Mundane News

[IaninSheffield]

I successfully changed not one but two light bulbs yesterday.

At least we now have the answer to 'How many Andys in Germany does it take to change not one, but two light bulbs?'


Incidentally, and purely for completeness, how many would it take to change one?

 

[gbb]

Sods law has struck. Changed a DRL bulb in the car two weeks ago maybe...the other went a couple days ago , replaced yesterday.

 

[Illaveago]

Just watching Murder on the Orient Express and Albert Finney ( Poirot) sounds more like the little actor Hervez Villechaize from James Bond !

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Christmas shopping now done. Don't believe in this last minute stuff.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Just watching Murder on the Orient Express and Albert Finney ( Poirot) sounds more like the little actor Hervez Villechaize from James Bond !

He was versatile with his imitations of other actors. In the film Saturday night and Sunday morning as Arthur Seaton he sounds like Malcolm McDowell as Alex in A Clockwork Orange ("bit of a pain in the gulliver mum, leave us be and I'll try to sleep it off") but with the line "Did you hear about that accident in the three speed shop today, dad"?

 

[mybike]

Food shopping this morning. I knew it was going to be busy, but it’s either go and get it over with or go without food

So my daughter and I queued for fuel for the car, queued to get into the car park, queued for a trolley, battled our way through approx. 2000 people doing their food shopping, queued for the till, waited nearly 5 minutes to reverse out of the parking space, queued for 15 minutes to get out of the car park then drove home.

I wish I had a bakfiets so I could do the run without the car. It’d probably take the same amount of time, but I would be constantly moving, it would be cheaper (no fuel or refilling), far more environmentally friendly. Unfortunately, I don’t have the money to buy a cargo bike (the car serves more than just me, on the plus side we have just the one - every other house on our street has a minimum of two cars (where’s the ‘superior’ emoji? ))

Some folk down the road have one, they seem to do a lot of cycling. I hadn't realised what they were called when I first saw it.

In other news, I greeted my granddaughter this morning with "good morning young lady" to which she replied "good morning young man".

She can come again.

 

[mybike]

One thing I never got used to in Germany is that Christmas Eve is half a day, so everything is normal in the morning, and then it all stops at midday.

Weird foreigners.

Do they celebrate Nicks day like the Dutch?

This morning I popped into Fords for a new brake light bulb @£11.50. Went to fit it & it's the wrong one, plus the bulb looks OK on the meter!

 

[mybike]

When I was a young teenager I used to cycle On my Kingpin from Willesden Junction in NW London to Welling to visit my aunt.

Over Shooters Hill? If so, you have my respect!

Kudos if you went over Shooter's Hill. Rochester Way is easier.

Great minds & all that! Rochester way would have been rather busy tho'.

 

[Lullabelle]

For the festive season our bin day has been changed to Monday, clearly someone didn't get/ignored the label on their bin because today they were the only ones who put their rubbish out today.

 

[robjh]

Today Strava made my ride look like a fish. And to think I doubted the existence of miracles.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Over Shooters Hill? If so, you have my respect!



Great minds & all that! Rochester way would have been rather busy tho'.

I've no idea how old we all are but the Rochester Way was fine until the late 70s, then it got hairy for a while and it's now ok again. Mind, so was the A2 past Falconwood.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Drinking spitfire

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

I thought I was doing really well having bought my wife's Christmas presents weeks ago. Gave myself a real pat on the back.

Half an hour ago, I realised I hadn't wrapped them...

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I thought I was doing really well having bought my wife's Christmas presents weeks ago. Gave myself a real pat on the back.

Half an hour ago, I realised I hadn't wrapped them...

Wrap them in newspaper and tell her you're recycling / saving the planet

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Wrap them in newspaper and tell her you're recycling / saving the planet

I found her stash of wrapping paper and borrowed some, "Oh look at that, you bought the same wrapping paper as me!"