My Dad informed me that he has just received our Xmas card, that we posted 1st class a week before Xmas   . This really is taking the p*ss! Since Xmas we've barely seen our postmen, who do not turn up somedays or only deliver to half of the street. I'm awaiting some important mail for our son, so may have to chase things up tomorrow when everyone should be back at work. Sooooo annoying and frustrating!

We often only get a couple of deliveries a week. If you have to collect a parcel from the sorting office they only open from 0800-1000 M-f and 0800-1200 Saturdays.

QuoteAlways amazes me when people cut tiles around switches. Just take it off the wall and remount on the tiles 

Most switches have a box behind them that is embedded into the wall - so surely you have to cut around this? But agree that removing the face plate will give more tolerance on the cut around the box, as the edges will be hidden by the face plate. 

Whilst our post has moved to being delivered later in the day - we do get a postie most days of the week still. 

Yes, going to collect a parcel was a pain, due to limited opening hours - most of the time we just chose the deliver it tomorrow option. 

And just had an Amazon parcel delivered by Royal Mail at 2:30 on a Sunday. How do Amazon get RM to deliver on Sundays!

There must be a backlog in international mail currently - we had a NZ Couriers delivery at 12:15 yesterday. We were expecting it at some stage, but first time I've ever seen them deliver on a Sunday afternoon. 

Quote from: fred. on 05 January 2025, 01:55:07 PMMost switches have a box behind them that is embedded into the wall - so surely you have to cut around this? But agree that removing the face plate will give more tolerance on the cut around the box, as the edges will be hidden by the face plate.

Hmmm, didn't consider this - would the wiring cope with the extra? I know it's only a few mil, but the wires can be a bit tight on some plates.

I think I will look at seeing if I can retile those bits - I have quite a lot left over, so I can try out on one socket. I'll ask the Old Man next time he is over. Cutting round the plate is the way I learned, now I am thinking "Oh bottoms".

Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 January 2025, 11:43:06 AMHmmm, didn't consider this - would the wiring cope with the extra? I know it's only a few mil, but the wires can be a bit tight on some plates.

I think I will look at seeing if I can retile those bits - I have quite a lot left over, so I can try out on one socket. I'll ask the Old Man next time he is over. Cutting round the plate is the way I learned, now I am thinking "Oh bottoms".

When I worked for an electrician , he always told me push 6 inches of cable back into the wall cavity if at all possible to cater for this , or the wires breaking and needing re-terminating. You might well be lucky 

Well, that gives me something to do in my otherwise empty life. I don't have other stuff I'd rather do, or even figures to paint.

(Not all of this post is true.)

Hi

Woke up to a fair amount of snow in the Mendips this morning with vehicles unable to get up the hill in the village where I live for the first few of hours. Cars just seem to be able to make it now; hope it clears by Thursday as we need to get to Heathrow to catch a plane to Thailand. 

Cheers Paul

Not at home, but just realised there might be a problem with the 'Mount the plate on top' method; the tiles are sloped - like a roof but with a flat middle - the switches might be on one level on one side, and another on the next.

If I ever use flat tiles I will do this though.

Quote from: T13A on 07 January 2025, 09:55:51 AMHi

Woke up to a fair amount of snow in the Mendips this morning with vehicles unable to get up the hill in the village where I live for the first few of hours. Cars just seem to be able to make it now; hope it clears by Thursday as we need to get to Heathrow to catch a plane to Thailand. 

Cheers Paul

Snowed Saturday night/Sunday Morning here, but the Sunday morning rain cleared it. Because we are in a vale the weather does seem to do its own thing on occasion; the county border is on a ridge line, and you can sometimes see the line of clouds on this as you drive up the A41.

We had a tiny bit of snow (1-2cm ?) Saturday afternoon/early evening, but the rain almost washed it all away.
All gone by Sunday morning, apart from a tiny amount on the sides of the road in a couple of places.

On the 10 mile trip into Cardigan, Sunday morning, I only saw enough to make one small snowman. (If that !)

Your own fault being on the coast - drag the town inland in future.

Here is a problem for an idle moment...

As you may have seen I'm tweaking my Battle of Britain rules. I use the Spitfire as the basis for stats. I wrote it as the 'way the system works', and then extrapolated the other aircraft from that.
For instance there are three phases in a bound, so the Spitfire has a max speed of 9 - 3 moves in each phase. This gives me a Bf109 of Max 10, Hurricane of 8.

Each phase is 3 seconds.

Firing is as follows.

Start with -Range mod +/- Aspect mod + Guns +d6

A Spitfire carried 14 seconds of ammo, which was fired in 3 second bursts* (hence phase length), so that is 5 shots, 4 at +3, and the last at +2.

For the 109 I have 9 seconds (3 phases) of Cannon and Mg fire, then another 9 seconds of Mg fire after the cannon was empty.

There were just 2 MGs firing on interrupter through the prop.

The firing profile of the 109 is
+5 / +5 / +5 / -2 / -2 / -2

SO, given the MG pair is -2, what is the Cannon with no MG? (and no, it isn't +7!, the MGs aren't actually reducing their effectiveness.)

To be clear, I am not looking for any suggested amendments, the game works well as it is. This is just idle curiosity.


*RAF pilots would have the tracer every 3 seconds to help them count usage. The last 2 seconds often had a lot of tracer to say "You're out!"