Stone56 · Jul 30, 2023

kevstar said:
Varnished one of my nautical doors yer I did slap it on as I was needing a poo so got a nice run well 2 actually
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You just don't get that Finnish with new wood looks the Boll----s ☺

Stanleysteamer · Jul 30, 2023

As today has been a bit boring. (sun has only just come out) I have been working out how much rain needs to fall on our place to fill our underground reservoir for waterin stuff.
If 1mm of rain falls per hour then it'll take about 6 hours to fill it.

That ain't bad. No wonder we have yet to run out!

Stanleysteamer · Jul 30, 2023

Stone56 said:

Won't he need to put a damp course in?

Stone56 · Jul 30, 2023

Stanleysteamer said:
it's also why we have eiderdowns, whoops, showing my age there! "Duvets" (Which is French for "down" anyway!!!)

That's where the name comes from the eider duck

Stanleysteamer · Jul 30, 2023

Stone56 said:
That's where the name comes from the eider duck

Yerp!
As I am now allergic to feathers I can no longer sleep comfortably with a feather pillow etc.
But funnily handling our hens don't make me cough or have a tight throat. Maybe only allergic to duck down.

You can get goose down too can't you?

Maybe the King has swan down.

Stone56 · Jul 30, 2023

DanClarke said:
Best Thai meals I have ever had were at a pub in Leatherhead (The Plough).
They have an in-house Thai restaurant and the food is fabulous. When I worked in Leatherhead we were always in there for Lunch or a Dinner.

The best one's I've had have been In Thailand

Stanleysteamer · Jul 30, 2023

Bin lookin into it.
Goose down is better than duck down for various reasons
Swan's down used for powder puffs or trim for ladies clothes.

Right I'm stopping now!!

Stone56 · Jul 30, 2023

Stanleysteamer said:
Won't he need to put a damp course in?

Most definately he's got a builder so no problem

Stone56 · Jul 30, 2023

Stanleysteamer said:
Ok, so this is where I reveal my total ignorance of building materials, are they thermolite or what? I fort they'd be breeze blocks.

Concrete

derwendolly · Jul 30, 2023

Stanleysteamer said:
Mr Steamer reporting for duty! Sir! Now what can I help you with?

"Coup" ? French word for "blow or smack or punch, " also used metaphorically as in "Military coup" in English and for loads of other stuff in French but you won't care about that.

So if you can give me a definition of what the word that you are looking for means, I may be able to help. At the moment I cannot come up with anything.

I thought at first you might have meant "cope" but then that would have been an opposite unless you forget to put in a "not" as in "it was going to not cope".

I await further orders, Sir!

I read it as meanin it was going to collapse.

marjon · Jul 30, 2023

DanClarke said:
Best Thai meals I have ever had were at a pub in Leatherhead (The Plough).
They have an in-house Thai restaurant and the food is fabulous. When I worked in Leatherhead we were always in there for Lunch or a Dinner.

Best Thai I have had was in Thailand, as the best Indian was in India, Newton circus in SG was amazing.

Never gonna get the real thing in other countries as they cater for taste and don’t have the same ingredients.
But that is not to say that some aren’t good.

J

DanClarke · Jul 30, 2023

marjon said:
Best Thai I have had was in Thailand, as the best Indian was in India, Newton circus in SG was amazing.

Never gonna get the real thing in other countries as they cater for taste and don’t have the same ingredients.
But that is not to say that some aren’t good.

J

Well the only reason I say it was good is because the restaurant staff were a Thai family living here in the UK and I guess they knew how to cook their national food. It wasn't like the "chain" Thai restaurants we have in the UK.

WhiskyLassie · Jul 30, 2023

Stanleysteamer said:
Hmmm!
Inneresting!
Will have to research that!!!
I'll be baaaack!!

And I'll be blowed if it isn't verra verra innerestin.

Lots of different meanings.

Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: SND :: coup n1

www.dsl.ac.uk

It's so we confuse people

WhiskyLassie · Jul 30, 2023

The only time I was happy to have the car in the garage, that was enough motivation to not buy stuff in the garden centre.
I almost walked out with a few apple trees

Stone56 · Jul 30, 2023

WhiskyLassie said:
The only time I was happy to have the car in the garage, that was enough motivation to not buy stuff in the garden centre.
I almost walked out with a few apple trees

If you have the room its a good idea

Stone56 · Jul 30, 2023

Best fish and chips was Harry Ramsdon in Hong Kong

WhiskyLassie · Jul 30, 2023

Stone56 said:
If you have the room its a good idea

I was in the van so had the space but I'm being a bit tight until the car is fixed. When we dropped it off I said to my mechanic I'm pulling the girl card and not lifting the subframe by myself.

Dippypud · Jul 30, 2023

WhiskyLassie said:
I was in the van so had the space but I'm being a bit tight until the car is fixed. When we dropped it off I said to my mechanic I'm pulling the girl card and not lifting the subframe by myself.

I got to that stage a while back, I'm too old for that shite now ...

WhiskyLassie · Jul 30, 2023

Dippypud said:
I got to that stage a while back, I'm too old for that shite now ...

Well when it was delivered the fed ex guy said you will have to take it, It's too heavy. Not I'll give you a hand.

Dippypud · Jul 30, 2023

WhiskyLassie said:
Well when it was delivered the fed ex guy said you will have to take it, It's too heavy. Not I'll give you a hand.

How did it get on his truck then ?

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