Mundane News

[Illaveago]

I'll pass. I've no current need for a fast portrait lens unfortunately, as I've stopped doing cat photos for CP. New branch co-ordinator didn't even have the decency to let me know that I'd become surplus to requirements.

Shall we send the lads round to sort him/her out ?
We could breathe over him/her and give them a right snotty cold !

 

[PeteXXX]

I'll pass. I've no current need for a fast portrait lens unfortunately, as I've stopped doing cat photos for CP. New branch co-ordinator didn't even have the decency to let me know that I'd become surplus to requirements.

That's extremely discourteous!
I had a similar, but different, experience a while back with a forum I ran for a company. One day got someone rlse in to rejig it and take over. No notice, no thanks or appreciation, no nuffink!
Hey ho..

 

[PeteXXX]

I'm up. Dog's out in the garden tiddling. Tea's brewed.
It's dark, but nit particularly cold.

Dust & Dander forecast is Low

 

[biggs682]

Nice 20 miles in the bag before the busy day ahead starts
Nice sunrise

 

[Andy in Germany]

Hooray for science: the Asthma spray worked. This probably means an end to any nascent career in low-budget films, but on the plus side, oxygen is good for you, (See also: sleep...)

 

[Tenkaykev]

Just looked, and they are the same price on JL as Big River.

Update:
The replacement ear pads arrived and are rubbish so they're going back. Replacement Sony headphones ordered from JL. They're on sale at £15 off at the moment so I've done a " click and collect " from my local Waitrose 👍

 

[biggs682]

First cuppa went down well
Lovely day outside and not cold or windy

 

[gbb]

Today's 71 plate truck has 245,720 kilometres on the odometer.
It's raining outside but I'm in an underground delivery area so I'm staying dry 😊

who does the maintenance? are you a fleet driver of some kind?

Someone, somewhere does the maintenance.. I just drive from A to B and back again, occasionally via C D and/or E.
I don't get involved with the mucky bit.. When I was management, it was part of my job to sort maintenance but I never actually touched a spanner!

In the 90s I was in a company with a fleet of Mercedes lorries, I know the trailers had 6 weekly inspections conducted by the Merc dealership. I'm pretty sure the trucks used to...too.
Funnily enough I can remember the cost of each inspection, it used to come out at around £100 back then, expensive things to maintain,

 

[oldwheels]

Dull day but not currently raining and ferries appear to be running to today's published timetable so far.
Still not sorted a problem in that my eticket is for a sailing 25 minutes after the timetabled sailing. Probably just turn up in plenty of time and it may sort itself out. The new computerised ticketing system has no leeway and everything has to be exact.
In the good old days last year you got a ticket valid for a month on any sailing. Now the ticket is only for one specific sailing and becomes invalid immediately after sailing time.

Rant on FB from the kind of person we often get coming here. Been here 4 whole months and knows better than anybody who has lived here for years. Came from central London apparently so obviously superior to the peasants.

 

[tyred]

@Illaveago, @Reynard, @tyred, any of you willing to take a chance with the lens I mentioned earlier?

I have no use for it. Thanks for the offer.

 

[classic33]

I'll pass.

Sorry.

I have no use for it.

Can't even give it away!

 

[tom73]

That's the mince pies all made and cooling on the rack washing up done and all cleaned down. So now time for and 1st mince pie of the year. Still warm and fresh from the oven may have the other two as i've ended up with a odd number of pies. Been hours since breakfast and i've not stopped all morning since I got back with the dog. Anyway I made them so can if I want

 

[mybike]

The Patient watches a lot of garbage television programmes that are not my cup of tea, and he has the volume on loud.

If I bought these can I listen to my choice of music, and block out the noise of the television. Or can I sit in another room and not hear the television programme.

https://www.johnlewis.com/sony-wh-c...r-headphones-with-mic-remote/black/p110194493

"Secrets of the London Underground" is interesting for the first half hour, and "down hill carting with red bull wings" is tedious at times.

Can I suggest a pair of headphones that cover the ears, rather than sit on them, would be better both from a long term comfort & sound isolating pov.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

The Patient watches a lot of garbage television programmes that are not my cup of tea, and he has the volume on loud.

If I bought these can I listen to my choice of music, and block out the noise of the television. Or can I sit in another room and not hear the television programme.

Would it be possible to persuade the Patient that headphones are a great way of hearing his programmes in stereophonic sound-surround? So he wears the headphones.

 

[PeteXXX]

In the 90s I was in a company with a fleet of Mercedes lorries, I know the trailers had 6 weekly inspections conducted by the Merc dealership. I'm pretty sure the trucks used to...too.
Funnily enough I can remember the cost of each inspection, it used to come out at around £100 back then, expensive things to maintain,

I think you'll find that it costs £100 to pop the bonnet now 😂