Mundane News

[classic33]

Yes, you would...

Does that mean you don't need to borrow them?

 

[classic33]

Well that was easy

Did you shake the other leg afterwards?

 

[Jenkins]

Morning all. Really must go and retrieve the wheelie bin from wherever it's been left after emptying, then there's the joy of Monday morning ironing to look forward to.

 

[mybike]

I’m in York now.
I wonder if I could get a part time job as a mediaeval freak in one of the tourist traps?

Go for it.

 

[Hebe]

In the tent in the garden. I have finished one coffee and one novel. Now time to select lunch from a fridge full of leftovers.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Shopping on an empty stomach really is a no no. When will I learn?

 

[tyred]

Rear tyre split along the beading without obvious reasons or warnings this morning. The wire beading is actually very rusty so wonder if the tyre is very old stock. I only fitted it last August and it hasn't been used much as I was injured. My attempt to boot it didn't work. On a bus back to Ayr now and I hope I can find a shop with a Brompton tyre in stock (which is unlikely).

 

[Grant Fondo]

Shopping on an empty stomach really is a no no. When will I learn?

Thanks for reminding me .... not much in so may need to improvise something with a nice brew

 

[biggs682]

Did you shake the other leg afterwards?

Yes

 

[Reynard]

Warm, breezy and occasionally sunny here chez Casa Reynard.

Sleep was so so, but feel brighter now that I'm back on my hayfever meds. I've been rationing them quite severely due to being unable to get what I need locally. Finally managed to find some Cetirizine in Tesco yesterday - they only had six boxes in stock so I took two. Can't take the Loratadine (everywhere has that in stock) as it makes me throw up / want to throw up, and I'm not paying for the privilege of swapping one misery for another. And Beconase seems to have been singularly ineffective this year.

Have had a kitchen morning. There is a Mexican-style tomato sauce doing its thing in the slow cooker, vegetables have been chopped and sauteed, and the chicken carcass has been picked clean. I got a takeaway-sized plastic tub full of meat off the bones. It always surprises me just how much meat can be left on a chicken carcass once all the pertinent bits have been eaten, but really, it shouldn't do...

Most of this is prep for tomorrow, as I'm out with my friend for a walk with her and the dogs. I do hope the folks down the drove like Mexican food, as the window on the landing is open...

Will have to consign some of yesterday's purchases to the freezer - probably the burgers and the beef sausages.

Anyways, it is time for luncheon.

 

[Reynard]

Her sister ship the Jeannie Deans was a nice boat as well but scrapped a long time ago I think.
The Lucy Ashton was another who sailed out of Craigendoran. A tiny boat. The Talisman was another.
As kids we used to go down to the pier and were instructed and allowed to handle the ropes for tying up to the pier. Such things would give elfin safety the horrors nowadays. Happy days.

That's the name of the clockwork-powered boat in the book "Little Grey Men"

Remember reading it in English in prep school, and it became a favourite. I wonder where my copy might be, I'd like to read it again sometime...

 

[rockyroller]

sunny but cold

 

[rockyroller]

1st day of vacation & I'm so confused

 

[oldwheels]

That's the name of the clockwork-powered boat in the book "Little Grey Men"

Remember reading it in English in prep school, and it became a favourite. I wonder where my copy might be, I'd like to read it again sometime...

The names of these boats were from Walter Scott novels.

 

[oldwheels]

Rear tyre split along the beading without obvious reasons or warnings this morning. The wire beading is actually very rusty so wonder if the tyre is very old stock. I only fitted it last August and it hasn't been used much as I was injured. My attempt to boot it didn't work. On a bus back to Ayr now and I hope I can find a shop with a Brompton tyre in stock (which is unlikely).

Pity it is so far but if you were anywhere near Oban or Mull I could probably help with at least a usable tyre i have a habit of keeping worn but not knackered ones “ just in case”.