The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[Pontius Navigator]

Alison, Mrs PN would visit the local bin man, a Mr Fiddler, who had the touch.

[PHXPhlyer]

RiS:

I know that the USA senr fire crews a week or days ago.
Don't know how many or from where.

PP

[Rwy in Sight]

RiS:

I know that the USA senr fire crews a week or days ago.
Don't know how many or from where.

PP

Why it took so long from the beginning of those fires back in November?

[John Hill]

NZ has had firefighters in Australia since October.

[Pontius Navigator]

We are contributing to an appeal by Rotary. How will cash aid be used?

[TheGreenGoblin]

USA Firefighters cheered when they arrived in January.

[Wodrick]

I have broken a tooth. It is tearing my tongue apart. Can't see tooth fettler until 17.00 mañana

[Capetonian]

You have my symapthy. I had the same just before Christmas on a Saturday night. I thought the dentist was closed for the holidays but luckily not and I got a appointment on Monday morning.

[Pontius Navigator]

I broke a tooth the day we were going on a cruise. Fortunately the departure was delayed 24 hrs, nipped into Boots and got some temporary filling stuff. Next fortnight Mrs PN would do the necessary.

See the better tomorrow for a crown fitting.

[Alisoncc]

I need to return to the discussions of Australian forest fires: Mrs RiS asked how come Australia didn't ask any serious international assistance to fight the fires either in equipment or staff.

Hi RiS, bush fires are not that uncommon in Oz. We get them every year, and as such each small hamlet/village/whatever has its own volunteer fire brigade with adequate kit. In NSW, my State, they are organised under the Rural Fire Service. What made the recent crisis worse was an almost country-wide drought.

Some places hadn't had decent rain for years. We've had massive fish kills as rivers have dried up. Even major cities like Sydney have been on water restrictions with some country towns having to truck in drinking water. With the dryness and low humidity has come thunder and dry lightning "storms". Our Bureau of Met have weather radar covering huge areas which shows lightning strikes. So the RFS are aware where there has been dry lightning, but some areas may be inaccessible due to ruggedness of terrain.

Not only do Eucalypts have oily leaf litter, but they also strip their bark - see below. The base of that tree is incredibly inflammable. just taking a spark to start an inferno. As for asking for international assistance earlier like water bombing aircraft. Australia is the driest continent, and with the drought access to water to scoop up just isn't available. With many fires hundreds of kms inland even dipping the sea wasn't an option.

[Rwy in Sight]

Thanks Alisoncc, I will forward the answer they seem accurate.

[4mastacker]

Some severe weather in Mr Fox's part of the world although I expect it's nothing out of the ordinary for the residents.

Imagine if that lot fell on the London


Nevertheless, hope Mr Fox is OK.

[ExSp33db1rd]

Walking sticks - Following an ankle injury I was provided with two elbow crutches to use until recovery ( successful ) but the handles were formed for left and right hands, and obviously one always picked up the wrong one first - Murphy Is Always With Us - a visit to the $2 shop provided me with red and green nail varnish ( who paints their nails green ? ), problem solved, a dab on each handle provided me with Port and Starboard crutches !

[fin]

One of the videos I saw of the blizzard/hurricane showed a fellow opening his garage door from inside with electric opener. The door kept going slowly up and up and all that was showing was a white wall. it wasn't till it was fully open that one could see perhaps six inches of daylight over the top of the drift.

It is about 500 miles or so between the capitols of Newfoundland and PEI, so although the latter did not make headlines, it is not unrealistic to suppose it got some. But the hurricane force winds could well have put down a lot of power lines and cut off communications.

IMO Foxes resourcefulness and experience are such that he is likely in fine shape and should have some more good stories to share soon.

[Slasher]

Hope so. I miss his input of logic and pragmatism in certain threads.

[Pinky the pilot]

Can one ask as to whether you have availed yourself of a good Chiropractor?

I certainly have, Alison. Trouble is that the one 'bonecracker' I could rely on has retired. Tried another, but method of treatment was different and next to useless!!

There is another one who has recently opened for business locally but I will have to save up a bit of the readies for the initial consultation, which is fairly thorough and correspondingly pricey! Way out of my reach currently.

In the meantime I just have to put up with the discomfort.

After getting up or rising from an arm chair or car I do my Douglas Bader impression. Stand up, straighten legs, walk off stuff legged until things loosen up.

A fairly accurate way of describing my appearance when getting up etc.

[OFSO]

To the torrential rain and force 7 winds devastating Catalunia have been added a string of thunderstorms from the far south drawn up by the depression Gloria over the north. Wave height at Cape Begur currently12.5 metres. Indoors, the wind hitting the house sounds like a train going past.

[Slasher]

Hope you’ve hatched down all battens OFSO and all loose stows objected. Good luck riding out that Gloria bitch sir.

[OFSO]

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Down the coast from us yesterday.

[handsfree]

Once again I find myself praising da Lard that I live in a fairly benign weather spot.
Misty this morning and 5C. Forecast is dull but dry. Looking at the reports coming in from
you lot around the world that'll do me nicely.

Plumbers coming at 8 o'clock to install the connections for my home dialysis kit.