Mundane News

[Reynard]

It's been a pleasant enough day here chez Casa Reynard after a pretty murky start.

Slept well, but the get-up-and-go is still rather AWOL. That said, I had a busy morning in the kitchen to do the food prep / load the crock pot for tonight's supper. I also popped out for a brief bicycular bimble to go walnutting at the tree nearest to me. Added another 27 nuts to my stashette.

Didn't feel like luncheon. Afternoon was spent erranding. Swung by the vets to pick up Madam's Arthrocam, and thence to Tesco for bread, milk, eggs and potatoes. Managed to pick the latter up on sticker, and also picked up some bog roll on a good clubcard offer.

Cat has been fed - she turned her nose up at the pate with ocean fish, but the pate with beef seems more to her liking. I am about to give her a dose of meds, and then it will be time to feed me.

 

[Reynard]

Fabby supper of sausage, bacon & lentil casserole, a jacket potato and steamed savoy cabbage

 

[Jenkins]

I have ordered an item for collection at Argos. The only store with stock locally is in Stowmarket and they won't transfer to Felixstowe or do delivery. So that's tomorrow's bike ride and lunch out sorted, plus a train ride home.

The evening's hot chocolate has just been made.

Edit - I've also plotted a route for a potential few hours out for Wednesday as well.

 

[tyred]

The spell of nice weather seems to have ground to a halt today.

First day of the working week completed without any unwanted drama or customers dying, which is always a good start to the week!

I didn't really fancy a night ride in the rain this evening as it can be difficult to see where I am going, so I went for a second perambulation beneath the coverage of my large golf umbrella ☔

 

[classic33]

I am sure there are people on this thread who have young children or grandchildren. Without getting political, I have a question about school libraries. This follows a speech at a party conference.

If schools have already closed their "libraries" to create another classroom, they presumably still do not have enough space. I would think that an easier option is to have a (large) bookcase/cupboard with a selection of books aimed at the age/ability of that class. I recall a scheme whereby big Libraries would loan books to small schools for perhaps a term. This ensures a turn around of books.

What do your grand/children have for a library?

The local library had to relocate* to near the upper site of the school for nearly five years. Other than the initial few days when the library re-opened, and the school brought the kids into the library, there was seldom any school kids actually using it.
The story repeated earlier this year when it re-opened near it's old site near the lower school site. The first few days of opening, the school brought them up to the library. Very little use by the school since. Both sites have a library in one of the wider, main corridors, not in a separate classroom. So no room has been lost.

*The library closed due to lockdown, then an arson attack sealed it's fate. Prior promises led to the new one being built.

 

[tyred]

Opera has been doing some strange things on this computer since the last update. It no longer seems to remember what tabs I had open previously even though it is set to do so and it defaults to X login screen which I have never used in my life.

Computer still giving me warnings because the latest Win11 update can't be installed on this computer either. I am tempted to try Linux again, although I can't really be bothered installing it. I used to enjoy doing all the tech stuff with computers and messing around with things like that. Now I'd rather ride my bike and just want a computer that works.

I have gone full circle from hating and criticising Windows and enjoying Linux to having a long issue free run with an XP machine and then 8.1 (and I only stopped using 8.1 as they stopped supporting it. That was the best computer I ever had but the hardware was too basic to upgrade to 11) to this Win11 Laptop and never really liking 11. And now it's saying it can't install updates. I bought this laptop with 11 installed as I wanted something up to date that would be hassle free. And here we are!!!

 

[tyred]

The local library had to relocate* to near the upper site of the school for nearly five years. Other than the initial few days when the library re-opened, and the school brought the kids into the library, there was seldom any school kids actually using it.
The story repeated earlier this year when it re-opened near it's old site near the lower school site. The first few days of opening, the school brought them up to the library. Very little use by the school since. Both sites have a library in one of the wider, main corridors, not in a separate classroom. So no room has been lost.

*The library closed due to lockdown, then an arson attack sealed it's fate. Prior promises led to the new one being built.

In the 1980s, we had a mobile library that came to the school every Thursday and provided whatever books were needed and we could borrow non-school books for ourselves too. Nice old Commer Walkthrough van. Haven't seen one of them in many years.

 

[Reynard]

In infant school (late 1970s), there were always shelves of age-appropriate books in each classroom (we stayed in the same room all day), and there was a proper library just across the road.

Prep school, the library was built into the corridor where our classrooms were situated, providing both benches and screening.

Senior school (same site, different building) had a dedicated library and study space which took up half of one floor. The library came with a librarian attached. Not quite Madam Pince, but close...

 

[Gravity Aided]

I lived not terribly far from the town library, which was a gift from Andrew Carnegie. Replaced by the current one after Sen. Dirksen died, and has a congressional research center as well. I also grew up in a house with a library, tho.(Currently reading Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson)

 

[Reynard]

I lived not terribly far from the town library, which was a gift from Andrew Carnegie. Replaced by the current one after Sen. Dirksen died, and has a congressional research center as well. I also grew up in a house with a library, tho.(Currently reading Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson)

I think my whole cottage is a library LOL... Can't think of a room without books in it!

 

[Reynard]

I has a tired, ergo I am heading off to bed via a nice hot bath.

Nunnight one and all xxx

 

[Speicher]

I think my whole cottage is a library LOL... Can't think of a room without books in it!

I have not got any books in the bathroom, but all the other rooms have some books, more books, or lots of books.

 

[biggs682]

Time for a ride

 

[PeteXXX]

I'm up. Dog's out in the garden tiddling. Tea's brewing. First load of washing in the machine on Night-time leccy.

 

[Illaveago]

Morning.
Sunny with some cloud here this morning.
Georgie has been in and had some food. He stopped to have a few strokes and has disappeared.