Mundane News

[fossyant]

Shop was on Higher Hillgate wasnt it? C&G used to do his paint.

Yup.

 

[randynewmanscat]

At one time a motorbike could be crushed if it was thought to be too noisy .
Could be bad fuel or timing problems .

Times change. In blighty until 2016 I used to take my CCM to the tester with a fairly quiet can, he knew I had a race pipe for it and said "don't bother yourself, it passes, we don't test for noise or for the correct stamp". He explained that there existed two sets of calibrated equipment in the British Isles for use by police and that there was no published record of them ever being used.
Very different when I were a lad though, I once owned a Rickman Montesa motocross registered for day use on roads, I used to get stopped frequently.
One year I was put in a van along with my bike so that they could waste a lot of my time down at the station, something to do with the tax disc being illegible, it was not illegible. Anyway the chief antagonist took my tax disc "for further investigation". I asked him what I was going to display in the meantime so he suggested to put a well written note in saying "under investigation by PS Ross". I got him to do that and he even signed it, weeks passed with no contact from the police with a view to returning my disc.
The tax had about 50 days left but I left the note in for another 8 months, no SORN, no computer to tie up who taxes or does not tax what vehicle back then. I was stopped a few more times, usually lack of lights (during the day) and indicators, or noise. By the time I finished politely and patiently educating the officer who stopped me about the construction and use regulations they usually couldn't wait to get away and a look at the tax disc produced just a nod and uh-huh.
Dazzling police work that they never bothered to contact sergeant Ross and bother to ask him.

 

[rockyroller]

after having stripped all non-essentials from my life for the past year+, today I joined a new gym. a nice sprawling complex with lots of room to spread out. using it, of course, is another matter altogether

 

[rockyroller]

Well. My sit in the garden turned into a 2 mile walk to buy some marshmallows and suggestive biskits to make Smores

that'll teach you

 

[rockyroller]

Almost time to feed the cats

our huntress scored three times this weekend. 2 chippies were allowed to run away, a 3rd not so much ;-(
here's one of lucky ones. had to chase the cat, to get her to let it go

I'll spare us the post-mortems

 

[Reynard]

our huntress scored three times this weekend. 2 chippies were allowed to run away, a 3rd not so much ;-(
here's the lucky one. had to chase the cat, to get her to let it go
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I'll spare us the post-mortems

Well, a girl's gotta keep her strength up

 

[Reynard]

Oh, I put the green wheelie bin out for collection in the morning.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

I've trimmed the conifer this afternoon. It desperately needed doing (it was obscuring a full quarter of the garage door), but the damn thing irritates my skin badly so I was covered head to toe. After the run to the tip, it was straight home and in the shower.

 

[Speicher]

If you try to mix up kerfuffle and cacophony it can end up sounding very rude. Chris Packham, be warned!

 

[Andy in Germany]

The hallway paint is now dried and I've hung the pictures back up. Furniture will have to wait until tomorrow.

 

[Reynard]

Supper is almost ready to serve.

I has a hungry.

 

[PeteXXX]

Smores eaten.... 👍🏼

 

[randynewmanscat]

I just received a thunder storm warning on my phone, several seconds later there was a distant rumble from somewhere south.
I'm almost done burning meats and packed up the detritus off the table.
It is going to rain in a few minutes.

 

[biggs682]

Nice pre springwatch 12 mile ride completed

 

[Reynard]

Supper down the hatch.

Steak & kidney, the last of Sunday's roasties, plus green beans, yellow beans and spinach.