friday as the pineapple turns

sungod

'ning

less soggy, more nippy

cafe stroll wfh finish packing laze

pinno

Morning emplâtres

Very nippy bright.
Usual round of school run, painkillers and antibiotics plus a few chores.
Finished admin off last night at silly o'clock, so that's out of the way.

homers_double

Still drinking tea in bed searching eBay for a guillotine. bin men are noisy.

seanoconn

homers_double said:

Still drinking tea in bed searching eBay for a guillotine. bin men are noisy.

Mrs HD’s head for the chop?

tlw1

Tired, cider sloshing around my belly didn’t help.

In offices on a Friday, must be a royal visit

Lads night out later, should be a giggle

beansnikpoh

Porlock with my brother. Hiking boots on, dodge the showers kind of day.

seanoconn

beansnikpoh said:

Porlock with my brother. Hiking boots on, dodge the showers kind of day.

Better day for a hike, enjoy.

photonic69

Morning. Blood test at docs then drive in. Shame as weather is nice for a cycle (for a change). VVVV nice nurse doing bloods this morning. Kazia. She's new. Is it wrong to be slightly aroused by beautiful women sticking needles into ones arm?

Charlie_Croker

photonic69 said:

Morning. Blood test at docs then drive in. Shame as weather is nice for a cycle (for a change). VVVV nice nurse doing bloods this morning. Kazia. She's new. Is it wrong to be slightly aroused by beautiful women sticking needles into ones arm?

Nothing wrong with that P69 shows there’s still blood in yer veins.

Reminds me of when I was in hospital (many years ago) following a heart attack, the chap in the opposite bed giggled every time the nurse came in to the room. I asked him about this one day, he said it’s not the nurse it’s you, every time Roma comes in to the room your heart rate goes up on the monitor above your head (which I couldn’t see).

Sunny here after a day and night of rain, never got the high winds which was a good thing. Might have a short tootle on the bike later before the pub. Gonna give the fish n chips a miss today as not working.

pinno

beansnikpoh said:

Porlock with my brother. Hiking boots on, dodge the showers kind of day.

Who cooks?
Do you cook and end up being told what to do?

Stevo_666

Slightly quiter morning thankfully. Neighbours wall now built - must have cost them a bl00dy fortune but saves us a job amd some money. Just had the fencing bloke round to quote for the last bit up the top end of the garden that we could start until the builders had finished on the wall.

pinno

Charlie_Croker said:

photonic69 said:

Morning. Blood test at docs then drive in. Shame as weather is nice for a cycle (for a change). VVVV nice nurse doing bloods this morning. Kazia. She's new. Is it wrong to be slightly aroused by beautiful women sticking needles into ones arm?

Nothing wrong with that P69 shows there’s still blood in yer veins.

Reminds me of when I was in hospital (many years ago) following a heart attack, the chap in the opposite bed giggled every time the nurse came in to the room. I asked him about this one day, he said it’s not the nurse it’s you, every time Roma comes in to the room your heart rate goes up on the monitor above your head (which I couldn’t see).

Sunny here after a day and night of rain, never got the high winds which was a good thing. Might have a short tootle on the bike later before the pub. Gonna give the fish n chips a miss today as not working.

I was in a hospital where a guy came in on a stretcher having had a very severe stroke.
His name was George McPherson. He couldn't speak or walk. When asked by the nurse filling out his admission form, he had to nod or shake his head. That's all he could do to communicate.
"Do you drink Mr McPherson"
[Nods head]
"Often?"
[Nods head]
"How many units do you reckon, do you like a wee dram?"
[Nods head]
"One a day... [shakes head] two day... [shakes head]... three a day". George stops shaking head at 5 or 6.
"Do you smoke?"
[Same procedure as above, 20 a day is the outcome].

Anyhoo. George was one of the few stroke victims who found everything funny. I knew those who following a stroke, got very depressed or highly sentimental but George found everything funny.

Physio came and went 3 times a day, speech and language therapy every morning and then later in the afternoon; 'Lollipop, balcony, relative...' A slow build up of one, two, three syllabub words.

I started shouting 'George' [head pops up] and then saying Lollipop!
To which he would respond in giggles and as I went through the list I remembered, he would laugh and laugh and this would set the whole 6 bed ward off until I was told to stop as apparently, he wet himself more than once.
I then just went to his bedside and whispered the odd word and he would smile and giggle.

George later walked out of that hospital, speech fully restored.
I bumped into George a few years later. A non-smoking, non drinking, slim bloke. He shook my hand and we sat and had coffee in a café in Dumfries.

orraloon

More admin stuff completed on this sunny 😎 day, finally completed and had it legally witnessed one of those things one never quite gets around to completing. Filed online. Seems the queue wait time is around 8 months!

Time to get outside. Solars are currently pumping out at over 90% of full capacity, go for it. Full battery charge by end of day?

Going to do some more fettling of civic flower beds in town, ahead of next weekend's remembrances. With the hi viz on of course.

homers_double

Does anyone need 55 gallons of waste thinners to set fire to an lob over a fence?

The days of tipping it down the sink are over.

thistle_

homers_double said:

Does anyone need 55 gallons of waste thinners to set fire to an lob over a fence?.

Haven't seen him for a while. Maybe he got caught and locked up.

thistle_

tlw1 said:

must be a royal visit

You're visiting the troops?

Stevo_666

thistle_ said:

homers_double said:

Does anyone need 55 gallons of waste thinners to set fire to an lob over a fence?.

Haven't seen him for a while. Maybe he got caught and locked up.

I'm sure its long enough after Wales and Italys sporting humiliations for @MattFalle to come out of hiding.

Stevo_666

Or even @Matthewfalle

orraloon

orraloon said:

Time to get outside. Solars are currently pumping out at over 90% of full capacity, go for it. Full battery charge by end of day?

99% charged showing, that'll do 👍 Plus started exporting, just a small amount, to grid...

.... wow, murmuration of starlings just gone overhead, lovely...

... on a November afternoon. Longer sunny summer days should show some big numbers, in peak hours as well. You can tell I'm into learning this tech stuff.

Anyway, just chill Oxo, pour a glass, breathe easy. 😉

pinno

How about @Yossie ?

pinno

...

beansnikpoh

pinno said:

beansnikpoh said:

Porlock with my brother. Hiking boots on, dodge the showers kind of day.

Who cooks?
Do you cook and end up being told what to do?

Well drilled team we are. I'm definitely subordinate though.

We're off down to the pub for dinner tonight though. 😋

webboo

Evening
Although it’s been nice and sunny, the day started on low. Mrs W received a call from the hospital to say her mum has not deteriorated like they expected and they may need to move her. Given we were told she would see out her days there, this was a bit of shock.
When Mrs W went to visit her mum this afternoon there were no medical staff around dealing with her case so she’s no wiser. So we will just have to wait and see what happens after the weekend.
Otherwise my bike was ridden and the newly fitted mudguards didn’t fall off.

veronese68

Evening folks,
Busy day of WFH with a considerable amount of slacking in between. Ordered Christmas present for the lad, a small turntable for vinyl. Allegedly pretty good given the size and price, although it was originally developed to compete with the Walkman and CD.
Wifeout tonight so I'm heading to a pub shortly.

webboo

veronese68 said:

Evening folks,
Busy day of WFH with a considerable amount of slacking in between. Ordered Christmas present for the lad, a small turntable for vinyl. Allegedly pretty good given the size and price, although it was originally developed to compete with the Walkman and CD.
Wifeout tonight so I'm heading to a pub shortly.

I find if I ever get vinyl nostalgia I just wiggle the lead on our 20 plus year old Bose radio and the resulting hiss gets me there.😉

pinno

veronese68 said:

... Ordered Christmas present for the lad, a small turntable for vinyl. ...

What was it?
I picked up a Rega planar for very little and I made a Mahogany plinth for it.

photonic69

veronese68 said:

Evening folks,
Busy day of WFH with a considerable amount of slacking in between. Ordered Christmas present for the lad, a small turntable for vinyl. Allegedly pretty good given the size and price, although it was originally developed to compete with the Walkman and CD.
Wifeout tonight so I'm heading to a pub shortly.

Do tell what it is. I have a TT that was built to compete with CD's and Walkmans. Linn Axis. Damned fine turntable. Sounds way better than it should. Beats many of my CDs and Streaming sources.

webboo

I struggle with the current vogue for vinyl to me it smacks of steel frames, centre pull brakes and down tube levers.
Next you will going on how great toe clips were.

pinno

webboo said:

I struggle with the current vogue for vinyl to me it smacks of steel frames, centre pull brakes and down tube levers.
Next you will going on how great toe clips were.

I have no fetish for nor nostalgia with steel frames, I love cf bikes. I love my ceramic bearing (almost zero maintenance hub) wheels and my cf stem, seatpost, handlebars, pedals, gruppo...

I kept all my vinyl that I bought in the 80's.
I have some Louis Armstrong on vinyl that you cannot get on CD. I also have 3 very rare Django Reinhard 'Hot club de France' LP's which although you can get on CD, doesn't compare with Vinyl for sound quality. CD's made from Vinyl recordings loose something. After all, a CD is digital and a 'best' interpretation of the original.
If it was recorded on Vinyl, play it on Vinyl. If it was recorded on CD, play it on CD.

I have a Pioneer CD burner and can copy from Vinyl. I have done this so as to keep the best of my originals as clean as possible.

veronese68

pinno said:

veronese68 said:

... Ordered Christmas present for the lad, a small turntable for vinyl. ...

What was it?
I picked up a Rega planar for very little and I made a Mahogany plinth for it.

It's a Sound Burger, ridiculous name but he couldn't take the old Bang & Olufsen he got when we cleared my folks place out as it's too big. This is considerably smaller than an album.
I wouldn't go back to vinyl for everyday use, but it's nice every now and then. Definitely has a warmer sound to it than streaming music, probably helps that it's playing on good quality equipment.

Wheelspinner

veronese68 said:

pinno said:

veronese68 said:

... Ordered Christmas present for the lad, a small turntable for vinyl. ...

What was it?
I picked up a Rega planar for very little and I made a Mahogany plinth for it.

It's a Sound Burger, ridiculous name but he couldn't take the old Bang & Olufsen he got when we cleared my folks place out as it's too big. This is considerably smaller than an album.
I wouldn't go back to vinyl for everyday use, but it's nice every now and then. Definitely has a warmer sound to it than streaming music, probably helps that it's playing on good quality equipment.

Hope The Lad doesn’t read your social media posts or his Xmas is ruined… lol