Mundane News

[rockyroller]

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Mom used to make us scrambled eggs w/ sliced & seared potatoes, in a single pan. looked like a kind of pie, after she flopped it upside down, onto a plate. I actually liked it, w/ a little ketchup

 

[biggs682]

It's the weekend 😁

 

[fossyant]

well, there's that

MrsF suggested as I've been rough - I'd already tested !

 

[oldwheels]

Turned out to be a nice sunny day so went out to clear out some of the junk from the car. Found stuff I had forgotten I had but kept because it could be useful.
While out there I noticed one of the neighbours going around from house to house. Turns out he was delivering mail. There are virtually no posties now and so no mail delivered. You can go to the local post office where somebody must be sorting it and you can collect your own and any others you can deliver to if you wish. He obviously had taken all the ones for our bit of street. No idea what they are doing with parcels which could be a problem. At one time we always favoured parcelforce but now need to avoid ordering anything unless coming by carrier.

I notice my bluebell patch has virtually no flowers this year. Lots of dark green foliage which suggests it has been treated with fertiliser but that did not happen. No reason for anybody else to treat it either.

 

[Illaveago]

Evening.
I went up to check our Hedgehog houses this morning . One was occupied! As I lifted the lid I discovered a large hog fast asleep. I looked in the other one which was empty . The hay showed signs that a hog had been in and made a tunnel. I had to check them as a new hog needs rehoming in our area .

 

[oldwheels]

Mom used to make us scrambled eggs w/ sliced & seared potatoes, in a single pan. looked like a kind of pie, after she flopped it upside down, onto a plate. I actually liked it, w/ a little ketchup

A kind of omlette?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Clear skies, might be a starry starry night

 

[Grant Fondo]

The car aircon now works and i'm 50 quid lighter in the pocket. Talking of pockets, time to settle down to some snooker with a nice drink

 

[postman]

i am home from darkest Lancashire.Oh the joy of sleeping in my own bed.I managed my diy task.Putting a soap dish up without breaking tiles.sadly i have been found another job for the visit in June ,the removal of an archway.I ask myself am i the only friggin male in this family that can do diy.Personally i am getting a bit peeved that two other males do frack all and have never lifted a finger in decades.

 

[classic33]

You mostly had a swing out hob or probably two to sit the pans or kettle on and this swung in or out as required. There was also a hook sometimes fastened in the chimney to hang pots from.
My grandparents had that latter device in the croft house which was a modern one and not the old thatched roof type.
My parents lived in a couple of houses with such cooking arrangements which were regarded as normal at the time.
I remember them well.

A cooking crane, with the arm over the fire. An eye holding the upper end to the wall, the lower end resting on the stone at one side of the fire. Allowing you to swing the pot clear of the fire.

You either had fixed hooks or adjustable lengths. Taking the pot off, splitting the hook and raising or lowering the pot.

Last used one in July '81.

 

[Mike_P]

The car aircon now works and i'm 50 quid lighter in the pocket.

Not too bad, wait until the unit corrodes and that is somewhat more expensive.

Achieved what should be simple but which turned out quite difficult on eBay. Ordering a watch strap of the right colour, style, width and length; stacks listed but hardly any with any details of their length.

 

[KnittyNorah]

A nasty and often mis-understood condition, and flare ups can be bad. I met quite a few folk suffering with fibromyalgia when I attended Pain Clinic and some mindfulness classes when I fractured my spine. Despite them being quite horrified by my circumstances, I think fibromyalgia is much worse.

Agree. It's often mocked and dismissed - even by people who jolly well ought to know better. There have been lots of misleading and even harmful advice given to those suffering from it over the years, and little in the way of 'serious' research from what I can see. I hope that one bit of silver lining in the cloud known as Covid, will be that there may be some helpful progress via the research done into Long Covid, the symptoms of which seem in many cases to have remarkable similarities to the symptoms endured by those diagnosed with fibromyalgia and similar syndromes.

 

[tyred]

A cooking crane, with the arm over the fire. An eye holding the upper end to the wall, the lower end resting on the stone at one side of the fire. Allowing you to swing the pot clear of the fire.

You either had fixed hooks or adjustable lengths. Taking the pot off, splitting the hook and raising or lowering the pot.

Last used one in July '81.

They were called crooks around these parts.

 

[tyred]

I frightened a woman this evening, apparently.

Riding along about twenty MPH, I spotted a Volvo XC90 approaching the end of a driveway, being driven by a woman, sixty plus, who didn't look to be paying much attention to anything.

I expected her to drive into my path and slowed down. She did drive into my path, glanced my way, say me and stopped, half way across the road.

I had the situation completely under control. Since she had stopped blocking the road in her Tonka Toy, I deliberately stopped about and inch from her driver's door and looked straight at her.

She opened the window, I was waiting for an apology, instead got a load of a abuse about how dangerous cyclists are and how was she supposed to see me and how scared she was to pull out of her drive and see and a cyclist flying towards her car.

She could try looking where she's going for a start! It must be so scary to be sitting surrounded by airbags in a two-ton safety cell and find a Raleigh Pioneer bearing down on you!

 

[classic33]

They were called crooks around these parts.

Five counties down, on it's east coast it were a crane.
Helped fix one for someone who had come across one in their old family home. Not a proper blacksmith job, holes drilled out, but heated and hammered into shape. Bottom piece/bracket of the hanger hammered into place.