Mundane News

[biggs682]

Thinking about going for a walk but only thinking 🤔

 

[Illaveago]

Maybe you should look up mountain stages in the Vuelta.

The name didn't mean a thing to me. I asked my friend who is Italian by birth but lived here for 70 years, a keen cyclist with a son riding for a cycling team if he knew what the name meant but he didn't know. I just googled it.
I have watched some of the Vuelta but it not as well put together as the ITV TdF. I have found some of the commentators irritating. The TdF was a bit of a travel programme as well as a cycle race, lovely scenery and historical facts given about places on the route. I might have to watch it in future but will have to see. I have watched a couple of Giro stages but the filming is poor and fuzzy in comparison.

 

[biggs682]

Walk has been travelled
Just one 2012 plate BMW sat kerbside unattended and diesel engine running.
Mainly blue sky and dry underfoot just need the sunshine.
First cuppa brewing

 

[Illaveago]

Morning. It is grey and frosty here.
Georgie briefly sat on my legs. He is now sat next to them.

 

[Illaveago]

My wife just read out all of the side effects I could look forward to after having my hormone injection.

 

[Illaveago]

Due to unexpected high demand for our limited edition models we have produced another 100,000.

 

[biggs682]

First cuppa went down well
Radiator has been bled

 

[Jenkins]

Good morning from a fourth floor hotel room in Nottingham. Only a very short rest as I was having a leisurely breakfast, looked at my watch and had an "Oh Bugger" moment.

 

[biggs682]

Second cuppa went down well with a slice of toast.
Food delivery has been delivered.
Office radiator now gets warm .
Solar panels are exporting

 

[PeteXXX]

Walkies has been walked 🐶
It's a lovely day but slightly nippy ❄️

 

[Gwylan]

There are 160g of Jelly Babies in a Haribo bag from Poundland. Or at least there were....

Shrinkflation, again.

 

[Jenkins]

You know you're running late when a 20 minute stroll from the hotel to the train station only takes 15 minutes. At least it warmed me up on a very chilly morning and I'm now on the train about to set off.

In other good news, the refund from last Friday's delay has been paid and I have a code for a free hot drink which will be redeemed when I get to Ipswich.

 

[Gwylan]

Out for an explore of Nieuwpoort. Very chilly.
Got back just before the rain.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Lady Slowmotion suggested that moles left hills because they pushed soil out from below ground whereas rabbits excavated from above ground. I say tosh to this theory. After only a body length deep, a rabbit is in exactly the same excavation mode as Moley.
I think the rabbits have read The Great Escape.

During a bout of insomnia last night, I got up, made myself a pot of tea and began thinking of the roles of moles and the habits of rabbits. It occurred to me that nearly all the molehills we see are while they're hunting for worms and bugs and, as such, they're pretty much one use only. They're pretty much freshly dug. (Though they, like rabbits build more permanent tunnels for nesting. These tunnels are sometimes covered with a mound of earth, apparently called a fortress, which is there for insulation.) Rabbit burrows and warrens are likely to have been there for a good while and the excavated soil will have dissipated and been reabsorbed into the surface.

Mole trivia: a mole used to be called a wand in Old English, and a molehill used to be called a wantitump. It's a great name, I reckon. Though not to be confused with a wanty Trump, which is a different thing entirely.

 

[Jenkins]

...In other good news, the refund from last Friday's delay has been paid...

Only to be submitting yet another claim for today's trip as we were running 15 minutes late on a 1 hour journey to Peterborough so a missed connection at Ely. It will go towards the next bookings I've got to make for February which go on sale soon.