Mundane News

[Illaveago]

My camera has just arrived ! It looks very clean , some fine scratches to the rear screen but it will do . I'm waiting now for a card so that I can try it out .

 

[Deleted member 1258]

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

I'm hairy in both my driving licence and my passport photo's, I'm now clean shaven.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I'm hairy in both my driving licence and my passport photo's, I'm now clean shaven.

I had the opposite problem for a while, as I grew a beard and buzzed my hair in a short period of time. I remember in Mumbai I was treated with great suspicion and told to produce another ID, although I think that was partly because it was a UK passport.

 

[mybike]

Still raining.
The ball catch on one of my telescopic wheelchair ramps has broken so I drilled out the pop rivets holding it and removed the remains. A nut and bolt should do on a temporary basis to hold it when loading my trike in and out of the car. I thought a wing nut would be easiest and went to get my box of assorted hex and wing nuts. It has vanished.
It must be in my shed somewhere but so far no joy. It may have slipped down the back of the steel shelving but I did not feel like grovelling on the floor to search further. I must go up tomorrow and probably find it where it is normally kept and also look for a new catch for the ramp. I have enough stuff to stock an ironmonger's shop if only I could find things.
I did lose my jigsaw recently for a while until I discovered it in the place it has always been kept.

Isn't it normal for the part you need to finish a job vanishes? Always happens to me, I never have that screw, washer or nut.

 

[Andy in Germany]

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.

I bet they'd be furious if you pointed out they are in fact immigrants, and as such should accept the culture or go back to where they came from...

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Isn't it normal for the part you need to finish a job vanishes? Always happens to me, I never have that screw, washer or nut.

Its either missing or I've got stuff left over.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Okay, back to "work".

 

[mybike]

Lovely luncheon of a chunk of pork pie, a sandwich filled with the leftover halloumi fries (they're surprisingly good, cold), plus a banana, a tangerine and two

There were four pips in my tangerine.

Pip pip twice.

It's a long time since I heard that!

 

[Andy in Germany]

Its either missing or I've got stuff left over.

Have you noticed that the bits left over don't fit the bits that need finishing?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Have you noticed that the bits left over don't fit the bits that need finishing?

Yes, or you leave them out and the thing still works perfectly.

 

[mybike]

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

From the AAIR here

The investigation identified the following causal factors:

1. 73 kg of usable fuel in the main tank became unusable as a result of the fuel transfer pumps being switched off for unknown reasons.
2. It was calculated that the helicopter did not land within the 10-minute period specified in the Pilot’s Checklist Emergency and Malfunction Procedures, following continuous activation of the low fuel warnings, for unknown reasons.
3. Both engines flamed out sequentially while the helicopter was airborne, as a result of fuel starvation, due to depletion of the supply tank contents.
4. A successful autorotation and landing was not achieved, for unknown reasons

The report says that the three occupants of the helicopter died & there was no flight or voice recorder.

 

[Hebe]

I had to stop on my bike ride for a herd of cows and one slightly confused sheep to cross the road. This amused me so much that I forgot what road I was on.

 

[tyred]

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.

It seems to be a new system here for drivers licence renewal where you book an appointment at your local office, go there, they take your picture, go through the form on the computer, fill it all out for you, then you sign it electronically , pay them the fee and my licence should be sent out in the next few weeks. All paperless and really very quick and efficient.

Last time I had to get a new licence ten years ago, I had to fill out a long paper form, go to the chemist's to have my passport photo done, go to the post office to get the postal order and then send the whole lot back in the post. I think the new system is very convenient (but I am one of the lucky ones who lives within walking distance of their local office).

 

[tyred]

I had the opposite problem for a while, as I grew a beard and buzzed my hair in a short period of time. I remember in Mumbai I was treated with great suspicion and told to produce another ID, although I think that was partly because it was a UK passport.

Since I got my current licence, I have pretty much gone bald and lost about five stone in weight so I've had it queried at checkpoints whether or not it really was me and once had to sign my name so they could compare it with the signature on the licence.

 

[Speicher]

Yes, I did that once with a clock. Bits left over, but it still worked.