EnfieldLock Posted Sunday at 11:09 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:09 At 1300 feet up in the Peak District, we only had a measly 3" or so. Mind, I've still got my snow shovel in the car, and it'll stay there till May. Since I moved here in 2004, the worst snow I've seen was in the first week of April, 2012. That was hip deep. And I was told about a cricket match here (Lancashire vs. Derbyshire) which was cancelled on 2nd June, 1975; when Dickie Bird went out at 10am to inspect the pitch, it looked like this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted Sunday at 11:12 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:12 39 minutes ago, old'un said: Its cold here but the wife is just getting the fire going. I still do that 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted Sunday at 11:12 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:12 2 minutes ago, EnfieldLock said: LB - I've yet to meet ANY car driver (of any age) who can answer that one! And, as an engineering draughtsman and lab techie, I can also work with either - and (though I don't like to boast) with rods and chains! I started my apprenticeship in 1965, just as metric was starting to be used in U.K. We did some work for Pirelli and their drawings were all metric. Over the years in toolrooms you learn to convert from one to the other in your head to the nearest half thou. Anything finer generally needs a calculator. I never used rods and chains! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted Sunday at 11:13 Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:13 Just now, mel b3 said: I still do that 😁 And still in the same dress? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westley Posted Sunday at 11:14 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:14 26 minutes ago, old'un said: servant quarters Bet there's not many remember their mom doing this every morning during the winter. LB? It wasn't just my Mom, it was ME too. Our first house in 1967 had coal fires. My job every morning, before going to work, clean out and relight the coal fires. It was like that for 12 months, until I fitted central heating and gas fires. We bought a radiator at a time as we could not afford the total outlay in one go. 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnfieldLock Posted Sunday at 11:14 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:14 29 minutes ago, old'un said: Bet there's not many remember their mom doing this every morning during the winter. LB? Remember my mum doing it? I had it down to a fine art by the time I was 7, and had the job of lighting the fire when I got home from school - oh, and splitting kindling with a hatchet. I wonder what the Elf'n'Safety brigade would make of that? 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKD Posted Sunday at 11:20 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:20 6 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: And still in the same dress? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westley Posted Sunday at 11:21 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:21 3 minutes ago, London Best said: I started my apprenticeship in 1965, just as metric was starting to be used in U.K. We did some work for Pirelli and their drawings were all metric. Over the years in toolrooms you learn to convert from one to the other in your head to the nearest half thou. Anything finer generally needs a calculator. I never used rods and chains! It was a nightmare in the gasfitting and plumbing world too. Pipes in metric, would not join onto imperial sized piping, without adaptors. Back on thread, I was working in winter 1962/3. We walked from job to job, carrying an ex army rucksack as a tool bag. No public transport, or very little, due to the weather. Makes me smile when the Country stands still after an INCH of snow. 😂😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted Sunday at 11:22 Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:22 Just now, Westley said: It was a nightmare in the gasfitting and plumbing world too. Pipes in metric, would not join onto imperial sized piping, without adaptors. Back on thread, I was working in winter 1962/3. We walked from job to job, carrying an ex army rucksack as a tool bag. No public transport, or very little, due to the weather. Makes me smile when the Country stands still after an INCH of snow. 😂😂 Exactly my point in the original post. I was conceived during that winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKD Posted Sunday at 11:23 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:23 1 minute ago, Westley said: It was a nightmare in the gasfitting and plumbing world too. Pipes in metric, would not join onto imperial sized piping, without adaptors. Back on thread, I was working in winter 1962/3. We walked from job to job, carrying an ex army rucksack as a tool bag. No public transport, or very little, due to the weather. Makes me smile when the Country stands still after an INCH of snow. 😂😂 Did you not mean 25.4mm ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted Sunday at 11:24 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:24 (edited) 1 hour ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: As long as you don't combine the two like a lad that worked for me did years ago. Metric came in during the 1960's I believe. Funnily enough , that's something that I've always done . If it's a " just near enough" measurement , I use imperial . If it's a " needs to be spot on " measurement , I use metric . Sometimes I'll use a mixture of both , eg 10" 2mm. If I'm using a vernier , it's always metric. If I was giving a measurement to someone else , I use metric. God knows how I've ended up doing it this way , but it works. I've always been a real thicko when it comes to maths . I can always get the correct answer , but I've never been able to work things out in the traditional way . Edited Sunday at 11:26 by mel b3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted Sunday at 11:25 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:25 1 minute ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: I was conceived during that winter. Well, it was too cold to go out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted Sunday at 11:25 Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:25 Just now, mel b3 said: Funnily enough , that's something that I've always done . If it's a " just near enough" measurement , I use imperial . If it's a " needs to be spot on " measurement , I use metric . Sometimes I'll use a mixture of both , eg 10" 2mm. If I'm using a vernier , it's always metric. God knows how I've ended up doing it this way , but it works. I've always been a real thicko when it comes to maths . I can always get the correct answer , but I've never been able to work things out in the traditional way . But you do look good in a dress Mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted Sunday at 11:27 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:27 13 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: And still in the same dress? Yes , and I look amazing in it !!!!!😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnfieldLock Posted Sunday at 11:28 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:28 3 minutes ago, London Best said: I never used rods and chains! I believe that the dry stone wallers round here still use rods to measure the length they're doing; the measurements seem a bit weird, till you work backwards from a mile. 1 mile = 1760 yards; 1 furlong (1/8th of a mile) = 220 yards; 1 chain (1/10th of a furlong) = 22 yards; and 1 rod (1/4 of a chain) = 5.5 yards, or 16' 6" The reason for these apparently odd measurements is that didffernet trades and professions all had units which suited their jobs; so stone wallers, hedgers and ditchers had rods; railway engineers laying out curves on the track used chains, and so on. Trouble I always found with the metric system is how often you end up with units of measure which are either way too small, or way too big. A friend once showed me a general arrangement drawing of a double deck bus, from the works where they were built - and every dimension was in millimetres! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old'un Posted Sunday at 11:29 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:29 13 minutes ago, Westley said: It wasn't just my Mom, it was ME too. Our first house in 1967 had coal fires. My job every morning, before going to work, clean out and relight the coal fires. It was like that for 12 months, until I fitted central heating and gas fires. We bought a radiator at a time as we could not afford the total outlay in one go. 😆 13 minutes ago, EnfieldLock said: Remember my mum doing it? I had it down to a fine art by the time I was 7, and had the job of lighting the fire when I got home from school - oh, and splitting kindling with a hatchet. I wonder what the Elf'n'Safety brigade would make of that? 😊 And if you told that to the youngsters of today they would laugh at you (feel a Monty Python sketch coming on) I remember getting up to go to school and the net curtains were frozen to the inside of the windows, it was tough when I were a lad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted Sunday at 11:30 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:30 4 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: But you do look good in a dress Mate. That goes without saying David 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKD Posted Sunday at 11:33 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:33 2 minutes ago, mel b3 said: That goes without saying David 😁 Oh dear,,,, I can sense a suitable photo appearing very soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted Sunday at 11:34 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:34 3 minutes ago, old'un said: And if you told that to the youngsters of today they would laugh at you (feel a Monty Python sketch coming on) I remember getting up to go to school and the net curtains were frozen to the inside of the windows, it was tough when I were a lad. You had curtains????. You were lucky. We didn't even have glass in the windows 😁. Just now, JKD said: Oh dear,,,, I can sense a suitable photo appearing very soon Dave has a picture for every occasion that demands a picture of a hairy bloke in a mankini 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKD Posted Sunday at 11:38 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:38 3 minutes ago, mel b3 said: You had curtains????. You were lucky. We didn't even have glass in the windows 😁. Dave has a picture for every occasion that demands a picture of a hairy bloke in a mankini 😄 Yup, from his own personal archive,,,, so I'm told Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted Sunday at 11:43 Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:43 Yes, I own Google, check it on Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted Sunday at 11:44 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:44 3 minutes ago, JKD said: Yup, from his own personal archive,,,, so I'm told I reckon he takes the pics himself, at his special photography club😲 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted Sunday at 11:46 Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:46 1 minute ago, mel b3 said: I reckon he takes the pics himself, at his special photography club😲 The one above the bar in the local pub? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted Sunday at 11:50 Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:50 4 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: The one above the bar in the local pub? That's the one , the blue oyster 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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