grendel

Happy Christmas one and all

Merry Christmas everyone

and the brandy goes over the christmas pud

dont forget to soak up some of the sherry with the amoretti biscuits

Tatty is the other mouse from the one Titty was named after https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/eft/eft17.htm

today was the day we have our christmas raffle, to avoid the bribery and corruption rules of the company, individuals are not allowed gifts from our sub contractors and suppliers, so every year the haul is gathered together and raffled off for charity, this year two of our service providers guaranteed to match the value of the tickets sold, so this year we have raised £375, on the raffle so £1125 will be split between the two current charities our office collects to- the British heart foundation, and RCK that feeds over 2000 homeless people every day in london. see below for the collection of prizes - this was just our local office, each office does the same., for my tickets I came away with a huge hotel chocolat advent calender, a bottle of bacardi rum, a bottle of port, a tin of sweets and a bottle of red wine.

thats what comes out when he forgets to turn spell check on Helen

Ok here it is, the print is a bit patchy where it finished off, but I can probably improve that, but it is squishable.

when I am getting a free breakfast with a hotel booking I too work on the principle that a good breakfast to set you up for the day ahead means that if necessary you can skip lunch and go straight through until evening meal time. It usually takes me a good hour to work through the full english, full continental, and cereal, followed up by a coffee or two with a round or two of toast and jam or marmalade

well I just had to try, this meant refitting the flex hot end, and filament and a reasonably quick 20 minute test print with a 10% infill, this gives a suitably squishy fender, with probably the same give to finger pressure as a real fender has between the quay and the boat, so I have even more thinking to do now.

my condolences , we too have always had at least one black cat - currently we have 4 black cats, we managed to lose three of our others in just a few months a couple of years back, mind you at age 18 for two of them and 24 for the third it was hardly unsuspected, our current 4 are all youngsters ( well if you can call 12 years old young).

we already have a blue fender, the question is whether i bother to reprint these in a more flexible material, one to ponder on i think.

Carole, we are still working on a long term solution to this issue, its a case of finding an email service provider that can handle the volume of emails that the forum generates, unfortunately that now looks as though we will need to gravitate from those that provide a limited free service to one that we will in effect pay for. but we are looking for the best (reliable) provider for that service.

an interesting development on the 3d printing front has made me consider, I have recently got some flexible filament, and with this I could reprint the fenders to enable them to have some flex, this filament I found required one to purchase a complete new hot end for my printer (£92) and the filament is about £28 so not a cheap option, I am currently running some test print meccano tyres to see just how flexible it is at a 50% hexagonal infill the answer is not very (so perfect for tyres and items to simulate fenders, but I am trying a test run with a lower fill ratio ro see if that makes a better tyre / fender. the purchase of a second spare hot end will also allow me to print in PLA so I can print more clear parts (light fittings etc) the problem being that these hot ends are only good for a single filament type as the different melting points of the filaments would cause clogs in the nozzle if a cooler filament type is used and the nozzle is not scrupulously clean (a virtual impossibility)

just tell them you are worried you might crash into the ocean and thats why you are wearing them.

if you ignore the original plot, it is about children in boats on a lake having adventures.

i have both on dvd anyway

thanks, i see it is the modern version

I will be there unless I am called away for other duties

I think the time comes when you can see the inevitable end looming and just want the suffering to end, we can do this last service for our pets, and it saves them suffering (it hurts no less once they have gone, but the suffering has been avoided- a final act of love for them). for our human companions we have to suffer alongside them, and that too is hard, possibly as hard as having to make the decision of love to our pets, but in a longer more drawn out way. Griff I hope that your Mother in laws passing is swift and without further suffering, so that you and Mrs G can once again be together to be able to comfort each other over mrs G's mum and Macie.

we are aware of the problem and one of the tech crew is currently working on a solution.

D46, I would imagine that it is a mix of age and reliability, as a working boat the last thing that they would want would be for it not to start when needed or be constantly in for repair, balancing the costs of repairs and lost time could then it could well transpire that replacement was the cheaper option.

when you consider that a rangers launch is used daily, if it is in use 5 hours a day for just 200 days of the year (weekdays) then it will be doing 1000 hours a year, this would bring it close to the magical 9000 hours vaughan quotes in just 9 years, so preventative maintenance could well be the reason.

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