The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[OFSO]

I devised a form so fiendishly complicated that someone requesting two consecutive twenty-minute windows on a close-earth-orbiting spacecraft during the working day would get one thirty seconds pass at 04:00z just before LOS over a pine forest. Not for nothing were flight dynamics frequently seen leaving my office shouting "bloody rosbif" over their shoulders, having been allocated exactly one minute too little to carry out a reorientation which I considered unnecessary.

[EA01]

Morning All

19 was observed on the outside monitor 10 mins ago, first time below 20 since September I would guess. 10 - 15k Southerly, anticipating 27, overcast 70% chance of rain, but they said that yesterday, and it never really 'rained'.

[ExSp33db1rd]

I keep my trusty sword in the corner of the room by my bed.

and I have my uncle's WW 1 ceremonial Naval sword in the umbrella stand by the front door. Still in its scabbard, so I guess I'd have to give an intruder a whack around the head rather than a thrust through the heart ? Hope I never have to prove the point ( so to speak )

[jimtherev]

Not quite a rant...
Got back from Derby yesterday afternoon. Mrs Jim: "Why have you ordered a presentation box of gin?"
Jim "Uh?"
Mrs "Look!" and sure enough a box about 40cm square which when opened contained a bottle of 'limited edition' gin, distilled by some sarf London company I'd never heard of and some lavishly decorated cut crystal glasses.
Jim: "Uh?"
Anyhoo, Mrs J put on her deerstalker today and traced the company's website, found their phone number and called them: "Who sent a parcel, etc etc"

Turns out it was the family for whom I did the funeral last Friday. When thanked by email they sent back effusive thanks and said this was the least they could do.

What a pity! Don't like gin. Neither does 'erindoors. <sigh>

Can't tell stepdaughter. The next noise we'd hear would be a sonic boom as she broke lockdown to collect the parcel.

[TheGreenGoblin]

For those who watched the successful SN10 landing. It blew up on the pad minutes after landing!

https://www.ops-normal.org/viewtopic.ph ... 36#p280136

[ExSp33db1rd]

I wonder if the good Speedbird's even better lady's problem was related to the use of the Zoom plugin with Safari? Now doubt he will enlighten us presently! Well whatever,

No idea ! This morning we thought it was all for nought again, as switching on the iMac gave us the Skype website, but not the programme to use it,i.e. no way to access the "call " option or get the dial pad, still told to F-off as Safari didn't want to play.

Went to town and dropped by a couple computer retailers, who didn’t know anything, but came home and Gadzooks! there was the welcome page with the dial pad. Mrs ExS has just spent around 20 minutes on the phone to the USA and spent some 27 cents. We can live with that !

No idea what has been happening, but hopefully we now have Skype-to-phone installed. What a drama.

[OFSO]

We also received a surprise bottle of gin plus herbs, silver mixing spoon and a small miniature lemon tree on Tuesday. All in one large carton. Thanks to the "best English teacher" ie Mrs OFSO, from family in UK with both parents working whose son she spends hours in Zoom with each day. And we do like gin!

[Ibbie]

Morning all.

It's another artday.

Cloud cover and 13c, rising to 17 this afternoon they think.

Off to Tesco for a quick restock of a few items, then home to watch cousin's funeral streamed live from Margate Crem.

[Magnus]

Buggrit. Foot ulcer has picked up a nasty infection, so I'm driving across Edinburgh every day to have some heavy-duty antibiotics dripped into me. 2 weeks, they reckon.

[Pontius Navigator]

Jim, come late Autumn go collect a half kilo of sloes and follow the recipe. I am not a gin drinker as it killed my mother and my father an alcoholic, but add Sloe and the result has a, passing resemblance to a good Maderia only twice as strong.

[handsfree]

Another dull day.
+4°C and overcast with slight mist.
Looks like that's it for the rest of the day.

Shame you can't be at your cousin's funeral Ibbie.
At least you'll be able to "see" her off.

What a bind Magnus. Going to hospital over several days is a right pain.
Hope the foot clears up quickly.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Buggrit. Foot ulcer has picked up a nasty infection, so I'm driving across Edinburgh every day to have some heavy-duty antibiotics dripped into me. 2 weeks, they reckon.

Sorry to hear this Magnus. Only metal or rock music, can help you heal faster. Byt vas...

[Wodrick]

Morning all,

Same 13˚c and same guess of 18˚c

SM is off to a florist and then to the Town Hall to try to sort out her digital certificate which has to be done in person.
She feels a desperate need to access 'Clicsalud' for all the medical information.

I get to stay and do morning playtime with Henry.

It is a shame that *Ibbie* couldn't go to Kent, there is some consolation in streaming the funeral, what a good idea, I hope the technology works.

Hope the foot heals too *Magnus*

[reddo]

Jim -gin can be a bit much at times. Have you tried it with elderflower or pink lemonade? (Fentimans is a good brand). Using cucumber instead of lime or lemon can really change the flavour profile too.

[ian16th]

No idea what has been happening, but hopefully we now have Skype-to-phone installed. What a drama.

I have Skype both on my PC and on Android phones. Works fine to landlines world wide.

It costs me US$10.00 about every 2 years. They debit my Mastercard when my balance drops below $1.00.

[Undried Plum]

A long night of lambing.

One dead. Five live.

The dead one and two of the live 'uns were a struggle. We have a winching bracketry gizmo, rather like a Tirfor, to haul out the recalcitrant ones slowly and smoothly, but it's a big sweat for all involved.

Looking at the replay of the final half hour of the Krankie show, which I had missed live due to lambing duties, I see that the co-convenor got a bit too close to the Truth for the comfort of the Convenor so was bitch-slapped to Hell and back.

I sometimes prefer the company of ewes to that of bitches like that. Sheep are honest critters. Deeply stupid, but honest. The Convenor was half-way to being what in Scotland is called a yow.

[TheGreenGoblin]

A long night of lambing.

As opposed to rambling, which is sheep orientated too I guess!

I like sheep. Good honest yeocreatures that always end up being **** over by the fickle finger of fate unfortunately, a bit like Salmond who is being buggered by a Sturgeon.

[4mastacker]

Amazing how the clock ran down just in time to stop the Deputy Convenor getting her questions in. Will the Convenor be rewarded with some honour like the Most Noble Order of the Jobby Wheeker*




* With due acknowledgement and respect to Billy Connolly.

[Pontius Navigator]

UP, lambs on the other hand seem innocent and intelligent.

On Ascension Island there were two types of sheep. Lowland with very thick coats that would stand on any hillock, all of 6 feet, to catch a breeze when they weren't foraging for some unappetising Scrub.

The other lived on the mountain meadows, cooler and lush grass. I think some were still cared for on the farm. One day as I was walking up there a very young lamb came up and allowed me to stroke her. About a month later I went back. I think the lamb recognised me and approached until sheep further up the mountain bleeted a warning. Somewhat reluctantly the lamb retreated and became a sheep.

[Magnus]

Thank you, TGG, I needed that. Shame about the haircuts, though! In return, let me offer you Albert Lee's overdubs for Dave Edmund's version of Sweet Little Lisa. Watch Edmund's and Nick Lowe's expressions. Hands of a master.