Mundane News

[Gwylan]

or panty hose

How does my underwear impact my photographic ability? Or have I missed something?

 

[rockyroller]

How does my underwear impact my photographic ability? Or have I missed something?

for a soft focus, a photographer can stretch some nylon stocking, or pantyhose, across the lens

 

[classic33]

I don't have that problem

 

[mybike]

OK, this is one for the source of information that is cyclechat.

My wife has a trolley, made of tubing, that is held together with bolts having a curved head.

Which got lost when we moved. Does anyone know who sells these?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Isn't that a perpetual motion machine?

That would be a self-fuelling hybrid. This car needs petrol adding from time to time. I have to do this myself.

For almost all urban driving it is driven by electric motor but there's also a petrol motor that works as a generator to keep the battery topped up.

In other electrical news, my smart meter has just topped itself up. I had to get up just now to stop it beeping.

(I just saw that I'd forgotten to post this hours-old reply.)

 

[Bobario]

OK, this is one for the source of information that is cyclechat.

My wife has a trolley, made of tubing, that is held together with bolts having a curved head.

View attachment 663365

Which got lost when we moved. Does anyone know who sells these?

Amazon

Amazon product ASIN B00NWJFM5OView: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hillman-Group-58475-Curved-2-Inch/dp/B00NWJFM5O


At the eyewatering price of £49 odd for 8. Surely a normal countersunk machine screw would work?

 

[Reynard]

I've just done an hour's stint with the chain saw - first one of the season. Trimmed up some branches that had fallen down and then cut up a load of old stuff for logs. There is now a good stash of firewood in the garage again.

Now going to go and drill those holes in that bulkhead before I chicken out... Again...

 

[classic33]

OK, this is one for the source of information that is cyclechat.

My wife has a trolley, made of tubing, that is held together with bolts having a curved head.

View attachment 663365

Which got lost when we moved. Does anyone know who sells these?

Try the shop where it was bought, or shop/stall that sells similar items. They tend to get some spares in/supplied.
Just in case.

 

[classic33]

That would be a self-fuelling hybrid. This car needs petrol adding from time to time. I have to do this myself.

For almost all urban driving it is driven by electric motor but there's also a petrol motor that works as a generator to keep the battery topped up.

In other electrical news, my smart meter has just topped itself up. I had to get up just now to stop it beeping.

(I just saw that I'd forgotten to post this hours-old reply.)

That's why your smart meter was beeping, it knew you'd not posted it.

 

[classic33]

OK, this is one for the source of information that is cyclechat.

My wife has a trolley, made of tubing, that is held together with bolts having a curved head.

View attachment 663365

Which got lost when we moved. Does anyone know who sells these?

As a possible alternative to previous suggestion.
https://www.screwsandbolts.com/Curved-Handle-Head-Machine-Screws-p/66604.htm

 

[biggs682]

Just been told salmon is swimming towards the dinning table

 

[oldwheels]

Rain eased off about lunch time so I went and dug some more potatoes. Very mucky but they look ok.
Phone call from the surgery.
"Debbie asked me to phone you. Your bloods are mostly fine but platelets a bit low so need to get another sample to double check. If they are still low you will be referred to haematology."
Debbie when I first met her was a very junior nurse but seems to have risen in the world and I noted it was not a GP instructing to phone me.
Trouble is the only available appointment is just before the main madness and I would prefer not to be out on the road. They are racing round the town this year and car owners are instructed to remove their vehicles into other residents areas.
My main triking route is closed off for pretty well most of a couple of days. If you need an ambulance then tough. There was an argument a few years ago when a blue light ambulance was stopped but accounts of what happened are unclear and contradictory depending on whether you believe the paramedics or some dick head steward.
Also got an appointment for flu and covid jags which is not being organised locally which explains why the venue is unclear and at a nonsense address.
Probably not within my walking distance from my car either which is a problem.

 

[Reynard]

Holes drilled in the bulkhead and roof without breaking / delaminating anything. Whew.

I have also misplaced one small blue & white cat. She is somewhere in the house, but I can't find her new hideyhole.

Time for a and some chocolate.

 

[mybike]

Good morning. The fog just rolled down the hills so hard it bounced.

I'm back at work and trying to get this workshop tidied up before the H&S inspection in a few days. I feel like king Canute.

A picture from my days on H&S.

 

[Reynard]

Ah, Madam Lexi has reappeared from somewhere upstairs.