Miscellaneous Mutterings or Random Ramblings

and what's the recipe 'cos I'm interested ! <– drooling smiley

Neil

"I've just invented a recipe for spinach and stilton soup and have a strong urge to share it…"

Is that because you wish someone else to try your recipe before you take the chance and try it yourself?

Yes a "General Chat" topic would be good but how would you persuade folk to post their random comments etc. there rather than in the middle of the serious and profound discussions that take place on all threads at present? Surely too there would need to be some categorisation of these "General Topics" or , where several topics were being discussed on the same thread, there could be a danger of misunderstandings occuring. For example – imagine a few folk discussing tasty recipies and ingredients with you when someone else suggests a magic ingredient to add – but he is, in fact, responding to previous posts about ways for detering cats doing what they will do in your garden.

( You can while away a few hours thinking of other disasterous possibilities)

Cheers!

Norman

PS.

Please send carton of your soup for evaluation

PPS

LARGE carton

N

Edited By NJH on 22/01/2013 20:37:55

Neil,

no mention of a tin opener yet?

"Soup! Soup!"

To quote the Soup Dragon.

I'll get me coat.

Joey

Hmmm if the recipe contains stilton there may well be serious health and safety issues. Be sure you have obtained the relevant COSHH certificates…..

Hi, well a colleague and me were working out on a couple of sites today in close proximity to each other. When we finished loading all the tools back in the van on the second site, I took this very seasonal photo which I though looked very picturesque.

Can anybody guess where we were. First clue, we were not in the workshop yard.

No prizes for a correct guess.

Regards Nick.

With reference to Ian S C posting, my wife and I lived in Hawera in New Zealand from 1974 to 1977, when we had a powercut it was DARK! the only illumination was from the stars and that was fantastic, we bought a small telescope and the detail on the moon was amazing, we experienced an earthquake on 04/11/1974 around 10pm that registered 5.6 on the richter scale SCARY! lampshades dancing around on the ceiling, tv moving around the room on its wheels and the noise made by the wooden house we lived in was eerie, we returned to the UK by truck travelling with a group of like minded souls via Nepal,India,Pakistan,Afghanistan,Iran,Turkey,Greece,Bulgaria and parts of Europe, the whole trip took 4.5 months and was an experience to say the least, If I needed any machining or need of tools I visited the local metal shop and used his facilities for the price of a few beers.

Happy Days.

Hi Richard

I've had a look at your photos. It's brought back fond but hazy memories of trips to the Beer Engine a few years ago. I recall we renamed the Sleeper Heavy "Numb face" in light of the affect it use to have on us. Perhaps another thing to add to the to do list.

Bob..

We'v got 'em more worried now, they'v taken Ben Ainslie (British yatchy) as tactition, now only one American on the US boat. At this rate we should have the cup by Monday. Ian S C

I find that particular coolant causes a poor finish due to loss of coordination, and the chatter becomes uncontrollable after a while!

Edited By V8Eng on 13/09/2013 19:55:15

TROGLODYTE INGENIARIUS EXEMPLAR FACTORUM

The Model Engineer

The present day descendants of this genus are usually discovered in man-made caves where they carry out extremely exquisite operations on

pieces of metal that have been discarded by less ingenious members of their society. They are a retiring, modest variant of the species and are very clever. Sometimes their habitats can be discovered by following them from a local scrapheap or a tool shop to the cave. The average denizen of the cave is a scavenger of all types of rejected mechanisms which it reconfigures, using diverse machinery, into the form of miniaturised versions of the technological marvels of previous generations that it has seen displayed in various media. Sometimes it is induced by the female of the species to enter a habitable building to confirm it’s continued existence and to consume nourishment. The other members of it’s society tend to consider it as rather eccentric yet are very happy to see it’s artistic working products, even paying for the privilege to do so at impressive exhibitions . Great attempts are being made to ensure the survival of the troglodyte ingeniarius as, despite its mainly solitary tendencies,

It’s demise would be a sad loss to present day society.

(My opinion) Colin