Mundane News

[classic33]

I may get 2-4 inches of rain Friday overnight, the weather folks say. I'm so glad that is not falling as snow, it would be a major blizzard. Probably will be, for some people.

I'd prefer snow to rain.

 

[Reynard]

Oh yes - the only disappointing thing is that I only had £4 in loose change on me and that was all I could get. Loads more of the white Kit Kats left behind and one empty pack in my bin

Return visit tomorrow, huh?

A couple of years ago, I ducked into a Co-op in London to get out of the rain while waiting for a bus, and came out with several bars of Dr Oetker chocolate - dark (70%) and milk (35%) at 35p a bar. Says it's for cooking, but it's just really good quality chocolate. Scoffed nearly half a bar of the milk choccy while I was out and about, and then went back and completely cleaned them out on the way home.

I think my haul equated to around thirty 200g bars...

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Random bizarre thought of the day:
Can you take out an insurance policy against shonky insurance policies? Or am I putting the space/time continuum in jeopardy for even suggesting such a thing?

 

[classic33]

Random bizarre thought of the day:
Can you take out an insurance policy against shonky insurance policies? Or am I putting the space/time continuum in jeopardy for even suggesting such a thing?

There's a Shonky "Award".
https://www.choice.com.au/shonky-awards

 

[Illaveago]

Morning.
Ooh! Clear blue sky overhead at the moment.

 

[Illaveago]

In other news . Our dustbins weren't collected yesterday !

I'm wondering if this could be an Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot type mystery ?

 

[EltonFrog]

Morning. The chips away man is here. I haven’t had my tea yet.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Morning from Germany. Lots of phone calls to make today to prospective employers, also to the chamber of commerce to ask if they'll kindly get their collective backsides into gear to process my certificate of "Exemption" to be a trainer in a college.

Normally I'd have to pay about 1500€ to for a part time course to be a trainer and get a course for about ten weekends over a year. I'm supposed to be exempt from this because I did a two year full time course covering all the same ground in about ten times more depth, and then some. This means they can only charge 50€ for a certificate. they don't like people doing this, so they're making a "two to three" week process last about a quarter of a year in the hope I'll go away.

Bureaucrats are bureaucrats, wherever you go...

 

[PeteXXX]

New word of the day, for me. Shonky.
It it like Donkey, but with one less leg?

 

[PeteXXX]

Or should that be one leg fewer? 🤔

 

[Andy in Germany]

Or should that be one leg fewer? 🤔

Or a donkey crossed with a Shetland Pony?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

New word of the day, for me. Shonky.
It it like Donkey, but with one less leg?

Maybe it's a wonky donkey.

 

[PeteXXX]

Or a donkey crossed with a Shetland Pony?

Wouldn't that be a donkland shetty? 🤔

 

[Andy in Germany]

Interrupting this factinating discussion on taxonomy, I've just had an interview invitation.

 

[biggs682]

Green bin day