Mundane News

[yello]

What I thought might be a classic car show yesterday turned out to be probably just a club run. By the time I'd breakfasted and coffeed, they'd all gone. Shame, I would have liked a closer nosey about.

 

[PeteXXX]

Surprisingly busy day today!
Lots of chores have been chored...

 

[Andy in Germany]

It's Oktoberfest in Stuttgart. Apparently no-one in Deutsche Bahn has heard of this so they're still running shortened trains over the weekend. As a lot of people now have the "Germany Ticket" and are effectively travelling for free, this means the train was somewhat full...

 

[Mike_P]

Fruit juice ran out this morning. At look at the Trolley app revealed the 45% off offer which was absent for the last one was at Morrisons.
eHybrid dragged out of its slumbers, tyres pumped up and it turned out to be another bike with a sluggish and noisy front hydraulic brake. 3 cartons of fruit juice weighted the rucksack and another £2 off £20 voucher acquired.
After a coffee a Co-op trek to use up the weeks vouchers and yet again another long dated reduced item, flapjacks best before 23 Oct.
The eHybrid had a lever bleed, then then the disc cleared and sandpaper on the pads.
Then investigated the new bike further and the inside plunger to the front brake hardly moves. Sprayed it with disc brake cleaner but no change. YouTube didn't seem to have any answer as all seen to assume it moves out far enough to lubricate with hydraulic fluid.

 

[simongt]

Whilst wandering through Wymondham on Friday after 'raiding' the Friday market, came a cross a slightly worse for wear road bike outside a shop.
Black alu Alfa Romeo frame, Giant front forks, probably carbon. Campagnolo rims, Shimano drive train, canti brakes.
An interesting mix - !

 

[Illaveago]

Just looked at the ‘Earliest picture’ thread too. I don’t have any of me in my childhood at all, not until leaving secondary school aged 16. I don’t know what happened to any of the photo’s that my late parents had, nothing was mentioned/offered when my brother and sister cleared the house. I don’t know if they just binned them.

That's very sad.

 

[Illaveago]

What do people put on their chains. I have been trying to clean the cranks and rear mech which I bought yesterday. There was some thick black gunge which seemed to have baked on, what normally softens with white spirit didn't and I had to use a flat bladed screwdriver like a chisel to scrape it off.

 

[biggs682]

Evening cuppa went down well

Whats this lubing chains malarky .....

 

[colly]

Evening cuppa went down well

Whats this lubing chains malarky .....

Dunno. I don't like the sound of it. The only thing I use 'lube' for is........................................

 

[classic33]

Dunno. I don't like the sound of it. The only thing I use 'lube' for is........................................

There's some things you might not want to know.

 

[Reynard]

It's been a pleasant and mostly sunny day here chez Casa Reynard.

Slept like a log for ten hours after yesterday's trip to the joint Russian & Korat shows at Bugbrooke. Had a lovely day stewarding, and cuddled some super cats, including a lovely Russian Black neuter boy, and a tortie ped pet kitten. Also won two classes in their photo show, and bought some lovely hand-knitted toys for Madam Boo.

A quiet day today. Listened to the F1 on the radio (sort of catch up, as I was on about 40 mins delay) while tucked up in bed with the cat and a

Then downstairs, fed the cat, did a few chores and put stuff away.

A lovely lunch of tiger bread with german sausage, a packet of crisps, some cake and a small pot of tea.

Have spent the afternoon watching and listening to various sports and had a nice chatty phone call with a cat show friend who lives out Burbage way. Also squeezed in doing two loads of laundry - one general stuff, and the other some white t-shirts and my white coat that I wear for stewarding & judging.

Had a big bowl of congee with ginger, dried shrimp and savoy cabbage (into which I dumped an egg) for supper.

Now watching Denver Broncos v SF 49ers

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

That's very sad.

To be fair, we don’t have any kids so even if I had acquired any of the old family photo’s they would end up getting binned by whoever does our house clearance when the time comes.

 

[Reynard]

Oh, and I totally forgot about a Bay of E auction for a skin diver watch that I wanted to bid in.

Annoyingly, it went for £1.19.

 

[Jenkins]

I must have needed this afternoon's kip more than I realised as I was out for a little under 45 minutes. Missed all the non-racing part of the Grand Prix recording that I'd put on to watch, coming round just as they were being sent to the grid for the second time. Post tea time I finally got round to watching the action and have done very little else apart from the washing up and making the evening's hot chocolate.

Really fancy a snack.

 

[Reynard]

Never mind the American Football...

First two eps of season 2 of ST: strange new worlds is on.