Mundane News

[Reynard]

Think I might manage another and slice of toast before settling down to watch the cricket.

Got the sweats now. And feels like I'm trying to swallow razor blades.

 

[biggs682]

Another working week completed for me and another manic one

 

[tom73]

Just seen Mrs 73 off on her drive up home for the mother outlaw surprise birthday weekend. I'm saying at home looking after the dog much more enjoyable weekend all round.

 

[postman]

Tomorrow Mrs P is 66,we is aving a family and friends meal out.nine in total.A good curry at Sheesh Mahal Kirkstall.

 

[Mike_P]

I presume it depends on the air flow around the bulb. Not sure if I have had to change one before.

Having a look the one that blew is one of four which each have 10 cooling vents to their holders. The other set of lights on the kitchen I rarely use have 3, none with any cooling vents

 

[oldwheels]

Free flying lessons too.
Be careful flying snails they can attract attention when they land

Never tried it with slugs but snails have a homing instinct. Chuck them away and they eventually reappear. I proved this by putting paint markers on the shells and then donating them to a neighbouring garden. They came back surprisingly fast.

 

[oldwheels]

Knackered after spending a lot of time gardening. At least the border beside my front path looks more respectable now and got rid of some brambles but ivy is impossible to eradicate.
I used to enjoy gardening and had a productive garden and polytunnel. It was said to be the best garden in this area due to depth of soil over the underlying rock. We fed it seaweed annually and horse dung which a neighbouring house wanted rid of. Did my back in getting the dung into our garden but another neighbour came to my rescue and got the rest up off the trailer in the roadway.
At least I do not now cut my own grass and a neighbour does it and I supply him with however much petrol he needs for his own garden and a bit beside the road as well.
Going up to dig for potatoes I discover he has also cleared a path with his strimmer leading to my top shed.

Being out the front I noticed the holiday house owner has appeared from foreign parts to cut his grass but just chucks the cuttings over into the field beside the house. He is the same one who built a bonfire when the wind was blowing away from his house and covered my car in ash. The local constable happened to be passing off duty and told me I could get him under some obscure law but it would be more bother than worth.

 

[Grant Fondo]

a bit gutted, just packing up at work and realised i had forgotten to do something .... i used to get time and a half in the good old days for being such a mug.

 

[Reynard]

Mmmmmm, Tymal Mills is a sight for these sore eyes...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Surprise surprise, the Banking App that the Bank insisted I use... doesn't work.

 

[rockyroller]

ReadyBrek or similar. Wallpaper paste with the flavour removed

oh ok thank you

now I'm remembering the old white, school paste from my childhood, yum

 

[rockyroller]

Last time I had boilermakers, malarkey ensued.

don't have to drop them in for that. one night watching a friend sing in her band, I had 7 shots & beers. that 14 drinks during the evening. by the end I was a slobbering mess. no upset stomach surprisingly & no dancing thankfully. Wifey drove us home

 

[Gwylan]

There was a series of Ready Brek (a porridge cereal) ads in which the ''central heating for kids'' made them glow out in the cold. There's 3 of the series here:

As @oldwheels says, Windscale was the name of a nuclear power station which had a succession of accidents involving radiation leaks. It earned itself such a bad reputation that it was subsequently renamed Sellafield.
Not the Nine O'clock News' satirical programe spoofed the ad and used the glowing graphics to indicate not warmth but radiation.

For context that was when winters were real, we had one fire in the whole house. And paraffin stoves elsewhere.
Boom, boom, Esso Blue.

Got chilblains, had the clothes we were in and something for Sunday.
Two channels on TV. Well a flickering shades of grey on a small, very small screen to that neighbours came to share .
Children died of measles and pneumonia. Got impetigo, tickets. We're dosed with cod liner oil and malt extract.

Then they invented ReadyBrek, go to work on an egg and put a peach on it It was great!

 

[Gwylan]

Think I might manage another and slice of toast before settling down to watch the cricket.

Got the sweats now. And feels like I'm trying to swallow razor blades.

Sore throat. Gargle with small amounts of soluble aspirin in a little water. Swallow and repeat.

 

[Reynard]

Moeen Ali really has got the most impressive beard.