RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 16, 2021 58 minutes ago, jonny777 said: Just wait until they switch on the 5G phone mast near you...... I suppose ordinarily I would be visiting somewhere (like East London) with 5G for my phone to connect to it but even the small area fairly nearby with 5G provision isn’t anywhere I would have an excuse to visit. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Andrew P said: Its STILL weeing on the Souf Coast. Hi Andy , you no dought be delighted to know that at your old address it is - fine 4 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Birthday greeting to Sheila 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Tony_S Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 16, 2021 I was thinking about Mrs BoD’s invitation to attend a clinic in Brighton and as was discussed earlier there were suggestions of data entry or algorithm error. However I have just realised that while Durham Coast to Brighton is a long way it is considerably shorter if the distance from Barnard Castle to London is not counted as being significant. 5 4 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 27 minutes ago, laurenceb said: Hi Andy , you no dought be delighted to know that at your old address it is - fine Not wishing to rub salt into the wound but it is bone dry here in the Northwest. It is such an unusual event that I'm lost as to what to do. I may be gone some time while I figure this out. 13 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 16, 2021 30 minutes ago, Tony_S said: Our dinner plans have changed. We will still be having pancakes (probably with lemon juice and a small amount of sugar or possibly maple syrup. However the risotto is cancelled. We have just had a substantial lunch so will have something like soup before the pancakes tonight. Tomorrow I have been told we will have mushrooms in buckwheat pancakes. Half a bag of buckwheat flour was revealed earlier and we don’t want to waste it. Oh dear - do I tick 'like' for the good news part or the little heart for the bad news part? Choices, choices but I think I'll go with the sympathy vote this time. Fortunately I am now resupplied with a two day's worth of mushrooms but they arrived too late for lunch today. And tomorrow the repairer of major cooker faults is attending to, hopefully, rectify the ills wrought upon various parts of it by - allegedly - the errant mouse the flippin' cat brought in. 1 1 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 7 hours ago, laurenceb said: I have never cliaimed to be normal You frequent ERs... you can't possibly be .....NORMAL!!! 2 5 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ian Abel Posted February 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 16, 2021 Chewsday... Yesterday another quiet one given it was that odd public holiday Presidents Day, today will be rinse and repeat looks like as far as work/client are concerned. Managed yesterday to get second 400-day Anniversary clock going "mostly". It seemed to get "odd" overnight, but that may have been it just settling in. Now I have ONE that's running slow and ONE that's running fast. Wondering if they are both sympathetic I can simply take both times and average to get the correct one! Pancake day (the Shrove Chewsday version) non-existant here, I've not had those sort of pancakes for probably 40 years or more! Regular meal day, except Mrs is working... -26 and sunny first thing, heading for another blistering -13 high Tally ho. 3 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 16, 2021 A colleague in Barrow always asks "Are you Normal".. sometimes I felt like answering "yes but some of my colleagues are aliens" doubt if he would have seen the intended joke. Blue skies here with smallamounts of shower. Obvioudly the area over the wrong side of the Pennines isn't doing its job... Baz 6 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 2 hours ago, PhilJ W said: He is a distant cousin I'll have you know. Unfortunately I'm from the poor side of the family. Sympathy emoji required 5 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Andrew P Posted February 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 16, 2021 The Sun is out The Sky is Blue, I've just woke up, From a kip in the chair. I ain't goin out now, I want my tea. Yes, yes I know it don't rhyme but I ain't no Poet. 16 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Freebird just come on my Google Player, the head is already going to the best Driving record ever. Waiting for that build up. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 16, 2021 We've all just been talking about how the invitation to jab was split between NHS letters and GP surgeries and I mentioned that Valerie received hers by letter this morning and booked at a local vaccination centre, well I have just been sent a text message from my GP inviting me to book a jab at their surgery. Ours not to reason why ...... 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pH Posted February 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 16, 2021 We once lived on a short street where the land for the houses on the other side of the street had been sold by a Methodist chapel. Those houses had a covenant in their deeds forbidding alcohol in the house. 8 1 3 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 16, 2021 23 minutes ago, pH said: We once lived on a short street where the land for the houses on the other side of the street had been sold by a Methodist chapel. Those houses had a covenant in their deeds forbidding alcohol in the house. Aditi’s parents house near Nottingham was built on what had been the next door vicarage tennis courts. Any plans for modifications to the house or additional buildings had to be submitted to the Church Commissioners. They rejected one of his plans on the grounds that they believed adding en suites to guest bedrooms indicated he was trying to set up a nursing home. The vicar was himself moved from the rather grand vicarage to a semi in the village. 2 1 12 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pacific231G Posted February 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 16, 2021 16 minutes ago, BoD said: We've all just been talking about how the invitation to jab was split between NHS letters and GP surgeries and I mentioned that Valerie received hers by letter this morning and booked at a local vaccination centre, well I have just been sent a text message from my GP inviting me to book a jab at their surgery. Ours not to reason why ...... I had a text message from my GP last Friday week asking why i hadn't responded to their earlier text message (answer, because I hadn't received a message) inviting me to book a vaccination at one of the local centres. I finally got through to the surgery and they booked me in to the local centre last Wednesday afternoon. Had the jab (Oxford) so felt mightily relieved but the following day received the NHS invitation letter. Oh well. I just have to be even more careful than I already am (which is plenty careful) for a couple of weeks. Catching the thing after having just been vaccinated to not catch the thing would be far too ironic. 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post petethemole Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted February 16, 2021 Our old house was part of a terrced street built in 1900-01 next to a then active clay pit and small brickworks. The land was sold as a parcel for development so the covenants, which must have originally applied to the whole plot, stayed on the deeds of each property. Thus we couldn't operate a clay or gravel pit, a brickworks, a steam engine or a fairground. Where we are now is part of an estate influenced by the Garden City movement, so there are various covenants regarding the appearance of the estate as a whole. They are monitored by the successor company to the Housing Society that built it, including the houses that are now freehold, if necessary through objecions to planning applications. We can't have a dormer or rooflight facing the street, nor roof-mounted solar panels. Rear extensions are ok but side extensions must match the design of the houses. It's an open plan estate so front garden fences are discouraged, although our former neighbours put one up and there are a few low hedges. Caravans are banned, though again, one house has one that appears to be used as a den by their teenage kids; it never goes anywhere and it doesn't look roadworthy. Also there was one in the back yard here when we first viewed the place. Yesterday was Martyn's 21st; celebration was muted but involved a large pizza and cakes. Normally we would have been out to the cinema and an Italian restaurant. Stay elfy, Pete 4 1 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post TheSignalEngineer Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Barry O said: A colleague in Barrow always asks "Are you Normal".. sometimes I felt like answering "yes but some of my colleagues are aliens" doubt if he would have seen the intended joke. Just after I moved to the Dark Peak about 20 years ago I was out for an evening walk near Royston Vasey. A gent coming the other way stopped and engaged me in conversation as he obviously didn't know me. "Are you Local" he said. It floored him a bit when I said "No, I just happen to live here". 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 1 hour ago, BoD said: We've all just been talking about how the invitation to jab was split between NHS letters and GP surgeries and I mentioned that Valerie received hers by letter this morning and booked at a local vaccination centre, well I have just been sent a text message from my GP inviting me to book a jab at their surgery. Ours not to reason why ...... I got both - the centralised booking won by two days 5 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 16, 2021 1 minute ago, Coombe Barton said: I got both - the centralised booking won by two days I guess my letter is ‘in the post’ then. 10 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 16, 2021 9 hours ago, laurenceb said: I have never cliaimed to be normal Join the club! 2 5 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 16, 2021 2 hours ago, Barry O said: A colleague in Barrow always asks "Are you Normal".. Is that code for asking "are you from somewhere else other than Barrow?" 2 hours ago, Barry O said: Blue skies here with smallamounts of shower. Obvioudly the area over the wrong side of the Pennines isn't doing its job... Baz It did just after I set off for a walk. 8 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 16, 2021 45 minutes ago, TheSignalEngineer said: Just after I moved to the Dark Peak about 20 years ago I was out for an evening walk near Royston Vasey. A gent coming the other way stopped and engaged me in conversation as he obviously didn't know me. "Are you Local" he said. It floored him a bit when I said "No, I just happen to live here". One of the nearby newsagents really did have a “local shop run by local people” advert for a while. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Tony_S Posted February 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 16, 2021 I have just had an email from Matt Hancock and his pal Robert Jenrick advising me to carry on shielding for another month. Fortunately it won’t be difficult for me to do so, I don’t have anything planned apart from medical stuff until October. I can see the October cruise (originally booked pre Covid ) being postponed again. For one reason some of the ports visited are French and it doesn’t appear that their vaccine programme will be particularly advanced by then. 2 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Erichill16 Posted February 16, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 16, 2021 Just had my stew and pancakes, stew included sprouts as we’re having a clear out of the fridge. Sweet pancakes for breakfast tomorrow as we’re both full. Back later hopefully, Robert 19 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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