#:-S Anyone else having 1976 throwback moments. My arms keep sticking to the arms of my leather chair and I am somewhat loathe to paint with my hands being so sweaty in this heat. The water level in the local duckpond is definitely down (usually it overflows onto the path).
'Tis a tad warm in the unit today, not helped by the melting pots and mould press going! :'(
Hi
In the Mendips.
Had an Impetus game last night in the garage with a friend (late Republican Romans v Parthians) yesterday evening. I was fine at the start of the game but by the end I was a bit of a wreck from the heat and hay fever. Hardly any sleep last night and seem to have developed a bad summer cold. Feeling absolutely crap from heat/hay fever/cold, can't paint or even concentrate to read. :'(
Hope you are all doing better.
Paul
Last night the outside temperature in my back garden was 26 UK degrees, whatever that is and my wargames hut was 31 degrees.
My extract fan took over an hour to bring the indoor temperature down to 26 degrees.
All I managed to do was to cheer on Belgium before giving up.
Will try harder this evening.
Zapped!
Beautiful day in Bedfordshire today.
Even got to see the National Army Intelligence Museum in the sun. 8)
The Green Stuff is behaving like a complete swine in this heat !
Cheers - Phil
Actually 1976 brings back fond memories (mostly!) being based in Münster, West Germany as part of BAOR (2 RTR) at the time.
The year included: (not necessarily in chronological order)
Skiing for 2 weeks in Bavaria and Austria
Learning to sail (3 weeks in the Baltic)
6 weeks B1 control operators course in Bovvy (which meant I got home most weekends).
For around 2 months in the summer being on 'Cyprus' hours i.e. starting early in the morning and finishing in the tank park at lunchtime because of the heat
2 week exercise on 'Sunny Soltau' (very hot, but you can store an awful lot of beers in Chieftain bag charge holders)
2 weeks live firing at Hohne ranges, only we didn't because of the danger of setting the ranges alight!
2 week parachuting course at Sennelager
6 weeks at the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) Canada (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLObyvpkwJA), including spending my 21st birthday in isolation in the military hospital there with chicken pox! (They were terrified I would pass it on to the whole battlegroup who had of course all been sent out from Germany. But also included a wonderful weeks R&R with buddies driving down the Rocky Mountains from Calgary into Montana).
Large NATO exercise in the autumn.
Parade for the Queen (as Colonel in chief of the regiment) as unusually, all 4 Royal Tank Regiments were in Germany at the same time.
And somewhere I must have fitted some leave in!
Cheers Paul
'76....?
That's the year Von and I married.
It was SO hot on the wedding day.
My favourite memory of that day was 'Mick the Vic' (The Vicar.....A truly lovely man) turning up to the church in a tee-shirt and shorts.)
Von's Mum looked at him...and in a slightly peeved voice saying...."Who on Earth's that.....doesn't he know there's a wedding on today ?"
That still makes me smile. :)
Cheers - Phil
You was always easy amused Phil.
Nowhere near as bad a s 76, yet. no plauge of ladybirds, which almost caused my Sgt to put the Viva we were in into the Dee esturay.
IanS
Quote from: Techno on 29 June 2018, 02:40:55 PM
That's the year Von and I married.
Blimey! She's a remarkably staunch woman.
I tip my hat to her.
According to Radio 4 yesterday, '76 wasn't the hottest, sunniest or anything else-iest year. Memorable none the less.
For me, memories of the year I left uni and also of breakfast on my parent's patio because it was too hot in Coulsdon, at 8:30 - 9:00am, to eat indoors.
Jo and I got married on the hottest British day in history, 10th August 2003.
Feeling that record isn't going to hold for long!
Yesterday - Scorchio!!
Today - Scorchissimo!!!
Quote from: T13A on 29 June 2018, 02:04:36 PM
Actually 1976 brings back fond memories (mostly!) being based in Münster, West Germany as part of BAOR (2 RTR) at the time.
The year included: (not necessarily in chronological order)
Skiing for 2 weeks in Bavaria and Austria
Learning to sail (3 weeks in the Baltic)
6 weeks B1 control operators course in Bovvy (which meant I got home most weekends).
For around 2 months in the summer being on 'Cyprus' hours i.e. starting early in the morning and finishing in the tank park at lunchtime because of the heat
2 week exercise on 'Sunny Soltau' (very hot, but you can store an awful lot of beers in Chieftain bag charge holders)
2 weeks live firing at Hohne ranges, only we didn't because of the danger of setting the ranges alight!
2 week parachuting course at Sennelager
6 weeks at the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) Canada (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLObyvpkwJA), including spending my 21st birthday in isolation in the military hospital there with chicken pox! (They were terrified I would pass it on to the whole battlegroup who had of course all been sent out from Germany. But also included a wonderful weeks R&R with buddies driving down the Rocky Mountains from Calgary into Montana).
Large NATO exercise in the autumn.
Parade for the Queen (as Colonel in chief of the regiment) as unusually, all 4 Royal Tank Regiments were in Germany at the same time.
And somewhere I must have fitted some leave in!
Cheers Paul
That's what I should have done! (although the parachuting wouldn't have agreed with the vertigo). Teaching kids who didn't want to be there for a a government who only saw them as potential earners and therefore tax payers can be deeply unsatisfying.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 29 June 2018, 03:10:49 PM
You was always easy amused Phil.
Nowhere near as bad a s 76, yet. no plauge of ladybirds, which almost caused my Sgt to put the Viva we were in into the Dee esturay.
IanS
The ladybirds !
You're right., Ian.
Von and I had to dive into a shop....There were SO many flying around on that particular day.
Almost like the Biblical plague of locusts...There must have been hundreds os thousands, at least !
Cheers - Phil
Think I found some photos of Techno's wedding - right hair anyway. :D
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/28/2629FFAA00000578-0-image-m-27_1425083868471.jpg)(https://i.wpimg.pl/O/395x600/i.wp.pl/a/f/film/033/20/42/0394220.jpg)
And his dress is stunning!
Oik2
;D ;D
That reminds me....I really MUST get a haircut soon. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 30 June 2018, 05:41:10 AM
That reminds me....I really MUST get a haircut soon. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Thought it had all fell out !
No.....I look more like Alice Cooper than ever.
(Without the make-up, I hasten to add....and, of course, I wear glasses, rather than contact lenses nowadays.)
Cheers - Vince.
How much make-up are you wearing now?
On the subject of Ladybirds....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nomA4WJK43I
Strolling along the beach this morning with the mutt and it was like being in the Baltic - almost everyone there was speaking Polish. I am assuming the country has now ground to a halt. Still very hot in the northwest and the plume of grey from the moorland fires is still evident - drifting towards the Wirral today - Bad luck Ian!
No smoke here, we did have to put up wit red arras doing circuits and bumps for a couple of hours late mornin, afore dey went off. Noisey buggers. (Was at Broughton doing a big battlegroup game).
Mind you hope it be out be mid month, got to go to JoS in Sheff.
IanS
I really must do that one year. some of those 6mm displays look mightily impressive on Peter's site.
Has anyone else experienced this: in this hot weather, when I shake my Vallejo pots before pouring on opening them the paint is already coming out of the little nozzle, even though the pot is upright. Has the heat thinned and expanded it?
Possibly. However, I find that happens with some of the metallics under normal circumstances.
Btw, presumably the paint is drying much faster(?).
Not so as you'd notice....
PAINT SLOWER!!!
Quote from: Leman on 02 July 2018, 10:56:38 AM
Has anyone else experienced this: in this hot weather, when I shake my Vallejo pots before pouring on opening them the paint is already coming out of the little nozzle, even though the pot is upright. Has the heat thinned and expanded it?
Yes I found that the other night. All my pots were upright and the instant I took the top off it was oozing out, on one fairly full bottle it ran over my fingers before I could get it to stop
Quote from: ianrs54 on 01 July 2018, 06:27:17 AM
No smoke here, we did have to put up wit red arras doing circuits and bumps for a couple of hours late mornin, afore dey went off. Noisey buggers.
Hah! Reminds me of when we went camping in S.Wales one year, across the estuary from an RAF range. Hawks buzzing around on a daily basis practicing their shooting.
We thought they were noisy.
And then one day a pair of Tornados came hurtling up the coast at low-level . . .
Quote from: ianrs54 on 29 June 2018, 03:10:49 PM
Nowhere near as bad a s 76, yet.
Agreed. In '76 our grass turned yellow and the ground underneath was all parched & cracked.
My lawn (for want of a better word) today is still green, the mud underneath still solid. And no, we don't water it. Neighbours lawns look the same.
All the grass round here is very yellow. But ground is still solid, not cracked.
All my grass is straw coloured now and has been for a couple of weeks.
Grass straw coloured in large parts of Bristol. Went to Brandon Hill park in centre of town and most bedding plants dead or close to it, which I've never seen before here. Having to water my garden each night and pots twice a day to keep plants going, but frogs, bees, butterflies etc doing well as a result.
So are the bloody horseflies (clegs).......Evil little b*stards !
So hot over here, I'm starting pushing putty at stupid O'clock, so I can get some work done before the putty plays silly sods.
Cheers - Phil
We went for a walk a week or so ago and got mobbed by horseflies, but they only attacked me and not SWMBO :'(
One bit me on the back through a tee-shirt a couple of nights ago, just before Von splatted it. >:( >:(
I felt the bite, alright !
Cheers - Phil.
Nursing a bite on the back of my left calf - finally stopped itching after about 5 days. It's quite cool here today being only 25C. :D