What's made you grumpy today?

[The Panda Nut]

Ive been trying to contact an old friend who I lost contact with anout 4 years back. Last year I went to the last address he had and he had moved, Since then hes disappeared off the face of the earth. I decided to contact another friend. She was the light of his life for 45 years but unrequited love. Hes not been in touch there either and I fear he is no more. The second friend , both in fact Ive known since Uni in teh 70's. Her husband jumpe dinto a pond to retrieve my youngest who decided to take a plunge in front of us all 35 years ago. The small pond in a back garden was in fatc 6 feet deep, full of carp... He was well wet. Learned to day he was diagnosed with brain cancer in July, topping it off Im trying to organise a reunion as we have not all met for many years, and found that yet another of the group died recently. I think I shall not be organ ising anything like this again... Or maybe friends should meet more often. All rather sad. We are all more or less the same age at 68 so the rate of attrition is alarming!

 

[PuntoHowTo]

I should say they are clean and can't be donated because it's half a brick of the size the baby grew out of...and yet I still feel like they are going to possibly dislike it

OMFG HOW COME I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT !

Right I finally have a use for all those size 2 - 3 and 4 nappies we have knocking around the house that he outgrew/stopped needing a year ago

 

[porta]

Ive been trying to contact an old friend who I lost contact with anout 4 years back. Last year I went to the last address he had and he had moved, Since then hes disappeared off the face of the earth. I decided to contact another friend. She was the light of his life for 45 years but unrequited love. Hes not been in touch there either and I fear he is no more. The second friend , both in fact Ive known since Uni in teh 70's. Her husband jumpe dinto a pond to retrieve my youngest who decided to take a plunge in front of us all 35 years ago. The small pond in a back garden was in fatc 6 feet deep, full of carp... He was well wet. Learned to day he was diagnosed with brain cancer in July, topping it off Im trying to organise a reunion as we have not all met for many years, and found that yet another of the group died recently. I think I shall not be organ ising anything like this again... Or maybe friends should meet more often. All rather sad. We are all more or less the same age at 68 so the rate of attrition is alarming!

We lost two suddenly and within weeks of each other, both 52, just. Strangely I’ve lost folk throughout my life so it’s not all about age, just that wehn we get older, it seems to remind us more of our mortality and the need to keep good friends.

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

Ive been trying to contact an old friend who I lost contact with anout 4 years back. Last year I went to the last address he had and he had moved, Since then hes disappeared off the face of the earth. I decided to contact another friend. She was the light of his life for 45 years but unrequited love. Hes not been in touch there either and I fear he is no more. The second friend , both in fact Ive known since Uni in teh 70's. Her husband jumpe dinto a pond to retrieve my youngest who decided to take a plunge in front of us all 35 years ago. The small pond in a back garden was in fatc 6 feet deep, full of carp... He was well wet. Learned to day he was diagnosed with brain cancer in July, topping it off Im trying to organise a reunion as we have not all met for many years, and found that yet another of the group died recently. I think I shall not be organ ising anything like this again... Or maybe friends should meet more often. All rather sad. We are all more or less the same age at 68 so the rate of attrition is alarming!

With us now in our late 70's quite a number of the folk we grew up with are now "signing out" and trips to the crematorium are becoming more frequent. Trying to look on the bright side, although the well known older faces are becoming fewer, we're meeting their kids, some for the first time, at the reception afterwards.

We've got a particularly difficult one next week. The son of a neighbour with whom I was very friendly - they moved a way some years ago - has just passed on due to a massive heart attack. He was only the same age as my youngest boy and the two of them spent a lot of time playing together when they were just kids. There was no indication that he had any health problems so it's come as a huge shock to their family. I'm expecting the funeral will be quite a difficult experience and, following my brother's death from a heart attack nearly 2 years ago now, I would rather not go, but that would be very selfish so, of course, I'll be there.

 

[PuntoHowTo]

While I’m only in my 40s <- said though gritted teeth.

What probably gets me the most is finding out maybe once or twice a year about people I went to school with lost to suicide. (Sorry to lighten the tone)

I think I posted recently about a good find who disappeared off the radar and met his demised at 42 from alcohol abuse.
I was in a pretty large school and our year had about 200 kids, our school had a couple of thousand so I often hear through the grape vine about people aged around 38-45 years that I would have been in school with who checked out early. But of those the most saddening has been the large number of suicides. Honestly for 200 people in my year there had been probably 1 death a year from it for the last 25 years that in and of itself is very depressing

 

[AndyPM]

Ive been trying to contact an old friend who I lost contact with anout 4 years back. Last year I went to the last address he had and he had moved, Since then hes disappeared off the face of the earth. I decided to contact another friend. She was the light of his life for 45 years but unrequited love. Hes not been in touch there either and I fear he is no more. The second friend , both in fact Ive known since Uni in teh 70's. Her husband jumpe dinto a pond to retrieve my youngest who decided to take a plunge in front of us all 35 years ago. The small pond in a back garden was in fatc 6 feet deep, full of carp... He was well wet. Learned to day he was diagnosed with brain cancer in July, topping it off Im trying to organise a reunion as we have not all met for many years, and found that yet another of the group died recently. I think I shall not be organ ising anything like this again... Or maybe friends should meet more often. All rather sad. We are all more or less the same age at 68 so the rate of attrition is alarming!

Yes it happens too often I'm afraid. Found out just yesterday that a really good mate of mine died back in April. Been all over Scotland and the Lakes together, camping and climbing, kept in touch until about 3 years ago when he suddenly announced to everyone that he wouldn't be sending any more Christmas cards though he promised to keep in touch. Then suddenly I'm reading his obituary online, no details just, "passed away peacefully after a long illness". So now I'm kicking myself for not having phoned him last Christmas. Think I must be one of the last left from the group that hung around together back in the 70's and 80's. The moral of the story being, keep in touch, because you never know when it's your turn.

 

[The Panda Nut]

With us now in our late 70's quite a number of the folk we grew up with are now "signing out" and trips to the crematorium are becoming more frequent. Trying to look on the bright side, although the well known older faces are becoming fewer, we're meeting their kids, some for the first time, at the reception afterwards.

We've got a particularly difficult one next week. The son of a neighbour with whom I was very friendly - they moved a way some years ago - has just passed on due to a massive heart attack. He was only the same age as my youngest boy and the two of them spent a lot of time playing together when they were just kids. There was no indication that he had any health problems so it's come as a huge shock to their family. I'm expecting the funeral will be quite a difficult experience and, following my brother's death from a heart attack nearly 2 years ago now, I would rather not go, but that would be very selfish so, of course, I'll be there.

Im sure you repect will be valued. There is nothing else that can be said of done but to mark the passing. I hope its not too distressing.

 

[StevenRB45]

Sounds like the Phillips is a similar design to be honest..View attachment 475641

However meant to have 35000 hour life..or constantly on for 4 years. Lovely solid feeling thing though we shall see.. warranty is 2 years.

I need a light out the back, there's no street light so out the back door is pitch dark which given that's where the Toyota lives is a problem. To be fair original went out sometime in July but there was no real need for it over summer.

Hmm...

The size difference took me aback somewhat..

I've checked and this is a 20 watt...so clearly as well as not being PIR it wasn't a 20.

Just waiting on a refund for the other one and hopefully weather next Saturday will be good enough to get this sorted.

 

[portland_bill]

I remember, as a youngster living in the country, asking my Mum why the clocks change. She told me it was to make the farmers working day longer. I always found that a rather puzzling explanation, but, at that age, Mum was always right so I just filed it away. I think it's much less applicable today than it was back in the early 1900s when it was first introduced. Up here in Scotland our days are quite a bit shorter than you guys who live down south Sunrise around 9.00am and sunset just before 5.00pm depending on how far north you are. So you're going to work in the dark and returning home after dark. Altering the clocks doesn't really make a great deal of difference. A lot of time pieces still don't auto adjust - I just found out our new cooker, installed yesterday, has to be manually reset which mildly annoys me. We should just stop doing it. I just googled the subject and found it was introduced to save energy around the time of the first world war by making better use of the daylight hours. Pretty irrelevant today with modern working practices. However a surprising number of countries still do it.

That's the first time I've heard about energy saving, but it makes the most sense of all the 'reasons'.
There was a lady at the bowls club, who'd worked through the second war on farms, and said the clocks were irrelevant. They were out in the fields before dawn, and left just after dusk, regardless of what the clock said.

The chore of moving so many clocks gets tedious, especially my old 1880 mantle clock. It does not like moving backwards, and needs to be done in lots of stages. If moved too far in one go, the chimes get out of sync, taking often 24 hours to settle.
We have a huge wall clock, that shows day, date and month, that insists not ot turn backwards. It suddenly occurred to me, to take the battery out for an hour. So simple, others have probably been doing this for years, so why has it taken me over 50 years to think of this? Having had this 'moment', the same principle will work with the old clock, just block the pendulum for an hour.
(On a similar line of thought, perhaps for the smile thread, I smile every Sunday when my 21st century phone reminds me to wind the 19th century clock.)

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

That's the first time I've heard about energy saving, but it makes the most sense of all the 'reasons'.
There was a lady at the bowls club, who'd worked through the second war on farms, and said the clocks were irrelevant. They were out in the fields before dawn, and left just after dusk, regardless of what the clock said.

The chore of moving so many clocks gets tedious, especially my old 1880 mantle clock. It does not like moving backwards, and needs to be done in lots of stages. If moved too far in one go, the chimes get out of sync, taking often 24 hours to settle.
We have a huge wall clock, that shows day, date and month, that insists not ot turn backwards. It suddenly occurred to me, to take the battery out for an hour. So simple, others have probably been doing this for years, so why has it taken me over 50 years to think of this? Having had this 'moment', the same principle will work with the old clock, just block the pendulum for an hour.
(On a similar line of thought, perhaps for the smile thread, I smile every Sunday when my 21st century phone reminds me to wind the 19th century clock.)

Doesn't annoy me all that much because most of ours auto adjust. What does really annoy me though is that the "wonderful all singing all dancing" Scala electronic, linked to the internet, infotainment system doesn't do it! Frequently asks me to perform this or that update, but can't sort the clock out. I very nearly went into an active bus lane because of it the other day!

 

[The Panda Nut]

Doesn't annoy me all that much because most of ours auto adjust. What does really annoy me though is that the "wonderful all singing all dancing" Scala electronic, linked to the internet, infotainment system doesn't do it! Frequently asks me to perform this or that update, but can't sort the clock out. I very nearly went into an active bus lane because of it the other day!

Now that progress!

 

[The Panda Nut]

Now that progress!

Improvement even

 

[The Panda Nut]

I finally started cutting up old doors and timber from the bungalow renovation. 5 horrid glazed doors and an even horrider internal door are now ready for the wood burner. All good until I slipped and dropped a door upright on my leg. It seems you damage much much more at nealy 70 than a few years ago. What a mess!

 

[The Panda Nut]

I finally started cutting up old doors and timber from the bungalow renovation. 5 horrid glazed doors and an even horrider internal door are now ready for the wood burner. All good until I slipped and dropped a door upright on my leg. It seems you damage much much more at nealy 70 than a few years ago. What a mess!

Come on, Im chasing sympathy votes!

 

[Pugglt Auld Jock]

Come on, Im chasing sympathy votes!

Just wait until you're nearly 80 pal!

 

[The Panda Nut]

Just wait until you're nearly 80 pal!

Maybe Ill have grown up by them and stopped cutting up doors for fire wood. Unfortunately I have 3 more to do. I need to let the rain get into the joints and make it possible to brake them. I may be 90 before I finish this project....

 

[HughJarsse]

Come on, Im chasing sympathy votes!

Think you need this more than sympathy, !

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1293957145/medieval-knight-suit-of-armor-battle?gpla=1&gao=1&

Health and Safety and all that. (risk assessments, etc!! )

 

[porta]

Think you need this more than sympathy, !

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1293957145/medieval-knight-suit-of-armor-battle?gpla=1&gao=1&

Health and Safety and all that. (risk assessments, etc!! )

The pen (or text) is mightier than the sword these days

 

[The Panda Nut]

Think you need this more than sympathy, !

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1293957145/medieval-knight-suit-of-armor-battle?gpla=1&gao=1&

Health and Safety and all that. (risk assessments, etc!! )

Its sad to day i didnt do a risk assessment for dropping a plank onto my leg. Its just as well really or I would have been wearing a hard hat, gloves and a high vis coat. All would have been cut off and thrown away. Not having a first aid box meant I could faint at the sight of my own blood. Easier and cheaper than anaesthesia. I do have multiple risk assessments for making tea and eating biscuits though..... So no sweet tea or biscuits either.
I must ask my son about ppe, I think he may have a suit of armour.