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Morning all. Getting used to the trains thundering by every fifteen minutes. No aircraft last night except a police chopper wandering round Feltham way. Arm stiff where the French travel vaccination was put in yesterday.

Morning all.

Normal hot day . 24c at the mo going only one way...up. Yesterday was most unpleasant with very high humidity.

Highest temperature of the year, so far, has been guessed at for this coming Saturday.

TheGreenAnger wrote: ↑

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CharlieOneSix wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 10, 2022 5:49 pm

Try https://ops-normal.org ?

That works C16.Its strange that something should change after a number of years.My PC is creaking badly.A new one is being delivered on Friday so that might cure it.I can log in one way or another.

The .com site/domain authentication certificate has expired or has been misconfigured.

This server couldn't prove that it's www.ops-normal.com; its security certificate is from sentry.corp.ventraip.net.au. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection.

Seems to be working OK today.

ribrash wrote: ↑

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TheGreenAnger wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 10, 2022 6:28 pm

ribrash wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 10, 2022 6:15 pm

That works C16.Its strange that something should change after a number of years.My PC is creaking badly.A new one is being delivered on Friday so that might cure it.I can log in one way or another.

The .com site/domain authentication certificate has expired or has been misconfigured.

This server couldn't prove that it's www.ops-normal.com; its security certificate is from sentry.corp.ventraip.net.au. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection.

Seems to be working OK today.

Ah ah!

"The Moving Mouse clicks; and, having writ, the Mod moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit. Shall lure him back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a digital bit of it.” - Omar Keyboard.

Arm stiff where the French travel vaccination was put in yesterday.

Lucky it wasn't a German travel vaccination then.

I'll see myself out.

Afternoon folks. Nice day, pullover removed. Twice monthly town day. Not too bad. Usually dodging of people trying to crash into us. Interrogated the CEO of the safari camp company yesterday he came over for a few beers. One of the couples he is interviewing for the management post we have know for years. Don't know his wife very well but he is a great guy. Think that we may have got him the job.

Mrs OF SO came home with a dressing-table-top mirror from John Lewis. It consists of the mirror, a base, a connecting tube and two small bolts. The instructions sternly caution that the assembly should only be undertaken by someone competent in DIY.

G'day,
SM is outside hosing down the terraces in the 30c direct sun.
I am inside in the A/C making Tomato Jam.

Most places seem to be staying open on Monday, another holiday.

The guess is 32c today 30c and 60% at present.

Saturday has a guess of 38 or 39c and depending on the guess observed a bit cloudy, that'll be nice.

OFSO wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:38 am

Morning all. Getting used to the trains thundering by every fifteen minutes. No aircraft last night except a police chopper wandering round Feltham way. Arm stiff where the French travel vaccination was put in yesterday.

Was that a vaccination against travelling in France or so you could travel safely in France?

The latter. The pox-and plague-ridden occupants of that land have no hesitation of breathing in your face, brushing against one, or shaking a sweaty palm, and with a current infection rate of three times England or Catalunia, travelling is a lottery.

Slacking here this afternoon, as the temperature soars outside, watching the Pink Panther, you know the first of the Pink Panther films with the ever debonair David Niven and Claudia Cardinale. I had forgotten how beautiful she was, although I would have been in my nappies when she starred in the 1963 film...


Good to see she is still alive and still an opinionated, liberal, and feisty lady...


Claudia Cardinale

Interesting factoid about the Pink Panther - Cardinale's voice in the film was dubbed by Gale Garnett, a Kiwi Canuck, who went uncredited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Garnett

Sold my town flat today, bought for wife's son to rent while a student and left fallow, odd guest and visiting relation, for 6 years, when he moved on.

Chap viewed it 30/7, offered 31/7, back and forth twice, agreed the price and did the paperwork, in his bank today.

Could have happened sooner but his bank couldn't get us in sooner.

Ah, Claudia Cardinale! The seductive scene where she was intoxicated, lay on a tiger skin and flirted with David Niven has been entrenced in my mind for more than 50 years! I didn't know her voice (so sexy in that scene) was dubbed....... Certainly the best of the Pink Panther films.

CharlieOneSix wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:08 pm

Ah, Claudia Cardinale! The seductive scene where she was intoxicated, lay on a tiger skin and flirted with David Niven has been entrenced in my mind for more than 50 years! I didn't know her voice (so sexy in that scene) was dubbed....... Certainly the best of the Pink Panther films.

Amen to thar SIr!

Aagh! Just looked out the kitchen window - we've been invaded! Run!

CharlieOneSix wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:45 pm

Aagh! Just looked out the kitchen window - we've been invaded! Run!
invaders.JPG

Harvesting done and dusted here.

I have never seen it so early in Essex and I have lived here 23 years

TheGreenAnger wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:06 pm

Harvesting done and dusted here.

I have never seen it so early in Essex and I have lived here 23 years

What kind of crop, TGA? Wheat, barley, ...?
Barley-harvest around here can be late January to mid-February, or much later depending on the season's weather.

-2°C here at the moment, blue dome day. Expecting 9°C.

Brilliant moonlight last night.

On with the dance!

I have a horrible feeling that I'm going to miss out yet another full moon this year. Last night the 99% full moon was beautiful and very bright. When am I going to get a chance to entrance my neighbours with my full-throated wolf howl(which I think is quite impressive). Thick bloody cloud until after moon set. I'm beginning to think it's a conspiracy.

The Ancient Mariner

Karearea wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 11, 2022 8:41 pm

TheGreenAnger wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:06 pm

Harvesting done and dusted here.

I have never seen it so early in Essex and I have lived here 23 years

What kind of crop, TGA? Wheat, barley, ...?
Barley-harvest around here can be late January to mid-February, or much later depending on the season's weather.

-2°C here at the moment, blue dome day. Expecting 9°C.

Brilliant moonlight last night.

On with the dance!

Mostly wheat here this summer!