Off Topic The Goodhand Arms

No vino for me (despite the bottle of Barolo staring at me) as I’m taxi Dad later tonight!

 

I love having a daughter and grandkids 4500 miles away sometimes

EDIT: ....though I wish she would remember timezones at 2am....

 

ok dog people. I have a tennis ball in one hand and a dog biscuit in the other. Which one does the Golden Retriever grab first?

 

If it was my two, neither lol. A Golden Retriever though I think the ball.

 

Anyone preparing the next matchday thread?

If not, I don't mind giving it a go.

Never done one mind, so never lost one

 

Another stumble across today. This is an excellent, easy to understand graph which exposes that well established untruth amongst gearheads that battery electric vehicles [BEV] emit every bit as many emissions as diesel and petrol [FFV] vehicles. Just to take you through the labels, because a few won't be obvious:

Powertrain - The emissions caused by the manufacture of the engine or electric motor and parts.
Lithium Battery - Special to the BEV. Emissions caused by the mining and manufacture.
Glider - A whole car minus the engine or electric motor and some parts.
Tank to Wheel - Special to the FFV. Emissions caused by the combustion of fuel.
Well to Tank - Emissions from base ore to finished power, be it drilling for oil and transportation, to digging for ores to generate electricity.



Far left, the diesel [and similar petrol] emissions are essentially fixed. They will be marginally better or worse depending on the engine tuning and size.
The BEV also depend on the potential power conversion of the electric powertrain, but they don't vary wildly. So the blue column is entirely due to the cleanliness of the country's electrical grid.
Poland and Germany have quite a high proportion of coal power generation. France has lots of well known established CO2 free nuclear, and Sweden has lots of nuclear/renewables. The EU figure is the European average.

 

I think one of my chickens is going to have to go

She’s been poorly for over two weeks now and spent the last 4 days inside. She can’t walk and stumbles when she tries to move. I’m thinking Marek’s disease maybe. What’s really sad is that she is bright eyed and still eats.

Any chicken owners seen anything like this? It’s like her legs have stopped working.

 

You know my mrs?

Where do i sign?

 

I apologise if that was insensitive.

 

@fatletiss

When are we meeting for a cold one btw..?

Next LDN game its a must and @VVD ?

 

Not to me it wasn’t.

 

I’ll see what I can do. Would be good, especially if I can find Johnny shuttle here in Northampton and bring him

 

I want to get down to Soton for the weekend but its so hard with work, kids,work .... Mrs etc....

If us not606 lot can arrange a home game when we all met up that would be ace! Like weeks in advance otherwise I could only do a london game.

 

When I had a ST, several of us would meet before home games

 

Could do with another Milan trip.

 

Or a first one.....

 

Those were the days. When I had a STD, several of us would meet before home games

 

Watch out sotonsaints about!

 

@fatletiss

Bout time I showed my "face" .


Deffo need a beer with you lot at a game soon though.

 

Never seen it in any of mine, but if it is Mareks disease, it's highly contagious so get her isolated from the rest and put her to sleep, wrung neck or vets but do it quickly