Mundane News

[classic33]

Took my sister's Lab out for a walk last two days, sister pushing new baby Theo in his pram. Hubby was working, so she's been down to my folks caravan - she can't walk dog and push pram as Chester is pretty boisterous. They have tried - lovely dog, but very strong and doesn't like other big dogs - he's a right Alpha - not nasty but barky.

After that , I popped out for 25 miles in the lanes around Gronant to Tremeirchion - very hilly first half, and flat as I dropped back in the the Clywd Valley back to Rhyl and Prestatyn.

You got out of the kitchen corner then!

 

[fossyant]

You got out of the kitchen corner then!

Yup !

 

[Andy in Germany]

Something has set off my Asthma again. Strangely the same thing affects my colleagues hayfever so suddenly we've had blocked noses and spent the day sneezing in stereo.

 

[Jenkins]

Hot chocolate time.

You might be getting addicted to it.

Nah - it's just a bit of brown powder, I can give it up any time I want to.

Could someone please pass the semi-skimmed. It's almost time for a hot chocolate milky drink.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

My beer tastes of banana!

 

[Jenkins]

Anyhow, it was a lovely sunny and warm start to the morning. Just a pity that the rest of the day followed on to ruin it with grey cloud and a cool breeze.

Had a message from my sister this afternoon - she and my brother in law managed to get a cheap, short notice break with a night in Portsmouth then a few days in the Isle of Wight. Apparently the hotel in Portsmouth was much reduced, partly due to a 'dated' bathroom...

Back to the '70s anyone.

 

[woodbutchmaster]

I presume you mean the English Channel where I certainly have not sailed apart from on a ferry.
The Sound of Mull can be a busy area {admittedly not as busy as the English Channel} with a great variety of ships up to enormous gravel carriers whose navigation is sometimes a bit suspect. On some of the cargo boats the lookout may well be asleep as some have tried to to take shortcuts overland. One was reported to be sailing with an old school atlas for navigation as they got lost and had to call for help to find out where they were. So far all have been refloated in the recent past but the Sound is littered with wrecks and some are still to be discovered.
We were the first divers on a wreck which sank in 1919 and remained undiscovered until about 2002. The location was wrongly reported at the time.

Yes the English channel or since l am a French resident now perhaps l should call it La Manche and as l said l was sailing from England to France your "presumption" was more of "where else would l be "

 

[tyred]

Enjoyed a lovely thirty miles on my fixed wheel Raleigh but it was interrupted by an unscheduled deflation.

Hedge cutters are out in force

 

[classic33]

Enjoyed a lovely thirty miles on my fixed wheel Raleigh but it was interrupted by an unscheduled deflation.

Hedge cutters are out in force

They're not supposed to be out whilst the end of this month, by law.

 

[classic33]

Yes the English channel or since l am a French resident now perhaps l should call it La Manche and as l said l was sailing from England to France your "presumption" was more of "where else would l be "

"It was called Oceanus Britannicus by the 2nd-century geographer Ptolemy. The same name is used on an Italian map of about 1450, which gives the alternative name of canalites Anglie—possibly the first recorded use of the Channel designation."

 

[classic33]

Nah - it's just a bit of brown powder, I can give it up any time I want to.

Could someone please pass the semi-skimmed. It's almost time for a hot chocolate milky drink.

Was the milk in white powder form as well?

 

[Reynard]

Home made burritos for supper.

 

[Jenkins]

Was the milk in white powder form as well?

*Sniff* Couldn't possibly comment *Sniff*

 

[fossyant]

The three ragdolls are sky raisin chasing at the caravan... oh my.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Something quite compelling about 'Classic Bands' on tv. Didn't know much about Moody Blues and Yes before, but I do now