Mundane News

[Andy in Germany]

I thought that only worked after buttering!

Me too. I guess that's the advantage of an edumacation.

 

[rockyroller]

Morning y'all
Back to work today for me
Garden birds have been fed

you got this & they need you!

 

[PeteXXX]

MrsPete just drove me into town and back. Might as well cancel my ticket to Alton Towers now...

 

[postman]

Sat waiting for my first coffee of the morning,it's from one of them bubbling gurgling machines I am not allowed to drive it.Jobs for today are done a bit of weeding and second coat of undercoat on apex of garage,feeling very pleased with myself.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I’ve just been reminded that it’s the local airshow this weekend.

 

[Tenkaykev]

“Rhubarb and Raspberry” scented toilet rolls, oh my giddy aunt, what a time to be alive…

 

[tyred]

I wanted two small corner brackets for something I was working on. I had to buy a packet of four. Inside a plastic bag, the corner brackets were grouped together with two brackets inside each of the two small bags. The sixteen screws were also paired together inside little plastic bags. Why so much plastic? They moan about too much waste and landfill yet things are sold with completely pointless packaging.

 

[Reynard]

Warm and overcast here chez Casa Reynard, with the occasional sunny spell.

I slept well. Actually, I overslept. I also had some very strange dreams that made sense at the time, but the few bits I actually remember are weird and hazy. I have done some writing this morning, put fresh bottles of bubble bath and hand gel in the bathroom and have peeled the meat from the carcass of that chicken. The bones will be used for stock, and there is enough chicken to make something for tonight's supper and something later in the week.

This afternoon I need to take the fluoresent tube out of the fixture in the kitchen, see what kind I need and then tootle off to Screwfix for a new one. The recycling center is next door, so easy disposal of the knackered one. I'll also take some cardboard boxes I don't need. Umm, and I might have a look at their bikes for sale.

Almost time for luncheon.

 

[Reynard]

Thats unusual in the day and age, drivers don't usually get so beaten up in a crash? I wish him a quick and full recovery.

A Ginetta G56 is a big heavy car with a six and a bit litre V8 up front. They're doing around 145mph on the exit of Church where the crash happened. Force of impact is related to both the mass and the velocity, so it's easy to see why.

Also, if (as I suspect) Mike went into the barrier on the driver's side, there's a lot less of the car between the point of impact and the driver. That means more of the loading gets transmitted directly to the driver's body than would be the case if he'd gone in passenger side. The roll cage and side impact structures can only dissipate so much energy at a given time. Would've been far worse without HANS and the custom-made race seat.

Thruxton is so fast, it really does bite when you get it wrong.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdNrNGeWOxw


P.S. This is slightly further round the lap, but owww...

 

[DCLane]

@Reynard - son no. 2 originally wanted to race go-karts and Ginetta's. We (i.e. SWMBO and myself) said "no" as we couldn't afford it, hence he chose to race bikes instead.

I'm not sure it is cheaper given he races road, TT, track and hillclimb.

 

[Reynard]

Two slices of seeded toast for luncheon, one with smoked ham, one with cheddar & chutney, plus a tomato (it was split, so had to be eaten), a tangerine, a nectarine and two

Letting that lot tamp down, then off to Screwfix I go. I need a 5ft warm white tube, and they have six in stock.

 

[Reynard]

@Reynard - son no. 2 originally wanted to race go-karts and Ginetta's. We (i.e. SWMBO and myself) said "no" as we couldn't afford it, hence he chose to race bikes instead.

I'm not sure it is cheaper given he races road, TT, track and hillclimb.

Hmm... At least with the cycling, the cake is guilt free...

Any kind of top-level sport is expensive, especially if you're not on a scholarship. Fencing for me was much the same - kit that's of the right type for international competitions, coaching sessions, training sessions, travel, competition entries, spares, tools, nutrition, the whole shebang...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Beautiful Wife and Daughter were out so I'm going to collect them from the tram stop in the next village.

I am technically bringing Beautiful Daughter as Beautiful Wife's bike is locked up at the Tram stop so she'll be able to come under her own steam, as it were, but the bike is locked with my lock...

In other news, apparently the new clothes dryer has been delivered at the new apartment. I'm sure @Oldhippy will be glad to know that saga has come to an end.

 

[Reynard]

Right, I'd better go. The sooner i'm gone, the sooner I'm back, and the sooner I can see what I'm doing in the kitchen.

 

[Hebe]

The council are repainting the white lines at the end of my road.