Good morning to you all on yet another cool overcast day. Only 24° today with a slight chance of a shower.
After going for my morning walk I started collecting the tools I needed to get stuck into my regrease job.
The bearings themselves seem in pretty good nick.
It’s about midday here and I have done one bearing. It takes me so long these days to do such simple jobs but at least it is done.Will do the other one tomorrow morning.
Now I shall just enjoy “Bin Day!”
Nearly the weekend…
Take care!
Just seen one of my videos is included in the YouTube list of folk music. Not many views 180 but surprised it is even there
Where’s the link? Perhaps it will become a big hit like Rhino Run.
Good morning all
Theres been a frost ,but the sky is blue and its a bright sunny day .Birds have been fed , fresh water been put out , and Im waiting for a food delivery .
I shall go a walk by the Trent at some point .Through the wood will be nice .
have a nice day .
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Good Morning All.
Bright, sunny, very cold here.
One of my carers is here, she is brilliant with plants, so busy doing my house plants.
Have a good day all.
Good Morning from Roberts Residence… 
Good to see you posting again Swim…You have been missed… 
Zero degrees C when I set off for my frosty walk/jog, the bird bath was solid ice and the paths were slippy. Very clear though with a sensational sunrise about half way round. I’m glad I chose the short 3.5 mile route this morning as I was feeling some discomfort in my right achilles tendon, the new shoes are rubbing the skin and the beginnings of a blister forming.
I’ll have to give them a rest for a few days and wear my old New Balance 860’s…
I took some photos of the communications network in the village Bruce. As you can see, the poles are overloaded with junction boxes and extra fibre cables.
The local exchange is situated at the other side of the railway bridge about half a mile away and all the bundles of cables go underground they rise at the poles and only the last few yards to the house are done overhead. Until now, all the fibre cables connect each pole in series and are overhead. Although some are brought in underground, I suspect they all will eventually. This photo shows the bundle of cables climbing up the pole from underground.
where you and I live ,we are poles apart
Roughly where if you don’t mind ?
I have spent many happy hours at the top of many of those poles as a teenager connecting subs. My grandmother even had one in her back garden I think she was paid a shilling a year.
In my day they would have had far fewer connections because the planning fill was something like 2 in 10 houses and they would have been shared service. I could not believe it when I first came to Australia where every house and flat had a phone and shared service was unheard of.
A big town like Dover still had a manual exchange in the 1960s - how backward was that?
