yen_powell

4 hours ago, XTreme said:

Fucking net on and off again! 

Have you tried switching it off and then on again?

Took a short cut through Spitalfield Market and the crumblies were out having a bit of a jig. The music was awful. I love the two fellas dancing.

I had parked my bike inside the fencing of my site hut/compound whilst I went to a meeting. I had a bit of trouble due to all the building materials stored in there. They are not our materials! A warning email has gone off to the owners saying if they are not gone by mid day tomorrow we will take them away and keep them for a while.

New pillar box knitted top to come on my estate it seems.

21 hours ago, Marcel said:

True story...in grade seven me and bunch of class mates deceived to pull apart are Bic pens and started hurting pins at each other ...using are books has Shields.

Everything was going dandy until I took a big inhale and the pin landed way back I my throat...I couldn't pull it out and after a minute or so I swallow it....anyway I didn't know what to do so I walk to the front of the classroom and tell the teacher I just swallowed a pin...she panics takes me to the principal office and with in a hour I was at the hospital. 

If I remember correctly it was around 930 am before they took and x-ray to see where the pin was located..it was just about to enter the stomach..anyway I got prept for surgery it was like 1130 before the put me out on the table....woke up in the afternoon with this God awful stomach pain and tubes sticking out my nose hooked up to a vacum pump ....they tore my inside out ...opened my stomach ..and they never found the pin...x-ray and everything afterwards and nothing...they checked my stools for a few a entire week and nothing..

 

 

 

 

My younger brother did that. He asked my Mum if he could borrow the tin of pins she used for her sewing. She asked him to confirm he wasn't going to do anything silly with them. He swore he would be careful.

He came running back into the room 10 minutes later in a panic saying he's swallowed a pin. Turns out he had made a blow pipe and had taken a deep breath in with it actually pressed to his mouth. He's not the brainy one in our family!

My dad has a magnet halfway down his throat for a while, but it was no good and he was taken off to hospital. They could see it on the x-ray but then later it wasn't visible any more. His turds were searched for a few days by the hospital staff then they sent him home and my mum had to carry on doing that for another week. Never any sign of it. He must be about 56 now, this was when he was about 5 or 6.

2 hours ago, XTreme said:

Incredible that he's still doing what he does!

Have you seen the clip of him rock climbing as a teenager. He sounded posh. He seems to have changed his accent a bit when he became famous.

12 hours ago, MooN said:

@yen_powell  had he still been alive I would have introduced you to my paternal grandfather, London history was his specialist subject, lived all his life in hampstead, worked in the city, was an ARP warden and Fire watcher during the war, retired and a guide at ST Pauls Cathedral when I knew him ( his one claim to fame was that his fire watching post was on top of the dome of ST Pauls the night the cathedral was bracketed by bombs and had all the windows blown in). London was his fave topic, almost silent on any other subject. 

I bet that was a scary job during the blitz!

Shame that

19 minutes ago, XTreme said:

That's the chain lube I used to use in Britain.

Can't get it here.....not even through Amazon!

I think it's made in Germany, inside the EU, so no customs problems? Weird you can't get it.

1 hour ago, XTreme said:

WTF were they wearing in the 1930's and 1940's?

I reckon they had a sponsorship deal with Rice Krispies

Swan Upping. Not as pervy as it sounds.

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/25/swan-upping-season/

11 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Been to the Doc and she's prescribed a very low dose (10mg) of blood pressure tablets.

According to my mate the Pharmacist, over half the population of the country (including people less than half my age) are on double that dose. So all things considered it's not too bad.

The Doc has also sent me to have a blood test and ECG tomorrow to see if anything shows up that may be contributing to the blood pressure, 

But from what I can remember, my blood pressure was always slightly high......and that was way before that Polish psycho showed her fat fucking face.

You're gonna get a tide mark if you lower your blood pressure. You'll be pink up to about your nipples and pale from there to the top of your head unless you lay down.

26 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

For some reason I was expecting to see @yen_powell appear in this video.  Don't know why

 

 

I sped through it, but the tail on the lady was good.

1 hour ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

That is a very nice jacket. Looking good. I particularly love that I can perhaps detect a little bit of a smile?!

That'll be wind. My son used to do that when he was a baby.

1 hour ago, skyrider said:

 then again i have to say that is the best vid i have seen on here so well done yen 

but

Not as good as their version of Sweet Child of Mine by the same band, that's a way back on this thread somewhere.

30 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Great pics Yen!

Are there people living on those barges permanently?

Oh yes. Limehouse Matters FB group is full of them moaning about stuff. Just checked it and there is concern that a turtle is living in the dock. Give it a week there will be a petition to have it evicted.

A wander around St Dunstans churchyard. Home of some of the bells from the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons. I might try and get pictures of all the ones mentioned.

Oranges and lemons,
Say the bells of St. Clement's.

You owe me five farthings,
Say the bells of St. Martin's.

When will you pay me?
Say the bells of Old Bailey.

When I grow rich,
Say the bells of Shoreditch.

When will that be?
Say the bells of Stepney.

I do not know,
Says the great bell of Bow.

Here comes a candle to light you to bed,
And here comes a chopper to chop off your head!

NO IDEA SO DON'T ASK

This is Stepney High Street just outside the church. Still looks like the country lane it used to be.

Then it was over to Limehouse Basin.

pedestrian swing bridge over the lock

Thames from Limehouse Lock

Another swing bridge for Narrow Street. Anyone who has watched the film Sparrows Can's Sing with Barbara Windsor may remember when she gets stranded with a baby in a pram on an open swing Bridge, this is the one.

Walked back via Rotherhithe Tunnel. The tunnelling shield used to dig it now forms the height restrictor.

Today I had to attend the compulsory Staff Conference and Staff Awards 2023 event at an old 1930 cinema in Limehouse.

It was a grim as it sounds, a huge crowd and only one tea urn meant nothing to drink for a few hours and once I realised they had no record of who had and hadn't attended, I slipped out at the end of the first break and had a wander around Limehouse.

Ladies and gentlemen I give you first of all, the real Albert Square from Eastenders, or the bit the Germans missed as I like to think of it...

9 minutes ago, XTreme said:

WTF do the locals make of those weirdos?

They're used to it and they spend in the pubs and shops, locals are super friendly anyway and always up for a chat. I saw only one angry local and he was a bit of a scumster with a can of beer in his hand at 10am. He barged through a couple having their photo taken under the whale bones and when one complained he turned on them and started shouting about they were blocking his way and should piss off home. he was not representative of the local population at all.

Sunny on day 2

Mother and daughter apparently. All pubs had wild life in them

Outside our B&B