Author Topic: What are you doing right now? (Read 2457891 times)

Gattopardo · « **Reply #23000 on:** 14 August, 2020, 04:31:47 pm »

Deciding to either have a coffee or a beer.

ElyDave · « **Reply #23001 on:** 14 August, 2020, 04:32:35 pm »

Boiling water, after having spent an hour removing elderberries from their stalks with a fork. Homebrew time again

T42 · « **Reply #23002 on:** 14 August, 2020, 05:00:55 pm »

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble... Go easy on the eye of newt, Dave.

Meanwhile, I am inhaling the aroma of soda bread baking and thinking gourmandizing thoughts.

Basil · « **Reply #23003 on:** 14 August, 2020, 05:04:58 pm »

Sitting out the back of my local with a beer for the first time in erm, 5 months is it?
To be honest, the beer is not great. $:-\$
Don't think I'll be back for a while.

Gattopardo · « **Reply #23004 on:** 16 August, 2020, 10:40:04 pm »

531 Mercier bike....should i buy it?

Beardy · « **Reply #23005 on:** 17 August, 2020, 01:58:30 am »

Not sleeping. Not feeling sleepy either.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #23006 on:** 17 August, 2020, 10:26:17 am »

Watching some builders on the road taking a wall down using some vibrating tool with no ear protection and sighing.

T42 · « **Reply #23007 on:** 17 August, 2020, 10:34:55 am »

Gathering strength before attacking lunch prep. Lots of chopping to do.

Before that, holding a straight piece of wood against the wall in the hall and looking ruefully at the bulges and hollows. Some jobs just shouldn't be started. I really wanted to make a zither.

ElyDave · « **Reply #23008 on:** 17 August, 2020, 10:48:37 am »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 17 August, 2020, 10:26:17 am

Watching some builders on the road taking a wall down using some vibrating tool with no ear protection and sighing.

Imagine my reaction when walking out of Ely railway station to see a bloke in a hole, with a small petrol powered engine next to him, and another bloke bending over filling it with petrol with a fag in his mouth whilst it was still running!

Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me

Kim · « **Reply #23009 on:** 17 August, 2020, 11:22:50 am »

Quote from: ElyDave on 17 August, 2020, 10:48:37 am

Imagine my reaction when walking out of Ely railway station to see a bloke in a hole, with a small petrol powered engine next to him, and another bloke bending over filling it with petrol with a fag in his mouth whilst it was still running!

I believe that's how SIL burned her boat down. $:-\$

Gattopardo · « **Reply #23010 on:** 17 August, 2020, 11:53:27 am »

Quote from: T42 on 17 August, 2020, 10:34:55 am

Gathering strength before attacking lunch prep. Lots of chopping to do.

Before that, holding a straight piece of wood against the wall in the hall and looking ruefully at the bulges and hollows. Some jobs just shouldn't be started. I really wanted to make a zither.

Straight edge or plasterers scrim.

EDIT read why...steam the wood to the shape of the wall.

Gattopardo · « **Reply #23011 on:** 17 August, 2020, 11:59:20 am »

Quote from: Gattopardo on 16 August, 2020, 10:40:04 pm

531 Mercier bike....should i buy it?

So is that a yes

ian · « **Reply #23012 on:** 17 August, 2020, 08:49:01 pm »

Quote from: ElyDave on 17 August, 2020, 10:48:37 am

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 17 August, 2020, 10:26:17 am
Watching some builders on the road taking a wall down using some vibrating tool with no ear protection and sighing.

Imagine my reaction when walking out of Ely railway station to see a bloke in a hole, with a small petrol powered engine next to him, and another bloke bending over filling it with petrol with a fag in his mouth whilst it was still running!

Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me

They're all men, aren't they?

This is why they'll go extinct and females will reproduce parthenogenically. Eventually. My money in on next Wednesday.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #23013 on:** 17 August, 2020, 10:03:14 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 17 August, 2020, 10:26:17 am

Watching some builders on the road taking a wall down using some vibrating tool with no ear protection and sighing.

Later on, a bloke turned up with a digger (I refuse to use the brand name, the manky Tory apologists). Said digger was being operated over the heads of two other builders. Nary a hard hat in sight.
Oh and when they reversed the truck towards the rest of the wall to receive the digging debris, they hit the wall, despite being guided in.

ElyDave · « **Reply #23014 on:** 18 August, 2020, 07:07:04 am »

Maybe they were the demolition crew

rogerzilla · « **Reply #23015 on:** 09 October, 2020, 07:53:36 pm »

Our street has had a powercut since 1630 so I'm sitting in the dark. SSE are rummaging around in the substation.

ian · « **Reply #23016 on:** 09 October, 2020, 08:22:14 pm »

Quote from: rogerzilla on 09 October, 2020, 07:53:36 pm

Our street has had a powercut since 1630 so I'm sitting in the dark. SSE are rummaging around in the substation.

I've no doubt, but pull up your trousers before you embarrass someone else.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #23017 on:** 19 October, 2020, 01:16:21 pm »

Researching the post-Roaring Jack discography of said beat combo's late front man Alistair Hulett. Seems he recorded three albums with Dave “El Diablo” Swarbrick off of that Fairport Convention, four solo discs and one with The Malkies. Whoever they are. Probably not second-division villains out of Ian Rankin novels. Anything to avoid going to Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles.

Feanor · « **Reply #23018 on:** 24 October, 2020, 11:05:00 pm »

Playing with my VLF rx kit again.

Today is United Nations day.
The UN came into being on the 24th October,1945, it's aim "to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation".
That's going well, then.

To mark UN day, the World Heritage site Grimeton Radio (callsign SAQ) at Varberg, Sweden sends out a message to the world in Morse Code, using the last remaining electromechanical VLF transmitter in the world.

This year's message was composed by Anders Tegnell, Chief Epidemiologist of the Public Health Agency of Sweden.

CQ CQ CQ DE SAQ SAQ SAQ =
THIS IS GRIMETON RADIO / SAQ IN A TRANSMISSION USING THE ALEXANDERSON 200KW ALTERNATOR ON 17.2KHZ =
THE GLOBAL COVID-19 PANDEMIC CHALLENGES PEOPLE AND NATIONS TO MINIMIZE THE NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES FOR INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIETIES, AND TO UPHOLD THE ADVANCEMENTS IN PUBLIC HEALTH MADE IN RECENT DECADES.
GOOD HEALTH AND WELLBEING IS A PREREQUISITE FOR A PEACEFUL AND SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT, AND HEALTH EQUITY CAN NOT BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT PEACE AND HUMAN SECURITY.=
SIGNED: ANDERS TEGNELL, CHIEF EPIDEMIOLOGIST PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF SWEDEN IN COOPERATION WITH WORLD HERITAGE GRIMETON RADIO STATION AND THE ALEXANDER GRIMETON VETERANRADIOS VAENNER ASSOCIATION =

LoidLiu · « **Reply #23019 on:** 30 October, 2020, 02:15:14 pm »

Listen to a stupid audiobook ignoring tones of work that is supposed to be done by Monday.

TheLurker · « **Reply #23020 on:** 31 October, 2020, 08:01:55 am »

Eating fruit salad, drinking coffee, looking out at the Maunsell forts and wind turbines all the while offering up a quiet prayer of thanks to $deity that I am not at work for a whole fortnight.

Basil · « **Reply #23021 on:** 05 November, 2020, 02:53:48 pm »

I know we're not supposed to be here. But we are.

Basil · « **Reply #23022 on:** 05 November, 2020, 02:54:20 pm »

Oh. That didn't work, then.

Kim · « **Reply #23023 on:** 05 November, 2020, 03:06:42 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 05 November, 2020, 02:53:48 pm

I know we're not supposed to be here. But we are.

Try this:

20201105_133628 by Basil W, on Flickr

Greenbank · « **Reply #23024 on:** 05 November, 2020, 03:11:00 pm »

Watching a steady stream of cars doing U-turns in the road outside my window.

They've all driven past two separate "ROAD AHEAD CLOSED" signs (with suitable diversions on them) but, being classic SW London, they've obviously decided that those signs probably won't apply to them and have pushed on through.

That is until they find the road impassable due to it having been dug up by Thames Water for emergency repairs.

Looking forward to the various private school buses that use this route too, they're due in an hour or so...

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