Mundane News

[tyred]

I think I have spotted a gap in the showers so will risk a quick ride...

 

[Reynard]

I think I have spotted a gap in the showers so will risk a quick ride...

Are you sure that's wise?

 

[Reynard]

Anyways, time to go feed the cats, and then it will be time to go feed me.

 

[tyred]

Are you sure that's wise?

I survived it anyway. 22 or 23 miles and there was a few very short, light showers but nothing to worry about. A lot of standing water though from earlier.

 

[Reynard]

Tonight's supper was a bacon and cheese omelette, a tomato salad, two slices of toast and a

Had a pear and some grapes for afters.

 

[Reynard]

I survived it anyway. 22 or 23 miles and there was a few very short, light showers but nothing to worry about. A lot of standing water though from earlier.

I was just about to post wondering whether you had sunk without trace or not...

Glad you didn't get too wet. That's nothing dry clothes and a nice can't solve

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I survived it anyway. 22 or 23 miles and there was a few very short, light showers but nothing to worry about. A lot of standing water though from earlier.

Why do we call it standing water? I reckon it looks more like it's lying water.

 

[Reynard]

Why do we call it standing water? I reckon it looks more like it's lying water.

Cos it ain't running...

 

[tyred]

Why do we call it standing water? I reckon it looks more like it's lying water.

A good question to which I have no answer.

There was a plenty of running water this morning when I went for my usual walk around the park before breakfast due to a burst water main at the bottom of my road but they seem to have fixed that. Probably explains why I had now water for part of the day.

 

[tyred]

I'm just having a glass of milk stout. I've always wondered what it was like since the 1960's when Minnie Caldwell drank it in the Rovers Return. It doesn't taste like milk by the way.

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It's very nice actually but you very rarely see it to buy (at least around here). There is also wheat stout which I like but again quite rare.

 

[tyred]

At the moment I feel like I'm getting a University education !

What I've learnt so far is . Don't go to University and catch the virus !

Ginger nuts are one of those things which should be erased from the universe as an insult to taste buds along with Salad Cream, Mayonaise and Tennent's Lager

 

[Reynard]

I have just eaten four delicious walnuts.

 

[PeteXXX]

I have just eaten four delicious walnuts.

Were they atop a whip? 🤔

 

[Reynard]

Were they atop a whip? 🤔

Fortunately not.

Walnut whips are

 

[Jenkins]

A squirrel furry tailed rat just ran along the garden fence and fell off

Edited to show the correct terminology.

I've seen one that tried to run through a gate - without noticing the fine chicken wire mesh covering it. They bounce quite well and it's even funnier when they try it again with the same result.