The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

[Hydromet]

Hope you're feeling a bit better now Reddo.

[OneHungLow]

Need to lose weight fast? I recommend Covid. 2kg in 3 days. Bonus ab toning with coughing too.

Go easy on yourself even after you stop testing positive. The cough seems to persist for a while. I am still occasionally wracked with same after catching this foul contagion three weeks back.

I hope you start feeling better soon.

[Wodrick]

24th PM
12/15 three guesses failed

[reddo]

It seems to be easing off but it's early days... Feeling better than yesterday. It's day 4.

[1DC]

7/15.Good that you are showing improvement Reddo. Mrs 1DC and I are well on the way with our pressure washing, the garden slabs should be finished tomorrow. Four hours a day seems to be a nice manageable effort.Been cloudy and windy on the Humber but a warm 20C.

[llondel]

Interesting day at the dog show yesterday, Kepler back in the ring for the first time in almost a year. She got Select, the dog who got Winners Bitch beat her to Best of Opposite, and Cassini got Best of Winners, beating that dog. So he beat his mother yesterday. In other news, one of Faraday's puppies got her champion title yesterday in Colorado, too.

[Karearea]

Good morning on Monday, 4.5°C expecting 9°C and partly cloudy with light north-easterlies. Jupiter and a few stars visible in the north earlier. Bright moonlight from the half-Moon high overhead last night.
Woke at some stupid hour, going to be a long day...

reddo - I hope you feel better soon, best wishes to you.

Dogs are doing well, llondel.

10/15 in this morning's quiz: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/quizze ... er-25-2023

[PHXPhlyer]

Elevens on both.
Same as yesterday.

PP

[limeygal]

8/15

Reddo- hope you feel better soon. Don't give it to Checkers-he might infect all those bucket & spaders he flies to Palmajorca

[PHXPhlyer]

Need to lose weight fast? I recommend Covid. 2kg in 3 days. Bonus ab toning with coughing too.

Are you doing anything other than treating symptoms?
Keep getting better.

PP

[Karearea]

Was dropping in tracks earlier after waking at some idiotic time so went back to bed for a couple of hours. Blame Daylight Time and fiddling with the clocks.

It got colder while I wasn't keeping an eye on things, now 2.4°C, sunny; almost looks like a little frost on the lawn.

Now for a fresh dash at the day

[PHXPhlyer]

New Covid booster and flu shot onboard.
RSV vaccine in two weeks.

PP

[OneHungLow]

Off to bed early tonight for an early start at Headcorn in the morning. Weather forecast looks good for tomorrow.

[Karearea]

Off to bed early tonight for an early start at Headcorn in the morning. Weather forecast looks good for tomorrow.

Enjoy

[G-CPTN]

Dozed off earlier.
When I woke up I glanced at the clock.
Couldn't tell if it was quarter past nine or quarter to three.

[CharlieOneSix]

Red alert just gone off on my phone that the Aurora is likely. Rushed outside to see if I could see it.....hissing down with rain....

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[Hydromet]

Morning all, 7/15, with a couple of stupid mistakes.
Clear blue skies, currently 16c, forecast max 27c. Another perfect day.

[bob2s]

7/15, bright blue dome to greet the day with 29c max guessed at for later.

[ExSp33db1rd]

I have an 8 day long case clock which must be about 100 years old. I have no idea where my grandfather got it from, there are no makers marks on it and the general opinion is that it was made possibly as an apprentice piece with the case acquired separately. It has confused several repairers; one commented 'all the bits are there but not necessarily where I would expect to find them'.

Sounds like mine. I bought mine in Dorset in 1970, and the then clockmender/ retailer explained that many were made by the local carpenter, who made the case then bought a mechanism from Clerkenwell, the London centre of clockmaking, and got a local artist to paint the dial. Mine fits that description and has a painting of the Cobb, Lyme Regis, as the face decoration, with the artists name enscribed thereon.

Had to replace the wind-up wire that the weights hang from, and the local artisan cut them too short so that it is only a 6 day clock now, and I frequently give it a wind-up as I pass through the front hall. No problem. Over the years I have played with the pendulum length adjusting screw, so now it is as good a timekeeper as my digital watch, and the pendulum shaft is wood, not metal, so local temperature changes have no effect. Simple. Only chimes the hours, not the quarters.

Cost £400, wonder what it might cost today today ? Will probably end up with my son, if he wants to ship it back to the UK.

[OFSO]

Morning all. Cool and windy. Planets so bright in the dawn sky.