Mundane News

[Mike_P]

New dehumidifier arrived before 10 which was convenient as I had another 1030 in the office for the final presentation on the new document. Slighly zonked as this covered far too much.
Back home to set the dehumidifier up at lunchtime and realised it doesn't have a piped outlet. The water tank is partially on the outside so it could be adopted. Nicely smaller than the previous is simpler to get a bike either side of it.

66 miles of work visits done this afternoon. Sunny but a chilly breeze. Eventually saw a cyclist and ages later after the ice warning light had been lit on the dashboard another, before coming to a stop on the A61 for a group of five crossing on the Nidderdale Greenway after which hopefully the car did not get too gritted by two gritters

 

[rockyroller]

Make that 2 ****ing hours late to Leeds with possibly time to grab a sandwich from Tesco . Got stuck behind a slow moving freight train on the way to Peterborough and missed the connection by 1 minute

that's gotta be frustrating

 

[rockyroller]

Well that's interesting, I've just had a guy at the door wanting to sign me up for doorstep milk deliveries. I thought they all died out decades ago.

we still have the metal insulated milk box from who knows when. looks something like this

 

[biggs682]

Evening cuppa went down well enough with a jaffa cake
3 degrees c according to the car on the way home

 

[Mike_P]

Decided BMW drivers must have been ginger cats on a previous life. Barking one in Sainsbury's car park this evening backing into a space when the space behind it was empty. This afternoon actually found one indicating at at a roundabout but theg got it wrong by indicating right when going straight on. Caused me to stop unnecessarily.

 

[mistyoptic]

Decided BMW drivers must have been ginger cats on a previous life. Barking one in Sainsbury's car park this evening backing into a space when the space behind it was empty. This afternoon actually found one indicating at at a roundabout but theg got it wrong by indicating right when going straight on. Caused me to stop unnecessarily.

Don’t understand. Are you saying he should have driven round to the next lane so that he could drive through forwards? Why?

 

[Mike_P]

Don’t understand. Are you saying he should have driven round to the next lane so that he could drive through forwards? Why?

Could have driven through the space they were reversing into to the other space if they wanted to exit forward.

 

[Jenkins]

that's gotta be frustrating
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More than slightly, so I took the frustration out on a few pints of Kirkstall Judicious during the gig this evening. In better news, today's email dump from the various ticket companies has given me four possible away days to check when I get home on Friday.

Thanks to the various delays, I only had time to grab a sandwich when I got to Leeds, have a coffee to go with the sarnie and then a shower before heading off to the Brudenell. An excellent evening of music and one of my favourite beers (see above) has been followed by a hot chocolate and next up one final beer before bedtime.

 

[Reynard]

A bright and sunny day here chez Casa Reynard, albeit with something of a lazy and very chilly breeze.

Did not sleep well. Couldn't get comfy, brain wouldn't switch off, and had the old "too hot, too cold" thing again. Hey ho. Downstairs, fed the cat, made myself a and took it upstairs to do a little bit of writing. A short session today, as I met up with my friend Linda for a nice walk with her dogs around the community orchard and nature reserve. It was nice to have a good chinwag and set the world to rights. Picked some late season apples in the orchard (Lord Burghley and New Rock Pippin), and stopped off at the book exchange on the way home. Picked up a Michael Morpurgo book I fancied reading.

Forewent luncheon, and went straight out into the garden to do firewood. Had to strip a load of ivy away, but cut one heaped wheelbarrow of smaller wood and one heaped wheelbarrow of larger chunks. Also hauled in a couple of large ash branches that I noticed had come down.

Fizzed through the chores, chucked a and a banana down the hatch, and then went into town to sort out a few things. Wanted to look for something in the haberdashers, and since they close at five, that was the first place I went to. Annoyingly, they had neither of the things I needed. Hey ho, Bay of E it is, then... Did get the other things i wanted.

Home, got the fire going and have been watching the footy and catching up on the sumo. Food has been of the raid-the-fridge variety.