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I took the kids down to Poole quay to see a replica of Christopher Columbus' ship, some mad lads are sailing it round the world. Nice wee morning out.

 

Nice day out ElT. I'll have to walk down the quay form work to check the ship out before it goes. Looks impressive.

The house move went well yrsteday, over 6 hours on the road though.
The car was packed to the roof, good old estate car space! Definitely no room for Mrs A in the end .
She was definitely better off not coming along, the videos & pics were sufficient to show the place.
The flat is great and the guys have settled in fine. Thankfully the nearest IKEA is 25 mins away, so desk and lighting sorted on the day.

I haven't done so much round London driving in a while and was surprised how many roads are now 20 mph.

It poured with rain as we left IKEA, which was fine, coolled us off temporarily.

Just been to the tip with a boot full of cardboard and discarded clothes and unwanted stuffs.
Picked up some bonus Lidl caramel ice cream lollies on the way home.

 

Took first place at IMPS Cov & Warks

 

Congrats.

Think I either need to concentrate or get glasses as I had to read 'Cov & Warks' more than once.

 

Just had a week and a half reprieve on a project at work.

I am in the process of writing up a report on surge protection recommendations for a large overseas industrial project and was meant to be having a meeting with them to present the report and discuss the installation this afternoon. The problem has been that over the past week or so every time I have got to write some more on it, it has been a case of "can you take a look at this?", "We need this sorting out today", "the customer is waiting on this, that or some other thing". So, this has meant that I am about half way through and been typing since about 7:30 this morning to get it done and ready.

Just had an email through changing the meeting to the 3rd of July... Talk about a weight off me, I immediately relaxed so much that I almost dozed off...

That and the temperature in the office has dropped by 5 degrees since I got in and opened some windows, it is almost pleasant now, even if the heating is still on...... Oh well, last week in this office, working from home all next week, and then moving to the new offices on the 7th, should be.... "interesting" as the available desk space will more less than half what I have now, need to find somewhere for all the technical manuals, datasheet catalogues, standards, and so on. The office layout has been designed very much for "normal" office users such as quotations, purchasing, sales and shipping, and so on, not for technical...

 

Sister came for a visit and we had matching ink done

 

More new LEGO Ideas sets announced - The X-Files, and Wallace & Gromit on their motorbike & sidecar.
https://beta.ideas.lego.com/blog/3e...log_uuid=a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6

 

I want it

 

After "registering my interest" just over a year ago, IT'S FINALLY HERE!!! (see purchases thread)

 

'Seasoning' up the new weber griddle pan, it doesn't need it as its enamel coated cast iron, but bacon fat never did any harm

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1st 1/4 pounder smash burger going on

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Found the cloches I bought were too big to do 2 at a time in the weber pan

PXL_20250628_183033401 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr

But a spritz of water before using them soon has the cheese melted

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I would whole heartedly recommend Morrison Salt & Pepper baps over any other cob you can get from a supermarket

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I do love a "90-second" bacon bap from a bbq.

 

Have to admit, learning new things is amazing

Currently have PFSense running on Hyper V and I'm liking the thing. Might grab one of those dinky confusers with dual LAN from fleabay if this idea really starts flapping its wings

 

Smoked back bacon from the butcher in Wiveliscombe, in rolls baked by my wife.

The best bacon in the best rolls, cannot be beaten.

 

Mmmmm, big, noisy, and beige. That brings back memories of going into the office with my dad on a Saturday morning to help out with filing and sorting of endless streams of tractor-fed print outs.

 

Outside, in front of our study window, we have a table, with a parasol (folded) and two cast-iron park benches. A few minutes ago I stood up from my chair, looked out and there, at the top of the parasol was perched a woodpecker. I have heard woodpeckers pecking many, many times in nearly 61 years but, this is the first time I have ever seen one and, just a few feet away...

 

We occasionally hear them here as we are on the last road in the city, past us it is fields with some woodland. A while ago I stopped by a local Chinese restaurant that is in the grounds of Wollaton Hall here in Nottingham and that has a lot of tall trees ion the car park. There were 3 green woodpeckers hopping around a few of the trees, certainly not something that I expected to see. I have seen a couple of pied woodpeckers years ago whist on holiday up north, we used to visit a lot of farms that had a field set by for caravan use.

 

Lucky you Mr_M!
Woodpeckers of all varieties are beautiful. I hear Greater Spotted ones at work and have managed to grab a pic of them a couple of times. Have also seen a Green Woodpecker dropping down onto the lawn on occasions.
Which sort was your visitor?

 

I'm not great at identifying birds but, I think it was the Greater Spotted.