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BBP - 14-9-2016 at 09:07

Nasty when that happens, huh? One bankrupcy store here once bought a stack of Le Piaf merchandise - then a rare thing here and I loved that little guy, I cycled quite far to get a shirt from him and within a day it had a tea stain. >:(

polydigm - 17-9-2016 at 23:52

Don't talk to me about stains on shirts. I hate that. I've lost many a favourite shirt with an unremovable stain. Cotton is very stainable in particular.

aquagoat - 18-9-2016 at 07:41

It very rarely happens to me cause I pay extra attention when I eat, but well, not in this case.

BBP - 18-9-2016 at 09:30

Good luck getting it out!
I managed to land myself a 7-day work week... pfffff

BBP - 18-9-2016 at 14:16

My apologies about the spammer... he's been deleted.

polydigm - 19-9-2016 at 00:28

I must have missed the spammer. I thought you'd switched off auto join up?

BBP - 19-9-2016 at 09:26

Switched it back on again. I think we miss several new members because of the signup barrier.

BBP - 20-9-2016 at 17:31

I had a great track record of well over 15 years of perfect teeth at the dentist, but now he's diagnosed me with paradontitis. :(
Gotta go back on Oct 5th 10AM, then get treatment with narcosis and full root cleaning.

BBP - 20-9-2016 at 21:55

It's my sister's b-day today. Baked a Scandinavian bread that's stuffed with dates, walnuts and sugar. Looks great, tastes nice...

polydigm - 20-9-2016 at 23:24

Sorry to hear about your teeth Bonny. Happy birthday to your sister. How's the seven day work week going?

With the stains on shirts thing, I just often get carried away when I'm doing stuff. It could be with cooking food and not bothering to put an apron on and getting splashed with cooking oil, or doing a quick job in the garden with the chainsaw and getting a bit of chain oil on my shirt, not having changed into an old one. For someone who's supposed to be intelligent I'm a bit of a goose.

aquagoat - 21-9-2016 at 07:09

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
It's my sister's b-day today. Baked a Scandinavian bread that's stuffed with dates, walnuts and sugar. Looks great, tastes nice...
I bet it does.

aquagoat - 21-9-2016 at 07:12

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
Sorry to hear about your teeth Bonny. Happy birthday to your sister. How's the seven day work week going?

With the stains on shirts thing, I just often get carried away when I'm doing stuff. It could be with cooking food and not bothering to put an apron on and getting splashed with cooking oil, or doing a quick job in the garden with the chainsaw and getting a bit of chain oil on my shirt, not having changed into an old one. For someone who's supposed to be intelligent I'm a bit of a goose.
Ha, one of the first things I got when I started cooking last year is an apron, cause I know what oil, tomato sauce, etc, can do, and strangely enough these things always seem to jump in your dirtection.

BBP - 21-9-2016 at 08:56

^Yeah! Unfortunately one of the few times a dough stain did hit my garments just over where the apron is, it stained one of my Zappa shirts.

Work is exhausting Poly... I'm lucky I got Friday off so I can visit my bf. We spent a long time on the phone yesterday after I texted him about my teeth.

I got special toothpaste and mouthwash today, need to floss as well... spent five minutes doing all of that. I hope I'll get used to the taste...

BBP - 23-9-2016 at 08:56

Off to a short weekend in Barneveld, land of chickens and church towers to jump off of.

aquagoat - 23-9-2016 at 16:05

Base jump is too dangerous. Stay on the ground.

aquagoat - 25-9-2016 at 07:20

So I bought these contact lenses to give it a try, but the problem is I can't manage to make 'em stick to my eye, it really, really annoys me.:swear:

BBP - 25-9-2016 at 17:17

Careful Aqua!

Haha no not base jumping. One of our folk heroes is Jan van Schaffelaar, who was an army captain. Cutting a long story short, his troop was at one point encircled in the tower of the church of Barneveld - since the tower only allowed access for one person at a time, the troop couldn't be brought down. They shot cannonballs at them, but the people of Barneveld didn't like that their pride was being shot at, so they set an ultimatum that they had to surrender their captain, then they could go free. The captain cut discussion short by jumping off the tower to save his troops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Schaffelaar

aquagoat - 26-9-2016 at 07:26

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Careful Aqua!

Haha no not base jumping. One of our folk heroes is Jan van Schaffelaar, who was an army captain. Cutting a long story short, his troop was at one point encircled in the tower of the church of Barneveld - since the tower only allowed access for one person at a time, the troop couldn't be brought down. They shot cannonballs at them, but the people of Barneveld didn't like that their pride was being shot at, so they set an ultimatum that they had to surrender their captain, then they could go free. The captain cut discussion short by jumping off the tower to save his troops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Schaffelaar

Wow, quite an interesting story.

BBP - 26-9-2016 at 09:27

When nationalism rose after the French invasion, local heroes like Van Schaffelaar got on the rise. They now named the local castle after him and have a statue in his honour, and every year they reenact one of the better-known books on him.

BBP - 28-9-2016 at 20:44

Quote:

Church tower, the one he jumped off. Barneveld still has a strong religious community and is located in the Dutch Bible Belt. I didn't stand at the front at the time I had my camera with me - there was a wedding going on.


Castle Schaffelaar (named after the folk hero) dates to the mid 1800s.


Orangery at the castle. Now an expensive restaurant with Michelin star.


Large sand ground, largest of its kind in north-west Europe. These sand grounds are caused by over-grazing heath grounds. Oddly this environmental damage is now a protected biotope.

polydigm - 29-9-2016 at 09:43

Just saying hi. I'm pretty busy at the moment. Hope all is well.

BBP - 29-9-2016 at 09:51

That makes two of us!

Just fixed my tyre again. Had to call in my dad to help find the leak.

polydigm - 1-10-2016 at 06:51

I don't know if South Australia has been the news internationally or not, but the state just experienced twin tornadoes and lots of flooding. The river at the end of our street was raging last night. We went down there this morning and it's subsided quite a bit, but a foot bridge we use often was still covered as shown in the photo.



On the way back I found a yabby in a small puddle on the path. I took it home and put it in our fish pond. The photo is a close up, it's about two inches (5cm) long.


BBP - 1-10-2016 at 08:38

Whoa Poly! :shocked:

What is that, some type of lobster? I hope he'll like it in your pond!

polydigm - 1-10-2016 at 23:44

Yabbies are relatively common in Australian fresh waterways. They're a species of small crayfish that typically grow to 10 to 20cm in length. People usually use traps to catch large numbers of them and boil them up and eat them like is done with crabs. It'll be safer in our pond than where it was before. We've got another major storm front coming tonight.

aquagoat - 2-10-2016 at 07:35

I used to hunt and eat them with my grandpa when I was a young boy.

polydigm - 3-10-2016 at 01:18

Depending on your geographical knowledge of Australia, we have a major river here called The Murray River. It's 2,500 kilometres long and there are many places along its length that are popular for holidays. It forms the majority of the border between New South Wales and Victoria and reaches the sea at Goolwa in South Australia, the state I grew up in and where I live currently. In my late teens we had a two week family holiday on a houseboat on the Murray not long after it had been flooded. We had yabbies for dinner several times, they were prolific and far too easy to catch. Caught some really good fish while we were there as well using yabbies for bait.

BBP - 3-10-2016 at 12:13

Okay!

I have a real bad cold...

polydigm - 4-10-2016 at 23:48

I hate colds. Get better soon.

BBP - 5-10-2016 at 09:09

Thanks Poly!
Wish I had more to say but this work is leaving me ragged. When will men ever learn to sit?

BBP - 6-10-2016 at 18:16

Still down with a cold... it's been a week now. But it's getting better, first day without APC in a while.

polydigm - 8-10-2016 at 00:30

Glad to here the cold is subsiding. What's that about men sitting?

BBP - 8-10-2016 at 12:18

I work side jobs cleaning. Often the dirtiest ladies is cleaner than the cleanest gents because there's spilled urine under the seat. Or worse.

aquagoat - 9-10-2016 at 07:48

I've never understood why men don't sit. Maybe cause I'm lazy, I've always sat in the loo, it's cleaner and more relaxed.

BBP - 10-10-2016 at 08:27

Started on a pre-uni math course.

polydigm - 13-10-2016 at 22:34

If you've ever got a maths question, ask away. Why have you decided to study maths?

It has ended up that none of the three bad teeth I had could be saved and I just had the third one out yesterday. I'm in pain right now and taking pain killers, but I'm looking forward to seeing what impact it has on my health, which has had a bit of an edge on it for some time now.

I can't face having implants because mine would involve having bone grafts and I've had my fill of surgery, so I'll be putting up with dentures.

BBP - 14-10-2016 at 09:31

Sorry to hear about that Poly... that must've been painful...

...I'm getting worried about my upcoming dental visit, two hours of root cleaning...

I love math and always wanted to finish up on the B-section.
We have two types of math here, A and B,in the higher grades. A is generally easier and has probability, B has metrics and stuff. I loved math in high school and wanted to do math B, but my class got at war with my math teacher who then refused to teach us. My grades plummeted and I scored a 5.4/1 0 average while I needed a 5.5 to continue. That was a crushing blow.

I've also gone back to star gazing, now that I'm up early again.

aquagoat - 15-10-2016 at 08:38

Sorry to hear about your teeth again, Poly, I hope you'll feel better and your health will improve now they're gone.

Cool news about the maths course, Bonny. I wish I had been better at maths when I was younger, but maths and science weren't really my cup of tea, at that time, I regret it a bit now, actually. I've got enormous respect for the people who master this discipline.

BBP - 15-10-2016 at 22:34

There's lots of great studies around in maths in the States and Netherlands at least, there'll probably be some free online colleges in French as well...

One of the reasons why I think Dutch kids perform so well in math, is the great Simon Stevin provided accurate and intuitive translations of most mathematical terms. For mathematics he invented the word wiskunde, skill of what is certain. Hypotenuse? Schuine zijde (tilted side). Equilateral triangle? Gelijkzijdige driehoek (equal side triangle). Subtract? Aftrekken (pull off).

BBP - 16-10-2016 at 14:13

One of my highlights of today is listening to a Tim Curry Q&A at UCLA in 1988: hearing him call Andrew Lloyd-Webber's music "more than a bit derivative" and "if I wanted to sing Pucchini, I'd do opera". Wow.

polydigm - 18-10-2016 at 00:39

I was in pain all weekend and finally called the emergency number. He said the pain was unusual and it turns out that I had what's called a dry socket where the clot doesn't form properly. I was getting sick of taking strong pain killers. He put a special dressing in it yesterday morning and the pain subsided soon after. It seems to be healing okay now. I don't seem to be able do anything without there being complications.

Anyway, I'm feeling much better today. Got some new plants for the fish pond yesterday after visiting the dentist and they seem to be doing well also.

My first university major in 1988 was pure maths, but I've gone over to the dark side now and I'm studying physics.

BBP - 18-10-2016 at 21:27

Sorry to hear about that Poly... (googles the problem) Ew! That sounds horrible!

Careful with rinsing... Do you need to get the dressing changed?

BBP - 20-10-2016 at 21:41

Big day tomorrow... very nervous...

aquagoat - 21-10-2016 at 07:36

Everything's gonna be ok, Bonny, no stress, just breathe deeply.

BBP - 21-10-2016 at 11:39

It hurts a lot... :swear:

BBP - 21-10-2016 at 22:47

Bad day for it... did extra work at the school and my contract at the other job ends.

polydigm - 22-10-2016 at 09:12

The pain came back by the following night and the next day after that the dentist had to put an other dressing in. I think it's finally settling down now. I'm normally a really good healer so there must have been something really wrong going on under that tooth. It obviously really did need to come out.

How are you going now, Bonny?

BBP - 22-10-2016 at 10:21

Sorry about your tooth troubles, Poly...

After sleeping on it I'm primarily sore from keeping my mouth open. Bleeding has largely ceased. I'm now on two broad-spectrum antibiotics. And I have special mouthwash.

The upside is I'm free for next week - hopefully I can visit bf again.

aquagoat - 23-10-2016 at 07:11

Damned! You really got no luck with your teeth, guys, I hope it'll get better soon.

BBP - 24-10-2016 at 13:33

Thanks!
I'm now at my bf's having a terrific time!

polydigm - 24-10-2016 at 14:22

Good for you, Bonny.

I felt almost normal again today. The gum is finally healing the way it should.

Did either of you two do anything with Alex Winter's Kickstarter? I ordered two song books and they're now trying to tell me that the postage is $40. Ridiculous.

BBP - 25-10-2016 at 08:17

Seriously? 40 dollars in shipping?

aquagoat - 26-10-2016 at 07:51

Shipping from the USA became ridiculously high a few years ago, I no longer buy records there cause simost of the times the shipping costs more the items I'm interested in.

polydigm - 26-10-2016 at 12:02

Now it says the price of the books was $20 each but I was originally charged $40 each. They need to get their act together.

BBP - 27-10-2016 at 09:06

Hmmm... what's up with that?

polydigm - 27-10-2016 at 23:20

I noticed online that they had reduced the book shipping charge from $40 to $10, which is good, but they've just replied about the book prices, saying they were $20 each, without noticing in my message that I'd said I'd already paid $40 per book. So I've sent another message to point that out. We'll see what they have to say next.

BBP - 28-10-2016 at 12:55

Very curious...

BBP - 31-10-2016 at 20:48

Had a bit of a long day today with much cycling. Consequently I'm pooped.

polydigm - 2-11-2016 at 01:17

They've confirmed that the books are $40 each.

polydigm - 2-11-2016 at 01:23

My latest drama involves the loss of fish from our pond. Seven altogether during the last week. I've been really stressed about it since discovering that four were missing last Friday. Another two went on the weekend and then another one on Monday morning. I got up early yesterday morning and spied on the pond from inside the front room. I caught a snap of a large bird on the fence about two hours after dawn:



It's a little pied cormorant. Little is part of the name of the bird. It's beak is not as long and the bird is smaller overall than the regular pied cormorant. The rings of wire along the top edge of that fence are 24 cm apart so that bird is about 70cm long at full stretch. I had also noticed that the pond was losing a lot of water and thought it might need repair, but it turns out that that was the other clue that it was a cormorant taking the fish. It would have just leapt in to the pond, displacing water and soaking it up and chased the fish around splashing water everywhere.

It didn't stay for long as either it realised I was watching or possibly because it found the mesh I'd put in place by that stage enough to put it off.



I've been putting that together in stages and there was still a large gap Monday morning when it managed to catch another one. There were still a couple of small gaps when it came yesterday morning but I've since finished it off. Hopefully that's an end to my pond drama. It's horrible that that bloody bird took some of our fish, but at least the mystery is now solved and I can relax again.

BBP - 2-11-2016 at 09:19

Ow poor fishies... And that one little yabby you put in there, is he OK?

polydigm - 2-11-2016 at 13:37

The yabby went by the way side a while back. I think it had an argument with the main pond pump and lost. I probably should have kept it in a separate tank until it got a bit bigger and stronger before putting it in the pond.

BBP - 2-11-2016 at 17:16

Poor little guy...

BBP - 4-11-2016 at 22:19

Bad day for it but I got some stuff done and had a foot bath.

polydigm - 4-11-2016 at 23:12

That's a bit vague Bonny: bad day;some stuff.

Our grid appears to be working so we got some new fish.

We've made some rearrangements around the house so I've now got a proper workshop again. I haven't had one since we moved back to Adelaide nine years ago. It's centred on a large work bench that I built out of scrap wood when we were living in Sydney. There's an old garden shed here where I've been able to do various odd jobs but it's not a very hospitable environment and just wasn't the same thing. I've been getting all kinds of odd jobs done around the house and garden and yesterday, to help improve organisation in the worksop, I made myself a little bench out of wood salvaged from my youngest son's old bed. The garden's looking really good again too. It was easier to get back in shape this Spring as a result of all the work I did last Summer.

BBP - 5-11-2016 at 19:59

Yeah I try to keep up my mystique...

Nice to hear about your work shop and your fishes!

Today my day all of a sudden got a lot better when bf called out of the blue, we had a great chat!

BBP - 7-11-2016 at 22:49

Went to the dentist for the checkup, it's looking good, return in Feb.
After that I cycled to Aalst - on my last visit to the Timco (big shop that buys stock from bankrupt shops) I saw that silver polish with actual silver particles, HG Silver Plating Polish. Originally it's quite expensive stuff and I have a collection of 7 adorable silverplate duck-shaped moneyboxes which could use maintenance. On top of that we have some silverware that sustained damage when a much younger BBP tried to be helpful by cleaning them with a scrounging pad.

Stuff doesn't work. Good thing it was 70% off at that shop, it's only 50 ml and quite expensive at 16 euros retail price.

Tried to get Fine Girl in my head while polishing but had to settle for the Dutch version of Rubber Duckie Song.

BBP - 8-11-2016 at 12:44

Deleted a bunch of spammers.

polydigm - 12-11-2016 at 08:06

Sounds exciting.

I managed to drop a very large rock yesterday and got my finger jammed between it and a section of tree trunk. The top segment of my finger got crushed so hard that it burst and produced what looks like large cut. It's the ring finger of my left hand so no guitar for a while. I can still play the piano with nine fingers so it's not a complete wipe out of musical activity.

The locum doctor who came to see me last night put a butterfly strip on it, which was not really necessary and he put it on too tight. I should have cut the bloody thing off last night before going to bed because I woke this morning with it in worse condition than before I saw the doctor. The swelling had increased and moved into the joint which was fine last night and it was throbbing like hell. I cut the butterfly strip off myself and it proceeded to get better almost immediately. I saw my usual doctor today and the nurse put a really groovy bandage on my finger and gave me tetanus shot.

I don't need this injury right now and it's my fault. My stupidity astounds me sometimes.

BBP - 12-11-2016 at 13:08

Aw Poly, accidents like that happen, you can't help it. No need to talk yourself down like that, you're hurt enough already.

{hug}

BBP - 12-11-2016 at 23:41

Cleaning up my room.

Anybody have a steam shovel I could borrow?

polydigm - 14-11-2016 at 08:04

Talk about putting oneself down. Very funny.

BBP - 14-11-2016 at 14:34

I managed to get it pretty tidy in a short time though. Reason was my boyfriend came to visit. He'd been on a business trip to Germany and was able to visit me and the Glow lights festival yesterday. He'd planned to go back the same night but we could hardly send him back on the road for a three-hour trip at midnight, so we had to improvise a place to stay. For me, since I let him have my bed. Ended on the floor with a few foam mats and a chilly sleeping bag. So I'm exhausted but at least BF had a decent night's sleep. He's off again.

And we went to visit Glow, which was ace!

BBP - 19-11-2016 at 17:59

I'm now trying out my airbed, see if it's still in one piece.

BBP - 21-11-2016 at 10:00

The airbed is in one piece but my back isn't. I'm exhausted.

BBP - 22-11-2016 at 21:21

I'm letting my phone run out to fix the battery memory.

BBP - 23-11-2016 at 19:57

Scanning for viruses...

BBP - 23-11-2016 at 21:48

And the scanning is done!

My ankle has been giving me trouble lately, to the extent that I'm thinking of having the pins removed.

aquagoat - 24-11-2016 at 08:59

You've got pins in your ankle? I didn't remember. How did that happen?

BBP - 24-11-2016 at 10:40

I broke my ankle in 2010.
Immortalized in this topic:
http://packardgoose.ploeg.ws/interactive/forums/Files/viewth...

BBP - 24-11-2016 at 21:45

I'll be going to BF again this weekend, this time I won't bring the laptop...

aquagoat - 25-11-2016 at 08:36

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
I broke my ankle in 2010.
Immortalized in this topic:
http://packardgoose.ploeg.ws/interactive/forums/Files/viewth...


well, apparently my memory is longer what it used to be..

polydigm - 25-11-2016 at 10:05

I haven't been in touch for a while because I've been in transition from Australia to the UK. I have some bad news and some good news.

The bad news is that the day after we settled in, in Reading, my son Lachlan let me know the fish pond was suddenly draining really fast and might have a bad leak. Two days after that my son Euan and my brother Phil drained the pond but couldn't find an obvious leak, so they are going to reline it at some point. We've found a better way of doing that, so that at least is a positive.

The good news is that when they drained the pond and got all the fish out they found the yabby, which was much grown and in good condition, so not a poor little guy.

BBP - 25-11-2016 at 10:26

Hurray for Yabby! Does he have a name?

Busy preparing for my journey today... food management is going to be tricky but I really feel like it!

BBP - 27-11-2016 at 21:51

Got back today! It was lovely! I baked speculaas for them, which was much appreciated.

polydigm - 28-11-2016 at 00:33

The yabby doesn't have a name yet, but we will think of one. Here's another pic showing more clearly how it's developed a solid shell. It's only been in the pond since 1st October, so it's doing very well.

BBP - 28-11-2016 at 09:13

Lovely little fellow!

BBP - 30-11-2016 at 08:53

Seems like they're moderating over at the FZ forum. Now that Dweezil is headlining Zappanale there are topics on the subject disappearing.

aquagoat - 1-12-2016 at 08:45

I love how a forum about a man who was 100% pro freedom of speech has become the opposite of this principle....

BBP - 1-12-2016 at 10:01

It's easy to be 100% pro freedom of speech if you've never seen the Internet...

BBP - 4-12-2016 at 23:29

Started on Zappadan! Matching topic is in Zappa - General.

polydigm - 6-12-2016 at 02:51

Censoring topics about his own brother? That's the pits. And the irony of remembering Frank Zappa vs Warner Brothers, now that we have Dweezil vs Ahmet and Diva.

Currently in the UK enjoying meeting up with family and friends and seeing the sights.

BBP - 7-12-2016 at 08:39

Have fun in the UK Poly!

BBP - 9-12-2016 at 09:50

I'll be going to my BF again on the 16th. Looking forward to it!

BBP - 10-12-2016 at 11:44

It's oh, so quiet....

polydigm - 11-12-2016 at 12:17

Bjork reference, I get it.

I've either got nothing to report or too much. We're doing all sorts of things. A visit to Liverpool and Manchester next week. We're moving to London the week after for Christmas and New Year. It's all largely been going to plan so far and I've been having a good break.

I've received an offer to do Physics Honours but the Masters offers, which is what I really want, don't come out until the middle of next week, so I'm on tenterhooks.

BBP - 11-12-2016 at 12:49

Nice you're having a good time!

Newspapers arrived way too late, I've complained to the boss about it.

BBP - 14-12-2016 at 10:57

Still on Zappadan, pretty heavily this time 'round. Mainly because I'm visiting BF and a friend this weekend.

BBP - 16-12-2016 at 11:11

Quiet week huh!
And it won't be much noisier this weekend. I'm out to go visit my boyfriend and my blind friend.

polydigm - 17-12-2016 at 02:02

It's official, I'm into the Master's course!!
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