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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#13681 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun May 28, 2023 5:36 pm

Thanks GG. Reminds me that I should start putting my system together at least a week before I go away - there does seem to be a menagerie of fittings these days.

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#13682 Post by 4mastacker » Sun May 28, 2023 6:41 pm

I use the Autopot irrigation system for which I use a 100 litre barrel as the reservoir. I top it up occasionally from my rain butts. I first saw the system at the Eden Project and thought if it was good enough for them..... Worth a look if you're thinking of installing an irrigation system which has extendability limited only by the space available.
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#13683 Post by Hydromet » Sun May 28, 2023 10:37 pm

Another cool,sunny day here, currently 12c, forecast max 19c. The same forecast for the next couple of days. Must water the garden today.

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#13684 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun May 28, 2023 11:15 pm

31 this afternoon, dropping to 5 tonight. Yo-yo season continues.
Last month here was our driest April on record, and we have a burn ban in force, but Nova Scotia is catching fire already.

"Basically, all hell is breaking loose", quoth the Halifax district Fire Chief.
The evacuation zone is only 10 clicks from the edge of the city, and it's about to become downwind with forest all the way ahead of the fire to the city limits.
Best of luck to them.


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#13685 Post by Hydromet » Sun May 28, 2023 11:38 pm

^Heard on the radio the other day that a team of Australian firefighters is on its way to Canada to assist. It seems that these exchanges are becoming a regular thing.

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#13686 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun May 28, 2023 11:41 pm

Makes sense; opposite seasons, same problems.
We routinely shuffle capability around in Canada and the USA - everything from fire to utilities to Red Cross assistance.
Several people from my little bit of Canada helped out with Hurricane Sandy in NY,NY.

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#13687 Post by Karearea » Mon May 29, 2023 2:03 am

Heat Pump Man returned with the replacement louvre so job now finished.

Currently sunny; breezy as I expected after yesterday's fine high mares' tails; 18.1°C; barometer -1.9hPa/hr so more breeze to come.

This is being an exceptionally mild spell of weather; just looked ahead though and forecast suggests it may be very different in a week's time, rain, cold, gales, drama etc. All very dynamic and subject to change.
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#13688 Post by OneHungLow » Mon May 29, 2023 5:54 am

A quiet but enjoyable weekend continues here in cooler but still sunny conditions. Met up with my better half's Aussie step sister and her husband on Saturday They are both very nice people. He is an economist with the Western Australian government, responsible for designing, setting up and advising legislation in electricity markets, allowing frictionless trading in open markets. He advises governments all over the world and is over here leading seminars in the UK. The South African government could learn a great deal from him.

Went to watch the jousting at Castle Headingham yesterday thereby avoiding cycle races and local lockdowns.

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#13689 Post by OFSO » Mon May 29, 2023 6:32 am

Morning all. Sunny and windy and 15° in Teddington. Public holiday here, not that it means much....

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#13690 Post by Ibbie » Mon May 29, 2023 8:57 am

Morning folks.

19c and sunny in clear blue sky at the mo.

Trip to physio appears to have isolated knee problem and how to get me up and running again. Says six to eight weeks of twice weekly treatment and daily exercise regime, icing of knee and anti inflammatory pills.

He was amazed that hospital specialist only interested in the fact replacement knee joint was undamaged and free from infection and not in getting me walking pain free again. He thought I should have received Physio

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#13691 Post by Woody » Mon May 29, 2023 9:17 am

OFSO wrote:
Mon May 29, 2023 6:32 am
Public holiday here, not that it means much....
Lieu day and Bank Holiday pay :D
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#13692 Post by Ex-Ascot » Mon May 29, 2023 9:30 am

Morning folks. Nice day should make 30C. Monthly check up at quack. More anti dizzy pills Next check up 3 months. He was running late. They know I don't do late. I was slotted in.
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#13693 Post by tango15 » Mon May 29, 2023 9:33 am

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Sun May 28, 2023 2:36 pm
Usual quiet sunny Sunday afternoon apart from low flying aircraft, I ask you. Have the RAF nothing better to do than buzz our house with a Spitfire and Hurricane, as if the Spitfire yesterday wasnt bad enough.
Then the Lancaster came over TWICE.
Still, I got him on camera and will write a stiff thetter to the Commanding Officer.





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I did hear a few weeks ago that it was on a major check, and that said check was taking longer than planned.

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#13694 Post by Wodrick » Mon May 29, 2023 9:39 am

Moaning all,
bit warmer over here 22c and the tealeaves go for 24c
Dome at present, I expect it to cloud over later,
The Police Egg Beater has just passed heading East, will be back soon.


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six to eight weeks of twice weekly treatment and daily exercise regime, icing of knee and anti inflammatory pills.
What does your man charge ? mine is 24€ per session.

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#13695 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon May 29, 2023 9:39 am

T15, ty

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#13696 Post by tango15 » Mon May 29, 2023 9:44 am

Groundgripper wrote:
Sun May 28, 2023 4:32 pm
We had a visit from the Lancaster this morning, just before he beat up Blackpool Airport. He then headed a bit off-shore before returning to go low over North Pier and then did a figure of eight over Stanley Park and Blackpool Victoria Hospital before heading back east.

My 5-minute job this morning started about 11:15 and finished at about 16:30. I was fitting an automatic watering system in my greenhouse to keep the seedlings wet while we are away this week. I managed to find appropriate bits of pipe and spray nozzles and started in the greenhouse, working my way back to the tapwhich wa where the problems started as I couldn't fit the control unit (Plastic screw fitting) onto the tap (Brass fitting). I finally managed to do it by taking the tap off the wall and fitting them together that way but then found that the tap had been screwed to its mount that in unscrewing it had loosend the water supply pipe to the tap. I thought that the yorkshire fitting at the end of the pipe had split but it turned out the pipe connector to the tap had been loosened. It now seems to be up and running without any leaks although I probably used more water than will be dispensed in a week's use.

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#13697 Post by Woody » Mon May 29, 2023 10:06 am

Must admit that I’d never heard of this either, but here’s some more info, sounds like a good cause :-bd
LANCASHIRE LANDING IS A CHARITY EVENT IN AID OF FALLEN FUSILIERS WHICH HELPS SUPPORT SOLDIERS FROM LANCASHIRES LOCAL INFANTRY REGIMENT
THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF FUSILIERS
Lancashire Landing is a Northern Aviators production in association with The Bay Flying Club based at Rossall Field, Cockerham, Lancashire
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#13698 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon May 29, 2023 10:19 am

I had a very small leak on my outside tap to the water computer. I had a problem with it last year, Cross threaded plastic on brass. Eventually found Mr A had exactly what I needed and his man dropped off a new one on Sunday morning.

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#13699 Post by OFSO » Mon May 29, 2023 11:49 am

Horsehair.

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#13700 Post by PHXPhlyer » Mon May 29, 2023 3:08 pm

Ah! :)
The sound of round motors. :YMAPPLAUSE: :-bd
4 yellow Stearmans in formation overhead my abode followed (as I type this) by a C-47 of the Commemorative Air Force (PC name of The Confederate Air Force) enroute to the National Memorial Cemetery a few miles north for Memorial Day service. ^:)^

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