Mundane News

[mybike]

The weather girl just said that the weather is nothing to write home about. So I thought I would contradict her and say that it's raining.

Yep, here too.

 

[potsy]

Surely that's @potsy job?

Don't drag me into this nonsense

 

[Illaveago]

Well! They have just been showing the Imperial War Museum in Trafford on the TV just now. It has been a place that I had wanted to see but not now. Huge empty space with hardly any exhibits and a lot of money spent on the building and graphic designers to produce enormous pictures.
I may be a bit old fashioned in my thinking but there should be some form of middle ground between the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford which is absolutely packed and a museum with just a few exhibits.

 

[hopless500]

I think @potsy could be Artistic Director

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Piddling down in Coventry as well.

 

[hopless500]

Raining here too, but I don't care. Shopping and lunch with a friend awaits.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Raining here too, but I don't care. Shopping and lunch with a friend awaits.

Yarn shopping ?

 

[EltonFrog]

Is it me, or is the website behaving oddly on a pc, forum pop ups when the cursor is on the thread title and and the post numbers appearing and disappearing?

 

[EltonFrog]

It's always dangerous to start a post with the words 'Is it me.....?' .......because there's usually only one answer.

Are still in Italy?

 

[EltonFrog]

Yes, given I'm such a distance away, I feel better able to be rude to people

Have I got time to build a wall around Oxfordshire before you get back?

 

[EltonFrog]

That would mean confining yourself, as well as excluding Rocky.

We in Oxfordshire would be all better off for it, I might build a roof as well, it'll keep all the rotters out.

 

[Speicher]

Rocky - is there room in your suitcase to bring back some warm sunshine please?

One place I would like to visit again is Locarno. It is in the south of Switzerland, and combines Swiss efficiency with Italian food, wine and climate.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I think @potsy could be Artistic Director

I first read that as Autistic....

 

[Speicher]

We are not too far away from Locarno being on the shores of Lake Como. It was very sunny yesterday but it's a bit grey and damp here today. Tomorrow it will rain heavily and then it's forecast to be stunning for the next week or so.....it's just a shame we won't be here to enjoy it.

BTW I still haven't seen George Clooney (he has a villa near here) but I'm keeping an eye out for him.

Have you travelled there by train through Bellinzona? That is a lovely station, with announcements in three languages, with long-distance trains from Germany going south. Monte Generoso is worth a visit.

 

[Haitch]

Bellinzona

This is part of the road out of Bellinzona heading north. That's Lago Maggiore at the bottom. Locarno is just round the corner to the right of the lake.

I did a lot of walking that day.