The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[Rwy in Sight]

A smooth procedure HF with good results at the end

[OFSO]

Could hear, or rather feel, the distant grumble as once again a thunderstorm beat up our friends in France on the other side of the Pyranees in the town of Argeles. Here, nothing. Bone dry. Like a tinderbox. Which means Any Day Real Soon.....

[Ibbie]

Another shower of golf ball sized rain drops has just passed over heading east.

[ian16th]

I still have the Rollieflex camera.

A thing of beauty!

But is it anything other than a conversation piece today? Do you have a source of 120 film?

I once nearly bought a Rolliecord V. It was a choice between the Rollie and an Edixa. They were both about £75 in 1960. I bought the Edixa and I still have it. As a conversation piece! The shutter is buggered.
I also have 2 x Pentax MX bodies, a slew of lens and extension tubes et al. All rotting in a fitted Samsonite briefcase at the bottom of a cupboard.
In the digital era, I also have a Canon 'Bridge Camera' and a little Sony 'pocket' camera that I bought at an auction 'cos it was going so cheap.

But today, 99% of the time I simply use my phone!

[EA01]

Rocker cover - warped ? Is that even possible ? Sump ? Dented driving over rocks ? Both seem highly unlikely.

They (Rocker covers) apparently develop a hairline crack after enough time. The notes mention 'Sump?', so not sure what that means, as far as I know she hasn't hit any high 'speed bumps', at an odd angle, and the car never traverses rocky roads...

It's an older car now, but immaculate inside and out. And I suppose after enough years major oil seals etc. need be replaced, even though it has regular oil changes. Cheaper than buying a new car, and it is still a joy to drive!

Will be heading out to Stanthorpe in the Queensland Granite belt at the end of the month, about 3 hours away, including a lovely drive up the Great Dividing range, so best have it all done by then.

Winery tours await! (We Love a good winery tour!)

[G-CPTN]

Because all (including used) cars imported to Denmark are subject to a swingeing import duty, cars are extensively 'restored' when offered for resale.
Typically, cars for sale are viewed 'as received' with dealers negotiating with buyers as to how much restoration is needed.

[Ex-Ascot]

Afternoon folks. Nice weather. Spent half the morning trying to get back £7,300 from Swiss Air. This has been going on since February. They have so far given us a refund of 1.85%. Told them that I couldn't even buy a box of their chocolates for that. Spoke to an absolute idiot in Johannesburg then a very helpful lady in Zurich. We have already lost all our dosh from SAA. We got back a bit from Olympic and 100% from Blue Star Ferries

Then started to wire back up windows that had to be opened for the painters. Our latest little trauma is bees who are trying to build a nest in our worm farm: viewtopic.php?p=242907#p242907 I see that they do not like the smell of mothballs but we don't want those in there. Any ideas? Undried Plum perhaps.

[TheGreenGoblin]

I comes to something when you find yourself listening to a Mantovani TV special at 12:37 as the humidity hits 80 percent and the outside temp is touching 33 degrees Celsius as the old dog pants in syncopation with Mantovani. Nobody calling on the work telephone, just some tedious report to write and the whole world flaps and gasps like some wretched air stranded goldfish!

I wonder how nurse Ratched is these days?

[Undried Plum]

Soapy water will kill the bees, but won't do the worms any good.

Sounds like you need to start again with the worm farm. Anything aggressive you do to African bees will piss them off and the survivors will come after you with attitude.

Second thought: on looking at the picture, can you wrap gauze around the air-holes of the structure to stop the bees from coming and going? The ones outside will die off because they can't feed properly and the ones inside will die of dehydration as they need liquid water. Just an idea, not based on experience of such a situation.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Squirrels, bees and natives! Vacate the property and call in a napalm strike quarterising the earth and sterilising the soul. Similar to living on or next to a golf course in Surbiton where there is no life, no hope, no intelligence but, also, no irritating creepy crawlies or characters either to distract one from the ennui of existence!

[Ex-Ascot]

Soapy water will kill the bees, but won't do the worms any good.

Sounds like you need to start again with the worm farm. Anything aggressive you do to African bees will piss them off and the survivors will come after you with attitude.

Second thought: on looking at the picture, can you wrap gauze around the air-holes of the structure to stop the bees from coming and going? The ones outside will die off because they can't feed properly and the ones inside will die of dehydration as they need liquid water. Just an idea, not based on experience of such a situation.

Sorry UP, edited your name. Thank you we are along the lines of gauze. Trouble is trying to fit it with them there. I have chucked a shade netting box over it but they can work their way under. There is water in there, we water the scraps everyday as the worms need the moisture and this also produces the liquid fertilizer.

The problem with starting again is the worms. The original ones were smuggled in from S.A. Should however be able to dig them out and rehouse.

Think one of your solutions will work, or a combination. Sent SMS to the guy who designed and built it, he is a S.A. safari guide and understands these African bees. We spray nests but can't spray the worms.

Thank you GG. I would approach the Lebanese for some explosives but I think that they are clean out.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Thank you GG. I would approach the Lebanese for some explosives but I think that they are clean out.

Forgive my pyrotechnical approach. I am approaching lunchtime in the spirit that Douglas Adams had in his The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul!

[TheGreenGoblin]

Forgive my pyrotechnical approach. I am approaching lunchtime in the spirit that Douglas Adams had in his The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul!

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.

Just the continual, hissing rasping song of the cicadas, and the drums... the infernal drums and yellow sulphur sick hue of a humid sky ...

[EA01]

Because all (including used) cars imported to Denmark are subject to a swingeing import duty, cars are extensively 'restored' when offered for resale.
Typically, cars for sale are viewed 'as received' with dealers negotiating with buyers as to how much restoration is needed.

I'm a massive fan of Denmark!, here (oz) we pay huge taxes on everything....but not as high as Denmark. The difference is the Oz government give 100's of millions of our tax $ to Muslim countries that hate us, whereas Denmark give those taxes back to those who paid them, ensuring a dignified life for all....

But it's not surprising...we're a stupid Country on many levels...

[Pontius Navigator]

EA01, well you know where you got it from. Export a load of convicts... It in the genes

[Rwy in Sight]

Because all (including used) cars imported to Denmark are subject to a swingeing import duty, cars are extensively 'restored' when offered for resale.
Typically, cars for sale are viewed 'as received' with dealers negotiating with buyers as to how much restoration is needed.

the Oz government give 100's of millions of our tax $ to Muslim countries that hate us, w

But it's not surprising...we're a stupid Country on many levels...

Imagine how much more would they hate you if you didn't give 100's of millions of your tax $

[Ex-Ascot]

Just had CID here. The court has given bail to two of our robbers. Armed robbery and GBH which holds a life sentence and they are given bail. This includes the one who badly beat up Mrs Ex-Ascot. Bail will be peanuts. They will leg it. They are holding the leader as he is an illegal immigrant which I told the village police two years ago but they said he had papers. Anyway, apparently here life is life. Coppers struggled with their vehicle to get back up the side of our house in the deep sand.

[TheGreenGoblin]

The day's obligatory cute animal story and aviation of a sort in the same video. It appears that not all bankers are wankers...



Ok, ok it is 4 years old but it is still worth watching.

[OFSO]

Solution, or as it were, "solution" to dripping pool valve. Plastic food box fitted with hose outlet, 15mm plastic hose takes water through wall into next cellar which is unfloored (mountainside rocks at 40°). One drip every thirty seconds has no effect on mountain.

[Pontius Navigator]

We moved here in 2018, couldn't find our good can opener, backup got progressively worse. Gave on last week, bought Mrs PN a new one. Now we have 3.

Why does the missing item turn up nano seconds after you replace it?

I have a theory, espoused when looking for toy bullets 70 years ago, still valid. If you drop something drop a second item and see where it lands. Pick both up.