Mundane News

[Illaveago]

Morning .
It was sunny earlier but it seems to have clouded over. It's a bright grey now .
We only had one Hedgehog wandering around last night .
Feeling better today having rested yesterday.

 

[oldwheels]

Grey start today but no rain forecast.
Need to go and try to sort out the pharmacy before going o get blood taken again.
The new pharmacist seems to be obsessed with ticks and takes up lots of space on FB telling in great detail how to remove them and also offering a free tick removal service at the shop. The settlers are very impressed but this service has been going on for years before they arrived. If the tick is difficult to reach the surgery would also get a nurse to do it.
Son is fairly chuffed as he came fairly high in the Oban sportive last Sunday on a bike he brought back from Taiwan for the purpose.He does take part in similar events in Taiwan.

 

[biggs682]

Second cuppa went down well
Sun is trying hard to come out

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I've just dropped my SiL plus bike off at London City Airport. There's miles and miles of detours while they build a second tunnel under the Thames alongside the Blackwall tunnel. It took an hour to do the 9 mile journey back. Just about every road expansion project leads to an equivalent expansion in road traffic so it's reassuring to know that the delays while they build it will almost certainly return once they've finished it.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I've just dropped my SiL plus bike off at London City Airport. There's miles and miles of detours while they build a second tunnel under the Thames alongside the Blackwall tunnel. It took an hour to do the 9 mile journey back. Just about every road expansion project leads to an equivalent expansion in road traffic so it's reassuring to know that the delays while they build it will almost certainly return once they've finished it.

It's a well known phenomenon. The reverse is also true so you'd think after fifty years of trying we'd have given up by now.

 

[mybike]

Dog walked he had the company if a female black bird for most of it. Plenty of bird song around too. Spotted the female sparrowhawk again near home on a neighbours roof. Eyeing up a group of birds flying round. Looked to have lost interest and went flying down the street.

Now time for 2rd of the morning. Before putting the washing out and sounds like the bins just been emptied. So that needs bringing in.

Our neighbour has just brought our bin down from the road.

 

[PeteXXX]

The banana cake that I took out of the freezer this morning is still a bit crunchy ❄ 🍌 ❄

 

[Reynard]

Warm and mostly sunny here chez Casa Reynard.

Slept OK-ish. Spent the morning doing paperwork (joy... NOT) but it had to be be done. Madam Lexi managed to get herself locked in the garage. Daft cat.

Had a lovely luncheon of crabmeat and mayonnaise on toast, plus a tangerine, some pineapple, some blueberries and two

Am about to go and remove the cutting deck from the mower. I think I will need to move the remaining firewood in the garage first, as there's not as much floorspace as I'd like.

 

[rockyroller]

Warm and mostly sunny here chez Casa Reynard.

Slept OK-ish. Spent the morning doing paperwork (joy... NOT) but it had to be be done. Madam Lexi managed to get herself locked in the garage. Daft cat.

Had a lovely luncheon of crabmeat and mayonnaise on toast, plus a tangerine, some pineapple, some blueberries and two

Am about to go and remove the cutting deck from the mower. I think I will need to move the remaining firewood in the garage first, as there's not as much floorspace as I'd like.

doubtful it would start on it's own, but you gonna disconnect the spark plug?

 

[oldwheels]

Been dry until now I see rain approaching.
Went out early for my medical appointment and went up the Glengorm road since I had not been there for some time and we used to go walking on forest tracks from there. Today cars parked everywhere so no peace anywhere.
I did find a quiet corner and sat for a while and very briefly heard a cuckoo. First this year.
Back to the surgery and got waylaid by Debbie before I even approached reception. Nice wee lassie but she had a needle in my arm before I knew what had hit me. Completely painless right enough but the results expected will probably show anaemia and lowered liver function.
It is the Whitsun weekend coming up and the town is mobbed and more camper vans and motorhomes in the car park than the local campsite. After all if you have spent anything up to 100 grand on a motorhome you cannot really expect to pay site fees.
Comical to watch them competing for the most desirable free parking spots.
Pharmacy still mixed up with my medication " perhaps tomorrow " which never seems to come.
The new ticketing and booking system for Calmac seems to be settling down a bit tho' still complaints but most likely many are due to operator error or incompetence.
I live in hope that I do not get bumped from my booking next week as possession of a print out does not seem to be any guarantee of acceptance.

 

[pawl]

I almost hit a young sparrow that darted out of long grass to get to the other side of the path a couple of days ago. Luckily, I was going uphill rather sedately at the time so no contact. Youngsters' sense of danger is simply not yet well developed at that stage. (I used to live in a house that had big windows and a view through. We had a few stunned pigeons which had tried to fly through the house.)

Why did the sparrow cross the road To assault passing cyclists 🚲🚲🐥🐥🐥

 

[oldwheels]

As an add on to my last post Calmac are now putting out a text message saying in effect " do not even think about doing a day trip to Mull from Oban as you probably will not get back to Oban the same day due to volume of passenger traffic".

 

[pawl]

Decided my bike needed a new chain Quick links ,don’t make me laugh.Took me ages to get the two sides to line up and click in to position👹👹👹👹

 

[PeteXXX]

As an add on to my last post Calmac are now putting out a text message saying in effect " do not even think about doing a day trip to Mull from Oban as you probably will not get back to Oban the same day due to volume of passenger traffic".

I think I passed through just in time!
It was around four years ago, early June, but I arrived in Craignure quite early and left for Kilchoan by the first ferry ⛴

 

[Reynard]

Moved the firewood and swept the garage floor so that I had space to work that was nice and clean.

Dropped the cutting deck off the mower, easy enough to do thanks to a) an almost Haynes-ish "how to" in the user manual, and b) the practice of re-greasing everything religiously upon reassembly.

The reason the blades had jammed was blazingly obvious once I'd turned the deck turtle - a length of 3 inch thick cherry wood jammed between the tip of one of the blades and the side of the deck casing. A few hefty taps with a mallet sorted that one out, and everything now moves as it should. Deck has been cleaned and serviced and is ready to go back on, but I shall do that tomorrow.

Now having a well-earned and kit kat.