Mundane News

[DCLane]

Several parcels have arrived, including a chaise longue for a cat (Yes @Reynard those are a thing!) plus some lightly and not-so-lightly used tyres that I'd picked up. The chaise longue is for son no. 1's Christmas present.

Now a dilemma: I thought I'd bought one nearly new GP5000 TDF special edition tyre via a well-known auction site for a good price. But there were two in the packet. Re-checking the photos and description the seller never stated that there was more than one. Should I contact them?

Oh, and the nasty cold that SWMBO and son no. 2 had at the weekend appears to have been passed onto me as I've got a nasty throat and feel . Not good as I've a seminar to deliver tomorrow, plus a staff research workshop to host and my annual appraisal.

 

[dicko]

Got to report fly tipping in the copse at the end of our close now. I’m not surprised though if your wheelie bin is full to overflowing it won’t be collected. There is no excuse for dumping your garbage just anywhere you choose.

 

[postman]

Got to report fly tipping in the copse at the end of our close now. I’m not surprised though if your wheelie bin is full to overflowing it won’t be collected. There is no excuse for dumping your garbage just anywhere you choose.

I read that too fast i thought you had found a corpse.

 

[PeteXXX]

Bin's bin emptied. Quite late today..
Mebe snowed in in the depot for a while? 🤔

 

[PeteXXX]

I keep hearing something on the telebox about a coo..
Is there a CC pigeon loft? 🤔

 

[biggs682]

My working day is completed it's been a tough one today.
Bins to be put kerbside next
Looks like liver for tea 😁

 

[Jenkins]

Today was the first Buff and warm glove use of this half of the year. Got the bedding changed, the vacuuming done, kitchen floor swept and then put the bedding on to wash while I went out and did the shopping with the rain having stopped. Cycling was cold and hard work in the breeze, even with the assistance of the ebike (admittedly only on the lowest setting) so I treated myself to another half hour snooze later on in the afternoon.

 

[Jenkins]

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Oh, and the nasty cold that SWMBO and son no. 2 had at the weekend appears to have been passed onto me as I've got a nasty throat and feel . Not good as I've a seminar to deliver tomorrow, plus a staff research workshop to host and my annual appraisal.

Welcome to the club. I wish mine had been delayed for a few days as there's a family do on Friday that I have to attend even though I don't want to.

 

[Oldhippy]

One of the wonders of living on a river with no roads is no light pollution, on a clear night you can see nothing but stars in the sky.

 

[Chief Broom]

One of the wonders of living on a river with no roads is no light pollution, on a clear night you can see nothing but stars in the sky.

Walt Whitman came to mind

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer​

By Walt Whitman

When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

 

[Mike_P]

Now a dilemma: I thought I'd bought one nearly new GP5000 TDF special edition tyre via a well-known auction site for a good price. But there were two in the packet. Re-checking the photos and description the seller never stated that there was more than one. Should I contact them?

Free spare.

 

[Mike_P]

B&Q click and collect slightly better than Asda as that they messaged me! see email. Just no email