Mundane News

[rockyroller]

It depends on what state you're nashers are in and whether you pay for the dentist or not, my nashers aren't in a good state, more fillings than teeth and a lot of gaps, and I don't pay for the dentist.

hey if you don't pay, go get'm done!

 

[carpiste]

No rain after about 1pm and the sun was out a while and started to do its magic. I actually managed to clear the terrace of weeds and put on a wash. It`s turned decidedly chilly but I brought in a load of wood so the fire will be burning shortly.
I reckon I have about 30-40 minutes to decide what I`m having for dinner. Decisions, decisions

 

[Deleted member 1258]

hey if you don't pay, go get'm done!

Definitely.

 

[rockyroller]

ppl seem to be licking their return envelopes w/ gusto this year ...

 

[Reynard]

A satisfying afternoon of lumberjilling completed. That massive mulberry that I had to fell after the top shattered has finally been cleared up. Been sawing through the last 2ft-thick sections from the main trunk, and then sawing the sections into sections.

I now have a well-deserved and a dish of salted peanuts.

And am currently sitting through a power cut. Bird has probably flown into the lines and shorted them out somewhere.

 

[Reynard]

Power is back on.

 

[Reynard]

And I have decided to replace the full pan of black paint with two half pans - dioxazine violet and chromium green.

I just hope there aren't any Drazi in the vicinity...

 

[Illaveago]

Was woken up twice in the night by rain battering on the window! During the day I quite like the sound as it means I`m indoors and out of the rain... but at daft o`clock that`s a different matter!

Did it want to come in ?

 

[Illaveago]

A satisfying afternoon of lumberjilling completed. That massive mulberry that I had to fell after the top shattered has finally been cleared up. Been sawing through the last 2ft-thick sections from the main trunk, and then sawing the sections into sections.

I now have a well-deserved and a dish of salted peanuts.

And am currently sitting through a power cut. Bird has probably flown into the lines and shorted them out somewhere.

Were you using cutting hedge technology ?

 

[Illaveago]

I managed to get out on my bike this morning . I did 13 miles. It's 2 weeks since I last went out.
Georgie has a new toy . It's a stick, actually it is a twig from the hedge trimming! Not sure how it came to be indoors . It could be that he brought it in as he likes to hide it in my shoes .

 

[Reynard]

Were you using cutting hedge technology ?

I think cutting hedge technology would have been a bit weedy...

 

[oldwheels]

Our local cheese producer has done rather well at the world championships. Silver for the hard cheese and bronze for the blue cheese. I have no axe to grind but their cheese is rather good.
Tourists seem to get ever more weird.
I have mentioned before being asked if I had ever been on a train or seen a double decker bus. The latest is the impression some have that nobody actually lives here and that at the end of the tourist season we go back home to Oban.
The jungle drums have been beating again and some in a Land Rover Discovery have been harassing otters and they are to be sent packing.
Strange idea to me that otters are seen to be such shy animals. One used to come in from the sea and have a look in our open workshop door before trotting off up the forest path. Another lived in the marina and could be heard eating shellfish under the pontoons and could be seen if you leaned right over and looked under. Perhaps the same one who climbed aboard my boat on a mooring and left a terrible mess. At the other end of the town one regularly came up the steps beside the pier and crossed the street and on up a public footpath.

 

[Reynard]

Anyways, time to feed the cats, and then it will be time to feed me.

 

[KnittyNorah]

Tourists seem to get ever more weird.
I have mentioned before being asked if I had ever been on a train or seen a double decker bus. The latest is the impression some have that nobody actually lives here and that at the end of the tourist season we go back home to Oban.

LOL!
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose ... over the years I've been asked 'does Europe have paved roads outside of the major cities?', 'how often have you met the Queen?' and 'why can't I just drive straight to Ireland from London? Why would I need to get a ferry?', among others. There is a certain demographic among 'tourists', 'wannabe' tourists, 'incomers' and the like, of all ages, classes and nationalities, who have absolutely no conception of reality in the place in which they find themselves.

 

[oldwheels]

LOL!
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose ... over the years I've been asked 'does Europe have paved roads outside of the major cities?', 'how often have you met the Queen?' and 'why can't I just drive straight to Ireland from London? Why would I need to get a ferry?', among others. There is a certain demographic among 'tourists', 'wannabe' tourists, 'incomers' and the like, of all ages, classes and nationalities, who have absolutely no conception of reality in the place in which they find themselves.

Not just tourists. We have been asked all sorts of strange questions by suppliers in England. Their knowledge of UK geography was often sketchy to put it mildly.
One I remember thought our beaches must be a terrible mess after the Braer oil spill disaster.
That was over 300 miles away from us.