Mundane News

[Illaveago]

Saw a Spitfire flying down towards Corsham twenty minutes ago . We think it was flying down to the MOD place .

 

[Illaveago]

My parcel with the Dinky cars arrived this afternoon. I will give them a good wash off before handling them .

 

[mybike]

They are in the Aldi, five for a buckeighty-nine. In The States, of course.

I usually buy a box on ebay. The passion is derived from my time at a German owned telecomms company.

I just did a search for Knoppers on Aldi's UK site and got zero results. Does the UK have any proper Knoppers shoppers?

I have seen them in Aldi, they're usually a special tho'. Our Sainsbos do them in the foreign foods aisle.

I just did a search for Knoppers on Aldi's UK site and got zero results. Does the UK have any proper Knoppers shoppers?

Curiosity piqued, a Lidl trip yielded these...
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They look rather similar.

 

[Reynard]

After a successful bit of hedgerow foraging over teatime (my neighbour's garden now being out of bounds), I am two large baskets of walnuts and a basket of apples to the good.

Keep asking myself why the blazes no one else seems to pick this stuff. On the flip side, I'm not complaining.

 

[classic33]

I've had a bit of success with the electric pedal car this morning . I fitted a new inline fuse and holder and have power to the volt meter on the dash . I also found that if you turn a knob on the dash you get the sound of an engine starting and revving ! There is also a button that makes a sound of a horn . So I have power going so far but not to the electric motors yet . Maybe s break in a wire somewhere ?

Any noise from near the gearbox. Indicating a fault with the gearbox, not the motor.

Easier to take the motor, usually an 850, off and check that way.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It's unbelievable how much that wind is a thief of warmth! I cycled out in t-shirt weather and returned in three-shirt weather.

 

[Reynard]

Feeling really zzzzzzz

So had a supper that consisted of a jacket potato plus some bitsas from the fridge - bbq chicken wings, baby plum tomatoes and some coleslaw.

 

[classic33]

It's unbelievable how much that wind is a thief of warmth! I cycled out in t-shirt weather and returned in three-shirt weather.

Hopefully a bit more than a t-shirt.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Hopefully a bit more than a t-shirt.

It didn't feel like it

 

[Magpies]

I have three large trays of walnuts drying on the drive.

Yum! Our local squirrels beat me to the harvest every year - so, nice trees but no walnuts!

 

[Reynard]

Yum! Our local squirrels beat me to the harvest every year - so, nice trees but no walnuts!

The trick is to pick them off the tree rather than waiting for them to drop. It does mean you have to peel the husks off (messy) but it's a price worth paying.

 

[Magpies]

The trick is to pick them off the tree rather than waiting for them to drop. It does mean you have to peel the husks off (messy) but it's a price worth paying.

Next year!

 

[Reynard]

Next year!

It's not too late, surely? I spent an hour and a half picking walnuts from a tree in a local hedgerow earlier today.

 

[Reynard]

Anyone for tea?

 

[Reynard]

No?

Well, I've made myself one. I've also filled up the girls' biscuit dispenser.