Mundane News

[Tenacious Sloth]

Running a few errands earlier and the wannabe Hitler who works in the post office gave me a telling off because water was dripping from my umbrella on to the floor.

Pardon me for having the audacity to go out and about on a wet day. I'll wait for perfect weather conditions before going to the post office in future.

Wrong thread. This is the rant thread.

 

[pawl]

Running a few errands earlier and the wannabe Hitler who works in the post office gave me a telling off because water was dripping from my umbrella on to the floor.

Pardon me for having the audacity to go out and about on a wet day. I'll wait for perfect weather conditions before going to the post office in future.

That happened to me in outdoor shop that I had gone into to buy some waterproof gloves.It had been pouring with rain all day .Was wearing full waterproofs .Was told in no uncertain terms not to brush against the garments. Bit ironic I was in the isle full of waterproof garments.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Oh dear. I planned fish and chips this weekend because I'll not be going to visit family in Stuttgart this week and bought some frozen fish for same, nearly overfilling the panniers again. Got home to find the freezer box is full, mostly of frozen fish.

Really, really, really should check what is in the freezer before going shopping...

 

[Ripple]

Just have received a text message saying that my phone provider failed to authorise my last payment. I was asked to update my payment details on the website updateh3g-onlinebill.com
Looks like scammers ran out of imagination.

 

[Dec66]

I baked some bread this morning, having prepared my dough yesterday.


Not bad for something I tried for the first time in my life. A bit doughy but that was down to putting too much water in the mix, and it consequently being too sticky to knead properly. It could also have done with a smidge more salt. But, overall, encouraging.

Then this evening I went a stroll.



I think I've earned this. Cheers.

 

[Reynard]

I baked some bread this morning, having prepared my dough yesterday.
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Not bad for something I tried for the first time in my life. A bit doughy but that was down to putting too much water in the mix, and it consequently being too sticky to knead properly. It could also have done with a smidge more salt. But, overall, encouraging.

Then this evening I went a stroll.

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I think I've earned this. Cheers.

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2% salt per weight of flour
60 % water per weight of flour
Yeast - according to how much time you do or don't have.



That's a good starting point. If your bread was doughy, either it didn't have long enough in the oven or it was overproved.

 

[Andy in Germany]

In moderately less mundane news, I hung around after work today and made a ramp for the step outside my apartment so I don't have to keep lifting the loaded bike up it.

Now I'm trying to work out how to get said ramp from the workshop to the apartment where it can actually be useful, using my bike.

The ramp is is about 1 metre (3'3 5/8") long, and now I'm officially German I obviously had to over engineer the thing. It probably weighs four kilos (or several bags of sugar).

I really need to get my backside into gear and bring my longtail cargo bike to Freiburg...

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

In moderately less mundane news, I hung around after work today and made a ramp for the step outside my apartment so I don't have to keep lifting the loaded bike up it.

Now I'm trying to work out how to get said ramp from the workshop to the apartment where it can actually be useful, using my bike.

The ramp is is about 1 metre (3'3 5/8") long, and now I'm officially German I obviously had to over engineer the thing. It probably weighs four kilos (or several bags of sugar).

I really need to get my backside into gear and bring my longtail cargo bike to Freiburg...

Add wheels on one end and a tow rope on the other?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I baked some bread this morning, having prepared my dough yesterday.
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Not bad for something I tried for the first time in my life. A bit doughy but that was down to putting too much water in the mix, and it consequently being too sticky to knead properly. It could also have done with a smidge more salt. But, overall, encouraging.

Then this evening I went a stroll.

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I think I've earned this. Cheers.

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I had an All Together last week but I can't for the life of me remember which brewery it came out of, there are simply too many of them.

 

[classic33]

Are you actually two people?

I only ask because you started your post in first-person, then for your second sentence you changed to the third-person, and then back to first-person for the remainder of your post.

Wouldn't that make him three people?

 

[classic33]

That's mundane.

All of mine keeled over after Poppy piddled in the pots.

She's too big for that sort of thing now, but she was a plant pot piddler as a kitten, and ergo, I don't keep much in the way of pot plants. Just in case, you know...

You have pot plants!!

 

[classic33]

In moderately less mundane news, I hung around after work today and made a ramp for the step outside my apartment so I don't have to keep lifting the loaded bike up it.

Now I'm trying to work out how to get said ramp from the workshop to the apartment where it can actually be useful, using my bike.

The ramp is is about 1 metre (3'3 5/8") long, and now I'm officially German I obviously had to over engineer the thing. It probably weighs four kilos (or several bags of sugar).

I really need to get my backside into gear and bring my longtail cargo bike to Freiburg...

A length of rope and make a harness, that you then fasten to yourself, and ride home with it on your back.

Easy really.

 

[mybike]

Black bin is out.

 

[Gravity Aided]

You have pot plants!!

I may have three, according to the law. I have none, just don't need the stuff.

 

[classic33]

I may have three, according to the law. I have none, just don't need the stuff.

Do they say how large the plants can be?