Mundane News

[TVC]

I'm back from the Fridays Tour. There was lots of beer, and lots of cycling through stuff like this:

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But it was nice to get a proper breakfast in Manningtree this morning, with a mug of what I recognise as tea.

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It's always the tea I miss the most.

 

[TVC]

Just had a lovely little shower of rain here in Leicester, enough to wash the dust off the plants and freshen the air up a touch, sun is back out now.

No shower in my bit of Leicester, I'm promised that tomorrow will make up for it.

 

[raleighnut]

No more work for 3 weeks

Plenty of time for cycling then.

 

[raleighnut]

No shower in my bit of Leicester, I'm promised that tomorrow will make up for it.

It's nice up here on the hill.

 

[TVC]

Me too. There's always Lipton's Yellow Label on offer, which tastes nothing like anything remotely approaching tea. [I believe a question was once asked about this issue in the Tea? thread, but unlike Beer? (where you get informed about beer by experts), no reply was forthcoming.] Even if you take tea bags with you, the milk-like substance means it doesn't taste like tea even then.

Grief yes, UHT or powdered creamer, I die a little every time I see them crammed next to the tiny teacup in a hotel room.

 

[potsy]

Plenty of time for cycling then.

I doubt I'll have any time for that!!

 

[raleighnut]

Me too. There's always Lipton's Yellow Label on offer, which tastes nothing like anything remotely approaching tea. [I believe a question was once asked about this issue in the Tea? thread, but unlike Beer? (where you get informed about beer by experts), no reply was forthcoming.] Even if you take tea bags with you, the milk-like substance means it doesn't taste like tea even then.

Grief yes, UHT or powdered creamer, I die a little every time I see them crammed next to the tiny teacup in a hotel room.

Green Tea, no need for milk and it tastes of Tea.

 

[raleighnut]

I doubt I'll have any time for that!!

 

[alicat]

Left my handbag on a train departing Lille for Brussels. Managed to retrieve it at a cost of a day's lost wages, 50 euros in train fares etc and a lingering headache.

 

[raleighnut]

Left my handbag on a train departing Lille for Brussels. Managed to retrieve it at a cost of a day's lost wages, 50 euros in train fares etc and a lingering headache.

 

[Lullabelle]

Must be about bedtime

 

[Illaveago]

Today I discovered that I have been suffering from locked in syndrome with Book face. Whatever I posted went to myself! My blood is at boiling point!

I am now having a couple of glasses of red. Who needs a Bookface anyway?

 

[Illaveago]

Left my handbag on a train departing Lille for Brussels. Managed to retrieve it at a cost of a day's lost wages, 50 euros in train fares etc and a lingering headache.

Oh dear! At least you have got it back. I hope nothing was missing.

 

[Illaveago]

No more work for 3 weeks

The lull before the storm. Something's bound to go wrong!

 

[alicat]

Oh dear! At least you have got it back. I hope nothing was missing.

Thankfully nothing missing apart from my sense of humour and my sang-froid. While I was waiting for my train back to France, my boss was gaily giving me grief about something I didn't know I was supposed to be doing. I counted to 10 several times and decided against bursting into tears on the sole grounds that I was in a public place.

Would have been disastrous to be abroad without passport, driving licence, money, cards, return ticket, phone and keys to my home and flat where I am staying.