Mundane News

[classic33]

My computer seems to be unhappy about something.

Your hard drive doesn't like your monitor, so won't "speak" to it. The RAM has forgotten, and as for your floppy, the less said the better.

 

[Reynard]

Reasonable stickering in Tesco this evening - the usual gang were all present and correct. Nothing doing with bakery and chilled stuff. The former had nothing at all, and the latter was all stuff I didn't want. Plenty of stuff off the counters though.

Picked up a lamb shoulder, a lamb rack, beef fillet, beef mince, tuna, salmon, a job lot of trout fillets, mangoes, avocadoes, mushrooms, spinach and green beans.

Will be sharing the meat and fish with a dear friend. Except for the tuna, which is for mesdames Poppy and Lexi.

 

[Reynard]

Time to put the writing project away and knock off for a

I need to work out how to get a "gentleman driver" to toe the line a bit better. Otherwise he's in very real danger of turning into Barry "Whizzo" Williams. Or maybe Brian Farminer...

 

[biggs682]

Frosty here in the borough so back to bed

 

[Andy in Germany]

Good morning. Grey and damp today, so a good day for staying indoors and trying to get organised.

In other news, I'm going to run out of baking paper fairly soon.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Time to put the writing project away and knock off for a

I need to work out how to get a "gentleman driver" to toe the line a bit better. Otherwise he's in very real danger of turning into Barry "Whizzo" Williams. Or maybe Brian Farminer...

I'm getting a strong urge to write a story again. Must be the time of year.

 

[Illaveago]

Morning.
I've just been catching up .
It is grey out but dry here. The clouds seem to have that snowy blue tinge .
We put up some Christmas trees yesterday. A big one in the sitting room and a small one in the window of the other room to make it look Christmassy.
In the evening my wife decided that she fancied fish and chips so I went out to cook them . I thought I would try the chip shop closer to of us instead of my regular one . Not too happy with them . I went for small cod as our usual shop does massive pieces which I make last 2 days .
The chips looked like they could have been cooked for another 5 minutes also the batter. I don't mind how chips are cooked , soggy or crispy but these looked a whiter shade of pale . They tasted fine, just colourless. The batter was also soggy . My wife thought that it tasted bland ! I had loaded mine with salt and vinegar so I couldn't tell .
It's a shame as the shop is within walking distance .
Price wise my old favourite chip shop would be a lot cheaper as the large cod would have been £1 dearer for each piece .

 

[Andy in Germany]

Morning.
I've just been catching up .
It is grey out but dry here. The clouds seem to have that snowy blue tinge .
We put up some Christmas trees yesterday. A big one in the sitting room and a small one in the window of the other room to make it look Christmassy.
In the evening my wife decided that she fancied fish and chips so I went out to cook them . I thought I would try the chip shop closer to of us instead of my regular one . Not too happy with them . I went for small cod as our usual shop does massive pieces which I make last 2 days .
The chips looked like they could have been cooked for another 5 minutes also the batter. I don't mind how chips are cooked , soggy or crispy but these looked a whiter shade of pale . They tasted fine, just colourless. The batter was also soggy . My wife thought that it tasted bland ! I had loaded mine with salt and vinegar so I couldn't tell .
It's a shame as the shop is within walking distance .
Price wise my old favourite chip shop would be a lot cheaper as the large cod would have been £1 dearer for each piece .

Situations like this are why the Good Lord gave us cargo bikes.

 

[PeteXXX]

Listening to Julie Fowlis and attempting, but failing badly, to translate her Scots Gaelic to English using my atrocious Irish Gaelic. The realisation that most of the time she's singing utter rubbish about hats (bonnets), fish nets and romping in the calf pen

@Globalti - might be useful for you to learn some of the local lingo

Anything sung about bonny shoals of herring? There's always a shoal of bl00dy herring in them there songs...

 

[PeteXXX]

Definitely nippy outside..
I'm calling in to see No1 granddaughter on my way to work, later, as she had to go to hospital for a checkup after a football injury, yesterday. (nothing major, fortunately!)

 

[Kryton521]

Pants! Not a happy person this morning. @ work, Manager should, "Manage" and step up and stop people changing things to suit/benefit themselves or it makes a mockery of the rest of us.
Had a minor coming together with a car and work vehicle. Not a lot I could do to avoid it, why the frell are we using long wheel base vans that are too big, and unmaneuverable that there's a bump at once a week?
Think I have a broken gear cable for the front mech. Won't shift at all, and I can't figure out whether I have the know-how/skillz to replace it? LBS is booked solid due to Christmas rush.

All together I'm really not very happy today.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Pants! Not a happy person this morning. @ work, Manager should, "Manage" and step up and stop people changing things to suit/benefit themselves or it makes a mockery of the rest of us.
Had a minor coming together with a car and work vehicle. Not a lot I could do to avoid it, why the frell are we using long wheel base vans that are too big, and unmaneuverable that there's a bump at once a week?
Think I have a broken gear cable for the front mech. Won't shift at all, and I can't figure out whether I have the know-how/skillz to replace it? LBS is booked solid due to Christmas rush.

All together I'm really not very happy today.

I can't help much with the first two, but don't panic about the derraleur cable. Changing one isn't the dark art I used to imagine: I manage it and I have no claim to any particular expertise, and as seen above, I can't even spell it correctly.

There are myriad YouTube videos on the subject (random example below)



And if you get stuck you can ask here.

 

[PeteXXX]

I forgot to mention, yesterday, that Jakeman's lozenges should not be sucked whilst wearing a mask..

Blimey, my eyes were watering!! 😂

 

[biggs682]

@Kryton521 where are you based ?
As others have said Dr mechanism cable should be fairly simple .
Just fed the birds broken the ice on the bird bath just waiting for food delivery then the day is free

 

[Illaveago]

Pants! Not a happy person this morning. @ work, Manager should, "Manage" and step up and stop people changing things to suit/benefit themselves or it makes a mockery of the rest of us.
Had a minor coming together with a car and work vehicle. Not a lot I could do to avoid it, why the frell are we using long wheel base vans that are too big, and unmaneuverable that there's a bump at once a week?
Think I have a broken gear cable for the front mech. Won't shift at all, and I can't figure out whether I have the know-how/skillz to replace it? LBS is booked solid due to Christmas rush.

All together I'm really not very happy today.

If the gear lever moves but the changer doesn't then it is a broken cable ! If it doesn't it could be seized somewhere , cable frayed or rusty or pivots rusty needing a bit of oil .