Tea? (Part 2)

[tdr1nka]

Thanks for the offer Helen, it's not the spreadsheet itself more the contents that I am having problems with.

I'm putting together the order for the new bikes and all additional materials to replace those lost in our fire.
All I need to do is be given a kick up the a*se to knuckle down and learn the system in place and not stress out because it is not the way I have gone about these jobs in the past.

 

[Arch]

<KICK>

Now, that tidying up of the assorted paperwork spreading across my dining table/desk...

 

[TheDoctor]

Evenings!!!
I have established that getting the train from North Wales is better than driving. If only Virgin had better trains than those Voyager things...
And 15 trillion boos to the scum of Milton Keynes who tried to break into the car, but just smashed the lock barrel into the door and yanked the door a little way open, so the battery went flat
May the fleas of a thousand syphilitic camels infest their underwear.

 

[wafflycat]

Mornings.

Bad news, that, Doc.

Breakfast had. I was adventurous this morning, as I had pear on my porridge instead of peach.

 

[TheDoctor]

Cheers Waff. It's more irritating than anything else.
Up till then it had been a nice day, apart from ending up in a river...

 

[wafflycat]

Now you don't just stop telling at that poitn...

 

[TheDoctor]

Yesterday I went for a ride on Anglesey with Plax, and the path we were on went near a river, then next to a river, and finally into the river, which had broken its banks somewhat.
It was very cold, and very very wet. We then came back via a hardware shop, where Plax bought a new coal scuttle. Fitted nicely on the rack of the Brommie, but it must have looked a bit comical. I can however, vouch that Bromptons are perfectly stable at 25mph downhill, with a tailwind. And a coal scuttle.

 

[DJ]

*Slurping my own Tea, and offers the pot round to anyone who wants some*.

Where you on the coal face there Doc?[groan]

Horrible scum in Milton Keynes yugh.

Wish me lick, or luck even I have an exam this avo!!! Aparrently if I pass I receive £25 worth of M&S vouchers!!!!! Now theres incentive!!!! One can never have too smalls after all!!!!!!

 

[wafflycat]

Evenings.

Had six inches of length chopped off my hair today. Did more driving with WCMnr.

 

[Arch]

Evenings.

Had six inches of length chopped off my hair today. Did more driving with WCMnr.

As opposed to six inches of width? I suppose you could, if you had a really big affro....

Belated good exam luck DJ...

Doc, may I suggest that you're a total wally! That was never going to end well.... I came across a couple of flood signs out on Saturday - two turned out to be out of date (although the water was still across the fields either side) and the final one very much true - the road outside the Ship Inn at Acaster was water as far as I could see. Now, I might have kept my feet dry, as they were a good foot or so off the ground, but I'd have been sure to get a soggy bum, as that was only about 6" up.... Luckily, there was another way home.

It rained a lot on the way home today, but I enjoyed the ride - I was fully water proof, and the spray coming off the front of my front mudguard was illuminated by my light, so that it looked like I was riding an angle grinder.

The river's up from yesterday already, having only gone down last week. Rowntree park is once again the city's largest municipal pond, with ducks swimming smugly around the climbing frames....

 

[Arch]

MOnd you, I'd like to see a coal scuttle on a Brompton. Was it a Carradice or Ortlieb coal scuttle....

 

[TheDoctor]

The original suggestion was to hand it off the handlebars in a carrier-bag stylee. Given that Plax was parked two miles down the road, we could have come back in the car and got it, but where's the potential danger fun in that???

 

[Arch]

The original suggestion was to hand it off the handlebars in a carrier-bag stylee. Given that Plax was parked two miles down the road, we could have come back in the car and got it, but where's the potential danger fun in that???

Or one of you could have up-ended it and worn it over your head - either like a helmet, or a Dalek, depending on the size of coal scuttle....

BTW, while we're on the subject, a fancy Victorian cupboard for holding coal by the fireplace is called a perdonium. My godmother found one in an antique shop in Leicester when visited and got very excited, and it still sits beside her fireplace in Norwich. She carried it home on the train....

 

[Speicher]

I once carried a large green watering can home on the train,from Hereford, got some very strange looks. But not as strange as the time I travelled home by train from Bristol with a very large teddy bear, about three foot tall, but I think I have told you about that already.

 

[Arch]

We've developed a bit of a family joke - when I visited my sister just after Oli was born, my Mum asked me to take a present from her, from Lakeland (she doesn't have one in Leicester, I do in York). It was a kitchen roll holder with a ratchet so that you can tear a sheet off single handed - very useful when holding a small person in one arm. So I did, although it turned out to have a very heavy base, and I joked about lugging the weight.

Next time I went down, Mum said, could I get something from Lakeland... This time it was a stair basket (shaped to sit on a step, you bung stuff to go upstairs in it, to save multiple trips). That was light, but, well, a basket shaped to sit on a step.

Now, whenever I go, we joke about what I should take on the train. Ironing board, set of kitchen scales and weights, stepladder...

Last time I had a tiny bike and thought that was odd until a chap got on at Sheffield carrying a viola and a framed picture.