Good afternoon gorgeous buddies 
I’ve been in another time warp! The dresser that I’m upcycling now has 3 coats of paint on, so only 1 more to go.. 
i also had a digital timeout for the equinox on Monday, which saw me walking barefoot on the beach!
how are you all? 
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.
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.
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 posted:Well done Summer with your wardrobe painting
Your digital barefoot walk on the beach sounds relaxing
Yogi, thanks re the car
Moonie, what will you do without cakes
Starve El 
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),
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
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 
Afternoon troops
Hope all are fine and the car isn't costing you El - don't trust MOT stations 
And well done for keeping it 17 years, they're 99% depreciating assets as you'll know. Although they're mostly on PCP now so they're hired.
Hope all is well all round Yogi 
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
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
Thanks Velvet. I'm getting the car sorted out by the local car repair/MOT/filling station/second hand cars place which has been there for a very long time. It's a family business and is now run by the son of the man who originally started it. That founder died a few times ago but his wife goes to my church.
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.
El Loro posted:Well done Summer with your wardrobe painting
Your digital barefoot walk on the beach sounds relaxing
Yogi, thanks re the car
Moonie, what will you do without cakes
It’s good when there is somewhere local that you trust
Hi Velvet All is well chez Yogi. Hope all is well with you?
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros
Hug for the night owls
night yogi summer moons if you pop in
Good morning everyone it's bucketing down here. It will be good to get the car back today and know that it's all good for another year EL.
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning everyone
Very cloudy here and raining. Some heavier bursts forecast with the possibility of thunderstorms. Should get better later this afternon.
Thanks Squiggle re my car I hope to be able to collect it when the rain isn't pooring down as I'll be walking there to get it.
I hope everyone has a good day
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.
Morning troops
It's a great day - it's a stinker. Hope the car runs well when you get it back El. Our record is 18 years for my mum's Mk 1 Golf GTI. Still on the road according to Mycarcheck.
Have a good one ye all
Morning all.
It has been raining and is overcast atm.
El, I hope you manage to pick up your car during a dry spell.
18 years was good for the Golf, Velvet.
Off to the dentist soon....absolutely dreading it. Wish me luck!🙈
Have a good day, everyone.
Got the call and have just collected my car. Just over £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.
Not bad if you got the discs and pads. There's a problem if you can't stop. Always replace tyres in pairs if you want a tip - that's recommended by the pro's. You don't want mismatched.
Then again, I don't think you'll be racing anyone
(Little do I know)
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.🙈
Glad you got the car back, El, and it doesn’t seem too pricey for the work you had done.
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.
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.
A giant planet has been found around a tiny star which shouldn't be possible according to astronomers. It means that their theories as to how planets are formed are flawed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-49855058
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 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.
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
Thanks El but I might skip that one
Goodnight and sweet dreams, El and Ros
Hug for any night owls
night Yogi EL summer moons if you pop in
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 “should 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
Good morning everyone it's very cloudy again and plenty of rain forecast.
Oh well done Yogi you were very brave. That sounds quite reasonable EL with all that work.
Enjoy your day everyone
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
