The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread I

[stuart]

Back from ear lowering

I haven't heard that expression for a long time

[Ex-Ascot]

So far today 27 posts on t'other Trabb thread, 50 on this one. How old is our ship compared to the old one?!!!

Admiral, no reflection on you sir you were and always will be the founder of Trabb and we all appreciate that. It is just due to idiots beyond our control and thanks to Alison we have found a new playground. Hope you will stick with us reprobates FSL.

[reddo]

Home.

[4mastacker]

One has had to make an urgent visit to the orange warehouse to purchase some wallpaper. Theo decided he didn't like the one that was on the staircase wall and started to peel it away in large chunks. I wondered why he was being so quiet- the little tinker.

[Blacksheep]

Being on a week off, I've been helping Missus with the school holiday child minding. Expedition to the Galleria to buy new "Skylanders" characters was successful. Bought myself a nice Harris Tweed waistcoat - matches my kilt and tweed jacket. Will have to get the GHB fired up and advertise for weddings - Marie's Wedding, Nut Brown Maiden etc. Funerals even - Flowers of the Forest, Dark Island and such.

[angels]

Reddo!! Lovely to see you. Home from whereish? Sunnier climes is my guess.

Drapes, I had a good chuckle at your memory stick being unable to light your fag and the trouble asked me what I was laughing at. When I told her she asked me to tell you that she once lit her nostrils having forgotten to put a gasper in her mouth. Excess alcohol was not a mitigating factor.

Funeral went okay -- as well as these things can. Nice service from the chappess who had to raise her voice a bit as she talked over the downpour that was clattering onto the crematorium chapel roof. She told me afterwards she had a burial yesterday where it poured and things got a bit slippery and messy. What surprised me was that it was only her third burial this calendar year. London has essentially run out of graves except for those that have been reserved.

Re potential Prooners, westlakes and family? Seacue? Exmods??

[probes]

As for boats...
24 ft vs 25,5 - and the record is beaten!



poor guy. Three years of hard work.

You're going to need an even bigger boat! Fisherman, 51, spends three years building 'world's biggest' Lego model of warship USS Missouri - only to be beaten by just inches by an American rival
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ival.htmlk

(P.S a friend of mine tried to make a phone call with a TV remote that she'd put in her bag.)

[handsfree]

Tired and ausgeklopft
Today would appear to be a very good day for the new ship.
Long may it continue - it feels very comfortable on here.

[Happy SLF]

One is a tad surprised no one has mentioned tiz the 669th anniversary of the Battle of Cressy today,one feels duty bound as a Englishman to do so
26.August 1346 Eddy III and his wee laddie the Black Prince did the biz.

Sorry Sir, your lordship etc but it has been mentioned in post 132 on page 7 by HF.

I was catching up and when I read Sirs post I thought ang on I have seen that already.

[tony draper]

Just finished watching Kenneth Branagh Henry V,again, which I concider a suitale filum for a Englishman to watch on anniversaries such as this one.

[tony draper]

Just spent about five hours making a backup and image of my Hard disk on a brand new external USB hard disk leastwise the puter has,now this extenal HD is a one terbyte critter, it now shows a folder marked backup that is apparently empty? yet the disk itself shows about 500 Mbts used up,be this be normal?

[Woody]

Goodnight everyone, see you in the morning.

[Keef]

Hidden folders, Cap'n D? Art using the Windows backup utility, or copying files so you can find the one you want without the cabfile explorer?

[Keef]

One had intended to commit aviation today, it being Wednesday and the leccy being off all day (the board replacing the four overhead cables with one much thicker one). The forecast changed so often over the past 24 hours that I resorted to looking out of the window only to see clouds, black and white, blue in between, all dashing past like there was a race on. It was spitting with rain too. While I watched, it went to full-scale cats and dogs. I can take a hint: plans were revised and I finally finished reading the book on Faculties that I started two months ago.

Off to the seaside in the morning for team discussion, planning, fishnchips, and contemplation. I'm taking two bottles of wine.

[Happy SLF]

I was having problems with my old steam driven desktop, system restore refused to work, so for some stupid reason I agreed with
the machine and did a factory reset. That will teach it I thought, stop messing with me I thought.

Oh dear what a big mistake that was , it was just me who suffered although as I don't store very much stuff I had made a backup
on a CD disk a while ago so I didn't lose too much. I just lost many hours restoring stuff. On the bright side the problems I was having
are gone and I can now once again scan stuff from my printer for the first time for weeks.

[jimtherev]

... I finally finished reading the book on Faculties that I started two months ago.

Is that Faculties as in 'We'll have to get a Faculty before we paint that door, yer Reverence'?
If so, what a fantastic bloke you are. So dedicated.

But of course we knew that, anyway.

[Keef]

That's the one, Jim. Ecclesiastical Listed Building Consent. I've prepared dozens of the things over the years and not had any major problems ... until now. This one's a Grade I listed church and the "statutory bodies" want the interior preserved exactly as it is. We'll get there.

Not dedicated, just determined and bloody-minded. I remember the purpose of the building.

[handsfree]

By jingo the day looks half promising.
10km or more and broken clouds at 1500' with Mr Sun just about poking his nose into the day's business.
It really is starting to feel autumny now though.

I felt like something different for breakfast so had a Caprese salad - beef tomato, mozarella cheese, fresh basil leaves
and an scattering of piri piri hot smoked salmon flakes.
Made a change.

On this day in 1896 the start (and end) of the Anglo-Zanzibar War. It was probably the shortest war in world history and lasted for just 38 minutes.
They didn't like it up 'em Mr Mannering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. It's Thursday, all day, which means I am outside The Safari Spar with a cider. Pub place is actully closed, not sure why, but I hammered on the door, they threw my beverage at me and locked it again. Fine with me. I haven't even paid. It is actually a fast food type place specialising in chicken.

[probes]

Mornin'!
Does dementia start with mis-coordination of the eye and brain? I read "I am outside The Safari Spar with a spider" and even got frightened of the mental pic before the truth sunk in?