Mundane News

[Reynard]

I can definitely see the advantages and am not in any way anti-Kindle but have never bothered to buy one.

I enjoy browsing second hand book shops.

Yep, same here.

As an aside, I also use fanfiction.net a lot, so am never without reading material - everything from drabbles to epics. A lot of the stuff on there is mediocre, but there are some seriously good professional-grade stories lurking in amongst the dross.

 

[fossyant]

I've spent the weekend prepping for the decorator starting tomorrow; he's doing four rooms at once. That meant emptying all four rooms, putting the contents of the four rooms into two small bedrooms/the conservatory/study in a Jenga/tetris approach, removing an en-suite cabinet, FIVE radiators and making sure all were ready. I'm broken.

Bet you are ! I had more fun at freshers fayre.

 

[fossyant]

Daughter's (in her opinion) best freebies were a small metal drink flask and the re-useable insulated hot drinks mugs - you save 10p if you buy a tea/coffee etc if using your own mug. They charge us staff for the re-useable mugs.

 

[tyred]

Yep, same here.

As an aside, I also use fanfiction.net a lot, so am never without reading material - everything from drabbles to epics. A lot of the stuff on there is mediocre, but there are some seriously good professional-grade stories lurking in amongst the dross.

I use my local library quite a bit too, very good for classics in particular as well as all sorts of other things. You can take a chance on a book in the library if you're unsure if you like it as you just give it back if you don't get on with it and it doesn't cost.

 

[Reynard]

I use my local library quite a bit too, very good for classics in particular as well as all sorts of other things. You can take a chance on a book in the library if you're unsure if you like it as you just give it back if you don't get on with it and it doesn't cost.

East Cambs libraries aren't any great shakes - they don't hold much to my taste or to my interests, which is a shame. Plus I now have to go into Ely, as the library in the village closed years ago and I haven't seen the mobile one in a fair while.

On the upsides, there are two book swap schemes that I know of locally - one in the bus shelter outside the village hall, and one in Ely itself. I've availed myself of a cookbook or two from there.

 

[tyred]

East Cambs libraries aren't any great shakes - they don't hold much to my taste or to my interests, which is a shame. Plus I now have to go into Ely, as the library in the village closed years ago and I haven't seen the mobile one in a fair while.

On the upsides, there are two book swap schemes that I know of locally - one in the bus shelter outside the village hall, and one in Ely itself. I've availed myself of a cookbook or two from there.

I'm fortunate enough to be about ten minutes walk from a pretty decent library and there is access to every library in the county so even if they don't have it, they can get it in from one of the others.

You can get other things too like DVDs and music CDs. There's quite a selection of films and TV series there although I rarely watch films.

 

[PeteXXX]

The 67 plate truck I was driving today had 1,046,001 km on the odometer..

 

[Jameshow]

The 67 plate truck I was driving today had 1,046,001 km on the odometer..

Yikes! 600'000 miles!

 

[slowmotion]

The plane touched down at 6:55 pm. The first suitcase appeared in the baggage hall eighty five minutes later. British Airways and Terminal Five didn't exactly cover themselves in glory.......


......and breathe.....

 

[Jenkins]

Poor Phil. Someone should really let him have access.

 

[Jenkins]

I know it will probably sound stupid to most people but for years I kept tickets to theatre or concerts etc and put them in a scrapbook so I could look back on over them.

Since Covid, it seems most of the theatres no longer issue paper tickets. I'm sure it probably makes a lot of sense for them but it spoils my record of the shows that I've been to. The exception was the Imelda May concert a few months back as that venue actually posted me the tickets.

I'm with you on the ticket thing - printing off & keeping an A4 PDF sheet with a QR code or barcode just doesn't seem the same. I'd need a very large folder to keep the print outs of the 80 e-tickets I have from the past few years, so I just have an electronic folder instead.

 

[Jenkins]

A very good day out today, despite the very early start and the large crowd meaning a long wait to get out of the car park - left home at about ten to seven this morning and got home at about quarter to ten. Some very good racing and the BTCC has set up the usual close finale at Brands Hatch - which I will have to watch on the phone as I will be on the train/bus replacement heading up to Sheffield to see Public Service Broadcasting at the O2 Academy.

Despite being a bit tired I have remembered to put out the bin of non recyclables for emptying on Monday. In addition to the normal rubbish, the bin contains two other bins.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

A very good day out today, despite the very early start and the large crowd meaning a long wait to get out of the car park - left home at about ten to seven this morning and got home at about quarter to ten. Some very good racing and the BTCC has set up the usual close finale at Brands Hatch - which I will have to watch on the phone as I will be on the train/bus replacement heading up to Sheffield to see Public Service Broadcasting at the O2 Academy.

Despite being a bit tired I have remembered to put out the bin of non recyclables for emptying on Monday. In addition to the normal rubbish, the bin contains two other bins.

We've all got bags full of bags but bins full of bins is next level stuff!

 

[Jenkins]

We've all got bags full of bags but bins full of bins is next level stuff!

To make it even better, it's a actually a small bag of rubbish placed in the small bin, which is inside an old swing lid bin, which is inside the main non-recycling bin.

 

[Reynard]

I didn't bother putting my bins out this week.