Mundane News

[Mike_P]

Successful 15 mile ebike ride to Lidl at Knaresborough to use a mobile app voucher on their rice cakes - usually seem to sell out of the mobile app voucher offers which makes me wonder how unique they are. Had a look at the cycling stuff but even with the 20% off mobile app voucher nothing was tempting.

 

[Reynard]

I’ve made a small area over to vegetables
Runner beans

Two small raised beds One for carrots the other for parsnips The small space left has onions cabbage and lettuce

Started harvesting the carrots as we need them.Re sew the carrots as space allows
Potatoes are being grown in a tub

Next year I will put two more raised beds for the the cabbage onions and lettuce

Quite pleased how productive veg in the raised beds have done in small space.🥕🥕🥦🧄

I used to grow veggies on a reasonable scale while dad was alive, but while I enjoyed the freshness of the produce, yields were either a) disappointing for the work involved or b) overwhelming.

These days I just grow tomatoes and herbs in large planters.

 

[classic33]

Looking at the post this morning it looked like she was and sure enough Mrs 73 has been summoned for jury service.

Leeds?

 

[classic33]

It's a good job there's no such thing as a phone that can smell things

Yer a bit behind the times. I give you a
Smelly Phone!
And now you can get apps that do that.
And

 

[Illaveago]

Reynard ought to change her avatar to Avarat!

 

[Gravity Aided]

I've got a dip pen, a bottle of Indian ink and as much paper as you could ever want. That do you?

Same here, or a TI 99

 

[classic33]

Does anyone have a spare Sinclair Spectrum and a quill & parchment? It's probably quicker that our work's IT equipment at the moment.

I know where there is one computer, used to calculate the odds, correlate the statistics of every horse that had ever run in any race.

Takes up at least one whole floor, and requires don't know how much electric to run it.

 

[tyred]

I've noticed this evening that my resident big exhaust and bodykit emblazoned Corsa driving boyracer has upgraded to a white Honda Civic with big exhaust and bodykit.

At least he's got four cylinders now!

 

[classic33]

I've noticed this evening that my resident big exhaust and bodykit emblazoned Corsa driving boyracer has upgraded to a white Honda Civic with big exhaust and bodykit.

At least he's got four cylinders now!

Is he firing on all cylinders though!

 

[Speicher]

I know where there is one computer, used to calculate the odds, correlate the statistics of every horse that had ever run in any race.

Takes up at least one whole floor, and requires don't know how much electric to run it.

When I started work, the company had one computer, about the size of three double wardrobes. It occupied its own temperature controlled office, with three or four people to programme it. All it did was the invoices!

 

[PeteXXX]

When I started work, the company had one computer, about the size of three double wardrobes. It occupied its own temperature controlled office, with three or four people to programme it. All it did was the invoices!

I did a computer programming course in 1969 ish. We had to write a flow chart and create (I can't remember how) punch cards that got fed into a slot in a big cabinet.
It clicked and whirred before producing a result (if you were lucky 🍀)

 

[Reynard]

I remember the BBC Acorn computers we had at school.

We played L - A Mathemagical Adventure on them.

A couple of wealthy friends had home computers. I seem to remember playing Pong at some point.

 

[Reynard]

Right, off to bed go I.

Nunnight one and all xxx

 

[rockyroller]

A required taste I find

or acquired, eh? it isn't so bad

 

[rockyroller]

I am in the process of losing hair on the top of my head, and hair going white on the sides.

right there with you my friend