Mundane News

[Gravity Aided]

[QUOTE 4688984, member: 21629"]Just have found out that my aunt's cat still alive. She's (the cat) 16 years old now. [/QUOTE]
We knew of one live to be 21, according to the older kids in my neighborhood. Outlived her first masters, who were in their 90's, direct immigrants from Bavaria as youngsters, fleeing German(read Prussian) unification. Then she lived with a large Czech-American family in a three decker house across the street, and she died there when I was a teen, of old age.

 

[TVC]

Had an amusing evening with Lee Hurst, but just remembered that the pub is open for another hour and a half. Time to go and socialise

 

[Gravity Aided]

MIne too! I will never cycle through mud again.

Yes, you will. One of the hazards in the life we have chosen

 

[Gravity Aided]

Had an amusing evening with Lee Hurst, but just remembered that the pub is open for another hour and a half. Time to go and socialise

Wow!
You do that too?
Most people just look at their phone, and ignore what have.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I popped into Young's Cycles in Coney Hall today, on a mission to find kiddie pedals with straps. I was expecting to find an array of esoteric racing machines, but what I found instead was a large amount of brand new Raleigh Choppers, many of them Sprints.

Except they weren't brand new, as the single piece seats testified; these were vintage Choppers, lovingly restored to their former glory, impeccably detailed and finished, looking just like the day they came off the line in Nottingham.

Suddenly it was 1974 again. Or it would have been, had it not been for the Raleigh Grifters all over the place, too.

Young's bikes were the first good road bikes that I owned. The first was a beauty and it took me to the coast and back many weekends over the summers. I even managed the longest trip I'd ever done on it - London-Southampton-London - though, truth be told, I only overlooked the port, bought a big bottle of Tizer and cycled back, buying copious mugs of sugary tea in the many transport caffs on the way back along the A3. I believe I did the 170-odd miles in jeans and no butt mattressing whatsoever. I can't for the life of me remember when and how that bike and me parted company; it really should have been a bike for life. I also remember buying a 2nd hand Carlton from Young's little shop, since disappeared without trace, in Trafalgar Road, Greenwich - a bike which stayed with me until after the millennium.

That's my bit of Young's nostalgia.

 

[hopless500]

You feed your cat too well.

Others claim to know about cooking but never mention their own food because we all know it comes out of the microwave. Just saying.

Who?

 

[hopless500]

You know, the ones who eat beetroot sandwiches.

Beetroot?
But still, who??

 

[Reynard]

Now watching "Half Ton Dad" on Really. Scary... 72 stones... Eating 30,000 calories a day. That's more than what I eat in two weeks...

Actually, it's really sad, watching this.

 

[tyred]

Pub bands get better the more you drink!

 

[TVC]

Wow!
You do that too?
Most people just look at their phone, and ignore what have.

OK so we sat in the pub, got chatting to the couple next to us. He had dark skin, turns out his family is from the Fijian island where we got married. We now have new friends. Also, the landlord and Landlady of the pub have bought tickets to see Lost Voice Guy with us tomorrow. You don't get that from looking at your status updates. The landlady also threatened to publish our leaving dance. Oops.

Go out, talk to people.

CLANGERS line one: connect.

 

[TVC]

Pub bands get better the more you drink!

True. Anyone who performs publically should be applauded, they make your evening better.

 

[Speicher]

Time for bed soon!

 

[tyred]

The party is only starting.

 

[TVC]

The party is only starting.

Leicester Comedy Festival lasts another 8 days, we have to pace ourselves. Night

 

[raleighnut]

@fossyant I'm liking that for the DIY skills. Our back door step has seemingly gone rotten and has now fallen off! I think I might be lacking the skills to get a new one back on!

I am lucky that I kept our old hardwood front door. I have cut a side section off this, planed it brown to size and sanded it off.

I have just finished with the router putting a wide groove down the bottom to fit a ridge in the motar. I still haven't sussed a way to keep it all in place. I cannot take the door frame apart and I do not want to drill through the DPC.

The old one had been fitted incorrectly, the groove is a drip channel and is there to stop water running back and rotting the threshold. If it has been cemented up it won't work and the threshold will rot.
Chisel off that cement and fix the new one down with 3 screws (preferably Brass) and rawl plugs but set the threshold on a bead of Silicon ensuring the drip channel is clear.