Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[fred.]

That's might annoying. When I've lost sleep the night before, I have come to accept that an afternoon nap is often a much better choice than fighting through the tiredness

[fsn]

My sympathies Techno, though I am impressed with Von's obvious super hearing. Unless you have crunchy gravel on the drive. I am also impressed that your estate is so large you need your own substation.




I get really cranky(er) if I don't get my sleep in.

The problem I have with working from home is that I seem to have to have a 10 minute nap after lunch. Go in to the office and apparently, that's not acceptable.

I wish I had the guts to go in to the office in pyjamas and a dressing gown.   

[Raider4]

The problem I have with working from home is that I seem to have to have a 10 minute nap after lunch.

I have taken to having an early lunch - 11:00-ish - then back to work until about 14:00, and then take a quick shower. Wakes me up & refreshes me for the afternoon. Going to miss that if/when we go back to "normal".

Go in to the office and apparently, that's not acceptable.

Oh, I dunno. We used to have a bloke who'd regularly doze off at his desk. Wasn't even "liquid lunch" induced.

[Ithoriel]

I live in a four-to-a-block maisonette. It was, relatively, cheap and spacious. Soundproofing side-to-side is perfectly adequate. Sound proofing between upper and lower is non-existant. Currently a family with two small girls is renting the maisonette above mine.

Let me sing the praises of Honeywell's "Howard Leight" Laserlite earplugs! A godsend in hideous pink and yellow

Sweet dreams are made of this ...

[Orcs]

Sympathies Phil. 

My hearing is rubbish and I sleep through anything - apart from people talking.  Mrs Orcs hears everything and often wakes me so I can tell her what it is.  its no use telling her i am not interested in the Muntjac deer barking, or the foxes fornicating on the lawn.

Still such is life

[mmcv]

I'm in a semi but fairly sure the walls are made of cardboard and the wee girl next door seems to wear lead shoes and has her volume setting permanently turned up to 11. Even at 2am. Never hear much from her partner, but she's by far the loudest neighbor we've had, and the previous residents had a baby and toddler and the ones before three boys...

One of the many reasons we're looking to move later in the year. Hopefully to somewhere without neighbors.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Antartica then ?

[mmcv]

Antartica then ?

Have you never watched a penguin documentary? Those guys are jerks.

[FierceKitty]

Have you never watched a penguin documentary? Those guys are jerks.

Very true. In fact, I still have a scar on my knee from participating in a clean-up and feed them operation after an oil spill in Cape Town. They've got quite a bite.

[Orcs]

Very true. In fact, I still have a scar on my knee from participating in a clean-up and feed them operation after an oil spill in Cape Town. They've got quite a bite.

Who were you feeding the penguins to?

[Techno]

Mr Dozy, writes.

Amazingly I managed to push some putty around today. (Today 'I are' mostly doing fantasy armoured bears.)

Best thing I've done today ?.....Saved fifty odd quid (pounds) by not calling an electrician out to replace one of those bloomin' awful ceiling 'pull' switches in the loo (john, toilet, khazi)....It was an absolute pig to do....But I didn't electrocute myself.

Nobby....We don't have a 'sub station' at Techno Towers....But we do (effectively) pass on the power to 6-10 other properties.
The bit of 'kit' they replaced at the top of one of the poles on our land, apparently weighs half a ton (or tonne).....That's as much as one of the big gee-gees.....and it's only about half the size of a wheelie bin.

Gravel on our drive.....NO !.....That would slide into the road the next time it rained hard.....You know what my address is....Translate that from Welsh into English.

Matthew...Move to a rural part of Wales....Our nearest neighbour is 300 yards away.

Cheers - Barry Bucknell. (How many here will remember 'Barry'..... )

[Westmarcher]

Got first haircut today after almost 5 months of lockdown. Lots of hair off. Now walking around like a Thunderbird puppet.


p.s. sorry, Phil. Saw the TV adverts but had absolutely no idea who Barry Bucknall was.

[fsn]

Good grief Techno! Barry Bucknall!

[Westmarcher]

Yikes! Actually, I do remember him (it was the face)! One DIY job I remember was knocking a hole in your wall beside your front door to install some kind of DIY postal box. Mad.

p.s. What "Barry" was I thinking of in the TV adverts?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I preferred Reg Prescott's DIY slots.
https://youtu.be/MU2BO5Obg2k