Gondor's Grumblings

[Rheged]

Came home today to a surprise. Roadworks at the end of my street, and traffic lights to control a four-way junction as it's also a crossroads. The really wonderful part is that the lights to queue at on my street are to the left of the exit from the car park. So I have no idea what colour the lights are when I drive out of the car park to go to work or anywhere else. The only option I have is to turn left and head in a direction I would rather not go in. I hope the work doesn't take long to do.

Gondor

Aren't 4 way lights wonderful!  Gaspipes are being  renewed  in Leominster and as a result there is at least a 10 minute wait  on  main roads in/out of town whichever way you are driving.   I'm told it's 20 minutes at peak times, so I avoid those.  The workmen in question are doing their best, actually working 6 am to 10 pm,  but  the self centred  ********************  who insist on parking outside their houses in the narrowest part (despite the local council having given them free parking in a car park 50 yards away) are not helping matters


 For ***************** read the epithet of your choice

[Gondor]

Aren't 4 way lights wonderful!  Gaspipes are being  renewed  in Leominster and as a result there is at least a 10 minute wait  on  main roads in/out of town whichever way you are driving.   I'm told it's 20 minutes at peak times, so I avoid those.  The workmen in question are doing their best, actually working 6 am to 10 pm,  but  the self centred  ********************  who insist on parking outside their houses in the narrowest part (despite the local council having given them free parking in a car park 50 yards away) are not helping matters


 For ***************** read the epithet of your choice

If I had organised that, I would have banned parking from that or those streets and removed anyone who didn't follow the instructions, cones, etc, having been placed at the curbside and leaflets put through doors, etc, months in advance.

Gondor

[Rick Lowe]

But those sort of *********************** would ignore or park beside/over cones, anyway...

[Gondor]

But those sort of *********************** would ignore or park beside/over cones, anyway...

Rules should have real consequences; otherwise, there is no point to them, like rule 6

Gondor

[zenrat]

But those sort of *********************** would ignore or park beside/over cones, anyway...

So you organise nightly visits by the impound truck...

...or just torch them.

[Gondor]

But those sort of *********************** would ignore or park beside/over cones, anyway...

So you organise nightly visits by the impound truck...

...or just torch them.

If you torch them, you have to clean up the mess afterwards and pay the workers to do that, at least with the impound truck, you get the cost back. 

Gondor

[Gondor]

It's getting to be too humid. I am losing motivation and getting bored at the same time 

I had a visit from the police today. They have a system now where you have to phone in the problem, with a waiting time of at least fifteen minutes. Once you talk to someone, it might get given a report number. My reason was given a report number, which was texted to me the following day. I then had to phone again, give the report number and book an appointment for a police officer to turn up. Fortunately, the police officers who showed up agreed that what I was reporting should be taken further, so they emailed me a link to upload the evidence I had.
Now, given that what happened was on the seventeenth and this is the twenty-first, that's a heck of a long time between an incident happening and any active police involvement! Not their fault, they have fewer numbers than they require, and the system has been given to them; they just have to deal with the situation as best they can.

Gondor

[Rick Lowe]

"Your call is Important to us; Please continue to Hold."

Or:

"Mellow Greetings and Salutations! You have reached the Emergency Response Line of the San Angeles Police Department. If you'd like an Automated response, please press Pound now."

We're Police Officers - we're not trained to deal with this sort of thing!"

[Gondor]

Had another idiot on the motorway last night. This time I decided to see if the police station was open. After a wait, I managed to see someone. The fact that I was able to show the police the video on my phone helped. The was also a cat curled up on a seat in the waiting area, not a care in the world. The officer on reception said that it was a neighbor's cat that came in every now and again. Talking about cats, mine showed up this morning as I left for work. Not see him for three weeks! Mind you if he doesn't catch me as I am going to work or coming home then I am unlikely to know he it around so he visits a neighbour instead. I almost decided to call in sick so I could spend time with the cat, it's that infrequent that I see him. As I am on holiday tomorrow anyway, going to a wedding at the weekend, I compromised and have taken the afternoon off. Hopefully he won't want to go out as soon as I get home.

Gondor

[Rick Lowe]

Hopefully he won't want to go out as soon as I get home.

You've associated with a cat for how long, and you still make statements/have expectations like these?? 

Welp, I sure admire your optimism...   

There again, the law of averages would surely dictate that there must be a few times things align like that... 

[Gondor]

Hopefully he won't want to go out as soon as I get home.

You've associated with a cat for how long, and you still make statements/have expectations like these??

Welp, I sure admire your optimism...   

There again, the law of averages would surely dictate that there must be a few times things align like that... 

As Spot is a mature cat, he wants company quite a bit, and it had been three weeks since we last saw each other. He started by wanting to have a nap on my lap while I sat on the stairs down to the front door.
When he woke up, he headed back into the flat for more food, then we napped on the bed, him on top of my chest of course    A major disturbance when I wanted the bathroom, so he had a snack, then back to bed for more sleeping. This time I lay on my side so he was sleeping on the bed. This made it far easier for me to get to the model room. A while later, he woke and complained that I wasn't there, so I carried him into the model room and put him on one of the chairs. He then alternated between sleeping on the chair, my lap and the occasional snack and my managing to get to the kitchen and back with food for myself.
That got us through to late evening when I had to fix the supports for the rod holding a net curtain to a window frame. This involved using sticky stuff, removing and scraping the residue off so there was a nice clean and smooth surface for the replacement parts to be fitted. Spot had complained that I was not around, but I managed to get him into the bedroom where he ended up asleep on the bed, where he stayed until half past eleven at night, so roughly seventeen hours inside, and over half of that time with his human.
I got 'f' all modelling done, but I had a good time.

Gondor

[Rick Lowe]

So a Win! for the day, then.   
And I agree that time spent with a Furry Overlord is always time well spent. 

My Sister and Brother-in-Law have just moved South, and their cat was miffed with them at the time he was held in Durance Vile at the Vets', before joining them in their new digs.
That lasted as long as it took for the single-digit overnight temperatures to make him look for his Human hot water bottles, of course...

[Gondor]

As I am travelling North to Inverness this afternoon, and there is no modelling shop there, there was a modelling shop there, but it shut a few years ago. Anyway, I was sort of not looking forward to Spot wanting in this morning. He might want to stay when I go out, and I would not be back until Sunday afternoon. Not good for a very outdoors-oriented cat.
I'm not taking any modelling kits to work on, not worth it as out for a family meal tonight and then god knows when I get back to the lodgings on Saturday night 
I have emails for build threads galore to catch up on from Britmodeller, as well as here, anyway. I am also trying to research Block 50+ F-16's to make the most interesting and diverse models out of all the kits I have been buying recently. For other entertainment, I can always watch Time Team on YouTube if I want.

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

There's a model shop in Dingwall, just a bit further north than Inverness.

We went there in April, and it's got quite a good stock, but the devil to get to because of the one way street system and the pedestrian areas

[Rheged]

There's a model shop in Dingwall, just a bit further north than Inverness.

We went there in April, and it's got quite a good stock, but the devil to get to because of the one way street system and the pedestrian areas

I understand there are people who have been trapped within Dingwall's one way system for days on end.