The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

[G-CPTN]

One for the dog lovers

Magic! Thanks.

[Karearea]

2.8°C here and leaden overcast, but you all enjoy yourselves

All curtains closed at night, prudent in a single-level home.
Which, I've been trying to think, I can't remember visiting in more than one two-storey home, ever.
A couple of split-levels with a few steps here and there, but only the one with a real "upstairs" floor.
Just not the usual thing here in my experience.

[llondel]

My parents always had two-storey houses, but the first two I had were both single level. We had a single-level rental when the family first moved to the US but then we bought a two-storey house. It was funny watching Tesla, when faced with the stairs for the first time, who wasn't at all sure what to do. I have video somewhere.

[Hydromet]

D1 has a 2 storey + basement house, plus two Newfoundland dogs, one old and one just a yearling. The old one is used to stairs, but the new one just can't get the hang of them. When the old one is sick of the boisterous youngster, she heads up- or downstairs to get away.

[OFSO]

Morning all. 20°c this morning, and a cooler day after yesterday's afternoon at 35.6°c. Tomorrow back to mid thirties once again. Many fires here, none visible from our house. Yet.

[ricardian]

No comment necessary

[Woody]

No comment necessary

Happy Waterloo day everyone. Unless of course, you are a soap dodging, garlic munching surrender monkey

[TheGreenGoblin]

Warm at Headcorn today and there is some sort of parachuting competition going on. Much lurking down at the western end of the field with the sheep while attempting not to shear them or the trees!

Two visiting Bell Jet Rangers here today. Air redolent with the smell of Jet A , smells like victory.

Sound of a turbine winding up. Here come the meat bombs

[Ibbie]

Morning folks.

Trip into town and dog walk completed. It's now 26c with a clear blue sky. A suggestion, which will prove to be incorrect is for a high of 29c.

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. 5°c has crept up to 17°c with above 20°c promised. Much excitement here the flood has reached town and another river is now feeding into the main river. It is moving fast. Probably another month before it gets here but it is looking good. The bush pilots feed us with videos of the progress. The next excitement will be when it feeds into our river. This water has come all the way from Angola.

Normal weekend, off to the safari camp.

[Wodrick]

Good Moaning,

Just hitting 30c which is the guess. Flat calm clear blue sky.

Dogs/stupid Dutch woman were late this morning not going off until 0815.

Can't christen dinner yet, we've had red meat last two evenings, destined to be Roast Chicken on Sunday.

[Pontius Navigator]

Lovely dull, overcast and damp after yesterday's high 30s on the patio and 30 indoors.

Our current Scottie has no problem with stairs though tends not to bother. She will come up if she thinks I should be going for a walk.

The previous Scottie was a stair phobic and would never* go upstairs and always run down in a rush if carried up.

*I should say 'when we were home'. On two occasions in a quiet house I caught her coming down, she had obviously not realised we were at home.

[Rwy in Sight]

Up early, managed to get some lenghts in the pool before disucssing various culinaries and political issues with a nice lady.

Paid the electricity bill for RiS dad and myself.

Nice warm weather with enough clouds to make wearing sunglasses a random gaime.

[OFSO]

32° at one ack emma. A/c on as it's low tarif. Plus pool pump. Four fires still burning inland.

[4mastacker]

Buggah!! Hurty back has returned with a vengeance. All I done was bend over to pick up an empty rubbish bag at me canal depot. Felt me back go "ping" which caused some basic Anglo-Saxon to be uttered to an unsympathetic diety. Been doing the roll-on-the-floor exercises but methinks a visit to the body pummeller might be necessary. Mrs 4ma must be in a sympathetic mood, she made me a mug of tea when I got home.

[Ex-Ascot]

Hippo city in front of us. At least 9.

[Boac]

4ma - I sympathise - I put my back out some years ago twisting round and bending to pick up a newspaper from a table. Sometimes it does not take much!

[ricardian]

4ma - I sympathise - I put my back out some years ago twisting round and bending to pick up a newspaper from a table. Sometimes it does not take much!

I stepped out of my Discovery (quite a high step), my foot slipped in the mud and my body twisted - something in my back went "click" and I began a passable imitation of Quasimodo for the next month or so. Our excellent GP confined me to bed and gave me a pack of liquid morphine phials saying "take one when you need it". That was nearly 10 years ago and I'm still super-cautious when lifting or twisting my body.

[TheGreenGoblin]

It seems that mad dogs and Englishmen drive as badly in the morning sun as they do in the midday sun. Saw the result of what must have been a highspeed accident on the almost deserted M11 this morning, with both cars having rolled, the police trying get somebody out of one. How did they manage to crash like that on an almost deserted motorway? Two hours delay, on the way home again this afternoon, mostly delayed while crossing the section near the Dartford tunnel due to 3 separate accidents on the short section between Junction 31 and Junction 29. Idiots! [Rant over]

Good morning in the heli, revising advanced take offs and landings, despite sundry wing walkers, meat bombs and their spot landing competition, distracting curvaceous Lycra clad lady wing walkers with two aircraft in the air simultaneously, a Spitfire, and a heli photographic chaser and arbitrary spam cans, not to mention the aerobatic Patridge without the pear tree.

[OFSO]

I bend and pick things off the floor slowly and carefully, like an old man, which I am not, having learned the hard way that the spine and associated muscles don't like sudden movements when you are past fifty. Or something like that.
Nice photos!