Mundane News

[KnittyNorah]

I have become addicted to Flightradar24.
Fortunately it kicks me off every 15 minutes so there is hope for me ... LOL!
But I'm entranced watching the planes, copters, gliders, drones ... the mega-rich folk swanning about the globe, air ambulances getting busy, police patrolling motorways and autobahns, warplanes patrolling the borders, Hawks chasing each other over Morecambe Bay, the sudden 'disappearance' of Typhoons and F-15s ...

Back for another 15 minutes!

 

[DCLane]

@KnittyNorah - at 10am tomorrow I'll be on a Jet2 flight LS217 from Leeds Bradford to Lanzarote

It'll be the first time on a plane for several years and I'm a nervous flyer

 

[oldwheels]

No sign of the runner beans we planted on Saturday yet

Don't think they run that fast. Mine take nearly a couple of weeks before they deign to show their heads unless the snails get them when they never show at all.

 

[postman]

@KnittyNorah - at 10am tomorrow I'll be on a Jet2 flight LS217 from Leeds Bradford to Lanzarote

It'll be the first time on a plane for several years and I'm a nervous flyer

I will give you a wave from our back garden.You will see it the lawn needs cutting and I will be laid out sunbathing.

 

[KnittyNorah]

@KnittyNorah - at 10am tomorrow I'll be on a Jet2 flight LS217 from Leeds Bradford to Lanzarote

It'll be the first time on a plane for several years and I'm a nervous flyer

Oh I love flying, I took flying lessons at one time - 40-plus years ago - and even solo'ed but had to face reality about affordability.
I still have my old student pilots logbook somewhere and the remark from my instructor for one flight which was 'one take-off, six landings'. Bouncy bouncy down the long long runway ... he made me walk back to the control tower while he taxied back. From the big jets to little gyrocopters and in my ultimate fantasy world I would pilot a Harrier. Or maybe an Osprey.

I would say that I'll watch your flight but I can't as tomorrow I'm going to a medical centre to take part in a trial for a tailored omicron-variant vaccine as a booster vs 'normal' vaccine as a booster.

Some of the activity is very interesting - like when a Typhoon or a F-15 suddenly 'disappears' - and some is annoying like the sheer amount of cargo planes, and the very-short-hop journeys. Some is scary of course ...

Watching the military and police patrols is fascinating me, why have I never found this site before? Ah well, all the more to delight me now!

 

[postman]

No sign of the runner beans we planted on Saturday yet

Well you see the problem is,and I had the same trouble.It was April 1st and i never said ready steady go when I covered them.

 

[oldwheels]

Just as well I had nothing planned for today. Went down to the car for a trip to the pharmacy and found a dead battery. I had been suspicious about it for a week or two. It still seemed to turn over ok but not being out for a few days it decided enough was enough.
4 hour wait for AA Homestart. The only local garage doing any recovery work is 60 miles away in Fionnphort and when he turned up he had a car already on his truck and said the roads were mayhem as everybody was out driving around in the sunshine. Alternator is charging ok so must be the battery. Phoned my local garage and they do not have one in stock but can get one by tomorrow I hope.
Kept the trike back as I can use it to go and collect the car when ready. Unfortunate that I am booked to go away on Sunday and need to collect eye gel from the pharmacy before I go.

 

[biggs682]

Well you see the problem is,and I had the same trouble.It was April 1st and i never said ready steady go when I covered them.

I was hoping to pick some by now

 

[biggs682]

Just dead headed some of our daffodils still got a fair few to go

 

[Reynard]

Bugger, that didn't go to plan...

Mower started first time, so filled up with fuel and off I went. Did all the bits around the house, then went out to do some stuff further out. The steering starts to feel sloppy and then suddenly, the steering wheel turns, but the front wheels don't. Whoops.

Classic catastrophic fatigue failure of the steering linkage around a stress raiser. Would be a perfect picture for a Strength of Materials textbook...

Fortunately managed to use the car to tow the mower out of the garden and then shove it back in the garage. The steering is repairable, it's just a matter of swapping out the broken part. The only thing I'm not sure is whether it bolts in or whether it's welded in. The former is straightforward, the latter less so, because even though I can weld (MIG) well enough, I don't have the kit.

Anyways, sat here with a nice and a flat pack easter egg.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Bugger, that didn't go to plan...

Mower started first time, so filled up with fuel and off I went. Did all the bits around the house, then went out to do some stuff further out. The steering starts to feel sloppy and then suddenly, the steering wheel turns, but the front wheels don't. Whoops.

Classic catastrophic fatigue failure of the steering linkage around a stress raiser. Would be a perfect picture for a Strength of Materials textbook...

Fortunately managed to use the car to tow the mower out of the garden and then shove it back in the garage. The steering is repairable, it's just a matter of swapping out the broken part. The only thing I'm not sure is whether it bolts in or whether it's welded in. The former is straightforward, the latter less so, because even though I can weld (MIG) well enough, I don't have the kit.

Anyways, sat here with a nice and a flat pack easter egg.

I'm trying to work out if there's anything you haven't got some experience in @Reynard.

 

[Reynard]

I'm trying to work out if there's anything you haven't got some experience in @Reynard.

Anything involving music. I don't think playing three blind mice (excruciatingly badly) on the recorder counts.

 

[Hebe]

Music day today. Rehearsed, lessoned, collected two guitars and a bass guitar from the repairer. I don't mind replacing single broken strings on mine but they go in for whole new sets. Plus the girl is rightly fussy about who looks after her 🎸 s. The Sainsbury’s man asked me if I had an actual Taylor in the Taylor case that I was carrying, which was a first and very nice. I thought for a moment he was going to id me for the alcohol-free fizz I was buying, but apparently not 😂 Now listening to Song Exploder podcasts In an empty house.

edit- ha! Just seen Reynard’s post above.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Even though I've been out of the car for a couple of hours, 300 miles and a surfeit of coffee means like I feel like I'm still moving!

 

[sheddy]

Jet2 airline staff are great