Mundane News

[biggs682]

Looks a lovely morning outside but my phone is telling me minus 2 .
So no early am ride for me and with grandparent duties from 9am till after tea another day with no miles but at least there will be plenty of smiles

 

[Illaveago]

What a load of Horlicks the chap from the Rail Delivery Group just said on the Beeb just now . "We can't go around cutting down all of the trees near the track" . If they had done their jobs properly In the past then they wouldn't have had all the problems of leaves on the track causing wheels to slip , overhanging branches to hit trains or trees falling onto the lines ! In the past the trackside was kept clear, they had to them clear for the telegraph wires for one thing.

 

[PeteXXX]

Lovely, but nippy, morning here in Hamtun.
-2 c on the thermometer and a walk around Sywell Reservoir with No1 daughter is planned. I'm picking her up in ½hr,driving to The World's End and then public footpaths from there.

☀ ❄ ☀

 

[biggs682]

Enjoy your walk @PeteXXX
First cuppa drank
Need to start getting up soon

 

[biggs682]

Just fed the birds
Bird bath is frozen for the first time this winter .

 

[Oldhippy]

I just caught myself humming the Mr Benn theme while making toast and coffee.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I've just had a surprise Sunday morning beer delivery!

 

[biggs682]

Car park snobbery

 

[MontyVeda]

snow is falling... all around us... children playyyying... having fun...

doubt it will stick though.

ps. sorry about the earworm.

 

[Tribansman]

Hoping the ice melts away with the sunshine as planning a mid afternoon/evening long ride today. Think I'll have to stick to main roads though, should be ok as it's Sunday and most people in Herts (which is still surprisingly bumpkin-y in large parts) seem to be home for an early tea and Protestant bedtime

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Very sunny in Leicester, but it is blooming cold.

 

[Tribansman]

snow is falling... all around us... children playyyying... having fun...

doubt it will stick though.

ps. sorry about the earworm.

Stick's northern, right?
It's 'settle' down our way.

 

[MontyVeda]

There's a Settle up here too

 

[oldwheels]

I can't quite figure out what he's doing !
Is he trying to put it out ?
Trying to help the fire burn ? Or trying to fly ?

Not sure either but could be he has hazelnuts to be dropped into the fire.

 

[oldwheels]

Is McLeod a predominantly a Lewis name?

Anyhow, I remember reading an account that the present day form of the kilt was devised by a Lancashire man who had found that the existing long tartans were cumbersome and inefficient when it came to his foresting workers. Time and motion tartans....

There are MacLeods on Lewis but also Sutherland where my maternal grandfather belonged. There are MacLeods of Assynt which is further west tho' still in Sutherland. My wife's mother was a MacLeod from Lewis.
There are also variations in spelling of most of these names.
I still think the present day attire was invented by Walter Scott but there are no doubt other opinions.
Not many seem to wear a kilt as everyday dress nowadays but it was not uncommon about 50 years ago and I wore one fairly often. I never went for the overdone outfits you see nowadays for weddings but a more utilitarian outfit which has been seen on this forum in the past.