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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[Rockingit]

Give us a couple of song titles off the list and we’ll have a guess which band it is….

Reminds me my brother has a handwritten Nirvana set list framed up on his wall, next to a pair of discarded Dave Grohl drumsticks from that time.

Tell me your guesses in the Arms... I'll post.

 

[Dan]

God I'm starving now those pizzas look awesome

 

[Lou]

OOOHHHHHH I must know what band it is! goes to hunt out thread in Arms

Its pouring down here today after a couple of lovely days weather. I hope Summer is not over already.

 

[littlespark]

Doing a bit of prep work for a db change at the weekend.

A nice new 3P glass fronted Hager board to go in place of a handful of mismatched single phase boards, to add rcd protection where it’s needed, and to remove rcd protection from where it’s not.

It’s the garage for the funeral directors I’ve worked at before, where they had a new mortuary fridge unit put in. That’s to come off RCD…. As they really don’t want that nuisance tripping.

I suggested adding SPD while we’re at it, but was declined. Lightning storms and corpses… what could possibly go wrong?…. Ask Dr Frankenstein.

 

[Dan]

Morning all, morning @littlespark mate. That sounds like a right job!! Do you get to see the after-life people? (don't want say the D word haha - even saying it creeps me out)

 

[littlespark]

Morning all, morning @littlespark mate. That sounds like a right job!! Do you get to see the after-life people? (don't want say the D word haha - even saying it creeps me out)

Nah… they’re either in a coffin, or in the fridge.
There is a chapel of rest and a proper “workshop” so to speak, but they lock the doors and warn me beforehand if I’m around.

Had a body within a month of starting working on the family caravan site. Not very nice experience.

 

[Lou]

Caravan site body??

 

[littlespark]

Caravan site body??

yeh.... I was in the office, and we got a phone call up from one of the owners saying they couldn't get their husband to wake up... he'd collapsed in the bedroom....
Static caravans are not known for ample space, and the poor guy had fallen between the bed and the far wall.
I went down, collected our groundsman for assistance, as the receptionist phoned the local doctor. No way to revive, No way to extricate him without destroying the bed.
Doctor arrived, ambulance.... but was declared dead by the doc..... Seemingly died before he fell.... not when he landed.

The 10 years i was there, was at least 3 deaths on site.... but that was the only one i witnessed.

Most recent was one of the regulars... always in the bar...life of the party type guy... Died while walking home to his caravan.

Police erected a fence shield around the body, as it was unexpected death. Not what you want to see on a holiday park on a busy bank holiday weekend.

 

[Dan]

When you say family, do you mean they're a family? Or it is your family camp site like?

 

[Dan]

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OMG I'm still thinking about these!!! Can't find a similar one in the shop so it looks like i'll be getting some dough this weekend.

 

[littlespark]

When you say family, do you mean they're a family? Or it is your family camp site like?

The camp site was owned by my father in law, started by his dad in 1963.
My wife, her sister, their dad and me all worked there until 2017 until he sold it, for health reasons, to a larger mob…. They turned a quiet, owners only site into an overpriced rent-a-skip place.

 

[Rockingit]

OMG I'm still thinking about these!!! Can't find a similar one in the shop so it looks like i'll be getting some dough this weekend.

It’s really not hard to make at all -
500g / 1lb bread or pizza flour, sachet of easy bake yeast, tablespoon of sugar, tea spoon of salt. Don’t put the salt directly onto yeast else you’ll kill it, but mix that dry lot all together, add a couple of decent glugs of olive oil, then slowly bring it all together adding warm (not hot) water a bit at a time until you’ve got a play-doh consistency (a food mixer with a dough hook makes this a doddle). Put in a large bowl somewhere warm covered with cling film and forget about it until it’s at least doubled in size (takes about 2 beers, I find…) Cut into two, bash stretch and roll out with your hands on a floury surface until it’s a big/thin as you want. That’s it. About an hour and probably 50p’s worth of dry ingredients (dough, obvs). We’ll each eat about half of one of those and then the rest becomes lunchables through the week.

 

[Rockingit]

Currently sifting through CV's for an oppo to take around Europe with me for a month. Double challenge of trying to find someone not only capable but also sociable/personal enough to pretty much live in each others pockets out on the road (and with others, too, there'll be 12-16 people as a touring party). Also trying to find someone younger who could do with the opportunity maybe more than others - a bit PC, I know, Another colleague on the project and I are both agreed that we'd rather give the role to a deserving younger female (if one is of equal merit, naturally...) than some cliched mid 20's middle class white kid who'll do alright on his own anyway. Father of a daughter, etc. It an earnest minefield!

The unlucky winner is a just starting out young Danish women (U.K. based). She’ll get the dubious benefits of my near undivided attention, 24/7, for six weeks and twelve countries. I’ll be encouraging her to ask any question, teach and mentor to the best of my questionable abilities and go the extra mile. I’m hoping for good things.

 

[Dan]

Morning (just about) people! Hope all is well. You know its Friday, right? Woop woop!

Who's working and who's off tomorrow?

 

[Dan]

It’s really not hard to make at all -
500g / 1lb bread or pizza flour, sachet of easy bake yeast, tablespoon of sugar, tea spoon of salt. Don’t put the salt directly onto yeast else you’ll kill it, but mix that dry lot all together, add a couple of decent glugs of olive oil, then slowly bring it all together adding warm (not hot) water a bit at a time until you’ve got a play-doh consistency (a food mixer with a dough hook makes this a doddle). Put in a large bowl somewhere warm covered with cling film and forget about it until it’s at least doubled in size (takes about 2 beers, I find…) Cut into two, bash stretch and roll out with your hands on a floury surface until it’s a big/thin as you want. That’s it. About an hour and probably 50p’s worth of dry ingredients (dough, obvs). We’ll each eat about half of one of those and then the rest becomes lunchables through the week.

I'm going to print this off and give it a go with my daughter this weekend! (Lous just said she will help lol )

Do you think it's worth the extra effort over getting that ready made dough stuff?