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[LeetleGreyCells]

Yesterday, I updated MacOS. Today, I've done a web search as usual, and Safari has defaulted to Google and not DuckDuckGo. Conspiracy to force us all to use Google? Hmmm, I wonder.

Anyway, I went into Preferences and changed it back to DuckDuckGo. Privacy pirates be damned.

 

[Reynard]

Nah, it's nice on a Cheese Sandwich (grated cheese) bit like Branston but 'chunk free'.

Even better if you then toast the aforementioned butty.

I like brown sauce, particularly in a fried egg sandwich. Yummy 😋.

Brown sauce is ghastly. End of.

Cheese sandwich needs chutney and a fried egg sandwich needs sweet chilli sauce.

 

[classic33]

Nah, it's nice on a Cheese Sandwich (grated cheese) bit like Branston but 'chunk free'.

Even better if you then toast the aforementioned butty.

I like brown sauce, particularly in a fried egg sandwich. Yummy 😋.

Brown sauce is ghastly. End of.

Cheese sandwich needs chutney and a fried egg sandwich needs sweet chilli sauce.

Food Fight!!!

 

[Reynard]

Having a quiet day today. Still feeling tired and drained after yesterday.

Finished the last of the enchiladas for lunch along with some sliced avocado, and I will be naughty tonight as I have prepared a bread and butter pudding to use up a pack of stale buns I found lurking in the back of the fridge.

Plus I am working on a new poem titled "The Laurel and the Rose"

 

[EltonFrog]

I’ve been out for a ride, now I’m baking some more biscuits.

 

[Illaveago]

I’ve been out for a ride, now I’m baking some more biscuits.

Do you usually get that hot after a ride ?

 

[Illaveago]

I've been making things ! As per my avatar I thought I'd have a go .

First thing was a chainstay protector to cover the rusty area on a chain stay . I fashioned it out of a piece of thin sheet aluminium, polished it and then put some double sided rubber tape on the back . I de rusted the chain stay and then sprayed some etch primer on . I will fit it later.
The other thing is work in progress . A cable guide to fit on the down tube near the bottom bracket . Not sure if it will work yet .

 

[classic33]

Having a quiet day today. Still feeling tired and drained after yesterday.

Finished the last of the enchiladas for lunch along with some sliced avocado, and I will be naughty tonight as I have prepared a bread and butter pudding to use up a pack of stale buns I found lurking in the back of the fridge.

Plus I am working on a new poem titled "The Laurel and the Rose"

To an Athlete Dying Young
The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.

So set, before the echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.

And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl’s.

A. E. Housman

 

[Reynard]

To an Athlete Dying Young
The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.

So set, before the echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.

And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl’s.

A. E. Housman

Incidentally, that poem is in an anthology that I'm currently reading, so yes, I do know it, and yes, it does resonate.

 

[classic33]

Incidentally, that poem is in an anthology that I'm currently reading, so yes, I do know it, and yes, it does resonate.

First few lines came to mind(wrong order), don't know where I knew it from so a quick search followed.

 

[Reynard]

Anyways, time for a and some crisps. I have some Mcoys chip shop curry flavoured crisps. Oh so addictive...

 

[EltonFrog]

I’m waiting for someone to come and look at a bike.

 

[Ripple]

Another site - another cat.

 

[EltonFrog]

Someone has bought the bike.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

So tonight I helped to rescue someone who was trapped.

Sounds exciting doesn't it? Cue daring feats of bravery, swinging in from a rooftop, and aerial acrobatics the like of which has never been seen....

Well, not quite.

A chap had gone through an emergency exit in the school where my kids do martial arts, the door had shut behind him, and he was trapped in a grassed area with two-storey buildings on three sides and a 9' metal security fence on the other. So I went and found the security staff to let him out.

That counts as a rescue, right?