Mundane News

[mybike]

Cassies walk was an hour long today. I needed to rest when we got home, she didn't.

 

[Poacher]

Found an interesting (empty!) bottle at Woodhall Spa bowls club car boot first thing on Monday, but decided to give it to my neighbour, as he's a) a Geordie, b) an even keener cyclist than I am, and c) fond of beer. It's from a few years either side of 1900, might just have been fizzy drink but I'd like to think it was Doctors Stout (for which Emmerson of Newcastle was renowned). For anyone who can't make out the detail of the pic, the trade mark is a man on a penny-farthing.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Curiously, the bike's going the other way on these beers.

 

[Poacher]

Curiously, the bike's going the other way on these beers.
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The heavier stoneware bottles were for the outward journey, the lighter glass ones for the homeward leg. Possibly.


I'd guess the stoneware ones were a few years earlier. Robert Emmerson Junior seemed to have dropped one of his m's when he had this fine grade2* building constructed. He had the ground floor or basement for a classy restaurant and let the upper floors as offices.

 

[Jenkins]

Another hot sunny day in prospect so out early again on the trike.
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You can go off people you know. Some of us haven't seen the sun for what seems like weeks and also got drizzled on on the way to work this afternoon.

 

[Reynard]

Spent the afternoon reading and curled up in a thick fleece throw. I have also done some writing.

Plus I watched the England v New Zealand T20 match.

Feel a bit better. Hopefully I will sleep some tonight.

 

[carpiste]

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

I think you need to take into account that in a year it`ll be 365000 deaths from covid! Sounds a little more serious now I think

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

You can go off people you know. Some of us haven't seen the sun for what seems like weeks and also got drizzled on on the way to work this afternoon.

It's been getting to me too. August has failed representing summer and the only thing true to its name has been delivering the odd gust.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Spent the afternoon reading and curled up in a thick fleece throw. I have also done some writing.

Plus I watched the England v New Zealand T20 match.

Feel a bit better. Hopefully I will sleep some tonight.

Oh Knoblauch! I didn't even know that the match was scheduled. I was getting ready for tomorrow's Oval test.

 

[classic33]

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...

I've given instructions, in Gaelic, with a Yorkshire accent so thick you'd need a knife to cut it.
No real problems.

 

[Jenkins]

The Premium Bond prize checker informs me that I have £50 of frivolous spending money heading my way in a few days. Probably to be spent on a trickle charger for the car battery and a load of chocolate or Haribo.

 

[Reynard]

Oh Knoblauch! I didn't even know that the match was scheduled. I was getting ready for tomorrow's Oval test.

Was a good performance by England. Very nice game to watch. Should be on the i-player somewhere...

 

[Reynard]

Anyways, bed for me. I has a tired.

Nunnight one and all xxx

 

[Grant Fondo]

four duck dumplings dispatched dunked in sesame teryaki and rice wine vinegar, yum

 

[classic33]

four duck dumplings dispatched dunked in sesame teryaki and rice wine vinegar, yum

Going to sleep on a full stomach!