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Hebe

getting better all the time
Location
wiltshire
Solar people came back and hopefully everything’s now fixed. Certainly we are on track to use less power from the grid rather than more (yesterday’s day of disappointment), so that is an excellent start.

Talking of disappointment, we won on both of our Lidl digital scratchcards of disappointment, and one of them was actually something we’d buy.
 

Ming the Merciless

There is no mercy
Photo Winner
Location
Inside my skull
Bought a couple of walking jackets for half price as “last years colours”
 

mybike

Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
For me, it was the 73... Good in the middle of the service (Stoke Newington to Marble Arch) but really crap at the ends of the route (Stokey to Tottenham Swan) and Marble Arch to Kensington Olympia.

These days it's been split out into multiple routes, and only the Stoke Newington to Oxford Circus part remains as the 73. it used to be Routemasters, and then bendy buses.

Used to catch the trolley busses at Welling Corner, along Upper Wickham Lane, my parents always complained the trolleys were on time, but the busses never were.
 
It's been a lovely autumn day here chez Casa Reynard - warm, mostly sunny but more than a tad blustery.

I slept really well - too well... Ooops... So by the time I did all my morning doings, I was late heading out into town to sort some errands. But it was a moment of serenditpity...

Recently when I've been going to Tesco at tea time during the week to do a top up rather than a full shop, there's been very little left in the reductions cabinets as a whole. And now I've discovered why - they now do second reductions at around half past two, rather than the half past four / five o'clock that's been the case ever since I first started shopping in there the best part of 16 years ago.

So I had a good YS haul today: a bread, some lovely flatbreads, two heads of broccoli, a net of kiwi fruit, seven mangoes, a tray of stewing beef, two large sharing bags of crisps, two dented tins of kidney beans, two dented tins of black beans and two VERY dented tins of tomatoes - the latter being only 4p each.

Spent the rest of the afternoon working on the Higman model. All the parts for the roll cage are now made (yay!) and I'm doing the last two parts for the driver's cab - the dashboard and the gear lever.

Now sat down with a :cuppa: and a chocolate biskit.
 

deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way
You bin down the Old Kent Road or Woolwich?



They don't make busses like they used to, I remember, when they introduced the Routemaster, saying it was the beginning of the end. (I don't & didn't, but it's a good line.)
I remember the older RTs. They had a heater that looked like a stove behind the driver's cab. And those wind-out rolls of bus tickets that the conductor issued for our pennies.

177 goes along the Queens Road to Peckham, so misses the OKR. (Unless it's being whimsical, announces New Cross bus garage but then decides to terminate at New Cross Gate Station.) I was only trying to get back from Greenwich. I can't remember why I didn't go by bike but had plenty of time to regret it.
 
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deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way
So Richie Sunak has been assembling his cabinet !

Must be one of those flat pack jobbies . :whistle:
I thought of you when I saw this....
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I haven't tracked down their Hannibal Lectern range yet though.
 
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