Tell Me Something............Anything!

[struth]

wonder if it had anything to do with the outage yesterday

[Pigmy Pony]

Tonight a local micro brewery I did some work for is having a mini Oktoberfest, so I'm going to show my face there. There's going to be plenty of beer (natch) and Bratwurst (I think that's sausages).

It's a sausagefest! But not the kind Marco likes to frequent.

[Pigmy Pony]

For anyone who might be interested, the International Space Station will be visible to people in London (providing the sky is clear) on Thursday at 7.05pm. It will appear at 21 deg above the horizon (about 2 fists high held at arms length) at SW, and disappear at 10 deg above SSE, duration 3 minutes.

So looking South West, it'll be moving left to right, and dropping slightly. It'll just be a light moving quickly, not exactly a fireworks display, so not everyone will find this interesting.

[Macca]

Bloody London gets everything.

Lights are so bright outside my house I couldn't see a damn thing even if it did deign to fly over here. It's like the Las Vegas Strip out there. In the old days there were only two crappy 'sodium' lights in the entire street and one would always be broken. It was great. You could see the Milky Way when there was no moon. Now the place is floodlit. You could perform brain surgery on the pavement I'm not kidding.

Sorry forgot this isn't the grump old man thread.

[struth]

Bloody London gets everything.

Lights are so bright outside my house I couldn't see a damn thing even if it did deign to fly over here. It's like the Las Vegas Strip out there. In the old days there were only two crappy 'sodium' lights in the entire street and one would always be broken. It was great. You could see the Milky Way when there was no moon. Now the place is floodlit. You could perform brain surgery on the pavement I'm not kidding.

Sorry forgot this isn't the grump old man thread.

Fitted new lights here too. theres one outside my bedroom that is fairly bright, but got used to it now.

[walpurgis]

Only one dim LED street light here and that packs up about once a year, so the whole area is plunged into total darkness. Then you get dodgy hoodie characters mooching about in the shadows and of course the prostitutes take advantage. I usually hang a PIR floodlight from the front of the house until the council sort the light out, which can take a week or so.

[Pigmy Pony]

Bloody London gets everything.

Lights are so bright outside my house I couldn't see a damn thing even if it did deign to fly over here. It's like the Las Vegas Strip out there. In the old days there were only two crappy 'sodium' lights in the entire street and one would always be broken. It was great. You could see the Milky Way when there was no moon. Now the place is floodlit. You could perform brain surgery on the pavement I'm not kidding.

Sorry forgot this isn't the grump old man thread.

I saw it once up here and it really isn't much of a spectacle - you don't get astronauts waving as they pass or anything. Tbh, Marco's mobile disco going up the M56 would draw more attention.

What you get is the sun reflecting off it for a few brief minutes. I imagine you'd need a pretty good telescope to see it properly.

[Pigmy Pony]

Right I'm off to see the bone folk at Chorley hospital now, and I'm hoping the cast on my arm is coming off, though everyone else thinks it's too soon. (Left) fingers crossed.

[Macca]

Good luck.

[Pigmy Pony]

Well, cast is off, and providing I don't bang it hard on anything, I should be fine. But I think my boxing career has ended before it even began. Busy picking chunks of something off my hand now, not sure if it's dead skin or plaster residue, but it's yellow and looks pretty minging. Looking forward to a right handed arse wipe in the morning.

My friend's wife (who's a nurse) warned me I'll have a fair bit of pain in my wrist, which I do, and recommended getting a glucosamine gel for it. So next stop Holland & Barrett.