Peggy's Mundane Thread

Saw a pheasant yesterday................in Stonehouse

It would be safer in Stonehouse than it would if it lived round here.

Not so sure, there's probably more guns around here than there is in the sticks !!

Sun rising over North End, again.

Watching the rain at the F1 I will be off early as I have a 9 o'clock X ray appointment

woke up with cold toes..might wear socks in bed tonight

It was 4c last night when I drove home at about 11pm the van gave a me a frost warning, lovely evening though. Went to the Dolphin, cracking couple of pints of Stoggs and some fish and chips from chippy. Unforch some neighbours of mine from up the road were in there and asked me to join them, what could I say? I was well happy sat there on my own flirting with the barmaids, neighbours are nice enough but boring wankers the pair of them. I then went fishing under the full moon where luckily no neighbours were present.

Mundane? I might have to move this one to the trolling dump thread, your neighbours might sue.

Either the pips on Radio 4 are wrong or the clock on my computer is several seconds slow.

I have noticed that my laptop is spot on with my radio controlled watch.....BUT the Dab radio is always two seconds different.....anyone know why ?

zyph wrote:

I have noticed that my laptop is spot on with my radio controlled watch.....BUT the Dab radio is always two seconds different.....anyone know why ?

I change it via the mod panel just to wind you up, been doing it to Peggy for ages.

DAB sounds take longer to arrive because they're so complicated. I expect it's the same with time.

AstiSpumante wrote:

Saw a pheasant yesterday................in Stonehouse

I'll probably see a peasant tomorrow ............ gotta go Excretia

I'm still dreadful at ironing shirts, after all these years. It always looks like I've slept in them.

Cornish Chris wrote:

I'm still dreadful at ironing shirts, after all these years. It always looks like I've slept in them.

When I was doing National Service we used to pay a corporals Chinese wife to do them. Used to charge a shilling a week, my pay was 21 shillings.

pepsipete wrote:

Cornish Chris wrote:

I'm still dreadful at ironing shirts, after all these years. It always looks like I've slept in them.

When I was doing National Service we used to pay a corporals Chinese wife to do them.  Used to charge a shilling a week, my pay was 21 shillings.

We used to have a Dobi Walla in Aden.....who used to wash all our cloths.....he had a mark on each persons cloths......mine was four dots in a square.....I can't remember him misplacing or losing anything in all the time I was there......he charged a shilling a week and washed about fifty sets of cloths......he earnt about twice my RAF pay.......and was seen as quite well off in his community.

Cornish Chris wrote:

I'm still dreadful at ironing shirts, after all these years. It always looks like I've slept in them.

I'm getting better at ironing shirts. On a good day I can do 3 in an hour!

zyph wrote:

pepsipete wrote:

Cornish Chris wrote:

I'm still dreadful at ironing shirts, after all these years. It always looks like I've slept in them.

When I was doing National Service we used to pay a corporals Chinese wife to do them.  Used to charge a shilling a week, my pay was 21 shillings.

We used to have a Dobi Walla in Aden.....who used to wash all our cloths.....he  had a mark on each persons cloths......mine was four dots in a square.....I can't remember him misplacing or losing anything in all the time I was there......he charged a shilling a week and washed about fifty sets of cloths......he earnt about twice my RAF pay.......and was seen as quite well off in his community.

In my previous life I was involved in a training course for Naval Gunfire Support. Arrived at Larkhill? Army place about
1 am. Up to my room (cabin) and unpacking when ''knock knock''. WTF? its 1.15 am Opened the door to find a small old guy who said ''Hello Sir - do you want your shoes cleaned or trousers pressed'' WTF! I just said ''No thankyou I'm fine tonight'' Only in an Army Officer Mess.

Peggy wrote:

DAB sounds take longer to arrive because they're so complicated. I expect it's the same with time.

I think that's pretty much it.

Whatever is on all radio formats starts at exactly the same time but DAB (and listening on the internet) needs to be digitised before it is transmitted and then undigitised when it arrives. Most of the time this makes no difference but for something like the pips on the radio the FM ones (which are probably the most accurate) arrive at your ears a little before the DAB one does. The BBC app for radio on a mobile phone is much the same.

Similarly the commentary for Argyle on Argyle Player arrives quite some time after the Radio Devon FM signal does. In fact the tweets from those at the game usually arrive well before the commentary does. Quite why they should be routed through the internet as much fast as they are eludes me.

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

Peggy wrote:

DAB sounds take longer to arrive because they're so complicated. I expect it's the same with time.

I think that's pretty much it.

Whatever is on all radio formats starts at exactly the same time but DAB (and listening on the internet) needs to be digitised before it is transmitted and then undigitised when it arrives. Most of the time this makes no difference but for something like the pips on the radio the FM ones (which are probably the most accurate) arrive at your ears a little before the DAB one does. The BBC app for radio on a mobile phone is much the same.

Similarly the commentary for Argyle on Argyle Player arrives quite some time after the Radio Devon FM signal does. In fact the tweets from those at the game usually arrive well before the commentary does. Quite why they should be routed through the internet as much fast as they are eludes me.

A lot of us didn't know that.........about DAB........who needs the Open University.

helping someone move into a new house today and its bleddy psissing it down

alannotivvy wrote:

helping someone move into a new house today and its bleddy psissing it down

It'll be fine in an hour or two.

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Got my carer to put the bin out.

After declaring to my wife on Friday "I haven't felt ill for ages", I've woken up today feeling ill. And I touched wood.

We arrived home, then notice we forgot the car.