The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[Fliegenmong]

You all seem to know a rather lot about fishing than I do!...

I live in Australia though where from what I have found....selling illegal equipment is fine through a reputable company, in fact entirely legal, but it is illegal to use what you bought legally

To put it another way It is like saying Heroin use is illegal, but selling it is not....Typical Australia, nothing to do with conservatism or management & all about revenue raising!...

[TheGreenGoblin]

a rather lot about fishing than I do!...

I lived inland for part of my childhood and thus the only fishing I did was with a small rod and a spin cast reel as a kid. Simple and easy to use, so you can imagine my despair when we moved to the coast and my dad bought me a bait cast reel without any relevant training. Tangled tackle, lost hooks and sinkers and the scorn of the deep sea fraternity who looked down on this inept inland fisherman, damned my pursuit of the great white pilchard and I gave up fishing in disgust soon thereafter and took up kite flying. It has been downhill ever since.

I trust your nascent fishing career is more successful Fliegenmong!

[Wodrick]

Hello all,
Been a high grey day, building up to 100% wet mañana.

Dogs did a runner again, 4 hours, Punto quite a lot of blood smearing down his right side, fighting again. traced to a ripped ear.
This is going to cost mucho to have a dog run fenced, we can't carry on with them running off for hours.

We have two lights on the front of the house, replaced the easy one, the other can wait it's really awkward.
It's not as if I'm going anywhere.

I may well be able to go to Thursday before we need anything.
Still asymptomatic here, that's an interesting article *TS*

Never been interested in maggot drowning.
One side cousins used to live in a village called Nether Burrow, it's near to Kirby Lonsdale, Cousin John, about two years older than me was a real country boyo.
He took me tickling trout, I believe in "Leck Beck" a tributary of the Lune. Closest I ever got to fishing.

Going to stop now too boring.

[Ex-Ascot]

Our PPO arrived pissed last night. Think it may be because they have closed down all the local bars from today and we paid him on Friday. If he arrives in the same state tonight he is on a formal warning. Little ***** has to sit right in front of the door. Anyone trying to get in would have to climb over him.

Bats on their way out for the night. Much discussion about where to go. Noisy little bastards.

[G-CPTN]

Bats on their way out for the night. Much discussion about where to go.

Noisy little bastards.

You are lucky to still be able to hear them.

[Undried Plum]

Never heard of fish being baited with peas. Mebbe that's a Southern hemisphere thing.

Up here in the upright hemisphere, I think the fish would die laughing at peas. Perhaps they would float belly up, so the bait might work, but my Water Bailiff Warrant Card is at risk of confiscation if I'm seen to act like an idiot.

[Karearea]

A very pleasing contrast observed in my garden today: a pale-jade Praying Mantis resting on deep pink Sedum 'Autumn Joy' flowers.

[Rwy in Sight]

Fishing and peas: a very good use for peas that are to avoided for human consumption.

Had a nightmare about house burglary. It was a nasty feeling. Fortunately I went back to sleep.

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. Bright but hazy. A big problem with the solar system. It will not take any significant load. Our solar chap is not answering e-mails. Worried he may be stuck in S.A.

Just popping into town to buy a hand held radio for our new neighbourhood watch scheme. They have had one in town for years which is very effective but we are only a handful of people so not sure how effective it we be here in the bush. The team who robbed us in Sept last year legged it through the bush. The trackers got as far as the main road then lost the trail. These guys are incredible, they spot just a bent blade of grass.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Morning folks. Bright but hazy. A big problem with the solar system. It will not take any significant load. Our solar chap is not answering e-mails. Worried he may be stuck in S.A.

Just popping into town to buy a hand held radio for our new neighbourhood watch scheme. They have had one in town for years which is very effective but we are only a handful of people so not sure how effective it we be here in the bush. The team who robbed us in Sept last year legged it through the bush. The trackers got as far as the main road then lost the trail. These guys are incredible, they spot just a bent blade of grass.

Good to hear that your neighbourhood is taking security seriously. Is this organisation armed and mobile and does it have an escalation plan to come to the help of anybody whose property is being attacked, robbed etc?

[Alisoncc]

A big problem with the solar system.

OMG not Uranus going around the wrong way again. All it takes is just a short nap leaving them unsupervised and you never know what they will get up to. Last week Charon and Styx changed places. Pluto was most upset.

Alison

[TheGreenGoblin]

OMG not Uranus going around the wrong way again. All it takes is just a short nap leaving them unsupervised and you never know what they will get up to. Last week Charon and Styx changed places. Pluto was most upset.

Alison

Written by a young Rudyard Kipling...

This side the Styx

Naked and shivering, how the oozy tide
Affrights me waiting! Yonder boatman there
Is dull and moveless as the very stones
That fringe the infernal river. Woe is me!
All that I had, departed, and this state
Of aimless wandering on the farther shore
Is scarcely better than the life of forms
I see around me. Huge deformèd toads
Yellow and dripping monsters, loathsome plants,
Dropping their blotched leaves in the reeking slime.
This is the land of death, in very truth.
The imprisoned air bears not my trembling voice
To shapes, my comrades in the upper life,
To those that sate and laughed with me of old,
Alas, how altered! Tullius Quaestor there
Stands solitary, he that lovèd mirth,
And drank the unmixed wine till morning came
With me how often! Is that Poetus
Mine ancient enemy? O Gods, he comes!
Beating the dead air with his outstretched palms
In silent supplication. Now his mouth
Is shaping words, and yet there comes no sound;
And now he passes in the drifting mist
A shadow amid shadows. I alone
Retain a lasting form, or seem to do.
Claudius Herminius, once a trusty friend,
Is fleeting like the others. Is there none
To stay and give me peace? Ixion now
Had eased me, for he beareth greater pain,
But all alone, among these crumbling banks,
False as the world I left, how shall I be
Or rather cease from being? Could I lose
My soul, sensation, all that makes me I,
Oblivion were thrice blessèd. Lo, the boat
Is moving toward me—now at least is change.
Slowly, oh! slowly, parts the stagnant flood,
And slow as is repentance, Charon rows!

[Ibbie]

Morning folks.

Tis tipping down and has been since before midnight.
Just managed to get Ed out for a walk when the amount falling lessened briefly.
May need to go out to local bakers for fresh bread.

[OFSO]

Glorious sunshine pouring in the London windows. Very lifting.

[Ibbie]

There was a pause in the rain, so I went out for supplies. Got as far as Carrefour down route before the heavens opened. You could swim in their carpark. Now back at mi casa, unpacked and had complete change into dry clothes. Actually so few people in supermarkets that did the round in record time.

the London windows. Very lifting.

So you got sash windows, OFSO. Don't go giving yourself a hernia opening them.

[4mastacker]

Pondering about de-weeding the garden.....will have another mug of tea whilst I continue to ponder.

[Magnus]

Fliegs, I wasn't aware that fishing was allowed at Hanauma bay. Great place for snorkelling, though. Last time I was there, I saw loads of humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa. Sadly, the flippers I hired hadn't been rinsed, and the disinfectant/bleach used to clean them played merry hell with the skin on my feet. Ouch. There's also good snorkelling at Kahalu`u on the Big Island.

4ma, is that nettle tea, by any chance?

[Pontius Navigator]

Pondering about de-weeding the garden.....will have another mug of tea whilst I continue to ponder.

Ten minutes and you can break for 11ses.

[4mastacker]

Don't do fancy herbal stuff Magnus; yer never where the local moggy has pissed. Mrs 4ma and I are rather fond of Mr Taylor's product suitable for hard water areas - which is wot I is drinking at this very moment.

[CharlieOneSix]

Mrs C16 has just trimmed my flowing grey locks. I must admit she's done rather a good job - she was a bit nervous about it so didn't take much off but it's a start.

The DPD van has just dropped off some of Dexter Dog's specialist food. He was a bit sad he couldn't rush out and greet the regular driver who makes a fuss of him but it was just a doorstep drop off. Unfortunately no more of that food is available anywhere but he's okay for the next three weeks.