Mundane News

[Illaveago]

I had a Georgie going to sleep on my legs .
Morning. It was raining here a little while ago .
The first post was from last night . The mail didn't get sent !
I have a camera arriving today . I ordered it yesterday . It's second hand .

 

[Illaveago]

Can anyone for tell the future from studying mouse entrails ?

I found one leg , a tail and some entrails on our kitchen floor this morning . I don't think it was alive .

 

[tyred]

It's starting to look like it might brighten up.

 

[Illaveago]

My memory of it is all from press reports which are never necessarily accurate so I cannot speculate further.

I thought the inquiry came to a scratch their head result . I thought they found fuel in the tanks but couldn't explain why the engines stopped . It also didn't explain why the helicopter didn't auto rotate .

 

[oldwheels]

Dull morning and I had to put my kitchen light on this morning to see what I was doing. Not yet raining tho'.
It seems necessary for anybody coming to live here to have a double barrelled name and even two forenames as well sometimes.
Penelope Deborah Ponsonby Smythe for example.
Most of them also come here and immediately set about trying to change here into wherever they escaped from. Weird.

 

[Illaveago]

Rafael Nadal has a bald spot.

Perhaps he's been to an Ed Shearing concert ?

 

[Illaveago]

Dull morning and I had to put my kitchen light on this morning to see what I was doing. Not yet raining tho'.
It seems necessary for anybody coming to live here to have a double barrelled name and even two forenames as well sometimes.
Penelope Deborah Ponsonby Smythe for example.
Most of them also come here and immediately set about trying to change here into wherever they escaped from. Weird.

Upper Class Twits !

 

[cookiemonster]

Went to visit the HK rozzers at the big station in Wan Chai to get my criminal record checked for my new school. Seen the new contract but I have to wait until the school supervisor signs it before I do.

 

[biggs682]

Second cuppa went down well

 

[mybike]

We've got a new kitchen bin.
Most confusing as the old one, now donated to No1 daughter, was a Swing Bin. Our new one is a foot pedal thingie to make the lid pop up.

I had the opposite problem when we were away, kept poking the floor but nothing happened.

 

[mybike]

Heavy rain as forecast and 10C outside when I got up. Not much wind yet but Calmac are putting out warnings and my neighbour has taken his flagpole down which he does if gales forecast.
I have long had a theory unbacked by any scientific data that the seasons are moving and therefore summer is later than in the past as well as less cold weather lasting well into December.
Having said that I remember one June in the mid 1950s when we were thinning turnips and I was wearing an old ex army greatcoat and gloves. It was so cold that the casual labour we usually got for this job refused to come out to work so three of us had to do 20 acres ourselves.

I am reminded of the scene from Pickwick where the seller of cold drinks is bemoaning the cold weather that is ruining his trade.

 

[oldwheels]

Upper Class Twits !

When we moved here all those years ago one of the things we liked about the place was that there was no snobbery. Everybody was more or less equal.
We were invited out to dinner [for inspection I suspect] as one did in those days and I was surprised to find that as well as some local dignitaries the guests included one of my own workers as well as the local bin man. The bin man was in fact a very erudite character and his wife was a local schoolteacher.
I was amused by a dispute involving the local councillor who lived in a castle and somebody at that time living in a council house. The council house one was vehement " I outrank you as you are only a Lt Colonel but I am a full Colonel". End of dispute.
Incomers now outnumber people from those days and snobbery has crept in I think.

 

[mybike]

I've been to get my photograph taken for my driving licence renewal. Why are they always so unflattering?

I had got wet on my morning walk this morning so wore a rain coat when walking to the driving licence centre and with walking pretty briskly and the fact that it is actually very hot and humid caused a boil in the bag effect so I am soaked in sweat instead of rain!

I had to get one for my bus pass - just used my phone on the front camera.

Rainwear separates the cold wet from the warm wet.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Currently drinking a fizzy drink from a Glenlivet Whisky glass.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I've been to get my photograph taken for my driving licence renewal. Why are they always so unflattering?

I had got wet on my morning walk this morning so wore a rain coat when walking to the driving licence centre and with walking pretty briskly and the fact that it is actually very hot and humid caused a boil in the bag effect so I am soaked in sweat instead of rain!

If you look like your passport/Driver's Licence photo, you're far too sick to travel.