Mundane News

[classic33]

Was there a single on-track overtake in the Monaco race yesterday? From the Sky Sports live updates it sounded like a procession - worse than normal. Maybe it's time to drop Monaco from the F1 schedule?

Mick Schumacher by Nikita Mazepin, off camera.

 

[Illaveago]

We've just come back from a walk . I saw 3 Buzzards and a Swallow . There were some huge mole hills which seem to suggest their moles are the size of Badgers!

 

[Grant Fondo]

From the mundane to the ridiculous .... 'My Feet are Killing Me' on TLC channel. Has TV now reached its nadir, or are we still heading straight to the bottom?

 

[Andy in Germany]

From the mundane to the ridiculous .... 'My Feet are Killing Me' on TLC channel. Has TV now reached its nadir, or are we still heading straight to the bottom?

I'm sure the creative brains of British (or for that matter German) TV can find a way to make it worse...

 

[PeteXXX]

Mick Schumacher by Nikita Mazepin, off camera.

Monaco is traditionally hard to overtake at.

 

[PeteXXX]

We've just come back from a walk . I saw 3 Buzzards and a Swallow . There were some huge mole hills which seem to suggest their moles are the size of Badgers!

I ran over a badger whilst driving home from work at 23.00 last night.
It is an ex-badger 😔

 

[biggs682]

Low bidders remorse?

Been out bid

 

[fossyant]

I ran over a badger whilst driving home from work at 23.00 last night.
It is an ex-badger 😔

How's the car ? They aren't small things to be crashing into !

 

[fossyant]

Got a quick 10 miler in on the road bike. Hoped to keep clean, not a flipping chance. Story of my life. Half way round, there had been building works, and the road sweeper had been out spreading the mud, so that was it, the lovely sparkling clean Ribble now has mud water splashes all over it.

 

[DCLane]

Been trying to put the laquer onto the Dawes Kingpin frame I've been re-spraying silver and it's now raining. Again.

At least I'm off to Manchester for a 6pm slot with my son in the 7.30pm slot.

 

[Reynard]

Sunshine and showers here chez Casa Reynard.

I've put my pots of herbs outside to take advantage of the rain. Otherwise, I've been processing some citrus fruit that wanted using up, and there is another batch of marmalade to be made.

My back is stiff after having slept pretzeled around one of the cats.

It is almost lunchtime, and I has a hungry.

 

[Reynard]

Was there a single on-track overtake in the Monaco race yesterday? From the Sky Sports live updates it sounded like a procession - worse than normal. Maybe it's time to drop Monaco from the F1 schedule?

Formula E managed a belting race around Monaco, with some absolutely cracking overtakes. I think it's more the cars than the circuit. Mind, the "it is impossible to overtake around Monaco" has been bandied about since cars first started racing there in the 1920s, so it's nothing new.

But it seems to have gotten worse as far as the F1 cars are concerned, because once cars seem to get within about a second of each other, the aero doesn't work, the brakes overheat, the tyres oveheat... Ergo there's barely a sniff of an overtake unless someone makes a mistake or has a mechanical issue.

Mechanical issue seems to be the case for Schumacher being overtaken by Mazepin according to the 5 Live commentary. I reckon they're right, Schumacher has been usually putting a minute on Mazepin in the other races by the end. Hardly surprising given that the kid is only there because of his daddy's vast quantity of roubles.

 

[PeteXXX]

How's the car ? They aren't small things to be crashing into !

Fortunately, just a furry O/S light and under bumper air scoop thingie. No cracks..
I saw it through the rain at the last moment and slowed down.

 

[Reynard]

Had a sausage sandwich, a banana, an orange and two

 

[fossyant]

Glad I got out earlier, it's absolutely tipping down. At least the water butt is getting topped up for the 'auto-watering' system for the greenhouse. That's been ticking along nicely for 3 weeks now, and I just check on it occasionally.