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Post by legios on Sept 26, 2024 23:29:33 GMT
N will continue to practice her swashbuckling skills on Uncle Ralph. She has already vowed to relieve him of Science Stickers at the science day this Saturday. She is well aware he cannot say no to her (for fear for his life if nothing else!). Arrr! Excellent! She'll soon have some new trrrrreasurarrrrrr! Karl |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 27, 2024 6:31:12 GMT
I hope so, as she already ate the (chocolate) gold coins she got at the walk! No sense of investment.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 27, 2024 6:34:27 GMT
I will have 2000 science stickers on Saturday. -Ralph N says you are "very cheeky". |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 27, 2024 6:57:03 GMT
Morning All!
It's FRIDAY!!!!!
Yesterday: Day went OK but concentrated, for me, round a very busy 90 mins in the garage where I burnt through everything I had to get a job done. My goodness I felt it after!
Today: L and I have a funeral this morning for a friend from Church. J at college.
Pray Day goes OK, Sinuses, CMT, tummy and Head cope OK. Pray I sleep well tonight, getting off to sleep promptly. Pray we stay protected from the virus.
Have a good day, stay safe & well.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 27, 2024 9:26:04 GMT
We have builders in soon for new doors and windows. This presents a problem for the hobby room as stuff will need moved. It's too much to clear the whole room so ordered a pile of dust sheets and Really Useful Boxes. Then next week I take the room apart to minimise chances of damage/stuff ruined by dust from drilling etc.
Then put it all back again.
I am not looking forward to this. Bit stressful at the wrong time.
Still trying to figure out how to manage this with working at home too. It's Peak Time at work so no chance of time off.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 28, 2024 9:48:37 GMT
Morning All!
It's SATURDAY!!!!
Yesterday: For a day that involved a funeral, a good day. Made it there, really good service and saw lots of people I hadn't seen for ages and some I'd never met in person before.
Today: Homegroup removals coming in to shift a couple of wardrobes for us. Bit of prep for Sunday to do. TMUK Zoom tonight.
Pray Day goes OK, Sinuses, CMT, tummy and Head cope OK. Pray I sleep well tonight, getting off to sleep promptly. Pray we stay protected from the virus.
Have a good day, stay safe & well.
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Post by legios on Sept 28, 2024 11:43:33 GMT
Woke up at 3am again this morning, feeling like death warmed up and having issues with respiration despite my CPAP machine. That triggered a suspicion in my mind again, so some investigation of the walls was done with a torch, confirming that once again we are in condensation dampness season... which explains my issues with sleeping this week, and why they had been getting worse.
Mold killer was deployed on the suspect bedroom walls at 08:45, and dehumidifier has been moved into position. I then naffed off for a walk to the coffee shop. Had a very nice cup of coffee, a large square of chocolate chip shortbread and read a couple of chapters. Have come back and confirmed that extermination of biologic organisms on the wall is progressing satisfactorily (as the Daleks might put it). Probably need to give it another visit with the Biocide (as the active ingredient is described on the bottle) in a day or so, but that should do the trick for a while.
I had hoped I might make it a few more weeks before the winter rituals began, but clearly not. Having asthma is great, love that for me...
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 29, 2024 7:22:29 GMT
Morning All!
It's Sunday - Praise the Lord!
Yesterday: Start was good, best night's sleep in ages and felt feb first thing. Then as the second load of stuff went down to the bungalow the pain rolled in :-( Was variable the rest of the day. Big fall while on TMUK call, into the space where one of the wardrobes had been.
Today: Church this morning.
Pray Day goes OK, Sinuses, CMT, tummy and Head cope OK. Pray I sleep well tonight, getting off to sleep promptly. Pray we stay protected from the virus.
Have a good day, stay safe & well.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 29, 2024 16:04:00 GMT
Had rather a lot going on off late (combo of just generally busy, some health issues, trouble sleeping and immense stress at work). So binned off planned trip to Vintage Toy Fair today so I could just do Nothing.
But! The date for work on the house has moved up earlier than expected and time is tight. £100 worth of storage tubs/dust sheets turned up early so used the time to square away stuff as best I can. We're away next weekend so can't do it then.
Knackered. Fucked.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 29, 2024 16:53:39 GMT
I can come and clear your toy room to my house. Just ask. No trouble. We can be there in minutes.
Another reason Ralph is knackered is he volunteered at my science day yesterday. He did a fantastic job talking space rocks, telescopes and citizen science with 200+ folk. I would buy him a ticket to see the Smash Hit film of the year to say thank you, but sadly it isn't a available yet. And isn't a smash hit. And he has a Cineworld card. I will snack him up when we do go to see it together though.
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Post by legios on Sept 29, 2024 17:46:10 GMT
You are going to Snack Your Ralph Up..? :-)
I went to the Toy Fayre today. I intended to be up mind-bendingly early (06:15hrs) to allow for the fact that rail replacement buses had turned a 40 minute journey from Northampton train station into a 100 minute journey... Unfortunately, I fell back to sleep and woke up at 07:30hrs. So I didn't make it to the toy Fayre until 11:15hrs.
Nevertheless, it was a successful trip - met up with several friends, had a peruse of the toy fayre. There were quite a lot of things of interest, but I was being good so I purchased one HG Gunpla (00 Raiser Gundam. I'm going to have to have a 00 Gundam in the collection and I do not like it enough to spend MG level money on it. So a HG kit for £25 was an excellent substitute), and a Star Trek spaceship model (Andorian Kumari class cruiser - one of my "Bucket List" real money store ships in Star Trek: Online, so it makes a nice desktop model for me in lieu of Admiral T'Sion adding one to her Romulan Republic ships).
Had lunch with a few folks, discharged a debt to Toy Fu and obtained some hinky People-Who-Become-Robots and their Transtectors for my refocused Transformers collection. (queue roll-call ending cry of "Machine Sentai TRANSFORMAHHHH!" :-) )
Nearly bought an 84 Litre Really Useful Box, but saw sense when I realised I'd have to get it on the coach from Rugby to Northampton.
Got a train, bus and taxi back from Birmingham and got back after a total return journey of 130 minutes.
Not too bad a way to spend a Sunday really.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 29, 2024 17:49:57 GMT
I just ordered 10 Really Useful Boxes directly from their site. Good prices, instant dispatch. Turned up in under 48 hours from hitting the order button!
The site is no-thrills. Very 90's internet, but it works and is easy to use. Give me that over flashy sites any day where finding product is a chore.
In general, I order direct wherever possible for goods these days. Evil Amazon is now only ever used as a last resort.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 29, 2024 17:51:24 GMT
SNACK YOUR RALPH UP.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 29, 2024 17:53:12 GMT
Their website is wonderfully dated. I have used it as well.
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Post by legios on Sept 29, 2024 20:52:02 GMT
I just ordered 10 Really Useful Boxes directly from their site. Good prices, instant dispatch. Turned up in under 48 hours from hitting the order button! The site is no-thrills. Very 90's internet, but it works and is easy to use. Give me that over flashy sites any day where finding product is a chore. In general, I order direct wherever possible for goods these days. Evil Amazon is now only ever used as a last resort. -Ralph Yep, it is an excellent piece of web-design. It allows me to do the thing and buy the thing I want, which is all I really as for. That said, I ended up buying my previous 84l box from Argos, because it was out of stock on their own site. :-( But I do need to grab another one, so that I can collate the stored Gunpla into one container for ease of stacking things in the cupboard. Karl |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 29, 2024 23:04:04 GMT
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