Mundane News

[deptfordmarmoset]

Meanwhile, I managed to sleep until 8:43 this morning. By my standards, that's a very long lie in.

 

[Illaveago]

Watching the boring women's cycle race . The only thing which has kept me awake is the insistence of the Beeb to interrupt my viewing by saying that they will be going to another sport but I can continue to watch it on the Eye Player ! That was where I was watching it !

I think it would be more interesting if they allowed people to use Zebra crossings !
I think I will go and do some shopping !

 

[Mo1959]

Watching the boring women's cycle race . The only thing which has kept me awake is the insistence of the Beeb to interrupt my viewing by saying that they will be going to another sport but I can continue to watch it on the Eye Player ! That was where I was watching it !

I think it would be more interesting if they allowed people to use Zebra crossings !
I think I will go and do some shopping !

I've stuck it on but it isn't looking like being exciting until the final sprint. I often don't find road cycling that brilliant to watch to be honest apart from the mountain stages in the major tours.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Can you have a breakaway group go off the back of a peleton ?

I'll join.

 

[Speicher]

I was watching the Women's cricket yesterday (part of Commonwealth games).

The commentator talked about a Maiden Wicket. Is that the same as Bowling a Maiden Over?

 

[Illaveago]

I'll join.

That's the only breakaways that I'm good at !

 

[Andy in Germany]

That's the only breakaways that I'm good at !

Well quite. I bet I can be slower though...

 

[Andy in Germany]

My mother when she was alive used to tell stories about her childhood, their toilet facilities were a bit basic, a small shed at the top of the garden, a plank with a hole in it and a bucket, she used to say that when the bucket was full the contents would go on the veg patch.

There's quite a science attached to Humanure, or composting of human waste. I have a friend who managed it for several years in Norway, of all places.

 

[Gravity Aided]

There's quite a science attached to Humanure, or composting of human waste. I have a friend who managed it for several years in Norway, of all places.

They tried it for a bit in Western Illinois(the relatively empty bit). Public Outcry, activism, meetings, hearings. Sometime in the '70's, IIRC.

 

[rockyroller]

another heat wave, F temps today thru Tuesday 95, 94 & 92

I'm losing track. feels like the temps have been in the 90s for the past 2 weeks. this is not normal

 

[Gravity Aided]

They also tried earth toilets in rest areas. That did not go over well, lacking permafrost.

 

[Gravity Aided]

another heat wave, F temps today thru Tuesday 95, 94 & 92

I'm losing track. feels like the temps have been in the 90s for the past 2 weeks. this is not normal

Not for Boston.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

another heat wave, F temps today thru Tuesday 95, 94 & 92

I'm losing track. feels like the temps have been in the 90s for the past 2 weeks. this is not normal

We're hovering around the mid-80s here in south east England but it's due to climb later in the week. Our Augusts are usually a pretty wet affair with lots of cumulonimbus clouds but so far we've had virtually no rain this month. So it's cooler here than where you are but really not normal at all for this bottom corner of our island. Out in the countryside yesterday it was striking just how parched the land has become.

 

[Andy in Germany]

They tried it for a bit in Western Illinois(the relatively empty bit). Public Outcry, activism, meetings, hearings. Sometime in the '70's, IIRC.

For or against? I remember reading that Amish communities have repeatedly got into trouble for insisting on humanure toilets. Apparently the officials dealing with them say they are politest, most pleasant and must utterly intransigent infractors they've ever dealt with.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Okay, handover made.

Flat owner wanted rid of some furniture, so she's gifted me the bed, (perfect size and comfortable) table, (solid pine, perfect), the bookshelf I'd adapted for my model making bench, (meaning I can take both with me) and the wardrobe.

Of course, this means I've got a logistics problem to deal with as I now need to schlep these rather bulky items to my new apartment but hey, at least I've got a bed...