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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[littlespark]

The laptops are college equipment. All linked to their servers. The exams are done online…(or at least within their network)

Everyone gets different questions in a different order… so there’s no “what did you get for q10?” type discussions later on.


The joiners have an outside area with a mock-up timber framed house to practice on… like sparks have our little cubicles for practical work.

Any job you go on, it’s always the joiner with their makita radio making all the noise.



Sitting in the class on Friday I took this photo. This isn’t the usual practical booth… but maybe for an advanced course?
I see motor controls on the right… an alarm system on the wall there and a pile of MICC terminations…. So that’s still taught in some places.

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[westward10]

Have you done the written exam yet?

 

[littlespark]

Just done papers, Westy. One on paper, apparently the “practical” side of it and the second one multi choice questions on computer.

 

[richy3333]

Wish more people raised geese. Right buggers to work with, but really tasty.

Very tasty. 4 in the freezer that we couldn't sell. They're Shetland geese. Rare breed and very friendly. My son cuddles them! (I wouldn't).

 

[littlespark]

Your son cuddles frozen geese?

 

[Lou]

Very tasty. 4 in the freezer that we couldn't sell. They're Shetland geese. Rare breed and very friendly. My son cuddles them! (I wouldn't).

Show us a photo of the geese, alive not dead lol.

Keep forgetting it is bank holiday this weekend!

 

[littlespark]

We’ve got the Jim Clark rally this weekend.. so that’s half the roads closed.

They’re going down through our village in one stage…. From the chippy that’s never open, down over the speedhump at the school crossing, then past the church and graveyard where Clark himself is buried… over the crossroads, past the pub and out into the open countryside.

That’s a bunch of souped up cars going hell for leather along country roads, trying not to find themselves on the wrong side of the hedge…

No change from any other day…. Except it’s legal this weekend.

 

[littlespark]

General election on 4th of July?

Scotland gets their summer holidays earlier than rest of Uk, so a huge percentage north of the border are not going to be here…

Is that to stop the snp getting a bigger share?
(Not that I want that, but it seems very early)


And you think they could have built a gazebo over the no10 podium to stop him getting so wet.

 

[nicebutdim]

And you think they could have built a gazebo over the no10 podium to stop him getting so wet.

That appeared to be the least of his woes.

 

[westward10]

Only his shoulders appeared to get wet.

 

[Lou]

I loved the guy with the megaphone playing DReam out of it! That tune will never let Prof Brian Cox forget it!

Poor Rishi... he got his 6 grand suit wet boohoo. I don't know how his hair stayed dry.

 

[littlespark]

I loved the guy with the megaphone playing DReam out of it! That tune will never let Prof Brian Cox forget it!

Poor Rishi... he got his 6 grand suit wet boohoo. I don't know how his hair stayed dry.

D-Ream? Was it Things Can Only Get Better? Which was used in the 90’s when Toby Blair and Labour got in.

Roll out Eric Idle to sing Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

 

[Spoon]

Roll out Eric Idle to sing Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

I think The Penis Song would be better

 

[Lou]

I dare not ask about that song!!

But it is Bank Holiday Weekend so what has everyone got planned? It is probably going to rain haha

 

[Moley]

Bank Holiday? Nope. Working though until next Friday. Double time Sat and Sun, triple time Monday

 

[Mike Johnson]

Laying inside a Halcyon machine bolted down to the bed with the head and shoulder shield on, Saturday will be treatment No 16 of 25.

 

[Spoon]

I dare not ask about that song!!

It's a good song, from Monty Python, The Meaning Of Life... It's just before the Mr Creosote sketch (Fat bloke that throws up a lot..... No... not me... )

 

[pirate]

Busy morning here. Ran my daughter to the airport for a flight to Madrid then onwards to Malaga. Picked up a hitch-hiker on the way back. He was Argentinian, with no English but we managed with my very limited Spanish. He works as a lifeguard on the beach nearby. Very affable, but I don't see him rescuing anyone today as there was a strong odour of booze and weed from him...

 

[pirate]

Now back home to tidy the devastation left by daughter, and do a washing, then supermarket to replenish all supplies as she ate and drank everythng I had! No change there, then...

 

[nicebutdim]

Larios. That's what the Spanish did for us.

 

[littlespark]

Hmmm… you can tell the rally is in town… all I can hear in the distance is “BRRRRRRRRR” as they try out some of the routes… (that’s typed out engine noises, if you didn’t know)

And that’s going to go on all night…


I know I sound like a grumpy old fart… but speeding little hatchbacks round country roads… nothings different.

 

[Moley]

Well, really boring day so far. All we've managed is disconnect the HVs on a gen tx. Waiting for scaffolding that should have been completed Thursday before we can disconnect the LVs and sort out the tx maintenance. Before anyone complains I know the LVs are not LV but it's what they are refered to as.

 

[richy3333]

Show us a photo of the geese, alive not dead lol.

Keep forgetting it is bank holiday this weekend!

I’ll post something later. Off to clean them out. Had our last 2 ewes lamb yesterday. Twins and a single. All boys

No bank holiday in Scotland

 

[littlespark]

i knew it was one of these may bank holidays we didn't get...

I get confused living so close to england...
wholesalers will be shut tomorrow.



A couple of videos from the rally this weekend... not mine, but what ive found on youtube.
Im sure the guy next to the tree had been told to move several times... but its the mentality around here; "i'll stand where i bloody want!"

Second video was the first crash of the rally.... and it wasn't even a rally car.

 

[Lou]

We are just settling down to watch the Monaco F1, and at 3pm I'll be routing for Leeds to beat Southampton for promotion!

Considering I'm not very sporty got a full afternoon on my hands!!

 

[Lou]

I forgot I obviously have to round the day off with @Dan 's favourite show of the year, BGT. The live shows are all next week too yippee!

 

[nicebutdim]

A couple of videos from the rally this weekend... not mine, but what ive found on youtube.
Im sure the guy next to the tree had been told to move several times... but its the mentality around here; "i'll stand where i bloody want!"

I like how he manages to react so quickly - almost before a couple of cars came to a stop!

 

[littlespark]

I forgot I obviously have to round the day off with @Dan 's favourite show of the year, BGT. The live shows are all next week too yippee!

Who you rooting for, @Lou ?

A choir of kids that can’t really sing, magic tricks that we’ve all seen before…. Or a pair of Italian stripping juggler brothers??

 

[Moley]

Just driven 2 1/4 hrs to work. Got 2 transformers and a NER ( Neutral Earthing Resister) for maintenance today then to the hotel. At least the roads were quiet today.

 

[Lou]

Who you rooting for, @Lou ?

A choir of kids that can’t really sing, magic tricks that we’ve all seen before…. Or a pair of Italian stripping juggler brothers??

The dog act! I did like the tae kwon do troupe

That choir was horrific last night! And some guy playing air guitar what is all that about?!

And the magician you could see him run down the stairs from the box and behind the tv box!

I can't remember who else is left - I know theres a couple who are blind singing as they are local here.

 

[littlespark]

Yeah… the magician could have been cleaner.

The fact he used the tv first… speaking to himself on the screen was just good timing off a script… then he went in the box, and the screen showed him inside….

Oh, well that’s just prerecorded footage- same as the tv….. so thats not his hands….

That gives him time to get away from the box, and as you say, climb into the obviously trick “empty” crate under the tv.



Singers on bgt are a waste of time when there’s other singing compititions on tv…

 

[Lou]

Yeah I hate singers on it, mind you they have stopped doing the x factor but that was because everyone was fed up of it!!

 

[littlespark]

Yeah I hate singers on it, mind you they have stopped doing the x factor but that was because everyone was fed up of it!!

got The Voice instead...

 

[littlespark]

I … I …. I have no words…. Devastated.

Fire destroys part of Legoland theme park in western Denmark, melting replicas of famed buildings

A fire believed to have been caused by a short circuit has destroyed part of Miniland, a section of the Legoland theme park in western Denmark with replicas of famous buildings made of Lego bricks, the park said Wednesday. Video surveillance showed that the fire started in one of the electric...

uk.news.yahoo.com

Alright… I’ve got a few words. Seems like it was an electrical fault on one of the rides.

 

[pirate]

Talking of Lego, anyone know where to get the massive Wago221 Lego kit?

 

[littlespark]

its not an official lego design.... possibly just a promotional thing that wago made up themselves.

yep... its a competition prize run by wago themselves...

Main Prizes | Splice up your life | WAGO United Kingdom

WAGO - Innovative products for automation and connection technology as well as individual solutions for your industry.

spliceupyourlife.com

You could, however, buy all 1000+ parts and build it yourself without instructions.... Good luck with that!

 

[Mike Johnson]

Who is the biggest tyre manufacture in the world?












Not really surprising Lego.

 

[davesparks]

Talking of Lego, anyone know where to get the massive Wago221 Lego kit?

It's a competition prize from wago, which will probably (hopefully) appear on auction sites soon

 

[nicebutdim]

I saw one on ebay and posted about the Wago competition in Littlespark's lego thread some time back.

Forgot about the whole thing until reading this thread, so went to the site and just won one .

 

[littlespark]

I saw one on ebay and posted about the Wago competition in Littlespark's lego thread some time back.

Forgot about the whole thing until reading this thread, so went to the site and just won one .

you did not!

the lego one? or did you win a wago?