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Not totally sure what this achieved, but it’s quite impressive to watch

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-57547885

Woody wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:48 am

Not totally sure what this achieved, but it’s quite impressive to watch

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-57547885

One wonders what the idiots would have done if the carrier had promptly turned turtle and sunk!

Wonder how many fish the blast killed?

TGG; Let's keep the Ladies of the Post Office in ignorance, shall we? PM sent, an' all.

That will have popped a few rivets.

Hola,
Not getting this weather at all, all day yesterday, all night and thus far today the temperature has hovered around 20˚±
Sun is strong and high uv as it should be today.

Since the water main replacement we have no water supply to fill the deposit.
Paco says he will look today ............ sometime.

Having a morning off as it is market day, will do what is quite a big shop this afternoon.

I am getting cooked out and struggling to christen our evening meal.

I don't know if it is just me but today is taking on a Daliesque edge, probably because I have been communicating with people in South Africa.

First a good friend of mine chasing up his passport application via telephone at the Department of Home Affairs...

He won't mind me quoting him...

Of course things get even more preposterous in ZAR, I called the home affairs line to see if my passport was ready, on the first three attempts the network failed, then I get through to automated response option which said "enter your ID to number and press 1 to confirm dead or press 2 to confirm alive" - I can only wonder how many dead people are calling to verify that they are deceased, of course it doesn't work so purgatory is filled with south african souls dead in Gods grace but seeking to contact home affairs before they may make satisfaction for past sins and so become fit for heaven.

Unbelievable but true...

Perhaps they are conducting a gedankenexperiment, like the famous Schrodinger's cat experiment to determine whether the caller is in a superposition of states, namely both dead and alive and answering 1 or 2 will cause the wavefunction to collapse and an actual reality to come into being.

A huge step forward for African quantum physics...

Then my ex wife telling me that the famous on campus residence at the University of Cape Town is being forced to change its name from Smuts Hall...

https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/uc ... 1bd4d60ff2

One can only shudder at what or after whom they are going to rename this venerable place... The Robert Mugabe Memorial Halls of Residence... the mind boggles at the awful potential of it all... FFS

k3k3 wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:21 am

That will have popped a few rivets.

Following the trials, the warship will return to a dry dock to undergo modernisation, maintenance and repairs.

Extremely forceful wind from the South today and 30°. I had to wind the awnings in to prevent them being ripped off. An interesting challenge this morning: despite being in agony from broken ribs (a fall) Mme OFSO has painted a large canvas of a masked man holding the planet Earth on a cord - I think a chain might be better - and asked me to paint the seas and continents. One rose to the occasion.

Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:44 am

k3k3 wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:21 am

That will have popped a few rivets.

Following the trials, the warship will return to a dry dock to undergo modernisation, maintenance and repairs.

...and fish will be on the menu for several days hence!

...and fish will be on the menu for several days hence!

I once made the stupid mistake of ordering 'Fish of the Day' in Vanuatu..of course I was sick as a dog..

Next day, fully flushed from both ends I wanted simply 'Vegemite Toast'

What did I get?, a plate of grilled vegetables and some toast,...typically all lost in translation

TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:50 am

Woody wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:48 am

Not totally sure what this achieved, but it’s quite impressive to watch

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-57547885

One wonders what the idiots would have done if the carrier had promptly turned turtle and sunk!

Is it still under warranty?

"I would love to know where these temperature rises are."
They are right here!
Records being set daily for high temps. plus records for consecutive days above 115^o F.
WX stn only showing 96^o a little after 0900, has been above 100^o before 0800 lately.

PP

TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 21, 2021 7:04 am

Ex-Ascot wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 21, 2021 5:28 am

Had an elephant wander past the front at 03.00 yesterday. Heard it but couldn't see if because of the security lights.

It wasn't a pink elephant was it Ex-Ascot?

A bit like the old story about the chap in the railway carriage, on the train from Waterloo to Surbiton, who noticed the man opposite him tearing his ticket into ever smaller and smaller pieces. "Why are are you doing that?", asked our chap to which the other bloke replied "it keeps the pink elephants away". To which our man replied "but there aren't any pink elephants!" to which the other man looked up and said triumphantly "effective isn't it!"

I could tell you the story about Spencer Flack and his pink Spitfire but I guess that would be too much pink in the morning.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ction.html

Spencer Flack's Spitfire was more red!

G-Fire was one I got to our airshow, Spitfire 50th I think it was, amazing almost a quarter century ago. They asked if I really want a bright red one in amongst all the camouflaged ones.
I did, and they came for free except for a top up of fuel.

Nice cool wind this morning. Plants in front yard watered. Diplodemia burst into life, huge white flowers everywhere.

Still only 10°C this morning but Mr Sun is up there radiating away to bring it up to the
predicted 18°C later.

Billy is off on his weekly trip to see the nurses at the City. Hopefully he'll be on his best behaviour.
I shall be going with him. We're quite inseparable these days.

Good luck to you both. Does Billy get his own bus pass?

Now now OFSO, someone will only ask if he has to show it.

TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:42 pm

"Shorty" Longbottom!

I suspect we need to get to the bottom of why there were so many people with bottom in their surnames in the photographic reconnaissance squadrons during the Second World War. People such as Maurice "Shorty" Longbottom and Fred Winterbotham. No prats in reconnaissance or the secret service though, although there is a Pratts Bottom in Kent! I suppose aviation owes the name Pratt some respect though, given the success of Pratt and Whitney for example.

The latter based in Texas?