Ops-Normal.org

No jackdaws under the solar panels for three days now. Maybe they have got the message

When we had solar panels installed last year they came with wire fencing to prevent birds accessing under the panels. Might be worth thinking about that, there seem to be a few different systems available on line. GG Yes thanks for that GG, I have seen the fencing. Our panels have been on the roof ...

As mentioned in other thread, my first car was 1959 Austin A40, BDB 877? ISTR. Cost £75 in1969, previous owner was Newboulds Bakery, presumable a salesmans car. Had supposedly 67000 miles on the clock when I bought it, but suspected later the clock had "lost" about 20000 somewhere. BMC Gold Seal eng...

Re first car, Austin A40. She need to be hand cranked now and again but went well once started

I was at a site meeting on Guernsey in the Channel Islands on 11th August 1999, when the last eclipse was. We ajourned the meeting just before the eclipse and I borrowed one of the fitters welding masks to watch it. Most of the meeting when we reconvened was spent discussing it. Don't think I'll be ...

When we had solar panels installed last year they came with wire fencing to prevent birds accessing under the panels. Might be worth thinking about that, there seem to be a few different systems available on line. GG Yes thanks for that GG, I have seen the fencing. Our panels have been on the roof ...

Jackdaws have started to build nest under solar panels again.

Jackdaws have been building a next under the solar panels on the roof. Had to make a rod with grappling hooks on the end to get all of the twigs away. Managed to fill half a dustbin with the twigs. Always feel a little guilty doing this, but don't want the nest affecting the panels

At D#1 for Mothers Day lunch, cooked by SiL.
Roast pork, various veg and of course Yorkie puds, as
Mrs M is a Yorkshire lass.

What is it with tattoos? Just returned from a week in Tenerife. Not my ideal of a holiday, but Mrs M enjoyed the sun. Lost count of the the number of people we saw with tattoo's covering their torso's, necks, legs and arms. Not just younger generation lads and girls, but even up to my and Mrs M's no...

Wodrick,

What "G" are/were you, I'm a G8, still have my licence, but lost interest when I started working overseas quite a while ago.

"73's"

Arranged to meet friends for lunch yesterday. Mrs M called them to confirm a time and spent 40 mins chatting to Mrs Friend on the 'phone. We then set off to meet them and had a very good Sunday roast. Mrs M and Mrs Friend, never stopped talking the whole 2.5 hours of lunch. We said our goodbyes afte...

Just checked solar panels output for last 1/4 and sent in readings. December 2023 was lowest exported output (74.3Kwh) since the panels were installed in March 2014. Best ever month was May 2020, 677.5Kwh.

Neighbours funeral this afternoon, quite disconcerting, as it's the third in last three months, and they were all about my age give or take a year

We shall be with No 1 daughter and SiL, plus assorted grand children....Total chaos. Breakfast as with Ex-A, of scrambled eggs and smoked salmon, SiL will cook lunch as usual, slow cooked rib of beef, with usual veg/trimmings, sit down after after HMK to eat, then I will take their dog for a long wa...

Both at kitchen table, TV on if at news time. On the very odd occasion...like last Sunday evening, as we were late back from Grandparenting duties, trays on lap with TV on as Mrs M had to watch Strictly Come Dancing results show.

Re the Grimsby fishing fleet photo and car... My first thoughts were Standard Vanguard then possibly the rear window is wrong shape. Second thought was Jowett Javelin. I thought Jowett Javelin too, but could it be a SAAB? Thinking back about Jowett Javelins, when I was at Primary School in the mid ...

Re the Grimsby fishing fleet photo and car...
My first thoughts were Standard Vanguard then possibly the rear window is wrong shape. Second thought was Jowett Javelin.

Having to scroll so far back to your birth year when applying for car insurance

24,25,26 years married....Pah!, 47 years for us next week, and only forgot it once in all those years