Mundane News

[Jenkins]

Not even a hint of sunshine today with a total of 3.7KwH generated by the solar panels - not even enough to run the house for the day, let alone top up the battery storage, which means (shock & horror) that I may have to pay for electricity for the first time in months.
The grey & windy conditions didn't stop me getting out for an hour mid afternoon rather than just curling up on the sofa with the radio and Kindle. I saved that for when I got home.

 

[tyred]

A wet start this morning but turned into a nice day. There was even some sunshine and it's still quite warm for the time of year.

No cycling today as I had my dance class after work.

 

[Reynard]

I enjoy mooching around on the 'bay as you lot well know.

Tonight I'm having some serious laughs with people bidding on luxury watches that are so obviously fake - in this case a "Franck Mueller" and a "Rolex". Unless of course, someone's shilling their own lots to make them more attractive.

Nowt as queer as folk...

 

[Reynard]

In any case, it's time for a and MOTD

 

[Jenkins]

a customer at my part time job came in a cpl weeks ago. wanted to build shelves for her fiancé. said she had all her books in boxes & she wanted to finally get them unboxed. I made 6 shelves for her. we chatted about voracious readers & book "keeping". my brother keeps all his, my son might but I have no idea where they are. when I finish a book, it gets knocked around the house for a while & then I donate it to the library

your philosophy?

I had a massive clear out a few years ago and got rid of all bar one of my bookcases and display units, replacing them with two large bookcases from Ikea. All the videos were dumped, the DVDs were kept (they were box sets, F1 & BTCC collections) and i ruthlessly went through the books keeping those that I liked (full Stephen King collection for example) or knew were worth a few pounds and kept going until I only had half a shelf worth of space left. That left about half a dozen black sacks worth of paperbacks that went down to the local recycling centre.
These days I rarely buy physical books even though I prefer them, instead I'm working through multiple cheap collections of 50s and 60s sci-fi on my Kindle instead.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I suggest you check out

~ Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy~

😎

A great book, as was Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I think there were 5 books, Radio Plays on the BBC, and Tv Shows I saw on PBS in uni, either on my tiny little black and white Tv or in the control room at the station. And a movie a few years back.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Imagine if science fiction were adapted by Gilbert and Sullivan, and you get a pretty good feel for it.

 

[Gravity Aided]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Ba4BbH0oY

 

[tyred]

The boyracers are circulating again.