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Yogi19 posted:

Afternoon all 

I’ve been shopping but....no cakes 

El, I hope the service and MOT are finished tomorrow and the parts don’t cost too much

Squiggle, up here the rain and grey clouds have disappeared for now. I hope it has brightened up for you too.

Summer, your barefoot walk on the beach for the equinox sounds lovely.

  

Moonie

Well done Summer with your wardrobe painting

 

Your digital barefoot walk on the beach sounds relaxing

 

Yogi, thanks re the car It's 17 years old, so although not a huge mileage, it's getting on and so I'm not surprised. I get the work done at a local place rather than Bristol Street Motors (where I'd originally bought it) and I think it's cheaper that way.

 

Moonie, what will you do without cakes

El Loro
El Loro posted:

Well done Summer with your wardrobe painting

 

Your digital barefoot walk on the beach sounds relaxing

 

Yogi, thanks re the car It's 17 years old, so although not a huge mileage, it's getting on and so I'm not surprised. I get the work done at a local place rather than Bristol Street Motors (where I'd originally bought it) and I think it's cheaper that way.

 

Moonie, what will you do without cakes

Starve El  

Moonie

For those interested, a BBC clip of some of the very old documents kept at Gloucestershire Archives.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/...nd-bristol-49668999/

 

The first document is about Gloucester Castle and is over 750 years old. The castle ceased to be used as a castle and became used as the original Gloucester Prison. The original prison was eventually demolished and the new prison (which has closed in recent years) was built there during 1787/1791.

 

The second document is the charter from Richard III giving Gloucester the right to have a market.

 

The third document is a survey of Gloucester from the 18th century. One of the screen shows the cheerfully named "Starveall or Tredworth Farm". Next to it is "Robin Hood's Hill". I think that's an error and should have been "Robin Wood's Hill" (now known as Robinswood Hill),

El Loro
Moonie posted:
El Loro posted:

Well done Summer with your wardrobe painting

 

Your digital barefoot walk on the beach sounds relaxing

 

Yogi, thanks re the car It's 17 years old, so although not a huge mileage, it's getting on and so I'm not surprised. I get the work done at a local place rather than Bristol Street Motors (where I'd originally bought it) and I think it's cheaper that way.

 

Moonie, what will you do without cakes

Starve El  

I would have given you some of the Battenberg cake I started the other day, but I only had the one slice as it tasted rather unpleasant. I don't think you'd appreciate it

El Loro
El Loro posted:
Moonie posted:
El Loro posted:

Well done Summer with your wardrobe painting

 

Your digital barefoot walk on the beach sounds relaxing

 

Yogi, thanks re the car It's 17 years old, so although not a huge mileage, it's getting on and so I'm not surprised. I get the work done at a local place rather than Bristol Street Motors (where I'd originally bought it) and I think it's cheaper that way.

 

Moonie, what will you do without cakes

Starve El  

I would have given you some of the Battenberg cake I started the other day, but I only had the one slice as it tasted rather unpleasant. I don't think you'd appreciate it

Thanks for the offer anyway El 

Moonie
Moonie posted:
Yogi19 posted:

Afternoon all 

I’ve been shopping but....no cakes 

El, I hope the service and MOT are finished tomorrow and the parts don’t cost too much

Squiggle, up here the rain and grey clouds have disappeared for now. I hope it has brightened up for you too.

Summer, your barefoot walk on the beach for the equinox sounds lovely.

  

 Sorry Moonie. My excuse is, Mr Yogi wasn’t with me.

Yogi19
El Loro posted:

Well done Summer with your wardrobe painting

 

Your digital barefoot walk on the beach sounds relaxing

 

Yogi, thanks re the car It's 17 years old, so although not a huge mileage, it's getting on and so I'm not surprised. I get the work done at a local place rather than Bristol Street Motors (where I'd originally bought it) and I think it's cheaper that way.

 

Moonie, what will you do without cakes

It’s good when there is somewhere local that you trust

Yogi19

I saw a trailer on Talking Pictures for a 1938 British film called "The Terror" (scheduled to be shown on Saturday October 5th at 19.10).

 

It's a crime mystery though with ghostly occurences. I suspect it's got some humour in it. Interesting cast as it has Bernard Lee in it, years before he became "M" in the Bond films, and Alastair Sim in one of his earlier films. The film is based on a play written by Edgar Wallace.

El Loro

Got the call and have just collected my car. Just over Β£550 but besides the ordinary service & MOT, the brake discs & pads were replaced, a tyre replacement, work on the exhaust with a rear silencer, and the fuel cap lock needing to be replaced. I had told them about the tyre & fuel cap lock (as old as the car and very tricky to lock & unlock). Not surprised about the exhaust given the state of the roads. The exhaust & brake work was advisory but I chose to get it done rather than wait for it to become a problem.

El Loro

Thanks Velvet and El, I’m back from the dentist and have just about stopped shaking 

The dentist was lovely and very gentle but I was so tense, I thought my legs wouldn’t work when I stood up.

Back next week for round 2.πŸ™ˆ

 

Glad you got the car back, El, and it doesn’t seem too pricey for the work you had done.

 

Yogi19

Velvet, I did ask about replacing both front tyres but it was the one on the passenger side which was damaged rather than worn. I don't do a lot of mileage and the tyres aren't that old. I suspected I'd damaged the tyre Wednesday last week at a junction I'm not familiar with, going straight on the road (a road joins from the right). The pavement on the left suddenly sticks out into the road at the junction effectively making it into a mini roundabout. There is no road sign for a roundabout from the direction I was coming (there should be but I've double checked on Google Maps and there isn't one, there are for the other side and for the road from the right). So I hit the pavement with that tyre as a result. Booked the car service on the following day. Car service was due anyway - MOT runs to 7 October.

 

It's possible that there used to be a road sign on the pavement which sticks out and it got knocked down. Or the people who extended that pavement forgot.

El Loro

Yogi, thank you re the car

 

I sympathise with you about shaking with dental work. When I had the extraction a few years ago I was in the chair for 2 and a half hours. I was really shaking afterwards as that was quite traumatic and I was a bit in shock. It eased after a few minutes though. That's why patients after a significant dental operation shouldm't really drive straight away. Besides trying to be relaxed as possible during the work (easier said than done) I find putting on a thick coat afterwards (even if just for a few minues) can help to reduce the shaking as one can feel quite cold.

El Loro

I had another close up look on Google Maps at that stretch of pavement I was referring to above. I can see a circle which has been surfaced right where I would have expected to see a mini roundabout sign. So I think there used to be one there but it got removed. The other mini roundabout signs at that junction have lights which would be on at night time.

El Loro
El Loro posted:

Yogi, thank you re the car

 

I sympathise with you about shaking with dental work. When I had the extraction a few years ago I was in the chair for 2 and a half hours. I was really shaking afterwards as that was quite traumatic and I was a bit in shock. It eased after a few minutes though. That's why patients after a significant dental operation shouldm't really drive straight away. Besides trying to be relaxed as possible during the work (easier said than done) I find putting on a thick coat afterwards (even if just for a few minues) can help to reduce the shaking as one can feel quite cold.

That was a very long time in the chair, you have my sympathy . No wonder you were shaking afterwards. 
I had removed my jacket in the dentist’s as it’s quite warm in the waiting room and then put it back on before I left so, I followed your good advice without knowing it.

Yogi19

I note that Talking Pictures are showing a 1962 British film called "These are the Damned" staring shortly.

 

Saw it many many years ago on television. Think it might have been late 60s. BBC used to show films on a Saturday night in the early evening. They would have a season of westerns and a season of noirish films. This would have been in the latter. A weird film, something about a mtor bike gang and mixed up with sort of science fiction and radioactivity. Hardly remember it other than being the most downbeat film I had ever seen. Joseph Losey was the director and I can't say I liked any of the films he made though The Go-Between is one of his better known films, though again somewhat downbeat. If I remember correctly, "These are the Damned" are one of those cheerful films where by the end everyone is dead or doomed.

 

Watch it if you want to be depressed

El Loro

Good evening lovelies I hope you all had a smooth day, it’s been rainy here. I saw a rainbow and I splashed in several puddles  

 

aw yogi, biiiiiiig hugs you’re very brave, I hope you’re relaxing and recovering at home this evening  

el, I’m pleased the car is sorted out- I too would have chosen to get the work done right away  

 

I LOVE astrology and I think that the words β€œshould not have” simply demonstrate how much the human race has yet to learn! The universe is infinite, as are the possibilities, I think the only boundaries at this time are our minds. I wonder what new discoveries are about to be revealed  

 

sweet dreams gang

~Sparkling Summer~

Good morning everyone

 

Lots of clouds and some blue sky here. Lots more rain forecast but seems to be more the evening, tonight and tomorros rather during daylight hours today.

 

Thanks everyone re my car

 

Summer, I'm sure you meant to say astronomy rather than astrology In science terms, a thypothesis is a set of ideas with little data to prove them, a theory is a set of ideas with data to support those but not proved beyond question, and a theorem is a set of ideas which have been proved.
For instance one of the best known theorems is the Pythagorus one re the sides of a right angled triangle (the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides). That has been proved in lots of different ways.

Einstein's theory of general relativity - much of that has been shown to be correct but from time to time something is found to throw a spanner in the works.

 

I hope everyone has a good day

El Loro

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