Mundane News

[Illaveago]

The rain we had yesterday was the first time for ages that hasn't left my car covered in dust.

 

[PeteXXX]

I've been shopping 🛒

 

[biggs682]

Watching a couple of sparrows de bug one of our rose bushes

 

[Illaveago]

Has anyone seen the planets all lined up in an arc?
I've been up early a few times this week . I think on Monday I was up just after 3 and saw 3. I stayed up for a while as the sky was clear but didn't see any more. I was awake about 4 on Tuesday but only saw 2 as there was some cloud around . This morning again at 3 I only saw 2.

 

[oldwheels]

A damp morning so far and no improvement forecast but not much wind.
Calmac have cancelled the late ferry tonight due to "staff illness". I doubt anybody local believes this as they have been in the habit of cancelling that ferry for the last couple of years for a variety of excuses. In any case how do they know in advance that some vital crew member is going to be ill.
It used to be well used and was a very social trip when it was much later at 2330hrs as locals used it when returning from day trips to Glasgow for shopping etc. The road home from the ferry after midnight was a bit of a race track but never heard of any accidents.
We used to call it "The Midnight Runner"

 

[tyred]

There was a guy waiting at the pedestrian crossing with a steady stream of traffic going past when I was walking up town but noticed he hadn't pressed the button on the crossing so I did. He told me off for stopping the traffic and it wasn't fair on drivers. I should have waited for a gap in the traffic like he was doing

Poor drivers. Imagine having to press those big, heavy clutch and brake pedals...

 

[pawl]

I finally got around to getting a small table to sit beside my armchair to give me something to set my drink on.

I've just put it together. The legs screw on and it is of such high quality that the threaded part isn't even in the centre. I suppose it only cost €10.

It's sturdy enough, just not made with much accuracy.

We have one

 

[Deleted member 1258]

We have one

We've got one like that, brought it from Amazon, very useful, we've also got a small nest of tables, useful when we have visitors.

 

[Jenkins]

I have today off work

My favourite day of the working week.

I also have the day off so a decent lie in has been had and a mug of coffee just finished. Two or three hours of pottering about and listening to the radio before heading off to Nottingham again.

 

[pawl]

We've got one like that, brought it from Amazon, very useful, we've also got a small nest of tables, useful when we have visitors.

Ours came from Amazon

Correction Mrs P bought it from B&M

 

[mybike]

Finished pulling hawthorn thorns out of the soles of my shoes, about a third of the way through prickly hedge pruning, black thorn is next.

 

[mybike]

About that era there were a few different makes of cars based on wooden frames. Known as "Estate Cars" in those days.
Edit to add they were also known as "Shooting Breaks" [ or was it Brakes]

The latter.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I’ve just set up my answer phone message.

 

[Moon bunny]

The latter.

But, strangely, the word was originally used for the small vehicles used to break-in carriage horses, those vehicles being pressed into service to carry shooting parties over rough tracks on the moorland which would spoil a better carriage.

 

[PeteXXX]

Hmmmm. Coffee then dog walkies or dog walkies then coffee?

Thinking about it, if I have one before then I can have another one afterwards, too.
That means I've gained one coffee