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

Moley · Aug 11, 2025

Yup which is bl00dy hot in this weather

westward10 · Aug 11, 2025

I've got some of that this week can't wait.

Moley · Aug 11, 2025

Hope it's a bit cooler when the time comes.

westward10 · Aug 11, 2025

It's the gloves a rubber pair with the leather pair on top which are bad enough in cool weather.

Moley · Aug 11, 2025

I prefer the latex gloves and the vaseline

Moley · Aug 12, 2025

Todays work is done. Just been by the 'beach' at Grain and now off to tonights hotel at Snetterton.

Mike Johnson · Aug 12, 2025

@Moley Always look forward to your morning posts, if only to make me feel better about being retired.

westward10 · Aug 12, 2025

He only seems to work 3hrs a day with 5hrs travelling/sightseeing

Moley · Aug 12, 2025

I wish it was all like that. The 14 hour days don't get talked about as I'm usually too knackered when I get back to the hotel. The money at the end of the month makes it worth it though

littlespark · Aug 12, 2025

and the odd baked delicacy from Scotland

Mike Johnson · Aug 12, 2025

Oh! not battered deep fried Mars bars again.

littlespark · Aug 12, 2025

Since when was a deep fried anything "baked"?

I'm on about these...

Moley · Aug 12, 2025

Th raspberry and pineapple ones are the best. Just booked 3 weeks holiday in Scottyland next summer. 2 weeks near Ullapool and 1 week in Tomich near Cannich. There's an Australian run Spar in Cannich that do nice kangaroo pies.

littlespark · Aug 13, 2025

Moley said:
Th raspberry and pineapple ones are the best. Just booked 3 weeks holiday in Scottyland next summer. 2 weeks near Ullapool and 1 week in Tomich near Cannich. There's an Australian run Spar in Cannich that do nice kangaroo pies.

I bet it’s not real ‘roo

It’ll be a mix of local meats, and just advertised as “kangaroo”…. I mean… what’s the delivery cost for a start?

Next time you’re round my neck of the woods, the butchers next to my daughters does crème egg scotch eggs…. None of your deep fried mars bar rubbish here.

Moley · Aug 13, 2025

Roo is reasonably easy to get hold of. There was a butcher in our local indoor market used to sell it along with assorted other exotic dead animals but he gave up as it was a bit too unusual for the Welsh valley customers. Don't know if they still do but 'The Food Warehouse' or Iceland as it's better known used to sell 'roo, ostrich, alligator meat.

littlespark · Aug 13, 2025

or so they tell you.....

could be badger roadkill for all we know

Moley · Aug 13, 2025

Oooohhhhh......badger. That's a tempting thought.
I'm hoping so see some wild haggis next time up up your way. I hope you are a regular on the haggis wildlife foundation web site.
Link Here

littlespark · Aug 17, 2025

There’s nothing worse at a weekend than spending Saturday night at A&E.

Youngest went over on her ankle again… sprained again….

This is the girl that, as a child, jumped around doing highland dancing and gymnastics and never had an injury… Now she’s left school, she first fell down stairs at a uni open day, and now tripped over a door running to get into a selfie at a party. (So only the recent one was alcohol fueled)

Sitting for 4 hours, with a 45 minute drive both ways…. All sorts of people coming and going… including

Moany old woman tutting and mumbling about waiting so long… nurses standing about doing nothing….old bat.

Rugby player, still in kit, with head bandage….

Little girl having her arm plastered…

6 or 7 nurses being called into a room… followed by the gas and air cylinder on a trolley. I’ve seen enough medical documentaries to know that’s going to be a bone realignment.

And an ambulance paramedic dropping off, but ending up with a bleeding nose herself….

Doctors orders are to keep it moving, but don’t put weight on it. Elevated, compressed, take painkillers, avoid alcohol.
That’s her off work until next weekend, and there’s supposed to be another party that I don’t think she’ll be going to.

littlespark · Aug 17, 2025

Part II
The middle daughter.

New flat, and i told her to buy a new sofa... then you know itll be clean, the colour you want... and someone will deliver, carry upstairs and build where you want it.

Oh no... Wednesday last week she sees an armchair and a sofabed on facebook... "Its free!" I dont care if its free.... i dont know if its going to fit!
She wins. If i can get it in the van, im sure it'll go up the stairs.
The armchair got up the stairs.... got stuck at the top trying to get through a door.... went back down the stairs, took the feet off... back up... just squeezed through.

Now for the sofabed. Weight-wise... itll be much easier to move if i take the bed part out... The spring loaded bed part! Although i did manage to unbolt it from the frame, lift it out, hold it all together and take it upstairs without it straightening out. We are now left with the frame, without the solid bit inside holding it all together. Theres the back, the arms and a front bar.... Not much strength to it now with an open middle.
Feet off first.. i know whats coming now. It just slides through the front door, up the stairs and the same squeeze through.

Theyre in! With a lot less cursing than i thought, but quite a lot of exertion on my part

Now i realise her carpet, wall and sofa are just various shades of beige. She will soon cover it in cushions and whatever.

Moley · Aug 17, 2025

I've got all that to come. The daughters house is still 'a work in progress' but at least they have got a floor upstairs now. Electrics are next. I'm hoping she'll move out some time in the next 10 years.

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