Mundane News

[mybike]

I found the brakes to be very poor at slowing me down! I found that I had to use engine braking by dropping down a couple of gears .

Always my technique! It doesn't work so well on a 1L 3 cylinder engine!

In other news, having turned the water pump down the garden off, it is now raining again! Still I had a nice walk round Leek this morning.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

How can rain come down horizontally?

Its got a good wind behind it thats blowing it horizontal, or you're traveling at a great rate of knots and it appears to be horizontal.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Always my technique! It doesn't work so well on a 1L 3 cylinder engine!

In other news, having turned the water pump down the garden off, it is now raining again! Still I had a nice walk round Leek this morning.

It doesn't work well on most modern petrol engines.

 

[classic33]

How can rain come down horizontally?

They recorded rain falling upwards when building the M62, over Scammonden way.

 

[Andy in Germany]

They recorded rain falling upwards when building the M62, over Scammonden way.

Yebbut, you know: Yorkshire.

 

[classic33]

Yebbut, you know: Yorkshire.

T'was a fellow from down south that recorded it.

 

[Reynard]

That's me done painting for the day.

Tortie stopped play. Or paint.

One doesn't argue with a five and a half kilo cat who wants cuddles *RIGHT NOW* Paint and cats with whims that want catering to aren't a good combination, but thank goodness I'm only working in watercolour and not oils...

 

[Reynard]

How can rain come down horizontally?

In terms of theory and semantics, you do have a point.

But in terms of real life practicalities, it was most definitely raining sideways.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I need to tidy up the toggles on my hoodie.

 

[Reynard]

I have a

 

[EltonFrog]

My neighbour and me have been trying to unblock the culvert in our road today. It’s a work in progress.

 

[PeteXXX]

Water goes back and up, too

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Thankfully away from the part of Cambridge I'll be at next Thursday, and not on my route in.

If you are on a bike Extinction rebellion are quite chatty and will happily let you through.

 

[Reynard]

Lovely supper tonight...

Red onion tarte tatin, sweet potato roasted with garlic and sage, green beans, and then a lovely ripe mango to finish.

 

[Jenkins]

If you are on a bike Extinction rebellion are quite chatty and will happily let you through.

It's an evening gig and I don't know when it will finish, so will be driving up - I'll be 2 or 3 miles from Cambridge station, the last train leaves at 22:45, gets to Ipswich around midnight and I'd still be 10 miles from home so the train is out of the question. In the unlikely eveny they do extend the protest, I have the option of sticking a bike in the boot of the car, using the Newmarket Road or Milton park & ride sites and biking in from there.

As an aside, they've dug up the lawn at Trinity College as a protest against an industrial park on land the college owns vary local to me, on the same day that the plans were rejected by the public inquiry inspector