Mundane News

[Grant Fondo]

And very much overrated

I quite enjoy adulting, i just don't like it when nouns are used as verbs, grrrrr ...
Er, apart from the 'muffin me!' advert.
dunno what i'm on about, currently wimbledoning, c'mon Musetti !

 

[Reynard]

Time to feed the cat, and then it will be time to feed me.

 

[Illaveago]

Happy Birthday old wheels.

 

[Reynard]

Had home made gnocchi with parmesan & home made basil pesto for supper, followed by the last of that Thornton's cake.

Not sure I'd buy the cake again other than to scratch the occasional itch (it was a YS buy), as it was too sweet for my tastes.

 

[classic33]

A strange object has appeared on a lampost on our street. I looks a bit like Darth Vader's helment but I suspect it is the work of Elon Musk or one of his fellow Lizard People. Have any of the parishioners got an idea of its purpose?

Street microphones, to measure noise levels.

 

[classic33]

Just as long as they haven't got body parts in them.

I once had a piece of someone's luggage that had their spar legs in it.
Extra care taken to make certain there was nothing on top of them, that they were easy access and that they wouldn't move about.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Alas not. After AO hiked the price northwards, I didn't think it was worth the extra £80 to get my own personal temperature-controlled Son et Lumiere...

That's the downside of needing something PDQ as opposed to waiting for the Black Friday deals to kick in.

Edited to add that the friend who currently has my salvaged freezables in her custody has exactly the same spec Beko as what I ordered, but the next size down.

I haven't heard the phrase "Son et Lumiere" for a donkey's years. I wonder if they still have those shows?

 

[tyred]

I went for my first ride since coming back from tour this evening, about 35 miles. It was dry and sunny but three miles down the road, it was raining so I got wet. When I was near home again, it was dry and roads were dry so obviously I picked the wrong route! If I'd went in the other direction, it might have been dry.

My bottle cage broke at the mounting bolts, seems to have suffered from a mix of rust and metal fatigue. It's been on the bike since I bought it in 1992. Things just don't last any more!



Why is when I type posts on my laptop rather than my phone, it keeps doing strange things to line spacing?

 

[classic33]

I had to tighten the brakes and fix a gear cable but overall it seems to be good.

Has anyone heard of a "Jan Ulrich" bike? I know the person was a TdF winner, but I can't find any bikes with this name online.

Could it be a Pinarello?

 

[Reynard]

Have just spent the evening cataloguing the recent intake of Spedeweek issues. Most were useful, a couple were duds, but I can keep those for swapsies. This is the problem I encounter, not having a background in short oval racing and holes in my data set, insomuch that sometimes, I have to take a bit of a punt.

I've actually had to create a separate spreadsheet for them, as the Spedeweek format means that they don't mesh terribly well with my neat tables of results i.e. one programme covers multiple race meetings, and the timeframe each programme covers isn't always consistent from one issue to another, particularly in the spring and autumn when there are fewer events.

 

[Reynard]

Well, I ended up re-cataloguing the whole lot. Well, 18 in total, not counting those programmes that were also produced for specific meetings. I've now got an at-a-glance listing of which ones I have and which ones are useful in terms of race entries, reports and other sundries etc. And on that note, I'm now hoofing off to bed.

Nunnight one and all xxx

 

[biggs682]

Time for a walk before the forecasted rain arrives

 

[Illaveago]

Morning.
It is sunny here at the moment.Georgie was in his Cat Cave under the table when I went down. I have given him his breakfast and he has gone out.
My wife thinks that one of my tablets might have caused yesterday's problems. I will stop taking it today to see if things improve. I was asleep for most of yesterday. Tamsulosin to stop me getting up in the night too much. My blood pressure had dropped so causing the woozies.

 

[mybike]

I'll refrain from entering the 'true/myth' argument; I'm not sure the original audience would have seen it as "true" in the sense we do.

The loving and just God in the story would certainly have been good news to people used to the rather capricious arbitrary gods of Babylon at the time.

People in Moses' day wouldn't have been subjected to the nonsense of the Big Bang & Evolution.

 

[mybike]

Probably quite a lot, given that a normal on street parking place needs to be maintained fairly well and take a tonne or two of vehicle.

Some expensive car parks I've been in haven't been that well maintained. The one at Watford Hospital was pretty awful.