thursday in the cosy glow of the neutron target

sungod

'ning

coffee, croissant, crunch complexity, perhaps pancakes, decline distractions, bail, bubbly

lincolndave

Morning, windy and milder, Tigger walked, granola with banana & coffee for breakfast , a trip to Louth on the cards later
Have a goodday

thistle_

'Ning
Woken up with some lurgy, must be that coronavirus that's fashionable at the moment.
Might get the train to work and spread it around a bit.

Stevo_666

I find that coughing and sneezing is a good way to keep the seat next to you on the train free these days

Busy day ahead, too many meetings for my liking. Must start blocking out my diary with fake meetings to stop the happening again.

thistle_

Stevo_666 said:

I find that coughing and sneezing is a good way to keep the seat next to you on the train free these days

Seems to be working well so far.

tlw1

Final day off with the rugrats has started with a fuzzy head due to pub enjoyment last night.

Dads taxi and building a fun bike jump in the woods in today’s jobs

orraloon

Fuzzy head para mi tambien. But down to the early morning appt for fasting blood test, now home for some sustenance so should recover. Either that or due to lack of drink and food last night.

thistle_

tlw1 said:

Dads taxi and building a fun bike jump in the woods in today’s jobs

JCB job? (For either)

haydenm

Morning, very low motivation today. Incredible amounts of surface water on the way into work this morning, quite surprised given the higher profile weather warnings we've had recently.

There's a single track road across the valley which is always flooded for a few hundred meters but I've never had the balls to drive through. On Saturday a mate/colleague of mine and I were going out for a meal and I asked to drive his car in (same as mine but with a few different spec options). I didn't tell him until we got there but in short, the bow wave came over the lights but we survived. According to the manual the Amarok wading depth is only 50cm but I don't believe it. That would have been a difficult conversation with the boss on Monday...

I've just had a calendar invite to our 'summer social and cricket day' at Eton in the July, about as far away from my comfort zone as it's possible to be... still, the alcohol will be free.

Today will be spent wishing I was at home to receive my lovely new jacket.

step83

haydenm said:

Morning, very low motivation today. Incredible amounts of surface water on the way into work this morning, quite surprised given the higher profile weather warnings we've had recently.

There's a single track road across the valley which is always flooded for a few hundred meters but I've never had the balls to drive through. On Saturday a mate/colleague of mine and I were going out for a meal and I asked to drive his car in (same as mine but with a few different spec options). I didn't tell him until we got there but in short, the bow wave came over the lights but we survived. According to the manual the Amarok wading depth is only 50cm but I don't believe it. That would have been a difficult conversation with the boss on Monday...

I've just had a calendar invite to our 'summer social and cricket day' at Eton in the July, about as far away from my comfort zone as it's possible to be... still, the alcohol will be free.

Today will be spent wishing I was at home to receive my lovely new jacket.

Official wading depth vs what you can get away with are vastly different, for example my old car is was something daft 25cm, I went through a flooded tunnel (only way back to work at the time) my headlights were full of water, I luckily had closed the windows and the fuel flap was full of water as well, how it didnt stall an die is beyond me.
Had to drive around for the next month with the covers off the headlights an no full beam bulbs to dry the things out

Anyway, morning men starboard ten round the buoy an back again etc. Much watching numbers and streaming today picked up my errant parcel so need to construct its non bike related contents an get cracking on stuff.
First I need food I'm hungry

homers_double

Currently dealing with the joys of online shoping where a size L wet suit (I'm bang in the middle of the size L range) wouldn't close by about 25cm across my back.

Home later to pack and attempt a boot camp.

Wheelspinner

Lovely start to the day walking the dog along deserted beach in near perfect stillness.

Day of minor jobs round the house. Moved bookcase and contents from one room to another. Moved piano to where the bookcase was. Hung a bunch of paintings that had been just leant against walls till we decided where best to display them.

tlw1

thistle_(mbnw) said:

tlw1 said:

Dads taxi and building a fun bike jump in the woods in today’s jobs

JCB job? (For either)

haydenm

step83 said:

haydenm said:

Morning, very low motivation today. Incredible amounts of surface water on the way into work this morning, quite surprised given the higher profile weather warnings we've had recently.

There's a single track road across the valley which is always flooded for a few hundred meters but I've never had the balls to drive through. On Saturday a mate/colleague of mine and I were going out for a meal and I asked to drive his car in (same as mine but with a few different spec options). I didn't tell him until we got there but in short, the bow wave came over the lights but we survived. According to the manual the Amarok wading depth is only 50cm but I don't believe it. That would have been a difficult conversation with the boss on Monday...

I've just had a calendar invite to our 'summer social and cricket day' at Eton in the July, about as far away from my comfort zone as it's possible to be... still, the alcohol will be free.

Today will be spent wishing I was at home to receive my lovely new jacket.

Official wading depth vs what you can get away with are vastly different, for example my old car is was something daft 25cm, I went through a flooded tunnel (only way back to work at the time) my headlights were full of water, I luckily had closed the windows and the fuel flap was full of water as well, how it didnt stall an die is beyond me.
Had to drive around for the next month with the covers off the headlights an no full beam bulbs to dry the things out

Sounds like a close one! Apparently even with a snorkel the amarok it's useless as the electrics are too low. I was starting to get moved about by the current too which probably would become more of an issue in anything deeper

haydenm

step83 said:

haydenm said:

Morning, very low motivation today. Incredible amounts of surface water on the way into work this morning, quite surprised given the higher profile weather warnings we've had recently.

There's a single track road across the valley which is always flooded for a few hundred meters but I've never had the balls to drive through. On Saturday a mate/colleague of mine and I were going out for a meal and I asked to drive his car in (same as mine but with a few different spec options). I didn't tell him until we got there but in short, the bow wave came over the lights but we survived. According to the manual the Amarok wading depth is only 50cm but I don't believe it. That would have been a difficult conversation with the boss on Monday...

I've just had a calendar invite to our 'summer social and cricket day' at Eton in the July, about as far away from my comfort zone as it's possible to be... still, the alcohol will be free.

Today will be spent wishing I was at home to receive my lovely new jacket.

Official wading depth vs what you can get away with are vastly different, for example my old car is was something daft 25cm, I went through a flooded tunnel (only way back to work at the time) my headlights were full of water, I luckily had closed the windows and the fuel flap was full of water as well, how it didnt stall an die is beyond me.
Had to drive around for the next month with the covers off the headlights an no full beam bulbs to dry the things out

Sounds like a close one! Apparently even with a snorkel the amarok it's useless as the electrics are too low. I was starting to get moved about by the current too which probably would become more of an issue in anything deeper

step83

110's don't care unless the intakes below water, just keep extending the snorkel an its happy.

Just thought, we've not really had a winter as in not really been all that cold, just very wet and windy. Doesn't bode well for summer, if we get one.

thistle_

step83 said:

Just thought, we've not really had a winter as in not really been all that cold, just very wet and windy. Doesn't bode well for summer, if we get one.

I think wet is the new winter. There's still time though.

mrfpb

Amarok is the worst Mike Oldfield album ever. Discuss.

orraloon

2018's 'Beast from the East' was from later Feb through to early March. Time yet indeed.

mrfpb

According to my in depth research (watching QI on Dave) a White Easter is more common/likely than a White Christmas.

awavey

Stevo_666 said:

Busy day ahead, too many meetings for my liking. Must start blocking out my diary with fake meetings to stop the happening again.

you mean people at your place dont just add you to meetings regardless.?

orraloon

One of the best periods of my working life corporate was in my 2nd to last incarnation, had agreed an exit package and timetable with some project deliverables to hit in the however many months it was. I took great pleasure in informing the locals that 'I don't DO meetings any more'. Ah happy days.

Stevo_666

awavey said:

Stevo_666 said:

Busy day ahead, too many meetings for my liking. Must start blocking out my diary with fake meetings to stop the happening again.

you mean people at your place dont just add you to meetings regardless.?

Usually no. Our system allows you to see when people you want to invite are free or booked. Sometimes you get a few thickos who book it up anyway or the ines where there a fair few invitees and they cant make the time work for everyone, but I just decline the invite unless its a board director asking.

awavey

Stevo_666 said:

awavey said:

Stevo_666 said:

Busy day ahead, too many meetings for my liking. Must start blocking out my diary with fake meetings to stop the happening again.

you mean people at your place dont just add you to meetings regardless.?

Usually no. Our system allows you to see when people you want to invite are free or booked. Sometimes you get a few thickos who book it up anyway or the ines where there a fair few invitees and they cant make the time work for everyone, but I just decline the invite unless its a board director asking.

so does ours but it never seems to stop anyone bothering to check it first the worst ones are those that do check the calendar and always say oh but theres a slot free from 12pm...

thistle_

awavey said:

Stevo_666 said:

awavey said:

Stevo_666 said:

Busy day ahead, too many meetings for my liking. Must start blocking out my diary with fake meetings to stop the happening again.

you mean people at your place dont just add you to meetings regardless.?

Usually no. Our system allows you to see when people you want to invite are free or booked. Sometimes you get a few thickos who book it up anyway or the ines where there a fair few invitees and they cant make the time work for everyone, but I just decline the invite unless its a board director asking.

so does ours but it never seems to stop anyone bothering to check it first the worst ones are those that do check the calendar and always say oh but theres a slot free from 12pm...

Same at our place. "You can go to this meeting for me, I've checked your calendar and you're not busy"
I tried settinh lunchtime as "Not available" and it hasn't worked, turning up late hasn't worked either so I just have to "disappear" for an hour - a quick spin on the local TT circuit is a good one in the summer

Wheelspinner

Just set yourself a recurring meeting on your calendar that repeats daily from 12-1:30, Add an external email invitee (yourself usually for personal email address) make it “private” so others can’t see the details and job done.

Stevo_666

People know I'm not in a good mood when theres a lunch time meeting and there's no food laid on. Seems to deter some...

pinno

orraloon said:

Fuzzy head para mi tambien. But down to the early morning appt for fasting blood test, now home for some sustenance so should recover. Either that or due to lack of drink and food last night.

Nah, it's those dodgy bananas of the Cavendish variety you nicked.

It's chucking all sorts down out there - hail, snow, Irishmen...
Very wintry.

Tomorrow (today) will be the nieces arriving. One is spontaneously unhappy and the other is up for anything.
Shorty will be happy. They're planning a painting of Winnie and Wilbur on the wall:
"As clever as a cockroach with a calculator".

haydenm

oxoman said:

Current site pool vehicle is an amarok which when taken into a clay quarry is absolutely useless, one of the lads has rescued it a few times in his old 110 landy. Just a bit embarrassing for those concerned.

Presumably mostly down to tyres...?

haydenm

oxoman said:

Some of it and some down to its low down grunt and gearing. Amarok looks ok but that's about it, Big V6 auto doing about 17mpg even the landy wasn't that bad and it was only a little 2.5 tdi

Ah yeah, I'm not wildly impressed with the auto, even with 256hp, mine is manual with a low range box. It also does 32mpg

Currently waiting for the new Defender commercial as I fancy a change next time round

pinno

32mpg! That's brilliant that is.

Auto's are not so good in heavy going.