Mundane News

[tom73]

Wet and cold morning see if it settles down before I go out. Charlies not impressed he's bunkered down in bed so's not moving anytime soon.

 

[oldwheels]

Looks like another day of sunny spells and rain showers.
Nothing to do but mooch around as I am a bit stuck with no trike, no car and not able to walk very far.

Car racing seems to have started with a short shakedown bit this morning so Mull will be a complete madhouse and certainly not a place to be driving. There are already complaints on FB about somebody being forced off the road by somebody going so fast they could not get any details of the car. Not uncommon at this time.
One local taxi has announced he is not working this weekend. No reason given but probably safety issues.
My transport home next Tuesday will have to make a 120 detour to get home on the mainland rather than the 10 miles it would normally take due to ferries being fully booked by rally traffic.

 

[pawl]

I spent a week there once on a training course for work. Nice railway station but not much else of interest.

Loughborough is my home town.

It has two railway stations.The old LNER I closed down as part of the Beeching cuts and is now a heritage line.
Queen’s Park is worth a visit It has the Carillon and if you have the energy you can climb the steps to the top Last time I visited and it was many years ago it had interesting World War 1 memrobelia
Adjacent to the park the old swimming pool is now a local history museum
The town centre has market days twice a week

Like al lot of small towns it has suffered under the hands of the developers

If visitors are prepared to explore there on still interesting features if that way inclined to be found.

 

[PeteXXX]

Loughborough is my home town.

It has two railway stations.The old LNER I closed down as part of the Beeching cuts and is now a heritage line.
Queen’s Park is worth a visit It has the Carillon and if you have the energy you can climb the steps to the top Last time I visited and it was many years ago it had interesting World War 1 memrobelia
Adjacent to the park the old swimming pool is now a local history museum
The town centre has market days twice a week

Like al lot of small towns it has suffered under the hands of the developers

If visitors are prepared to explore there on still interesting features if that way inclined to be found.

I was particularly impressed, at 20:30 yesterday, that the town centre bypass was closed so I had to take a 44 tonne truck through the middle of town 😂

 

[Jenkins]

Good morning from Suffolk where it's blustery & very wet underfoot after overnight rain. Woke early(ish) with the intention of getting on with the bike fettling, but all I have so far done is put the radio on and made a large mug of coffee.

 

[pawl]

Loughborough is my home town.

It has two railway stations.The old LNER I closed down as part of the Beeching cuts and is now a heritage line.
Queen’s Park is worth a visit It has the Carillon and if you have the energy you can climb the steps to the top Last time I visited and it was many years ago it had interesting World War 1 memrobelia
Adjacent to the park the old swimming pool is now a local history museum
The town centre has market days twice a week

Like al lot of small towns it has suffered under the hands of the developers

If visitors are prepared to explore there on still interesting features if that way inclined to be found.

Edit
Forgot to mention Loughborough now has its own Monopoly board game and until recently had two Wetherspoons,one has now closed

 

[pawl]

My comments about Loughborough got me thinking about Loughborough past history
Some of it is connected to place and street names
The Coneries A place where rabbits were bred
The Rushes A marshy area
Baxter Gate An area of bakeries
Pinfold Gate A gate that prevented cattle straying

One of the more macabre ones is Dead Lane Apparently the name came after bodies were found buried Thought to be a place where victims of the plague were buried

 

[woodbutchmaster]

Loughborough is my home town.

It has two railway stations.The old LNER I closed down as part of the Beeching cuts and is now a heritage line.
Queen’s Park is worth a visit It has the Carillon and if you have the energy you can climb the steps to the top Last time I visited and it was many years ago it had interesting World War 1 memrobelia
Adjacent to the park the old swimming pool is now a local history museum
The town centre has market days twice a week

Like al lot of small towns it has suffered under the hands of the developers

If visitors are prepared to explore there on still interesting features if that way inclined to be found.

I cannot believe some of the comments regarding Loughborough, it has one of the countries best University campuses spread all over the town, and if you are in anyway sport orientated either in a practical sense or from the training or medical point of view you could no better than attend one of the colleges. I was at art school in Loughborough for a pre-dip. year and l have very fond memories of the place...including l hasten to add , seeing Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker play ( before Cream ,l think) . Ginger Baker used to fire off drumsticks into the audience......l never managed to grab one though !!

 

[pawl]

I cannot believe some of the comments regarding Loughborough, it has one of the countries best University campuses spread all over the town, and if you are in anyway sport orientated either in a practical sense or from the training or medical point of view you could no better than attend one of the colleges. I was at art school in Loughborough for a pre-dip. year and l have very fond memories of the place...including l hasten to add , seeing Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker play ( before Cream ,l think) . Ginger Baker used to fire off drumsticks into the audience......l never managed to grab one though !!

All those campuses have now moved to the Ashby Road site The buildings that stood on the corner of Ashby Road and Green Close Lane were demolished some years ago and the area is now a Sainsbury’s Supermarket along with car parking and petrol station

 

[biggs682]

Second cuppa went down well
The sun is shining does sound a bit blustery though

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Stroll round local lakes in the rain. Dinner soon.

 

[Mike_P]

NHS decided to message me to book a covid jab, which I had altready done on the strength of my doctors messaging saying I need a shingles jab. Now get a message from the docter saying they made a mistake and I do not need a shingles jab. Still down for the covid at 2 tomorrow.

 

[mybike]

Bit of a wet walk with the dog this morning, she didn't get much fuss either since nobody likes to pet a wet dog. Come to that, she wasn't that interested in stopping.

Looking at the neighbours garden & the sheep field over the back, there are puddles forming, so I might need to get the submersible pump out. We've had 0.86" of rain since midnight.

 

[Jenkins]

Coffee break time. Five down, three to go.

 

[mybike]

Dog walked (15 minutes) this evening while the weather is mild and its quiet out there. Just jumped in the bath (me not the dog)

Cassie has really gone off her nighttime walk. Puts down the anchors & won't budge after five minutes. I think it might be to do with car lights, but she's not very communicative.