Mundane News

[PeteXXX]

It's nippy outside ❄️

 

[biggs682]

The engineers have been searching for a gas leak for 7 days now.
There seems to be someone on duty 24/7

At least 2 vans, a digger, generator, lights, other stuff. Occasionally management appears and there is a lot of looking and walking up and down. Then tablets are consulted and more probes are driven into the ground.

Their target zone is about 250 m long.
It is marked with amazing hieroglyphs and many investigative probe holes.

They've dug several, many, a lot of 2x2 sized holes and seem to go away for 12 hours
Soon they will have dug up the entire stretch of road.

We had similar a few years ago as we entered our house through the front door strong smell of gas .

Called the gas board who said they couldn't find anything, so we shut the front door and stayed outside for 20 minutes with the engineer and soon as he opened the door he said yes he could smell it and got his sniffing tool out and walked all around the house trying to locate it.

Eventually he said it might be coming from next door ( semi detached) which was empty so he walked around poked his sniffing tool through the letter box and off it went.

It was traced to a leak on the pipe just as it went underneath the house so driveway dug up pipe replaced and hey presto sorted.

 

[biggs682]

It's nippy outside ❄️

Certainly is with a ground frost and lots of condensation but nice blue sky and sunshine.

 

[biggs682]

Pre work walk has been travelled.
Only saw one other person walking so no dog walkers.
Ideal cycling conditions
First cuppa brewing

 

[biggs682]

First cuppa went down well.
As it's a Monday I have showered so clean boxers , socks , shirt and sweatshirt on and a new box of cereals

 

[biggs682]

Washing machine on powered by the solar panels
Second cuppa went down well with a slice of toast and peanut butter.

 

[Jenkins]

Good morning from a currently sunny Suffolk, although cloud is starting to edge in from the east. An XL sized coffee made using 2 x Kenco Colombian Tassimo pods in a very big mug has been had and more pods will need to be ordered as I'm down to the last two pods.

In no particular order the things that need to be done today are food shopping, retrieving the recycling bin and returning it to the normal place, vacuuming, possibly moping the kitchen floor and sorting out the overnight bag in advance of Thursday. Rain has been forecast for today, so the shopping will take priority.

 

[captain nemo1701]

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one, I'm afraid.

I was born the year of Apollo-Soyuz, so despite being an Apollo programme buff with a whole shelf of books on the wall behind me, this is a new experience. Especially being able to follow the flight in real time on Youtube. Now *that* blows Apollo into the weeds. And the hype's a good thing IMHO, if it gets people engaged. There's far worse things to get excited about, and if it gets the young 'uns hooked, then the world will be in a better place.

And with my engineer's hat on, it's not a been-there-done-that. It's a test flight of new equipment. And Artemis, in the long term at least, is a totally different programme to Apollo. Sure, there's the race to one-up the Chinese, but come on, how can you not get excited about building up to a permanent base on another celestial body? And the fact that it's not just the US this time. The Canadians are involved, ESA is involved, it's a collective effort.

Well, along with lots of others, I've been waiting 50 years for a moonbase. Artemis is a bit like the space shuttle, exciting the first time but then quickly becomes 'the norm' and loses its gloss. So 'getting excited' about a moonbase....its taken over half a century so please excuse my lack of enthusiasm. Technically, this was a fairly average test flight which we've done before, a quick drive around the block. A 'shakedown cruise' as Scotty might say....I'll be more impressed when they land on it.

I've not followed it a real time, mainly because I have other things going on in life and I've seen this before, not got the time to watch every second on YT. Its a bit like trying to get excited about the ISS, old hat now.

 

[Gwylan]

We had similar a few years ago as we entered our house through the front door strong smell of gas .

Called the gas board who said they couldn't find anything, so we shut the front door and stayed outside for 20 minutes with the engineer and soon as he opened the door he said yes he could smell it and got his sniffing tool out and walked all around the house trying to locate it.

Eventually he said it might be coming from next door ( semi detached) which was empty so he walked around poked his sniffing tool through the letter box and off it went.

It was traced to a leak on the pipe just as it went underneath the house so driveway dug up pipe replaced and hey presto sorted.

The diggers are busy once again. Band Aid where an amputation might be needed.

 

[biggs682]

The diggers are busy once again. Band Aid where an amputation might be needed.

Is the suspected leak affecting you?

 

[mistyoptic]

Concrete slabs collected for Mrs O’s new greenhouse base. Maxed out the load capacity of the car 😱

 

[Illaveago]

Afternoon.
I've been busy this morning.
Sunshine and grey clouds. It's warm in the sunshine but flipping cold out cycling! With the wind chill factor it's freezing.

 

[Illaveago]

I bought a Triang Blue Pullman at the model railway exhibition yesterday for £10. I've always liked the Blue Pullman so seeing all 3 bits for sale I bought it. It needs work. It looks like it was ket somewhere wet as the wheels were bright orange with rust and the motor was covered in a cream coloured powder. I have taken the motor out and have been de-rusting the wheels and parts of the motor. I've cleaned the commutator and it spins freely. The wheels are almost clean now. I will reassemble it and see if it works.

 

[biggs682]

Sun kissed lunchtime stroll around the block completed

 

[Gwylan]

Is the suspected leak affecting you?

No, it's just a spectator sport.