The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

I recall, in my third year at Uni, diving into the nearest building during sudden rain whilst waiting for the UAS minibus to go flying. It turned out to be the University library, which I was previously unaware of the existence of.

[Ex-Ascot]

As Wodders knows our school library was the oldest publc library in the UK, in fact they claim oldest in the.English speaking world. Not sure what they mean by that. Facinating place to visit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetham%27s_Library

Tourists are picking up heŕe. A bit of a mix of nationalities now including Greeks which his good. Don't know what it is like down on the beach, will go and see the vagrant down there on Saturday

[Pontius Navigator]

. . . diving into the nearest building

I prefer to diving in the Caribbean.

. . .whilst waiting for the UAS minibus to go flying.

Was it a converted Skyvan?

It turned out to be the University library, the existence of which previously I was unaware.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

I prefer to diving in the Caribbean.

Me too!

Was it a converted Skyvan?

Judging by the way our driver handled it, it was. We were frequently airborne in it.

..and in my defence, Durham being collegiate we had our own college library, and so use of the Uni library was not common for ginger beers. Several of my course mates commented "Oh, so that's where it is!"

[Groundgripper]

Spent part of this morning setting up the Gardena watering system to (hopefully) keep the plants in the greenhouse and in pots on the patio watered while we are away in North Yorkshire from tomorrow. The timer is getting a bit old and takes a bit of persuading to work at first, but when it's set up it functions very well. Not such a complicated version this year, but I've managed to split it into two quite successfully so hopefully everything will still be alive when we return in a week's time. Checked all the functioning and flow rates - I think I've just about dried out now.

Had a phone call just now from a Lowestoft number (01502 code) , very serious english female voice telling me of a transfer of £600 to 'a foreign country' on my Visa or Mastercard and that I had to press 1 to confirm. Did I?...hell no! ?

GG

[ian16th]

we are away in North Yorkshire from tomorrow.
GG

Have some Theakston's and some Black Sheep bitter.

I do still miss them.

[ribrash]

we are away in North Yorkshire from tomorrow.
GG

Have some Theakston's and some Black Sheep bitter.

I do still miss them.

I'm sure you know that the Black Sheep Brewery was set up by a wayward son of the Theakstons Brewery.

[Ex-Ascot]

Can't get Theakstone's Old Peculiar here. Must put RiS on a mission.

Big mess here. A local friend is sitting in my chair playing on line chess and needs to be near a power supply. So Mrs Ex-Ascot is sitting on his chair. I am sitting at the table with her in another friends chair. He has just arrived and has had to sit in her chair. This is live reporting. Chess game has ended we are all in correct chairs but about to go in for dinner. All inside chairs correctly allocated. It is all very complicated.

Crash investigation on TV. Going to be a late night again

[om15]

Spent the evening overlooking the beach and drinking pints of Brains, this is what the more active were doing,

[Ex-Ascot]

It was the Munich 1958 Man United crash. Criminal the way they treated the Capt. Ten years to clear his name then died at 53 probably due to the stress.

Try watching one of these documentaries in English with Greek subtitles with well meaning chess friend translating them back into bad English. The he tries to tell me what happened which I had told him 15 mins previous.

[ricardian]

As Wodders knows our school library was the oldest publc library in the UK, in fact they claim oldest in the.English speaking world. Not sure what they mean by that. Facinating place to visit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetham%27s_Library

You beat Orkney by 30 years!

[ian16th]

we are away in North Yorkshire from tomorrow.
GG

Have some Theakston's and some Black Sheep bitter.

I do still miss them.

I'm sure you know that the Black Sheep Brewery was set up by a wayward son of the Theakstons Brewery.

Yep, He was the black sheep of the family! He didn't agree with the family selling out to Scottish & Newcastle Breweries.
I've heard that they are no longer using Yorkshire Squares, dunno if its true.

Many years ago, when I were but a lad, Theakston's had 6 tied houses. One of them was The Middle House in Marske-by-the-Sea.
The Middle House was, and still is, correctly named the Clarendon Hotel!

[ribrash]

Have some Theakston's and some Black Sheep bitter.

I do still miss them.

I'm sure you know that the Black Sheep Brewery was set up by a wayward son of the Theakstons Brewery.

Yep, He was the black sheep of the family! He didn't agree with the family selling out to Scottish & Newcastle Breweries.
I've heard that they are no longer using Yorkshire Squares, dunno if its true.

Many years ago, when I were but a lad, Theakston's had 6 tied houses. One of them was The Middle House in Marske-by-the-Sea.
The Middle House was, and still is, correctly named the Clarendon Hotel!

Fabulous ale.I'm sure he built his brewery right next door to Theakstons.

[1DC]

Was on my first trip to sea passing East through the Strait of Gibraltar when the Munich aircrash happened..

[ian16th]

Was on my first trip to sea passing East through the Strait of Gibraltar when the Munich aircrash happened..

I was roughing it in the South of France at Istres!

[llondel]

I'm clearly too young for this competition because I wasn't even born.

[Karearea]

I have just learned what a "deconstructed cheesecake" looks like.
Goodness me.
Whateffer next.

[Slasher]

It was the Munich 1958 Man United crash. Criminal the way they treated the Capt. Ten years to clear his name then died at 53 probably due to the stress.

I had a good look at that. Pity Rayment died as he'd've been able to backup Thain's account.

Dunno what the culture (nor the Ambassador) was back in 1958 but I would've taken the engineer's advice and just overnighted while the boost problem was fixed. It seemed the Manchester U team were resigned to the fact anyway.

Slush is a prick of a thing. Boeing performance calcs only give "advisory" V1s along with eng derates (of certain power plants e.g. RB211) to obtain a lower V1min. Airbus don't but their V1s are extremely conservative, usually limited by VMCG. In both aircraft Vr can be up to 20kt higher.

The slush/ice song:

It's a long way to Rotation
Should an engine let go
From your V1 to Rotation
It's the longest time I know.

Goodbye to sound calmness
Farewell under...pants
It's a long long way to Rotation
And my heart just rants.

[Ex-Ascot]

Slasher:

I would've taken the engineer's advice and just overnighted while the boost problem was fixed.

Me too Capt. I am sure that there was no rush to get back. Didn't appear to be in the documentary. I only once cheated with a sick aircraft but I had a top Flight Eng and he said that he could nurse it to LHR. A FMS couldn't do that. My principal passenger said obviously my decision but he had to vote in the house that evening. It was at LHR for three days before they could even get it fit enough to get back to BZN for proper repairs and I had flown it from Moscow. Multiple faults, which if you had given me in the sim Capt I would have told you not to be so ridiculous.

Nice day. Mrs Ex-Ascot has gone back to the house to do aerobics. She refuses to do them on the hotel room veranda as she will be seen.

Never knew that Ricardian, interesting.

[OFSO]

Shopping day, but for once I am excluded. Mrs O and her cousin are going together. Normally Friday mornings we buy the weekly needs which are delivered later in the day by Waitrose, free of charge. Like most married men I find changes to routine unsettling. Another Viewing this afternoon. I will be sitting down the garden, wearing my new Flying Tiger straw hat (and clothes) sipping a G&T when the potential purchasers arrive.