Mundane News

[Andy in Germany]

Why, did he make spectacle of himself?

No, he just bottled out.

 

[postman]

postman's house is not fancy.It's a bit battered on the paint work inside.But it's clean and warm,sometimes,but today it's more wonderful.The young people are here and there is so much laughter coming from the front room,mind you they are supposed to be working.

 

[simongt]

The GLW is still at work, so I've had another useful morning delivering leaflets for her, ordering my bread for Monday, cutting new panels for the squirrel feeders; wee hooligans keep breaking them and a quick tidy of the patio area followed by coffee and a cracking choccy cookie with bits of KitKat on the top - !

 

[simongt]

Just been WhatsApping with one of my grandsons and explaining that retirement ( for some of us at least - ! ) isn't all about sitting about doing little or nothing, even after fifty one years of graft - !
As Ted the Northern Cat rightly says 'Don't stop moving when you get old. You will get old if you stop moving.'
Na'er was a truer word spoken - !

 

[biggs682]

Lunch time stroll completed and I had my big winter coat on

 

[simongt]

We're planning on 'expanding' to a larger tent and are considering the pros and cons of airbeam tents, but as we had a poor experience with a budget airbeam tent a few years back, anyone any experience on the Vango airbeam range of tents ?

 

[Andy in Germany]

I may have just finished a large chunk of Marzipan Stollen.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I may have just finished a large chunk of Marzipan Stollen.

Do you eat around the marzipan bit first so that you can finish with an almond hit?

 

[Gwylan]

More likely not as long as they should be. Really ought to a law that clothing must be sized numerically and the use of S M L etc banned.

Bit big brother.

They use numbers in Europe for sizes.
Just they vary from country to country.
Dutch tend to be a bit on the long side for me
Germans bit big round the erm, chest
I did have a little conversion chart. Have to go and look in the travel box

 

[Gwylan]

I may have just finished a large chunk of Marzipan Stollen.

Well, either you have or you haven't .
If you have then you are possibly greedy and full.
If you haven't there is evidence.
Hard to know what's worse

 

[Andy in Germany]

Do you eat around the marzipan bit first so that you can finish with an almond hit?

Doesn't everyone?

 

[Mike_P]

The clowns here bought a machine to do the same job, It was going to fix the problem for good. They even claimed they'd sold the only other one to Saudi Arabia. Once the PR died down it was never seen again and we've now for years gone back. To Fred fills in the hole and his mate bashers it with a shovel.

There's one in Tony Robinson's Marvellous machines program on Yesterday

 

[postman]

I may have just finished a large chunk of Marzipan Stollen.

Is that cake stollen,no i bought it at Aldi.

 

[Mike_P]

Bit big brother.

They use numbers in Europe for sizes.
Just they vary from country to country.
Dutch tend to be a bit on the long side for me
Germans bit big round the erm, chest
I did have a little conversion chart. Have to go and look in the travel box

Wouldn't say so. What I was thinking of was garment labelling having to state waist and length for trousers for example and not having it up to the seller to decide how they want to label. And think of how useful accurate lengths and sizes a pair of bib shorts could be rather than a obscure S M L etc

 

[Mike_P]

It was pure coincidence that this weeks work visits did not take place till this afternoon and meant "passing" Sainsbury's on the return.
The panniers spared a heavy load tomorrow. Bang on time 2 pints of milk @ 90p so three bought as part of very heavy bag of shopping and another visit next week no doubt before the offer runs out.