Mundane News

[Kryton521]

Sorry, what thread is this again?

Sunny here in Bridgend. S.Wales. Think the wind has died down a bit. Will stop delaying and get out on the bike.

 

[PeteXXX]

I've opened the front flap on my little greenhouse, for the day, and taken the fleece off a young hydrangea and the three Erysimum Bowles.

I hope I'm not being a tad premature 😮

 

[Andy in Germany]

Need to take Beautiful Daughter to the doc's for her 5 years old checkup today.

And once again the weather is blowing a hooley...

Back from the Doc. Beautiful Daughter had a great time showing off all the things she can do like hopping, playing with a ball, et c.

She was less impressed by the tetanus jab.

Doc says she's fit and healthy and intelligent. I knew that already.

We came back via a "new" cycleway that we'd seen from the tram, thank goodness for Xtracycles...

 

[Illaveago]

I've just been genning up on the recycling!
I can only put paired shoes in for recycling .
So if I have the odd one I will have to wait until I find an identical one to go with it !

 

[PeteXXX]

I've just been genning up on the recycling!
I can only put paired shoes in for recycling .
So if I have the odd one I will have to wait until I find an identical one to go with it !

So..... If you only put one shoe in the recycling, would they tell you to hop it? 🤔

 

[classic33]

I've just been genning up on the recycling!
I can only put paired shoes in for recycling .
So if I have the odd one I will have to wait until I find an identical one to go with it !

How are they to know you only put one out. There's hundred's of single shoes get pinched every year from shops. Where do they go?

 

[Gravity Aided]

You only have to look at classic cars to see how well they survived .
A lot of the padding and sound proofing was made of sacking material, horse hair or felt . Vauxhall which was owned by GM used to recycle the chrome bumpers by applying a surcharge if the old one wasn't exchanged .
A lot of scrapyards provided a recycling service whereby motorists went to them for all sorts of replacement parts. With a lot of modern cars this isn't possible as a lot of parts are programmed in . Also some modern plastics can only be recycled a certain number of times .
When I used to work in a body shop getting rid of the old plastic bumpers was a real problem. They used to get hidden in the bottom of the scrap metal skip .

Horsehair and felt, quite different. But let us not forget that any of those older cars had a metal dash and many other features that would kill you in a crash. Air bags, plastics, and the plethora of conveniences people expect from a car nowadays make moldable plastics the way to go. Mind you, I usually react to cars in the way my Dad did when I brought home an Audi Fox station wagon-
"Well, I suppose it beats walking".

 

[Gravity Aided]

We have had an entire 24 hour period without the temperature slipping below freezing, for the first time in a long while.

 

[Archie_tect]

it cost 8d [3p] to post a 4oz [100g] letter in 1865.
it only cost 6d [2.5p] in 1965.
It costs 70p today.
Ah, road haulage... one of Beeching's unintended consequences?

 

[Gravity Aided]

Road haulage in the U.S. was a problem that caused the demise of the U.S. passenger rail system in the private sector. That, and having the railways and their equipment worn out by the war, while the government financed and promoted other forms of transportation like highways and airports.

 

[Archie_tect]

Be an interesting exercise to find out if Beeching or his family had any links to, or financial benefit from, road haulage and/ or buses and coaches or motorway infrastructure construction before or after his axe fell!!

It would be all over social media if he did these days.

 

[carlosfandangus]

Money for old rope!
This was coined years ago as prisoners (prisons were run by the navy in the beginning) were made to cut the loops off worn hawsers and re loop, the cuttings were sold on and used to stuff mattresses and the like, hence the saying "money for old rope" anyway, going out on the bike as its sunny although a bit windy,

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Horsehair and felt, quite different. But let us not forget that any of those older cars had a metal dash and many other features that would kill you in a crash.

Maybe we ought to go back to the olden days, it would certainly slow people down & stop people having multiple accidents, daughter of a friend wrote 3 cars off in 2 years, walked away unscathed on each occasion, inappropriate speed outweighed ability in each instance.

Air bags

Should be banned!

 

[Reynard]

I have prepped veggies for tonight's supper, sliced up a net of red oranges to make one final batch of marmalade and I have washed the car.

Well, strictly speaking, I have scrubbed the mud and green goo off it. I need to go over it again as it's a bit streaky Apparently, the car is red underneath all of that.

Time for lunch. I has a hungry.

 

[Reynard]

Not bothering to put the recycling wheelie bin or the black bag out. There's not enough in either to make it worthwhile.