Mundane News

[biggs682]

Sat watching a group of sparrows and a lone blackbird trying to find the mealworms I spread around the garden

 

[tyred]

No sign of any workmen this morning at the sea of cones. Second day in a row. I wonder where they've gone and when they will be back to fill in all the holes and put the pavement back.

In other news, it smells like my neighbour is frying bacon and it is making me feel hungry.

 

[oldwheels]

Get to 5pm and off for a week Plenty of time to try out my new kayak

A guy who lives here has just taken his old kayak from Isle of Whithorn to Isle of Man to collect his new kayak and leaving his old one to be refurbished. He is planning some major expedition soon in his new one. You can find Nick Ray on twitter.

 

[oldwheels]

Overcast but warm and light rain forecast.
Might try a short trike run soon in case it either rains or gets too hot later.

 

[Illaveago]

I was just thinking of the most despised professions when an undertaker came into my head .
I then remembered the time we were talking to one about my mum's funeral . At the end he said to my wife that he thought I should see a doctor .
I had pneumonia !

 

[Jenkins]

Morning all. Back at the desk and it's like an oven in here despite all the windows being open and half a dozen fans doing their best to move the air about.
Stopped off at Morrisons to get the ice creams for work and it looked like everyone else had had the same idea so we've ended up with a couple of boxes of own brand Cornettos and some choc ices.

 

[DCLane]

I'm sat waiting for our shopping delivery to arrive: it's something I started back in 2016 when injured and have continued.

No chilled or frozen items are arriving. Apparently their fridges and freezers are broken.

Son no. 2 has an educational test appointment this morning for a handwriting assessment. We thought the school had sorted it all but it turned out they hadn't. So we're having to organise things and pay for it ourselves. Fortunately one was available before he starts university in September. I'm hoping they agree he can't write, or rather his handwriting is utterly illegible which it's always been no matter what the intervention.

 

[Hebe]

Optician this morning. Broken night due to going for a 3am glass of water and finding the kitchen transformed into some sort of ant metropolis

 

[Tenkaykev]

Forty years ago today, I became a motor racing fan.

It was all down to THAT move at Paddock Hill Bend. In those four decades I've experienced some fantastic highs and some utterly soul-destroying lows, but I'll be raising a in Derek Warwick's honour this evening, and blaming him, in the nicest possible way of course, for turning me into this crackpot fangirl nerd. And I wouldn't swap this crazy rollercoaster ride for anything in the world.

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I have an anecdote:
I raced against Nigel Mansell at Silverstone. I managed to overtake and crossed the finish line well ahead of him.

( The race was the Silverstone Half Marathon, Nigel was running in it to raise money for charity, and while I was in singlet and shorts, Nigel was wearing his drivers suit )

 

[biggs682]

Second cuppa going down well

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ride early this morning, before it gets super hot, and whilst lanes still in shade

 

[Illaveago]

I found what Tony Hancock sketch I was remembering. It was "The Missing Page " sketch .

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It's a 3 mug morning here. 29C inside, 29C. I'm hiding inside because it's still warming up outside. Oh, and it's my birthday. I think the weather owes it to me to mark my birthday with the hottest day ever. It's already been the hottest night.

 

[PeteXXX]

Happy Birthday @deptfordmarmoset 🎂

 

[PeteXXX]

33c here in Hamtun. Glad I got my 3 mile walk in early, today! 👍