The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[Undried Plum]

Had a lovely hour of astro in the pre-dawn. It's been ages since I last did any astrometry and am rusty as it's a perishable skill.

Will check the wx tonight and perhaps invite me stude over for an hour. She's got three projects lined up that she's itching to have a go at.

One of the hives has started flying ops tentatively. The others think that lot are fukkin crazy to be flying in such cold wx.

[TheGreenGoblin]

One of the hives has started flying ops tentatively. The others think that lot are fukkin crazy to be flying in such cold wx.

I am with the latter lot. Got up at 05:00 hrs today to go walking (and to post a letter in the High Street). Posted the letter but was back in doors by 05:15... brrr!

[Wodrick]

G'day,
14˚c at present under a high overcast, guessometer remains stuck at 19˚c
5mm of overnight rain, got quite wet on the final follow.

Happy St Davids, dunno that we have any Taffs.

Company pittance has not appeared this being another local holiday, Andalucia day.

is all.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Not quite simple. The tail fins were offset so the bomb span, a bit like a shell. They were aerodynamically clean and I think supersonic on arrival. I know our post-War 1,000lb bombs were slimmer than the WW ones and had a TV of 1,800 fps.

Just spun some numbers, I reckon a velocity of 1,200 fps from a Lancaster. Just double checked and confirmed my memory for a 1,000lb bomb.

Did the earth move for you darling?

https://ww2today.com/2-november-1944-a- ... to-germany

[EA01]

Visited the Iranian Neighbours yesterday, wow, aren't they eternally grateful to be living here now!....we went to see their new born baby girl...almost 2 months old now. She slept most of the time, anyway told Soheil not to bother with mowing, I would do his when I did my front on Monday.

So I mowed my back yard, the beautiful pristine QLD Blue Couch...something to be very proud of..

Then I mowed my front yard...a mongrel mix of mainly blue couch, but lots of other things mixed in....and bar patches where nothing grows beneath the almighty New Caledonian Pine tree

Then I mowed my neighbours front yard, he keeps his way higher than mine, so pushing a lot more 'dead grass weight', and then his rear yard....

Then I went to Liz the widower, one North again, I said I'm out with the mower now, I'll do your Lawn too if you like Liz...rear yard too! Liz is one of a few without a pool, so here rear yard is a lot of grass....a lot...and very thick and Long!...

Before I knew it, acting as a kindly neighbourly kind of...well....neighbour....I mowed 3 front & 3 rear yards...only 2 of which were mine..it took 4 hours...

I'm washed and scrubbed, fed, in clean clothes & utterly exhausted

I'm looking forward to a good sleep tonight!....knowing I've done the right thing by the neighbours...

[Pontius Navigator]

There is long and unkempt. I keep mine long and lush which stays green during dry spells. It used to cheese me off when the council grass murderers would cut the grass outside our last home right down to the moss.

[Groundgripper]

As Green Goblin has illustrated, the Tallboy was originally designed to penetrate the thick concrete roofs of the submarine pens and detonate inside, hence the supersonic arrival speed and strengthened steel casing. The Grand Slam was designed to take out bridges/aqueducts by penetrating softer ground to a depth and then exploding, its larger explosive/total mass ratio causing a large cavern into which the target collapsed, hence its nickname the 'earthquake bomb'.

If my mother hadn't thrown away all my 1950s WWII paperbacks in a tidying fit while I was away at uni (not to mention my meccano ), I could probably find the photo of a railway bridge somewhere in Germany which was surrounded by hundreds of small craters, presumably caused by 1000lb bombs, and which had collapsed into one single huge hole produced by one Grand Slam.

GG

[izod tester]

Bielefeld viaduct was the bridge you remembered.

[izod tester]

There is a Tallboy crater pond at the old Ashley Walk Bomb range in the New Forest. There was a Grand Slam crater there too, but it has been filled in.

[https://newforestguide.uk/history/new-f ... ing-range/]

[TheGreenGoblin]

Bielefeld viaduct was the bridge you remembered.

Some excellent material and images here...

https://www.bomberhistory.co.uk/viaduct ... estruction

[OFSO]

An hour and a bit in the dentist's chair behind me. Feel fine. Interesting chat about his wife, also a dentist, I used to see her at the gym each week. She packed it in last year, same time I did, same reason: unsafe.

[Woody]

She packed it in last year, same time I did, same reason: unsafe.

You mean Mrs OFSO caught you out

[Pontius Navigator]

What a mistakea to makea, almost. Washed one winter jumper and about to wash the other yesterday. Fortunately I didn't, needed it today sitting in the car at the dentists.

[G-CPTN]

My Tuesday Zoom meeting is tomorrow - not today.

[Ex-Ascot]

It is civilised again in woga woga land. A tinny in hand and a bottle of scotch in the freezer for pre din dins drinkies.

See there is a heat wave in the UK. 23°C. Same here. F...ing freezing. About six layers of clothing.

[1DC]

No heatwave on the Humber cold and damp, 3C and feels like minus summat. Went out to the garage and have now battened down.

[Pontius Navigator]

My Tuesday Zoom meeting is tomorrow - not today.

No ***** Sherlock

[TheGreenGoblin]

My Tuesday Zoom meeting is tomorrow - not today.

No *sh*t* Sherlock

I thought it was yesterday?

[ian16th]

The success of Zoom meetings is going to severely affect future business class air travel!

People have learned not to travel.

[Pontius Navigator]

My Tuesday Zoom meeting is tomorrow - not today.

No *sh*t* Sherlock

I thought it was yesterday?

Keep that thought. It will be useful tomorrow