The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[handsfree]

Warmer this morning, +3C. No rain forecast.

Up at dark o'clock to toddle off to the Royal for blood straining.
Can't say I prefer the like start but I do like the early finish.

Good luck Ibbie with finding those things which shouldn't be lost.

[Alisoncc]

Article in the news about Russians finding a 14,000 year old puppy frozen in the permafrost in Siberia. They can't work out whether it's a wolf or a dog pup. Showed the picture to my dog Myf and she wagged her tail and barked in recognition, so must be a dog. How do I get to tell them?

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. Sorry yes got my ups and downs mixed up there. Perhaps that is why I always landed with a tail wind It is wonderful living here out in the bush outside in the fresh air all the time no pollution with the stench of dead cattle and millions of flies. Well the calf did die in the night but not before it had staggered closer to the house. It has been dragged DOWNwind. Our chap put the rope around it's neck I was hoping that it's head didn't come off. About 200 m to the next estate. Moved it so it is 100 m away. Trouble is they are UPwind of it now. However only a holiday home and they are never there. My chap thought we just wanted it from in front of the house and suggested putting it down the side of the estate. A couple of years ago we had one die there right by the fence 6 m from the swimming pool. Couldn't sit there for a week.

A bit of a conundrum there Capt. Singers has always been nicer than Honkers even without the riots. Haven't been there for years though. Understand Boogie street has gone. That is a shame. It was always very funny to take young F/Os down there for their first time in Singers and watch them chatting up a 'girl'.

Clouding over. Rain forecast, we will see.

We have just been buzzed by a tail dragger, less than 100'. No idea who it was. All the pilots know where we live and encourage fly pasts but this was not a charter company aircraft.

Alison, tell Corbyn, he will leak the information to them.

[Rwy in Sight]

Warmer this morning, +3C. No rain forecast.

Up at dark o'clock to toddle off to the Royal for blood straining.
Can't say I prefer the like start but I do like the early finish.

Good luck Ibbie with finding those things which shouldn't be lost.

I prefer a early start to a late finish - unfortunately in some jobs you get both.

Ibbie you have my full moral support - I guess it is unknown if it is misplaced in the house or abandoned outside?

[OFSO]

Blowing a northerly up here, clear skies but rain headed our way. Still no sign of the dastardly ceiling repairer. He WA now and then to say he's coming but never turns up. There must be an equivalent word in Spanish to manyana, but meaning the next year, not the next day.

[Ibbie]

Morning.
More wetness overnight, but blue sky with a few clouds presently 8c.

We have no mains water supply this morning, so emergency 1000litre tank switch into mi system.

New medical card for Mrs IB applied for on line.

Awful performance in the quiz as well.

[Rwy in Sight]

New medical card for Mrs IB applied for on line.

How long to wait for the new card? Glad you have a water tank. I only have 6X1.5 ltr bottles but I plan to double the number of the bottles.

[Wodrick]

Morning all,
Cool, 12c calm and a little overnight rain.
Looking at el radar one is about to get a deluge from the East. Quite unusual mostly our weather comes from the West.

Not much planned probably trying to get the new printer to produce Christmas card labels will be the highlight.

SM off to the Health shortly, swab verdict and new dressing.

When I lost SM's card the replacement took three weeks.
If you apply in a pharmacia or the Health Center you get a piece of paper in lieu.

Looking through the square window *Ibbieville* looks bathed in sunshine at present.

[Pontius Navigator]

Now has It occurred that recognising a 14,000 year old ancestor might prove one is a wolf?

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

We have our usual mix about to hit. Snow, then snow and ice pellets, then freezing rain, in relatively quick succession. Should make the morning commute fun for those doing it. Then rain, then back to snow again tonight, plus some wind to blow it all about.
However, the good news is I got the ridge cap finished on my barn yesterday. Signs of frostbite: you can no longer feel pain. However, since everything hurt, I clearly didn't have frostbite anywhere - deep joy.
Tucked up next to a blazing woodstove for the day..I need the rest, to be honest.

[Ibbie]

If you apply in a pharmacia or the Health Center you get a piece of paper in lieu.

Wodrick, the online application, once you have submitted it, provides you with a certificate, in lieu of card, to print out, with all your details on. Mrs IB used it successfully last evening to get her antibiotics at the farmacia.It also allowed her to get her crumblies discount, so paid 47 cents.

Taking a large plastic dumper truck, a red/yellow sit on car, a small plastic trolley and a two hole plastic golf set to the basura. They have well served their time whilst grandkids were younger. No doubt a skip-dipper will collect them.

Will take the larger pedal go-cart there tomorrow. Someone might use them.

[OFSO]

Wristband just beeped with a warning of heavy rain imminent. Will send it north-east to France when it gets here.

[Wodrick]

Wodrick, the online application, once you have submitted it, provides you with a certificate, in lieu of card, to print out, with all your details on.

Makes sense, I didn't know you could do it on line. I did it in the Pharmacia as I had gone there thinking I had left it there.
I hadn't but the kind girl applied for a replacement then and there. Or there and then

Should be raining with you anytime.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

The School Board have decided the morning commute will be too entertaining with the freezing rain - no school today.

[Pontius Navigator]

What a nice man!

Indeed as the camera is worth £100. He did this at the outset. Maybe he noticed my neighbours didn't have alarms and hope he might get business from them

He wasn't overly impressed with many box monkeys that fit the alarms at inflated prices. He gave me a contact to get curtain alarms at trade prices too.

Further he gave me a contact for more kit and I bought two curtain alarms at about £50 off the £200 plus cost.

[OFSO]

There is a wind blowing here that would freeze the bollocks off a yeti...

[jimtherev]

Article in the news about Russians finding a 14,000 year old puppy frozen in the permafrost in Siberia. They can't work out whether it's a wolf or a dog pup. Showed the picture to my dog Myf and she wagged her tail and barked in recognition, so must be a dog. How do I get to tell them?

Which brings me to something that's been puzzling me since I saw this a few days ago. Whilst waiting for a bus, I saw a couple of dogs taking their owners for a walk: one a Great Dane, t'other a Chihuahua. Each of them was excited to see the other. Much straining at leashes, tail wagging etc - tho' the backside-sniffing was of course a bit limited in one direction. But my question is this...

Each obviously accepted that the other was "dog". Yet to human vision they had very little resemblance, in shape, colour or size.

How do they do it?

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Dog's noses are 7,000 times more sensitive than humans, 100 million times for some smells.
Their vision is different to ours. They are better at twilight vision, and detecting movement at a distance. However, being red-green colourblind* and somewhat short-sighted, they aren't sure what just moved. They are pack animals. If it isn't too big they'll chase it anyway.

* don't throw a red cricket ball onto a green lawn for them, they'll lose sight of it. Blue is better.

[Pontius Navigator]

Not so sure on your last point. Walking along a damp lush green grassed footpath there was a single large sycamore leaf. It looked to me like a rat especially with the long stem. It was a dark red/brown. She was straight in, usual terrier, sight, attack, identify, dismiss. Like a fighter pilot really.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

I have never claimed to be cleverer than a terrier
Probably working off shape rather than colour, I would guess. As you point out though, it was like a rat to you. So the shortsightedness bit seems to be correct.