A right now thread

[Ant]

Waiting for our pizza!

[Taipan]

Just lit the bbq! Using the snake method to cook a 3kg brisket! Should be ready about 4 pm!

[Potter]

Up, coffee, a 5k run, a swim, sex, a shower, now coffee and peanut butter on toast.
Standard Saturday morning for me.

[636mick]

Got home, shower, Frosties, tea, bed!!
Have a great day.
Mick

[Noggin]

Admiring the fact that I've sorted even more stuff. Some stuff that is basically useless (why do I keep this stuff!) in the recycle bag but quite a lot of things in the box for my friend that sells random stuff to fundraise for her son's skiing (GB ski doesn't have a financial programme for their Alpine Skiers ) - today has included two sets of bicycle lights and some googles/glasses.

[Ant]

Having a cup of coffee and for some reason I'm reading old emails from years ago

[Taipan]

I'm supposed to be going to work, but I'm sat here looking at torrential rain with thunder and lightening and thinking fook riding in that. Time for another cuppa methinks...

[Ant]

Yeah we've had some thunder too, been raining in the early hours. I'm home this week, so doing some painting and moving things around to get access to walls!

[the_priest]

Just taken the wife to work in the car. Bit of rain makes people lose all their common sense. Give yourself a bit more space, double your braking distance, be patient and just take it easy. Some wannabe Max Verstappens out there. Home after deciding to take a different route and it paid off with a quieter drive and far less maniacs on the school run. About to have a pee and then head out to my first interview in 14 years... no pressure as it is up to them to decide if I am the right priest for those churches. At least I know what I can offer and am happy to give that. If I do go there, then I will need to join the local Triumph Motorcycle Club and be their honorary Vicar Biker.... Have a good day all, rain is easing off and lightning has passed on (Kent area that is).

[v8-powered]

I'm supposed to be going to work, but I'm sat here looking at torrential rain with thunder and lightening and thinking fook riding in that. Time for another cuppa methinks...

I've actually gone in to the office today as bored of WFH and suntan is getting too good! Don't know why I bother though, no one else seems to!

[Ant]

Brewing another coffee now, I can't move without at least two cups down me!

[MingtheMerciless]

Staring out the window/at the telly/at the laptop like a zombie after a 12hr night shift.

[Ant]

Staring out the window/at the telly/at the laptop like a zombie after a 12hr night shift.

Good lord 12 hours? What do you do?

[MingtheMerciless]

Staring out the window/at the telly/at the laptop like a zombie after a 12hr night shift.

Good lord 12 hours? What do you do?

I am an Electrical Control Room Operator for Network Rail. I'm responsible for controlling the 33KV AC network and the 750V DC traction network.
To quote a colleague;

"Sometimes the electricity turns itself off and we turn it back on again, sometimes the electricity turns itself off and we get someone to look at it before we turn it on again and sometimes when a troubled soul visits the railway we turn it off in a hurry".

Bit more to it than that, large amount of safety paperwork to be checked and rechecked before the night time engineering works to ensure the track staff kept safe. We also switch off the third rail for the engineering work. We check the AC switching schedules to make sure that we don't inadvertently "drop" a chunk of the network whilst switching the 33KV stuff. This tends to put all the signals to danger and fail all the level crossings in the area and you get a grumpy signaller ringing you up wanting to know what's going on..

We also have some "lively" discussions with our Ops colleagues regarding train running when we are dealing with broken railway and stopping the trains they want to run, so we have to get the Rule Book out and batter them with that.

[Ant]

Staring out the window/at the telly/at the laptop like a zombie after a 12hr night shift.

Good lord 12 hours? What do you do?

I am an Electrical Control Room Operator for Network Rail. I'm responsible for controlling the 33KV AC network and the 750V DC traction network.
To quote a colleague;

"Sometimes the electricity turns itself off and we turn it back on again, sometimes the electricity turns itself off and we get someone to look at it before we turn it on again and sometimes when a troubled soul visits the railway we turn it off in a hurry".

Bit more to it than that, large amount of safety paperwork to be checked and rechecked before the night time engineering works to ensure the track staff kept safe. We also switch off the third rail for the engineering work. We check the AC switching schedules to make sure that we don't inadvertently "drop" a chunk of the network whilst switching the 33KV stuff. This tends to put all the signals to danger and fail all the level crossings in the area and you get a grumpy signaller ringing you up wanting to know what's going on..

We also have some "lively" discussions with our Ops colleagues regarding train running when we are dealing with broken railway and stopping the trains they want to run, so we have to get the Rule Book out and batter them with that.

That sounds like interesting stuff, all of that switchgear and control systems is specialist stuff, especially the hurty hurty voltages!

[636mick]

Just booked the next couple of nights away in the caravan, off to Derbyshire. Then the plan is another farm site somewhere between Matlock and Anglesey for a couple of nights, then down to Aberdovey, then, no idea but not back until 30th.
Cider & barbecue beckons!!
Have fun
Mick

[Noggin]

Just finished the wedding cross stitch I need for the weekend. Well, almost. Just got to write a phrase on it that suits the couple and their names and the date. Might take a bit of working out, but I'll probably do it tomorrow!! (I've written the phrase and words out, so I have a plan, just need to fit it around the picture!)

Very happy

[Taipan]

On a campsite and they’ve got a big band next door. I feel like an extra in an episode if Foyles War!!

[Cousin Jack]

Up, coffee, a 5k run, a swim, sex, a shower, now coffee and peanut butter on toast.
Standard Saturday morning for me.

Filthy bugger. Shower before sex please.

[MrLongbeard]

Watching GnR on the telly @ Glasto, the years haven't been kind