Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    pblakeney said:

    This was posted in the photography thread last month. I hummed and hawed over which thread to put it in. I conclude that they are nosey beggars. 😉
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    pblakeney said:

    Standard snapshot of a robin, it was the background story that got me.

    I was pruning the garden and this bird followed me around for about an hour, rarely more that 3 feet from me. I don't know if it was getting insects that I'd disturbed or was waiting for nesting leftovers. At one point it flew to 2 feet from my face and hovered there before going back to the branch.
    I made the decision to get my camera and it was game over after the first shutter press, typical! ;) . Still, it was quite the moment while it lasted.

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    Smashing Blakeney, listening to them sing in the morning is a tonic and I bet they're bloody cold.
  • surrey_commuter
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    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    skyblueamateur said:

    Off to see the Blindboy Podcast tonight.

    Geezer who wears a carrier bag on his head and talks more sense then most. His podcasts are incredible.

    I have no idea how to quote you into a different thread so my intrigue will have to stay here - how do you go and see a podcast?

    Please tailor your answer to an old git who sees podcasts as on-demand radio
    Did you know people also go and see radio programmes? This happened even when you were a wee lad. I used to do it quite a bit as it was free.
    I did not know that
  • TheBigBean
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    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    skyblueamateur said:

    Off to see the Blindboy Podcast tonight.

    Geezer who wears a carrier bag on his head and talks more sense then most. His podcasts are incredible.

    I have no idea how to quote you into a different thread so my intrigue will have to stay here - how do you go and see a podcast?

    Please tailor your answer to an old git who sees podcasts as on-demand radio
    Did you know people also go and see radio programmes? This happened even when you were a wee lad. I used to do it quite a bit as it was free.
    I did not know that
    See example below. It's free, in central London and some of the shows might even make you laugh. You can also see TV programmes, but then you need to leave town.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/dead-ringers-christmas-specials-dec23

    Reminds me that I should do this again some time.
  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 909
    edited November 2023
    I knew that was the case for many shows, having been in the audience for: I'm sorry I haven't a clue, but presumed that they used canned laughter for Dead Ringers or got the impersonators to imitate the audience.
    If they performed in my front room, I'd hide in the bathroom.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,916
    edited November 2023
    wakemalcolm said:

    I knew that was the case for many shows, having been in the audience for I'm sorry I haven't a clue: but presumed that they used canned laughter for Dead Ringers or got the impersonators to imitate the audience.
    If they performed in my front room, I'd hide in the bathroom.

    I think I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is a bit different as they tour the country. I suspect it might even involve payment.
    Nottingham is a fine city with a fascinating history. It's well documented in official records that the city's original name was 'Snottingham', or 'Home of Snots', but when the Normans came, they couldn't pronounce the letter 'S', so decreed the town be called 'Nottingham' or the 'Home of Notts'. It's easy to understand why this change was resisted so fiercely by the people of Scunthorpe."


    I did like Humphrey Lyttelton

  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    skyblueamateur said:

    Off to see the Blindboy Podcast tonight.

    Geezer who wears a carrier bag on his head and talks more sense then most. His podcasts are incredible.

    I have no idea how to quote you into a different thread so my intrigue will have to stay here - how do you go and see a podcast?

    Please tailor your answer to an old git who sees podcasts as on-demand radio
    Did you know people also go and see radio programmes? This happened even when you were a wee lad. I used to do it quite a bit as it was free.
    I did not know that
    See example below. It's free, in central London and some of the shows might even make you laugh. You can also see TV programmes, but then you need to leave town.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/dead-ringers-christmas-specials-dec23

    Reminds me that I should do this again some time.
    What do you get that you don't get from listening to the radio.

    Going to TV shows is very easy but people only go until they have seen themselves on TV as they tend to be very long and boring
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,916
    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    skyblueamateur said:

    Off to see the Blindboy Podcast tonight.

    Geezer who wears a carrier bag on his head and talks more sense then most. His podcasts are incredible.

    I have no idea how to quote you into a different thread so my intrigue will have to stay here - how do you go and see a podcast?

    Please tailor your answer to an old git who sees podcasts as on-demand radio
    Did you know people also go and see radio programmes? This happened even when you were a wee lad. I used to do it quite a bit as it was free.
    I did not know that
    See example below. It's free, in central London and some of the shows might even make you laugh. You can also see TV programmes, but then you need to leave town.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/dead-ringers-christmas-specials-dec23

    Reminds me that I should do this again some time.
    What do you get that you don't get from listening to the radio.

    Going to TV shows is very easy but people only go until they have seen themselves on TV as they tend to be very long and boring
    Think of it like stand-up. It can be better live. Maybe not for you, but plenty of people go to listen to inferior quality live music on a regular basis.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,916
    More.
    On with the show, and our teams tonight are undoubtedly the foremost available comedy talents in the country. [scoffs] Something wrong there. Sorry, that should read, "the four most available comedy talents in the country".
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,328
    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    skyblueamateur said:

    Off to see the Blindboy Podcast tonight.

    Geezer who wears a carrier bag on his head and talks more sense then most. His podcasts are incredible.

    I have no idea how to quote you into a different thread so my intrigue will have to stay here - how do you go and see a podcast?

    Please tailor your answer to an old git who sees podcasts as on-demand radio
    Did you know people also go and see radio programmes? This happened even when you were a wee lad. I used to do it quite a bit as it was free.
    I did not know that
    See example below. It's free, in central London and some of the shows might even make you laugh. You can also see TV programmes, but then you need to leave town.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/dead-ringers-christmas-specials-dec23

    Reminds me that I should do this again some time.
    What do you get that you don't get from listening to the radio.

    Going to TV shows is very easy but people only go until they have seen themselves on TV as they tend to be very long and boring
    One benefit could be the stuff that doesn't get broadcast.
    More applicable to TV and radio than podcasts though.
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  • veronese68
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    pblakeney said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    skyblueamateur said:

    Off to see the Blindboy Podcast tonight.

    Geezer who wears a carrier bag on his head and talks more sense then most. His podcasts are incredible.

    I have no idea how to quote you into a different thread so my intrigue will have to stay here - how do you go and see a podcast?

    Please tailor your answer to an old git who sees podcasts as on-demand radio
    Did you know people also go and see radio programmes? This happened even when you were a wee lad. I used to do it quite a bit as it was free.
    I did not know that
    See example below. It's free, in central London and some of the shows might even make you laugh. You can also see TV programmes, but then you need to leave town.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/dead-ringers-christmas-specials-dec23

    Reminds me that I should do this again some time.
    What do you get that you don't get from listening to the radio.

    Going to TV shows is very easy but people only go until they have seen themselves on TV as they tend to be very long and boring
    One benefit could be the stuff that doesn't get broadcast.
    More applicable to TV and radio than podcasts though.
    A friend went to a recording of I'm Sorry I Haven't Got a Clue some years back and mentioned one bit that didn't get broadcast was during the Uxbridge English Dictionary bit the alternative definition of 'countryside' was given as "the murder of Piers Morgan".
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  • surrey_commuter
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    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    skyblueamateur said:

    Off to see the Blindboy Podcast tonight.

    Geezer who wears a carrier bag on his head and talks more sense then most. His podcasts are incredible.

    I have no idea how to quote you into a different thread so my intrigue will have to stay here - how do you go and see a podcast?

    Please tailor your answer to an old git who sees podcasts as on-demand radio
    Did you know people also go and see radio programmes? This happened even when you were a wee lad. I used to do it quite a bit as it was free.
    I did not know that
    See example below. It's free, in central London and some of the shows might even make you laugh. You can also see TV programmes, but then you need to leave town.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/dead-ringers-christmas-specials-dec23

    Reminds me that I should do this again some time.
    What do you get that you don't get from listening to the radio.

    Going to TV shows is very easy but people only go until they have seen themselves on TV as they tend to be very long and boring
    Think of it like stand-up. It can be better live. Maybe not for you, but plenty of people go to listen to inferior quality live music on a regular basis.
    spit and sawdust stand up is very good. The O2 or Albert Hall is pointless
  • TheBigBean
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    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    skyblueamateur said:

    Off to see the Blindboy Podcast tonight.

    Geezer who wears a carrier bag on his head and talks more sense then most. His podcasts are incredible.

    I have no idea how to quote you into a different thread so my intrigue will have to stay here - how do you go and see a podcast?

    Please tailor your answer to an old git who sees podcasts as on-demand radio
    Did you know people also go and see radio programmes? This happened even when you were a wee lad. I used to do it quite a bit as it was free.
    I did not know that
    See example below. It's free, in central London and some of the shows might even make you laugh. You can also see TV programmes, but then you need to leave town.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/dead-ringers-christmas-specials-dec23

    Reminds me that I should do this again some time.
    What do you get that you don't get from listening to the radio.

    Going to TV shows is very easy but people only go until they have seen themselves on TV as they tend to be very long and boring
    Think of it like stand-up. It can be better live. Maybe not for you, but plenty of people go to listen to inferior quality live music on a regular basis.
    spit and sawdust stand up is very good. The O2 or Albert Hall is pointless
    There's quite a bit of warming the audience up prior to shows. Not sure that counts as spit and sawdust though.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Perfect birthday. Woke up and we were heading down a fjord in the pre-dawn with heavy snow. Spent the day wandering Tromso with a quick trip back to the boat for cakes and hot chocolate before heading out to go up the top of a mountain in the cable car.

    The only thing missing was the cloud meaning the Northern Lights wouldn’t be visible but you can’t have everything. Or so I thought, we just missed a cable car back down so had to wait another half hour during which the sky cleared and they made a brief if faint appearance.

    Back down, on the bus and it has started snowing heavier than ever, time for a couple drinks back on the ship now.
  • secretsqirrel
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    Happy Birthday Pross.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,554
    Pross said:

    Perfect birthday. Woke up and we were heading down a fjord in the pre-dawn with heavy snow. Spent the day wandering Tromso with a quick trip back to the boat for cakes and hot chocolate before heading out to go up the top of a mountain in the cable car.

    The only thing missing was the cloud meaning the Northern Lights wouldn’t be visible but you can’t have everything. Or so I thought, we just missed a cable car back down so had to wait another half hour during which the sky cleared and they made a brief if faint appearance.

    Back down, on the bus and it has started snowing heavier than ever, time for a couple drinks back on the ship now.

    Well that's brought back lots of lovely Norway memories. Not sure if you are stopping at Oslo but if you are, visit the Viking ships.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    rjsterry said:

    Pross said:

    Perfect birthday. Woke up and we were heading down a fjord in the pre-dawn with heavy snow. Spent the day wandering Tromso with a quick trip back to the boat for cakes and hot chocolate before heading out to go up the top of a mountain in the cable car.

    The only thing missing was the cloud meaning the Northern Lights wouldn’t be visible but you can’t have everything. Or so I thought, we just missed a cable car back down so had to wait another half hour during which the sky cleared and they made a brief if faint appearance.

    Back down, on the bus and it has started snowing heavier than ever, time for a couple drinks back on the ship now.

    Well that's brought back lots of lovely Norway memories. Not sure if you are stopping at Oslo but if you are, visit the Viking ships.
    Not going to Oslo unfortunately. We’ve done Ålesund and Tromso next up is Narvik and then Haugesund (which I think has Viking stuff). Such a fantastic country - saw a WSP office today and thought maybe I should apply for a job!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,320
    veronese68 said:

    pblakeney said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    skyblueamateur said:

    Off to see the Blindboy Podcast tonight.

    Geezer who wears a carrier bag on his head and talks more sense then most. His podcasts are incredible.

    I have no idea how to quote you into a different thread so my intrigue will have to stay here - how do you go and see a podcast?

    Please tailor your answer to an old git who sees podcasts as on-demand radio
    Did you know people also go and see radio programmes? This happened even when you were a wee lad. I used to do it quite a bit as it was free.
    I did not know that
    See example below. It's free, in central London and some of the shows might even make you laugh. You can also see TV programmes, but then you need to leave town.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/dead-ringers-christmas-specials-dec23

    Reminds me that I should do this again some time.
    What do you get that you don't get from listening to the radio.

    Going to TV shows is very easy but people only go until they have seen themselves on TV as they tend to be very long and boring
    One benefit could be the stuff that doesn't get broadcast.
    More applicable to TV and radio than podcasts though.
    A friend went to a recording of I'm Sorry I Haven't Got a Clue some years back and mentioned one bit that didn't get broadcast was during the Uxbridge English Dictionary bit the alternative definition of 'countryside' was given as "the murder of Piers Morgan".
    In a similar vein - same show@

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  • Stevo_666
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    Pross said:

    Perfect birthday. Woke up and we were heading down a fjord in the pre-dawn with heavy snow. Spent the day wandering Tromso with a quick trip back to the boat for cakes and hot chocolate before heading out to go up the top of a mountain in the cable car.

    The only thing missing was the cloud meaning the Northern Lights wouldn’t be visible but you can’t have everything. Or so I thought, we just missed a cable car back down so had to wait another half hour during which the sky cleared and they made a brief if faint appearance.

    Back down, on the bus and it has started snowing heavier than ever, time for a couple drinks back on the ship now.

    HB Pross.

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    51, this is almost like our belated joint 50th as we both turned 50 within 6 weeks of each other last year. We did something nice for those but hadn’t risked booking anything really special as travel had been so unpredictable.

    It wasn’t planned, we were initially going to have a trip to Aus to visit my wife’s cousin but she is returning home due to her parents being unwell so thought we’d give this a go and it has been the best trip I’ve ever had. Never fancied cruises and still wouldn’t want a typical summer one. I think we’ve been really lucky. That said I think we’ve got another bout of really bad weather in a few days as the captain just announced a change to our final port for safety reasons.
  • Stevo_666
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    Pross said:

    51, this is almost like our belated joint 50th as we both turned 50 within 6 weeks of each other last year. We did something nice for those but hadn’t risked booking anything really special as travel had been so unpredictable.

    It wasn’t planned, we were initially going to have a trip to Aus to visit my wife’s cousin but she is returning home due to her parents being unwell so thought we’d give this a go and it has been the best trip I’ve ever had. Never fancied cruises and still wouldn’t want a typical summer one. I think we’ve been really lucky. That said I think we’ve got another bout of really bad weather in a few days as the captain just announced a change to our final port for safety reasons.

    Still a whippersnapper then :)
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    edited November 2023
    This cheered me up this morning (not that I needed cheering up)





  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    (with the rather large caveat that you don't get seasick...) Being on a big ship in a storm is really quite a fun experience. Like being rocked gently to sleep and then slapped awake again...
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3NxW4hL-tM
    A laugh in nervous terror maybe.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    ddraver said:

    (with the rather large caveat that you don't get seasick...) Being on a big ship in a storm is really quite a fun experience. Like being rocked gently to sleep and then slapped awake again...

    We caught the tail end of the storm you had over there on Monday night. We didn’t get seasick but didn’t sleep well. It was force 10 apparently and 5m seas. I thought maybe that was just a typical night at sea and that our first night up the English Channel had just been very kind but have since heard lots of people say they’ve done dozens of cruises and that was the worst they’ve had.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    My daughter has been asking what I would like for Christmas. She asked if I would like some Doc Martins I said she better check with her mum first. The reply was I can have some but I have to go out on my own in them.🤣🤣🤣
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    webboo said:

    My daughter has been asking what I would like for Christmas. She asked if I would like some Doc Martins I said she better check with her mum first. The reply was I can have some but I have to go out on my own in them.🤣🤣🤣

    Check out Solovair for a technicality exemption.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Webboo - sounds like a cast iron excuse to spend the money and get some red wings to me...
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,349
    edited November 2023
    Getting a smallish sinkhole in a road repaired within a couple of days cheered me up, but seeing that it's started sinking again (I suspect they just shoved some tarmac in it without any reinforcement to stop it sinking into what I'm assuming is underground drainage, either intended or by erosion) doesn't cheer me up at all.


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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,320
    briantrumpet said:

    Getting a smallish sinkhole in a road repaired within a couple of days cheered me up, but seeing that it's started sinking again (I suspect they just shoved some tarmac in it without any reinforcement to stop it sinking into what I'm assuming is underground drainage, either intended or by erosion) doesn't cheer me up at all.


    Or the correct procedure hasn't been followed. [I think that is fairly obvious].

    1. Excavate loose tarmac
    2. Cut area out neat and beyond the existing hole so that there is sufficient depth for fresh tarmac and unseen cracks are reconciled
    2. Blow torch any moisture (as underlying moisture causes a lack of adhesion so it will lift quickly)
    3. Fill hole with fresh tarmac
    4. Roll
    4. Seal edges with hot, liquid bitumen

    @Pross would probably give you more detail.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,349
    pinno said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Getting a smallish sinkhole in a road repaired within a couple of days cheered me up, but seeing that it's started sinking again (I suspect they just shoved some tarmac in it without any reinforcement to stop it sinking into what I'm assuming is underground drainage, either intended or by erosion) doesn't cheer me up at all.


    Or the correct procedure hasn't been followed. [I think that is fairly obvious].

    1. Excavate loose tarmac
    2. Cut area out neat and beyond the existing hole so that there is sufficient depth for fresh tarmac and unseen cracks are reconciled
    2. Blow torch any moisture (as underlying moisture causes a lack of adhesion so it will lift quickly)
    3. Fill hole with fresh tarmac
    4. Roll
    4. Seal edges with hot, liquid bitumen

    @Pross would probably give you more detail.

    Beyond that, I think it needs some sort of reinforced base for the hole to spread the load on the dodgy underneath, as tarmac isn't known for its rigidity, and the sunken area was a good 18" across, with a clearly visible hole and cavity beneath.

    As it's on a regular 20-mile loop to Budders, I'll be observing with interest over the next few weeks.
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