Mundane News

[Illaveago]

I have just had my hair cut!
Can you see which one ?
Darwin's theory of natural selection! All I can say is that some time in the past a female ancestor must have fancied a male who was as bald as a coot on top, had bushy ear and nostril hair and hairy arms ! Mmm!

 

[PeteXXX]

Your lot working extra extra overtime? Mine was delayed till today because of the bank holiday.
Bird feeder half empty, thought the birds might be less addicted to the mealworm block but obviously not.

Nope. Only difference seems to be around 🎅 🤶 time.

 

[tom73]

Made early morning trip to M&S since it moved out of town can't just call in as I did. Needed a anniversary card for Mrs 73. Spotted a certain beagle card so came out with her birthday card for next year. oh and a penguin your a star blank card. For when she starts her new job next month. Bagged some nice jersey royals on yellow sticker for me, a chocolate mouse and Colin the caterpillar desert for Mrs 73.

 

[biggs682]

Second cuppa going down well with a slice of toast and red jam.
Watching a magpie strutting around the garden such lovely colours

 

[DCLane]

I've a bid on the Trek 2200 that's on eBay. But ... it's from someone I know splits bikes for parts and then sells them separately. I've bought parts from them for several projects.

I could have done that, but the bike's in too nice a condition.

Seller picked up the bike on Tuesday. And parts of it are already listed on eBay; they've done what I suspected and stripped it. Given it was completely original, including matching branded bar tape I'd found, that's disappointing.

However, I've bought some parts from them before so am complicit in what they're doing, although the line I'd got was that they were from insurance-damaged bikes rather than complete ones.

Oh, and my RH monitor just went "pop" so I've had to replace it temporarily with one from the 2nd office upstairs. I think there's another monitor in the attic that I'll look for later. That's the one SWMBO uses for work meetings, so she'll be wondering where her screen's gone when she comes home.

Technically we've also got a 3rd office in the conservatory, but the desk my university bought is full of bike parts and the computer's used for my smart turbo and bike on the other side.

 

[Jenkins]

Good morning from Suffolk where it's currently grey, overcast, breezy & cool and drying up after a little bit of overnight rain. Very little done so far today and even less planned for later which is just how I like it. Day two of the County Show which means if I do go out later, I'll have to come via a different route as a lot of the car parks feed onto the back road I normally use.

 

[PeteXXX]

☔ ☔ ☔

 

[raleighnut]

Seller picked up the bike on Tuesday. And parts of it are already listed on eBay; they've done what I suspected and stripped it. Given it was completely original, including matching branded bar tape I'd found, that's disappointing.

However, I've bought some parts from them before so am complicit in what they're doing, although the line I'd got was that they were from insurance-damaged bikes rather than complete ones.

Oh, and my RH monitor just went "pop" so I've had to replace it temporarily with one from the 2nd office upstairs. I think there's another monitor in the attic that I'll look for later. That's the one SWMBO uses for work meetings, so she'll be wondering where her screen's gone later.

Technically we've also got a 3rd office in the conservatory, but the desk my university bought is full of bike parts and the computer's used for my smart turbo and bike on the other side.

Complete bikes often fetch less than the parts will and then the frame will be worth nearly as much as the complete bike was, modern economics. Most of my blkes have Brooks saddles which when removed and sold separately will be worth about half of what the complete bike would fetch, ditto the cranks and mechs

 

[Moon bunny]

sleep well? wake well? we have an expression here. pushing up daisies means dead & buried
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The last time I saw a grave that shallow I was looking over my shoulder every few seconds as I dug it.

 

[Gravity Aided]

The jam doughnuts that I bought on yellow sticker are in fact custard doughnuts.

I like custard doughnuts, but I really fancied jam doughnuts, which is why I bought them in the first place. I mean you'd expect a bag labelled "Jam Doughnuts" to have jam doughnuts in there...

Bismarck, in The States, at least where I am at.

 

[Gravity Aided]

The last time I saw a grave that shallow I was looking over my shoulder every few seconds as I dug it.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFTG-VoIN7k

 

[oldwheels]

Second cuppa going down well with a slice of toast and red jam.
Watching a magpie strutting around the garden such lovely colours

Among all the other things magpies have not yet made it to our offshore island. They are working their way northwards and have been seen on the nearby mainland but not managed to hitch a lift to here yet.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

A young woman just called to check my front door. I now know that it's an FD60, while the corridor fire doors are FD30. She thought my intumescent strip was pretty neat. Oh, and we both discovered that I can set my door to self-close. Which, of course, I don't want because it would be a pain getting things in and out of the flat.

I had a nostalgia moment with her, harking back to the days when doors were pretty simple open and shut affairs on hinges.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Among all the other things magpies have not yet made it to our offshore island. They are working their way northwards and have been seen on the nearby mainland but not managed to hitch a lift to here yet.

The parakeets will be next...!

 

[Speicher]

Yesterday someone decided to invade Herefordshire using one of those large bodied helicopter with two rotors, on on the top and one on the tail fin.