Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

We have this thread on TilersForums.com and it's just been restarted because the old thread had 20,000 replies and 500,000 views. And there were 700 pages. Started to lag a bit on slow connections.

I think we had a bash of this before, but I can't find the thread, so thought I'd start another one off.

If you have time in the mornings, come post in the thread before you head off to work, let us know what you've got on and what the weather is like in your area etc. Anything at all is fine.

Posts and likes get counted towards your total stats in this thread.

So GOOOD MORNING PEOPLE - WEATHER IS NICE TODAY IN STOKE. I'M THANKFUL IT'S FRIDAY, HAD A RUBBISH WEEK. THANK GOD IT'S OVER.

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[littlespark]

I hadn’t noticed that, to be honest.

It was more that the bracket for the overhead was away from the chimney and not secure.

But I’ll tell him about both issues

 

[nicebutdim]

Back at the cottage, and in their infinite wisdom, they’ve decided to strap the walls, add insulation and board it before plastering…. Which was suggested at the beginning of the job by the joiner and was rejected.. change their mind now, after I’ve spent hard graft and sweat on chasing out the brick for all the sockets. Going to need long screws for the faceplates now.

Even better when they want flat plate, for which it's impossible to find 4" screws. God help whoever finds several stacked thread extenders.

 

[James]

One of the cables that hold it to the stack has broken, one more to go before the bangs and flashes start bouncing around the driveway!

 

[littlespark]

I’m posting this now in case I don’t get a chance over next couple of days.

2am Thursday morning we will be driving down to Newcastle to fly out to Dubrovnik to board our cruise ship. I will spend 7 days sailing, docking at a few stops along the way and I will be taking photos of whatever dodgy electrics I can find…. Much to wife’s dismay.

 

[littlespark]

Hello from sunny sunny Dubrovnik!
28 degrees, and it’s too damn hot.

No dodgy electrics yet, but it smells like the drains aren’t up to much.

 

[DPG]

Just on our last day of a week in Bruges. Lovely place - would recommend it.

 

[nicebutdim]

Just on our last day of a week in Bruges. Lovely place - would recommend it.

Throw anyone from the clock tower?

 

[brianmoooore]

Throw anyone from the clock tower?

No, but I did almost kill my young son there. My wife and I rode up to it on our bikes, dismounted and propped the bikes against the wall, forgetting that our son was in his bike seat on the back of her bike.
The bike promptly reared up, front wheel in the air, and the back of my son's head on the ground. Fortunately he was wearing a helmet, and I half grabbed the bike, so he didn't hit the ground that hard, but it caused a bit of excitement and concern from the other tourists around.

 

[littlespark]

pulling into Ravenna Italy right now. Had a whole day at see yesterday after leaving Kotor, Montenegro. Which is where I took this photo. Only piece of electrical worth noting so far.

Inside the walled old town of Kotor, narrow streets, and all the street lights were fed from these boxes.
Someone’s tapped off this one for an outlet.

 

[nicebutdim]

Combined car and phone charging point. Very thoughtful of the local authorities.

 

[littlespark]

Combined car and phone charging point. Very thoughtful of the local authorities.

Couldn’t get a car into these streets, they were so narrow.
Possibly, the town developed around keeping people in shade rather than making room for horse and carts like many other places.

 

[littlespark]

a couple of things about the ship and cabin we are in.

The electric outlets are euro and American.. side by side, with differing voltages. The switches are upside down… as in push top in for on, and bottom off.
I’m sure someone will say they are correct, and only us in the Uk is wrong, but I’m wanting to turn them all over.

Wandering the ship one day, I saw this. CU cover hanging off, limited space to work, space shared with plumbing and data servers…

I thought it was only the UK that went a bit daft with warning signage…. Ie, “contents of kettle may be hot”, “don’t walk out into moving traffic” That kind of thing.
I imagine someone in the past has had an accident, so from then on in, that situation must be warned against somehow to avoid further identical accidents….

Which makes me wonder how this sign came about….

 

[littlespark]

Back home late last night, will sort out a few pics to show you later.

First thought…. For sunnier climes, there was a distinct lack of PV roof panels… Now, I know it’s less efficient if the sun is too bright, and places we visited weren’t huge cities… just tourist towns, but I thought I’d see more.

Did see this though in one of the ports. Solar benches with phone charging.

And I don’t know what looks more fake…. The Iron Throne or the Daenerys Targaryen

 

[nicebutdim]

Back home late last night, will sort out a few pics to show you later.

First thought…. For sunnier climes, there was a distinct lack of PV roof panels… Now, I know it’s less efficient if the sun is too bright, and places we visited weren’t huge cities… just tourist towns, but I thought I’d see more.

I note that almost every home and business along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey avails of solar energy for water heating, but I'm yet to see a single panel used to harvest solar energy for generation of electricity.

 

[littlespark]

I note that almost every home and business along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey avails of solar energy for water heating, but I'm yet to see a single panel used to harvest solar energy for generation of electricity.

Thats what i thought. there was a couple of hot water systems seen on failrly new buildings, but no PV

Is it something to do with overheating?
Maybe a polarising screen over the panel that could limit the light through would work? Adjustable opaqueness for levels of brightness??