Mundane News

[rockyroller]

made coffee. better go drink it cuz spell check just showed me I can't spell coffee on my own

 

[Speicher]

That reminds me! Gardener's coffee - rather strong as it was fresh ground this morning.

 

[fossyant]

In other, slightly less mundane news, bob the builder (neighbour) has finally cleared the mountains of building rubble he stacked up on the shared land of our 12 houses. Two skips and a grab wagon worth (excluding the grab that came a few months ago). Four months looking at his mess

To top it off, he's completely weeded the ground, leaving the small trees, weed membrane put down, and he's had pea shingle delivered. So far a couple of tonnes of shingle, but I suspect he'll need a whole lot more. At blooming last - he's gone beyond what's needed, seeing as he's been storing building rubble on it for at least two years (prior to his recent extension)

 

[PeteXXX]

I have received a suggestion for a book I might like: "New Problems in Euclidean Geometry".

I do not think I have solved the old ones yet.

Perhaps I should read "A first course Differential Geometry (Surfaces in Euclidean Space)?
Does it involve differential calculus?

I have no idea what that means... Is it in English?

 

[fossyant]

I fancied a trip to Decathlon to see what there was to buy. Asked MrsF if she wanted to pop along. I left empty handed, she bought some trainers.

Was looking at another soft shell, but they only had 'small'. Not overly keen on their current colour choices for most clothing, it's either black or very dark, something I'm not keen on when on the road. No middle ground, dark colours or neon green !

 

[mybike]

Mine's a bit less, umm, sedate...

Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!

Although I haven't used Min in a fair while. I really should.

There is someone around here with a really nice Morris Mini Countryman. Got chatting with the owner at the tip a little while back, turns out it's been in the family from new. That was a very nice and suitably nerdy conversation.

Went from the Mini to a Dolomite Sprint, while the Mini was great fun along country lane, certainly not sedate, & was fine in the snow, the Dolly was greater fun & more comfort but not so good on hard packed snow!

 

[mybike]

My favourite mundane news of the week
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My favourite was Cressida Dick resigning.

I may need to ammend my mundane news of the week award, doh!

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick is leaving her role, the BBC has been told.

It comes just hours after Dame Cressida insisted she had "absolutely no intention" of stepping down.

Ah.

 

[Kempstonian]

I learned to drive in a mini and had one of my own. I owned another one later which I got from my cousin. We swapped cars. I had a Vauxhall Chevette but fancied another mini because I like them. This was quite a while ago, so I have no idea what the current minis are like.

 

[Kempstonian]

My favourite was Cressida Dick resigning.

Ditto. Who appoints her replacement though? We could end up with somebody worse.

 

[mybike]

Had not mundane news I could have done without this morning. When I got up to walk the dog I saw my phone had two missed calls at 02:00 from my mothers care home, then had another call. Apparently she'd fallen, they'd called the ambulance they thought she'd hit her head & broken her hip again. So, having walked the dog, called the hospital, and while on hold missed a call from the hospital! They were too busy to tell me anything, ring back in 1/2 hour! Duly rang back to be told her x-ray was fine & they were sending her home. Presumably the phone call missed was to tell me that!

If you think kids are a problem!

I was going to insert some smileys, but they disappeared!

 

[mybike]

Ditto. Who appoints her replacement though? We could end up with somebody worse.

Certainly as bad, I doubt anyone could be worse.

 

[mybike]

The bulb in the street lamp just outside my house has finally been replaced. The last one went just before Christmas and was supposed to have been fixed by January 19th.

Bulb? All ours are LED, I doubt they are replacable

 

[biggs682]

Are any of the cycle chat moderators going for Cressida Dicks job ?

 

[mybike]

Are any of the cycle chat moderators going for Cressida Dicks job ?

Is that a comment more than a question?

 

[biggs682]

Is that a comment more than a question?

It can be whatever