Mundane News

[Ming the Merciless]

And if not were there any dodgy looking penguins about the place?

Nah chickens

 

[Reynard]

Lovely supper of tomato & basil soup, then spaghetti with creamy mushrooms and truffle pesto.

 

[Reynard]

Mine are all eating a bit less at the minute - I say a bit less, one or two stuff themselves one or twice a week and chuck it back up. We serve one or two pouches at a time max with our 4 - usually one pouch at a time - more feed times, less food.

Mine get 1/3 of a standard 100g pouch each, or half an 80g tin as a wet food serving, both for breakfast and then for supper. There are biscuits down all the time.

Poppy is what I'd call a "serial snacker" when it comes to food, except if there's something she really likes, and then she'll empty her dish in one go and then have a look at Lexi's. Lexi still has the occasional "vacuum cleaner" moments when it comes to food - and then throws it back up. Even after the best part of eight and a half years here, she occasionally forgets that a) there's not that much competition for food (see previous), and b) that good quality food gets put down at regular intervals.

 

[Reynard]

Oh, and I spent half hour earlier trying to model some rivets on the Higman's bodywork. It ended up being an exercise in frustration as it was simply just far too fiddly. Basically, cutting sewing pins to length and then pressing them into the cardboard. Resulted in some holes where I didn't want any along with a load of pingfeckits, ergo I gave it up as a bad job.

I really don't want to damage the sections I'm working on by being ham-fisted as there's at least twelve hours of work tied up in these two particular pieces and starting from scratch again would be a headache. So I'll just paint the rivets in later instead.

 

[Jameshow]

Oh, and I spent half hour earlier trying to model some rivets on the Higman's bodywork. It ended up being an exercise in frustration as it was simply just far too fiddly. Basically, cutting sewing pins to length and then pressing them into the cardboard. Resulted in some holes where I didn't want any along with a load of pingfeckits, ergo I gave it up as a bad job.

I really don't want to damage the sections I'm working on by being ham-fisted as there's at least twelve hours of work tied up in these two particular pieces and starting from scratch again would be a headache. So I'll just paint the rivets in later instead.

Make the hole with a full length pin and then push the cut pin in place?

 

[classic33]

Make the hole with a full length pin and then push the cut pin in place?

Cut the pin when through.

 

[Reynard]

Make the hole with a full length pin and then push the cut pin in place?

Cut the pin when through.

Tried both of those methods. The first, it's hard to get the cut pin to stay put, and the second, it's impossible to cut the pin to the correct length. Which is a problem, as it would damage stuff that doesn't want holes in.

Also, even with glue, the pins were falling out.

Nope, giving it up as a bad job.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Snowed about an inch, then it all melted, a snow more for decor than for long term.

 

[Jenkins]

...
From that you've gone past that place that's haunted, again! Electronic devices have been known to stop working.
You'll get wet on the return trip!
Radiator won't dry your clothes this time.

It must be haunted by somebody who died by drowning on the walk home - you weren't wrong about getting wet as it absolutely tipped it down just as we all left the Brudenell. Trousers & fleece jacket hanging over the bathroom door & a chair respectively and turned the heating up in the room for a bit so they will be dry for the morning.

Despite this, it was a really good night out.

 

[Reynard]

Time for a and a toasted HCB

 

[Reynard]

Right, I'm having an early one.

Nunnight one and all xxx

 

[oldwheels]

Early start today so very soon out in the rain again for a ferry trip to get my heart checked out.
Aortic stenosis being monitored.

 

[tom73]

Hound time then

 

[Andy in Germany]

Oh, and I spent half hour earlier trying to model some rivets on the Higman's bodywork. It ended up being an exercise in frustration as it was simply just far too fiddly. Basically, cutting sewing pins to length and then pressing them into the cardboard. Resulted in some holes where I didn't want any along with a load of pingfeckits, ergo I gave it up as a bad job.

I really don't want to damage the sections I'm working on by being ham-fisted as there's at least twelve hours of work tied up in these two particular pieces and starting from scratch again would be a headache. So I'll just paint the rivets in later instead.

On the one occasion I modelled anything vaguely riveted, I used dressmakers pins and drilled holes first. I had the advantage that I was making a big box so there was no need to cut them short, and also because I was making an entirely imaginary, (and frankly rahter silly) object, exact scale didn't matter because no-one could tell me I'd got it wrong.

 

[biggs682]

Morning it's dark outside
Damp underfoot
Garden birds have been fed