Mundane News

[oldwheels]

Warm, humid and intermittently sunny here chez Casa Reynard.

The lightbulb change on the car didn't go entirely to plan. Did the sidelight on the driver side, but when doing the low beam on the passenger side, and hampered by the tiny, cramped space you're given to work in thanks to the battery and plumbing, the bulb squirted out of my fingers and into the bowels of the engine bay, never to be seen again.

I will have to go to the garage after lunch for another one.

Friend of mine uses a quad bike for work and got delivery of a nice new one. First outing dropped the key and like your bulb it just vanished. His work partner suggested dropping the spare key in the same place and watching where it went. Not a good idea. They had to dismantle half the bike in the pouring rain before they found them.

 

[Reynard]

Friend of mine uses a quad bike for work and got delivery of a nice new one. First outing dropped the key and like your bulb it just vanished. His work partner suggested dropping the spare key in the same place and watching where it went. Not a good idea. They had to dismantle half the bike in the pouring rain before they found them.

Oh my word!!!

Anyways, two new bulbs have been purchased. And here's the magic trick. Now that I've bought more, what's the bet I'll find the one I dropped on the drive in the morning?

 

[AndyRM]

Oh my word!!!

Anyways, two new bulbs have been purchased. And here's the magic trick. Now that I've bought more, what's the bet I'll find the one I dropped on the drive in the morning?

That's pretty much guaranteed.

 

[Reynard]

Mind, the parts guy at the garage said I wasn't the first person to do that, nor will I be the last. Apparently this is a rite of passage for their mechanics as well.

So I'm in good company at least.

Anyways, off to do a spot of tinkering. Bicycle, not car. Not tempting my luck right now.

 

[tyred]

My neighbours cats are having a severe disagreement outside my kitchen window and making a horrendous racket.

Might be time to fill a bucket of water

 

[Reynard]

My neighbours cats are having a severe disagreement outside my kitchen window and making a horrendous racket.

Might be time to fill a bucket of water

Hmm, knowing how loud the girls can be when they have one of their spats...

Anyway, I originally read this as your actual neighbours, not their cats LOL...

 

[Reynard]

Anyways, tinkering done for the day, and I now have a and a biskit.

In about an hour I will be tootling off to Tesco to fill up the car with fuel and to buy some white roses for Sunday.

 

[fossyant]

Supposed to be at the caravan 'relaxing'. Nope.

Flipping loo stopped flushing. Thought it would be the diaphram in the flush. Popped out to the local DIY supplier (400 yards down the road from the van), said part was £13 (they had the diaphrams, but I said I'm replacing the lot).

What a pig of a job. Concealed cistern in a caravan. Got the wood cover off eventually after hack sawing a bolt off the plastic plunger puller to get that off. Then had all the 3 sets of lock nuts to remove to get the handle off before I could get the cover off. Had 2 inches of space to get my arm in and undo the cistern pipework - cue loads of swearing ! Got marks all over my arm now. 90 minute job for what should be 20 minutes on a normal loo.

Fortunately I'd been for a ride before the loo packed up. Went to the pub for a bit after that (pre-booked yesterday).

 

[Kempstonian]

Oh my word!!!

Anyways, two new bulbs have been purchased. And here's the magic trick. Now that I've bought more, what's the bet I'll find the one I dropped on the drive in the morning?

Pick the car up and shake it. The bulb will probably drop out (along with a few other things maybe)

 

[Accy cyclist]

Just got back from my hospital and retail therapy trip to find a dead rat outside my flat. It looks like it's been run over by a car as it's squashed with all its intestines hanging out. As i post two magpies are having a good nibble at it. Imagine eating a raw rat!

 

[classic33]

Oh.

Hang on, I'll make a note of that.

Just keep the note to hand/nearby for when you might need it.

 

[tyred]

I think I need to carry out a repair on my clothes horse.

Or should I phone for the vet

 

[slowmotion]

I rode to Hammersmith Hospital for an MRI scan. They ask you to take your clothes off, put on a surgical gown, and walk to the scanner suite in your shoes. You take off your shoes and lie on the motorised scanner table before it glides into the magic tube. A very noisy hour later, mostly filled with bizarre Dr Who-style whirrings, whines and clunks, you slide out again. I reached down for my shoes which were grabbed from my hands by a very powerful invisible force, flew 18 inches horizontally through the air and fixed themselves with a loud clunk to the outer casing of The Medical Marvel. My SPD cleats had formed a powerful attraction to the electromagnets. I idly wondered if people who had been slightly coy about their more private piercings had been caught out in a similar way.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I think I need to carry out a repair on my clothes horse.

Or should I phone for the vet

Is a clothes horse what we call a maiden?

 

[Accy cyclist]

I've just ironed 12 shirts. I find it quite therapeutic and i seem to get better at it the more items i iron.