Tea? (Part 2)

[Night Train]

Just a touch smaller than that.... And less knobs and dials. Apart from that, just the same.

Great!

So what does the red wire do?
And are you allowed to cut it?

 

[Arch]

Great!

So what does the red wire do?
And are you allowed to cut it?

Oh, you NEVER cut the red wire....

 

[Speicher]

Blimey, this place looks like something exploded. What a mess.

Oh no, the kettle is now a very peculiar shape.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Oh dear my body clock seems to be all messed up

 

[potsy]

Argh, what time is it? half my clocks are right and half are wrong, I set some last night before bed which have then added another hour themselves, nearly had a panic attack thinking I was late

Co**ee and some porridge for brekkie, gonna be a long day

 

[Arch]

Blimey, this place looks like something exploded. What a mess.

Oh no, the kettle is now a very peculiar shape.

Have you ever read Three Men in Boat? If you have, you'll understand what I'm talking about if I say that reminds me of the tin of pineapple.

If you haven't you should, that excerpt is very funny...

Tea anyone? I think it's about 11 o'clock...

 

[Speicher]

No, I have not read that. You recommended "Attention All Shipping" which was an excellent book. I am now reading one of Henning Mankell's Wallander books. I will look out for "Three Men in a Boat" in the secondhand book shops.

It is very slowly brightening up here, so I might think about doing more gardening.

My alarm clock is one of those that receives a signal from Frankfurt. So when I woke up, I knew the "right" time, but forgot that it was one hour earlier really. Not, I hasten to add an expensive purchase, it was about £2 at a Co**ee morning in aid of Cats Protection league. It is fiddly because depending on which button you are pressing when you put the batteries in, the days of the week would be in German, French or English.

 

[Speicher]

Well I never -

Try searching for Earl Grey tea altimeter Rough science

 

[Arch]

Well I never -

Try searching for Earl Grey tea altimeter Rough science

Oh, is that the 'working out the altitude measuring the temperature water boils at' thing?

I like Three Men in a Boat - I have to admit I often skim over the bits where the narrator goes into historical detail, and skip to the funny bits. Also good, is Three Men on a Bummel, where they go on a cycling holiday in Germany. A bummel is a sort of journey for no reason that doen't go anywhere particular. The best passage in that one is the bit where a well meaning stranger offers to service J's bicycle...

 

[Speicher]

The Earl Grey tea altimeter was as follows:

Attach some plastic tubing to a piece of wood about 18 inches by 24 inches. Attach some webbing to make the piece of wood carryable as a rucksack. Draw some lines around tubing. Pour in a measured amount of cold Earl Grey Tea. Walk a short distance up a mountain in New Zealand and measure how much the Tea has expanded when you are 50 metres higher up the mountain than when you started.

Fans of Tea, but with a more scientifical approach than I have, will be able to more exactifiedly explain the theory and the relevance of the lines.

It was on the Rough Science Programme today at lunchtime.

 

[Arch]

The Earl Grey tea altimeter was as follows:

Attach some plastic tubing to a piece of wood about 18 inches by 24 inches. Attach some webbing to make the piece of wood carryable as a rucksack. Draw some lines around tubing. Pour in a measured amount of cold Earl Grey Tea. Walk a short distance up a mountain in New Zealand and measure how much the Tea has expanded when you are 50 metres higher up the mountain than when you started.

Fans of Tea, but with a more scientifical approach than I have, will be able to more exactifiedly explain the theory and the relevance of the lines.

Oh, I see. The lower pressure causes the tea to expand. You calibrate it by measuring the difference at a known height, and then use that to measure further. The one I saw, some years ago now, was boiling some water at the top of a mountain, and measuring the temperature it boils at. As water boils at a lower temp at low pressure, it boils at under 100 degrees up high, and by measuring how much under 100 deg, one can calculate the altitude.

I have been to the seaside today! Although I didn't actually quite see the sea, as it was out.

I did see Speicher's very own looking device:



It might be used to look at this tiny shell/icecream...



I saw a chappie cycling off the top of a drumstick:



And found a penny farthing in my size:



Which day is Doughnut day? I had one today anyway. Well, three, but they were quite little, the sort you get 6 of in a bag for £2.50.

Any clever people know where I've been?

 

[Speicher]

Am I allowed two guesses?

Scarborough?

or

Southport?

It is in Cheshire, I think, (as per my telescope) and by the seaside.

 

[Arch]

Am I allowed two guesses?

Scarborough?

or

Southport?

It is in Cheshire, I think, (as per my telescope) and by the seaside.

Well, as Scarborough is in North Yorkshire, that narrows it down a bit....

There was a bit of a chill wind on the end of the pier (a pier that probably spends much more time out of the water than in it), but there was also a nice pavillion that sold tea.

 

[Speicher]

Weston super Mare - hmmmm - does that have pier? It does not have much sea. Not in North Yorkshire though.

Filey, also at the seaside and reachable by train. It would be a bit far to cycle I think.

 

[Speicher]

Well, as Scarborough is in North Yorkshire, that narrows it down a bit....

There was a bit of a chill wind on the end of the pier (a pier that probably spends much more time out of the water than in it), but there was also a nice pavillion that sold tea.

Ahh I see, so it was somewhere in Cheshire, and from Southport you could start a C2C ride, and didn't someone once do the C2C on a Penny Farthing, so I am going back to my original guess of Southport. Reachable with a train.