The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread VI

[Wodrick]

19°c, 24°c. coming

Back to Dome for Friday
Except it’s not, it's a sort of high thin white layer.
Which is sneaking 100w/sqm off the heating effect.

Nice to meet Cousin, twelve years since the last time.
I finally spoke to her husband, never done that before.

SM off to the health centre for a double header, Nurse to get the wound cleaned and dressed and then doctor, I loose track of what for.

[OFSO]

Just pricing our next trip from Catalunia to UK, two (Senior) people. Return:
Train Figueras to London €1190
BA BCN to LHR €380
EasyJet BCN to LGW €590

Ryanair ruled out as they use Boeings
Jet2 GRO to STN . about €500 but inconvenient times and we live near LHR..

Sorry Greta but money talks. If the train was comparable in price we'd take it, but not paying three times the BA price.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Same in Canada.
What happened to make rail the most expensive form of passenger transport?
It's cheaper to drive across Canada and pay the stupidly high accommodation and fuel prices than take the train these days.
It's happened in the last 10 years.

[JimR]

Just pricing our next trip from Catalunia to UK, two (Senior) people. Return:
Train Figueras to London €1190
BA BCN to LHR €380
EasyJet BCN to LGW €590

That seems an excellent price! I have just booked EasyJet LGW to Montpellier return for two, €855. That's approximate because I paid in Canadian dollars (my bank) which were converted from US dollars to Euros.
Admittedly that's for the beginning of August and includes 1 piece of checked baggage each which costs a fortune. There was hardly any difference between LGW and LHR.
BUT yes, train much more expensive.

[OFSO]

Before Brexit there were a number of firms doing parcel shipping from the UK to Spain. We regularly used these for bring back shopping and clothing that would have meant a bulky suitcase. We used to pay around €20 for a one metre cube cardboard box, weight unimportant. And go on holiday with hand luggage only and your parcel would be waiting for you. Return and your parcel would be collected at house or hotel.
Taxes post Brexit means these firms no longer deal with the UK.

Thanks D Cameron, T May, B Johnson and the rest of you incompetent lying numbskulls.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

It's not just Brexit. Pretty much every company that did mail order in Canada or USA would ship to the other. Now that's no longer true, either way.
There was an expanding business in small towns on either side of the border doing accommodation addresses and parcel holding, but in the last 9 months that's being clamped down on by all official/financial parties.

[Karearea]

Well that was a surprise: all ready to start my day, came into the living room, switched off lights, opened curtains, all very dark still. Realised there's still about half an hour till sunrise

2.8°C expecting 14°C, possibly.

- did anyone see the Comet Pons-Brooks in the skies recently? I think I would have needed to demolish the roof of the house across the street to see it at sunset, which seems a leetle extreme.

[OFSO]

Wasn't Pons-Brooks a Cardinal who was passed over during the Papal Elections in the 'sixties ? The Rev Jim might know....

[Karearea]

Wasn't Pons-Brooks a Cardinal who was passed over during the Papal Elections in the 'sixties ? The Rev Jim might know....

Comet Pons-Brooks was conclusively discovered at Marseilles Observatory in July 1812 by Jean-Louis Pons, and on its next appearance in 1883 by William Robert Brooks.

Wikipedia: 12P/Pons–Brooks

[Karearea]

Adding: Wikipedia: 1963 Papal Conclave

Wikipedia: Cardinal electors in the 1963 papal conclave

Next Papal elections were in August and then October, 1978.

[G-CPTN]

I travelled to New Zealand to see Comet Halley.

It was fainter than I expected - I anticipated a firework in the sky.

[Karearea]

I travelled to New Zealand to see Comet Halley.

It was fainter than I expected - I anticipated a firework in the sky.

Ya, I hoped for a repeat of something like Comet Ikeya–Seki

but even so was a thrill to see Halley.

[Hydromet]

Good afternoon all, sorry for lack of weather report this morning. It's now 100% cloud, 17C and forecast max 18C.

When Haley's last visited it was distinctly unimpressive. A couple of years before, sometime in the late '60s or early 70s, we were visited by a much more spectacular comet whose name I can't remember. It barely raised a mention in the press, but it seemed to have a diameter about half that of the moon, with a good sized tail. The first time I saw it was at about 0200, out in the bush with very little ambient lighting.

[OFSO]

I was on shift at the Mission Control Centre on Encounter Day as the Giotto spacecraft flew through the comet so had a better view than all of you !

[Hydromet]

Sold a couple of the boxes so spent an our or so freshening them up with a coat of oil. Not exactly heavy labour, but by the time I'd finished I was stuffed. I think It's going to take me a while to get back to full fitness.

Had some nice emails from previous clients. One was from someone I'd never met or even spoken to. He commissioned a box for his bride by email about 10 years ago, he wanted an imaginative design with a secret compartment for a love note. I emailed the designs for him to approve, he OK'd them, I made the box, he paid, I sent him the box and had a 'thank you' in reply, all without ever speaking. I thought I'd never hear from him, but received an email from him telling me that it still looks as good as new, and his wife still loves it. More satisfying than money!

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. 8/8 cover first thing now breaking up. Safari camp for a few beers. The CCTV hasn't worked since Feb. We paid for a new power unit which was installed. Cameras work now but the replay doesn't work. I phone practically every day. He promises to come but never does. Now they have sent me an SMS to say that my account is in the red and I owe them money. If I do not pay they are going to turn off our monitoring service, which we do not have, and take legal action (in capitals). They are referring to the power unit which was paid for a month ago. Snotogramme sent.

[Ex-Ascot]

Is it just me or is this just stupid: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... -time.html

Note started by frogs.

[tango15]

I see that the prices, as one might expect, are ridiculous.

[1DC]

I recall that there was a dark, silent, restaurant in St. Kilda,Melbourne a few years ago. It got rave reviews but I couldn't see the point.
It has been a cool dull and wet day on the Humber. The electric blanket will warm the bed up tonight.
I went out this morning and heard a cuckoo for the first time for about five years,They were almost guaranteed during the first week in in May then disappeared, later in the morning when I was feeding the birds I heard two. Then later this afternoon I am sure I heard three and that is a first for me.
A crow has been waking us up just after dawn banging on one of the windows with it's beak as it fights its reflection. We have had it before usually it only last for a few days. We were told to hang a CD up and it would spin in the wind and drive it away, what we weren't told was that when the wind blows it also bangs on the window and wakes you up anyway!

[Hydromet]

Good morning all, clear blue skies here today, currently 11C, forecast max 21C. Will get out and enjoy the sun. I'm feeling quite well, but get very tired.