The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

#26741 Post by Ibbie » Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:55 am

Son received his negative covid test result at 04.12 this morning. So was the SA variant in Southampton, or the figment of some boffin's immagination?

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

#26742 Post by OFSO » Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:24 am

People with it get negative results, people without it get positive results. That's life.

We went to the Basilica for a pray this morning, first time in months. The town, Castelló, is like a graveyard, every business closed, some it appears permanently. It's well known that the corona virus gets out of bed quite late and doesn't appear in bars until 10:30, that's why the bars are permitted to open from 07:30 to 10:30, but couldn't find a single bar or cafe open. Most places have just given up. Grey sky doesn't help one's morale.

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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

#26743 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:58 am

Afternoon folks, overcast but warm. Just been up to the safari camp. Three reflective parties going on. Alcohol flowing freely from cooler boxes.

Edit. The uncle of a kitchen worker had just died in the villahe but they had no petrol to shove the body into their car to take it into town. Petrol dispatched body moved.
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#26744 Post by Woody » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:02 pm

Woody wrote:
Sun Feb 14, 2021 1:39 pm
TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Sun Feb 14, 2021 12:45 pm
And to think that that buffoon Johnson wants to build a bridge over Beaufort's Dyke!
Try to keep up, plan B is this option =)) =)) =))

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... in-NI.html
Plan C has appeared :-o

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... eland.html
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#26745 Post by Magnus » Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:17 pm

Nice day today here. Sun, breeze and 9C.

I've to drop off shopping at Mum's this afternoon, and she's just called to say one of her kitchen cabinet doors has become unhinged. She immediately thought of me. Hmmm.

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#26746 Post by tango15 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 1:44 pm

Woody wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:02 pm
Woody wrote:
Sun Feb 14, 2021 1:39 pm
TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Sun Feb 14, 2021 12:45 pm
And to think that that buffoon Johnson wants to build a bridge over Beaufort's Dyke!
Try to keep up, plan B is this option =)) =)) =))

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... in-NI.html
Plan C has appeared :-o

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... eland.html
Upon reading that, one's thoughts turned immediately to Crossrail...

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#26747 Post by Wodrick » Sun Feb 21, 2021 1:50 pm

In a big thunderstorm Hail and Rain lashing at the windows, internet down using phone as a hot spot'
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#26748 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:18 pm

And to the east, warm and sunny, spots of wet on our seat outside but otherwise pleasant both walking and underfoot dig following, wind chill 10 deg. Back home she decided a paddle was called for to cook off. Up and down 50 yards of fast flowing spring water and well under 10 Feb and still not enough.

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#26749 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:22 pm

Woody wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:02 pm
Woody wrote:
Sun Feb 14, 2021 1:39 pm
TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Sun Feb 14, 2021 12:45 pm
And to think that that buffoon Johnson wants to build a bridge over Beaufort's Dyke!
Try to keep up, plan B is this option =)) =)) =))

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... in-NI.html
Plan C has appeared :-o

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... eland.html
I saw a scheme like that a week or two back with this huge underground roundabout. Can't remember where though. Maybe he saw it too. Anyway, they could call the three tunnels Tom, Dick and Harry.
I see Tom runs South through Luce Bay. I wonder if they will go under and Blue Danube and Yellow Sun shapes in the bay.


Found it, it was back in December but also in papers more recently. it is in the Faeroes linking 3 islands. Perhaps he should start in Orkney, save Ricardian a ferry trip.

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#26750 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:33 pm

Magnus:
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Gives one purpose.

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#26751 Post by Rwy in Sight » Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:52 pm

Magnus your skills at repairing furniture is being recognised in the family.

Despite a forecast for mild weather and rain we got the opposite - plenty of sunshine and a bitter-ish cold.

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#26752 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Feb 21, 2021 6:05 pm

Magnus, cupboard door adjustment is on my to do list. Nothing worse than misaligned doors.

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#26753 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sun Feb 21, 2021 6:09 pm

I can think of a few things.

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#26754 Post by Magnus » Sun Feb 21, 2021 6:58 pm

The Mum cupboard hinge has snapped; cheap cast metal, I suspect. Removed the door to avoid damage, and the landlord can call out their maintenance company.

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#26755 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sun Feb 21, 2021 7:22 pm

Did it "snap" while you were working on it? ^#(^ :-? :))

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#26756 Post by 1DC » Sun Feb 21, 2021 9:20 pm

Consider yourself wanted Magnus, in this household if a cupboard door wanted adjusting I wouldn't be allowed anywhere near it. Not that I mind :) :)

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#26757 Post by Ex-Ascot » Mon Feb 22, 2021 5:44 am

Morning folks. 20°C raining, same forecast for whole week. Never going to get the ship out at this rate. Anyway the garden is looking great. Masisi Hooch production going on. 6 days to the end of the booze ban. Lurgy numbers are going down so do not see why he should extend it again. However we don't trust him so production will continue. Easter may bring an increase and another ban. Building a second hangar for stocks.

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#26758 Post by Rwy in Sight » Mon Feb 22, 2021 6:13 am

1DC wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 9:20 pm
Consider yourself wanted Magnus, in this household if a cupboard door wanted adjusting I wouldn't be allowed anywhere near it. Not that I mind :) :)
Maybe both parts of your statement are inversely connected - by not minding you make sure they don't ask you.

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#26759 Post by OFSO » Mon Feb 22, 2021 6:19 am

And pouring with rain and windy here. Tuesday and Wednesday forecast the same. Buggah! Run out of small twigs to start the woodstove of an evening.

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#26760 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Feb 22, 2021 6:39 am

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Sat Feb 20, 2021 2:20 pm

Radio Caroline Ralph - The Pirate Years C. Humphries
Have been reading the book noted above which is a dense history <<sometimes difficult to follow and full of misprints>> of all the pirate stations but with a focus on Radio Caroline and was delighted to discover this aviation related piece of history which may, or may not be of interest here...
During April the tender Offshore 1 was on its way to exchange DJs and land stores at Radio London and Radio Caroline South. As the tender approached Radio London, <<owned by Radio Caroline by this time>> an American Air Force jet, flying nearby developed engine trouble. The pilot of the F101 jest was forced to eject, leaving his plane to crash into the sea.
Suffice it to say the tender diverted and <<some newspapers claimed>> DJ Pete Brady dived into the sea to support the pilot, who was injured during the ejection, while nets were lowered and the crew retrieved the two men in the water. The book claims that the tender returned to Harwich where an ambulance was waiting to take the pilot to hospital. While he was recuperating in hospital. Radio Caroline played him two music requests a day until he was released and went on to make a full recovery...

The accident is noted here as well...

http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/odds19.htm
Just after Easter 1965, on Tuesday 20th April, the Wijsmuller tug Offshore I was carrying out its regular duties, servicing Radio Caroline South and Radio London. Caroline's ship, the mv Mi Amigo, was the first port of call. Disc-jockeys returning from their shore leave were dropped off and the tender continued on its way to the Radio London's vessel.

Meanwhile overhead an American pilot was flying a Voodoo fighter aircraft. Based in France he was on a training mission when he was forced to eject at near supersonic speed. The ejection fractured his shoulder and damaged his knee. Dazed, light-headed and on the verge of losing consciousness, he guided his parachute towards the small ships he could see way down below him. The North Sea in April can be pretty inhospitable but, fortunately for First Lieutenant John C. Winn, the tender was in the right place at the right time. Radio London DJs Pete Brady and Dave Dennis were on their way back to the Galaxy. They saw the parachuting airman descend into the water. The tender changed course to pick him up. Some newspapers reported that Pete jumped into the sea to help him on board - which was not strictly true - but the two DJs did assist in getting him onto the tender. The exhausted pilot was then taken to the radio ship to dry off. He was given warm clothes and a drink. And, of course, the station did not hesitate in relaying full details of the drama to their listeners.

Having swapped crew at the Galaxy, the Offshore I then returned to the Mi Amigo. The Radio London DJs going on leave (Dave Cash, Kenny Everett and Earl Richmond) were joined by their Caroline counterparts (Garry Kemp, Doug Kerr and Keith Martin) and the tender headed back for land with the injured pilot.

An ambulance was waiting on the quayside and John Winn was rushed to the hospital at USAF Bentwaters in Suffolk, a very lucky man.

Radio London was not the only radio station to get in on the excitement that day. An air-sea rescue helicopter was launched to pick up the pilot and headed out to sea. Someone must have heard that he was on board a pirate station but got its name wrong because the helicopter landed a man on Radio City's fort. This caused some alarm to the occupants. Once everything had been explained though they too could not wait to inform their audience.

The rescue of the pilot received a lot of publicity on land, which was particularly helpful to Radio London which had only been on the air for a few months and only been broadcasting on full power for a matter of weeks (see another cutting here). What delighted the writer of this memo, right, was that the station was not described on the BBC news as a “pop pirate”. It seemed that, in a very short time, Radio London had already become an accepted part of the established media. It is thought that the author of the memo was John Dienn, alias DJ Earl Richmond, writing to his colleague Paul Kaye.

Following the rescue, Radio London received a letter of thanks from the Governor of Texas, John Winn's home state, and Programme Director Ben Toney was made an Admiral in the Texas navy!

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