Mundane News

[Reynard]

Mild, breezy and rather soggy here chez Casa Reynard.

Had to don snorkel and flippers to splish splash my way to the art shop this morning. Photo corners, check, masking fluid, check, black archival mounting card, nope. So sorry, supplier failed to deliver. Meh.

Have consoled myself with a large bowl of minestrone soup, two slices of buttered toast and a banana for lunch, and I am now comfortably ensconced at my desk working on a writing project.

Oh, and the postie bought the stash of F3 timing sheets that I picked up for a song on the Bay of E.

 

[fossyant]

Gone very dark and wet here. Might need to think about some walkway lights for the winter for getting to the shedoffice !

 

[Reynard]

Gone very dark and wet here. Might need to think about some walkway lights for the winter for getting to the shedoffice !

String some fairy lights up

 

[DCLane]

Drove to Widnes and back to collect the TT disc I won cheaply on eBay earlier this week. My son'll be racing against the seller next year.

 

[mybike]

Just as long as you remember they're there, before you do anything.

Does he ever do anything?

 

[classic33]

Does he ever do anything?

Boils eggs.

 

[fossyant]

Drove to Widnes and back to collect the TT disc I won cheaply on eBay earlier this week. My son'll be racing against the seller next year.

You managed to survive Widnes then ! Essential Travel....

 

[mybike]

New neighbours opposite, who've over-paid for the house imo because almost everything's new and there's demand due to the secondary school improving massively, have decided to rip everything out before they move in. Kitchen, carpets, re-decorate, the lot.

Why someone pays over the going market rate for a lovely-looking house and then re-do it all baffles me They've clearly got more money than me/sense to pay £15-30k more than they should.

Bungalow down the road from us, the garage was on the side at the back, it's been demolished to widen the back to the width of the garage, then the garage rebuilt in front. The rest of the frontage is being moved forward to the same position as the front of the new garage.

 

[mybike]

Is that category suitable for a cyclist who tops out at 11 mph?

11? I usually manage an average of 7!

 

[mybike]

That's a lot of tree's

A lot of firewood.

One gets obsessed with these things.

 

[Andy in Germany]

My wife just found some sad news . Bowood Estate are having to fell 400 trees due to Ash Dieback!

No great surprise sadly, although there's a lot of hope that Ash won't be like Elm because it has a wider genetic diversity: apparently early signs are that a larger percentage is resistant, and given that they grow like weeds it should make a comeback.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Is that category suitable for a cyclist who tops out at 11 mph?

Good grief @Reynard: that's nearly 17 km/h...

 

[Reynard]

11? I usually manage an average of 7!

At 11 mph, I'm heading rapidly towards flat-out-sprint territory.

I normally bimble at around two or three mph less than that. If there's a headwind (inevitable out here in the fens), it's a lot of mph less than that. I'm the cyclist everyone overtakes.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Does he ever do anything?

Boils eggs.

I resemble that remark: I made a sandwich yesterday too. So there.

 

[Reynard]

Good grief @Reynard: that's nearly 17 km/h...

Yebbut it's very flat here...