Mundane News

[Reynard]

It is a good year for the rowan berries by the looks of it. Very nostalgic as my wife said it was a rite of passage to make rowan jelly every year. I have a shepherd's crook I used to pull down the branches to reach more berries. I cannot bring myself to do it now on my own.
Out today along a shoreside road and the smell of rotting seaweed takes me back to my childhood and also the sound of curlews which I have not heard for ages.
I sometimes feel very old and alone.

*HUGS*

I make rowan jelly too. It's very good with cold cuts or strong cheese, but you do need to leave it to mature in order for the bitterness to mellow out some.

Rowan is "jarzembina" in Polish. It's usually used to make a flavoured vodka called Jarzembiak.

 

[classic33]

I can buy a bicycle for that!

Just had another look at the listing. Classic case of a seller not knowing their apples from their pears. It's a 1995 car alright, but it's the Gabriele Tarquini one - different door number.

Link?

 

[Reynard]

Link?

It's this one.

 

[fossyant]

The weather is rubbish, so resorted to glossing skirting boards and two doors. Must be bad.

 

[classic33]

The weather is rubbish, so resorted to glossing skirting boards and two doors. Must be bad.

Floor dry yet?

 

[Illaveago]

This one?
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Some old 60's Black 4.5 litre Le Man's Bentley's can make £800.

 

[mybike]

Caught by two StreetView cars yesterday. One of which was a TomTom car. That's three in the last month.

Charge them royalties

 

[fossyant]

Floor dry yet?

Ish ! Enough to stand on, but it needs sanding and repainting. Might have to paint it and go to the caravan for a YEAR.

 

[Illaveago]

We used to race the 50's Dinky racing cars in the playground at infants school. They were most likely our older brothers toys, quite a few ended up in the drain which was in the centre of the playground .
I can remember travelling on a bus into Bath to try to find a Dinky Cooper Bristol, I think it must have been a birthday present for me as I can't remember going to Bath before . On the way in to Bath on the A4 I can remember seeing some burnt out buildings on the right hand side just before the second set of traffic lights. There are now blocks of flats there . I asked my mum why they were like that . She said that they had been bombed in the war . The Baedeker Raids.
I can remember that we toured all of the toy shops in Bath but couldn't find the car I wanted. I don't know what I got instead. It's strange what bits you seem to remember .

 

[DCLane]

A dry, cool and not-so-windy day. Just perfect for a test-ride of the 2021 national hillclimb course up Winnat's Pass then a test-ride of the Bole Hill road race course, which son no. 2's doing this Sunday. Or so we thought.

We got there and it's raining plus blowing a gale. He tried the hillclimb but was being blown over. Cue 'test ride' in a car for both, so he knows Sunday's course, and lunch out.

 

[classic33]

A dry, cool and not-so-windy day. Just perfect for a test-ride of the 2021 national hillclimb course up Winnat's Pass then a test-ride of the Bole Hill road race course, which son no. 2's doing this Sunday. Or so we thought.

We got there and it's raining plus blowing a gale. He tried the hillclimb but was being blown over. Cue 'test ride' in a car for both, so he knows Sunday's course, and lunch out.

How'd NI go?

 

[Reynard]

Some old 60's Black 4.5 litre Le Man's Bentley's can make £800.

Mind, some of the 1:43 models can fetch a pretty penny too... One of the ones I'm after is pushing £300

 

[Andy in Germany]

You will all be relieved to know that I've finally done the washing.

 

[PeteXXX]

I wonder if it could be time to split the Mundane Thread and dub it Reincarnation IV

 

[Illaveago]

Mind, some of the 1:43 models can fetch a pretty penny too... One of the ones I'm after is pushing £300

The Minichamps 1/18 scale Blower Bentley's go for quite a bit !