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If a hornet attack situation developed again I think that hornet capture or even hornet destruction would not be top of the action list, but Epipen activation and either immediate evacuation or ambulance summoning.
As for drunk wasps, they do come in all types from almost sober, best avoided through the drunk and raring for a fight to the almost comatose and probably not long for this life. The drunk but fight ready are the ones to watch out for as the others can usually be blocked or dodged.
It has been a mega trying day all round. Daughter was due to start on a course today. I duly delivered her on time, 35 minutes later I had to pick her up again. I still have no idea why her wheels came off but after sedation and a sleep she has slightly recovered some composure. A visit from her care worker followed by a telephone call from the course coordinator completed the afternoon.
We are currently more or less wasp free this year* and have not seen any hornets, though bees have been abundant. While wasps are a mixed blessing in that they can do some useful work in the earlier part of the year, when they get older and more cranky so do the risks of their activities increase. For those who suffer anaphylaxis, those risks are uncomfortably close to fatal ones. Drunk EOL wasps are a total nightmare as I wrote earlier, it is best to gather up fallen fruit and dispose of it, ASAP in the early morning, before the wasps are warmed up and prowling for a fix.
*The wasps also like to nest in our roof, not seeing them so far this year is an added bonus as my wife’s sensitivity to stings and similar stimuli has reached danger level with a pair of Epipens her constant companion. Her chemo is a right is cocktail of added steroids and anti allergy brews before, during and after the chemo runs.
While some have had problems I am sure, we run 5 Windows 10 machines in this household. Apart from a couple of them heavily delaying one update a while ago and needing a force to be applied update method, they have all pretty much been trouble free. A few old programs have fallen by the way side, some replaced by the writer and others simply abandoned. One old XP era 32 bit program still works after a slight application of the fudge factor to its driver file. One of the PCs is a ten year old Vista era portable, one a 6 year old, (could be 7) portable and the three desktops are about 7 years old so no recent, ‘made for Windows 10’ devices.
I guess your comments on the football thread elsewhere suggest, (and I trust that) you are over the major part of those discomforts referred to above. I noted your comments about avoiding crowds – e.g. hospital waiting rooms full of sick people with overlong waits; oh let me think about that one for a minute. My wife is now at the halfway point of her initial treatment plan, she starts another phase in two weeks time. Apparently phase 1 was an accelerated plan. Last night was a no sleep maximum discomfort one. Even bears with sore heads are advised to avoid the area or get very short shrift. I moved an old router that is just used as a switch come access point to a WiFi null area. Wow did the balloon reach new heights, but at least the original problems have been solved, the Amazon Fire stick is happy! The dogs are close to comatose this morning, they did not expect regular chances to view the garden lights during the night while actually in the garden.
Years go like that, a badly timed frost or too dry/too wet and the whole crop dynamics change. I am waiting to see how the crap apple tree does this year, most years the apple feed the pigeons, we just do not have time to pick and process the fruit. The pigeons gorge themselves on whole fruit then struggle to take off, they are not drunk just over take off weight. Drunk bees are one thing, they are at end of life by then anyway, drunk wasps are to be avoided, they sting for fun. They sometime just fall out of the sky into open necked shirts, blouses or dresses, damned painful if you cop them. Best to avoid, especially if anyone is allergic.
Ed, I agree, buy one, rent one, ask a friend, even borrow something have to be the front runners.
This is not in anyway to down play the value of domiciliary care workers. I know it can be a challenging task with tiny slots of time distributed all over the glob limited travel time and cut to the bone allowances, yet the fee paid by users is in no way related to the earnings of those employed. I have seen the effects on both sides, my father needed help before he went into a home – even more so when mother was still there though that was a total failure. Her dementia made that a nightmare so a very trying situation. Father paid something like 3xplus where x was the rate the worker got. The admin of the company was well up to the standard of Carillon which was not fair on the staff.
Steve, stop now, you both risk your license at worse along with a huge fine if something goes wrong, I wish you had not added that final bit. Gambling using the car as it is would be minor in comparison. Also tomorrow you might both become uninsurable for a long time if things go badly wrong. Buying a cheap car would work out cheaper, I kid you not.
Ed, that used to be the killer illness for chimney sweeps in years gone by.
It is interesting to realise the things we used to do and not think about that would cause the health and safety squad serious concern. Oils and grease, exhaust products, trichloroethylene and its close relation, perchloroethylene, paraffin, petrol, benzine and of course asbestos used for all sorts of activities. Spit on it or even chew asbestos string to soften it to make wall plugs before ramming it into screw holes to make a fixing.
As for cooking and its ill effects on the cancer causing properties of foods, acrylamide, benzopyrene et al are all just inching to come to a cancer party according to some stories. I tried not eating, but felt terrible and as for the raw food only diet oops where is the bathroom…
I know there is a serious side to all things, but sometimes accuracy and the reporting of items can become unrelated, the issue to breaking out the real story and taking enough care.
My wife’s PC lost some USB ports a while ago but it was not overloading though the ports were used. It was a slightly odd combination of hibernation, power cuts and system updates that appeared to have been related to the ‘holiday’. There was no obvious reason for their failure and there was still power going to them, they just failed to respond correctly. After I installed a USB port card and played about with several other steps all was sweetness and light once more and all the ports worked again. It is just as well really as it is a pig to get the machine in and out for access.
The old nest might just have become time expired, then the bees, if it was bees swarm. Sometimes they leave a residue to form another hive, sometimes they all move on. You do need enough flower to encourage the bees, I was shocked to see some out in early February. We have a Mahonia that was in flower back then. A few of the largest bees I have ever seen were harvesting the nectar. I do not think they were honey bees possibly bumblebees or solitary bees. We have regularly had wasps nests in the roof, the largest was about 2 feet high and five~6 feet wide and a similar depth. We have the pest man on speed dial.
The bridleway along which I like to walk the dogs has been pretty well covered in butterflies recently. With one or other of our daughter’s medium sized, but strong dogs to distract me there is not a whole lot of time to concentrate on the insect life, but I would be surprised if there were not half a dozen different types and likely more. What I am pleased about is not seeing too many horseflies, if they bite me I am in trouble. The last time I was attacked my leg swelled up and went an unnatural colour, the swelling never fully went down again. I thought about going out early today but stopped for breakfast first, one of the dogs was unwell in the night and feels very sorry for herself curled up in the basket with the other one crammed in for company, their choice not mine, this morning. When we had our old Labrador there would often be three of them piled in together on top of each other.
That came in to me a day or so ago, you will only get the remaining parts if you did a recent download.
Carnation’s sickly sweet cousin, Ideal Milk was used a lot in the Middle East for making Chai, it had to have the addition of extra sugar before the brew was considered complete. They might also have made coffee that way in the Suq but I never was much of a coffee drinker so did not test that one out.
Bob, I have had some weird ones in the past, a new Mazda had a hard spot in the A/C drive belt where the maker’s mark had been stamped sending vibrations through the whole structure. There was another issue with that car, the condensate drained into a box section front leg with dire results.
While this thread is getting quite complex, a screeching sound could be a drive belt. They do not always screech and cane be unpredictable as to when they will become noisy. If they have not been properly tensioned or got slightly messy you can get polished lengths making a slip more likely. On the other hand it is just as likely something entirely different… Having recently spent a considerable sum on doing what the computer said were the likely fault causes only to find too late that it was a wiring issue and that the replaced parts were still fine, I still put a halfpenny on a contact, wiring, or binnacle issue.
The saga is helping me to understand the trend to use of electric assistance, something I once thought not such a good step.
Years ago we bought a new set of saucepans to replace the scabby old ones, the new ones are still safely put away in the cupboard ready for when their day in daylight might arrive. The microwave took a lot of the saucepan work away, except for dirty tasks like hard boiling eggs. They are not tasks for 30 plus year old ‘brand new’ saucepans.
The old pans got new lid knobs 5 years ago, so they should be good for another 43 years give or take.
One that caught me out sometime ago was a lose plug on the front panel end. While the motherboard end was fine, the front panel end caused the problem and it was only found when I ‘pulled*’ the panel off to clean out the fluff.
*Warning, some fronts are spring clip mounted others are screwed in place.
All I know is that my weight loss has recently improved slightly to 3.7Kg in the last month, though 3Kg of that was in the last two weeks. Only about 10Kg more to go, but 7 inches less on my waist since this belt was bought a while back. This is totally irrelevant to the thread but a bit more positive than my Internet speed which is close to one notch above glacial.
I have not had an FB pie since the early 1970s to the best of my recall, but I never remember anything very exotic in the opener stakes. OK it was not a great idea idea to use one of the stab and go openers, (anyone remember those?) but one of the ‘modern flash’ wheel drive ones, I think mine cost 70 pence in Woolworth or the like. It was like a utility version of yours Tippon and nowhere near so flash, but used with a modicum of care, i.e. grip the *&^%$£ can first it ‘just worked’. Have they changed the cans I wonder?
(I have just checked, you can still get a ‘stab can opener’ I thought that ‘elf and safe-tea had banned them see an example at https://www.amazon.co.uk/stab-opener-FASHIONED-PUSH-OPENERS/dp/B004AFELB0/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1530512406&sr=8-16&keywords=can+opener,
There were also the tinned pies from which you removed the lid and then baked in an oven.
Apparently not enough potential customers now know how to remove the lid from a tin that does not have a peel off lid and tinned pies do not do very well in a microwave…
Now it is a majority plastic this, that and the other to contain them. Best remove the plastic before the oven stage in many, not all cases.
it didn’t integrate with (computer) Windows at all. Android and IOS played much nicer with Windows Networks than their own (MS) phones. I think the timing all coincided with the Windows 8 disaster and was part of that major downturn in their fortunes. They pretty much made the wrong decision at every time for a couple of years and steered a whole new generation of potential users away from windows. They are still at it now by making Windows 10 seemingly worse at every update – adding useless features and removing or breaking useful ones.
That sounds like the reason for their total failure put as clearly as possible.
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