Mundane News

[Illaveago]

How difficult is it to put up an adjustable curtain pole ?

8loody !

Not screws or Rawl plugs with it so a trip out . The brackets supplied were too long and we would have had the ARP Warden round telling us that he could see a chink of light from our curtains . A limbo dance could easily get between the gap .

So a trip to Q and B's to buy some more things . We bought 3 shorter brackets and some more curtains. The brackets came with screws . Now the pole slides through easily ! Too easily ! the expanding bit is a smaller diameter !

Ah! I thought ! Cut the smaller rod in half and have a bit sticking out either end . Nope ! The ball ends are different diameter fixings !

Nail the curtain to the wall !

 

[mybike]

I'm in Dunstabubble. Soon I'll be in Aylesbury. Then I'll need to don my tin helmet for my Wellingborough visit!

Dunstable to Aylesbury. That's a fun route, if you try for a straight line.

 

[mybike]

There’s a house up the road where the owners haven’t bothered to move their sundial to account for BST ☀️😉

I've only just reset my car clock. Why is it that car clocks rarely keep good time?

 

[Tenkaykev]

Moving the numbers would work better, I reckon.

genius! I hadn't thought of that. perhaps some sort of clockwork mechanism could be set up to do it automatically...

 

[PeteXXX]

Dunstable to Aylesbury. That's a fun route, if you try for a straight line.

I was in a 44 tonne truck....

 

[Reynard]

Cool and grey here chez Casa Reynard.

I did not sleep well (thaaaaank you hot flushes), so feeling like a right grumpypants this morning. But I have done some writing and I have done some photoshopping. I have nearly finished the restoration work on that Toleman photo from 1981. It's taken a fair chunk of time to get to this stage, but it's a worthwhile exercise and I've enjoyed challenging myself.

It's roughly at the stage where it's worth get a print done in Tesco tomorrow to see exactly where it's at. Once I'm satisfied with the results then I will send a copy, via a mutual friend, to someone who I know will appreciate it.

Plan on a nice quiet afternoon and maybe having a girly pamper session.

Anyways, it is time for luncheon and I has a hungry.

 

[Hebe]

Lovely 11 mile walk this morning. Now going to make the first coffee of the day and sit down with today's TdF femmes.

 

[oldwheels]

Sitting in my garden and this came to visit.Nearest I can get is a Green Sheildbug which according to my book is not common in the north whatever that means. Sat on my shoe for a while.

 

[Reynard]

Lovely luncheon... Two slices of wholemeal toast, one with sliced avocado, one with cream cheese and tomato chutney, plus a nectarine, half a lovely ripe mango and two

 

[Reynard]

Ah! They will never think of looking for a body in there .

That would depend on which timeline / universe / quantum reality you're talking about

 

[Reynard]

Isn't your WC working ?

Pass the mind bleach...

 

[Reynard]

I caused chaos and confusion a couple of years ago by shaving off my beard, half my friends didn't reconize me and the other half knew something was different but couldn't work out what it was.

My mate Simon is well known for wearing an akubra hat. If he doesn't wear it, people don't recognise him

 

[Reynard]

genius! I hadn't thought of that. perhaps some sort of clockwork mechanism could be set up to do it automatically...

Ooooh, yes!

And imagine if you could then wear it on your wrist all day as well, if it were small enough...

 

[Andy in Germany]

I caused chaos and confusion a couple of years ago by shaving off my beard, half my friends didn't reconize me and the other half knew something was different but couldn't work out what it was.

Last time I shaved my beard I looked about ten years old.

Mind you the rest of my face has probably caught up with my actual age by now.

 

[Andy in Germany]

My mate Simon is well known for wearing an akubra hat. If he doesn't wear it, people don't recognise him

I realised a while back that if I want to travel incognito, not having a bike or a hat worked prety well...