Mundane News

[Deleted member 1258]

Very very frightening!. I'm writing out Chrimbo cards in Booths café, Penrith, enjoying the view towards the snowcapped Pennines (cycled up Great Dun Fell on Sunday).

Me Galileo, galileo galileo

 

[potsy]

Radio 4 are running a half-hour comedy based around oldies misunderstanding the word 'fap'.

Is Reg in it?

 

[mybike]

Radio 4 are running a half-hour comedy based around oldies misunderstanding the word 'fap'.

It's a word?

 

[Dec66]

After three months, £84k and the most amount of stress I've had in my life (apart from a three-months period in 1992 when I lost my younger sister, my first marriage broke up, I almost lost my job and I was homeless and skint)... My house extension is now finished!

My one piece of advice for anyone planning the same; move out.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

It's a little bit snowy here. I've been out doing a good deed pushing cars up a hill where they couldn't get any traction.

Due to the conditions and a couple of accidents, Shrewsbury is currently pretty much gridlocked.

The hill in question

People starting to abandon their vehicles.

The queue waiting to get up the hill.

Not much better on the main roads.

 

[Threevok]

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I see Barney Rubble managed to get the car out

 

[Dec66]

It's a little bit snowy here. I've been out doing a good deed pushing cars up a hill where they couldn't get any traction. Due to the conditions and a couple of accidents, Shrewsbury is currently pretty much gridlocked.

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The hill in question

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People starting to abandon their vehicles.

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The queue waiting to get up the hill.

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Not much better on the main roads.

But you rode your bike up the hill, obviously?

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I see Barney Rubble managed to get the car out

Had to think about that for a moment.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

But you rode your bike up the hill, obviously?

Not yet but it would be rideable. Just went for a walk to find out why there was lots of traffic going out but none coming in.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Made some fresh footprints in the snow up on the fell side. Love making fresh tracks. Bracing wind.

 

[Speicher]

I have found an almost Identical camera to my Father's Nikon camera, on BayE, selling at £500. I have not got the lens. I am going to keep the camera for sentimental reasons. My father had very few possessions other than books about Mechanics and Engineering, I have about three of those. He kept lots of possibly useful things, that might have been useful one day, but nothing "personal".

In the same cupboard I have found other items that I forgot I had. Some of which will be jettisoned. Some of which need to be thinned down. I am gradually trying to downsize, and am making a good start. When relations died, and their houses had to be cleared, guess who ended up with all the things that were too good to throw away, but nobody wanted them?

 

[Speicher]

On an entirely different subject I am trying to sew up a jumper. The pattern says to sew the sleeves to the shoulders of the jumper and then sew the sides of the sleeves, and sides of the garment.

My large book about Knitting says to sew up the seam of the sleeve and the side seams, and then sew in the sleeves. What do you do, by preference?

 

[petek]

The North Sea can be a cold and fickle mistress.
Out with the dogs this morning and stood a good way 'shoreside' of the tideline, admiring the white horses.
Boom!
Mega wave and I'm up to my shins in the oggin. Happy wet dogs, unpleasantly wet trousers and rubber boots filled with water.
Squelched home to dry off.
Dogs wanted to stay and go back in.

 

[Illaveago]

This is the bike I rescuerrected the other day from being scrapped. I've given it a bit of a clean and it needs some new cables and a bottom bracket but otherwise it's fine.

 

[Lullabelle]

We have done our grocery shop and will not go out again today