Mundane News

[Jenkins]

Good morning from Suffolk where it's been a grey, damp and misty start to the day. With rain on the way it looks like another indoor day ahead. Coffee has been had.

@Illaveago 's car battery problems from yesterday reminded me that I really need to give my car a run as it hasn't been moved since Ch****mas Eve, but that probably won't be happening today with the mist & rain. Just hope that the solar battery maintainer has been able to keep enough trickle charge to overcome the draining effects of the cold.

 

[Illaveago]

Oh well that didn't go down well.

MrsF has mentioned why don't I go bike packing a bit more, and a few months ago mentioned I'd like a new bike for that. Happened to mention it last night, bad mistake. She was like' well I bet you've already got one'. I said, I was considering a "bike to work" one.

Given she's been to Croatia, Scotland, Anglesey and now Iceland on swimming holidays, I don't think a bike is that expensive... and the fact that I am the only earner in the house ?

Did she swim all the way to Croatia?

Amazing!

 

[Illaveago]

Morning.
It is grey and drizzling here.
I must have saved quite a bit fitting the car battery myself. If I had gone by what the warning light on the dash had said, I would have taken it to a garage to sort out the handbrake calibration warning and then for them to tell me that I needed a new battery. It took me almost an hour to fit as it was hidden away in the boot with electronics fixed to a metal bracket above it. So I suppose £300+ ?

 

[biggs682]

Time for my second cuppa and a slice of toast.
When I look at other cycle chat members posts I realise how lucky I am .

 

[PeteXXX]

Dog's been walked 🐶
Coffee is percolating ☕

I'm checking out/mapping a route I hope to hike soon.

 

[Jenkins]

And now the rain has arrived to add to the general grottyness of the day.

 

[fossyant]

Morning.
It is grey and drizzling here.
I must have saved quite a bit fitting the car battery myself. If I had gone by what the warning light on the dash had said, I would have taken it to a garage to sort out the handbrake calibration warning and then for them to tell me that I needed a new battery. It took me almost an hour to fit as it was hidden away in the boot with electronics fixed to a metal bracket above it. So I suppose £300+ ?

I dread the day the van needs a battery. Someone else can do it. It's in the engine bay, at the 'top'. I say top, it's a good two foot drop down to the battery from the bonnet so needs you to climb in. Add that with all the electronic gubbins (like you mention above) attached to it, and other 'stuff' in the way... nah.

 

[biggs682]

My 11.30 hot drink has run late and was made at 11.55 instead and I had a hot chocolate with green top milk as it's getting close to the use by date

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

A thoroughly wet and miserable morning has just given way to sudden sunshine, most welcome

 

[tom73]

That town done and washing sorted out and drying off. Still looking good out and quite sunny really given the time of year.

 

[PeteXXX]

I managed to get some gardening done between rain showers as it's Brown Bin Day tomorrow..
It's nearly half full which was a bit of a surprise!

 

[DCLane]

The final, final, deadline for students on my module plus one I'm looking after, is in 10 minutes' time.

Cue the final scramble from nine students on my module of 100 who struggle to manage their time despite using a week extra ... Oh, and I've had two with a 'crisis' in the last 15 minutes as well. The other module has about 20 to submit of 300+

Thing is, I guessed who the ones struggling to meet the deadline would be as they're always late anyway, whereas most of those who submitted early are prepared and organised. Oh, and more employable.

 

[biggs682]

Lunchtime stroll completed it's trying hard to rain but at 2 drops per minute it's not what I call rain.

 

[dicko]

In an hours time I will have been married for Fifty Three years, that calls for a drink I think.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

A ride of 1.5 hours in the rain. The price of milder weather. Nice quiet outing