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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[DPG]

Timmy who? Brian Hyland had the hit with "Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini".

Timmy mallet covered it many years later. I wouldn't bother looking it.up on YouTube though to be honest!

 

[littlespark]

Timmy mallet covered it many years later. I wouldn't bother looking it.up on YouTube though to be honest!

Oh no… you really really should!


Timmy mallet was a kids tv presenter 80’s…. Used to smack kids around the head with a foam mallet (hence the name) when they got a question wrong.

Bomballerina was a one hit wonder… wouldn’t be surprised if Pete waterman was behind it.

 

[nicebutdim]

Timmy mallet was a kids tv presenter 80’s…. Used to smack kids around the head with a foam mallet (hence the name) when they got a question wrong.

Mallet is his real name, hence the foam prop.

 

[littlespark]

Mallet is his real name, hence the foam prop.

yes... you're right there...

It was some years later that he became to be known as "that old git off the telly"


After much research (2 minutes on wikipedia) i was also wrong in assuming the song was produced by pete waterman..... it was, in fact, an idea of andrew lloyd webber.... taking the bombalerina name from a character in his musical "Cats"

 

[Dan]

Bloody hell I had 3 pages to sift through then I'd only not been on here for a day! Loving it. Seems to have worked out well I love a good morning thread me. Ha

 

[Lou]

I used to LOVE Timmy Mallet!! Used to always watch Whackaday! Wanted to be on it so badly.

I also love the musical CATS Although Skimbleshanks was my fave. I have the book of poems it is based on, my Mum used to read it to me.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats.

 

[littlespark]

Well, this conversation has went a little too high brow for me…. Musical theatre??

Can we get back to what you’re having for breakfast?
(Bacon sandwich for me)

 

[Lou]

I haven't had any, I just had some crisps - terrible I know but later I am making a spag bol. Dan is working on all the forums and I am standing by ready to check stuff he does, although every time I get up is when he asks me!

 

[littlespark]

Im home now… was at that stately home I work in often this morning…. Having to deal with the dog today.
Wife is at work, eldest is on a day shift at the hotel… middle one is doing her DoE silver award and youngest is back to school after exams… so just me to organise my work around.

The little savage caught a bird yesterday in the garden and wouldn’t give it up… ( the dog, not the wife)



Oh, and the bacon sandwich turned into bacon and cheese on toast…. End of the bacon, end of the loaf….

 

[timhoward]

middle one is doing her DoE silver award

Good stuff. My 3rd one is doing bronze this coming weekend.

 

[Rockingit]

I did, then instructed, for Gold back when I used to be a volunteer with a youth and community service - a lifetime ago, it feels! It's a great thing for young people to do, especially in a world increasingly diminished to online voyeurism.

 

[Mike Johnson]

The Scouts awards route pass by our house, surprising how many of them don't know how to read a map and ask directions, also how much vocal noise they make in our very rural area, not impressed with most of them, but some do seem respectful of the environment.

Our ex next door neighbour used to be a scout leader and held sons/daughter/mother/farther camps on our adjacent fields, you always knew when the townies where there through late night boozing and noise.

 

[littlespark]

She did the bronze while at school… lost a toenail in the process hiking down the east coast…
Missed out on silver while at school, covid cancelled everything….. so this is her tagging along with the current group… being the responsible adult

 

[timhoward]

It is a great scheme, I hope it sticks around.

Talking of 'responsible adults'....my older daughter recently managed to turn 18 while on a college trip to Berlin, tying the administration department completely in knots.
In the end she required different plane tickets there and back at different prices, a parental consent form for half the trip and DBS check (safeguarding) for 2nd half!

Her college tutors attempted to get her a beer on the evening she turned 18 only to find the bars closed at midnight, so I got a message saying "Dad I've just legally bought a gin and tonic from a vending machine and now I'm going to bed."
She's actually wearing the 'responsible adult' hat pretty well.

 

[pirate]

Early start for me this morning. Just finished grouting a cracked seam in a neighbour's tiled floor. About 3 metres long, and I had just enough beige coloured CT1 left over from grouting my own terrace to do the job. Must say, it looks good.
FYI, unlike many other sealant products, which dry out in the tube after a short while, this cartridge of CT1 was still fine after lying for 6 months, the stuff in the nozzle too. Now having a cheeky Estrella Galicia breakfast, and later I have friends coming over for a glass of Cava then we are going for a nice lunch. This evening, the neighbour I mentioned has invited me over for dinner with another couple and as she has Raymond Blanc certicicates on her wall I expect some good food.

 

[Rockingit]

Day of the 'BLS' (Big London Show!) for me - a sold out Royal Albert Hall. Always get the tingles doing a show there.

 

[Spoon]

Ok, lets see how many people take the ---- out of me...
Who watched Love Island last night?
Yes my daughter has got me into it. Don't get me wrong, I don't take it seriously, I find it funny.

 

[DPG]

Ok, lets see how many people take the ---- out of me...
Who watched Love Island last night?
Yes my daughter has got me into it. Don't get me wrong, I don't take it seriously, I find it funny.

There must be some sort of helpline you can phone.

Seems like another one of those programs for people who are desperate for attention.

 

[Spoon]

Seems like another one of those programs for people who are desperate for attention.

Pretty much so.
Usually you get one or two people who are quite normal and down to earth.

 

[Lou]

Ok loads of info to process there...

@Rockingit pics of the hall please! Who is on there today? Never been but always wanted to!

@Spoon Even I haven't sank to Love Island level yet!! Although I did read Joey Essex is in it for some bizzare reason. On the other hand I got excited yesterday because a new series of 90 day finace uk has started!

I didn't do a D of E but my best friend did, I am not one for hiking around the Yorkshire Moors in the Freezing rain and wind!

@littlespark I have had All Bran this morning which is rubbish. I am going swimming later on.

@pirate are you on the wrong forum?! Lol!

 

[westward10]

Just finished restoring one of our garden benches which had completely fallen to pieces.

 

[DPG]

Just finished restoring one of our garden benches which had completely fallen to pieces.View attachment 116706

Looks well that.

 

[Moley]

Today's job. Installing this. Had one yesterday and another tomorrow. Yesterday's is fully up and running. Today's won't be commissioned today as we are still waiting for the cylinders of helium.

 

[DPG]

Today's job. Installing this. Had one yesterday and another tomorrow. Yesterday's is fully up and running. Today's won't be commissioned today as we are still waiting for the cylinders of helium.
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Nice. What is it?

Also, being very picky, that tray cover could maybe use some support fixings in the centre of its span?