Mundane News

[Marchrider]

Can't quite believe what I am witnessing here, this frog must have been in the drains and is squeezing itself out of the drain cover - looks stuck to me, but then its nearly made it. Don't want to pull it n case I injure it, so have just put the hole drain cover next to the pond, and may be all the others croaking will encourage it a bit

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when I lifted the drain cover off, there was another 3 behind it

it took itself about 3 hours to wiggle free - it hopped away towards the pond as if there was nothing wrong

 

[dicko]

Back lawn cut

 

[Gwylan]

Much fun yesterday: Middle Manager turned up. He's a good manager but occasionally has daft ideas, an yesterday was one of those days.

We have some big shelves designed for pallets. I'm not sure why as we don't use them for pallets but bike parts. Middle Manager decides that we should take the ten or so boxed new bikes from the shelf made for them elsewhere in the building, and park them under lower shelf.
We point out that this will make the bike shelf too high to use comfortably.
Manager tells us to use a step.
Spend a morning raising the shelf and replacing bike parts on shelf. Now we have a shelf that is too high to reach.
Move bikes underneath. Shelf is 1m deep. Bike boxes are at least 1m 20 long. They are not permitted to stick out from under the shelves so we turn them parallel to the wall.
This way three bikes fit, the rest are left on the old shelves.
So ne we have bikes spread around the building, and an inaccesible shelf full of parts.
We are waiting to see how long it takes Area Manager to realise this was a bad idea.

Keep the accident book handy and record every incident.
Then the Arbeitsicherheitberichtubersichtdirektor will notice when the reports are reviewed

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Black hole is 100 times the mass of the Milky Way

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I'm toying with the idea of wearing shorts. I've just made a pot of tea, mostly because it's the perfect time for a pot of tea.

 

[Mike_P]

Mug of tea and a GF "Kitkat" following an fruitless banana hunt. Morrisons had none! Lidls were British Racing Green. Think a magnum will follow
Too many pedestrians seeming to have sun stroke and not looking before crossing.

 

[PeteXXX]

I apologise for lack of bananas in Morrisons but it's not my fault as I took a frozen load to Ocado @ - 25 then picked up 26 pallets of cut flowers @ +5 and didn't actually go to a store today..
If you can wait until my next shift on Friday I'll see what I can do.. 👍

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

For what it's worth, I went to Tesco midweek and their banana shelves were completely bare. Odd that I haven't seen anything about this banana famine.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I'm toying with the idea of wearing shorts. I've just made a pot of tea, mostly because it's the perfect time for a pot of tea.

Jolly good

 

[PeteXXX]

Two years ago, today.. Slightly different weather in Hamtun!! 😂

 

[Marchrider]

Black hole is 100 times the mass of the Milky Way

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but how big (the radius) will the hard bit be in the middle - the singularity ?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

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Two years ago, today.. Slightly different weather in Hamtun!! 😂

Is that your blow?

 

[PeteXXX]

I might cut our lawn tomorrow ☀️

 

[Drago]

Planted my 🍅 (2 varieties), 🥕 (2 varieties), 🌰 and brocoli seeds in the mini greenhouse today.

 

[Reynard]

It's been a bright, breezy and rather warm day here chez Casa Reynard.

Did not sleep terribly well, as *someone* inisited on hogging the pillow during the night, and then biting my nose every time I try to get comfy. As a result, my back is rather stiff and creaky, and I'm a tad grumpy. Hey ho...

Had a kitchen morning, and made a big pot of red lentil soup - basically a dahl with added stock. It's not very punchy on the heat front, but it's lovely and coconutty and creamy. Looking forward to some later.

Lovely luncheon of toast, my homemade pate (bloody fabulous, I say!), camembert, fruit and a

Went out to bring in a load of firewood this afternoon on account of next week being decidedly chilly in comparison to this, and it was a very frustrating experience. I only managed a third of a trailer, as the chainsaw still isn't playing ball - running *very* hot, not really cutting well and using both fuel and oil like it's going out of fashion. It wasn't so bad on Wednesday when I was dealing with some not-so-good bullace wood, but this was seasoned ash and field maple, and it just wasn't really having it. So some of tomorrow will be spent troubleshooting.

Now it threw the chain the other week, and I'm not sure why. The first step will be to check the bar and see if that's not bent. I will take the new bar off and put the old one back on, and see where that takes me. If there's no difference, then I can rule that out. My gut feeling is that it's either the chain that's fubared (irritating if it is, as it was a brand new chain a couple of months back), or there's something not right with the drive spindle. I did run the saw without the bar on, but the spindle looks OK - if it was bent, you'd see a visual wobble. Or at least that's the theory. Just because you *can't* see it doesn't mean that it could be slightly out. So I can't rule that out just yet.

I will need to do a tip run after the weekend anyway, and since Screwfix is in the business park next door, I shall pick up a cheap chain for a 14 inch bar and see how that works. The OEM chain cost me £25, and I normally get three to four years of wear out of it. If the cheap chain sorts it, I shall take the OEM chain back to where I bought it and look to get a refund or exchange on the basis that it wasn't fit for purpose.

Anyways, it's time to feed the cat, and then it will be time to feed me.