Mundane News

[Illaveago]

Overcast but the calm before the storm. By tonight we are forecast to get over 70mph winds. Cold this morning at 3.5c but with no wind it does not feel too bad.
Several thriving businesses are appealing desperately for housing for workers as they cannot expand until they get more people. At least one teacher is leaving as being evicted from a rental to make way for tourists. Meanwhile the holiday homes go on destroying what people think they want to come for. We are getting more and more turned into a theme park by greedy outsiders. Makes me angry.😠

I feel sorry for you ! It seems to be. happening a lot around the country .

Now I wouldn't suggest anything like painting the words to the song "I will Survive " on any of the holiday homes !

 

[biggs682]

Time to relax and rest me thinks

 

[oldwheels]

My watch battery has failed I think and it will be a couple of weeks before I can get it fixed so I decided to buy a cheapish one to fill the gap and have as standby.
£25 seemed reasonable until I came to the payment. They wanted £14.95 for standard UK carraige as I am not UK Mainland.
Total rip off and they had the cheek to ask why I had not gone ahead with the purchase.
Many English based firms try this on and I have even had orders refused. I have had orders where they try to charge for a mainland address based on my home postcode rather than the delivery postcode which is in a free carriage area.
This is something everyone in the Highland and Islands looks out for and there are bitter complaints constantly. Those who do free carriage always get the business.
In my previous business we used Royal Mail who were always the cheapest and most reliable in those days.

 

[Hebe]

You have been trained well, I see...

Please give Madam a chin tickle from me.

I will do that. There are two of them so I’ll have to chin tickle them both.

 

[midlife]

Never heard of them and I was at school when kids played with such things. Everything seemed to work according to seasons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_arrow

Also known as a Yorkshire Arrow

 

[Ming the Merciless]

BITD we used sticks with playing cards for flights about 2ft long. Cut a notch near the flights, and used a length of knotted string to help throw them

A flight of 2 ft is pretty short.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

A flight of 2 ft is pretty short.

Vertigo or notfartigo?

 

[Reynard]

Soup, then a jacket potato topped with beef* & vegetable casserole.

Made with ox cheek.

I may have eaten too much.

 

[Reynard]

I will do that. There are two of them so I’ll have to chin tickle them both.

The more the merrier I also have two Feline Overlords.

Extra virtual chin tickles being sent.

 

[Reynard]

I'm watching "Rush"

 

[classic33]

I'm watching "Rush"

"Hacksaw Ridge" here.

 

[slowmotion]

If you're going to be near Winchester, book a £10 tour of the tower of the cathedral. (Google Winchester Cathedral tower tour). We were in a party of four, with two guides. You take 213 steps up spiral staircases which are only a few inches wider than your shoulders. There are about four stopping places on the way up, all pretty amazing, including the bell chamber ( a tad noisy at the top of the hour). There's a panoramic view of the city and the surrounding countryside to the south when you get to the top. On the way down, you get to walk the length of the nave between the vaults of the stone ceiling below and the roof above.
A great way to spend 90 minutes or so.

 

[Reynard]

If you're going to be near Winchester, book a £10 tour of the tower of the cathedral. (Google Winchester Cathedral tower tour). We were in a party of four, with two guides. You take 213 steps up spiral staircases which are only a few inches wider than your shoulders. There are about four stopping places on the way up, all pretty amazing, including the bell chamber ( a tad noisy at the top of the hour). There's a panoramic view of the city and the surrounding countryside to the south when you get to the top. On the way down, you get to walk the length of the nave between the vaults of the stone ceiling below and the roof above.
A great way to spend 90 minutes or so.

I've been past of a time or two, and still can't get over how tiny Winchester Cathedral is compared to Ely... But in a way, it's like comparing apples and pears, really.

I'll agree about the spectacular countryside though. Didn't get to see much of it yesterday, as it was drizzly and then dark.

 

[slowmotion]

I've been past of a time or two, and still can't get over how tiny Winchester Cathedral is compared to Ely... But in a way, it's like comparing apples and pears, really.

I'll agree about the spectacular countryside though. Didn't get to see much of it yesterday, as it was drizzly and then dark.

I don't know what the rules are in "My cathedral's bigger than yours!"

 

[Reynard]

I don't know what the rules are in "My cathedral's bigger than yours!"

Probably the same as the rules of Mornington Crescent, but in Norman French...