Mundane News

[mybike]

Be careful opening that bottle of ketchup.

 

[Jenkins]

Coffee number two under way with a healthy lunch of a supermarket spicy chicken pasta pot a couple of days past it's used by date (extra sweet chilli sauce added).

 

[biggs682]

Dirty fox has been bought home for some tinkering.
Pale grey clouds abound
Parcel has been delivered

 

[raleighnut]

Or simply eating less?

The Tories tried that, called it 'Austerity' but then 'well orf' people started up 'foodbanks' giving poor people cheap fat and sugar laden foodstuffs.

 

[Mike_P]

The work W11 saga trundles on
IT have fixed why one dumb program could not see Onedrive. Snag being now wiped and currently unrecoverable is my Office 365 access.

 

[PeteXXX]

Elevensies has been elevensied (cake)
Walkies has been walked 🐶
Once MrAmazon has been & gone, a snooze will be snoozed. 📦

 

[PeteXXX]

Delivery has been delivered.. Bit if quiet now, please, if you could 🤫

 

[biggs682]

Lunchtime stroll completed

 

[Drago]

Stull feeling crap from the covid jab.

 

[Reynard]

Mild and grey here today chez Casa Reynard.

I did not sleep well at all. Right shoulder / arm is no longer painful, but the joint is very stiff, which makes for discomfort when trying to sleep. So I am having a very quiet day as I feel decidedly meh.

Currently curled up in bed with a and have just tuned in to the England v WI T20 cricket.

 

[Mike_P]

Hospital on normal appointment time c 50 min late. Consultant rings the in hospital Lloyds pharmacy so I can pick up the latest set of tablets this afternoon. Will be upto a hour I was told.Went a got a tea and then had the bright idea of walking to Lidl for the bananas not acquired from M&S yesterday. That accomplished and now around 45 minutes on from the "upto a hour" chanced the Lloyds pharmacy who after a search declared they had only got the prescription in the last 10 minutes!
So another tea whilst waiting.

 

[dicko]

Can private cars have flashing Stop lights?
Cycling along today a Mercedes overtook me then braked for a Stop sign. As his Stop lights came on a bright flashing light, as bright as a rear fog light, started flashing and stopped when the brake lights turned off. The flashing was very intensive and distracting too.
The flashing light was mounted central under the rear bumper .

 

[Hover Fly]

Just bought a watch, like one of mine for a chum who always tries to buy mine when he sees it. He’s retiring soon.

 

[Mike_P]

Can private cars have flashing Stop lights?
Cycling along today a Mercedes overtook me then braked for a Stop sign. As his Stop lights came on a bright flashing light, as bright as a rear fog light, started flashing and stopped when the brake lights turned off. The flashing was very intensive and distracting too.
The flashing light was mounted central under the rear bumper .

The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989
state
'Lamps to show a steady light
13.—(1) Save as provided in paragraph (2), no vehicle shall be fitted with a lamp which automatically emits a flashing light.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply in respect of–

(a)a direction indicator;

(b)a headlamp fitted to an emergency vehicle;

(c)a warning beacon or special warning lamp;

(d)a lamp or illuminated sign fitted to a vehicle used for police purposes;

(e)a green warning lamp used as an anti-lock brake indicator; or

(f)lamps forming part of a traffic sign."

I doubt brake or stop lights are considered warning beacons so the answer would be no.

The Highway Code does allow cyclists to use flashing lights.

 

[classic33]

I think I might bake a cake 🧀

Who were you expecting?