Mundane News

[classic33]

Today was the last of the birthday season. Youngest granddaughter wanted her mum to make a model of her with balloons. She's got some growing to do!
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She'll have fun getting that home.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Today was the last of the birthday season. Youngest granddaughter wanted her mum to make a model of her with balloons. She's got some growing to do!
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Wow, some serious skill there, and a very happy small person.

 

[Hebe]

Went to the Cycle Shop and picked up some black Gutterman sewing thread

Your Cycle Shop sounds very useful!
All the solar stuff that can be fitted without the actual panels has been fitted, the hedge cut back and the dead shrub removed. This afternoon I rode my bike to the leisure centre and went swimming. Then I rode my bike back again.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

She'll have fun getting that home.

That is home.

 

[tyred]

Brain-fade alert. I was taking a book out of the library and went to the counter, handed the book to the librarian and then took a €50 out of my wallet and handed it over instead of the library card

"Sorry sir, the book isn't for sale!"

 

[Hebe]

Today was the last of the birthday season. Youngest granddaughter wanted her mum to make a model of her with balloons. She's got some growing to do!
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That is fabulous! Happy birthday to her!

 

[Reynard]

Your Cycle Shop sounds very useful!

It is! Not only do they do bikes and parts and all that stuff, there's a big toy department, a haberdashery department and a modelling department. Oh, and there's some DIY stuff as well.

 

[tyred]

The lifeboat station here has to be kept full manned by volunteers and a launching authority for the next few days as if there is a shout no volunteers could get to the station due to road closures caused by the car racing on public roads.
Probably the fire station would also need a full crew for the same reason.
Complaints are already rolling in on FB of cars being forced off the roads and into ditches by speeding drivers doing practice runs for the racing. One sounds like the hatchback who passed me doing well over the ton approaching a blind bend with a concealed entrance about 100 yards beyond the bend. Naturally the authorities put up a sign 50 yards before the entrance but not visible before the corner.
There will almost certainly be no postal deliveries for a couple of days and the PO is closing early Friday as they are at the main car park entrance so too dodgy for customers due to speeding cars.
Why don't I love car racing on our roads and streets?

We have issues with a local rally here too. It's a menace but apparently it brings a lot of money I to the area. I always try and get away somewhere for a few days.

 

[Reynard]

I've just made apple sauce with two Cottenham Seedlings, a Murfitt's Seedling and four random russett-type apples I foraged from a hedgerow.

 

[Hebe]

It is! Not only do they do bikes and parts and all that stuff, there's a big toy department, a haberdashery department and a modelling department. Oh, and there's some DIY stuff as well.

 

[classic33]

That is home.

That's one problem solved.

 

[oldwheels]

We have issues with a local rally here too. It's a menace but apparently it brings a lot of money I to the area. I always try and get away somewhere for a few days.

The pubs and holiday rentals make money but when we had a business we lost all turnover and therefore profit.
There were endless problems which I have mentioned before but they have gone well away from the original concept which was relatively low key and run on private ie mostly forestry roads. It is now out and out racing with no pretence at anything else for the entertainment of very few who actually live here.

 

[rockyroller]

Today was the last of the birthday season. Youngest granddaughter wanted her mum to make a model of her with balloons. She's got some growing to do!
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wow that's quite a production!

 

[rockyroller]

successful few hours car shopping w/ Son. more time than I planned but it was good to finally get him out & driving some cars. nothing bought today, but that's OK. it's a step in the right direction!

 

[Jameshow]

Was that the one in south London where she built on the side of the house she owned?

She was a single woman, not in good health, recently divorced. So why did she use her life savings? And she had to sell the house, the rent from which she was relying on for retirement income. She had to give up her job as the illness, and the building and working was too much for her.

Of-course she had to have a top of the range kitchen from a shop in Mayfair. "More money than sense" springs to mind. I am sure her "Cheffy" friends, her word, not mine, would be happy with a meal prepared on any oven.

I would have built a large garden room or a single storey extension with a balcony on top.

That's the one! Probably the worst I've seen!