And likewise for most other large sporting and entertainment events. 
 

Moving people?  No problem. 

[monkeysarefun]

 

Melbourne has it all over Sydney when it comes to this kind of thing.

 

Sydney has the disadvantage of major events being away from the public transport hubs. Eg the SCG is in the Eastern Suburbs, away from any   major public transport links. 

 

Our biggest event would be the NYE fireworks, which draws close to 1 million people to the harbour and nearby vantage points.  The public transport network  (city circle line)  there is capable of shifting those numbers over the few hours that make up a New Years eve night, but we have few other events in the inner city to take advantage like that.

 

Maybe the start of the Sydney to Hobart, but that would be in 6 figures.

 

The ex-Olympic Stadium at Flemington gets used to advantage (eg Taylor Swift sized concerts) and the public transit put in for the Olympics handles them without an issue.  There were huge numbers of  fans from SE Asia (especially The Philippines) here for Taylor Swift, they really seem to love her!

 

 

Edited September 6 by monkeysarefun

[monkeysarefun]

What the stars look like in the southern hemisphere. Just a 4 minute  phone camera exposure taken from my front yard, street light drowning out much of the details. Nil post-processing other thanthe stacking and so on that  the Google Pixel 9 does inside its little mind.

 

For @PupCam, I've marked the tail of Scorpio  in faint red   so you can get your bearings.  To the right of that we are looking pretty much back into the central hub of our galaxy.

 

Edited September 6 by monkeysarefun

[polybear]

5 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

 

Those not on any of @polybear's lists must be feeling neglected. Perhaps he should create a list for those who are not on any other of his😁 lists?

Actually I was just thinking there’s a real need for a “Good Bear List”….

 

4 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

 

IIRC I posted something about spiders and also a shed that is used as a garage as well as a railway  room.  That also got me into WB's list though I did offer him ten square metres of land as my contribution to Shed Aid. 

 

Jamie

Back on The List…

[monkeysarefun]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

Actually I was just thinking there’s a real need for a “Good Bear List”….

 

Back on The List…

 

 

I'm not on any @polybear list  and I know that I never will be  because I live on Spider Island and his threats of vengeance  due to  whatever I may do or say will  fall fallow if the alternative  means him coming down here to do  me in, so bring it on, teddy boy! 

 

My chief defence :   Sydney Funnel Web in angry mode. Those fangs mean almost  certain death if you cant get the anti-venom in time!  They'll pierce your finger nail, sports shoes and plastic containers.

 

 

 

 

I'll NEVER forget one time at my ex-in-laws holiday home on the waterfront  at St Georges Basin south of Sydney.

 

I was drying myself off after windsurfing and happened to glance down  and saw a Funnelweb about 3 inches from my foot in this exact pose.

 

I jumped back with what was later unfairly described as a  girly scream, which when I  then explained why it may have sounded somewhat like that   my then  Father-In_law replied  "just step on the bastard, you don't need to scream like a girl"

 

 

 

For the record, as I remember it I DIDN'T scream like a girl, instead I just swore like a true ANZAC would have when charging to certain death towards  the Turkish positions   at The Nek during the Gallipoli campaign.  

 

Edited September 6 by monkeysarefun