Early Risers.

[Erichill16]

14 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

Problem with that is a lot of folk have wax in their ears.......................................

And if there’s a black hole in there nothings going to get out!

[Barry O]

18 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

Problem with that is a lot of folk have wax in their ears.......................................

not if you hit them hard with a bit of 4 by 2...

[pH]

3 hours ago, Ian Abel said:

The next five to seven days we're supposed to have highs in the -12 to -17 range and lows around -14 to -28!  Some snow thrown in for good measure
Wind chills will, of course, exacerbate those figures with several days already being classified as probably "dangerously cold due to the wind chill"!

 

Tally ho...

I posted last week that one of our sons had been working north of the Arctic Circle, and that the temperature where he was had been down to minus 38C overnight. Talking to him since he came back, it turns out that was the ambient temperature. With the wind chill, it was “feels like” minus 57C!

[pH]

11 hours ago, TheQ said:

Now talking of route 66, the A66 might be interesting this weekend, I wonder if the snow gates will be in use. I've been across there when off the road there was 4 feet of snow ...

I’ve been across that road at night in those conditions, getting a lift with a courier on a 50mph schedule from Glasgow to Leeds. He was doing 80mph on stretches. Interesting trip!

 

(This was in early 1968, and he was carrying computer tapes. It would all be done by a press of a button now.)

[pH]

6 hours ago, Barry O said:

been out in the fatchy pog to the post office. I didn't want another soaking so I used herselfs car. Toomnay folks driving around with no lights on..

Can’t do that with our car. Headlights set to “automatic”, so they switch themselves on in low light. Great help, except when driving any other car you have to remember it’s something you have to do yourself!

[laurenceb]

When driving in mist or fog auto lights dont turn on which makes them dangerous in my view

[grandadbob]

Evenin' each,

Bakewell baking went er well and samples tested and passed muster.(by me)   Delivered some next door and to Nicki & kids along with some other shopping we'd got for them.  All received gratefully and have been told they are up to standard.  Good oh.  Stupid thing is that they nearly didn't get done because of non-delivery of grated almonds so we then went out and bought some elsewhere.  Guess what?  The Boss found a packet languishing in a cupboard when we got home. * Oh and "Miss Efficiency" only rearranged the cupboards the other day. 

Opened a bottle of Lathwaites French red tonight, a Grenache/Syrah combination which is pretty good.  Mind you I've been buying wine from them for years and not had a duff one yet.

 

*Guess who said that they thought we had some but was told I was talking rubbish!

Edited February 4, 2021 by grandadbob

[clogger]

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

The handle on our Liebherr fridge is number 3 now. The cover plates are original though as they never seemed to be available. I know why the handle breaks. Someone, if they are impatient to open it having just shut it pulls hard rather than waiting a moment.  We had a lot of trouble when we first had the fridge with over cooling (new thermostat and controller) but it is fine now. If it goes I will buy a Miele, the Liebherr in the same size are rather 

[clogger]

Just now, clogger said:

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

The handle on our Liebherr fridge is number 3 now. The cover plates are original though as they never seemed to be available. I know why the handle breaks. Someone, if they are impatient to open it having just shut it pulls hard rather than waiting a moment.  We had a lot of trouble when we first had the fridge with over cooling (new thermostat and controller) but it is fine now. If it goes I will buy a Miele, the Liebherr in the same size are rather 

Sorry my error, Liebherr fridges are actually made in the same factory as Miele.

[Dave Hunt]

Just spent an hour or so catching up with the last 36 hours of ERs as yesterday I felt rubbish. It seems that I'm one of the few that get a bad reaction to the AZ jab with aches, shivers, headaches etc. but today it's been wearing off. Better that than catching the plague though.

 

Low spot of today was when I answered the phone and while I wasn't looking Horace the cat decided to wander over the computer keyboard then sit on it and delete what I'd been working on for the previous half hour. I don't know what he did exactly but I had to shut the machine down and restart it before I could get control of it again. I think I'm now off his Christmas card list for the names I called him.

 

Cheers all.

 

Dave

 

 

[Tony_S]

31 minutes ago, clogger said:

Sorry my error, Liebherr fridges are actually made in the same factory as Miele.

I know. But when we bought our model they weren’t. Some parts not available for our Liebherr like the veg/salad boxes have an identical replacement for a Miele fridge. If I want an upright white finish replacement for our Liebherr it will be a Miele. It will match the nearby freezer too. 

[J. S. Bach]

16 hours ago, pH said:

  18 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

Edit: There is also an Interstate 66 running west out of DC.

 

I did not know that!

I have been on a short part of it near DC and Winchester, VA. I suspect that, once one leaves the DC metro area, it would be a somewhat scenic drive; especially the further west that one goes.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_66

[jamie92208]

And little me thought that Liebherr made big cranes.

 

Jamie

[simontaylor484]

And Excavators too

 

 

[laurenceb]

Was going to ask, are they the same company?

[Tony_S]

6 minutes ago, laurenceb said:

Was going to ask, are they the same company?

I think they are.

[leopardml2341]

Goodnight folks.

[laurenceb]

Just looked them up, they are. And they own hotels as well

[brianusa]

16 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

have very mixed feelings about the whole “clapping for XXX“ business. Especially the “clap for carers”.  On one hand, it is a way to show appreciation for the tremendous work frontline medical and nursing staff are/have been doing, but on the other hand it allows the clappers to feel smugly virtuous without actually doing anything about addressing the needs of those doing that front line work. But, to be very cynical, I suppose it is simply just too inconvenient to start up something like a daily “free parking for carers“ (or similar), that would actually benefit the people that are in the firing line. It’s much, much, more convenient, easy and visibly virtue signalling to go out onto the doorstep and clap for a few minutes and then return to the Xbox or Z-List celebrity TV programmes and do no more....

 

Forgive me for being so acerbic, but I have colleagues in the firing line who would love to have something more useful and enduring as recognition than a round of applause....

 

iD

 

Agree!  While I admire all doctors and nurses who tend to us in time of need especially during the ongoing pandemic, they will be the first to say they are only doing their job.  Where does the clapping end?  Do we clap the truck drivers who deliver the life saving vaccines, or the grocery staff who absorb our droplets daily.  Certainly Capt. Tom did a wonderful job but would he be clapped if he were much younger?   If it makes one feel good, go out and clap and also clap for those who protect and serve us all, day by day.

       Brian.

[polybear]

On 02/02/2021 at 23:30, Erichill16 said:

Fortunately for me, and unfortunately for Polybear SWMBO does make a very nice coffee cake with not too much icing or buttercream.

 

Nice + Coffee + Cake?  Contradiction in terms, that one.....

 

On 03/02/2021 at 01:24, newbryford said:

My words to her beaming face were "Congratulations - I now have double the swab entertainment to watch." Her smile quickly disappeared....................

 

 

Mention that Bear gets a very useful twenty five quid voucher for every test endured and she'll probably implode....

 

On 03/02/2021 at 06:03, chrisf said:

Mr Grumpy here was greatly cheered by the short film shown yesterday on the 1 pm BBC news of pandas frolicking in snow at an American zoo.  The footage is on YouTube but without the inspired piano accompaniment of “Rondo a la Turque”.  At the end, presenter Simon McCoy said: “We needed that!”  Too right! 

 

Courtesy of Bear:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-55803293

 

On 03/02/2021 at 07:57, TheQ said:

Captain Moore started as a conscript private in the Army 1940, but after 8 months was accepted for officer training. So he showed some promise right from his early days. At the end, of his career in the army he was Technical Adjutant of the Armoured Vehicle Fighting School in Bovington.. Where there was a good chance he may have met my Grandfather RSM 7th RTR, but was a WO IC training after WW2, Although granddad was based near Barnard Castle he would have been to Bovington several times in that period.

I'm hoping they can organise, some sort of proper Military send off even in these time.....

 

 

It seems that there is an on-line petition for a Sate Funeral - currently at 220K signatures; some are also asking for a statue outside Parliament.  Perhaps a little OTT?

 

On 03/02/2021 at 20:34, Coombe Barton said:

For Bear and HH

https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-02-03

 

 

Bear has been AWOL for a couple of days - so 6 pages of ER required catching up on...

I should've been sanding walls yesterday and today, but kinda didn't get around to it; yesterday was a bit of a planning day, mixed in with dross like doing the washing etc.  Today was started with good intentions of sanding but three expected deliveries seemed like an excuse; Bear is now the proud recipient of a Neff Cooker Hood (delivery one), a Neff recirculating kit (delivery two - required for use with the hood if you want to use it in recirculating mode; Neff see this as an excuse for charging sixty five quid for a lump of plastic, two hose clips, a length of extractor hose and a filter - barstewards.  The hood cost enough as it is ), and four new cordless phones for use around the house (delivery 3) - the keypads on the current phones are decidedly unresponsive which is kinda making their use difficult.....

Throw in a visit to the Co-op (where Bear spotted a special offer, consisting of two Goodfellas Frozen Pizzas, Frozen garlic baquettes, Frozen French Fries and a Tub of Kit Kat Ice Cream - all for a fiver.  Bear was so busy considering all the E Numbers, Cholesterol, Bad Stuff etc. that he failed to spot them falling into the basket.  Oh well....

 

Tomorrow?  Sanding walls, without fail - I've run out of excuses.

[J. S. Bach]

16 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

 ...snip... Forgive me for being so acerbic, but I have colleagues in the firing line who would love to have something more useful and enduring as recognition than a round of applause....

 

iD

I am sorry but the temptation to rate this with the "Round of applause" button was extremely difficult to overcome!! In fact, I did do that but went back and changed it within a minute or so.

 

Note that I really do agree with your statement.

[J. S. Bach]

15 hours ago, chrisf said:

Greetings one and all ...snip... To be accurate, four deaths are marked – those of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in the same plane crash and of Joe Meek by his own hand in which was a shotgun belonging to Heinz Burt.  ...snip...

Chris

Actually four in the crash plus the pilot; the fourth being  J. P. Richardson. Quick, without looking it up, what was the pilot's name?

[J. S. Bach]

On 04/02/2021 at 07:07, southern42 said:

 ...snip... Oh! I get my kicks on route from the 66 thingy that runs on strips of metal.

Tornado tour to SVR 2016 - 66151 taking us back to London.

 

 

Fitt  and  Elfie bashing on.

Take care all and play safe.

_________

Best wishes

Polly

 

The 59s and 66s are my favorite foreign motors, the 59s especially as they are basically an SD40-2 wearing a different dress to the ball. Not to go too far into modeling but I have a Lima 66 that will become a 59 with the substitution of an Athearn SD drive. And I do have a few 66s, all but one in the Freightliner color scheme. Here are two on a friend's HO layout:

 

Note that the non-Freightliner one is in GBRF colors. My apologies to all but if I posted this elsewhere it would be way out of context and (most likely) not seen by Southern 42.

Edited February 6, 2021 by J. S. Bach
Change "Lime" to "Lima"

[PhilJ W]

2 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

Low spot of today was when I answered the phone and while I wasn't looking Horace the cat decided to wander over the computer keyboard then sit on it and delete what I'd been working on for the previous half hour. I don't know what he did exactly but I had to shut the machine down and restart it before I could get control of it again. I think I'm now off his Christmas card list for the names I called him.

 

Cheers all.

 

Dave

 

 

Getting his own back for that trip to the vet?

[Barry O]

3 hours ago, pH said:

Can’t do that with our car. Headlights set to “automatic”, so they switch themselves on in low light. Great help, except when driving any other car you have to remember it’s something you have to do yourself!

That doesn't seem to work in fog.. automatic lights don't always give main beams a chance.. the new "super sidelights" switch on, as does the lights in the console. Just check what auto does in different conditions.

 

Baz