Today.

[ElThomsono]

I have a few Flukes, just the way it worked out, but I mainly use this tiny little Beckman that's just perfect. Autoranging, AC and DC volts, resistance and continuity. How often do you need more than that? It lives in my tool case whereas even the little Fluke 113 would be eating a chunk of space.

 

[Greg]

I have a few Flukes, just the way it worked out, but I mainly use this tiny little Beckman that's just perfect. Autoranging, AC and DC volts, resistance and continuity. How often do you need more than that? It lives in my tool case whereas even the little Fluke 113 would be eating a chunk of space.

I like the look of that.

Did the first run with the run club yesterday, felt good. Woke up with a bit of a headache following the post run social...

 

[ElThomsono]

I've had the Petromax out, first time in ages. I'd not been using it as the pump was weak and in order to use the blowtorch lighter (the whole point of the Petromax design) you needed to pump like a lunatic. Well today my mind turned to it and almost immediately Google told me to massage the pump leather with grease, makes sense TBH.

Well it was like night and day, it still takes a bit of doing but it's quite achievable and you can watch the pressure build quickly. Oddly it wouldn't light off a lighter, it absolutely sucked the flame in but it wasn't catching, I just went straight to the blowtorch as it was to hand.

What a machine, just roars to life without any messing about with meths, doesn't fail to light leaving you with a too hot to handle but not hot enough to light lamp. Smells beautiful, gives out a fantastic warmth, enough light but pretty pathetic in modern terms.

I'm going on holiday again on Monday so I might take it with me.

Edit: tinnitus? What tinnitus, I've got my lamp lit, I can't hear shit.

 

[ElThomsono]

I'm at a curry house, I'm overnighting in Plymouth and it's against a project so why not. I gambled on the house special, a chicken curry cooked through with beef mince. What was I thinking? It was passable but frankly just not right.

Best of all they're trying to overhaul our expense system, used to be pretty fair and liberal, now they are trying to put a £25 cap on meals (have you bought food recently, the price has gone up). There was an online meeting about it, which I didn't attend, during the questions at the end one of our engineers lambasted the £25 cap and the management response was "where is everyone getting this £25 figure from?"

"from the slides attached to this meeting"

Seems the shut it down quick, fuck knows what was going on, whether it was a miscommunication or they were actually ignorant of the policy they were just presenting. We'll see when I put in a £40 bill for one meal.

Well it came to over £50 in the end (how?!?) but they paid it

 

[Greg]

I have a few Flukes, just the way it worked out, but I mainly use this tiny little Beckman that's just perfect. Autoranging, AC and DC volts, resistance and continuity. How often do you need more than that? It lives in my tool case whereas even the little Fluke 113 would be eating a chunk of space.

I did a presentation on problem solving earlier in the week and flagged that, often, it is easy to forget about the outcome you're looking for and instead focus on an 'ideal' outcome - which then becomes a barrier to success. Think this is a good example of a tool that does everything you need, isn't expensive, and actually because it's company and simple you're more likely to have it with you when you need it.

 

[ElThomsono]

A .38 in the hand is worth more than a .45 in the safe.

 

[5teep]

Today I got a letter from the council re rubbish collections, apparently...

The Green bin is now the blue bin
The blue bin is still the blue bin but you can't put plastic in it
A new smaller grey bin will be delivered and will become the old green bin
The even smaller grey bins remain the even smaller grey bins.

 

[MaC]

Today I got a letter from the council re rubbish collections, apparently...

The Green bin is now the blue bin
The blue bin is still the blue bin but you can't put plastic in it
A new smaller grey bin will be delivered and will become the old green bin
The even smaller grey bins remain the even smaller grey bins.

I really wonder about the Council's recycling....well, Scotland's recycling.

Surely we can do it properly, all joined up, sort of thing.

It can't be beyond mortal wit to do some decent housekeeping on it.
Damned things sometimes take up half folks garden space.

Mrs "FIve Bins" and an annual uplift, Mac

 

[5teep]

I didn't mention the brown bin (garden rubbish) because we have to pay to get that uplifted and I'm too tight.

 

[MaC]

I didn't mention the brown bin (garden rubbish) because we have to pay to get that uplifted and I'm too tight.

You do ? where ? ours are all free.....and there's the option to take stuff to the council recycling depots ourselves too....or pay £30 for an uplift past the freebie.

I don't recycle the stuff that ought to go in our red bin, because I compost all of that....vegetarian household, no meat or fish scraps

 

[Jaggededge]

We only have 1 wheelie bin for general waste. A bag for paper etc. A bag for plastic and cans/ metal and a box for glass. Recycling is not compulsory. If the collection crew see something in the wrong bag they leave the lot. When that happens I take great delight in tipping the lot in the wheelie bin.

 

[Beachlover]

Here we have a green wheelie for recycling, a black bin for general waste and a food caddy. We used to have a box for paper and card, but the bin men gradually threw the ones that weren't already being used on allotments and in gardens as tubs into the back of their wagons, so they're gone now and cardboard is either chucked in the recycling or left in a heap next to it.
We never use the food caddy as raw stuff gets composted and cooked goes in the general waste bin.
Because several of our neighbours have the brown bin for garden waste, "we" had to have one too at £60 p.a. despite the fact that it either goes in my compost or gets burned at the allotment.
Like almost everyone on the Island, I have no trust in the recycling system, so in practical terms rubbish gets chucked in whatever bin is due for the fortnightly collection and as long as a bag with the correct stuff is on the top, the bin men don't give a bugger.

Edited to say we have a recycling centre too. The "tip" used to be turn up and dump which suited most folk, but come Covid the Council decided on bookings that have continued and stuff has to be separated, which works in terms of things getting separated alright, it now gets separated to either go in a wheelie or a lay-by.

 

[5teep]

So it's going to be 1 bin for plastic. metal, glass collected once per month. One bin for paper and cardboard once a month, one smaller bin for general waste twice a month, 2 small bins for food waste collected weekly I think, my food waste goes in the general bin and I used the small grey ones for paint pots

 

[Jaggededge]

We also have a food caddy that I forgot about. Stopped using it as soon as the first flys arrived.

 

[bushwacker]

We also have a food caddy that I forgot about. .

Is that like a fat golf caddy?

 

[MaC]

No, it's a big countertop compost scraps bin.

Mine's useful in the greenhouse.