The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[jimtherev]

Yes, brilliant picture, Ricardian. One of the things we've noticed since moving here is the sunsets. Keep saying I must take pics of them, but then can't be bovvered to go to the end of the close to get decent framing.
Get round to it one day, I expect...

Many congratulations, Slasher. Were you confident?

Early bed for me tonight, I think. Mrs Jim is in Stockport being grandma, and me blonde hasn't turned up AGAIN!

[CharlieOneSix]

I had a brilliant one a couple of years ago. The underside of the clouds was a boiling brilliant red......

Like this one? Taken from outside my front door with my weather station on the left side. It's a bit of an optical illusion - that mast is only 25 feet high and much closer to the camera than the horizon..
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[Slasher]

Morning. 0540L here in N Thailand. Quite a muggy 27C (wet bulb 26) but bearable. Ascot Manor (12.40am) is 15C which means it'll be Arctic conditions towards dawn. Brrr!

I hope the Ex-As didn't come home to find the place trashed from the innumerable poolside drunken parties that must've occurred during their absence!

No aroma of tomato risotto in the kitchen last night and my moonshine stash hasn't been raided so I assume the booking ref WOGSJP was changed back to the original routing. Ap was already in BKK for work and we took the same Daffy home. The planned dovetailery worked out perfect.

Me and the kid will be Cubbing very soon at dawn. We're about to leave now. I'll be flying first in the front seat and spending an hour flying my arse off with of course some aeros. After landing we'll swap seats. The plates arrived so he can do spins. Andrew's taken the day off school and Ap the same with work so afterwards we'll be doing lunch in town as a fam.

The afternoon and evening will be spent by me doing blah and being a total burden on Thai society. Ap has a chook meeting with her mates at a coffee shop not far from here. Andrew plans to fly his drone as well as catch up on homework he hasn't bothered to do yet.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Tomorrow, I shall be mainly..... attacking concrete

[Slasher]

Thanks for all the comments regarding my cadets. And yes Rev I was confident!

Fox i hope that concrete won't put up a fight.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

I have a new industrial rotary hammer drill. If it does, it will lose!
I shall be making Vlad the Sharp Stick Poker look like an amateur.
I also have the full protective gear from my chainsaw course.

[Pontius Navigator]

C16, that's the idea but the one I saw was boiling. I imagine very turbulent just below. Will see if I can find it.

[Slasher]

I also have the full protective gear from my chainsaw course.

Yes and you look very smart in it too!

[Ibbie]

Dust, rubble all over back terrace, new floor screed laid in kitchen.

Came second at pub quiz last night and won enough to pay our bar bill again.

[OFSO]

Took car in for first service, four years and 49.000 Kms, after it told me an oil change was due. (Less than 10% life remaining in oil. I didn't know it was alive.) Now sitting in main square in Figueras wishing I had brought a jacket with me. Heat will come later.....

[handsfree]

Greetings.
Mr Sun is out but there is a lot of thin high level cloud about. 16C may go up to 24C later.

On this day in 1439, kissing was banned in England in an attempt to stop the spread of the Plague.
Obviously worked.

[Wodrick]

Morning all,
A mere 25 at present, Guess is just 30. Needless to say cloudless.

Builder has honoured us with his presence, he is mucking about with reinforcing steel.
Do we think he will be pouring concrete later - Naaaaaah !

I am taking H to the vet at 12, she is going to catheter a Pee Pee sample out of him. Every time we try with a plastic jar he stops doing it.
This is Mrs Vet's idea.

Nil F.





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[Woody]

Morning all, don’t know about Ex-a manor, but definitely a bit chilly here this morning,hopefully about 20C this afternoon. JuniorWoody makes his acting debut this evening in the school production of Mary Poppins, he’s a chimney sweep and in the chorus, terrible Daddy is 6000 miles away, got a nasty feeling that my bank balance is going to suffer

[larsssnowpharter]

Started off bright and sunny this morning so extended walk with the Black Bitch after dropping off the Sproglettes at the bus stop.

Highlight of the day will be watching Sproglettes at school sports day. Sproglette Senior has, one fears, taken on too much and is running 800 and 1500 metres

[4mastacker]

I have a new industrial rotary hammer drill. If it does, it will lose!
I shall be making Vlad the Sharp Stick Poker look like an amateur.
I also have the full protective gear from my chainsaw course.

Us canal volunteers are practised in the art of wielding such a machine having gained such experience on the lock restorations. Good luck, it's ...ckn hard work!! It's much easier using an excavator with a pecker attachment.

Sunny and warm, Mrs 4ma is deciding what today's tasks are whilst she drinks her tea.

[reddo]

The car's in for scheduled maintenance. I'm off to London for a union meeting.

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks from a very dry Botswana. Water not beer. The lagoon is very low. We are having to dig to try to get the water pump inlet under water.

As far as pool parties are concerned Capt they must have been very boring. He did look a bit upset though when I told him to empty it. Now we are trying to fill it. Had to stop as the pump inlet has to go even further down.

At least we do have a little bit of water to look at. The cattle are walking through mud. All a bit depressing.

[Groundgripper]

the one I saw was boiling

I took this one on Prague a few years ago, we were staying at the newer Hilton, the one that looks like it was designed by Erno Rubik,and I didn't have time to get back into town to get the sunset with the foreground including the castle, etc.

Sorry, made a total pig's ear of that.

GG

[OFSO]

Paid €328 for the first and so-far only service on the Mondeo Estate this morning. They can go to 60k km but mine told me to get the service at 48k km. Spread over four years that's cheap. Also the fronts are just down to the wear bars so two new, very low rolling resistance Michelins will be fitted on Thursday. Service manager Frank told me the rears look like new.

[om15]

Catching up on domestics, it is very muggy but no rain forecast for the next couple of days, everything is dry and dusty. Called in the second hand bookshop this morning for a check on what's in, bought the six volume set of "History of the Second World War" by Winston Churchill for thirty quid which is a good price, it is a post war edition with small print unfortunately, but I have a special very high power reading light from Serious Readers that should do the trick, I am getting rather hooked on post war American authors and am enjoying "A bonfire of vanities" by Tom Wolfe at the moment.

Heading up to the allotment for a bit of serious housekeeping later, needs a good weed and water and stuff that has bolted in the heart needs to come out and be chomped up for the compost bin.