Mundane News

[PeteXXX]

Gardening done. Coffee x 2 drinked. Shower showered.
Nearly time to take MrsPete out for a birthday lunch 💐

 

[Jenkins]

Over 5 hours of sitting around drinking coffee & eating biscuits while earning money completed. Lovely sunny day out there as I can tell by the number of people heading to and from the touristy bit up the road from the office.

 

[fossyant]

Quick hour on bike done, showered, lawn cut, wooden swing chair built, bike washed and bike kit washed. Time to sit down.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Over 5 hours of sitting around drinking coffee & eating biscuits while earning money completed. Lovely sunny day out there as I can tell by the number of people heading to and from the touristy bit up the road from the office.

I have rather the same sort of thing I do for so-called work, sit around eating biscuits and drinking tea while watching many cameras of the site where I am assigned, and monitoring the weather channel. Being sat next to a VHF radio I only seem to be able to operate or understand probably completes the whole set up (it's analog technology).

 

[Gravity Aided]

I am supposed to be driving a bus, but Covid 19-21 has done for that right now.

 

[Reynard]

Warm, still and mostly sunny here chez Casa Reynard.

Had a bit of a kitchen morning. I got the half side of salmon coated in its dry rub / cure, and that's now in the fridge under some fairly hefty weights. Sorted out the almost a kilo of tuna steaks. The girls had to do quality control on them - and they passed with flying colours. Two are marinating in some chilli and lemon waiting to be pan-fried tonight, four have been steamed and one, plus the trimmings have been put aside for the girls.

Also have put my cool weather cycling kit in the laundry. I don't think I'm going to need it overly much now that the weather seems to have turned. I've dug out my MTB shorts, a long-sleeved base layer and a short-sleeved jersey. Which does mean I have to do some, erm, maintenance on my pins.

Just had a very lovely lunch of avocado, prawns and bread & butter, plus a banana, a satsuma and two

I am waiting for that to tamp down a bit, then I'm off for a bicycular bimble.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Sunny and not too windy at last. Tinybug wants to go on a bike ride.

We went...

She's getting faster.

 

[Reynard]

And now I'm going for a

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Yet another trip to the vets this morning with the dog. I’m beginning to think I should just move in.

Vets visited. Back there on Thursday 🙄

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

My ride with the g-kids just got cancelled because the oldest one's toes just got stood on by a horse. Apparently it was one of her pedalling feet.

 

[randynewmanscat]

You will have a dazzle in your eye when you next call on its services King.

I reply to my own post to express disappointment in my ability to check what the idiot predictive in my phone has chosen as my intended spelling. Beg your pardon King the Merciless.

 

[randynewmanscat]

A friend who served within Unprofor told me that civil wars get started by simple things like conveniently forgetting to return that borrowed lawn mower.
My neighbour had the use of a 128GB USB stick, a can of easy start and a 5M 1/2 ton rated ratchet strap.
USB stick loaned to copy my own photos of his wedding, easy start loaned in the winter, I told him where to buy a can for €11. Ratchet strap yesterday for a dechetterie trip, just hang it on my gate when your done I told him.
I needed the easy start to fire up a recalcitrant motor so I called and asked.
Now I may be forgiven for thinking that I am oversensitive but I am certain I detected just a little bit of "why are you bothering me for a poxy can of solvent". That or he realised I have a good memory and adding to his worldly possessions by "borrowing" was not going to bear fruit with me.
Small rant over.

 

[randynewmanscat]

My ride with the g-kids just got cancelled because the oldest one's toes just got stood on by a horse. Apparently it was one of her pedalling feet.

How many feet does she have?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I reply to my own post to express disappointment in my ability to check what the idiot predictive in my phone has chosen as my intended spelling. Beg your pardon King the Merciless.

The other day I asked my daughter how far she was from Swanley. Predictive text changed that to "how far are you from swanky?" Of course, I spotted it and retyped it. But the spelling gremlin hadn't finished and changed it to "how far are you from Stanley?”

 

[randynewmanscat]

After almost a year of doing nose and throat swabs for the ONS Covid survey, they've just written me asking me to do blood tests as well. I'm not sure how easy I'm going to find getting my own blood samples out of my fingers. If I ever have a bleed my first reaction is to stop it but going in the opposite direction - from no bleed to starting one - might prove a bit harder. I don't suppose it's any worse than the kind of thing some diabetics have to do as a matter of course.

Oh well, I'll give it a try. If it goes smoothly, that's me awash in gift vouchers until April 2022!

Oh, and I'm drinking a particularly strong coffee.

It's dead easy, I don't know what they use now but I used a little one usestabber that came in sterile packing.
I'm up there for not wanting to see my own blood but it hardly hurts in the ball of the finger.