Fed up now...

[Sysman]

I for one will miss your updates, Zeitghost. Enjoy your break.

I think we can look forward to reports of progress on the garden shed for a while.

[Mich the Tester]

I for one will miss your updates, Zeitghost. Enjoy your break.

WIJNTTIS

[I just need to test it]

I for one will miss your updates, Zeitghost. Enjoy your break.

[Sysman]

Hot. 27 deg C in bedroom when I went to bed, 26.9 deg C in bedroom when I "woke".

Thankfully a bit cooler here, at least in the shade.

It'll be cracking the flags this afternoon.

But, bestest of all, thank crunchy it's Friday again, at long last.

I shall drink to that later.

Have a nice weekend y'all.

[Sysman]

It rained yesterday,

Lots.

Bob Dylan was right. A Hard Rain was gonna fall, and it did so yesterday.

A lot drier today.

Thankfully.

[Sysman]

Sultry weekend, uncomfortably so.

It had a good belt down in the night and today is back to fresh but cloudy.

The fans on the computer have gone quiet with the coolth.

Got some stats programming to do, which isn't really what I want to do on a Monday morning.

Stats. Monday. Bah.

[Sysman]

It's raining.

I wonder if the roof has started leaking in the lab yet.



<sing>Raindrops keep falling on my head </sing>

"A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall" here.

I wish it would hurry up because it's getting a bit close.

[Sysman]

Holiday. Corpus Christi in fact.

It's a Catholic only event, so might go shopping in a Protestant zone like Zurich.

Overcast but sunny.

Pleasantly warm but will get warmer this aft.

[Sysman]

Wikipedia informs me that the Class 150 unit weighs 35.8 tonnes and has a 286hp engine. It is commonly known as a 'Sprinter'. Is this some kind of railway humour?

That sounds like the ones they used to use on the Leeds to Manchester cross Pennine route.

They never struck me as being designed for hilly routes.

They had an automatic gearbox which took an age to change gear. On an uphill stretch you got to play the game of wondering whether the train would be going backwards by the time a higher gear was engaged.

In the eighties that class of train had 2 stroke diesel engines, the advantages of which escape me at the moment.

That Wiki article is a bit light on technical details*. It does mention the Self-Changing Gears gearboxes.

* Where are Gricer and pals when you need 'em?

[zeitghost]

Collapsed person at exit to back lane prevented yesterday evening's hospital visit.

Gardened instead & chopped up various brambles.

Got urticaria from sommat or other, might have been nettles, might have been the goose grass.

(It was probably the goose grass).