Mundane News

[Mike_P]

Mistakenly put some washing out this morning. Rather damp still when dragged in.
IT seem to have finally fixed W11. Problem transpired to be an OneDrive setup when it came up with a login box without it vanishing and reappearing again

 

[oldwheels]

I've just managed to get a medical practice to send a correctly completed medical certificate of death to the medical examiner's office. I had to go there and wave government advice to ''Never use abbreviations or symbols'' at them. No, you can't write COPD as a contributory factor because it might mean Chronically Obtuse Practice Deficiency, and can I get my mother's death registered please? A 24 to 48 hour procedure has taken 13 days, many hours of my time and might have given me a traffic fine because Google maps tried to make me turn into a no entry street and left me in a bus lane.

When my father died the registrar had to phone the hospital where he died as the cause of death was illegible due to handwriting. Probably done by an overtired doctor at the end of a shift.

 

[oldwheels]

Turned out a nice sunny day so got two walks in.
Ideally I should have had a trike out but the low sun makes me nervous.
I could have gone down to Loch na Keal but prefer to conserve my car fuel in case I have to take a long diversion with no filling stations.
One ferry problem has been fixed but no word about the linkspan at Craignure.
In the midst of what could be a crisis for some Calmac decide to shut down their web site for maintenance or I think put up a new web site which will need fresh log in no doubt before it can be accessed. No point phoning any offices either as they only know what the web site tells them.
The text messaging service is also suspended meantime.

 

[Reynard]

It's been a sunny and cool day here chez Casa Reynard.

Slept well enough. Took the bull by the horns and spent the whole day lumberjilling on account of the incoming stormy weather. The branches that I gathered yesterday were cut into sections, hauled in and stacked under cover ready for sawing into smallish logs. Then went back out, and carried on clearing up that downed ash tree.

Cutting the wood into four foot sections (the length of my trailer) and bringing it in that way is a bit of a non-starter given that I'm looking at stuff that's around 10 inches in diameter (I started at the thin end and am working my way back down towards the roots), so I ended up cutting it into short pieces instead and then sawing those in half - which are then eminently splittable with the log maul. I have a whole trailer load, which also included some good bits of oak from another nearby tree that I felled a while back.

I will ship that all into the log store in the garage, and then go back for another trailer load later in the week once the rain has moved through. Next week's weather isn't looking terribly stellar, so it's worth getting ahead if I can.

I've also been giving the grass a cut while I've been to-ing and fro-ing with firewood.

Am now sat by the fire with a nice

 

[Reynard]

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

 

[Mike_P]

Partially killed a Sainsbury's self scanner. Found a free from loaf reduced to 54p from £2.20 but the scanner gave an error message and thereafter refused to scan anything until I got to the checkout. So the rest scanned at the till.

 

[PeteXXX]

My new laptop seems to have finally finished updating it's updates.. 👍

 

[presta]

When my father died the registrar had to phone the hospital where he died as the cause of death was illegible due to handwriting.

My father died of polyarteritis nodosa, but the death certificate says polyarteritis nadoxa because the registrar couldn't read the bad handwriting on the doctor's certificate. I pointed out his error, but he just said "I have to put what it says here"....

 

[tyred]

Another day's training completed and I scored 89% in my first assessment.

I extended my walk home as it was nice but chilly evening and I have no other plans. Parked cars were starting to freeze over.

Now time to relax for the evening.

 

[Jenkins]

@PeteXXX caught by the local BBC news film crew on his ride this afternoon...

 

[classic33]

@PeteXXX caught by the local BBC news film crew on his ride this afternoon...
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Clearly legal e-assist bike in use.

 

[Jenkins]

Clearly ILlegal e-assist bike in use.

Complete with obligatory food delivery bag - good to know he's still got a job if the HGV stuff falls through!

 

[PeteXXX]

Complete with obligatory food delivery bag - good to know he's still got a job if the HGV stuff falls through!

Gotta earn a crust, you know 🙃

 

[Jenkins]

This evening's hot chocolate has just been had. The good news is that I don't have to be up early tomorrow as the scaffolders have put the job back until Thursday - possibly due to the forecast bad weather on Wednesday.

 

[Reynard]

Had a bitsas supper of soup, the last of the mac & cheese, a samosa and some mashed potato.

Arsenal beat Sporting Lisbon 5-1

Now sat down with a while watching the snooker