Mundane News

[Reynard]

Some sellers on the Bay of E are hilarious...

There was a watch I had my eye on with a £10 start listing. Not bad you might say. But it's got £12 postage on it. So I didn't bite. It went through about 4 auction cycles without a single bid. The seller then re-listed it with a £100 start. I thought they might have put the decimal place in the wrong spot.

No, apparently...

It's back up with a £275 "buy it now"

A similar one is only half that on chrono24 - which is grossly overpriced. Although admittedly the watches on there are mint, and this one definitely isn't...

 

[Jenkins]

I have finally caught up to date with the bits of CycleChat that I read. This part time working doesn't give me enough time at work to read as much as I used to.

Being a good uncle I have given my neice & nephew £500 each from my lump sum. Being a bad uncle it could have been more, but I spent more than that on myself

 

[Jenkins]

Today has been very much a day of two halves. The vacuuming has been done, the kitchen floor mopped, shopping trips to Morisons & Lidl, tyres changed on one bike & pedals swapped back on another after an experiment yesterday. Since Le Mans started at 3pm - absolutely bugger all!

 

[Illaveago]

I think Georgie might have brought a friend in to play with . He was staring underneath our sink wagging his tail .
I have locked him out in our back place with his food and water.

 

[Gravity Aided]

No cars, just a bicycle. Not for me.

And an Irish flag, and a small Andrew Wyeth print. I ran into people at the sale I haven't seen in years.

 

[gbb]

Afternoon and evening to myself, took my wife and her friend to see Simply Red and Lisa Stansfield....so what to do with some time...
Serviced the car.
Polished it.(washed it this morning)
Went for a quick bike ride (just sub 10 miles, i dont do much more anymore)
Walked the dog.
Hips and knees sore, go gor a long soak in the bath.
Watch some TV.(dog made himself comfortable on me as i lay on the settee, wife would kill him, and me, if she'd seen it)
Pick up wife and friend at 23.00
Now sat at home listening to my wife listening to Simply Red

 

[classic33]

... or maybe not.

As part of the response to the cost of living increase in Germany, the DEgov decided to make 'local' trains much cheaper for the next three months; 9€ per month gives you a rail pass for all of the local trains in Germany, for June, July, or August.

What they haven't done is organise any more actual trains.

So as is to be expected, in one of the main holiday regions in Germany, if you make train travel essentially free, people use them, with enthusiasm.

Which means that when my train arrived this morning the driver stuck his head out of the window and said: "I can't take any bikes, sorry." They were actually struggling to fit people on board.

The DB website has red "overcrowding" warnings popping up like a rash.

So, Plan "C": Early train tomorrow morning when there shouldn't be too many people, arriving in Stuttgart at about 0900.

Could, you know, just get on yer bike?

 

[Andy in Germany]

Good morning; putting "Plan C" into action.

Stage 1; breakfast...

 

[biggs682]

Morning y'all
Cars are still going round and round at le man's

 

[biggs682]

First cuppa went down well along with a slice of malt loaf

 

[Illaveago]

Some sellers on the Bay of E are hilarious...

There was a watch I had my eye on with a £10 start listing. Not bad you might say. But it's got £12 postage on it. So I didn't bite. It went through about 4 auction cycles without a single bid. The seller then re-listed it with a £100 start. I thought they might have put the decimal place in the wrong spot.

No, apparently...

It's back up with a £275 "buy it now"

A similar one is only half that on chrono24 - which is grossly overpriced. Although admittedly the watches on there are mint, and this one definitely isn't...

Ah! You should have bought it when it was cheap . Look what it's worth now !

 

[Illaveago]

Morning.
No sign of mice lying on the floor so I have put Georgie's food down for him . He must be outside somewhere enjoying himself .

 

[woodbutchmaster]

30 plus today, find some shade and have a kip this afternoon zzzzzz.

 

[biggs682]

Well that was worth it

 

[Illaveago]

Well that was worth it

What was ?

You didn't buy that watch did you ?