Mundane News

[deptfordmarmoset]

salt? fresh? bait? lures?

He's Manchester so it's rainwater fish.

 

[rockyroller]

Why are crisps so hard these days ?

stopped at an ice cream shop on my way home today & heard a girl inside, scooping ice cream, ask her male colleague, why was the chocolate so soft & how could she make it harder. at which point, she started cracking up. the boy was a bit shy I think, & just kept scooping his own

 

[Gravity Aided]

There's a log jam of container ships moored outside Los Angeles. The reason.......

........ a shortage of lorry drivers.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/22/cargo-ships-traffic-jam-los-angeles-california

Like so many jobs in the U.S., quit treating them like dirt, and there will be more applicants.

 

[Gravity Aided]

All change round here, which is very unusual for Hundred Acre Wood.

People two doors down are moving out tomorrow. The people opposite move out next week. Two doors up and four doors up will change hands before the end of the year.

The back seats of my car are full of clean bedding, towels, blankets, table cloths, scarves, hats etc. This is not "mine" as such. The lady two doors down wanted them to go to a good home, but did not have time to take them to various Charities.

She thinks that Charity Shops do not take "bedding". I think that means duvets and pillows etc, rather than clean bedding in very good condition. I might be wrong. The difficulties of moving house, combined with her husband having dementia, means she has delegated this task to me. She was doing well, finding a home for a large fridge, some furniture and other items.

I think the nearest shelter for the homeless will take the blankets, towels, scarves, hats, men's shirts etc, or the people collecting for Afghan refugees. The table cloth will go to a Charity shop. She is not fussy where they go, but did not want to throw them into landfill.

I have gained two very nice wooden laundry baskets. I do not have that much laundry, but they will fit under the dining room table and I can put my wool and yarn etc in them, and it will look so much better than a mottley collection of wooden baskets.

I will also have temporary ownership of lots of tubs, planters, pots etc with pots in them. Fortunate there is space at the front of the house for them all. She spoke about my babysitting her tomato plants. I know nothing about growing matoes, fortunately one of my neighbours is a very keen vegetable grower, and can tell me what to do. I thought they all died in the winter, and you get new plants each year. I have a "coldframe" which is a very small unheated green house, would that keep them alive?

I do not know your climate, but I seriously doubt it. Mine die at the first frost, and do not produce or ripen fruits after August in The States. (Central Illinois, betwixt Chicago and St. Louis.).

 

[Gravity Aided]

Take some old apples, and place them with your green tomatoes in a pail with a tightly covered lid, like a five gallon pail, and give them a bit of time. The old apples will produce ethylene gas and ripen the green tomatoes.

 

[biggs682]

Whilst we are talking about tomatoes ours are still just about still going red on the outside plants .
Bit of a non start this morning.

 

[PeteXXX]

Streuth, it's early!

 

[Mo1959]

Streuth, it's early!

It’s late.

I had a long lie. Finally seem to be sleeping slightly better these days.

 

[biggs682]

First cuppa went well
Cat litter all over the floor so it must need changing
And it's Friday

 

[Illaveago]

Morning.
I have put our recycling bins out. I a few cardboard boxes to cut up . I've been buying a few things.
Georgie had a bit of a cuddle before having his breakfast , he's not a very cuddly cat, he does like biting your feet though !

 

[biggs682]

Things morning at last only 2 hours late
Yoghurt and fruit for breakfast

 

[cookiemonster]

It’s late.

I had a long lie. Finally seem to be sleeping slightly better these days.

It's VERY late! Almost 3.20pm.

Almost Friday Wine o'Clock.
It seems to be finally cooling down here. Only 30c today.

 

[mybike]

I've got a tin of Duckhams chain grease somewhere. I bought it for my motorcycle back in the 70's. I think you boiled up the grease , let your chain soak in it and then suspended the chain over the tin to let the excess drain off. The liquid would go back to grease when cool .

Used to regularly use that, used two chains, kept one in the tin, the other on the motorbike.

 

[Mo1959]

Used to regularly use that, used two chains, kept one in the tin, the other on the motorbike.

Will that be more like the stuff that's on the chains when they are new?

 

[Illaveago]

Will that be more like the stuff that's on the chains when they are new?

Could be ! Never got round to using mine .