Early Risers.

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, BlackRat said:

Greetings one and all........

 

Moved several times as a kid......from police house to police house  ( remember them?) but only two houses as a grown up.....the last current one for 30 years!

 

Ah, police houses. I never lived in one but many friends did. In The Riding, they were all to the same floor plan so that the carpets still fitted in the new house when Spring Manouvers took place. The latest phase ones were all in the same pale brick so are instantly recognisable  to this day.

 

Morning all.  A disturbed night due to the lurgi but now up and about with breakfast soon once a young lady has had hers.

 

I had a good walk yesterday along the river Aire to the St Aidans site. This was a huge opencast site that flooded spectacularly  in 1988 and the a few miles of the Aire actually  reversed their flow as the 70 acres of opencast filled up. A huge walking dragline was walked to safety and is now preserved near where we are. Some very interesting post industrial lanscaping. My return followed old railway lines.   Various things to do today then dinner this evening with the step dragon in law.

 

Regards to all.

 

Jamie

Edited February 5, 2020 by jamie92208

[Dave Hunt]

In the house move category I've been a bit of a nomad having lived in four places as a child, all in or around Liverpool, then I joined the RAF and in just under forty years managed fifteen different residences and Lord knows how many detachments of periods ranging from a few weeks to six months in various countries, continents and hemispheres. My last posting was at Cosford, hence we moved to Shropshire where we've lived in the same house for fifteen years, which is longer than anywhere else. I suppose that rootless is one way of putting it but what I've described is not uncommon for someone who spent his working life in the forces. I once landed in five different countries in one day with 4,000 first day covers in the gun ammunition tank of a Phantom and then over the next week had to sign the whole bl**dy lot, which the philatelic people had omitted to tell me I'd have to do when they asked if I'd take the dam*ned things! My signature gradually degenerated to the unintelligible scrawl it has remained ever since.

 

Just finished the wake-up muggocoffee whilst typing this and it's now off to the market before a fun packed morning of domestic niffnaff and trivia. If I'm a very good boy I may get down to the workshop this afternoon for some more la**ut wiring, which is getting to be in the same fun category and which I can't wait to finish. 

 

Ta ta for now. As Baz would put it, get the diem carpe'd people.

 

Dave

[PeterBB]

2 hours ago, AndyB said:

It occurs to me that now we have members in HK Europe and North America that the sun may not set on the ER Empire. 

Let's add to that -  Australia and New Zealand - truly RM and especially EM covers great distances.

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. I have been on TV once to my knowledge, I took some stuff to an Antiques Road Show. My items were not deemed of sufficient interest to be filmed but I appeared in the background of some televised shots. My dad was on 'Take Your Pick' about 1958/59, he failed miserably in the yes/no interlude but picked the box with the £50 treasure chest. That might not sound much now but add a couple of noughts on the end to get todays values. It was shortly before Christmas and my brother and I both got new bikes for Christmas. One other thing I remember was my dad was quite tall, just a tad under six feet but the presenter Michael Miles towered over him. I have never lived more than forty miles from were I was born and currently, and for the last 30 years at my current house only twelve miles. My brother can even beat that, for almost 73 years he has allways lived within five miles of were he was born. 

[PeterBB]

3 hours ago, AndyID said:

 

I'm sure they know what they are doing but might a radioactive sandwich be an alternative?

 

It was quite a while ago and as I had a touch of cancer they thought it best to do a bone scan. They injected some stuff into me that had a half-life of about ten minutes. It showed up in my bone marrow PDQ and the emissions produced an impressive image of my entire skeleton. I was probably glowing, just not in visible light.

 

 

Hence why a Radio Active (RA) sandwich would be well degraded long before it reached the bloodstream and the targeted organ(s).  

In 60s RA isotopes became established in the NHS initially injected to kill cancer cells (strange how the 'photograph' of the first observed working as what are now ODAs in  chest theatre during student days) has come into mind.  Working in pathology RAs were introduced to detect thyroid problems by injection and then used in assays (inadvertently introducing  these techniques in early 70s in Gloucester led eventually many years after my time there to a full blown Dept of Physical Medicine).  Bioluminescence and other techniques have since taken over from Radio Immune Assay (RIA) .  What else has come to mind is the effect on our assays of the then undisclosed Chernobyl explosion in April 1986, with huge changes in background counts that led to many repeated assays at effectively enormous cost before the real reason became apparent.

Moves - 28 years in the house in which I was born in SW19 then Surrey, Gloucester and since then in the Midlands for over 40 years.

Edited February 5, 2020 by PeterBB
Adding moves aspect and the inevitable spelling correction

[Barry O]

Goodnight from down here!!!

Baz

[Dave Hunt]

Told a fib in my last post - it was 2,000 first day covers, not 4,000. And I've been told a million times not to exaggerate!

 

Dave

 

PS - I don't think this site can count - it's shown me as having posted 209 times for weeks.

Edited February 5, 2020 by Dave Hunt

[grandadbob]

Good morning all,

A bit misty out but something bright is trying to shine through. It should stay dry with some sunny spells.

A request has been put in for me to ferry The Boss to the local High Street. Great! Ah well, it makes a change from bloody Sainsbury's.

Have a good one,

U.N. Happyshopper.

Edited February 5, 2020 by grandadbob

[Barry O]

But before my sleeptime..

 

Born and lived in the same house for 18 years (Horden)

3 years in Leeds at Uni

4 years in Bragbury End (first job)

4 years in Didcot (2nd job)

32 years in Leeds ( including 4 years on outstation duty in Barrow)

Plus working away in the USA (mainly Florida), Germany, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Holland, France , Malaysia and Singapore...

 

Baz

[PhilJ W]

3 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

Told a fib in my last post - it was 2,000 first day covers, not 4,000. And I've been told a million times not to exaggerate!

 

Dave

 

PS - I don't think this site can count - it's shown me as having posted 209 times for weeks.

That only means that you have posted on ER's or Wheeltappers. None railway/modelling  posts are not counted. 

[BoD]

19 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

PS - I don't think this site can count - it's shown me as having posted 209 times for weeks.

Posts in wheeltappers aren't added to your count.

Otherwise my post count would suggest several hundreds of intelligent contributions from an amazingly helpful and erudite person whereas in reality most would be inconsequential whitterings.

 

 

Edited February 5, 2020 by BoD
See - yet another inconsequential whittering

[newbryford]

26 years in house #1 (apart from 3 months in digs for work - I came home at weekends, so it was never an official address - in 1980)

Then 3 years about 600 yards from house #1 as my first own property

And heading towrds 30 years in house#3, 6 miles from house#1 when I got married.

 

I guess you could say I like it where I live.

 

Catch up later.

 

Cheers,

Mick

 

 

 

 

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

It looks like it's going to be a busy day, back later. 

Edited February 5, 2020 by BSW01

[81C]

Morning All 

first morning I've not had to dash off early I need to speak to Scottish Power their poxy meter reading page is a waste of time having to keep repeating the reading.

A busy ahead off to the dog then back here asap to strip out the hallway its dirty rotten so that sugar soap will be used prior to painting its embarrassing when people 

enter the flat the previous owners must have been slobs to live in this filth I washed the walls the first day I was here but the dirt is embedded. 

My new Babe has started to call me first which is a good sign I've not had that happen before I'm hoping it's a good omen.  

Spose I better get on  L.L. Bowen 

[81C]

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Edited February 5, 2020 by 81C

[Danemouth]

As I said earlier I've lived in the capital of the Principality all of my life living at five different addresses. We've been at the current address for 22 years but had problems selling the previous house as it was on a busy road and the first estate agent we used was useless. So when we moved in here I told SWMBO that the next move I would make will probably involve an undertaker!

 

Here's a thought, my parents first house was a postwar council house with just 6 power sockets - my current abode has 20 double sockets and 5 single sockets - how things change.

 

Cheers,

 

Dave

Edited February 5, 2020 by Danemouth
Spelling!!!

[roundhouse]

4 hours ago, Barry O said:

 

Roundhouse, for your info just enjoying some boundary road brewery Flying Fortress...excellent!!

 

 

Baz - you are making e thirsty as no beer since Monday and not likely to have any till Saturday.

 

Ben making wheeled things dirty this morning in next batch of crust earning. he wants these more heavily weathered than the last batch.

 

A break for lunch then will carry on. There is even a yellow one to be lightly weathered

[grandadbob]

Back from the shops rather quicker than expected and it wasn't too painful and all it cost me was £2 for the car park.* The Boss is happy with her purchases and she also bumped into a friend so had a natter and arranged a lunch for next week. All this means that the Brownie Points balance is in credit so I can plan some sort of misbehaviour shortly! 

Coffee now, lunch in about 45 minutes and after that I'm heading Shedwards.

 

*However we did look in a couple of jewellers for ideas for an anniversary present later this year. Now that will probably costmealotta. 

[TheQ]

6 hours ago, AndyID said:

 

Not sure Q's  Land Rover has been idle too long. Could be a bad battery or a dodgy connection, and don't assume "ground" really is. After a lot of murking around I eventually discovered the ground strap between the gearbox and chassis on my 6 volt '55 VW was non-existent.

just a couple of days since last use, the battery showed 90% on initial connect up of the fancy battery charger.

 

This type of landrover is known for having a bad earth, which it demonstrates by melting the hand brake cable!!!

 

However since I have brakes, if it's not the battery, I suspect the connections to the starter motor, since it lives down there amoungst the dirty wet stuff..

 

 The battery should be fully charged tonight, if not I have another to try..

[45568]

15 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

 A good and a loving man - but extremely negative in outlook.  

 

 

Thus was 81C (Part 2 ), sent to roam the oceans of late romance????

Very tongue-in-cheek cheers from Oz,

Peter C.

[tigerburnie]

I did spend some time in the top of the North Sea on an a couple oil rigs in the Brent oil field, don't think that counted as a house move, don't think we had a postcode...……………………………..

[The Lurker]

Greetings all from LBG where it is currently sunny!! So much so that I am half blinded; the automatic blinds have decided it is not that bright but they are, as usual completely wrong.

 

I hope that Tony's day is going well and that he is given a glowing report afterwards. Actually maybe the brightness is Tony!

 

There are probably general patterns of migration that families follow; my Mum's family have gradually moved out of SE London/Kent, some further out to Kent (one Uncle had a farm right by the KESR and then later another on Romney Marsh), but also the general drift to the Southern part of metroland. My Dad's family came from South Wales (Nine Mile Point) to North London (via Bristol) in the 30s, but before that had origins in Wilton. Bizarrely, it seems that my surname is English and has large concentrations in the Wilton area, but the bit that came from Wilton had a very Welsh surname (Pennells). But of course family history may have got this very mixed up....Mum's side have a researched family tree so back to the 16th century, At some stage they came south from Stafford but I don't know when.

 

 

[Coombe Barton]

Currently becalmed with a condition best described as fluid, and don't cough or sneeze except being prepared in the very, very close proximity of the loo.

[PeterBB]

Get well soon.

[Tony_S]

The day hasn't turned out as expected. Arrived at hospital to be told camera had just failed. Rebooked for a fortnight. So sitting in RHS restaurant eating steak and kidney pudding. Haven't had that for years. 

Tony