Mundane News

[biggs682]

Back from a nice 32 miles under cloudy but dry skies.
Roads were quiet
Bird feeders have been topped up.

 

[biggs682]

First cuppa went down well
And warmed me up a bit

 

[pawl]

If you wondered what happened about Niger seed so do I! It turned out that nothing ate it! It just got ignored fell out and got spread around the garden. I just put sunflower seeds hearts out and get loads of birds.

Last year Goldfinches went mad for the Niger seed.This year the feeder hasn’t been touched

 

[Gwylan]

I can report the leaky loo is now continent.
Screwfix and B&Q shares soar. But they're both owned by Kingfisher! I know, it's a quasi monopoly.
But my toilet has stopped dripping. Is that a benign monopoly?
My wife stopped moaning, that's the real result that money cannot value.

The dehumidifier is working flat out, drying the room.
That raises the prospect of being me expected to replace the woodwork that surrounds the pipe work.
Have to go and take out a mortgage for some 12 mm ply.
Used to be able to scrounge bits from the tip (recycling centre). Now it's high security and you need an appointment to get in and are forbidden to remove stuff. Back to the B&Q Bandits - 30 miles round trip, another environmental triumph.

So much for Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

 

[oldwheels]

I can report the leaky loo is now continent.
Screwfix and B&Q shares soar. But they're both owned by Kingfisher! I know, it's a quasi monopoly.
But my toilet has stopped dripping. Is that a benign monopoly?
My wife stopped moaning, that's the real result that money cannot value.

The dehumidifier is working flat out, drying the room.
That raises the prospect of being me expected to replace the woodwork that surrounds the pipe work.
Have to go and take out a mortgage for some 12 mm ply.
Used to be able to scrounge bits from the tip (recycling centre). Now it's high security and you need an appointment to get in and are forbidden to remove stuff. Back to the B&Q Bandits - 30 miles round trip, another environmental triumph.

So much for Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Our local tip used to be known as the Spares Department by discerning people until the whole thing got organised and nothing much can be got now. I did get a calor gas cylinder once from a friendly worker tho'.

 

[tyred]

A lovely morning so far although rain is forecast for later. Looks like there had been quite a bit of overnight rain too.

Just waiting for my breakfast and wondering if it will be a round, square or rectangular plate. The suspense is unbearable! At least I got my favorite window seat.

I have a wet foot. I have to accept that one of the most comfortable pair of shoes I ever had are kaput. RIP

 

[oldwheels]

Looks like a wet day here with gales forecast for the afternoon.
I could go and get some shopping which will keep ok and will save time on Monday when I will be a bit rushed.
The aches and pains from the vaccination seem to have calmed down and I had a better sleep last night.

I did not know that the colour of paint used for marking disabled parking bays can be either white or yellow.
It seems that white is advisory and not subject to penalties for illegal parking quite apart from the arrogance and ill manners of some. Yellow markings carry penalties for illegal parking.
A car rally marshall has taken residence in the disabled bays outside the chemist back home and is raising two fingers to those who wish to use those bays for visits to the chemist. Sadly rather typical of the behaviour of many.
As a blue badge holder I have strong feelings on the subject.

 

[tyred]

A good old-fashioned round plate today.

Someone outside has managed to block two disabled spots with a VW Up! That's quite an achievement. Good job he doesn't own a big car.

It's now started pouring just as I am about to leave.

 

[postman]

The list of jobs today reads like this.NOTHING ,I am just finishing off my breakfast.Mrs P is out somewhere in Horsforth test driving what could be our next car.A second hand Vauxhall Crossland.So a saurprise or not by lunchtime maybe.

 

[Mike_P]

Damp drizzly morning
Hence Asda and Waitrose visited by car.
A stack of indoor trainer bib shorts washed (dry indoors) and once again the earth leakage breaker flipped when the power to the washer was switched offso looks like a repair needed.

 

[Jenkins]

Good morning from an overcast and chilly Suffolk. Coffee has just been finished.

Another quiet day ahead with just the food shopping for today and tomorrow's outing to Silverstone to sort out. Once that's been done I can foresee an afternoon on the sofa with a book and the radio.

 

[classic33]

Today's 73 plate truck has 206179 kilometres on the odometer and has taken me to St Ives (Cambs) thence onwards to Diss & Peterborough.

Did you meet the man with seven wives?

 

[biggs682]

We have had a rain shower briefly.
Shopping delivery has been delivered
Second cuppa went down well.

 

[Illaveago]

My wife has been feeling rough the past couple of days. She just tested positive for COVID. It was last Saturday that we both had our jabs.