The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. Thanks for the hippo info guys. No mention of Botswana in those articles. We have thousands of the bastards. Windy again and a bit cloudy. not very nice.

We met a frog at the safari camp yesterday. He spoke perfect English with an English accent. Unbelievable. I commented on this so he immediately switched to a frog accent to prove that he was frog. He is self driving with his son. Hope they have a satellite phone because their planned tour is rather adventurous.

[Ibbie]

Hi folks.

It's 31c clear and humid here.

Been stocking up on drinking liquids again this morning. Just drunk a litre of soda water as was feeling a little light headed.

[VP959]

For some reason the mention of "Cocaine Hippos" in that article conjured up an image of drug-fuelled hippos on the rampage . . .

It seems the "Cocaine Hippos" are all descended from one male and three female hippos that were released into the wild in Columbia, so with just a single male ancestor they must be pretty inbred. Probably does nothing to help their temper.

[Woody]

Someone really didn’t think this through

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -Rose.html

[Woody]

I’m sure that a few of you have a copy of this

[TheGreenAnger]

A 62-year-old Frenchman survived for 16 hours in an air bubble inside his capsized sailing boat in the Atlantic Ocean before being rescued by Spanish coastguard divers in what they described as an operation “verging on the impossible”.

The 12-metre (40ft) Jeanne Solo Sailor sent out a distress signal at 8.23pm on Monday 14 miles from the Sisargas Islands off Spain’s north-western Galicia region, the coastguard said. Tracking data shows it had set sail from the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, on Sunday morning.

As a rescue ship carrying five divers set sail, one of three helicopters sent to aid the search located the upturned vessel as the sun went down. A diver was winched on to the ship’s hull to seek signs of life, and the man inside, who has not been named, responded to his banging on the hull by knocking from inside.

With the sea too rough to attempt a rescue, the coastguard attached buoyancy balloons to the ship’s hull to prevent it from sinking further and waited until the morning.

Two divers swam under the boat to help free the sailor, who they found wearing a neoprene survival suit and submerged in water up to his knees.

Vicente Cobelo, a member of the coastguard’s special operations team, told a local station that the man then jumped into the freezing water and swam under the boat to reach the sea’s surface.

“Of his own initiative he got into the water and freedived out, helped by the divers who had to pull him through because it was difficult for him to get out in his suit,” Cobelo said.

The man was airlifted to safety and taken to hospital for checks, and was discharged soon afterwards with no issues.

- from The Guardian

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[OFSO]

The OFSOs have arrived at their Teddington, Middlesex residence. 13 hours door to door on the train(s). Provisionally furnished, thanks to family, and full of boxes of Stuff from the previous flat in Islington, but feels like home.

[G-CPTN]

Be sure to ask around for Two Ton Ted the baker's van driver from Teddington (Ernie the milkman's nemesis).

[PHXPhlyer]

Welcome home!

PP

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Islington to Teddington takes 13 hours?

..actually, given the state of transport, I can believe that.

[Wodrick]

Roses (Es) to Teddy(GB) try to keep up.

[Woody]

Bloody Insomnia Fairies are out again

[PHXPhlyer]

Teddington is a suburb in south-west London in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. In 2021, Teddington was named as the best place to live in London by The Sunday Times. Historically in Middlesex, Teddington is situated on a long meander of the Thames between Hampton Wick and Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. Wikipedia

Only the best for the OFSOs!

PP

[TheGreenAnger]

Teddington, home of Two Ton Ted, would be suitor of Sue. Wanted for the the killing, by rock cake, of Ernie the milkman!

[Ibbie]

Morning all. 27c presently. Up to 29c later ir is published....what a joke!

Teddington Lock is where you can pass by your narrow boat from the Thames to the canal system.

Cleaner is a no show again this morning.

[VP959]

Teddington Lock is also home to the TV studio where the daytime TV show "Kilroy" was made. Regrettably I made a poor decision and agreed to appear on one of his shows after some damned fool decided to give me a medal. Not a pleasant experience overall and I vowed never to have anything to do with trashy media like that ever again.

[Wodrick]

Good Moaning all,

Clear, guess over here 32c, currently 30c 41%, yesterday managed 33c.

Bit of provisions next, tomorrow is a local holiday.

Later this afternoon SM is at a eye specialist in Ma Lager city.
Alice says it's not too far off the main radial road in th the centre and it will take me 44 minutes.
Don't like driving in AGP.

[CharlieOneSix]

Whilst walking the dog just now I was listening to Radio 2 and Jeremy Vine. His guest was Christian Lamb, a 102 year old former Wren Officer who served throughout WW2. I was utterly absorbed by her story, enchanted by her wonderful voice and clarity of thought. She has written seven books, one of them being "Beyond The Sea: A Wren at War". I shall have to buy it. Just discovered she also wrote "I Only Joined for the Hat: Redoubtable Wrens at War - Their Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs".

[Ex-Ascot]

Afternoon folks. 30°c so pullover now off. Just looked up that lady C16. What an incredible girl. I love the "I Only Joined for the Hat".

Fairly calm wind today. Our chap spent 6 hours raking sand today. He likes raking. Should get him a job at a golf course.

[TheGreenAnger]

Hot and sweaty after a sortie with the CFI, our resident Sky God who professed me competent to bounce around in aircraft for another year at least.

Otherwise, just work, humidity and the little irritations of life generally.