Nothing better to do?

[Dave-G]

Water left in a kettle overnight. 

I always put enough water back in the kettle for next time if I make the tea or coffeee so it only needs switching on while preparing the cups etc.

Wife empties the 'stale' water in the kettle then adds more water fresh from the tap. 

i point out that some of the water has been boiled so is likely better left in...

Discuss if bored enough lol.

[ditchman]

my mrs has always done this..............totally unfathomable.........well there you go ...the opposite sex

 

my mate a few years ago was complaining about the taste of his tea and coffee for months........anyway to cut a long story short...his mrs had a thing about limescale and regularly used to de-lime the kettle with toilet limescale remover..........and however much you would clean it and rinse it you could never get rid of the taste.....

Edited March 27, 2020 by ditchman

[oowee]

@Dave-G & @ditchman Crikey, cabin fever is kicking in early today 

[Dave-G]

2 minutes ago, oowee said:

@Dave-G & @ditchman Crikey, cabin fever is kicking in early today 

YUP. Somat to do before I wander out to the frosty garden. 

 

[Walker570]

Slightly off key, but on my tour round on my police motor cyle back in the 60s I used to call in at various garages and factories to pas the time of day, glean any info etc., and maybe have a quick cuppa whilst doing so, all good police work.  One such place was a small village garage/body shop and they always had a good cuppa on. Well they then took on the servicing of my rally car and my wife was dropping me off one day and we went in and the owner said, put the kettle on and make a cuppa.  I started to fill the kettle and my wife picked the tea pot up with just two fingers, you know how they do it with anyhting they consider disgusting and started to scrub the utensil which had an 1/8th inch at least of tea stain and maybe a touch of Castrol R and a mixed rainbow of car paint on it.  My garage friend started to scream at her and she almost dropped it.  Don't you know a tea pot should have a patina to make a good cuppa love, he said. My wife exited the garage at speed to wait in the car.    Over 50yrs and she has never forgotten that dressing down and true to say our tea pot does get a wipe on the outside but the inside has that patina and you'll get a good cuppa should you call.

[oldypigeonpopper]

5 minutes ago, Walker570 said:

Slightly off key, but on my tour round on my police motor cyle back in the 60s I used to call in at various garages and factories to pas the time of day, glean any info etc., and maybe have a quick cuppa whilst doing so, all good police work.  One such place was a small village garage/body shop and they always had a good cuppa on. Well they then took on the servicing of my rally car and my wife was dropping me off one day and we went in and the owner said, put the kettle on and make a cuppa.  I started to fill the kettle and my wife picked the tea pot up with just two fingers, you know how they do it with anyhting they consider disgusting and started to scrub the utensil which had an 1/8th inch at least of tea stain and maybe a touch of Castrol R and a mixed rainbow of car paint on it.  My garage friend started to scream at her and she almost dropped it.  Don't you know a tea pot should have a patina to make a good cuppa love, he said. My wife exited the garage at speed to wait in the car.    Over 50yrs and she has never forgotten that dressing down and true to say our tea pot does get a wipe on the outside but the inside has that patina and you'll get a good cuppa should you call.

hello, not one of those police noddy motor cycles Walker ?

Edited March 27, 2020 by oldypigeonpopper

[dead eye alan]

8 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

hello, not one of those police noddy motor cycles Walker ?

What a villiers with a handle starter i here you cry, -----------------------------  Cabin fever really kicking in now , doing a 1000 piece jigsaw. 

[samboy]

Now Castrol R that brings back memories, My workmate used to brew his tea in a Billy can and the inside was rotten. 

One of the lads cleaned it out for him and he went mad. I like a bit of patina in my cup and on my teaspoon.

[mel b3]

20 minutes ago, Walker570 said:

Slightly off key, but on my tour round on my police motor cyle back in the 60s I used to call in at various garages and factories to pas the time of day, glean any info etc., and maybe have a quick cuppa whilst doing so, all good police work.  One such place was a small village garage/body shop and they always had a good cuppa on. Well they then took on the servicing of my rally car and my wife was dropping me off one day and we went in and the owner said, put the kettle on and make a cuppa.  I started to fill the kettle and my wife picked the tea pot up with just two fingers, you know how they do it with anyhting they consider disgusting and started to scrub the utensil which had an 1/8th inch at least of tea stain and maybe a touch of Castrol R and a mixed rainbow of car paint on it.  My garage friend started to scream at her and she almost dropped it.  Don't you know a tea pot should have a patina to make a good cuppa love, he said. My wife exited the garage at speed to wait in the car.    Over 50yrs and she has never forgotten that dressing down and true to say our tea pot does get a wipe on the outside but the inside has that patina and you'll get a good cuppa should you call.

i spent 15 years working as a garage mechanic , the two things that i remember most vividly , are garage tea pots , and garage toilets . both items looked and smelled the same .

Edited March 27, 2020 by mel b3

[oldypigeonpopper]

17 minutes ago, dead eye alan said:

What a villiers with a handle starter i here you cry, -----------------------------  Cabin fever really kicking in now , doing a 1000 piece jigsaw. 

hello, oh i remember these very well, 😄 getting back to the original post on my third mug of tea now ( Yorkshire ) as for the crud in the kettle when mine gets that bad i just go and buy another, a fiver from Tesco, how mean is that

Edited March 27, 2020 by oldypigeonpopper

[ditchman]

42 minutes ago, Walker570 said:

Slightly off key, but on my tour round on my police motor cyle back in the 60s I used to call in at various garages and factories to pas the time of day, glean any info etc., and maybe have a quick cuppa whilst doing so, all good police work.  One such place was a small village garage/body shop and they always had a good cuppa on. Well they then took on the servicing of my rally car and my wife was dropping me off one day and we went in and the owner said, put the kettle on and make a cuppa.  I started to fill the kettle and my wife picked the tea pot up with just two fingers, you know how they do it with anyhting they consider disgusting and started to scrub the utensil which had an 1/8th inch at least of tea stain and maybe a touch of Castrol R and a mixed rainbow of car paint on it.  My garage friend started to scream at her and she almost dropped it.  Don't you know a tea pot should have a patina to make a good cuppa love, he said. My wife exited the garage at speed to wait in the car.    Over 50yrs and she has never forgotten that dressing down and true to say our tea pot does get a wipe on the outside but the inside has that patina and you'll get a good cuppa should you call.

mate of mine in his first job ......started off as a tea boy for a bunch of paddies digging fin drains on the edge of a new road........thought he would make an impression and clean the aluminium tea pot with 1/4 of tanin inside..................

WRONG...................they nearly linched him and wouldnt speak to him for a week...

[johnphilip]

Remember  when we were kids , mum would nick our clay marbles  and put them in the old kettle  to clean it from time to time . Strange how things come back .

[loriusgarrulus]

Put leftover hot water from the kettle in a flask to use later.

We have one of those Breville kettles that only boils the water you need so don't  do that now.

[oldypigeonpopper]

42 minutes ago, loriusgarrulus said:

Put leftover hot water from the kettle in a flask to use later.

We have one of those Breville kettles that only boils the water you need so don't  do that now.

hello, oh and thought i was the only one to do that  that kettle is a bit posh for me😄

[oowee]

2 hours ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

hello, oh i remember these very well, 😄 getting back to the original post on my third mug of tea now ( Yorkshire ) as for the crud in the kettle when mine gets that bad i just go and buy another, a fiver from Tesco, how mean is that

I always wonder where in yorkshire they grow tea.  

[hodge911]

4 hours ago, Walker570 said:

Slightly off key, but on my tour round on my police motor cyle back in the 60s I used to call in at various garages and factories to pas the time of day, glean any info etc., and maybe have a quick cuppa whilst doing so, all good police work.  One such place was a small village garage/body shop and they always had a good cuppa on. Well they then took on the servicing of my rally car and my wife was dropping me off one day and we went in and the owner said, put the kettle on and make a cuppa.  I started to fill the kettle and my wife picked the tea pot up with just two fingers, you know how they do it with anyhting they consider disgusting and started to scrub the utensil which had an 1/8th inch at least of tea stain and maybe a touch of Castrol R and a mixed rainbow of car paint on it.  My garage friend started to scream at her and she almost dropped it.  Don't you know a tea pot should have a patina to make a good cuppa love, he said. My wife exited the garage at speed to wait in the car.    Over 50yrs and she has never forgotten that dressing down and true to say our tea pot does get a wipe on the outside but the inside has that patina and you'll get a good cuppa should you call.

That has just brought memories flooding back ....

When I left school I started in my local garage and stayed there for 12 years before it closed .. in that time I built up a really good friendship with other garages in the area .

One of them belonged to a guy called geoff Atkinson (who was a well known motorcycle sidecar racer in the 60/70,s ) he was the only garage in the area that welded ally.

He was also well known in "the moggy minor" brigade as he was one of only a couple of bodyshops in the uk that converted 2 door minors into convertibles ... any how I digress... his cup meant to be white well it was dotted with paint & filler on the outside and  was nearly black on inside with built up tea stain.

I once made a cuppa for him while he was welding an ally sump off jag for me and asked where the clean cups were and the look I got was mint followed by the lecture of how tea tasted disgusting from "clean cups" 😂😂

Edited March 27, 2020 by hodge911
correction

[Walker570]

4 hours ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

hello, not one of those police noddy motor cycles Walker ?

I learned to ride on one of those and then I was the only one on the unit, even as a probationer, allowed to take the bike out.  I always wanted to be on the Traffic Dept., and applied after my two years probation. There wasn't a space for car drivers but a spare bike . The only thing I had ridden at that point was the Velo and my Lambretta scooter, neverthe less I found the Triumph police bikes  a dream to ride in comparison.   Those where fun years and we drank a lot of tea back then

[snow white]

Started work in 1964 the welder had a billycan that was never cleaned one Saturday I put washing powder in it to soak over Sunday I went in Monday morning washed the billycan out it was spot less but the ruddy thing leaked like a sieve he went ape**** at me I never cleaned the mugs or anything else for the lads

 

 

 

 

out 

[oldypigeonpopper]

22 minutes ago, Walker570 said:

I learned to ride on one of those and then I was the only one on the unit, even as a probationer, allowed to take the bike out.  I always wanted to be on the Traffic Dept., and applied after my two years probation. There wasn't a space for car drivers but a spare bike . The only thing I had ridden at that point was the Velo and my Lambretta scooter, neverthe less I found the Triumph police bikes  a dream to ride in comparison.   Those where fun years and we drank a lot of tea back then

hello, was that in the old Berkshire area before they changed the counties ? there was a police officer motor cycle rider with a Velo stationed local, we had an old garage on the high street just like you said, owner always wore dirty overalls but he did help us lads with our motor bikes😄

[oldypigeonpopper]

2 hours ago, oowee said:

I always wonder where in yorkshire they grow tea.  

its not my usual tea but taking quite a liking to it, i still have some proper tea from my time in China, you would not believe they like their afternoon teas, was take to a tea house as they call it, more like a 2 story dance hall with chandeliers. 

[oowee]

I never had the time to do that in my brief visit. Here is a quick vid of me taking tea.

[oldypigeonpopper]

hello, looks like beer to me !!!!!!, the tea house was like stepping back in time China style,

[wymberley]

First cup in the morning in the crew room at Lossie started tasting iffy but OK mid morning. Slowly got worse until OK at lunchtime. Off I go on a course and on my return a few weeks later remark that the tea is different. Turned out that it got even worse after I'd pushed off until finally when the dead pigeon in the water tank eventually burst it became undrinkable. 🤢

[ditchman]

3 hours ago, Walker570 said:

I learned to ride on one of those and then I was the only one on the unit, even as a probationer, allowed to take the bike out.  I always wanted to be on the Traffic Dept., and applied after my two years probation. There wasn't a space for car drivers but a spare bike . The only thing I had ridden at that point was the Velo and my Lambretta scooter, neverthe less I found the Triumph police bikes  a dream to ride in comparison.   Those where fun years and we drank a lot of tea back then

parents wouldnt let me loose on a rayleigh runabout....

[McSpredder]

9 hours ago, Walker570 said:

Slightly off key, but on my tour round on my police motor cyle back in the 60s I used to call in at various garages and factories to pas the time of day, glean any info etc., and maybe have a quick cuppa whilst doing so, all good police work.  One such place was a small village garage/body shop .....

Are you PC Walker from Heartbeat?

I rather liked the LE Velo.   Travelled quite often between Bedford and Worcestershire on the 3-speed, hand start/hand change model over the 1964-65 winter.   When the roads were icy I would have preferred to keep both hands on the bars, the 6V headlamp only gave out about 1 candle power, and a Lambretta could easily overtake me, but it was a nice bike for pottering about the country lanes, and in excellent condition.   I foolishly traded it in for a s/h Minivan, complete with tin-worm.

From 1974-77 I rode to work on a 4-speed, kick start/foot change model, with Zener diode 12V electrics and vastly improved lighting.   Never had any mechanical problems with either of those bikes, and of course they didn’t spray your trousers with oil in the manner of a Bantam or Tiger Cub.