A45 shut again in case you're heading to Hamtun.. Scoffers café is on fire 🔥
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A45 shut again in case you're heading to Hamtun.. Scoffers café is on fire 🔥
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Ooh dear thankfully not it's Wollaston tonight
Survived to work and back with the Garmin. Completely forgot I hadn't used it since buying the new Varia so a spell at lunchtime entering that "sensor".
On the way home the controls on the ebike seemed loose. Transpired it doesn't need tightening as the casing broken where the hinge is. The parts are tightish around the handiebar so it looks like leave it as it is.
On the way home the controls on the ebike seemed loose. Transpired it doesn't need tightening as the casing broken where the hinge is. The parts are tightish around the handiebar so it looks like leave it as it is.
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Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
It's been a coolish, blusteryish and largely overcast day here chez Casa Reynard.
Did not sleep well. Brain wouldn't switch off, and then had the old "too hot, too cold" thing going on. So have blundered through the day feeling rather meh. Still, I met up with a friend and her dogs this morning for a lovely walk around the local playing fields. The grass there is yellow, and quite a few of the trees nearby are starting to drop their leaves.
I had a good putter in the garage. Got the cutting deck off the mower, and removed a whole bucket of assorted compacted plant and tree matter from the top and the rear chute. But when I tipped it onto its side, the cause of the jamming became clear. Namely the fibres from burdock stems. They'd twisted themselves around the blades and workings to form a sort of rope, which is what eventually brought the whole shebang to a juddering halt. Those fibres have some serious tensile strength to make a 12.5 hp mower cut out.
I had fun untangling that from the gap between the blades and the drive spindles. There's still some in there, but I've marinated the spindles in GT85, and hopefully I should be able to pick out the rest after it's done its thing.
A quiet evening is planned.
Did not sleep well. Brain wouldn't switch off, and then had the old "too hot, too cold" thing going on. So have blundered through the day feeling rather meh. Still, I met up with a friend and her dogs this morning for a lovely walk around the local playing fields. The grass there is yellow, and quite a few of the trees nearby are starting to drop their leaves.
I had a good putter in the garage. Got the cutting deck off the mower, and removed a whole bucket of assorted compacted plant and tree matter from the top and the rear chute. But when I tipped it onto its side, the cause of the jamming became clear. Namely the fibres from burdock stems. They'd twisted themselves around the blades and workings to form a sort of rope, which is what eventually brought the whole shebang to a juddering halt. Those fibres have some serious tensile strength to make a 12.5 hp mower cut out.
I had fun untangling that from the gap between the blades and the drive spindles. There's still some in there, but I've marinated the spindles in GT85, and hopefully I should be able to pick out the rest after it's done its thing.
A quiet evening is planned.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I have a bit of a dilemma, so throwing this open to my fellow mundaners. Am looking at buying a piece of wearable silver for a dear friend's Cake Day. Do I...
A) buy something hallmarked which is close to being a genuine antique
B) buy something which is hallmarked for their birth year, even though the style isn't quite so classic / timeless.
C) buy something more modern (although in a vintage style), which comes in the associated box, but is only stamped 925
Cost is much of a muchness, and it's the same type of item in each case.
A) buy something hallmarked which is close to being a genuine antique
B) buy something which is hallmarked for their birth year, even though the style isn't quite so classic / timeless.
C) buy something more modern (although in a vintage style), which comes in the associated box, but is only stamped 925
Cost is much of a muchness, and it's the same type of item in each case.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Anyways, time to feed the cat, and then it will be time to feed me.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
fifteen years on Cyclechat... that's five years longer than I've been at Aldi!
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Looks like we are going to get this overtime all week so I'm going to be knackered and commuting by car all week.
The guy who wanted to borrow a bike for a charity ride came and collected the Boardman hard tail today and he's interested in buying it at some point,it suits me as it's a bit on he large side for me anyway so we will see.
The guy who wanted to borrow a bike for a charity ride came and collected the Boardman hard tail today and he's interested in buying it at some point,it suits me as it's a bit on he large side for me anyway so we will see.
Gave the car a drink, 30 litres of the expensive stuff from the currently cheapest local source. A Texaco station @132.9. No one else there but Asdas as busy as usual a penny dearer.
Wairose and Adsa shopped primarily for frozen goods and trying to be quick about it backfired at the tills in both. The Waitrose one refusing to weigh the bananas and in Asda the Magnums came up at £3.48 instead of the shelf price of £2.74. Got them reduced.
Wairose and Adsa shopped primarily for frozen goods and trying to be quick about it backfired at the tills in both. The Waitrose one refusing to weigh the bananas and in Asda the Magnums came up at £3.48 instead of the shelf price of £2.74. Got them reduced.
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biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
It took me 35 mins to get to Wollaston compared to normal 10 minutes as A45 was closed to Rushden and all other roads around Wellingborough were gridlocked
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Lovely supper of roasted tomato & pesto pasta. Tomatoes from the garden, pesto homemade. 
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Watching the diamond league athletics form Lausanne. It's hosing it down over there.
Gwylan
Guru
- Location
- All at sea⛵
Bristol is full of alternatives.
Cyclists, drivers, loony pedestrians, people walking about in Ewok costumes.
All totally bonkers.
I'm really not used to what urban civilisation has become
Hercules thinks he has been hijacked and being held hostage inside a noisy van. He still refuses to talk
Then weird upon weird he is joined by another sick Cowboy. Doesn't even have a name, poor blighter.
Now they are locked together in this van.
Will they break and tell all their secrets?
Cyclists, drivers, loony pedestrians, people walking about in Ewok costumes.
All totally bonkers.
I'm really not used to what urban civilisation has become
Hercules thinks he has been hijacked and being held hostage inside a noisy van. He still refuses to talk
Then weird upon weird he is joined by another sick Cowboy. Doesn't even have a name, poor blighter.
Now they are locked together in this van.
Will they break and tell all their secrets?
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
I'd suggest B here.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Evening cuppa went down well