Mundane News

[Reynard]

It was sunny earlier, then it rained quite heavily for ¼hr (as our Fengineer noted). Now it's back to cloudy sunshine.

Fengineer.

Me likey.

 

[postman]

Had a lovely luncheon of two slices of wholemeal toast, one with extra mature Cheddar and pineapple chutney, and the other with sliced avocado, plus a pear, a tangerine and two

We had a shower of biblical proportions while eating lunch. At least I won't need to water anything this afternoon.

i love the way you describe your meals,makes my sarnies quite tame.So therefore you are now the Cycle Chat food critic.All in favour say aye.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

i love the way you describe your meals,makes my sarnies quite tame.So therefore you are now the Cycle Chat food critic.All in favour say aye.

aye

 

[cookiemonster]

Watching the start of the TDF on ITV4.

Via a VPN.

A bit wet in Copenhagen.

 

[postman]

in a few minutes i have to go rummaging in the dustbin,no we have not fallen on hard times.Its i have just remembered i have left part of the roller mechanism in the waste.

 

[Reynard]

Almost time for FP2, and then after that, I need to tootle off to pick up the parental's prescription.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Well, to celebrate the arrival of July - very nearly half the year in - I'm running a bath.

 

[postman]

Well, to celebrate the arrival of July - very nearly half the year in - I'm running a bath.

my nose runs more than i do.

 

[postman]

Back from bin foraging,and i have rescued the offending part.It was half hanging out of the paint wet roller sleeve.I will need it for the staircase job.

 

[mybike]

According to an article I remember reading by LJK Setright, all these "conversions" had their origin in the coach-built days of the 1920s when rich people's old knackered saloons were re-worked by the local coach builder to fulfil a new function - an estate was for landowners to drive around their estate in with space to carry whatever they needed to carry. A station wagon was for picking visitors up from the local railway station. A shooting brake was used to transport shooting parties. Car manufacturers started to spot a niche in the market by selling their own versions, probably coach built in small numbers hence the timber framing. Things like the Morris Traveller (and there were bigger versions of it too I think based on larger models like the Oxford, just not so common) were e just a continuation of the theme and an attempt to appear upmarket by aping what the aristocracy had been doing before the war.

I recall a friend at school whose father had a RR with a wooden body, much like the Morris 1000 traveller. There was a certain amount of mockery, but seeing my father didn't even have a car ....

Edited to add a picture of what I think it may have looked like.

 

[oldwheels]

Both gardening and cycling are a pleasure.

I worked as a jobbing gardener for a while and mostly enjoyed it. In later life I had a large garden which took a lot of work which is now beyond me so it turned into a chore and not a pleasure.

 

[oldwheels]

Started out a damp dismal day but by early afternoon sun came out and it has been nice ever since.
Trying to reduce the amount of useful junk I seem to have accumulated over the years I had a run to the dump with some stuff for the charity shop container. Continued on up to Glengorm which put me in mind of a shortish trike run I may do. Cannot do the full run from home as the hills are pretty steep and there are a lot of them. I used to do it on 2 wheels regularly but that was 10 years ago and not on 3 wheels.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I recall a friend at school whose father had a RR with a wooden body, much like the Morris 1000 traveller. There was a certain amount of mockery, but seeing my father didn't even have a car ....

Edited to add a picture of what I think it may have looked like.

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It looks lovely, but apart from maintenance, all that would break into sharpened stakes in the event of an accident.

 

[Reynard]

Parental unit's prescrition picked up. Now have a and one of those Lindor jobbies.

 

[Reynard]

It looks lovely, but apart from maintenance, all that would break into sharpened stakes in the event of an accident.

Mmmmm, but Rollers are heavy old things. Anything that hits that will likely come off second best.