Mundane News

[Illaveago]

Ere! What's going on ? When I try logging on to Cycle chat Cycling Okay keeps jumping in !

 

[pawl]

Apparently the film The Dig (Netflix)has attracted 650.000 views to the British Museum web site re the Sutton Hoo treasures.It certainly seems to have attracted a lot of attention even in people who had no particular interest in ancient history

 

[biggs682]

Hopefully might get some jobs done tomorrow but then might not

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Hopefully might get some jobs done tomorrow but then might not

I have nothing planned apart from getting up early for the cricket so the likelihood of me getting any jobs done is pretty close to zero. Naps may play a part in the day's unfolding....

 

[Jenkins]

Apparently the film The Dig (Netflix)has attracted 650.000 views to the British Museum web site re the Sutton Hoo treasures.It certainly seems to have attracted a lot of attention even in people who had no particular interest in ancient history

Sutton Hoo is less than 15 miles by road from me. I've never been!

 

[Jenkins]

Domestics day today - changed the bedding, two loads of washing done, carpets vacuumed & kitchen floor steam mopped.

The nearst thing to excitement today was someone from further up the road getting stuck in the ruts in the sheet ice on the corner outside mine. An attempt to push it failed as nobody could get any traction and kept slipping on the ice. We ended up having to break the ice on the road with spades & garden forks.

 

[Jenkins]

One final & slightly less mundane bit of news - I've had the text confirming I can have a Covid 19 jab and already booked in for the first available slot on February 25th at 9am

Somebody must be doing something right as I'm in the 8th group (55 & over) of 9 initially listed for the jab.

 

[classic33]

Well, seeings that certain types of glue are still made from bones...

Gawd, I remember the stink of the animal glue that dad used to use when he ran an upholstery workshop. That smell is just so distinctive. The stuff came as a solid brown lump, and you had to warm it up in a double pan prior to use...

Still available, if you need it!

 

[Reynard]

Still available, if you need it!

I've still got a pot of it on the back shelf in the garage.

 

[Reynard]

I've just finished cutting out the first layer for the Higman chassis.

That's it for tonight. Other than glueing some circles of card together.

Time for a and a biskit, methinks!

 

[Gravity Aided]

View: https://youtu.be/DZSV08j7VTk

Glad somebody brought that up.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Apparently the film The Dig (Netflix)has attracted 650.000 views to the British Museum web site re the Sutton Hoo treasures.It certainly seems to have attracted a lot of attention even in people who had no particular interest in ancient history

I liked the movie. quite a bit more to the story, and the chronology seems a good deal compressed, but I love the story just the same. I live near these, (about 80 miles) and saw them before all the exhibit buildings were built.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickson_Mounds
and at 150 miles, there's this;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia

 

[Reynard]

Right, time to head off up the wooden hill.

Nunnight one and all xxx

 

[gavgav]

Received my first box of Lateral Flow Tests, from work, this week and have done my first swab. Slightly disconcerting feeling, sticking the swab up both nostrils and swirling it around, but quite a simple process to follow and 30 minutes later the results are there. These, or even a quicker version of these, across a good proportion of the population, could be the way to getting fans back in stadiums and concerts......

 

[Illaveago]

I've just finished cutting out the first layer for the Higman chassis.

That's it for tonight. Other than glueing some circles of card together.

Time for a and a biskit, methinks!

I'm trying to picture the circles but can't decide in which plane they are in . Are they flat like plates or or standy uppy like a tube ?