Mundane News

[DCLane]

@tom73 - Stroopwaffels are nice. I use them on audax rides.

You probably didn't want to know that

 

[Illaveago]

4 Hedgehogs out there tonight. One is eating sunflower seeds spilt by the birds .

 

[DCLane]

The last of my students who have extra time in the exam I started off at 10am yesterday have 5 minutes left to submit. I think there's still one out there completing it.

According to my tracking data two never signed in to start the exam, one's ill and another contacted me feeling ill so didn't submit. Everyone else is accounted for except one ...

I'm tired.

Edited: they didn't make it and won't be submitting.

 

[Jenkins]

So much for this morning's plans. I opened the shed to get the bike out to go shopping and was hit by the smell of the bags of fermenting grass clippings I'd put in there on Saturday and forgot about! Went back indoors and made a booking for the recycling centre for about an hour later and combined that with the shopping and getting the fuel for the weekend to save time not having to do that on the way out on Saturday. I was even given a voucher for 5p/litre off the fuel by someone in the queue while waiting to pay and that saved me £1

The weather even cleared up for the afternoon with some decent sunshine - even if it was a bit breezy - so I got out on the bike for a couple of hours.

 

[Jenkins]

Oh, and the gap between making the booking and leaving for the recycling centre was productively filled by changing the bedding and putting the removed stuff in the wash. When I got home, the wash cycle had not long finished and the machine was beeping away merrily to let me know.

 

[classic33]

The last of my students who have extra time in the exam I started off at 10am yesterday have 5 minutes left to submit. I think there's still one out there completing it.

According to my tracking data two never signed in to start the exam, one's ill and another contacted me feeling ill so didn't submit. Everyone else is accounted for except one ...

I'm tired.

Edited: they didn't make it and won't be submitting.

No breaks to answer "natures call" resulting in extra time?

 

[Gwylan]

I have been cycling for several days. Not continuously but enthusiastically.

Returned to find my irreverent contributions judged to be irrelevant have been removed.

Funny old world.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Well our Venga passed its MOT with 2 adversaries.
I went to see the road at Lyneham Banks. A landslide had blocked the road so I cycled along to have a look at it . It is no more! The hill has slumped and taken a whole section of the road with it . Pictures have shown the road twisted a bit like the suspension bridge which destroyed itself frozen in time . The road is missing apart from a few sections of tarmac not where they should be . I was amazed by the cross section of the tarmac layers going down 6 feet! I know the area was prone to land slips but to see that depth of tarmac!
I waited in that area as it was nice and peaceful with birds singing away . I saw a male Bullfinch! I haven't seen one for years .

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPjAeJxQT8A

 

[Gravity Aided]

Is there an area called "Pensylvania Dutch"? The Dutch was a misspelling of "Deutsch". I am sure some of our foreign correspondents will know.

Part of Eastern Pennsylvania around Lancaster had a lot of them Paradise, Bird-in-Hand, a number of other communities. Illinois has some as well, centered around Arthur and Tuscola and Tolono, and there is a colony of them at Amana, in Iowa, among other places. Stricter versions of Anabaptists like Mennonites and Apostolic Christians. Used to have communities in our area as well, but they could not maintain the lifestyle and became Mennonites and A.C.

 

[biggs682]

Time for a ride

 

[Mo1959]

Time for a ride

Going to attempt a short one too, although there’s the chance of rain so not sure which bike

 

[Andy in Germany]

Good morning. I'm obviously recovering because I'm starting to wake up earlier.

Weather looks good but as I'm officially still signed off sick I probably shouldn't go out for a ride...

 

[Illaveago]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPjAeJxQT8A

If you were to freeze the action in 2 places you would get an example of what the road looked like, the severe twist and the missing bit .
They think the land slip was due to building on the hillside above that section of road . It is thought that too much weight was piled up above on the hill causing the slip which took the road out . It has been out for over a year and doesn't seem to have anything done for another year.

 

[Illaveago]

Morning.
It is sunny here . I had better get moving soon so that I can go out and collect my prescription .
I was paid a compliment by an old lady in the chemist's yesterday . She thought I looked like Jeremy Corbin !

 

[DCLane]

No breaks to answer "natures call" resulting in extra time?

Nope. Given the time they had anything beyond 10 minutes late wouldn't be marked.