Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

We have this thread on TilersForums.com and it's just been restarted because the old thread had 20,000 replies and 500,000 views. And there were 700 pages. Started to lag a bit on slow connections.

I think we had a bash of this before, but I can't find the thread, so thought I'd start another one off.

If you have time in the mornings, come post in the thread before you head off to work, let us know what you've got on and what the weather is like in your area etc. Anything at all is fine.

Posts and likes get counted towards your total stats in this thread.

So GOOOD MORNING PEOPLE - WEATHER IS NICE TODAY IN STOKE. I'M THANKFUL IT'S FRIDAY, HAD A RUBBISH WEEK. THANK GOD IT'S OVER.

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[Rockingit]

Sort of my last day 'to myself' (have a ton of things to do!) before disappearing until Sept! Have a tour around Europe that effectively starts tomorrow (although unusually I do get to be home next weekend) which runs until early June, leave the end of that and on the same day go to Morocco for three days, then home for about a week before the madness of Glastonbury starts but thankfully before the gates open to the public I'm off to the States until mid August, then the same happens and I've another job starts out there literally as the other one finishes so I'll just stay on out there and be back sometime middle of Sept. I'll have to see if I'm passing @Megawatt on my travels.....

So expect lots of 2am posting on here.

 

[littlespark]

My eldest is jumping up and down because some K-pop group is going to be main stage at Glastonbury this year….but the tickets are out of her reach.

Any freebies? Ahem….


When did glasto go so pop and less guitar bands?

 

[littlespark]

Anyway. Yesterday was the London marathon, and I think I did quite well. 4 and a half hours…


But then i got bored and turned the telly off.

 

[Moley]

It's a quiet week for me. Got a weeks holiday so we've come down to our holiday chalet near Minehead in Somerset. No doubt it'll rain every day.

 

[Lou]

Sounds great! I am visiting my family near York and left Dan at home! He'd still got my nose to the grindstone!!

 

[Rockingit]

My eldest is jumping up and down because some K-pop group is going to be main stage at Glastonbury this year….but the tickets are out of her reach.

Any freebies? Ahem….


When did glasto go so pop and less guitar bands?

She can have mine if she wants, I can't stand the place!! It's just one huge big commercial festival with a few old hippies kept back for nostalgia and marketing purposes. All the main stages are largely paid for by the BBC as they syndicate the broadcasting and the vast majority of contemporary artists and their crews hate the place and will try to be as in and out again as quickly as possible!

And - pop acts are cheap to put on, real bands take more time and more crew!!

'Fun' facts.... When complete, the festival has a larger footprint than the city of Bath and well over 300,000 people. The on-site hospital is better equipped and staffed than neighbouring NHS hospitals. It takes roughly six months to build and two months to clear down, every time. It's not just Michael Eavis's land, there's something like 8-9 farms in total have to be paid off. The reason why there's such a big thing about 'don't pee on the land, use the toilets' has little to do with hygiene or farm land - there was a study done a few years back that there's so much MDMA from the festival site expelled into the water table that it was leaking into the local rivers and causing infertility in fish. Local schools actually close for the end of the week as they recognise that most local parents are either a) working/volunteering at the site in some way or b) won't be arsed with attempting to navigate the traffic for the school run (also applying to teachers).

 

[LukeD]

My eldest is jumping up and down because some K-pop group is going to be main stage at Glastonbury this year….but the tickets are out of her reach.

Any freebies? Ahem….


When did glasto go so pop and less guitar bands?

who pays to go ??? Just work for the BBC they send HUNDREDS of staff according to the office that issues tickets to them .Or do what we use to do. Rock up in a large lorry , create a diversion , check otherside of fence and then drive through and head up to the "green field" !

 

[nicebutdim]

My eldest is jumping up and down because some K-pop group is going to be main stage at Glastonbury this year….but the tickets are out of her reach.

Any freebies? Ahem….


When did glasto go so pop and less guitar bands?

Bloodstock would provide a good range of guitar bands if she could hold off until August.

 

[littlespark]

Bloodstock would provide a good range of guitar bands if she could hold off until August.

I’m afraid by August she will be teaching English to South Koreans in Soull itself, fingers crossed.
She can see as many of her dancing puppets as she likes over there.

Between her with k-pop, the middle one with Eurovision and the youngest with west end and broadway show tunes…. It’s no wonder the Alexa is getting confused.
I asked it to play Pearl Jam… and I got Pump Up The Jam

 

[Moley]

Sit them all down, turn the volume up and play 'The devil in I' by Slipknot. That'll sort 'em out

 

[littlespark]

The band Disturbed is being used on a advert recently, so i played them the entire song... Apparently its all fun screaming the "WA-A-A-A" bit at the beginning.... but not the rest of "Down with the sickness"....


Just spoke to her... and its some k-pop band that she really wanted to see... had tickets for a London show, and it all got cancelled because of Covid starting. They are called Seventeen... and there's thirteen in the band..... Thats like 5ive from the 90's now only having 3 members and S-Club 7 having only 5.....

So, @Rockingit , if you could grab any Seventeen merch..... she would be very happy.

 

[Rockingit]

Sit them all down, turn the volume up and play 'The devil in I' by Slipknot. That'll sort 'em out

Mini-me got introduced to Nirvana when she was about five, as 'entry level' not pop. Teen Spirit became a road anthem on the school run for a while. Proud Dad.

 

[Rockingit]

The band Disturbed is being used on a advert recently, so i played them the entire song... Apparently its all fun screaming the "WA-A-A-A" bit at the beginning.... but not the rest of "Down with the sickness"....

Have you heard them do this....

 

[Moley]

That's a fantastic version of that song. There's a live version on an American show on Youtube. Draimans voice really suits that song.

 

[Moley]

The sun is out. Looks like a nice day for a walk with the dog along the beach. Nothing else planed yet, just a lazy day.

 

[Lou]

Afternoon everyone!

I have been away visiting family in Yorkshire for a few days - had a great time. How is your holiday @Moley ?

I have just realised it is another Bank Holiday next week, the weather is rubbish I have just been caught in another hail storm!!

 

[Moley]

Holiday is fine, apart from the wife snooring. Glad you had a good time. It's always nice to have a break.
Bank hol is the week after, 6th May. I'll be driving up to Scunthorpe that day. Tuesday and Wednesday at Keadby then drive down to Kent for Thursdy and Friday.

 

[littlespark]

Good morning from the sunny SNOWY! Scottish Borders.

Running in some cables for radial heater circuits in an old ex council house. Plenty room under the floor, but the holes in the sleeper walls aren’t big enough for me to get through.

When did I get so wide.

There’s another section under the floor with no holes in the wall at all, so carpets back and floorboard up.


To top that, I somehow fell out of bed last night… (or was I pushed?)
Missed the dogs bed (and the dog) by inches, but caught my shoulder on the bedside table

 

[nicebutdim]

To top that, I somehow fell out of bed last night… (or was I pushed?)
Missed the dogs bed (and the dog) by inches, but caught my shoulder on the bedside table

Why are you sleeping in the shed?

 

[Lou]

Happy Sunday everyone!

@littlespark how is your shoulder? I have done that myself before.

It is cold and wet and windy - I don't know when the Spring is meant to kick in but I hope it is soon!

 

[pirate]

Beautiful weather here this weekend.
I woke up this morning, my birthday, and I thought "Yay,69 today!"
no sign of it so far...

 

[pirate]

I'll update you if things improve, but no pics!

 

[littlespark]

Happy Sunday everyone!

@littlespark how is your shoulder? I have done that myself before.

It is cold and wet and windy - I don't know when the Spring is meant to kick in but I hope it is soon!

Happy Sunday everyone!

@littlespark how is your shoulder? I have done that myself before.

It is cold and wet and windy - I don't know when the Spring is meant to kick in but I hope it is soon!

Shoulder is ok. Not sore now, but there’s a a bit of a chunk out the skin.

Still don’t know how it was that shoulder… the way I fell, it would have been the other one that hit first.

Raining non stop today. Typical Sunday.

 

[Lou]

Start of a new week! Anyone still on holiday?

Quite a lot of stuff to do today so I had better get started!

 

[Rockingit]

Start of a new week! Anyone still on holiday?

Quite a lot of stuff to do today so I had better get started!

Nope, but I’m on my way to an airport for work. Very much looking forward to some warmer days!

 

[Mike Johnson]

The sun is out with fair weather Cumulus in Kent today, was thinking of going fishing, but the river is still high and fast and there is no fly activity, so may give it a miss for a couple of more days.

 

[Moley]

Back to work after my week off. Back up in Runcorn.

 

[timhoward]

About to do rental EICR remedials from someone else's report....joy!

Two FI's to look into
1 - apparently a radial circuit in same breaker as a ring
2 - apparently two rings sharing B32 breaker

However I am taking this report with large pinch of salt as I can't believe the IR figures of >999M for all circuits in a Victorian terrace with 70's wiring.

 

[pirate]

Final hospital visit for me this morning, this is number 6, following a detached retina operation. Parking is a nightmare at the hospital, as it seems to be everywhere. My last day working was yesterday, and I'm looking forward to 6 weeks in the sun, starting this Friday.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Looking forward to my last hospital visit as I am just about to start my first appointments of six per week for seven weeks, as "pirate" parking is a problem, but at least its free for me.