Simon G Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 I would like to take this opportunity to thank Polly, DD and all those west of Offa's Dyke for the wonderful rainstorm that is now battering our part of Shropshire. It didnt just batter Shropshire! I drove from Cumbria to Berkshire today and I think a serious proportion fell on my car! It was a most foul journey. Evening then spent clearing malware and various bits of clutter from my Mother's PC, and it now runs nicely again. Tomorrow's task is to install Teamviewer as advised to me on this thread a few weks ago, so that I can monitor and check it from afar in future. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jock67B Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Tired out tonight so slurp night-cap and keel over on the cards. Got in trouble this morning, no surprise there, - madam uttered 'white rabbits' like she does at the start of every month. I, coming to, loudly yelled out help! And when she said what?, I said 'Mayday, Mayday' then ducked. Little things etc.! Good night all, Jock67B. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted May 2, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 2, 2014 Morning campers. TGIF! Wet and rainy after t-storms marched in last night. Likely to stay like that for the next few days. Have a good one... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted May 2, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 2, 2014 Morning all! Its the day before a long weekend so time to be up and at it to do shopping,trip to the tip and then time for my scan....thought this would be an opportunity for a quick sleep but apparently not. :-( Have a great poets day and let's have a perfect day... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Morning! Early start here this morning; taking Mother and Father along to the station for an 05.10 departure of their Railtour to Scotland.......Then the dogs and I went straight along to the beach for walkies at the "crack of sparrows". A kind, fellow RM-Webber provided me with a live realtime trains link, so I may watch the progress of the railtour. Outbound: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U54022/2014/05/02/advanced Return: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U54023/2014/05/02/advanced The locomotive and EWS consist looked beautifully clean and well prepared for the day`s journey and it was lovely to be greeted by smiling and helpful stewards, whom personally escorted my keen senior-sojourners to their reserved seats. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted May 2, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 2, 2014 Morning all. Rather blustery here but dry. Showers forecast though. I'll probably do some modelling, a small amount of shopping and take Robbie for a walk. Tony 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold grandadbob Posted May 2, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 2, 2014 Good morning all, Dry but dull and 9oC here, forecast is for cloud, rain or drizzle then brightening up this afternoon. Looks like I'll be in the mire shortly because I had told The Boss that I'd take her shopping this morning. However those nice people in Liverpool are so efficient that my parcel has already reached the delivery centre in Chessington and should be delivered today which means of course that I'll have to wait in for it! Oops, could be a bit of a Long (not so good) Friday here. Hopefully the contents of the parcel will outweigh the amount of deep doo doo that I'm about to step into! Have a good one, Bob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Grey, dull, cool, dentist. Then we'll see what happens after I've been mauled. Yesterday's physio visit - good - progressing well, discussion, amongst other things, of the Bristol Scale ( only google if you must and not while eating breakfast) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted May 2, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 2, 2014 Morning all, a slightly brighter start to the day weatherwise but I have a dire meeting first thing not going to be easy to resolve at all. Hopefully the day can only get better as they say.. Have a good long weekend if you get a chance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 (edited) Hope Debs's parents have a wonderful trip. Siskins, nuthatches plus the usual suspects are feeding with vigour on sunflower seeds here. More welcome than the wasp's nest I found brushing my head in a shed! Of course, I generally brush my head in the bathroom. Edited May 2, 2014 by DDolfelin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Morning all. Jeez, I feel old this morning. Golfing seven days out of the last nine have finally taken their toll, with every bloomin' moving part of this 65 year old frame saying enough is enough. Thankfully the only exertion today is hoovering and shopping for my dear old Mum... …and hey, let's be careful out there. Anyone see Hinterland on BBC4? A touch of Scandic Noir set around Aberystwyth with both English and Welsh dialogue (with subtitles). Not quite The Killing but a bit scary in parts. The hotel at Devils Bridge reminded me of The Shining, albeit in a much smaller building. Wonderful overhanging eaves... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.376784,-3.850415,3a,75y,292.55h,88.29t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sSny9rNx05FM9KB0V62griw!2e0 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Morning Campers, grey over Swad this morning so won't venture out just yet. Just Mum to Doctors and walk the Dog, and possibly have a coffee and cake out somewhere this afternoon. Also waiting for a call from the Estate Agents some time today as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted May 2, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 2, 2014 Morning, day off taking time back. Mrs H's carpal tunnel is giving her gyp, and I had a bad hip night - I'm with Gordon, these bodies are wearing out and he's giving 10 years away to me! As for the Brizzle Scale, John, we have that on the office wall (we have a nurse in our team) but the stages are annotated with levels of management, er, you guessed it! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Morning all mutter mutter grumble grumble something something natter witter etc etc Have a great long weekend. (apologies to non-UK residents that have to work on Monday) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold grandadbob Posted May 2, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 2, 2014 (edited) Latest report from the trenches on the Sutton front Parcel is on the van and will be delivered today stop GB is ducking the debris from the fan stop Mrs GB "is going to have to get the bus I suppose!" stop Oh dear stop End of message Edited May 2, 2014 by grandadbob 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 http://www.castrust.org/wp-content/uploads/TIN_HAT.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 2, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 2, 2014 Morning all Dreary damp start, maybe improving later, we're told. May Day must have been a disappointment to most hereabouts, with heavy rain and thunder during the afternoon. Alison decided to do a full day of cleaning/gardening yesterday, which was fine with me, and I offered to collect and deliver her. It meant she showed me yet another route that I hadn't previously found - that must make at least 6 different ways of getting there, and this one is quite pretty, if heavy on intermediate gears, as are all but one, the longest! This left the partner with the kids and the car if they wanted to go out. Relations between the couple are at a very low ebb, and he will be moving out for a trial three months starting Sunday. Anyway, Alison dug up an awful lot of buttercup in one flowerbed and planted the remaining flowers bought last week, so the place is looking a little more spruce outside. Hope your week ends on a high. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted May 2, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 2, 2014 It didnt just batter Shropshire! I drove from Cumbria to Berkshire today and I think a serious proportion fell on my car! It was a most foul journey. Evening then spent clearing malware and various bits of clutter from my Mother's PC, and it now runs nicely again. Tomorrow's task is to install Teamviewer as advised to me on this thread a few weks ago, so that I can monitor and check it from afar in future. Assuming it's Windows. Create an admin user and then change her user to be a normal user - stops most malware dead, or at least limits it to her account only, and the admin can then tidy it up. To repeat my oft said advice, only use an admin account on Windows to add / remove / change programs / hardware etc, all of my PCs (we have a few, having two kids of young age, and two kids of more senior age, in the house) are configured this way and yes, it's a pain at times having to login / logout etc. it's far less of a pain than fixing issues later. Morning all, Dull and miserable here again, No plans as no trains (currently) Here's yesterdays VSTP Or moving 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted May 2, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 2, 2014 The locomotive and EWS consist looked beautifully clean and well prepared for the day`s journey and it was lovely to be greeted by smiling and helpful stewards, whom personally escorted my keen senior-sojourners to their reserved seats. Debs, The train was West Coast worked ... with 47786 and 47746 in charge. I think the coaches you saw were their maroon rake. I'm jealous as they are booked to sit in Grayrigg loop (to allow 1S39, New St - Glasgow to overtake) - Grayrigg is my favourite location of all time and although I've been through it loads of times, I've never been in the loop. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Morning all. A bright day outside, albeit quite overcast. The Godetia and Victoria Cross poppies I sprinked over the garden last week has started to pop some leaves up. Rather enjoying the gardening over the last few months. The wildflower patch is doing incredibly well. The MiL took one look at it, turned her nose up and you could tell she would have put astroturf down. As recently as September last year the whole of the back garden as dominated by a massive Yew tree and a dying Ash tree. This left an arid, bare earth area to the garden and the lawn was very mossy due to lack of light. I got contractors in to take those down and stump grind. Then levelled the earth myself,revealing more stump and roots which I took out with a felling axe over several weeks. It wasn't possible to take the roots down too far so I terraced it in with sleepers, put weed suppressant mat and gravel down, trellis at the back, a tree in, along with climbing roses and clematis. English bluebells were under-planted around the tree. A chair will shortly be installed on the gravel along with me and a G 'n' T! Have a nice day everyone. It's cleaning day here. I may be some time. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted May 2, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 2, 2014 Late breakfast today, toaster refused to work. Luckily I found a few rashers of bacon in the fridge and a couple of baps in the bread bin so its bacon butties for breakfast, yummy. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 (edited) Debs, The train was West Coast worked ... with 47786 and 47746 in charge. I think the coaches you saw were their maroon rake. I'm jealous as they are booked to sit in Grayrigg loop (to allow 1S39, New St - Glasgow to overtake) - Grayrigg is my favourite location of all time and although I've been through it loads of times, I've never been in the loop. Doh!.........Thanks Dave, `saw the shiny maroon livery and 'assumed'........(Life rule No.1: "Never assume anything!") They`re in a comfy 1st Class carriage: all table lamps and antimacassars! Edited May 2, 2014 by Debs. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted May 2, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 2, 2014 No plans as no trains (currently) The stone train has appeared on the system, heading my way so a session shuffling with joggers and cyclists looms in the next few hours. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted May 2, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 2, 2014 Morning all, It's Friday so no need to tell you where we''ll be heading (unless you've joined recently, in which case the secret codeword is 'Waitrose') although it might well be the Oxford Road branch as the local car park is probably full already. Hope Barry 'enjoys' the MRI experience - you're bound to like it if you've previously liked being shoved into a 45 gallon oil barrel while some comedian hits it with a 2lb lump hammer (and all the best re the results - with me they told me what I'd had, not what I'd got, fiendish clever these modern medicos). The lung scan is much more fun - apart from the lead encapsulated hypodermic syringe at the start - as it's like a rather nice 'starburst' screensaver and you get to watch. The new dining room curtains have arrived, and so far I have survived plus paint sample No.4 (or was it No.5?) seems to have fitted the bill. Have a good weekend one & all and enjoy your extra day of rest should you happen to be receiving one on Monday. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jock67B Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Morning all. Debs, I hope mum and dad have a wonderful time in Scotland (not that I'm biased of course!). Funny how posts on this site bring memories flooding back ; I took memsahib on a 'Rail-Drive' holiday to Scotland in the eighties (in the days when I thought I was a wealthy MD of the family garage!). Deposited Renault 25 V6 on the train at Euston and retired to bed after a couple of 'nips' with the guard and apart from waking to see the Tyne from the bridges, awoke in time for breakfast in the wonderful 'Inverness Station Hotel'. Full Scottish anyone? No wonder we've got the bad heart reputation!! Lovely touring holiday around the Highlands and back finally to Edinburgh for the journey home, wonderful - thanks for bringing this back to me Debs. After seeing AndyB's pristine patch and now looking at my 'dandelion meadow' of a lawn, I think the only solution is to borrow Ian's 'Alison' for a while!! What a treasure she seems - a pity that her life appears to be in such turmoil but is it just possible that she finds helping you therapeutic Ian? 'grandadbob', it really is great to have a dialogue with another who is as adept at getting into the dog's house as I am. Hope the weekend is fun and safe for everyone - I'm off to set up the Sky+ box to record my Superbike racing at Oulton Park on Monday. (watched while madam is otherwise engaged as the week progresses!) Kind regards, Jock67B. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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