CoTT 2 House of Cards

[clochette]

14 minutes ago, Page Scrawler said:

Seriously ? Now even the hail is out to kill us?!? Australia really is a dream destination...

[Marty]

1 hour ago, clochette said:

2 hours ago, Page Scrawler said:

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Seriously ? Now even the hail is out to kill us?!? Australia really is a dream destination...

It actually looks as though it might be corona-hail...

[Marty]

After midnight....

Goodnight friends! 

I'll leave you with the latest offering from the Marsh Family...

Seems the schools are reopening for the kids....

[Albert1434]

[Albert1434]

Ha Ha

Edited April 8, 2021 by Albert1434

[Headstall]

2 hours ago, Marty said:

After midnight....

Goodnight friends! 

I'll leave you with the latest offering from the Marsh Family...

Seems the schools are reopening for the kids....

Night, bro.  

[Marty]

Albert shared something yesterday about thinking outside the box...

So here's a story from back in the 1960s about a homesick Welsh teenager who put himself inside a box  and posted himself home from Australia... 

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The Crate Escape (Or: "Thinking Inside The Box")

The Welsh teen who tried to post himself home from Australia
Homesick and unable to afford the airfare, Brian Robson embarked on a crate escape to Wales. Now he’s looking for the two Irish men who nailed it shut.

Source (#1): https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/the-crate-escape-two-irishmen-who-helped-mail-friend-home-from-australia-sought-1.4529448
Source (#2): https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/08/thinking-inside-the-box-the-welsh-teen-who-tried-to-post-himself-home-from-australia

I notice he was in the Australian state of Victoria. Perhaps all he had really needed to do if he wanted to get back to Wales was to travel a short distance north, and he would have been in New South Wales...

Stiff and limping, home-sick Welsh man Brian Robson (19), who tried to send himself back to Cardiff from Australia arrived at London Airport stiff and limping after his 96 hours in a crate. He had been given a seat in a Pan American jet airliner from Los Angeles, May 18th, 1965, after being grilled by the FBI in Los Angeles. File photograph: Tom King/Mirrorpix/Getty

Edited April 8, 2021 by Marty
Tidying up

[Marty]

All secondary schoolchildren to return to school in Ireland next Monday. They've been doing online classes from home since Christmas. I'm not sure whether every kid will be pleased, but I reckon most parents probably will...

[Headstall]

Happy Thursday, all.   Men who wear glasses...

[Marty]

4 minutes ago, Headstall said:

Happy Thursday, all.

And you, Gary.

5 minutes ago, Headstall said:

Men who wear glasses...

Well, mine are only for reading, but...

What about us?

[clochette]

9 minutes ago, Headstall said:

Happy Thursday, all.   Men who wear glasses...

Hey Sexy Lumberjack  

There's a french saying "femme à lunettes, femme à quéquette" I'll let you translate this one  maybe it applies to this one too

Edited April 8, 2021 by clochette

[Headstall]

4 minutes ago, clochette said:

Hey Sexy Lumberjack  

There's a french saying "femme à lunettes, femme à quéquette" I'll let you translate this one

Hey, Tink!  

[Marty]

4 minutes ago, clochette said:

There's a french saying "femme à lunettes, femme à quéquette" I'll let you translate this one

If I have understood "quéquette" correctly, maybe they need one of their own because of the English saying: Men don't make passes at women who wear glasses.

 

(Of course, I just don't make passes at women.)

[Albert1434]

The River Arun in West Sussex, England

[Albert1434]

Aloha All

[Marty]

33 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha All

Greetings, young Albert!

[Headstall]

3 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha All

Aloha, Albert.    

[Headstall]

Empty old gas... check

Change gas filter... check

Change spark plugs... check

Change oil... Check

Change oil filter... check

Grease fittings... check

Install new battery... check

Remove and sharpen blades... check

 

Result... Lawn tractor purrs like a kitten, and I'm ready for the green.  

[Albert1434]

[Albert1434]

[Albert1434]

[dughlas]

1 hour ago, Headstall said:

Empty old gas... check

Change gas filter... check

Change spark plugs... check

Change oil... Check

Change oil filter... check

Grease fittings... check

Install new battery... check

Remove and sharpen blades... check

 

Result... Lawn tractor purrs like a kitten, and I'm ready for the green.  

Whew, glad you ending by mentioning the sexy tractor, I thought you were prepping yourself to play late season ice hockey.  

[dughlas]

High temp today was 75/24° then the sea breeze started and the temp dropped to the current 70/21°. Only drawback is an increase in the dewpoint to a sensible humidity level.

[Marty]

1 hour ago, Headstall said:

Empty old gas... check

Change gas filter... check

Change spark plugs... check

Change oil... Check

Change oil filter... check

Grease fittings... check

Install new battery... check

Remove and sharpen blades... check

 

Result... Lawn tractor purrs like a kitten, and I'm ready for the green.  

I'm trusting that all those checks were check marks, and not checks (cheques this side of the Pond) that you were writing for the various handymen doing the job...

 

[Valkyrie]

47 minutes ago, dughlas said:

High temp today was 75/24° then the sea breeze started and the temp dropped to the current 70/21°. Only drawback is an increase in the dewpoint to a sensible humidity level.

We set a record high temp today... 82F!