WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[PanBiker]

My router is still showing the same, 40mbps

[Big Kev]

My router is still showing the same, 40mbps

I stand corrected, it's upload speed they've increased.

[Stanley]

That beach is a Youtube hotspot Tiz. Daft I call it.....
My raw speed isn't increased but my bulk emails go out quicker.....
How slow some people are to respond to communications, not the site, another matter.

[PanBiker]

I stand corrected, it's upload speed they've increased.

I didn't check upload rate, just been on now and its 7 mbps.

[Tizer]

An interesting side issue with the Grenfell fire is the way the word `flammable' is used to describe materials - "It's `flammable' therefore it's not safe. Most non-mineral materials are flammable given the necessary condition - very high temperature, higher than normal oxygen level, strong draught of air, contact with more flammable materials etc.

Forgive me quoting my own post but I now find that all those tests done recently on cladding and insulation from tower blocks were done in a bomb calorimeter in an atmosphere of pure oxygen. What a waste of time! All the materials involved - polyethylene, polyisocyanurate and aluminium - will burn in pure oxygen. There was no need to do the tests, the results of such an action were already long known. Was this simply a case of the Government `wanting to appear to be doing something'? Various commentators have pointed out that the Grenfell disaster would not have happened if a mineral material had been used as insulation and cladding. In that case I hope that the same combustibility test has been done on the mineral alternatives; mineral wool will burn at 1000 degrees C, possibly at a much lower temperature in pure oxygen, and other minerals may well burn under those conditions too.

[Stanley]

Well done Kev, I had missed that fact! My upload speed is now 9.37mps a definite improvement.
These things are complicated aren't they Tiz. Thanks for that insight, pity you aren't advising the government! Do they just make these things up as they go along?
I came back on the site to say that something struck me in the shed as I dragged yet another engine out of my head. This must be some of the best dementia avoiding activity there is, thinking something out in your head and then making it.......

[Tizer]

I came back on the site to say that something struck me in the shed as I dragged yet another engine out of my head. This must be some of the best dementia avoiding activity there is, thinking something out in your head and then making it.......

Yes, that probably also accounts for a lot of bright-eyed, sharp, old railway modellers! And nowadays they can use digital control of the engines from a smartphone. They don't miss much - they can even take advantage of rare earth metals to improve the performance of their engines, as detailed here: LINK
*Suitable for Hornby Dublo, Wrenn Locomotives and Tri-ang X03/X04 motors
*Excellent resistance to demagnetisation
*Coated with three layers of nickel, copper and nickel to reduce corrosion and provide a smooth finish
"These magnets have been specifically designed to replace the magnets in the motors of model locomotives. As these magnets are made from the strongest magnetic material, they will provide much more torque than the alnico magnets historically used. What’s more, they will never lose their magnetism. Bring your locomotive back to life simply by replacing your old magnet with these high-performance neodymium magnets."

Viagra for model railways!

[Stanley]

Interesting site Tiz, I've bookmarked it.
Two big Documents on vellum in clerkly hand that have to be transcribed. Another fine mess I have got myself into!

[Tizer]

Stanley's comment on the magnets site prompts me to put the link here for its home page. LINK
You don't have to be a workshop addict to find something of interest at the site. I've never bought from them but I can see some of my spending money going their way. There's a wonderful selection of all sorts of magnets - the usual bar and horseshoes but many others, such as disc, pot, ring, tape, sheet and even therapy magnets (can you imagine wearing a bracelet of the rare earth magnets - I don't know what they'd do for arthritis but I bet you'd pick up all sorts of extras as you walked around a hardware shop!) Those horseshoe magnets are artworks worthy of a place on my mantelpiece too.

[Tizer]

How about this for a shed? We've been watching it slowly being made, a little bit more progress on each of our holiday visits to Praa Sands in Cornwall. An Englishman's shed is his castle!

[Julie in Norfolk]

We went to Wheateley Lane Inghamite today, crikey is it overgrown. I couldn't find what I was looking for despite having found it about 10 years ago. It needs a trim, is there a lack of funds? What can we do?

[PanBiker]

Council cuts due to Tory underfunding Julie. Not enough brass to cut all the grass, more essential services to support than that.

[Stanley]

Tiz, size dictated by the leccy pole and guy wires?

[Tizer]

It looks like that, Stanley. I don't know if he checked with the leccy people first!

[Tripps]

We went to Wheateley Lane Inghamite today, crikey is it overgrown. I couldn't find what I was looking for despite having found it about 10 years ago. It needs a trim, is there a lack of funds? What can we do?

They seem to have been doing OK, as at a year ago. Inghamite Church

Can we really blame the 'nasty party' for overgrown churchyards?

[Stanley]

When I was tramming round Scotland I always admired the fact that the Council maintained the burial grounds and they were all well kept. Not the same in England. Even the abandoned ones were like small well kept gardens.
I started the transcription of a big document yesterday and it ain't easy! I did about 1200 words in three hours. Wendy called round to view them and she has taken the other one home to transcribe. A bit of help is worth a lot of pity. The legal language is so bloody long winded!
F1 at Silverstone was one of the best I have ever seen.

[Marilyn]

What is the document regarding, Stanley?

I'm on my 4th 1000 piece Jigsaw this Winter. Very nearly finished this one as well. Friends loaned us the last three...and I left the snow scene one until last as everything was the same colour (!) and I thought it would be extremely difficult. Our friends were so pleased with themselves that they had chosen such a difficult one - in fact - they admitted they had never done it because it looked hard. ( funny what folk collect, our friends have a huge walk in cupboard full of jigsaws!).
I opened the jigsaw and found a "cheat sheet" in the form of a code. D and I cracked the code! It took us 8 hours to do the entire jigsaw. I began in the top right corner, and D began in the bottom left corner, and we worked toward each other.
I've left the last dozen pieces for D to finish it off. He would hate it if he came downstairs and I had finished it without him.

He did say we should let our friends work out the code for themselves...

[Stanley]

It's a very complicated document Maz. Basically it's the allocation of the property of a very rich man in Padiham called Paul Tickle. It covers in great detail how the intentions of the original will are to be effected and is couched in the most impenetrable legalese you have ever seen! All is not yet clear to me as I am only a quarter of the way in..... It'll take me about a week.... Wendy is doing the other document to help me out.
I must have got my eye in, I went like a train this morning and the Indenture is finished and posted. Sorry if this puts pressure on you Wendy!

[Tizer]

If I was going to ride a horse this is how I'd like to do it!.... LINK
`Household Cavalry: Holkham Beach trip for regiments'

[Stanley]

Good for the horse's hooves......
Annual election registration online.
Lovely clear sky and dawn light at 4AM.

[Stanley]

Gloom and mizzle!
The horrendous report on falling standards in prisons. Out of sight, out of mind for so long. It's indicative of the weakness of leadership that the heads of so many committees and watchdogs are speaking very frankly about the shortcomings in the system. These stories are not going to die down, they will get worse.

[Wendyf]

Salaries at the BBC. Wouldn't it be helpful if all presenters (including those on the Radio 4 Today programme) wore a label stating their annual salary? Not sure how that would work for radio, but it would have put Michal Husain's interview of the DG into some sort of perspective this morning. What about John Humphrys...over £550,000 pa to question MPs about their ethics? I'm off to bury my head deeper in the sand.

[Tripps]

On the 6.00 pm news on Radio4 - I loved the way Eddie Mair (in the £300k - 349k salary range) read out a very long list of his colleagues' pay. I was waiting for him to declare his own, but for some reason he didn't include it.

[plaques]

Chris Evans... £2.2M. I would offer him £20 per week max. If they think they can do better outside the BBC I say let them go.
I remember when all the so called top line presenters went on strike and their positions were filled by unknowns who did just as good a job without any real practice. The celebrities soon saw the light and came tumbling back to work. Zero hours contract on a rotating list, minimum wage of course.

[Stanley]

David, that thought struck me as well.... Mind you, is Theresa worth £445,000 a year?
Baby Charlie is on my mind...... Are they in court yet again today?
The fact I haven't yet got my tickets for the Fellsman on August 1st. I have mailed them.....