oh oh because it was on the other day, for he SCI-FI geeks:

Mr Morden “What do you want?”

Vir: “I’d like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favours come with too high a price. I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this [smiles and waves his fingers at Morden]. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?”

@rse, good luck, currently got a mate whose outcome depends on two sucker lorry drivers hoovering up 13000 litres every 40 mins. They’ve been there since Thursday.

Actually there a are a couple of ways of measuring wave height, I’m sure a surfer will be along in a minute to explain then. Also I’d be very surprised if the wave was from the east like that seeing as all our weather at the moment is driving across the Atlantic!

“All that has happened before, will happen again”

“Am I having a stroke or has someone just turned out the lights?”

“The Arc was built by an amateur, the Titanic by professionals”

I feel a ban hammer coming……

😀

Very good.

Mrs M likes her new Hopes.

Even more so when she watched me put in all the flippin screws. 😀

I got a call out a few years ago to a fault myself and two other colleagues had been dealing with all day. My two colleagues have forgotten more about the piece of kit than I’ll ever know.

I explained to the first controller that we had been working on it all day and ran out of hours so we would be back on it first thing the next day. I explained all the testing we had done, the fact that I’d only be able to repeat what had been done already which would prove nothing and not resolve the fault.

It would also mean that if I was out on it all night I would not be there during the day to help my colleagues with the donkey work, whilst letting them think about the problem. He was not happy but went away.

An hour later phone rings:

“This is The Control Manager, I’m not happy with your response, what are you going to do about it”

Me (mustering as insolent tone as possible) “Wow, that’s an impressive title. Nothing”

CM “What!”

Me “Nothing, I’ve told your colleague everything, I won’t be able to do anything productive tonight on this fault, far better to use my Oncall time for something else if it comes up or for me to help my far more knowledgeable but not oncall colleagues tomorrow”

CM “That’s not good enough, I want you out there fixing it”

Me “I’m not going as I’ve already tried everything I know and my colleagues have spent 9 hrs looking at it today and are still no closer to a solution”

CM “What’s your Manager name”

Me “It’s so and so but he’ll give you the same answer”

Five minutes later my Oncall Manager rings me and tells me off for not saying “Fxxx xxf!” more rudely to the CM!

Got a 26 Rocky Mountain and a Superfly. I enjoy the Superfly more, it’s very fast and I tend to pedal myself into the ground every time I ride it (it whispers faster fat boy, faster!) Absolutely wasted my times around Cannock with it when I did a back to back comparison. Most of my riding is South Downs.

TBH I get on the Rocky and it feels a bit of a slug.

Hmm clubs

More trials, scheming and machinations than the Roman Senate.

Good luck.

10 minutes walk

Though this is one of the drier bits at the moment, I hate it when it’s this bad.

More Staffie pics then:

Ahsoka. She’s now a bit bigger and a LOT heavier.

Our other Staffie, Chewie had terrible squits to start with eventually ending up on hypoallergenic expensive food after being found to be allergic to food storage mite. He’d keep getting flare ups so about 3 months ago both of them went on the RAW diet (vet recommended it), which is pretty gross but since then both have had good quality poo’s and Chewie’s coat has developed a glossiness it never had.

Chewie emergency cooling last summer:

I’m just expelling last nights naga curry (when will I learn?), a bidet sounds lovely at the mo….. 😥

+1 Captain Slow on SE pricing. Our next door nieghbours bungy went for what can only be described as “telephone numbers” about a week after it was put on the market.

Start looking for somewhere else, let the vendor know it’s because it’s taking too long. That will either get her to pull her socks up or finish the deal off. It’s a bit brutal but house buying sometimes is.

Sitting in limbo is not good.

It’s rubbish, worse than rubbish. Gave up riding on it a month ago (even the SS has died-headset). Walking the hounds on what are usually reasonably weather resistant paths I’ve found bogs, puddles and nastiness. Worst I’ve ever seen it in 14 years of walking and riding on the downs.

Double Ouch, GWS. Sounds like a heavy impact. Mate broke his hip in his 30’s after he fell off a 4 storey scaffold.

I am not at work today(annual leave), however according to one of my colleagues the boss has sent me on a fault to Chichester and then Berwick?!

How dare you Sir, Chalk is not sloppy in the wet, it’s teflon death! 😀

My MIL told us that this was filmed in New Zealand!

Dipping slices of green apple into piccalilli.

mmmmmmmm

Well got back from an xmas visit to the relatives to find one fence panel down and the cups have come off my anemometer after a gust of 98mph!

Whatever you do don’t put yourself in the way, your likely to get bitten.

I cannot make up my mind whether or not to buy a road bike.

I forgotten the code to my surfing keysafe.

Sorry

Scum

Hmmm, last interview I had, the shiny shoes got me the job. Senior New Boss was most impressed and given that Immediate New Boss also had shiny shoes and liked me I got the job. The rest of the interview revolved around motorbikes, racing yachts and curries.

This might say a lot for the quality of the staff on the railway.

Fascinating

It’s not plastic! 😡 It’s burnt toast and horse hair!

Pennywise is a 17.5

You can borrow Pennywise if you want, just lock the fork out and leave it in one gear.

Despicable Me 1 & 2
The Incredibles
M v A
How to train your Dragon

30 seconds after walking in the door; “how long will it take to fix?”

“It’s really racking up delays, can you not fix it faster?”

Customer “You took far too long to get here”
Me “Well effing teleport me across London next time you pompous git”

After a long explanation of radio skip, meteorology and physics got asked what I could do to stop it happening. Client got upset when told “I canne change the laws of physics”

Put a monkey in his wardrobe:

That’ll sort the dinosaur problem out.

After much training Chewie now goes bonkers when I do my Darth Vader breathing. Mrs M is not impressed.

Glad your healing well, if you pick your scabs remember to feed them to the dog.

Would never have happened on a 650b! 🙂

Torque wrenches are very relevant, especially if your boss used to work on harriers. He is banned from screwing anything up! In honor of him we have a unit of Torque named after him called a “Spellman” (c). It is precisely defined as the point you feel the threads fail be it M3 or M20! 🙁 😀

Sitting watching a documentary about the Falklands War, Mrs M walked into the room and said “I don’t know why your bothering to watch that, WE LOST!”

Though the best has to be whilst walking over the 7 Sisters Mrs M asked why all the big container ships were sailing the wrong way, flummoxed by this I asked what she meant. Well France is over there (pointing vaguely in the right direction) she replied and the ships are sailing through the channel, not across it to France………