Mundane News

[mybike]

Wearing white after Labor Day, (snort)

Nowhere near as bad as spelling labour labor.

 

[Reynard]

Lovely luncheon of two slices of wholemeal toast, one with corned beef & pineapple chutney, one with Chaource cheese, plus an orange, a nice serving of the blackberries I picked yesterday and two

 

[mybike]

We have a new leccy meter, the old one was difficult to read as all the segments were on permanently.

In other news, lunch was a second helping of a slow cooked lamb shank stew. Still enough for tomorrow.

 

[Reynard]

Right, time to put some sensible / presentable clothes on and tootle off into town to do some erranding.

 

[mybike]

I have to be careful; my commute has gone from 20-30k return a day to 2km return. If I don't watch myself I'll expand like a balloon.

Buy chocolate biscuits, they're less fattening.

Alternatively, the layers in wafers are so thin, they can't be very fattening. Especially if they're chocolate.

 

[tyred]

It's bucketing rain outside and there's an ice cream at the bottom of the road. Don't see many customers funnily enough.

 

[mybike]

It's ♻ Bin day today.

'Twas ours, Tuesday. Garden bin emptied, 3/4 full by the evening after cutting the hedge.

 

[mybike]

I had bought a bottle of Tonic Water to sip on while working for a change. I can confirm that Tonic without gin isn't particularly interesting...

I usually go for the Indian variety.

 

[oldwheels]

Got some of the garden clearance done but it got too hot so went back inside and put on shorts and a lighter top and back out when spots of rain started and it got cold. Can't win.
Disturbed the resident toad who looked at me balefully and crawled off to safe ground on the other side of the path. If I had been using a strimmer he or she would have been mince.
It is now raining gently so a reverse of recent pattern with sunny start and then clouding over with rain falling.

 

[mybike]

Mmmm, I've still got a stash of my dad's old safety razor blades.

Some get diverted into the task of keeping my legs aerodynamic, others are reserved for art and craft (good for scraping away paint, nicking highlights into dark areas, that sort of stuff) and others still for slashing bread dough prior to baking.

The supply is dwindling now, so do need to look into getting some more.

The only razor blades I have are packs of old blades that have been in my grandparents clock since I've had it & they aren't mine.

 

[PeteXXX]

Bonnie is back from the vets after being speyed.. She's looking very forlorn.. 😔

 

[Oldhippy]

Bonnie is back from the vets after being speyed.. She's looking very forlorn.. 😔

Think I'd feel pretty forlorn too.

 

[Illaveago]

Well it is fitted and working .
It has taken a long time but there has been a lot of problems, some caused by things not fitting and by parts being no longer available . The tiles cut to suit the old cistern didn't help . I have filled the gap with a sheet of plywood cut to shape. I will paint it to match the tiles.
I can have a rest now .

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I just dropped a raw egg....

...but caught it before it hit anything.

(Childhood training. When my mother threatened to make me pay out of my pocket money for dropping and breaking plates at drying-up time, I didn't stop dropping things but I got much better at catching them.)

 

[Andy in Germany]

Bonnie is back from the vets after being speyed.. She's looking very forlorn.. 😔

I really hope Bonnie is an animal.