Mundane News

[Andy in Germany]

About to tell three of my clients their practical job for the morning is pulling chains off about 50 scrap bikes.

All are from different countries and speak different languages, they speak German to different levels and the instructions will come from a Brit speaking German in a Yorkshire accent.

What could possibly go wrong...

 

[oldwheels]

Another hot sunny day in prospect so out early again on the trike.
Just enough wind to keep midges at bay so was able to stop for a while overlooking the bottom Mishnish Loch.
More bird life on the water with geese, diving ducks and inevitable seagulls. A raven was making a racket behind me as it was chasing off what looked like a buzzard at the edge of the forest. Need to look up my books to id the water birds which I do not find easy. I do have half of mini binocs which I carry as a monocular but they all look brown with not much else to pick out. A solitary dabchick or similar quite near me tho' there were two of them yesterday. As soon as you get them in focus they dive again. Frustrating.
Traffic seems to run in small convoys both directions nearer 9 o'clock with the back ones probably getting frustrated. All seem to be in a rush except one tourist car bimbling along.
Big clearance at the campsite as only 2 tents still there and gaps in the motorhome spaces.

 

[mybike]

I've now been on the phone to the council for 1h 2m and I still haven't reached the department I need. I wait, I speak to someone, they transfer the call, and repeat. The same depressing music playing is not helping.

Bring back the Four Seasons I say.

 

[Illaveago]

About to tell three of my clients their practical job for the morning is pulling chains of about 50 scrap bikes.

All are from different countries and speak different languages, they speak German to different levels and the instructions will come from a Brit speaking German in a Yorkshire accent.

What could possibly go wrong...

Oooh! Smart bikes speaking different languages!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I've taken the green bag that was full of recycling down to the big green bank downstairs. While I was down, I vacuum cleaned the passenger seat area of my car. I was going to do more but I got bored. Also I was sitting in the bit that needed the most attention. When I next confront the outside world, I may sit in the front passenger seat and do the other side.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Oooh! Smart bikes speaking different languages!

Yeah, but like I said they don't speak German that well, so not very smart bikes...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Bring back the Four Seasons I say.

Global Warming and its effect on Telephone call centres.

I feel a thesis coming on...

 

[Reynard]

Grey, cool and drizzly here chez Casa Reynard.

I did not sleep well. Actually, I did not sleep. I spent the night feeling really cold and now I feel absolutely ghastly. I am going to have a plumpitty day, I think.

Maybe I will feel better after lunch.

 

[Speicher]

Yesterday I found over £50 that I did not know I had lost.

Until last summer when I had lots of Hopsital visits, I had a different purse to take with me. It contained no credit cards, just cash and my essential info about the Consultant/drug details and my home address, I needed to have sufficient cash in case I needed to get a taxi home, and some for cash in case I needed to purchase something tasty and edible. There was also a fresh fruit and vegetable "shop" just outside the main door.

When I finally finished treatment, I just left the purse somewhere and forgot about it. Shows how ill I felt, that I could forget that!

 

[TheDoctor]

Can I borrow a fiver then?
*hopeful*

 

[PeteXXX]

I've found what are possibly the worst air fresheners in the world.....

I didn't buy any.. Lol

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I've found what are possibly the worst air fresheners in the world.....

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I didn't buy any.. Lol

Cleared 'em out of toilet blocks though, I note

 

[biggs682]

Well less than an hour to go till the hooter sounds

 

[mybike]

in other news, 1,000 Americans are dying from covid every day & lunatic morons are fighting over whether or not their kid can go mask-less at school. hello, the virus is worse this year & the kids still can't get vaccinated. entire colleges are in quarantine & these nut jobs want their "freedom". I say start a school w/ all the anti-maskers & anti-vaxxers; teachers, parents & students & let them do what they want, waaaaaay over there, away from me & my family

That's a pretty small number when you take the population into account. What are the daily figures for other causes?

 

[fossyant]

I've found what are possibly the worst air fresheners in the world.....

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I didn't buy any.. Lol

Oh my - Swizzles Factory isn't that far from me - smells lush cycling past. Can't think these are the same.