Oztalgian
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Brew,
Could you please provide a link to the "Japanese Pin Factory" story/study.
As a manufacturing engineer and process improvement specialist for 40 years I would be interested in reading it.
A google search has not thrown up anything that I think relates to it.
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Yes Jonab, I'd forgotten that.
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1 hour ago, philmayfield said:
The Hyde Barkers had a travel agency in Southwell.
There was one in Mansfield for years too.
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Where we are the neighbors on either side and across the road have started a "tool pool"
We chose one of the main brands where there was a large choice of tools and interchangeable 24 volt batteries and when one is needed we just swap them. Saves buying the whole range and everyone has a battery charger and a battery so always ready to go. When required we share the work also and pool the green bins to get rid of any green waste.
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On most Sunday mornings I get up early, cook myself a full English breakfast on the BBQ with a little assistance from the microwave and weather permitting sit on the patio eating it whilst watching the sun rise over the ocean.
This Sunday's breakfast was ruined by the packaging numpties who have changed the packaging of a staple breakfast food, baked beans. For years all tinned goods have come with a ring pull tear off lid and when I came to open the tin, guess what? No ring pull top, they have gone back to the old style closure where you have to use a can opener and as we did not have a can opener I had to eat my breakfast without one of the essentials.
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6 hours ago, loppylugs said:
To me, the worst part of gas powered tools is pulling the string to start them. Seems like if they don't start first pull it's a miserable job to start them. Too temperamental.
I agree Loppy, I've finished with two and four stroke small petrol engines, and most mains powered tools. Any new tool I buy from now on will be battery powered.
No struggling to start them, buying fuel and oil, mixing fuel, undoing tangled leads or falling over them, take the tool from the hanger, pop the battery in and away you go. When you have finished put the battery back in the charger, job done.
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6 hours ago, Mess said:
Remember Johnny Morris on kid's TV in the late 50s
Wasn't he the "Hot Chestnut Man"? I also enjoyed his character voices in "Tales of the Riverbank" and our kids were brought up listening to cassette tapes of his readings of Rev. W. Awdry's "The Railway Stories" on long journeys in the car.
I have always loved roast chestnuts they are available here and in one of the hills towns a man stands on a corner selling them roasted in a brazier.
As kids we used "winter warmers", a large tin can with holes pierced around the lower half with a long length of fencing wire so we could swing it round our heads and get the coals really glowing to roast our chestnuts.
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The car companies say that the only time the owners ever look at the vehicle owners manual is to change the clock for daylight saving.
I don't have to change mine as the newest cars' clock takes its time from the GPS satellites and changes automatically. Haven't driven the other car for weeks but I have to set that one manually.
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After you have finished polishing your headlight lenses don't forget to rub some high UV sunscreen into them it will help them to stay clear longer.
Then again in the UK winter maybe you wont be seeing too much sun.
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I always thought that nuns had wheels as you never saw their feet, a bit like Daleks.
Meanwhile back at the scullery, back kitchen, pantry, utility room, I remember the scullery being in an alcove off the kitchen it was curtained off from the kitchen and I do remember it having a "stone" which was a very thick piece of concrete? that was used to put milk jugs, butter and cheese dishes on to keep things cool. There was a meat safe in there too and it had cheesecloth "curtains" that dangled in a water trough to improve the cooling.
Strangely enough the bathtub was hung on a nail in the coalh'us
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Good one Willow, anything by Johnny and the Hurricanes was good for the Goose Fair especially the Waltzer and the Whiplash.
Or this one
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Interesting that the NHS Covid 19 app will not work in Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland as they are using different apps.........SNAFU
I like the concept of QR codes for places you visit and the fact that the NHS app works after 5 minutes contact unlike ours which is 15 minutes.
You phone has to be on and blue tooth enabled for it to work and I can see there are already concerns about privacy but the government has assured everyone that there data is safe and secure Ha! Ha!
I always know where my mobile phone is, it is on the table next to my chair usually with a flat battery. I was beholden to first a pager and then a mobile phone for 30 odd years. I am happy enough without checking it for InstaTubeTwitFace every few minutes. Besides, everyone that I would want to talk to knows that if they want me to ring my wife.
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nonnaB I bet the citizens of the USA wish they could say the same as they have the GOP(Great Orange Plonker) looking after them.
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I hope you have better luck with the Covid app than we have had.
Here the Federal government released the "Covidsafe" app last April it cost AU$2.5 million (1.4 million quid). The government will not release how much it has spent advertising it. To date it appears to have been downloaded by around 7 million out of a total of 18 million mobile phone users in Australia. The department that runs the app has refused to give information on how successful it has been in tracing contacts that have not been reached by normal methods. My guess is that it is not many otherwise they would be telling us. NSW has indicated that data from the app has been accessed only 33 times, it identified 14 close contacts that had not been discovered by normal tracking methods. It also found a previously unrecognised exposure date that resulted in notifying 544 people and discovered 2 covid cases. Victoria has downloaded data from the app over 1000 times and is yet to find any close contacts that had not been identified by other means.
Australians are rightfully wary of giving any private information to government due to well founded security concerns and this has undoubtedly reduced the number of downloads. All in all I guess 3 out of 10 for trying. We have only 1 covid case in our state and that is a returned traveller in quarantine in a medi-hotel.
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nonnaB,
Our news media are reporting that the Italian government has mandated the use of wearing masks outdoors in Italy.
You and yours take care
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Max Boyce is the only poet I know of that writes poems about Rugby
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Cease and desist it's getting worse, you are making spectacles of yourselves, but I'll keep an eye out for more puns
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Yesterday we lost two artists from different parts of the musical spectrum
Rocker and guitarist Eddie Van Halen aged 65 probably best known for "Jump"
Reggae singer Johnny Nash best know for "I can see clearly now"
The soundtrack of my youth gets ever quieter.
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I wonder why there is so much difference country to country as the source of all the stuff is likely to be the same
A reasonable quality 6 Kw system here fully installed is $5,000-6,000 that's 2,800 - 3,300 quid. A lot cheaper than the UK and this does not include any government rebates.
A similar mid range 6 Kw panel system with 10 Kwh battery back up fully installed is 9,000 to 12,000 quid. Again rebates are available.
As with everything quality can vary the prices.
The sun does tend to shine more here in Australia than it does in the UK as in Adelaide we have around 2,800 hours of sunshine per year whereas London has 1600 hours and this has a real affect on the payback time for the systems.
Having said that on, Sunday we had more than our usual average rainfall for the month in 10 hours and the last few days have been very cloudy so I have had to switch the solar hot water system to night tariff.
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The Great Orange Plonker goes into hospital with Covid 19 and emerges three days later fully cured? Where have we heard this before?
Oh yes! he must be the Messiah
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DJ 360 Didn't you know that Jaguars are notoriously unreliable and have quality problems. Might have been worse you could have bought Range Rover frames.
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Given the failure at the end of last season and the dismal start this year it was inevitable.
Having a revolving door for managers is not the solution, there is something more fundamentally wrong within the club.
A good start for Chris Hughton would be to clear out all the under performing players, particularly the international imports and develop a coaching/ scouting system to develop local talent. I would rather they lose bringing through local talent than lose with a lot of overpaid prima-donnas with no passion, pride or commitment to the club.
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Just a point to ponder. The very very best solar panels are at their peak 25% efficient at converting solar energy into electricity. This drops off depending on the angle of the sun hitting the panels, the amount of dirt and dust on the panel and the age of the panels. They are also vulnerable to large hailstones as many people in OZ have found out recently. We have 6Kw installed on our roof and a solar hot water system. A lot of the electricity generated goes into running the pool pumps but for nine months of the year we pay nothing for hot water heating. Not sure what I will do when these need replacing. As the feed in tariffs keep reducing I think it may well be new solar panels and feeding any excess power into a battery bank to use in the evening or when the sun is not shining.
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So, the orange buffoon is back in the White House after allegedly having had corona virus diagnosed three days earlier and needing oxygen? He is now telling Americans not to let Covid 19 dominate them and that he is better and not to be afraid of it. Below in italics are his reported words. DJ360 is spot on its all about him. What about the 208,000+ US citizens that have died, many as a direct result of his incompetence, how many of them got the medical care and access to drugs that Trump had?
"Don't let it take over your lives," he said. "Don't let that happen. We're the greatest country in the world. We're going back to work. We're going to be out front.
"As your leader, I had to do that, I knew there was danger to it.
"I stood out front and led. Nobody that's a leader would not do what I did.
"I know there's a risk, there's a danger. But that's ok. And now I'm better.
"Maybe I'm immune? I don't know."
The vaccines were coming "momentarily", he added.
Clocks back tonight
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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You think you have problems with daylight saving Have a look at these maps of Australia pre and post daylight savings
Have a look at the No DST map. The yellow bit on the right is Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. The Green bit in the Middle is South Australia and the Northern Territory and the Blue bit is West Australia. All very logical except the half hour bit in the middle which should really be an hour difference to the east coast.
Now look at the DST map, what a schemozzle as some states have daylight saving and others don't
Pity the poor people catching a flight from the Gold Coast/ Coolangatta airport which is right on the NSW/Queensland border. If your are at one end of the terminal your phone could well show a different time to the other end of the terminal depending upon which mobile tower the phone is picking up. This time difference often results in the unaware missing their flights.
We are further west than Queensland yet our time is half an hour ahead of theirs during the summer, and we now have 5 separate time zones to grapple with, stupid if you ask me.