Mundane News

[Andy in Germany]

A little railfanning is also good for the soul.So is a lot of railfanning.

I came to the same conclusion this afternoon:

The advantage of the local railway for railfanning is that a train usually comes by every few minutes so all I had to do was find a nice enough vantage point...

 

[Speicher]

Here I present the unfolding cup of Tea.

https://sproutworld.com/sproutspoon-2/

and the growing pencil

https://sproutworld.com/plant-a-green-mindset-with-a-sproutpencil/

 

[Reynard]

Listening to Arsenal v West Ham, and following the Le Mans 24 Hours via live timing on the WEC website.

 

[classic33]

Managed to get the electric motors working on the pedal car . It turned out to be the 3 way control switch which was faulty . I took it apart to clean it in the hope of getting to work, but when I tried it it wouldn't behave so I have ordered a rocker switch to replace it .
It has come a long way since I found it lying discarded in a stream by the side of the road . About a mile actually!
So when the new switch arrives I will be able to put it back together and clean it . My grandson wanted to play in it today but I had to tell him that it was in bits as I was working on it . I think he will like the new features , engine starting sound, horn and being able to drive around and crash into things .
I think it has cost about £25 including battery fuses and switch .

At least he'll not be able to say his first car cost a fortune.

 

[Reynard]

I just need to look out of my bedroom window to watch trains go past. I do see rather a lot of sheds.

 

[classic33]

Listening to Arsenal v West Ham, and following the Le Mans 24 Hours via live timing on the WEC website.

No face masks in the pit lane!
Downpour due overnight, but they don't know when.

 

[Jenkins]

I have spent most of the afternoon listening to Radio Le Mans while watching the Eurosport coverage with the sound turned off and will be doing something similar at work tomorrow morning. Unless actual work intervenes.

Then there's just the Aussie Supercars, BTCC and British GTs to catch up on for the rest of the week. It's a good job I don't have any other hobbies or interests.

 

[Reynard]

Whew, that was a tough game... I'll take those 3 points.

 

[Reynard]

I have spent most of the afternoon listening to Radio Le Mans while watching the Eurosport coverage with the sound turned off and will be doing something similar at work tomorrow morning. Unless actual work intervenes.

Then there's just the Aussie Supercars, BTCC and British GTs to catch up on for the rest of the week. It's a good job I don't have any other hobbies or interests.

No Eurosport here. So have Radio Le Mans, the live timing screen on the WEC website and the on board feed from one of the Dragonspeed cars.

 

[classic33]

No face masks in the pit lane!
Downpour due overnight, but they don't know when.

Think the "ministry of mis-information" is at work there. Twenty minutes after the "hour before the rain arrives" and it's a no show.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Tour de France finishes tomorrow. The guy in yellow will win it. Just like a guy in pink will win the Giro.

 

[classic33]

Tour de France finishes tomorrow. The guy in yellow will win it. Just like a guy in pink will win the Giro.

Bet the guy in yellow doesn't know that yet.


Who is in the yellow Jersey at present, might put a bet on him, then blame you if he doesn't win.

 

[Reynard]

And unless the sky falls in, a Toyota will win Le Mans...

 

[classic33]

And unless the sky falls in, a Toyota will win Le Mans...

Odds of 500,000 to 1 on the sky falling in!

 

[classic33]

@Reynard & @Jenkins, question!
How at 00:41, UK, can there be 12hrs 49 minutes left in a 24 hour race