Mundane News

[rockyroller]

Is the return flight the one William Shatner caught in the 'Nightmare at 20,000ft' episode? (gremlin on the wing)

I thought it was going to be but no. They hit a tailwind & go too fast & wind up back in time, then they try to return in time but go back to 1939 & the airport in NYC doesn't know what jets are, then they try again to go back to their proper time & the episode ends, ugh

 

[MontyVeda]

A stranger just paid for my chips!

Popped into a random chippy for a portion of chips. Just as the staff were telling me that they don't take card payments and i was about to leave, a couple had walked in and the guy took three quid out of his pocket and paid for my chips. How kind.

 

[Mike_P]

They hit a tailwind & go too fast & wind up back in time, then they try to return in time but go back to 1939

That is the big thing no one has invented yet (or
have they?) If it did Peterborough 19 September 1906 would be a good choice to hopefully resolve one of the 20th centuries biggest mysteries.
That night a Kings Cross-Edinburgh train derailed at Grantham with the death of 14 people. The train should have stopped at the station; the loco which had been put on at Peterborough solely to drag the train up the climb to Grantham taken off. As such the points were already set for the locos move and the train hit them going far too fast.
No one has ever managed to explain why the locos crew, on a duty they had done the previous evening, made such an error.
I suspect the answer would be an found in the loco crew room or at Peterborough station.

 

[biggs682]

Evening has been snoozed

 

[Jenkins]

The evening's hot chocolate has just been made and the green Skittles separated out for consumption.
It's an evening full of fun and excitement round here.

 

[gbb]

Got my moneys worth of council tax today..
It's bin day, i live between two streets, one either side.
So i put 2 bins out the front street, get them emptied, bring straight back, refill with prearranged stuff im clearing, wheel them out the back street which gets emptied a couple hours later. Splendid

 

[classic33]

Got my moneys worth of council tax today..
It's bin day, i live between two streets, one either side.
So i put 2 bins out the front street, get them emptied, bring straight back, refill with prearranged stuff im clearing, wheel them out the back street which gets emptied a couple hours later. Splendid

Isn't that cheating?

 

[Oldhippy]

Creative thinking I'd say.

 

[mistyoptic]

That’s it. Bread maker loaded. Bed calls. See you all 7.30 when the bread’s ready

 

[DCLane]

I think we have a landline number.. It's never been plugged in since we moved here several years ago.
We just rely on mobiles & switch to silent as & when necessary.

The only person who still phoned ours was my father-in-law, who passed away last month. No-ones's phoned us on it since then, not even junk calls.

I'm starting to wonder whether they were from him just for fun.

 

[classic33]

That’s it. Bread maker loaded. Bed calls. See you all 7.30 when the bread’s ready

Takes a while to make a loaf then!

 

[classic33]

 

[Reynard]

It's been a grey day on my perambultion, although I did get some sunshine on the drive down about Stevenage-ish, but the return leg from Alresford was done in intermittent drizzle. M25 was the gift that keeps giving - I lost almost an hour in a stop-start crawl around Heathrow, and the M3 was crap on the return leg. Winnall looks like a bloody bomb site.

Anyway, had a nice walk, and paid my respects to Paul Warwick on what would've been his 57th birthday.

I'm now back home, relaxing by the fire in the company of Madam Boo, and I've just tipped a large bowl of spicy ramen down the hatch (home made, not out of a packet) in lieu of a late supper.

 

[Speicher]

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her name is Tina

 

[classic33]

Spoiler

her name is Tina

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Good, but incorrect.