Yes, but what is (a) DMP? :scratch: Whatever it is, it sounds un-flattering.
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Yes, but what is (a) DMP? :scratch: Whatever it is, it sounds un-flattering.
If it was DPM it's damp proof membraneQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Yes I know, but what is it when applied to clothing? Perhaps it was a "Pac a Mac"? :rolleyes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disrup...ttern_MaterialQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Ah - so she wanted to 'blend in'.:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
well HNY to all... its very quiet here this morning. not a car moved(well hardly any)not many folk either. i guess many were partying. i know my daughters family were. ive been abstaining for a while so im as sober as a preist on Sunday lol
HNY
Very quiet here too, no cars, no people and its 1120. It's raining though so at least the weather is starting the new year as it means to go on. Forecast was for sunshine ofc.
So what did you buy for Mrs Pony for Christmas?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
And since it is your birhday today what did Mrs. P buy you? Whatever, hope you're having a good one! :) :birthday:
so it is... happy birthday steve...Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
+1, many happy returns.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Thanks guys, I've had a lazy couch potato day, being waited on hand and foot. Mrs. P got me a 'smart watch' (that's what it says on the box). I don't really need a gadget to remind me what a lazy git I am, but if it at least tells the time I'll wear it :)
For Christmas I got her one of the figurines she collects (she's up at about sixty of them now (called Willow Tree I think), and it took me a couple of purchases/returns to hit on one she didn't have :doh:
She wanted (as usual) to wait until after Christmas to pick out a gift for herself, but then just before Christmas she informed me that in June we're going to see Rag 'n' Bone Man at Cardiff Castle, with bed & breakfast at a hotel 5 mins walk from the venue. We'll have a couple more days in the area while down there, I'm told Pembrokeshire is a nice place.
I asked her how it is a gift for her when I'm going too, and she said me being with her is part of the gift, What a sweetheart! If only she'd actually said that. I'm sure she was thinking it though :)
You've got an easy birth date to remember! Happy birthday. When in Wales best to stay away from Newport, I was brought up there, it's a proper shit hole. Cardiff's OK though, a few arcades, some nice pubs, castles worth a visit too in the day time, and a very decent museum if that's your thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
had to get up early today... got a message that fridge delivery would be 7 am :eek: so i got up and emptied fridge etc.. they didnt arrive till after 8, still it was early enough.. they took old one away plus all packaging. just letting the coolant settle before powering up.
its a leibherr
I was waiting in the checkout queue at the local supermarket today when I noticed the customer ahead of me was being particularly awkward and tedious with it.
He wanted to buy a packet of (I think) Marlboro cigarettes, which the sales assistant quickly found for him. But no, he didn't like the picture on the packet!
For those of you who don't smoke, you may not be aware that these days to encourage smokers to give up, cigarette packets are adorned with a photograph of what damage smoking does to your lungs. Now I would have thought that one picture of diseased lungs looks pretty much like another - but this awkward customer insisted they found him a packet with a different picture. The sales assistant called for the supervisor, who pointed out that they could only sell the packs they were supplied with and he would have to 'take it or leave it', as he was holding up the queue The customer was adamant that they find him a different pack - the standoff only being resolved by the supermarket staff going through the entire stock to find (mirabile dictu) a pack that satisfied him.
Then he wanted to buy a Lottery ticket - and finally quibbled over the change he was given! :doh:
The poor sales assistant had the patience of a saint, and if she was new to the job it was a bit of a baptism of fire for her.
London again for the 3rd day running, nowt to do in Brighton when it rains. British museum was ok, though a bit busy. After a while though you get bored of all those statues and carvings of soldiers on horseback..... The scarab beetle was good, and a few impressive sarcophagus, oh and the Assyrian half man/half horse. Sat in a cafe, I'm the only white guy there, everyone else either arabic/asian! Soon our cities will just be playgrounds for the rich kids of the Middle East and China.
You should have gone downstairs to look at the Benin bronze plaques. They were looted from Nigeria but could possibly be returned on an exchange exhibition basis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin_Bronzes
Didn't know there was a basement, will likely go again soon, it's a huge museum, after seeing one or two rooms, fatigue sets in. Went to the Courtald gallery recently, small and perfectly formed.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Agree re. the Courtald gallery. :) The Victoria and Albert museum is also well worth a visit; but like the BM, one has to be selective.
That was my first choice today, but the District & cricle line was closed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Move to jockland lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
Not a bad idea, all you need is some extra layers of clothing and a better tolerance for Nicola Sturgeon's fizzog on the telly :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Where fairy tales come true, if you're one of those unfortunates 'born in the wrong body'.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Just spotted a pub I know in the news. Well off the beaten track.
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/co...8ezcjsZA%3D%3D
much better pace of life here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
Looks like my kind of pub! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
My one finally arrived. Took over 3 weeks and several complaints and a few bad reviews.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Still it's here and appears fine so far.
Won't use the company again direct tho. Shark ninja.
No idea how it performs overall, I not got past making toast yet. Mrs P did some cheese on toast the other day, and it didn't come out cremated. I think ours came via Amazon, no probs with delivery.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Since well before Christmas she's been bangin' on about the Ninja Foodi Max, which had been selling faster than they could make them. Some folk were snapping them up then reselling them at vastly inflated prices on Ebay. Madness. Anyway we were in Currys at the weekend to buy a Vax Blade 4 Pets cordless vacuum cleaner (its a belter!) and they had some of these Foodi Max jobbies in stock.
So we got one, but she hasn't used it yet. I'm hoping it won't end up as loft-fodder, like Breville toasters and foot spas did in the olden days.
i got one the 15 in 1... not opened the box yet and had it for over a month.. expensive shelf currently, but it was cheap at time and i thought my current old foodi was about to give in...its still worky, so for now will just leave it. not strong enough to open it anyway lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
typical beaurocracy talk... no...we'd rather the food is wasted than starving people get it..(no doubt the council members own the shops;))
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...tland-64256691
The last paragraph sums it up. Typical snotty shitbag attitude! You'd probably be banged up for giving a homeless person a sandwich :rolleyes:.
Due to the current lack of unnecessary heating around the house I've found mould here and there on interior walls. It's amazing what a bit of bleach can do! It all looks like new again :).
had a bit of mould starting on the bathroom windowsill, gave it a dose of domestos, few hours later it's gone. Not had a problem in any other room though even though I've never heated them in 25 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
as long as its a non pourus surface, bleach is the best imo too. i used it on the outside bottoms of my mums house and it killed all the mouldy bits, and allowed me to overpaint.
I'm a big fan of bleach I get through a bottle a month.
Smell always reminds me of going to the 'swimming baths' at primary school though.
This was the actual baths we went to, even by the 1970s it was totally unchanged from the day it was built. Amazing slice of Victorian history, so of course they knocked it down - maybe twenty years ago now.
https://i.ibb.co/k3Mr07V/garston-bath.jpg
shame on them. great buildings those.. yup bleach smells similar to low level chlorine use
Not surprising as bleach contains about 5% sodium hypochlorite.
This was ours, Saul Street baths Preston.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7024/6...091cb1ce_b.jpg
Knocked down early 90s, to make room for this:
https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...rown-court.jpg
Most of the county's bad lads pass through here. We should have kept the baths and drowned the buggers.
probably knocked it down as nobody could park a car right :doh:
At least they built something on the site of your baths even if it was a crappy law courts. Here's what's on the site of ours:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
https://i.ibb.co/CsrW4pC/bath.jpg
thats vandalism
Old swimming baths are things of beauty, I can't be arsed googling my childhood old school baths, but they weren't as nice as those pictured. The 80s came and with it those new out of town leisure centres, all breeze block and plastic roofs, and 'wave machines'!! I love swimming, and go 2 or 3 times a week, just a shame they only have 1 lane for fast swimmers, its a bit shite sometimes!!
It does look like they have plans for it - they've kept the stone facade and binned everything else. Probably end up housing an accountancy firm in a futile bid to look cool. We have a 'repurposed' waterworks in Chorley that has gone this way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
You have a lane all to yourself, apart from the ferries and container vessels... some folk are never happy :doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
You have a lane all to yourself, apart from the ferries and container vessels... some folk are never happy :doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
Oh and this was the inside of our baths - there was also a smaller pool too in the building which was about 2/3 size, and something called "slipper baths" which I think was for folk who didn't have a bath at home. Oh and cafe in the basement where we'd have a cup of Bovril and a bag of crisps afterwards.
https://live.staticflickr.com/8497/8...c8e5376b_b.jpg
A bit fancier than ours'. but along same lines really. i won a fair few medals in tho. 25yds i think which got extended to 25 metres. its gone now tho and housing built on it i think. bovril came from a machine in lobby.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Scotland's answer to Johnny Weismuller... Did you ever do the yodel? A bloke I used to work with claimed he once saw Johnny Weismuller at Wigan baths. Nobody believed himQuote:
Originally Posted by struth
lol.... i swam on tv and everything:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
was a bit dangerous having all that water on top the tv but, hey we were brave in those days:eek:
Probably because he claimed Cheetah was there too, swinging off the diving board.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I've got Duncan Goodhew's head, but the similarities end there.
What's that thing at top? Looks like a stage! There were 2 baths in my hometown of Newport, Maindee and Stowhill, I didn;t realise at the time, but Maindee was quite a beautiful pool, I went there loads. It's now closed, along with stow hill (3 pools, 1 diving board!).Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Maindee.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...8fa01b49_z.jpg