Mundane News (Part 1)

[Hill Wimp]

Got to go and do the food shopping - that's just plain dull.

 

[classic33]

I have found another dirty window on a train.

Clean it, don't just sit there complaining about it.

 

[asterix]

Clean it, don't just sit there complaining about it.

Let us know when you have done it.

 

[Puddles]

Previously banned from lunch boxes (along with the usual un-healthy things)

Nuts, Eggs, Kiwi Fruit

Added to this list is now Pears

It is a bit of a bugger cos I sent Squidge in with Homemade Pear Yoghurt all last week and no horror befell the child allergic to pears

 

[Moon bunny]

I can see one spider eating another through my living room window.

 

[classic33]

Mundane news, well, not so mundane news really:

I was in the house myself, about to go to bed, but first filling up buckets of water to change in the fish tank in the morning when I suddenly heard this almighty 'THUMP!' Noise, seemingly from up the stairs. It really sounded like some sort of small explosion.

Now, I have a bit of a fertile imagination when I'm left alone like that at night, so, I was thinking 'oh my! (more like 'Oh crap') What could that be? Has something very large just fallen over (coupled with the question of 'why? Things don't fall over themselves' It sounded like a loaded book shelf or similar!)?? Has something just happened to the house or nearby? Is there someone up there waiting for me? Have I watched too many murder dramas and Crimewatch over the years? How would they have got up there without me noticing? That said I have heard a few strange sounds throughout the evening, so..... Err..... Oh pull yourself together Douglas!'
Watching Taggart et al as a kid seems to have had a lasting impression on me!

I went up the stairs and found nothing. So what could it be? Something under the eaves that has gone bang?
I get on the phone to my folks to enquire about anything water wise (I was filling buckets at the time remember) that could do that, but there was nothing they could think of and there was no evidence of water anywhere anyway, so I was told to look outside (which I was about to do anyway).

I go outside and almost immediately I see something that doesn't seem to make sense.
'What am I looking at? I shouldn't be able to see that! Where has the wall gone?'

Almost all of the garden wall has collapsed, toppled to be more exact, still intact into the lane. This wall (or ex wall more like) isn't anything small, our garden is long and narrow, and it circles us on 3 sides. The wall is, however very old and has been falling to bits for years. It has finally given up the ghost on probably the longest side, over 100 feet long!! (I measured it. Ask @Pat "5mph", she has seen the garden!).

No wonder there was a loud noise (which must have gone right through the house, hence why I thought it had come from elsewhere), I don't know how heavy it was, but it must have been quite a substantial amount all falling over at once! I'm just glad nobody was injured (as far as I'm aware).

Now comes the 'what next?' bit. Something would have been had to have been done about it sooner or later anyway.

I hope you picked it up & placed it somewhere safe. Where no-one can fall over it & where none of the light fingered larry brigade can get their hands on it!!

 

[Arch]

Previously banned from lunch boxes (along with the usual un-healthy things)

Nuts, Eggs, Kiwi Fruit

Added to this list is now Pears

It is a bit of a bugger cos I sent Squidge in with Homemade Pear Yoghurt all last week and no horror befell the child allergic to pears

So if one kid is allergic to something, no one gets to have that in their lunch?

Surely eventually that will rule out anything but water?

 

[Hill Wimp]

Putting away the food shopping.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Putting away the food shopping.

Need any help

 

[biggs682]

Today i have welcomed my Marin Bear Valley back to my fleet of bikes i have had this since 1992 done countless miles on it , it was last used about 4 years ago , but today its been on a 2 mile test ride ready for some more miles in the future long live the Marin

 

[colly]

Speaking of winter.............I'm allergic to that horrible fabric Elastoplast.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Lots of Jaffa cakes, and doughnuts, I hope

No but i did have, i said have as i have eaten it, a lovely lemon meringue pastry which i could eat all over again.

 

[Mattonsea]

Another Tea break the stupid Harvester has broke again. I might be in next Tuesday . oh and the radio is stuck on Radio 1

 

[Hill Wimp]

Another Tea break the stupid Harvester has broke again. I might be in next Tuesday . oh and the radio is stuck on Radio 1

Throw the radio out the window and sing to the cows, milk yield will go up and the cows will love you even more.

Can't help on the harvester but pretty certain @Arch and @Night Train would love to get their hands on it.

 

[toptom]

I've just updated my phone to iOS 7