Mundane News

[tyred]

It seems to have started raining.

 

[Reynard]

It is still raining here.

Two slices of wholemeal toast for luncheon, one with pate, one with the last of the red Leicester cheese, plus a banana, half a mango and two

 

[Reynard]

Well, that was a very wet 3 miles along the riverbank with the dog! 🐶 ☔

This is precisely why I do not have a dog.

 

[tyred]

I've just learnt that tomorrow will be International Irish whiskey day. I had no idea that there is such a thing

 

[PeteXXX]

I forgot to mention that I ate about 20 Salt & Vinegar Pringles yesterday evening.
Apologies.

 

[Tribansman]

Having the vaccine is a sacrifice?

Splitting hairs - it should be obvious what I meant. Some people may have had to put themselves out a bit to get the vaccine, and some were also poorly for a few days after. Ok not a big sacrifice, but the point was people who reap the benefits (e.g. herd immunity), but but don't do anything themselves, or actively scorn those who do

 

[oldwheels]

Started off today looking promising but the weather has gone downhill since then. Strong easterly wind which is always cold and when I went out to try some tidying up the wind chill drove me back in again pretty soon after. Now raining again.
The light seems to have changed a bit tho' and driving down to my appointment yesterday it looked springlike and gave me itchy feet to get going touring again. Given my health [or lack of] I am not sure it is a good idea but in any case it is a bit too early.
I remember camping in Glencoe in February when the tent was rigid with ice in the morning but we never seemed to mind then.
A couple of years ago I got caught out by sudden heavy snow in March and just made it home as my then Fiat Panda was higher than most cars but the underside was still skimming the snow surface.

 

[classic33]

I've just learnt that tomorrow will be International Irish whiskey day. I had no idea that there is such a thing

It's all to do with the three's
It'll be the third day of the third month.
There are three established styles of Irish Whiskey: Single Grain, Single Malt and Single Pot Still.
Irish Whiskey must be matured for at least three years before it can be called whiskey.
Traditional Irish Whiskey is triple distilled.
There's the Shamrock, three in one. Just as there are three types of whiskey, but only whiskey.
There's three colours in the Irish flag.
And, it's 14 days before Saint Patrick's Day, which is 336 hours. Which when divided by 3 gives you 112, the age of the 112 year old who has credited their long life to three whiskey's a day.

 

[classic33]

£75 from Ernie today. One of these days I'll download their app so that I don't have to go fiddling around in the browser. Today's download will probably be the Aldi Shop and Go one. I've got a shopping list from my mother and there's one of those till-free stores just over the road from her.

You don't have to pay. For anything?

 

[Illaveago]

I bought a chamois leather today to recover a Specialized saddle which came with my Raleigh . The previous plastic cover warn torn . I've covered another saddle before with a chamois leather and they feel comfy. I think I've covered 2 but can't be sure .

 

[oldwheels]

It's all to do with the three's
It'll be the third day of the third month.
There are three established styles of Irish Whiskey: Single Grain, Single Malt and Single Pot Still.
Irish Whiskey must be matured for at least three years before it can be called whiskey.
Traditional Irish Whiskey is triple distilled.
There's the Shamrock, three in one. Just as there are three types of whiskey, but only whiskey.
There's three colours in the Irish flag.
And, it's 14 days before Saint Patrick's Day, which is 336 hours. Which when divided by 3 gives you 112, the age of the 112 year old who has credited their long life to three whiskey's a day.

The single grain will be a Coffey still I presume. Single malt I can understand but Single Pot Still sounds like feints by another name. Probably poisonous and certainly not palatable. Traditionally Irish Whiskey is triple distilled as opposed to most Scotch which is double distilled.
They may have changed but Auchentoshan used to be triple distilled.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

You don't have to pay. For anything?

I don't really know how it works. Apparently, the store watches which products disappear of the shelf and where they go to. It's very high surveillance. 7 hours later, my payment is still showing as ''Pending'' so I don't even have the receipt. My hope is that when I got locked out of the app that the system was having a bad day and they've no record of what I took. I am prone to short bursts of profound optimism....

 

[oldwheels]

There was a thread for strange car number plates but cannot find it so will just put this one up here.

 

[classic33]

I don't really know how it works. Apparently, the store watches which products disappear of the shelf and where they go to. It's very high surveillance. 7 hours later, my payment is still showing as ''Pending'' so I don't even have the receipt. My hope is that when I got locked out of the app that the system was having a bad day and they've no record of what I took. I am prone to short bursts of profound optimism....

You've no receipt, they can't prove what you did or didn't take, unless on camera.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

You've no receipt, they can't prove what you did or didn't take, unless on camera.

It's not shown up as waiting to clear in my bank account either so they don't seem to be in a rush to collect payment. The app did tell me that I was trying to buy alcohol when I was only looking so I'm hoping their system is up but not properly running.