Mundane News

[Poacher]

Had a water meter fitted this morning. Job took less than 15 minutes.
Why did it take me nearly as many years to get around to it?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Had a water meter fitted this morning. Job took less than 15 minutes.
Why did it take me nearly as many years to get around to it?

Because now they have got you, you'll never have a bath again, never wash your car, water your garden, whenever you open the tap you'll be watching the pennies fall from it not the water.

 

[DCLane]

Day off work today. However, I spent yesterday evening proofing my son's UG project presentation slides and forgot to edit the online shopping order. At least it wasn't a single onion that arrived like last time, but I've had to 'top up'

 

[Illaveago]

Had my Covid jab yesterday afternoon....the Astra Zeneca one.
Gotta say, i feel quite crappy today. Tired, bad nights sleep, a bit achy and headachy, heart rate is up a bit but no temperature...reasonably common side effects apparently. Still at work but i can't say im doing much.

Similar symptoms here.

 

[Illaveago]

Which one though, that's the question.

The one which is still attached !

 

[Kempstonian]

I wonder if sales pitches for films are really like this in Hollywood?



(If you enjoyed this one the pitch for the Lord of the Rings [and The Hobbit] was good too)

 

[rockyroller]

it's been cold. at the 2nd job, at the home improvement store, out back, we had a bag of ice melt, left in a shopping carriage, under the roof line. it had a nice 1"+? layer of ice covering it. kinda ironic, huh?

 

[rockyroller]

At least it wasn't a single onion that arrived like last time

was doing some online grocery shopping for my elderly parents, 3 states away, last spring. I intended on getting them 5 lbs of chicken wings, legs & quarters. they wound up w/ 50 lbs instead! the delivery driver sent me a photo of the load on my parents porch. oh man, they had to call my siblings, in the area, to come retrieve some of it. the siblings have taken over the shopping ...

 

[DCLane]

@rockyroller - that's as bad as me when I was on morphine after my 2017 operation. I went in knowing I needed a helmet and winter tyres.

6 weeks later, when I could get up and move on crutches a bit, I hobbled into the study we have and asked what all the boxes were. Apparently they were mine! Whilst waking up I'd placed several orders, each time falling back to sleep with more morphine afterwards. I'd ordered 50 tyres as they were on offer, in several batches, plus 4 helmets including a TT helmet.

 

[rockyroller]

@rockyroller - that's as bad as me when I was on morphine after my 2017 operation. I went in knowing I needed a helmet and winter tyres.6 weeks later, when I could get up and move on crutches a bit, I hobbled into the study we have and asked what all the boxes were. Apparently they were mine! Whilst waking up I'd placed several orders, each time falling back to sleep with more morphine afterwards. I'd ordered 50 tyres as they were on offer, in several batches, plus 4 helmets including a TT helmet.

oh hahahaha, sorry to laugh, but that's priceless! (or rather not, I presume?)

 

[postman]

Our computer is so old and slow I spend more time on this tablet.But two days ago I wanted to look at Dr Marten shoes and needed a bigger screen,I logged on and thought I will look at my e mail 148 of them nearly all were garbage,four of them were in spam,it seems sanne loves me.I dare not look I hope it was a lady.My word dont we get bombarded in every day life.When I was a kid it was a letter in the post could you imagine if every e mail was a letter coming through your letter box it would be like 4 Privet Drive.

 

[Reynard]

Mild here chez Casa Reynard. And it's trying to be sunny and rain at the same time.

Spent the morning running assorted errands (they don't half pile up if you don't tackle them) and sorted everything out almost successfully. Only thing Wilkinsons were out of the sandpaper and craft knife blades that I wanted.

But I'm stocked up on meat flavour Felix AGAIL for the girls (got a couple of the big boxes of 40 pouches), plus I snaffled them a box of the new Gourmet tins. Mum's prescription is dropped off a the Quack and I have a job lot of cheap "Lane Late" oranges. Ergo I will be making marmalade. (I like a 50:50 mix of seville to sweet orange)

I've had lunch, and I've made my pancake batter.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I've replaced the seal on the door of my woodburner. Waiting for the glue to cure.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Scotch pancakes for me tonight. Prefer them to "ordinary" ones.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I've renewed my van insurance. It doesn't get much more mundane than that.