Mundane News

[biggs682]

Rained well during the night here
Feels like things are going to put up a bit of a fight

 

[biggs682]

Cat has been fed
First cuppa drank
And just watched a hedgehog walk no run across our Patio

 

[Illaveago]

Morning.
We had some blue sky a few minutes ago but it has now clouded over !
The weather man on ITV just said that the rain in the night was mainly clear ! Isn't that it's normal colour ?

 

[Illaveago]

Had a lovely hour and a half riding some local back roads and gravel trails in the company of Max the MTB. I think I earned that and two chocolate biskits that I'm about to have.

I will have to do some fettling on Max, as I'm not 100% happy with the positioning of the grips and brake levers, plus Max seems to have developed a bit of a clunky wiggle on the headset. And he needs a bath, as he's all dirty and dusty.

Bearings loose ?

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

My daughter has just praised me for my toast-making skills this morning. Apparently, it’s an improvement on yesterday’s effort

The fact I used slices of bread from the same loaf in the same toaster on the same setting seems to have slipped by…

 

[Illaveago]

I followed an extremely smokey diesel Seat Leon through town. Cough splutter. I increasingly hate diesel cars

Yes! We saw one last year going down the M5 . Huge clouds of black smoke! We followed in its trail! A steam engine would leave less smoke . I could still see it half a mile away!

 

[Illaveago]

Both ours and our neighbors front lawns have been cut

Do you have a phantom gardener that comes round and does them ?

 

[Illaveago]

I'm still suffering from the chronic "going away" present that swine flu left me with a decade ago. It's not been fun. I can't say long covid would be fun either.

Yes. If it leaves people with Chronic Fatigue afterwards it could disrupt a lot of people and work places . Strange how they don't seem to have the numbers of people who have been affected!

 

[PeteXXX]

MrsPete is off to get her hair done and pick up a pee sample bottle from the doctors...

I hope the two don't get confused!

 

[pawl]

I'd have rather they kept the current level of restrictions. They're not exactly onerous tbh, although there's the inevitable wailing and gnashing of teeth from certain sectors and segments which seems to have coloured the decision.

My worry is that it just becomes a free-for-all - with the inevitable consequences.

Hopefully all of us on here and the retirement thread are the people Boris refers to as those continuing to exercise caution Yes it’s good to see deaths and hospital admissions low Abandoning face masks and social distancing is to me ludicrous given every day seems to see an increase in cases People serving in shops must be concerned about their increased vulnerability
Stay safe folks

 

[tyred]

Yes! We saw one last year going down the M5 . Huge clouds of black smoke! We followed in its trail! A steam engine would leave less smoke . I could still see it half a mile away!

The trouble with the VAG diesels is that they can be chipped to give out serious BHP but they are then ridiculously smokey. It shouldn't be like that in standard trim.

 

[tyred]

Old fashioned paper or new fangled electronic type.

Paper of course.

 

[tyred]

Got wet again this morning.

Summer is really here at the moment

 

[Illaveago]

Hopefully all of us on here and the retirement thread are the people Boris refers to as those continuing to exercise caution Yes it’s good to see deaths and hospital admissions low Abandoning face masks and social distancing is to me ludicrous given every day seems to see an increase in cases People serving in shops must be concerned about their increased vulnerability
Stay safe folks

It seems daft to me to do away with precautions when the numbers are still increasing. With the number of cases doubling then surely your chances of coming into contact with someone with it also increase .

 

[tyred]

Work computer doing yet another update - 5% complete.