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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

#13661 Post by Hydromet » Sat May 27, 2023 12:04 am

Clear blue sky today, but a bit brisk - 12c currently, forecast max 17c. I may find an excuse for pottering in the garden.

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#13662 Post by Karearea » Sat May 27, 2023 1:39 am

Feeling energised today. Pursuant to the recent discussion here, I have just been out hoeing at the little weed-seedlings, the soil is a fine tilth so they were easy to rootle up. Many spring bulbs putting leaves up already and more lurking just below the surface.
Picked more yellow chrysanthemums.
Day is very pleasant, around 18°C with sun and high clouds, and light winds.
And with the morn, those angel faces smile...

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#13663 Post by Hydromet » Sat May 27, 2023 2:14 am

Neighbour dropped some pomegranates on our doorstep. I hope my pottering unearths some nice sweet potatoes so that I may respond in kind.

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#13664 Post by OFSO » Sat May 27, 2023 6:09 am

Very nice too. I've seen cardboard boxes of apples put out here with 'help yourself' signs attached.
Hazy clouds and sun here. Most of the family have flown to Turkey to enjoy three days of non-stop rain, although I don't think 'enjoy' is an appropriate word.

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#13665 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sat May 27, 2023 7:26 am

Morning folks. Broken Cu should make 30C. Spring bulbs coming up Karearea? It is not even mid winter yet.

Massive power problems this morning. I glanced at the system when I was unlocking this and the battery warning light was on. I banged on the genny and it wouldn't connect resulting in a power cut. This condition is difficult to resolve. After much switching, resetting and genny on for two hours we are now up and running again on solar. A solid week of clear skies and today we have Cu ~X(

We have, we think, put a stop to the petrol theft by 'erbert by weighing the jerry cans. We have now switched to pool chemicals. About 100 euros worth gone so far. Goodness knows how he is fencing that. Don't know any compound and mud hut in the village with a pool. Spoke to his father about it last night when he came on shift. I have said before to them that any proven theft by any of them they all lose their jobs. We are their only source of income.
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#13666 Post by Hydromet » Sat May 27, 2023 7:46 am

Pottering was rewarded by large number of sweet potatoes, some distributed among several neighbours. Seems we're all growing different things. Other neighbour has a nice crop of peas coming on.

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#13667 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sat May 27, 2023 5:33 pm

Yesterday was cold enough to be the last day of winter, and today it is the first day of summer. The temperature hits 27 degrees in 3 days time.
Got the lawn tractor fixed, both replacing or mending broken parts, and adding improvements like bearings. The steering in particular is miles better. Am now cutting the grass before it becomes a jungle.
The farmers are out planting more potatoes.

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#13668 Post by Karearea » Sat May 27, 2023 10:34 pm

Ex-Ascot wrote:
Sat May 27, 2023 7:26 am
... Spring bulbs coming up Karearea? It is not even mid winter yet. ...
The leaves up now will be Snowflakes, and Tazetta narcissus; they'll bloom from late June/July; Wordsworth's daffodils bloom around September 1 in my garden.

A neon-pink sky just before sunrise; needed the car headlights on when out as it was overcast and quite dusky still.
Great run through the traffic lights which remained green or changed to green when I commanded them so to do.
Only 8.8°C now and 99% humidity; supposed to reach 18°C, we'll see.
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#13669 Post by OFSO » Sun May 28, 2023 6:17 am

Morning all. Wall-to-wall sun at seven am, 13° but will be hot later....

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#13670 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sun May 28, 2023 6:49 am

Morning folks,
OFSO wrote:
Sun May 28, 2023 6:17 am
Morning all. Wall-to-wall sun at seven am, 13° but will be hot later....
Same here. Broken Cu forecast should make 30C the weather guessers say that it is going to be a warm winter. The lagoon is receding. We have a large beach out front. Not sure how far the flood has got but good second flood reported up north.

Copied Karearea. Don't think that we can buy bulbs here but we do have many lilies in the garden.
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#13671 Post by Wodrick » Sun May 28, 2023 7:41 am

Morning all,
Henry up at 0645, crying. Nothing wrong just wanting to play.
Still lots of activity in the air vent.
Showing 21c, tealeaves 25c Tormentas this afternoon it is said, radar clear for miles.
Not quite dome high haze.

Next door Dutchman has had a solar array fitted. It is aligned 'bout 10' South of East.
Moron.

Back to routine floors, ritual, GP, chicken.

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#13672 Post by G-CPTN » Sun May 28, 2023 8:03 am

Wodrick wrote:
Sun May 28, 2023 7:41 am
Next door Dutchman has had a solar array fitted. It is aligned 'bout 10' South of East.
Moron
Perhaps he wanted to inbuild an automatic timer to restrict output?

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#13673 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sun May 28, 2023 8:26 am

Next door Dutchman has had a solar array fitted. It is aligned 'bout 10' South of East.
Moron.
What angle?

The best systems are those which track the sun direction and elevation. Very expensive and we do not have anywhere to fit one here with all the trees.
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#13674 Post by Wodrick » Sun May 28, 2023 9:18 am

Ex-Ascot wrote:
Sun May 28, 2023 8:26 am
What angle?
As you appreciate difficult by eye but I guess 45.468 degrees.


Seriously about 35 to 45 degrees.

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#13675 Post by Pontius Navigator » 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.





Why no Dakota?

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#13676 Post by G-CPTN » Sun May 28, 2023 3:15 pm

Boring?

The Dakota, not the response by PN.

Can't compete with Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster.

When the County Show was held at our village sports-field, the various flypasts used to line-up on our house for the run-in to the show-field.

Nowadays the County Show has moved venue to another rural location five miles downstream, so we get none of the excitement! :-q

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#13677 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sun May 28, 2023 3:53 pm

Wodrick wrote:
Sun May 28, 2023 9:18 am
Ex-Ascot wrote:
Sun May 28, 2023 8:26 am
What angle?
As you appreciate difficult by eye but I guess 45.468 degrees.

Seriously about 35 to 45 degrees.
That is an engineer for you. They should of course be pointing north and if they can be moved in your location 64.9 degrees in winter, 37.4 degrees in spring/autumn and 12.4 degrees in summer. 45 degrees fixed would seem about right but not pointing east :-o
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#13678 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sun May 28, 2023 4:07 pm

Overnight power outage. :-o
Dunno when or for how long. :-??
Clocks to be reset. Bedside clock has a 9V back-up but display flashes to denote outage.
Stove, microwave, and weather station have to be reset manually. ~X(
Why can't a $500-$1,000 appliance have a $1 back-up? :-?

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#13679 Post by k3k3 » Sun May 28, 2023 4:12 pm

Woody, keep your eyes peeled for a bright green Samsonite going on BA942 on Wednesday afternoon, with any luck Mrs K3K3 will be sitting above it.

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#13680 Post by Groundgripper » 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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