Mundane News

[fossyant]

Well well, my son must be feeling poorly. He's ordered a cheap car boot bike carrier - he plans on riding round Clayton Vale at weekend with a couple of friends (it's a MTB circuit near Manchester Velodrome) and, get this, wants to start riding some more.

Time for this old man to give him a kicking

 

[woodbutcher]

Well, actually, some things we class as vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, assorted squashes) are actually fruit. Some things we class as fruit are actually seeds (strawberries), and peanuts are not nuts and are actually related to peas and beans.... There's a big difference between actuality and convention.



Good choice.

Yes and who wants oxalic acid crumble

 

[Reynard]

Yes and who wants oxalic acid crumble

Strictly speaking, the oxalic acid is present in the leaves rather than the stalks. If you eat the leaves, it'll clear you out from your ears to your ar*e and then some...

 

[Reynard]

Anyways, I have just made a nice

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Well, actually, some things we class as vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, assorted squashes) are actually fruit. Some things we class as fruit are actually seeds (strawberries), and peanuts are not nuts and are actually related to peas and beans.... There's a big difference between actuality and convention.

I believe bananas are berries, surprisingly enough.

 

[Reynard]

I believe bananas are berries, surprisingly enough.

I think so... And figs are actually a flower bud.

 

[carlosfandangus]

You will be saying cauliflower is a flower next!!! it should be thrown straight on the compost heap...... with cucumbers...... both devils whatnots

 

[Reynard]

You will be saying cauliflower is a flower next!!! it should be thrown straight on the compost heap...... with cucumbers...... both devils whatnots

Oi! I happen to like cauliflower cheese...

Turning it into a fake rice though, bleurgh. Don't see the point in that one little bit.

 

[Illaveago]

’Two Hundred Popular Flies” has got to be the best book title ever?
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Do you have that copy by J. R . Hartley ?

 

[Illaveago]

Those 2 majestic poplar trees have gone !

 

[Illaveago]

I went out for a ride with my friends this afternoon. We did 12 miles . It was nice and mild out and it was quite sunny at times.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Gosh, today has been eventful. I had my gloves in my jacket pocket when cycling to work, I dropped the right hand one without realising.

I found it on the way back this afternoon.

Embarassingly this isn't the first time I've managed this. On at least one other occasion one of my gloives languished for the day on a cycleway near Stuttgart waiting for its twit owner to find it again. On this occasion I upped the ante by depositing the glove on a road: It has clearly been in the path of several cars but is generally unscathed.

I knew my work clothes were solid but didn't realise they were idiot proof.

 

[carlosfandangus]

You need some wool attached to each glove and going through your sleeves..... just ask my Mum, it always worked with mittens

 

[carlosfandangus]

Spent all afternoon trying to buy some DHB Aeron bib shorts from Wiggle, their web site is so slow today!!!! these will match a pair that I already have (wash and wear) XXL as I am 6'4 and about 95 kilos.
Does any body want to buy some Craft Bibs (rise) as e bay would say BNIB with tags still in the bag!!1, I foolishly bought 4 pairs while they were on offer at £25 a pair
@Reynard I am sure they will fit, maybe a bit long and baggy, nothing you couldn't fix with a Singer

 

[woodbutcher]

Strictly speaking, the oxalic acid is present in the leaves rather than the stalks. If you eat the leaves, it'll clear you out from your ears to your ar*e and then some...

You are true as usual