Mundane News

[rockyroller]

we have some ppl working remotely. I never see them & I can't call them. now that's a job!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

if it's Boeing, I'm not going

They are only selling one way trips

 

[Illaveago]

I'm having another day with the fairies.
We have had a couple of rain storms and have 7mm of water in the rain gauge.

 

[biggs682]

My working day is completed
Washing that was hanging on the whirly gig has been bought in.

 

[Mike_P]

WAH completed. Flip its dark, almost need the light on. Definitely raining and the birds are being awkward by well demolishing the seeds in that feeder. The new one with sunflower hearts is completely untouched.

 

[biggs682]

Evening cuppa went down well
A bit of garden bush trimming along with watering the veg and fruit plants

 

[tyred]

A nice morning for walking to work. Work was boring as usual. I was supposed to have my monthly one to one meeting today but my supervisor has fallen down steps and broken her ankle.

I went out for a twenty mile ride on the single speed tonight again. It came on a bit wet again, but nowhere near as wet as last night. I got mildly damp, rather than drenched.

 

[Jenkins]

It's a good job I'm away on Wednesday as, by the time I get home on Thursday and need to pop out and get some food, my cycling shoes should have dried out. All was going well and I was having a bit of fun using a lot more off road tracks than usual until I got to a lane on the outskirts of Bucklesham and found a dip in the road filled with water, fast flowing water coming down the other side of the slope and a car backing out of it. I kept going knowing the road and the water was only just below bottom bracket depth so completely waterlogged my shoes & socks. The mystery of where all the water was coming from on a dry day was solved at the main road T-junction by spotting Anglian Water vans trying to sort out a burst water main. Another 100 yards of completely flooded main road topped off the water levels in my shoes for the remaining 10 miles home.

The overnight bag has been sorted and is by the front door ready for Wednesday's outing so it's time for a late hot chocolate before bed.

 

[tyred]

I've just disturbed the moths in my wallet and purchased a new B17 for my touring bike.
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Is that like the old C34 with the newer roll back equaliser bearing?

I did Google it, shows my ignorance.

My £9.99 from Aldi seems to do quite well. But I never do more than 50 k at a time, these days.
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I've never found any non-Brooks saddle comfortable for long rides.

 

[Reynard]

It's been a grey but rather warm day here chez Casa Reynard.

Did not sleep well. Was really cold and restless for some reason. I did have a bit of a lie in, but that was where any thought of taking it easy kind of stopped. Picked fruit in the garden - a ladder job for the Mirabelle plums, but feet firmly on Terra Firma for the Czar plums. Laundry all folded and put away and ingredients sorted for supper.

After a couple of quckly-sunk it was off to the village. Stopped off at the garage to book Colin's MOT and drop off a tin of biskits as a "thank you" for not charging me for a headlight bulb previous Friday, then dropped off a kilo of plums at a friend's place. After that, went to the Community Orchard and the nature reserve.

The search for blackberries was a bit, well, fruitless. They're not ripe in there yet. Still, I had a nice brisk walk around the meadow at the bottom of the trail. The orchard yielded some early apples - there weren't many to start with, and what little crop is on the tree is rotting, which is sad. So picked a small bag - it'll be enough for a crumble or a szarlotka (Polish apple cake). Also picked a similar sized bag of Old Thack plums (they taste SO different to mine!) and about a dozen or so sort-of-ripe greengages to plop in the fruit bowl.

On the way home, stopped off at the book exchange. I didn't need the motor racing book I picked up the other day (I forgot I had a copy on my shelf) and swapped it for an Arthur C Clarke novel and a book on Evel Knievel.

After that, it was back home to cook supper. While everything was in the oven, all the outside planters were thoroughly watered.

Supper was a cheese, onion, bacon & sage quiche, buttered Cornish new potatoes and a salad of tomato, cucumber & feta cheese. With a helping of plum crumble and custard for afters. Good job that luncheon kind of fell by the wayside today...

A quiet evening is planned, cos I'm knackered.

 

[DCLane]

I've spent this evening buying paint and other items for the refurbished kitchen plus the bathroom. Now all I need is to find the dimwit who will do all the work.

No guessing but it'll probably be me.

Oh, and SWMBO was put on a plane to Belfast.

 

[Gwylan]

It remains my intention to go cycling today. Fancy oysters for lunch.

Two guesses on my destination.

But it isn't not raining.
Do I wait for it to stop, assume it will stop soon, delude myself that it's not really raining or accept it will be sunny when I get there? If I leave now in the rain.

Well a fiasco.
Spent too long unexpectedly sorting a SIM router and aerial for an event with no acceptable internet. Starts at the weekend!
Had to find best value data SIM. Took some shopping around.
Card just has to be here before Thursday.

Then discovered I'm out of a particular and essential medication. Grappling with the doctor's surgery. Not a service industry for sure. If I die you'll know who to blame.
Left to Boots to deliver the necessary. Generally they do well.

Rain has cleared
Getting bike out of the shed. Client phones, the tree surgeon. Has a problem and we need to talk. Compromise on meeting him today. Don't mention I'm going to cycle to the meeting.
So, radical change of route and a quick 30k to his.
Scrounge lunch from him, do the biz and think about home.
The bike ride has used 35k of my 60k range. That means it predicts I will run out of power. That means the whole thing is like pedalling a sack of cement.

So, I can't actually get home. Reduced to cycling to a station and getting the train home

But the route was really nice, sure be on the repeat list. Now I've cracked the extraction by train.
That was my day.

 

[Gravity Aided]

probably leaked to avoid talking about the epstein files

Release The Files.

 

[rockyroller]

all that is left, is the doing. the camping that is

 

[Gravity Aided]

all that is left, is the doing. the camping that is

Have a good time!