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Threevok
Growing old disgracefully
- Location
- South Wales
On my way to work I saw a van with words "Stiff nipples" all over it. Googled it and it's a company indeed.
Not sure if this a company though
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-61414665
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mybike
Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
- Location
- Not 'emel 'empstead
I wonder if these people who dislike green tea so much allow it to steep for too long, it should be very light straw in colour.
In other news, I have eaten a prawn cocktail one day over date. I like to live dangerously.
In other news, I have eaten a prawn cocktail one day over date. I like to live dangerously.
mybike
Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
- Location
- Not 'emel 'empstead
I hate those push on Schraeder valve connectors . If the tyre isn't flat when you start it will be by the time you connect it or the valve might have disappeared into the rim !
It's the presta ones I hate, keep breaking the ends off.
mybike
Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
- Location
- Not 'emel 'empstead
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
wow the price for a brake job on my car really went up!
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
On my way to work I saw a van with words "Stiff nipples" all over it. Googled it and it's a company indeed.
I'd google that but I'm at work ... hehe
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Warm, blustery and occasionally sunny here chez Casa Reynard.
Did not sleep well. Have had a gentle morning. Done some writing and fired off a message to a racing driver friend to ask him about his time competing in FF1600 in the late 80s. I need some background info from him to help develop one of my characters.
The crock pot is also locked and loaded with duck legs, onions, spices and orange.
Am discovering the joy of living with bargain basement mechanical watches. The Kelek has thrown a strop after Madam Lexi was discovered playing with it, and the strap on the Paul Jobin simply disintegrated when I tried to put it on this morning. The Gradus is ticking along nicely though, and looks a lot better for a clean with metal polish on the strap & case and toothpaste on the crystal.
Anyways, it is almost time for luncheon.
Did not sleep well. Have had a gentle morning. Done some writing and fired off a message to a racing driver friend to ask him about his time competing in FF1600 in the late 80s. I need some background info from him to help develop one of my characters.
The crock pot is also locked and loaded with duck legs, onions, spices and orange.
Am discovering the joy of living with bargain basement mechanical watches. The Kelek has thrown a strop after Madam Lexi was discovered playing with it, and the strap on the Paul Jobin simply disintegrated when I tried to put it on this morning. The Gradus is ticking along nicely though, and looks a lot better for a clean with metal polish on the strap & case and toothpaste on the crystal.
Anyways, it is almost time for luncheon.
rockyroller
Guru
- Location
- 20 miles northwest of Boston, MA
that would have been a long walk barefoot, but maybe that would have been better?
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Tea was spendy, so was sugar and porcelain, so taking tea was a right way of showing off.
But did you know that when tea first arrived in the UK in the 17th century, people would brew the tea, then throw away the liquid and eat the leaves...
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Actually, it was so that they could be carried around the streets threaded onto a stick and sold to passers by.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
The cooked chicken breast fillets I bought last week on yellow sticker is the subject of a recall notice - there has been an outbreak of salmonella at the processing plant.
Cost me more to go back to Tesco for a refund than what I paid, so I'll just take it out of the freezer and bin it.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
I have to admit, I never really enjoyed the stuff, even when prepared in a Japanese tea ceremony run by one of the most well known tea ceremony... leading... people*... in one of the tea societies in Japan, stirred with the bamboo frother and supplied with those little biscuits that are supposed to take the edge off the bitterness.
*I'm sure they have an official title, but my wife called her "Grandma"...
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DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
You don't know the back streets of West Yorkshire; I'd have come home with all sorts of glass/metal/etc. in my feet.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
Tea was spendy, so was sugar and porcelain, so taking tea was a right way of showing off.
But did you know that when tea first arrived in the UK in the 17th century, people would brew the tea, then throw away the liquid and eat the leaves...
I wonder who first said: "Hey, everyone, I've got an idea..."
Probably just after the invention of tea bags, come to think of it...
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