Mundane News

[woodbutchmaster]

I live in a village in SW France population of about 220 people and tonight there is a Fête de la lumière ...l take it that there will be lots of food and enough alcohol to enable everyone to be "lit -up" or as we say in France "lumière"

 

[Reynard]

Warm, grey and breezy here chez Casa Reynard. And it's been spitting intermittently with rain all morning.

I slept really well (yayyyy!) despite a very odd dream, and I have had a very quiet morning watching coverage from Birmingham. Currently got a feed from the velodrome. I have also done some paperwork and a load of laundry.

More of my Tumbling Tom tomatoes are showing serious signs of ripening, so really looking forward to them now. All of my plants have a heck of a lot of fruit on them regardless of the variety, so I'll be well kept in tomatoes, both for eating and chutneying. I think @mudsticks would be proud of my efforts.

This afternoon, I shall be watching the Formula E from London. One of my friends is manning the post at Turn 10.

It is almost time for luncheon.

 

[Reynard]

Been enjoying English plums.

I've got to wait. Mine aren't quite ripe yet.

 

[Hebe]

We have walked to Lidl and back. Car charging, second coffee in progress and I'm going to respond to a local cycling and walking consultation.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Bowls, netball, cycling and rugby 7's already watched today. What a great games.

 

[oldwheels]

Some very isolated showers. Went up to visit my wildlife pal and he was just going out about a couple of miles to collect his car which was left at the road end so I continued up to wait and got chatting to a friend with a caravan who was camping on his land. Nice sunshine at his house but he came back soaked after a very heavy shower we never saw.
Got the usual tour of has garden and got a cucumber to take home. Very mixed growth this year and he is very disappointed with his onions which he specialises in growing.
He is suffering for an old ankle injury he got years ago in a quad bike accident and remarked that it was pretty bad as he was walking nearly as bad as I was.

 

[Reynard]

Had a lovely luncheon of wholemeal toast with salami, plus a nectarine, half a mango and two

Watched the Formula E. Good race, but my man got dumped out on the first lap. F1 qually listened to. Laundry hung up, TV licence paid for, voting registration form done and tomatoes fed and watered.

Now time for a and a packet of crisps.

 

[oldwheels]

The Uig to Lochmaddy ferry could not dock at Lochmaddy yesterday as another boat had tied up alongside and the crew had vanished. They were threatening to return to Uig without landing vehicles or passengers but they managed to resolve the situation somehow. Presumably there were insurance implications if the ferry terminal staff had tried to remove it.
For a while I was de facto piermaster here and yotties were the bane of my existence. They tied up without permission and refused to move off to let commercial traffic such as a coal carrying puffer come alongside.
"I am a friend of your directors and will have you sacked for speaking to me like that" was a gambit one tried. I produced a sharp knife and told him in that case I was just going to cut his mooring ropes. He moved.
There is also the story of Yacht Splinter who asked MV Columba if he would have to move to let them alongside.
The answer from Columba was no he did not have to move if did not want to but he would very soon have to change his boat name to Yacht Matchwood if he did not move.

 

[Reynard]

Ouch!!!

 

[Mo1959]

Ouch!!!

Horrible wasn’t it!

 

[Reynard]

Horrible wasn’t it!

Yeah... Eyewatering doesn't even begin to describe it. I could do the maths for that impact, but I really don't want to.

 

[Reynard]

Looks like a broken collarbone for Joe. Ouch.

Matt's got no skin on his arris. Not sure he's going to be able to sit comfortably for a while...

 

[Reynard]

I've just shared my packet of salted crisps with Madam Poppy.

Madam Poppy loves crisps as much as I do.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Packing the contents of the apartment into boxes.

I'm trying to be organised but I really don't think it's worth it...

 

[Illaveago]

It isn't compulsory?

My son's FIL kept failing his driving his driving instructor test because of using his indicator too often or when he needn't have .

It's all very well going into a roundabout thinking that there is nobody around . Exiting and seeing a poor pedestrian halfway across the road because they didn't know that they were leaving on that road !
It has happened to me . Use it or lose it springs to mind !



I have a nice pointed hammer !