Mundane News

[DCLane]

I hired a big Budget van to move us from Delaware to Florida. It was filled with diesel, and when I took it to a place to return it, I had to fill it with diesel. They checked it to make sure I'd done that. It seems strange that you had to fill it up from the start.

Normal that a vehicle is full at start of a hire and then refilled when finished with so the hirer pays for the fuel used.

Agreed. I've a feeling it's because I'm the first person to hire it.

 

[AlBaker]

Agreed. I've a feeling it's because I'm the first person to hire it.

Not sure if I'm calculating this properly. Let's say you have to put 40 litres in the tank at the start. And you used 10 litres for the job. You had to put another 10 litres in to fill it up at the end. Who pays for the 30 litres at the initial fill up?

 

[DCLane]

@AlBaker - I've taken a photo of the miles to empty and I hope they've recorded it.

I'll stick some diesel in tomorrow and will return it at the same amount.

 

[Reynard]

It's been a really cold, four-seasons-in-one-day kind of day here chez Casa Reynard, but with the addition of a biting NW breeze.

Did not sleep well, as my back had seized up. Ah well, hey ho. Rattled through the chores, dodging some fairly biblical showers, and yes, it was slippy underfoot too.

Lovely luncheon of a toasted ciabatta roll with cheddar & smoked kipper pate, a tangerine, a pear and a

Topped up the firewood in the house, then I treated myself to a nice long soak in the bath as I was feeling so very cold. It was lovely just to relax in the blissfully hot water and read.

Have spent the rest of the afternoon / early evening watching action from Milano Cortina and doing some writing.

 

[Reynard]

Fancy if you joined a local rowing club looking for a good argument and it turned out not what you expected?

You'd get a better go at that if you joined a cat club.

Ever wonder why I haven't?

 

[Reynard]

Sounds like the best possible situation for trainspotting, and the worst possible situation for peace and quiet.

For a main line, it's actually pretty quiet. Passenger traffic is usually two or 3-car DMUs, plus freight hauled by (mostly) class 66 locoa, which probably is the bulk of what goes up and down here. It's nothing like the main arteries into major cities, where something rumbles past every few minutes.

You don't actually notice the passenger traffic (the trees damp down the noise), but you can definitely feel the bigger freight trains coming through, as the house vibrates. When we still had analogue TV, it used to make the picture jump and jiggle.

 

[Reynard]

Time to feed the cat, and then it will be time to feed me.

 

[Mike_P]

@AlBaker - I've taken a photo of the miles to empty and I hope they've recorded it.

I'll stick some diesel in tomorrow and will return it at the same amount.

Yes, the normal alternate to it being full is to return it with the same amount of fuel in it although that can be pretty awkward to estimate when filling up hence the full tank approach often employed.

 

[Illaveago]

Just had some tie on the carpet with Georgie. He was rolling around whilst we were having our tea. He kept stopping and looking up at me so I got down and joined him. Plenty of ear rubs ended abruptly as he started clawing and biting me. I wasn't the only one who got it arls he then attacked his tail.