Early Risers.

[polybear]

27 minutes ago, Barry O said:

Next door pumped the water out of his trenches today.. the concrete doesn't look flat and shows signs of cracking already.. the "dwarf" wall which will be built upon it is going to be of an interesting size.

 

Too much water in a concrete mix makes it weak.  Very weak, in this case.....

[Coombe Barton]

8 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

Too much water in a concrete mix makes it weak.  Very weak, in this case.....

Fortnight concrete - two week.

[Tony_S]

22 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

. I was trying to read the spines of the books behind Tony, I managed to read a few.

Top two shelves are English translations of Russian classics, Not mine!
 

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

 

The EU? Snidey?  Can't imagine they would be that petty at losing.  Oh, hang on a minute....

I think you will find they are applying the rules the UK used to apply to non EU countries before the  UK left. The UK voted to leave it wasn’t expelled. 

[Dagworth]

10 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I think you will find they are applying the rules the UK used to apply to non EU countries before the  UK left. The UK voted to leave it wasn’t expelled. 

And the UK wrote a lot of those rules too while we were members. 
 

Andi

[polybear]

27 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

Fortnight concrete - two week.

 

Mercy, I beg you.....

[TheSignalEngineer]

18 minutes ago, Dagworth said:

And the UK wrote a lot of those rules too while we were members. 

Including the ones about what happened to you if you walked out.

[Tony_S]

If it had been 12C in the summer I would have thought it was a bit cool but it was quite nice to sit in the sun after I had put the new garden arch up and reattached the plants. The youngest child next door seemed pleased to see me and informed me that one of their dogs had been sick three times.  She always keeps me informed about interesting things happening! 

[New Haven Neil]

Evening.

 

Winslow chap, the dynamic positioning of the Rock has been made redundant by the fact we are now aground on the thrown away alcohol bottles - the '80 thousand alcoholics clinging to a rock' comment has some truth to it  - not this small bear though, hardly touch it now.  Nor am I one of the uber rich, unfortunately.... 

 

The rather sunny and pleasant afternoon was spent awakening three of the motorbike fleet, one of which will behaving a modest trip out tomorrow.  Probably the ugly modern one. Sitting in the sun with a brew was sooo pleasant, after the weather of the last few weeks.  Mrs NHN was at archery, came second to the really good guy, quite pleased with herself as it has been many weeks since they were able to shoot.

 

 

[New Haven Neil]

5 hours ago, sixoh8sixoh said:

Neil, I can't remember if I've asked you before, but does Mrs NHN know Jo Overty or Cath Hayhow, both at one time in IOM DHSC?

 

Cath, yes, she is retired now I think - I also used to have some dealings with her in my last CS role. Crikey, 6 years ago now!  Debs finds Jo's name familiar but can't place her - she's not very good with names.

[J. S. Bach]

9 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

 ...snip... suing Mr P Bear for the sum of no less than 100,000 LDC (lemon drizzle cakes).  ...snip...

Enjoy!

I want to see (ok, hear about) you eating all of those as that would be about 274 years at one a day!! 

[BoD]

14 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

I want to see (ok, hear about) you eating all of those as that would be about 274 years at one a day!! 

Cakes at one a day?

What is this ‘at one a day’ of which you speak?

[PhilJ W]

Talk of cakes reminded me of a Danish pastry that needs to be eaten.

[sixoh8sixoh]

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. A very good Zoom chat yesterday, I hope that in future even more can join in. I was trying to read the spines of the books behind Tony, I managed to read a few. There was a news item about a week ago about lockdown causing a surge in demand for second hand books. Not to read but to fill the bookshelves used as a backdrop when doing Zoom meetings, you order by the metre. I have plenty of books anyway, about 6,000 at the last count. 

Sounds like we need @Tony_S to take a shelfie!

[leopardml2341]

2 minutes ago, sixoh8sixoh said:

Sounds like we need @Tony_S to take a shelfie!

Grrrrroooooaaaaannn!

[brianusa]

11 hours ago, jonny777 said:

I see that the Prince Of Wales (the human one - not the loco under construction) has upset the hoi-polloi by driving to see his Dad in hospital, when many ordinary folk have not been allowed this privilege. I wonder if the family thought this through, as it is not going to boost their popularity ratings when some folk in previous lockdowns were not allowed to attend their own parents' funerals, let alone say goodbye while they were still alive. 

 

There's a big difference.  Whether one approves or not, the Prince of Wales is heir to the throne and entitled to certain privilege's other than the those of the hoi polloi.  It goes with the job!  Otherwise you'd have a republic and you know how they turn out!  Think Trump, who was able to ruin a great country in four years!

      Brian

[leopardml2341]

Evenin'all

 

Can positively report that I am free of the bleughness that troubled me for most of last week; so tomorrow, work it is. It'll be WFH (as it has been for almost a year now).

 

Today was Doggo's birthday, so he had a special birthday meal and lots of throw/fetch whilst I was out in the garden. He is conditioned to fetch his favourite toy to me the moment I pick up any form of hand tool

 

Hope everyone is well? Stay safe, sane and well, until tomorrow - it's goodnight from me!

Edited February 21, 2021 by leopardml2341

[sixoh8sixoh]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

Cath, yes, she is retired now I think - I also used to have some dealings with her in my last CS role. Crikey, 6 years ago now!  Debs finds Jo's name familiar but can't place her - she's not very good with names.

I worked with Cath as part of a British-Irish Council group on social inclusion, and know Jo from cricket and twitter, met her at the Ashes game in Durham and then again when I was in Douglas.

[Coombe Barton]

Incoming awl alert.

 

Over supper I had a brainwave and made a note. The note involved whether to use manual or electric turnout and signal control.

This is the first time I’ve even thought of things that run on parallel bits of metal for quite some time.

[TheSignalEngineer]

54 minutes ago, BoD said:

Cakes at one a day?

What is this ‘at one a day’ of which you speak?

If you count 1pm and 1am, 100,000 only last 136.89 years allowing for Leap Years

[monkeysarefun]

11 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

On the subject of Oz, this made the BBC radio news yesterday:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56137597

No-one is forced to have the vaccine, but it seems there are numpties who still feel the need to demonstrate...

 

Yes, this made no sense. The vaccine won't be forced on anyone so I don't know why they are complaining about something that is a personal choice - I assume they don't have similar protests about going to the dentist, watching "Australias Got Talent" , or eating Brussel Sprouts.

 

Seriously, we've had no local covid cases in NSW for over 30 days, its a beautiful summer this year without anything on fire  and   we can safely gather in groups, go anywhere in the country or to NZ, go to the  pub or a restaurant with family or with our mates, go to the beach ,go see live music  concerts and generally have a lifestyle currently unavailable to a huge percentage of the rest of the world and the best thing they can think of doing with it is getting together in a park holding stupid posters about 5G and having a whinge. 

Edited February 21, 2021 by monkeysarefun

[Gwiwer]

4 minutes ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

If you count 1pm and 1am, 100,000 only last 136.89 years allowing for Leap Years

Far too complex.

 

Let's just eat cake.  

 

SWMBO made a rather nice coffee and walnut one for afternoon tea today.  A small amount remains uneaten   

 

G'night all.  Sleep safe and sound.  

[New Haven Neil]

27 minutes ago, sixoh8sixoh said:

I worked with Cath as part of a British-Irish Council group on social inclusion, and know Jo from cricket and twitter, met her at the Ashes game in Durham and then again when I was in Douglas.

 

Did you come across DI Gary Hardman (aptly named....) in the group?  He was my boss, and took part in quite a few of those meetings.

[TheSignalEngineer]

1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said:

I want to see (ok, hear about) you eating all of those as that would be about 274 years at one a day!! 

My last cake took me six weeks to eat.

Well, it was a nine-inch iced Christmas Cake and I am the only one in the house who eats it. Lockdowns precluded any external assistance.

[andyram]

Evening all. Pleased to hear that @leopardml2341 is on the mend. I hope you find no problems on the commute to work and there are no travel disruptions caused by any blockages en-route. These hall ways can be just as disruptive as the average motorway. There are all kinds of lorries that seem capable of shedding cardboard boxes to disrupt travel (no wait..that is just my hall way!!)

 

 So today I have managed to taste fresh air during a walk out to deliver Sarah's Avon books. I am not saying I have not walked far recently, but my legs were feeling stiff just half way around the route! 

 

 This afternoon there was some testing (playing) with the new layout. There was also some testing of one of the new shop products (a certain six wheeled blue tank engine with moving eyes). I do not dare post a picture of that on these pages!! Check out the "Skaleby East" thread if interested. 

 

Stay safe all.

 

Andy