Saturday 24 August 2013

When is a Duck a Duck

I am late again, it is all this doing stuff that is the problem so actually writing about what I have done is then harder. Anyway because it is late this is going to be the short abbreviated diary entry just in order to keep continuity, a diary without continuity is like a seagull without a mad glint in his eye and a belligerent swagger outside the fish and chip shop on a Friday night.

So in short we discovered that a Robot Elvis Duck is rubbish at swimming in a pond, A Glow in the Dark Robot Duck will float about but in a very uninteresting way, not in the true spirit of Ducks. And finally a traditional Female Mallard Robot Steam powered Duck is a good swimmer as long as any holes are properly filled up so that it does not list to starboard.   



 We also tested the old pond pump and it still works but we had not anticipated that it would siphon half the water out of the Robot Duck testing pond when it was turned off. Yes we should have thought of that, but even the minds of mad mechanical geniuses are not infallible or even inflatable.

I managed to get some PVA glue to glue things and showed Mr F round a shop and I have just been eating Bombay Mix and eating toast and peanut butter . . . . . YUM; even though it is rather late because that is the sort of chap I am… . . . . . . .  




Ooooooo and an old traction engine passed the house today on its way to somewhere so I took a photo and told them that the internal combustion engine would be far easier to park.

7 comments:

  1. What the duck are you on about. Another fowl posting, me thinks! That traction engine looks like a Welsh bus.

    Ha ha and ha at two thirty on a Sunday morning!!!!!

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    1. It is rather clean and tidy for a Welsh bus, Well a Welsh School bus.

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  2. A duck is not a duck when it's a goose. Hope that clears things up for you.

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    1. Are ducks called duscks because they duck under the water, or is ducking called ducking because ducks duck?

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    2. I could never understand Duck tape until it was made clear in the DIY store that I was an IDIOT. . . .

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  3. I saw all the carnage from the steam rally today as I drove down the A5. tail backs for miles n miles of petrol cars.
    It's ironic that if they had all been steam powered there would not have been a traffic jam because nobody would have been able to go fater than 2 miles an hour anyway!
    hahahahahahahaha.

    Some very cool looking machines though.

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    1. A car mast pass an emissions test to get through an MOT, but traction engines dont which seems a little unfair....

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