Mundane News

[PeteXXX]

While looking for my favourite magnet in the shed, as I'd dropped a very small bolt and couldn't find it by eye, I knocked over my container full of nuts screws washers and bolts..
I now really need to find my magnet to pick them all up 😂

 

[fossyant]

Thats the static van closed, for good (van over 20 years old, site won't let us stay unless we spend £30k on another one) so everything now back home. We've now at east two of everything - house full until we can wash any spare bedding and get it to the loal charity. We've enough 'cleaning' products for a few years, and spare kitchen appliances. Van will be sold and shipped to poland whenre people can keep nice vans as long as they want - not in the UK.

Got loads of stuff for camping now (including a fab tent in the Wiggle sales, and already got two 3 night stays booked on sites. Also got a few nights booked in hotels - daft thing is it's way cheaper than the ground rent. Rent now £4.5k (on top of the van you own) which is for 8 months season - so over £500 a month. You can do alot with half that.

My birthday coming up, so vouchers will be used for two camping beds and a porta potti - whooo !

 

[Illaveago]

I'm watching Alan Titchmarsh' programme Dorset Country and Coast on TV. They just visited Lyme Regis which they said was famous for it's fossils .
That's not very nice calling it's old people that!

 

[Illaveago]

It has been grey for most of today. I saw the sun briefly early this morning but it soon clouded over with grey cloud. It has been cold . I swapped my bikes over . I dug out my Viscount Apollo Tourer for my Orbit Italia. I then took my Viscount out this afternoon for a ride . The gearing on the bike is higher and has 6 rear sprockets as opposed to 7 on the Orbit. I found the ride a bit harder going as the ratios aren't as close together. The ride itself is fine , it's just getting the right gear which was awkward. I did 13 miles in the end .

 

[biggs682]

Been a lazy day today

 

[Andy in Germany]

Another car went past just now.

 

[classic33]

Another car went past just now.

It's not Saturday today!

 

[Illaveago]

While looking for my favourite magnet in the shed, as I'd dropped a very small bolt and couldn't find it by eye, I knocked over my container full of nuts screws washers and bolts..
I now really need to find my magnet to pick them all up 😂

My daughter's other half bought a magnet on the net to go fishing . I thought it was for the grand kids to fish for paper fish with papers clips. It turned out to be a magnet for hurling into canals or rivers on the end of a rope. He put it on an RSJ to see how strong it was . It took his weight when he hung from it and found that he couldn't remove it unless he knocked it sideways.

 

[PeteXXX]

My daughter's other half bought a magnet on the net to go fishing . I thought it was for the grand kids to fish for paper fish with papers clips. It turned out to be a magnet for hurling into canals or rivers on the end of a rope. He put it on an RSJ to see how strong it was . It took his weight when he hung from it and found that he couldn't remove it unless he knocked it sideways.

I have one of those! I've not caught anything yet, though.

 

[rockyroller]

good times

 

[pawl]

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My daughter's other half bought a magnet on the net to go fishing . I thought it was for the grand kids to fish for paper fish with papers clips. It turned out to be a magnet for hurling into canals or rivers on the end of a rope. He put it on an RSJ to see how strong it was . It took his weight when he hung from it and found that he couldn't remove it unless he knocked it sideways.

Very popular with owners of narrow boaters for fishing out windlass’s dropped in the cut when opening the sluices and ground paddles at locks

 

[Illaveago]

My Viscount Apollo Tourer this afternoon. The water levels have dropped a lot since yesterday.

 

[Andy in Germany]

It's not Saturday today!

Exactly; driving on a Sunday. It's anarchy, I tell you. If things carry on like this people will be eating red meat and partying until it's half past nine.

 

[oldwheels]

A day of nothing much achieved.
The fog lifted from above the town about mid afternoon but is still hanging around the golf course which is only a few hundred yards away. Did get my outside thermometer to connect with the indoors bit so I now know it is under freezing point already and looks like to stay for the rest of the week.
Not good news as it makes walking outside more difficult and dangerous. I have no pressing appointments tho' I do need to go to the surgery at some point to get a claim form for hospital travel expenses. I may get summoned anyway to discuss the latest blood tests.
Pleased to hear that I am not the only person to hoard assorted nuts and bolts as well as a collection of nails of various types and sizes. They do get looked at as a neighbour appeared one recent Sunday asking if I had any suitable nails for fixing another neighbour's shed roof. No problem.
Like fossyant I also have a collection of kitchenware from my motorhome as well as two tents and assorted cooking stuff plus stoves. I still have my old primus half pint stove tho' I unwisely gave away the clip for fixing it to the bike crossbar.

 

[tyred]

It never really thawed today. I ventured out for about 18 miles or so a road I knew would be treated but it was too busy and Sunday drivers are the worst of all.