Mundane News

[DCLane]

@Andy in Germany - I managed to get a U/U in French, which I'm presuming stands for 'Utterly Useless '.

The family still lets me do the talking when we've been on holiday in France for 10 of the last 14 summers. The French? They usually ask me to stop, generally with something like "thank you, but you're ruining our language. English is just fine."

 

[tom73]

Tomorrow's job involves nurses, battery, pacemaker oh and Numpton general hospital

Just bribe the nurses with Chocolate and they will be all yours.

 

[Reynard]

Just bribe the nurses with Chocolate and they will be all yours.

Mum, (a retired nurse - military, then district), always bribes the nurses at the surgery with chocolate biscuits when she goes for her regular check-ups.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I remember ones in the UK being like that. No idea when they changed.

Must have been the 60's or 70's in The States, older equipment still running.
Line in the song City of New Orleans,
"The passengers will please refrain"
references a sign, usually brass, in the toilets,
The passengers will please refrain from flushing the water closet while the train is in the station.
Newer cars had retention tanks on them by the time I rode The City of New Orleans rather regularly.

 

[Gravity Aided]

And other railroads may not have had quite such florid English as the Illinois Central or the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio Railroads. I think the Rock Island merely said Please do not flush the toilet while train is in the station.

 

[Gravity Aided]

 

[Reynard]

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I remember seeing similar signs on BR trains back in the day...

 

[Reynard]

I have spent an enjoyable evening taking a pencil for a walk across a piece of paper. The intention was to do the drawing for a watercolour painting, but this piece ended up having ideas of its own. So I carried on using a dark sepia coloured pencil and a paper torchon. I shan't finish it this evening, so time to put the drawing stuff away and head off up the wooden hill.

Nunnight one and all xxx

 

[Andy in Germany]

@Andy in Germany - I managed to get a U/U in French, which I'm presuming stands for 'Utterly Useless '.

The family still lets me do the talking when we've been on holiday in France for 10 of the last 14 summers. The French? They usually ask me to stop, generally with something like "thank you, but you're ruining our language. English is just fine."

It took a year before people here stopped replying in English. I still have trouble with dialects which are very strong and very localised.

 

[Andy in Germany]

In other news; good morning; the washing machine is running and I'm trying to work out how to switch the heating on.

 

[tom73]

Mum, (a retired nurse - military, then district), always bribes the nurses at the surgery with chocolate biscuits when she goes for her regular check-ups.

Bet she likes pens too

 

[biggs682]

Well I am partially up
First cuppa is brewing
I get the feeling I shall need a few good cups today

 

[PeteXXX]

It's ♻ Bin day today and I'm nearly up.
I can see it's still dark, but is it foggy out there?

 

[tyred]

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When I travelled on the Jacobite steam train between Fort William and Mallaig a few years ago, they constantly announced this over the PA system. Clearly they haven't updated their toilets.

 

[biggs682]

I can see it's still dark, but is it foggy out there?

It is dark but not between home and my parents house.
Going Numpton next so will see.... hopefully