NeilM

Ohhh go no....lol I very occasionally play fifa against lad. Thats my limt.

Good morning all. Still far from right. Went to the drs again yesterday and he's persuaded me to stay on sick. Also changed prescriptions etc. Bloody inhaler etc... Could be worse tho. So to stop me absolutely driving Lisa n kids to insanity I'm off to the coast tonight for a few days. @Stu give you a shout mate, cuppa either Hornsea or Hull. Me n dog. Netflix. Crosswords and sleep. Saying that. I'll get bored and end up causing havoc.....lol

Yes

Everyone needs something. I've had untold amounts of councilling over years. Nowt to be ashamed of. On a sports note. Thursday. I'm off for a little walk and coffee with the batley bulldogs foundation. Loads of very big lads talking about their issues. We as a sport now recognise the need to support each other and that we all suffer to differing degrees, irrespective of male macho rugby bollox.

Believe me. It doesn't matter one iota your size or choice of sport. As those you know me well will testify, I'm 6ft 3, big lad, used to play rugby. (Would still turn out now for any vets given half the chance) And I'm an absolute gob shite at times. Life and soul etc. BUT I suffer from stress, anxiety and have PTSD. Unless I had a full blown episode in front of you, you'd never guess. The thing with mental health is people learn to mask. And masking id extremely dangerous because people are unaware they are suffering until its too late.

We used to go down a fair bit on the early 90s for obvious reasons....lol I'm fortunate that I never really stopped going to gigs. Didn't go to many when the kids were young but never stopped. Nowadays I'm back at it.....lol I'm also fortunate that my kids are musical. Lewis comes to some gigs with me. Infact to be honest I wouldn't have bothered with "Stiff little fingers " Saturday if he wasn't going. Grace doesn't go as often. But, her claim to fame will always be that her first ever proper gig was "the stone roses".

02 academy leeds. They are doing a full UK tour. Saw them 3 year back at the same venue with the neds as support. First time I saw them would have been 89 I think? I know I was quite young. Your mate who was into CUD. Is he still going to see them? They have a quite cultish following, especially in the North. The same faces can be seen at the gigs from the last 30 years. The picture i put up last night, my mate was just about to show Carl (lead singer) his CUD tattoo..... We had a good chat to his daughters. They find it really strange that a band with very very limited mainstream appeal and 1 significant hit record can on occasions attract such fanatical following. The leeds hometown gigs are always chaotic. Most of the crowd 50 ish and still jumping around like teenagers....

Stourbridge at a guess. Well not a guess, I have tickets for the wonderstuff in June. Seen neds loads back in the day and of course PWEI. This was also one of my favourite gigs of all time. Miles Hunt did a load of free stuff during the lockdowns. Just him, a guitar and going back over a quite extensive back catalogue.

I'm going through all the Aspergers tests now!!!! Started to get suspicious when 3 different councillors over several years when dealing with my PTSD enquired if I'd ever been tested......

This is a niche band. CUD. Massive in Yorkshire indie circles early nineties. That's the lead singer after a recent gig we were at. His daughters were laughing. 50 year old blokes mobbing him....lol

Supposed to be seeing these on Saturday in Leeds. Still a bit poorly tho.....

We foolishly bought the kids a car prior to them passing their tests. Mate of a mate sketch. Far cheaper than book price etc. Its been sat on drive for 2 weeks as I've been poorly. Anyway thought I'd better go fill it with diesel. £48 and it had quater of a tank in...... This is in a 1 litre kia ceed!!!

I'm a shift manager in an EFW. Mechanical bias originally. Thick as a brick me. Left school at 16 and did it the hard way.....lol.

Good morning all. Well. Had a strange couple of weeks. Monday before last. 11 days back I tested positive for covid again. This time tho it proper knackered me. Comedy day in hospital Tuesday having all the lung x rays etc. Put me on some horse antibiotics and they seem to be working. Tested negative for the first time today so happy with that. Still a bit poorly but Lisa is no longer asking me to donate my organs (i kid you not. Poor lass was in a right state) lol. Tell you what though. First person to tell me covids nowt when I'm fit again will get a right slapping

Thats my style of maths. With the ish in...lol.

Off topic ish but. We use Urea injection to control Nox emissions. This works alongside the combustion air ratios as described previously. Thats the balancing act, CO vs Nox. The key to urea injection control is the location of injection and method. If its wrong initially and is not creating the umbrella effect then its useless. Urea/carbamin has nearly doubled in price post brexit. Hence why recently we've modified our system to make it more efficient. District heating. The dream of all councils/boroughs for the last decade. We've had it in the pipeline for the last 15 years but never finished or commissioned due to us being a single line plant.

Canada.... Very environmentally friendly

Carbon monoxide emissions are controlled via stoichometric combustion. I.e how the fuel is burnt. In our case usually with approximately 30% secondary air which gives you an excess of around 7% air. This completes the combustion, and minimal CO is produced. The biggest issue with coal is the production of acid gases. Hcl and SO2. These are not as prevalent in wood. The capture of CO2 has been an ongoing debate in the energy sector for years and yes the only way to balance this is the farming of trees. What is not taken into account is where the wood pellets are shipped from. Take a wild guess where the pellets are from for a rather large station on the east/ west Yorkshire border??

@dynaxyou need to ride down to the entrance, turn right into the carpark and then ride back up towards the road. oh and then head across said road for fish n chips....

At the top of the car park. Room for several bikes

Thats what started the downfall. Polish coal. We do tours on plant which the public can book onto. What tends to amaze them is the fact the FGT takes up around a third of the footprint of the entire site. Ours, as like most nowadays is direct link to the EA. Thus, it cannot be "frigged" and legally we can't operate without it in service. The old mantra was "burning n turning" i.e fire in boiler and the turbine generating. Now its "burning, turning n monitoring"

Coal can be environmentally safe ish if burnt in conjunction with a flue gas treatment plant. The reason they were shutting the cokers is because to retro fit a FGT costs millions. Yes I work in a power station. Yes I think eventually we will be digging for coal again....

These are going to become big very quickly.