Mundane News

[rockyroller]

now that we reclaimed our master bedroom, Wifey insists I tackle the sticking door. this is the day

 

[carpiste]

Wet, windy, cloudy, dark, raining, awful weather!
Had a delivery at 1230. Exactly the same time given on the text message I received this morning. I do like that
It`s a stay home, drink tea/ coffee and watch footy type day I think! It has been so far anyway!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Dry now, not really cold but there's a biting wind. I'd recommend a lined woolly hat because it's the kind of wind that goes straight through otherwise. Alternatively, stay indoors.

 

[biggs682]

Christmas decorations have been bought out of the loft

 

[Speicher]

Dry now, not really cold but there's a biting wind. I'd recommend a lined woolly hat because it's the kind of wind that goes straight through otherwise. Alternatively, stay indoors.

I thought it was a lazy wind goes straight through you rather than around you. Very nearly dark here now, at 4.30pm.

Christmas decorations have been bought out of the loft

I agree. I did not realise how many boxes of decorations, cards etc etc were in the attic.

 

[Reynard]

Dark now, but it was a bright but chilly and blustery day here chez Casa Reynard.

I slept in some, then popped into town to pick up some bits from the Post Office depot. We have a new postie and they haven't twigged where my "safe place" for parcels and large letters is. If I catch them, I'll have to show them in order to save me an eleven mile round trip.

My Zooplus order of cat biscuits and litter turned up half an hour ago.

I am now watching the snooker. Soon it will be time to put the radio on and catch the F1 qually from Jeddah.

 

[Reynard]

I know that bridge, too!
It's the 6th most bashed bridge in 2020/21

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The one I mentioned in Ely is at number 4.

Which is nuts, considering the bulk of the traffic there has been re-routed on the new section of A142...

 

[Speicher]

I am now watching the snooker. Soon it will be time to put the radio on and catch the F1 qually from Jeddah.

Many decades ago, I lived in Jeddah for two years.

I expect it might have changed a bit. My bedroom window was very close to a Minaret. so I was woken up the call to prayer.

 

[Reynard]

Many decades ago, I lived in Jeddah for two years.

I expect it might have changed a bit. My bedroom window was very close to a Minaret. so I was woken up the call to prayer.

The circuit is along the corniche.

Bet it was an interesting place to live.

 

[Speicher]

The circuit is along the corniche.

Bet it was an interesting place to live.

Yes I remember the corniche. It was about the only place to go for a walk away from traffic, and with a (sometimes pleasant, often sand-laden) breeze off the sea.

I attended an "American" school, and I was the only European child in my class, with one boy from Brazil, and about twenty others.

It rained one week, and we missed three days of school (mud roads). So to catch up, we had to attend on Saturdays for a few weeks. I was hopeless at baseball, and basketball, and my spelling and pronuniciation went skewiff.

Christmas was not celebrated in Saudi Arabia, no television, and no air-conditioning. There was a souk "under" the block of flats, with some people living there with all their worldly possessions in two string bags.

There was a swimming pool at the USA Air Base, and we were occasionally invited there. I think my Mother met some Americans who were with the "Peace Corps".

 

[Reynard]

Right, F1 qually, a and a packet of crisps.

 

[Reynard]

Yes I remember the corniche. It was about the only place to go for a walk away from traffic, and with a (sometimes pleasant, often sand-laden) breeze off the sea.

I attended an "American" school, and I was the only European child in my class, with one boy from Brazil, and about twenty others.

It rained one week, and we missed three days of school (mud roads). So to catch up, we had to attend on Saturdays for a few weeks. I was hopeless at baseball, and basketball, and my spelling and pronuniciation went skewiff.

Christmas was not celebrated in Saudi Arabia, no television, and no air-conditioning. There was a souk "under" the block of flats, with some people living there with all their worldly possessions in two string bags.

There was a swimming pool at the USA Air Base, and we were occasionally invited there. I think my Mother met some Americans who were with the "Peace Corps".

Goodness me...

Some of that sounds really cool, some... less so...

But it does open your eyes and your horizons.

 

[Speicher]

When my Mother was unwell in Saudi Arabia we had to go to Cyprus for a few weeks while she had a operation and recovered/

If you have a couple of days spare, I could tell you about the four years I spent in India.

 

[biggs682]

I agree. I did not realise how many boxes of decorations, cards etc etc were in the attic.

And bike frames 4 at last count

 

[Speicher]

And bike frames 4 at last count

My bicycles are in the garage.