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Members 171 posts Joined Sep 2014 Report post #68 Posted Tuesday at 22:13 Nice one cuttsie and welcome to your mate. So first day at work. Spent the entire of primary school and secondary school being taught the metric system. Was loftily assured I would never need to use imperial measures as metric was the future. First job was an ancient cutlery firm. It had been bombed in the war and had bought brand new machines as a result. In 1946. All calibration was in imperial. All products sizes were in inches. Because it was cutlery all amounts were measured in dozens. So I would like to give a big shout out to the education system of the 70’s for its “valuable “ advice and a quiet thanks to my dad and other oldies that taught me the imperial system that we still mix and match with metric to this day. This reminds me of when my husband was training an apprentice and he asked him to measure something in feet and inches. He came back with its 6 and three bits, to which my husband says 'big bits or little bits'. He obviously only knew metric.

Looks like they've moved to this side of Sheffield now. Co-op at Heeley Green was ram raided last night

Finally got a egg at Derby. Just looked in and there it was with mum standing over it

Maya the osprey at Rutland Waters has laid her first egg. Spend most of my time changing from one web cam to another. Another good site is Cornell Lab of Ornithology. They have ospreys, albatrosses, red tailed hawks, great horned and barn owls and a condor that has just had its egg hatch all on webcams.

Has an egg been laid at Nottingham. One is sat in the nest now.

Notts chicks gone walkabout again. Hope they've not got too adventurous and come back soon

Feeding time now at Notts

The Rutland ospreys are back and have claimed their nest back. They're busy nest building now.

Looks like the ospreys at rutland may have lost their nest to the geese. Just seen one chase off two jackdaws that were having a look round. Will be interesting to see what happens when the ospreys finally arrive home.

One egg now at Norwich

Looks like the ospreys are having trouble with intruders. Doesn't look good for the eggs. When I looked this morning they were strewn all over the nest.

There was also one at the top of Olivers Drive, Darnall - just before the bridge on Handsworth Road.

Have sent you a pm. Let me know if you don't receive it.

My gran always used to say another job dun fer ferm when she'd finished some sort of housework.

Another ex Brookie - left in '64. Also went to Athelstan