Mundane News

[midlife]

I dunno... In that case, some changes to cycling terminology should be implemented.

Chapeau - well done old chap!
Chasse patate - you're joking... are you?
Tete de course - pointy of the race
Peloton - bunch of guys in poncy lycra
Lanterne rouge - a day late and a dollar short
Voiture balai - laggard waggon



P.S. And no, I didn't use babelfish

Palmares = boasting

 

[Illaveago]

I was tracking a parcel I've ordered and am amazed at the mileage covered so far, if the tracking is to believed. From Southampton it has now gone to the Northern hub which I think is in Warrington . So by the time it gets to me it will have covered 400 + miles !

 

[MikeG]

I was tracking a parcel I've ordered and am amazed at the mileage covered so far, if the tracking is to believed. From Southampton it has now gone to the Northern hub which I think is in Warrington . So by the time it gets to me it will have covered 400 + miles !

At least they collected yours. I paid Hermes last Saturday to pick up a parcel in Leeds on Monday. They still haven't bothered. The people in Leeds have waited in all day now for 3 whole days, with the promise that a van would turn up. I haven't heard anything at all from Hermes, despite there being two official complaints in about this. The three hours I have spent on "Live Chat" to somewhere in India is something I don't look on fondly.

 

[Illaveago]

At least they collected yours. I paid Hermes last Saturday to pick up a parcel in Leeds on Monday. They still haven't bothered. The people in Leeds have waited in all day now for 3 whole days, with the promise that a van would turn up. I haven't heard anything at all from Hermes, despite there being two official complaints in about this. The three hours I have spent on "Live Chat" to somewhere in India is something I don't look on fondly.

They seem to be taking mine on a world tour ! They still have a few days to add on a few more miles yet .
I wonder if they are applying satellite technology whereby signals are sent into space and beamed back again covering vast distances, but in their case they are using lorries on the road network !

 

[classic33]

At least they collected yours. I paid Hermes last Saturday to pick up a parcel in Leeds on Monday. They still haven't bothered. The people in Leeds have waited in all day now for 3 whole days, with the promise that a van would turn up. I haven't heard anything at all from Hermes, despite there being two official complaints in about this. The three hours I have spent on "Live Chat" to somewhere in India is something I don't look on fondly.

What's it worth to collect and deliver?

 

[Illaveago]

I just had a thought if the company had sent it into space and back again it wouldn't have traveled so far !

 

[MikeG]

It's in Leeds, Classic. You get all dizzy if you go into big cities like that, remember?

 

[classic33]

It's in Leeds, Classic. You get all dizzy if you go into big cities like that, remember?

Only an hour away by bike. Two by bus and train.

 

[srw]

Damn. I thought I was going to get some free language lessons from Mme Renard.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Thunder. I may get rain soon.

 

[classic33]

Thunder. I may get rain soon.

Any lightning?

 

[Old jon]

Same here. In fact if you listen carefully, you can actually hear the grass growing from inside the house!

Not the way the song said it, but 'I can hear the grass grow'


On a good day . . .

 

[Illaveago]

Morning it is grey damp and murky here.

My parcel is now at Avonmouth . It is getting closer.

 

[Illaveago]

*Waves at illaveago*

Yep... just having coffee before starting my walk.

Sorry can't see you it's too murky !

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

I have a set of headset spacers ordered on Amazon Prime on Wednesday that are doing a tour of GB.

Initially sent to Glasgow, then to Weybridge in Surrey, now apparently in Peterborough so May get to see them today.