Mundane News

[DCLane]

Hmm, Ernie appears to be taking a gap year.

Meanwhile, my car is now officially filthy though it's only been about 3 months since its last wash. I may get round to taking it to the car wash - I'm up on the 5th floor so not so easy to do it here. Or I may not.

Surely you could just throw a few buckets of water with shampoo/washing up liquid down on it? From that height it'd possibly be the same thing.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

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[Illaveago]

I was having a tinker with a couple of old watches. I was using the binocular microscope thing to see what I was doing . Not sure of the magnification but it will make a cocktail stick half the thickness of your little finger . I was busy trying to straighten a kink out of a hairspring when a Georgie decided that I needed his help . Apparently cocktail sticks need chewing !
I thought I would just see what the price of a Zenith crown was on the net . The knurled winder bit on the side of a watch . Mine seems to have been replaced by a plain one . £100+

 

[Hebe]

Second funeral of 2023 for the Hebe family today.

 

[tyred]

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Wait for a wet day and wash it in the rain.

Or just buy a new car.

 

[oldwheels]

As tyred suggests I never wash my car when it is dry. Plenty wet days and waterproofs.

 

[biggs682]

Second cuppa time

 

[rockyroller]

Tulips?

Wifey says crocus

 

[Gravity Aided]

Wifey says crocus
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Yes. Be sure and harvest your saffron.

 

[Speicher]

Wait for a wet day and wash it in the rain.

Or just buy a new car.

Could you temporarily attach a shallow saucer of diluted car shampoo to the roof and when the saucer fills up the diluted shampoo would flow over the roof and down the sides of the car?

 

[biggs682]

I can see a mountain of washing up to do here

 

[Reynard]

It's a mild, breezy and grey day here chez Casa Reynard.

Slept well, but it took me an age to get to sleep as my brain refused to turn off. I have (largely) had a kitchen morning, and included in the tasks was making a large pot of leek & potato soup. That job lot of leeks I bought on YS previous week are keeping really well.

I shall have to turn lengths of firewood into logs this afternoon, as I've only enough left in the garage till about Monday, and with colder weather forecast again for next week, I want to build up a bit of a stash.

It's been one step forward, three sideways and two backwards with the short oval segment of my archive. Part of the problem is the poor quality of the reports from race meetings in Short Circuit magazine - particularly noticeable when used to Autosport and Motoring News. And just when you think you've nailed something down, you find bits in later issues that appear to contradictory, so it just keeps chucking up far more questions than answers. Aaaargh! And I've now got to work out where I can find Northern Irish hot rod results from late 1984...

Anyways, it is almost time for luncheon.

 

[Reynard]

Oh, and that Derek Warwick steering wheel (purportedly off his '93 Arrows) sold for £92.

Trouble is, it's in Australia, so you can add another £50 on top of that for VAT & carriage.

And no, I didn't buy it. It doesn't come with provenance other than what the seller says, and my friend who is in the trade took a look and wasn't happy with it.

 

[rockyroller]

It's bed stripping day today.

please tell me you do not iron your sheets

 

[rockyroller]

I couldn't stop laughing after the water companies just announced a price increase !

They say that they need the money to replace the aging water system !

I seem to remember that was the reason why they were privatised in the first place .

corporrate profits & executive bonuses before customers