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I have that exact same one for a few years, a favourite! Longines is really nice as the price point is excellent. You get a LOT of watch for your money.

It's not JUST the owners, some breeds are just nasty beeps, regardless. Terriers, and bulls etc are rarely smart enough, and are agressive *by nature*. No amount of good ownership will help there. I have 2 working labradors, incredibly steady, and they go off the lead everywhere, mostly glued...

Sorry I don't read the forum terribly often. Shipping hadn't taken long for mine, you probably have yours already?

Speaking of compressor... bought that from Ali for... less than 60 quid shipped! Sapphire sandwich, Miyota movement, 200M water resistance. Screw down crown. Finish is /impeccable/ ! Rubber bracelet is super comfy. Amazing value really. They have 'quieter' colours, but I wanted a rather loud one...

<125W most of the time. Sure it ramps up during very heavy usage, but it's surprisingly good. Also, it's not a NAS, I turn it off when I don't need it. The beauty of IDRAC is that there is a small webserver on a separate board inside it that stays on, and I can turn in on/off remotely. Perfect...

Bought a Precision Rack 7910 nearly 2 years ago, for an absolute *song*. It's now installed /under/ my big electronics workbench, it's pretty much invisible. It's surprisingly quiet when idle, and only ramps up when I start hammering it. There are *massive* deals to be made for this style of...

Not exactly that one, but I have to say that one looks quite nice, possibly nicer than the one I have...Mine is this one: https://kingsofficefurniture.co.uk/products/new-herman-miller-aeron-headrest

Next step in my 'wet shaving' quest. After converting to safety razors a couple of years back, bought myself my first straight razor. And I even survived the first shave! This one is 100+ years old sheffield steel.

Same here, mine is defo 20 year old. Had to change the ballhead joints for the seat twice as they eventually broke (I used to be quite big) but replacement parts are easily available, and 10 quid each! Once thing I bought a while back is a headrest. The 'official' one; it's not /perfect/ but...

This is my Steinhart Premium Blue. Bought it a few years back, and after 2 years or so, it started playing up, and eventually stopped. I packed it up to send it to Steiny to get it fixes, then forgot about it, then Lockdowns etc etc so nothing was done... So it's been on a shelf in my office, in...

Puppies! Well last year I was knee deep in puppies too. What a beepload of work that was... Here are the results. The mom is 3.5yo, pup is JUST a year (and 3 days) old. Mom is a fantastic working girl, and the pup is learning fast.

I use a Mont Blanc 147 for making cards, signing etc. I use a Koweco Brass with a medium nib for notes, and a chinese copy of that with a fine nib on occasion too. My writing was terrible when I started, but I've actually /practiced/ to make it better, and after a few minutes a day for a few...

Disk failure, in general. I had that a few months back (use mine as a FreeNas box) -- one disk had packed up... replaced it, and the OTHER disk in that array packed up after I finished resilvering the array! So I had to install yet another one to get it all back up again. Pfew. These gen8 are...

She'll still live to 80, spewing carbon as she goes, and if she has kids, it'll be even worse and continue the snowball effect. She *is* (part of) the problem, not my car, not my steak. SHE is, and every kids that makes the world population grow. How can she (or anyone else) kid about that...

I actually love animals, it's weird, I can fuss about helping a family of mallards on a lake one day, and go and shoot mallards on a hunt the next. It's not entirely incompatible, and yes, one of the justification for us shooting game birds is to bring them home and eat them. And make a fuss...

Not really, didn't mean to sound like I was mocking, just was pointing out that it's all the in eye of the beholder -- lots of people will find my hobby strange and sometime revolting (without knowing anything about it) and I confess to find painting figurines rather strange myself, but I'm...

I shoot. Not just clays, but game too if we get a chance, and we cook the result. People think it's mad/dangerous/nasty whatever, and the thing is a few years back we'd have though pretty much the same, but shooting clays is *heaps* of fun, it's very technical, demanding, it's loud and you get...

For toilet training we used fake grass -- astroturf, with a puppy pad underneath. We just had a litter of 7 pups and by week 4 they were all doing their business on the 'grass' -- sure, some of them 'missed' a bit but by the time they were 6 weeks they were bulletproof. After that we told the...

Sorry to hear that @DXP55 -- hope your next hobbies are picking up too! We picked up fly fishing last year (as it was the only thing allowed!) it's surprisingly "technical" and interesting, and a mix of entertaining and relaxing.

So what's been going on since last year (!!) ? That AYA I mentioned I bought in january 2021... Part of the deal was a opening at 1/2,1/2, reproof for HP steel, and some work on the stock... lockdown etc stuck at Teague, then stuck at the proofhouse, and one day in september I get a call...