Mundane News

[Reynard]

It's actually not been a bad day weatherwise here chez Casa Reynard. Chilly and breezy, but we had a good bit of sun.

I slept well, and did some work on the Higman this morning. Then a quick lunch (toast with peanut butter and a banana) and out into town to catch up with a whole raft of errands - including picking up my new phone.

Also popped to Tesco for a few bits, and feck me, have things gone up again. Ordinary brown onions, that were £1 a kilo last week, are now 30p *EACH* That's just insane. Works out at £1.80 a kilo - I got curious and weighed what I'd normally buy. And then bought the value onions which are still cheap. Although they are tiddly in comparison. I shall be looking elsewhere when it comes to onions, I think...

I did get lucky on sticker though, both in Tesco and in Waitrose. My combined haul was a tray of chicken livers, two trays of pate, red leicester, manchego and comte cheeses, a large bag of carrots, two bunches of salad onions, two nets of tangerines, a bag of pears and a bakery bread.

Now sat down with a and a chocolate cake bar.

 

[Reynard]

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.

The steam-powered tank, I presume?

I remember asking you how you'd done the rivets on that a while back. When I was struggling with the pins yesterday, I figured that you'd just pushed them through into the structure as is. Whereas I was trying to fix them to a relatively thin section that is then fitted onto something else.

 

[Andy in Germany]

The steam-powered tank, I presume?

I remember asking you how you'd done the rivets on that a while back. When I was struggling with the pins yesterday, I figured that you'd just pushed them through into the structure as is. Whereas I was trying to fix them to a relatively thin section that is then fitted onto something else.

Yes (here it id for people wondering what the heck we're talking about)

There. This is what happens when you don't have a social life.

I tend to build models like bunkers so the side will be a good 2-3mm thick in most places, and the pins were 1mm diameter with 2mm diameter heads. This gives a rather cartoony appearance but I'm happy with that. For more fine scale rivets I think people sometimes use commercial stick on things.

 

[Reynard]

Time to feed the cats, and then it will be time to feed me.

 

[Grant Fondo]

I am drinking a glass of red wine listening to The Magical Mystery Tour .... it's those little things sometimes

 

[rockyroller]

He slept on our bed for a couple of hours and then kept checking to see if I was still alive in the night . Well I think that was what he was doing .

a cpl past cats, always the black one, we had 2 sequentially, not at the same time, anyway, they (it) would walk up my chest in the morning & peer down into my face, while salivating, & when I opened my eyes, they (it) would sneeze, splattering me w/ saliva. they always succeeded in waking me up. they mostly did this when they were younger. none of the other cats ever did this. good thing I'm (we) a cat lover, eh?

 

[rockyroller]

if the room is spinning, does it matter if it is clockwise?
would your room-spins be counter-clockwise if you lived int the southern hemisphere?

 

[rockyroller]

Yes (here it id for people wondering what the heck we're talking about)

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There. This is what happens when you don't have a social life.

I tend to build models like bunkers so the side will be a good 2-3mm thick in most places, and the pins were 1mm diameter with 2mm diameter heads. This gives a rather cartoony appearance but I'm happy with that. For more fine scale rivets I think people sometimes use commercial stick on things.

one of my favorite toy gifts, from my late Dad, was a wind up tank, circa 1964

 

[rockyroller]

I am drinking a glass of red wine listening to The Magical Mystery Tour .... it's those little things sometimes

next up ...

View: https://youtu.be/PqXwslCcPws

 

[Reynard]

Lovely supper of tomato & basil soup, then breaded cheese bites, a fried egg, fried mushrooms, braised red cabbage and bread & butter. A bit random, but it was all very tasty.

 

[classic33]

Someone in the next road has a pigeon loft and we often see the racing birds flying loops in formation.

Should be kept securely inside as of last Monday.

 

[Reynard]

Oh, and the girls have successfully had a Drontal each chucked down the hatch with the minimum of fuss.

 

[Reynard]

Yes (here it id for people wondering what the heck we're talking about)

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There. This is what happens when you don't have a social life.

I tend to build models like bunkers so the side will be a good 2-3mm thick in most places, and the pins were 1mm diameter with 2mm diameter heads. This gives a rather cartoony appearance but I'm happy with that. For more fine scale rivets I think people sometimes use commercial stick on things.

I've poked around on the Tube of You, and seen some guys build them up using PVA glue or thick acrylic paint. I might go down that road, given that there's only 16 of them.

 

[tom73]

It's actually not been a bad day weatherwise here chez Casa Reynard. Chilly and breezy, but we had a good bit of sun.

I slept well, and did some work on the Higman this morning. Then a quick lunch (toast with peanut butter and a banana) and out into town to catch up with a whole raft of errands - including picking up my new phone.

Also popped to Tesco for a few bits, and feck me, have things gone up again. Ordinary brown onions, that were £1 a kilo last week, are now 30p *EACH* That's just insane. Works out at £1.80 a kilo - I got curious and weighed what I'd normally buy. And then bought the value onions which are still cheap. Although they are tiddly in comparison. I shall be looking elsewhere when it comes to onions, I think...

I did get lucky on sticker though, both in Tesco and in Waitrose. My combined haul was a tray of chicken livers, two trays of pate, red leicester, manchego and comte cheeses, a large bag of carrots, two bunches of salad onions, two nets of tangerines, a bag of pears and a bakery bread.

Now sat down with a and a chocolate cake bar.

You’re right about stuff going up my mum use to say “don’t think they know what to charge” I find myself saying the same thing more and more.

 

[Reynard]

You’re right about stuff going up my mum use to say “don’t think they know what to charge” I find myself saying the same thing more and more.

Yeah.

My ghast was well and truly flabbered...