Mundane News

[postman]

A visit to son on our way back today.His little home is coming on a treat.They have done so much in three and a half months.Major jobs roof tiles. chimney stack pointing. guttering problem,this week all the front of the house pointed.Last week the sofa was delivered.A beautiful kitchen table is up seating eight,that's how big the dining kitchen is.He even had to put back some skirting board that had not been fastened it was behind a sideboard which was taken when the others moved out.What i have seen,these prats have been botchers,our son has had to do the work they should have had to do.It seems it might not be their last house,there is a plan afoot for five years.i hope i am still around to see and help out.The house in my opinion already has gone up fifteen grand his decorating skills and builders have seen to that.The house looks so much better.The guy who pointed the house got another job two doors down after they saw him working on theirs.

 

[Speicher]

@biggs682 - are you ready to dance this evening?

 

[biggs682]

@biggs682 - are you ready to dance this evening?

I was born ready

 

[tom73]

Just watched the opening titles and remember the visuals well, but not the music, nor any of the story; so not quite a nostalgia trip!
Might spend some time on it tomorrow (we have a dinner invitation tonight; our first festive nosh-up of the year)

It's aged a bit but it's set in the 1930's so holds up , the special effects are not exactly CGI but for the time are world class. It's defiantly is of a time when children's TV meant quality output and had a pride about. The music used though out the episodes is of a quality you don't get now. Reading up on it the BBC ended up releasing it as a sound track.

 

[tyred]

Still stormy although nowhere near danger level now. I was out for the day, meeting some friends for dinner in the afternoon. Crosswinds making their presence felt when driving and fuel consumption took a dive. Very cold now with hail showers.

My shed at home where I store some of my bikes has lost a couple of sheets of tin.

 

[fossyant]

The reel I'm doing now has Gwrych Castle (I'm a Celebrity castle) on it before it was ransacked and damaged. They used to do Medieval shows there.

We are going to edit the video, and send the relevant bits to the Castle's restoration trust. They will love it.

PS we usually visit once a year.

 

[postman]

I was born ready

View: https://youtu.be/fT42ocqmI9s?feature=shared

 

[Reynard]

It's been an absolutely foul day here chez Casa Reynard. Rainy, windy. No, wasn't the lentils...

Didn't sleep too well. Haven't done very much apart from top up the wood bins and transfer some files from my "desk" laptop to this one. I might get stuck into writing some Xmas cards later.

Day has been largely spent listening to the football and watching the Formula E. Of the latter, despite two red flags, the race went off smoothly and without any dramas. Well, other than Jake Dennis' car losing its brakes and being a bit electric shock-y (red flag 1) and pascal Wehrlein being tipped up at speed and slammed broadside into the wall by Nick Cassidy (red flag 2). A good pointsy race for McLaren, despite both cars getting a drive through for overpower infringements.

Cat has been fed, and now it's time to feed me.

 

[Marchrider]

A local, to me, footpath.
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that would take some getting up on a icy morning, and coming down could be more rapid that intended

 

[classic33]

that would take some getting up on a icy morning, and coming down could be more rapid that intended

You know it's steep when there's a handrail to catch hold off.
Not quite as smooth as it looks, there's a row of raised stones around every sixteen inches. You can make them out better at the top, in that picture.

 

[classic33]

Back on the subject of our ancestors I think that there must have been far more people around than they say. Communication between them must have been good otherwise they wouldn't have been able to organise the big events that they had. There must have been stone reps travelling between them. " Got just the right stones for you, blue stones from Wales, not far away!"
How on earth did they manage to convince the wife and kids to walk all the way from Scotland to Salisbury Plain with kids asking"Are we there yet?" All the way? How did they know where to go and how long it would take? That's a lot of sandwiches to take!

Some of the stones were brought down from Scotland.

 

[gbb]

Y'know when you make that perfect cuppa?
I just did. It was lovely

 

[Reynard]

Parsnip, apple & potato soup, followed by sausage & lentil casserole with bulgur wheat on the side.

I can really hear the wind whistling down the chimney.

 

[classic33]

Parsnip, apple & potato soup, followed by sausage & lentil casserole with bulgur wheat on the side.

I can really hear the wind whistling down the chimney.

Can you name the tune?

 

[tyred]

that would take some getting up on a icy morning, and coming down could be more rapid that intended

You need a tea tray for coming down in frost.