Mundane News

[Reynard]

Beans on toast for supper, with a - but these were my jazzed-up mexican style beans with onion, pepper, garlic and chipotle chillies, plus half a sliced avocado and a fried egg on top.

A bit stuffed, now...

 

[Deleted member 1258]

The Corsa driver is back going around in circles. I thought he had taken a day off but he must just be on the evening shift.

You need to sneak up one night when he's asleep and pinch his valve cores.

 

[PeteXXX]

You need to sneak up one night when he's asleep and pinch his valve cores.

Or pop a spud over his exhaust..

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Or pop a spud over his exhaust..

I've also heard of expanding foam being used.

 

[PeteXXX]

I've also heard of expanding foam being used.

That's a tad more permanent, and expensive, than a Maris Piper

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

That's a tad more permanent, and expensive, than a Maris Piper

So that's why they're called Pipers!

 

[tyred]

A good trick used to be to swap the HT leads around on the distributor so it fired in the wrong order but cars are more sophisticated these days.

 

[classic33]

Watching the speed climbing. That's just insane... I've really enjoyed watching the sport climbing, that's serious skill. And flexibility.

Knew someone who could not only go up the local college wall head first, he could come down head first, under full control.

Harness and roped for safety reasons though.

 

[tyred]

Training finished for the day and head fried.

Still pouring rain outside. I had planned on trying to remove the lambda sensor but no point in getting soaked.

 

[classic33]

I will now add "Knackered" to "Bolloxed" in my lexicon of Technical Terms.

I won't ask which is worse.

Knackered: There's a chance that part(s) may be got to fix it/get it going again.
Bolloxed: The parts required are no longer available, and/or even if they were available the damage is too great to attempt to fix.

 

[Speicher]

Yesterday evening we were talking about Nicola Walker. The series "Unforgotten" (in which she stars) starts this evening (now). I think she was excellent in that programme.

 

[classic33]

I have harvested a few beans/pods and a plant left behind by the farmer. This is to facilitate identification of said beans. The plant is about 36 inches tall, the pods are about 3 inches long, and the beans are about half an inch in length, with the same shape as a "broad" bean.

Any ideas?

No, none at all

 

[Reynard]

I have harvested a few beans/pods and a plant left behind by the farmer. This is to facilitate identification of said beans. The plant is about 36 inches tall, the pods are about 3 inches long, and the beans are about half an inch in length, with the same shape as a "broad" bean.

Any ideas?

Errr... Broad beans.

On the basis that if it looks like a broad bean, and smells like a broad bean and tastes like a broad bean, then it just might be a broad bean...

My runner beans are doing nicely.

 

[Jenkins]

What is this rain of which some of you lot have been speaking? It's just been overcast and comfortably warm round here.

The cooler weather lead to a fairly productive morning - I popped out to the Port Office to send a parcel of shoes that I'd sold on Cycle Chat westwards and once home I changed the bedding and put it on to wash and did the vacuuming while the machine did its thing.
Unfortunately the afternoon was much less productive as it involved a bike ride to Stowmarket and a few hours in the Willow Tree spending the money from the shoe sale before catching the train home.

 

[classic33]

You need to sneak up one night when he's asleep and pinch his valve cores.

Or "find" an odd looking part, covering of grease helps, that looks as though its fallen from his car.

He gets to play the good guy, whilst being the bad guy. Induce worry where there was none before. Something that might be a sump bolt/plug can work wonders.