Mundane News

[cyberknight]

Everyone keeps raving about bradgate park and how we ought to go , but it doesn't look like there are wheelchair friendly footpaths?

the main path through is wheelchair friendly and flat , here is a image from a newspaper to give you an idea

 

[cyberknight]

3/4 mile from main car park to central cafe/ visitor centre , another cafe at the entrance
https://www.bradgatepark.org/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=192b2774-bbce-4a11-bbd6-0c146e8b7cb5

 

[Reynard]

It's been a beautiful, sunny and spring-like day here chez Casa Reynard.

Slept well and had a nice lie in. Spent some of the morning swapping texts with a friend who is competing in a Trial today, passengering for the two-time national champion. Otherwise, just did some gentle chores.

Lovely luncheon of sourdough toast, corned beef, buffalo mozzarella, fruit and a

Spent the afternoon cutting firewood as the main log bin the in the garage was empty. Saw was being recalcitrant, using a lot of fuel and oil and scorching the wood. After I filled the bin, I let the saw cool down, stripped it, cleaned it and reassembled everything. It threw the chain when I used it last, but I just put replaced it and carried on, as I didn't have any tools with me. Turns out the screw that holds the bar to the tensioning mechanism had worked its way loose, meaning that things were a bit squiffy in the works.

I've also poached some smoked basa and hard boiled some eggs.

Now sat by the fire with a and watching the football.

 

[Reynard]

Bird feeders need a bit of a shake to de-ice them & a too-up, too..
The two spare hooks on it have large mesh feeders with straw & sheep wool (collected from barbed wire fencing on a dog walk) for any birds in search of nesting material.
We have bluetits in one, possibly two, of the four nesting boxes and they seem to like the free bedding 👌

Cat hair and dog hair is another good one. Alas I don't put any out, as the jackdaws will stuff it down the chimney.

 

[cyberknight]

still full of catarrh but at least i feel ok now , the trip above meant i took a pocketful of tissues

 

[Reynard]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9EFQ1nB42s

That's good to see. It's been reported on the news on this side of the pond, too.

Regardless of one's views on the matter, Friday's events were shameful. If nothing else, it was just plain rude from the POTUS and VP. What happened to the old adage that you praise in public and chew out in private?

 

[Gwylan]

It might be a case that you cannot influence the parties involved to talk to each other.

Just had a stand up row with the Epson printer. Well I shouted and it sat there refusing to talk to my laptop .
Decided to get awkward about something.
Hormonal piece of kit!

 

[Reynard]

still full of catarrh but at least i feel ok now , the trip above meant i took a pocketful of tissues

Fresh air helps clear out the gunk.

 

[Gwylan]

still full of catarrh but at least i feel ok now , the trip above meant i took a pocketful of tissues

I find when I'm cycling I need an old fashioned handkerchief.

 

[PeteXXX]

Cat hair and dog hair is another good one. Alas I don't put any out, as the jackdaws will stuff it down the chimney.

They are. Bonnie the Bischon, however, doesn't moult, which is actually very handy 👍

 

[simongt]

Went on a 'nostalgic trip' to Tetbury last week and with my experience of how downhill the Orwell at Felixstowe has gone, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the country pile; Eynsham Hall, where I did my basic training in 1974 has become a very salubrious spa resort where I parked my modest Kia Ceed among Lambos, Porches & the like - ! What cracked me up was that when I went for a widdle, the hand drying facilities for their esteemed clientele were not common hot air dryers or paper towels, but individually rolled flannels in a large wicker basket - ! Even odder was the two leather padded armchairs in the karzi. To sit and contemplate the other karzi users or just read a copy of the Times - ?
And the hotel I began my dubious career in the hotel industry has risen from a 3* family run place to a 4* again a very posh establishment dripping money with the upgrading and extensions.

 

[Reynard]

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

 

[biggs682]

It's all a bit confusing about our tv watching tonight so letting swmbo make the decision as it's easier

 

[DCLane]

Second road ride out after December's finger-dismembering incident. This time it was a few road miles to the greenway, up the greenway (with obligatory coffee & cake) then return the same way. All fine except for an idiot on a high-powered electric motorbike wheelie-ing on the greenway without seeing me. Two things:

1. What's happened to the road conditions since Christmas? I know I was told I'd really feel the vibrations but everything feels completely pot-holed. Maybe it is?
2. Hills!!!!! What was a short slope now feels like a gargantuan climb. That's probably because my Zwift setting is on 50% and I've had a ride at a low-ish HR for the past two months.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Didn't like the colour of it this morning. There's bad weather on the way. Don't pack those winter items away just yet.

Keep up the doom forecasting - lovely weather down here today.