Mundane News

[Jenkins]

Good morning from Suffolk where, yet again, it's all gone horribly grey and wet and it looks like it's going to stay that way for a while. I think today may have to be domestics day once I've had breakfast and another cuppa.

 

[PeteXXX]

MrsPete bought what she thought was Sugar Puffs.. Turns out that they haven't been available since 2014..
They're 'Honey Monster Wheat Puffs' now and nasty, apparently 😂

 

[fossyant]

Flowers and a card dropped of at my mum's for mothers day. Timed it just right as my dad was loading up the car for their weekend at their caravan !

 

[Gravity Aided]

Nest box project is coming together. I'm using a Wilko nest box and a Blink wireless doorbell. I used one of my granddaughters dolls to check focus is ok. Illuminated by the Infra Red from the doorbell hence the B / W image. Next step is a couple of translucent " windows " in the roof to provide a bit of natural light during the day.
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Perhaps you should submit this for an art exhibition. Fine, disturbing surrealist work there.

 

[Gravity Aided]

You mean like this?
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You would need convection to brown anything.

 

[oldwheels]

Forgot to add to the important debate about microwave cookers.
Mine reverses if turned off and then on at any time. A complete rotation takes 22 seconds ie the handle of a large mug starting at the door and being turned off on coming round again. This measurement is 3 inches from the centre.
I should not have attempted to get into this as it is getting too technical for my poor brain.

 

[Gwylan]

Looking at repatriating some items for my archive from a far-flung corner of the EU.



Ouch. Spendy. Especially by the time you add VAT & international postage.



Need to sleep on it.



Might have to live on bread & water for a while. And the girls go without their dreamies.



I haA lot about how you declare them. te Brexit. 

will you ask them to remove their shoes? the more I think about it the more I like the idea. but then, one would have to provide sanitary slippers for each quest, huh?

People spontaneously take their shoes off. Odd because the entire ground floor is tiled.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Back from my run and the sun has just broken through the clouds. Mrs Tenkaykev has taken the Tank* up to Wimborne to do some shopping.

* The Tank is her touring bike, it has a large Shimano dynamo front wheel, and a 14 speed Rohloff hub on the rear wheel, rack and panniers. It's quite heavy when fully loaded.

 

[biggs682]

Second cuppa went down well
Garden birds have been fed
A good journey home as well

 

[rockyroller]

the band was a lot of fun last night

but this is me at my desk this morning

 

[postman]

Back from Waitrose got some flowers for Mrs P and a selection of three Porters for Postman three for a fiver,a good saving as two were well over two quid each.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

MrsPete bought what she thought was Sugar Puffs.. Turns out that they haven't been available since 2014..
They're 'Honey Monster Wheat Puffs' now and nasty, apparently 😂

They're very nice, my Good Ladies favourite cereal.

 

[Reynard]

Mild, grey & drizzly here chez Casa Reynard.

Did not sleep well. Wide awake till 5:30, then dropped off for a couple of hours, then woke up again and only dozed after. Feel really grumpy and washed out, so having a quiet day. Bit frustrated as the seller of the stuff I'm looking at repatriating gave me a 30% off voucher - that doesn't actually work. Currently, including postage and VAT, I'm looking at the thick end of £100 for four photographs. Which is, quite frankly insane.

OK, the daft numpty has sent me high-res scans - from which it'd be easy to get 8x6 prints made. But it's what's on the *back* of the originals that makes them interesting, as it gives me another avenue of research.

I think I'm going to have to take out my grumps on my stash of chocolate. It's that kind of a day.

And I've moved my three walnut saplings out from under cover to take advantage of the rain. I noticed that the buds on them were starting to split. And my sole surviving Apricot tree has flowers on it this year - didn't last year, after the top snapped off.

Anyways, it is time for luncheon.

 

[DCLane]

My new 'team' kit arrived today. Bib shorts and two jerseys in team design.

It is very pink

 

[Jameshow]

Ouch I should think that will be painful for a while

Plodding on though it. No point feeling sorry for myself so went out to men's shed a four if us leaders dud some tall sorting and odd jobs.

The into surgery via chemist for paracetamol and ibuprofen as it's was starting to hurt badly again.