Mundane News

[Reynard]

Better quit while I'm ahead, so time to put the art stuff away.

This drawing is really pushing the boundaries of my draughtsmanship due to the view and perspective - the photo I'm working from was taken by a tall bloke with a wide angle (probably 20mm) lens, so everything is distorted. Some subtly, some less so. Ergo if a line or bit of shading is just a fraction out, it looks totally wrong. It's too easy to make mistakes, so this is best worked in small doses and while the mind and eyes are fresh.

 

[classic33]

Funny, was talking about that just the other night with someone.

Well, it'd beat talking about the rain we had yesterday.

 

[DCLane]

It is still pouring rain.

Please keep it.

 

[classic33]

Half a dozen available

 

[Gravity Aided]

Bond, Ernie Bond has given me £100. A useful sum, which will go towards the extra help I need currently.

There could be some left over to lend to Kiva.

In other news, I have received a "Blue Badge". Our overseas correspondents may like to know that this means I will get free parking in a Blue Badge parking bay.

I do not envisage using it very often, but in an emergency, it will help. These parking bays are usually close to entrances of hospitals,

Here, we have a tag which hangs from the rearview mirror. Blue for permanent, red for temporary.

 

[rockyroller]

Wifey & I had dinner together. only omelettes but we don't usually eat dinner together. breakfast yes

 

[rockyroller]

had our gutters cleaned. took them 2 tries to get the back one adequately

before

after first cleaning

after the second cleaning

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

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Half a dozen available

Does it peel every hour?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I'm having one of those occasional bouts of insomnia. This means I need to grind some fresh coffee, which in turn means I'm going to make a lot of noise because it's a noisy thing. I don't really want to be making lots of noise at this time in the morning but needs must.

 

[biggs682]

Right time for a ride

 

[PeteXXX]

I'm up. Dog's out in the garden tiddling. Tea's brewing.

 

[PeteXXX]

It's ♻️ and Garden Waste Bin Day today.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Yer a braver man than me, trusting yer money to a phone.

I keep it to a minimum. Most things can be handled with Paypal and I refuse to do the "put your card on a phone" thing: I've seen enough customers unable to pay for something because their phone won't connect/died.

Very occasionally (and this may be a German thing) I need to pay for something with a direct transfer. I can do that on my laptop, but I have to confirm the payment to the bank via a phone app.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Well, everything I've seen seems to say the same thing, use a pair of tweezers(fine plastic to avoid shorting the terminals), to remove the card.
Tray came out complete, in one piece?

I can't even see the card, even under a magnifying lamp, and my finest tweezers don't fit. I used a needle fine scoring tool to see if I could find anything, but nothing wanted to move.

 

[Gwylan]

New adventure today. Train to Cardiff then a few days pootling.
My experience is that painting lines on the road doesn't make a city bike friendly.
We shall see.