Mundane News

[Gravity Aided]

I am ignoring the war, Mrs GA already sent contribution s and I fear I am in sick bay.

 

[cookiemonster]

I love this, where did you find it?

Tumblr.

 

[cookiemonster]

 

[biggs682]

Morning a slight frost outside
Cat is demanding his breakfast
Clear skies

 

[woodbutchmaster]

Morning a slight frost outside
Cat is demanding his breakfast
Clear skies

Same here except with no cat involved

 

[biggs682]

First cuppa went down well
Cat has now been fed
Got to find our tandem tomorrow am

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Well, the good news is that I now know how to open the washing machine when there's no power going into it. You may be able to guess the bad news.....

 

[Deleted member 1258]

From my Facebook page this morning.

 

[oldwheels]

@oldwheels
We do not get many aircraft flying overhead here. Sometimes I see contrails in the distance.

At about 2am this morning I was surprised to hear a loud aircraft noise. It sounded like a large aircraft passing overhead slowly, not a fast jet. Very strange.

Some years ago, a plane was so loud, but approaching low and very slowly, I wondered not "will it hit one of these houses" but "which house will it hit? " The whole house shook.

Then there was the time that a hot air balloon nearly landed on the roof of this house. Living at the top of a hill does have some drawbacks.

We sometimes get whatever replaced the Nimrods passing low overhead just above roof level. I was driving up from the ferry one day and one was nearly alongside me over the water to my right. That is only one of close encounters and they usually travel in pairs. Never heard them after dark tho'.

 

[biggs682]

Friday night and the strip is hot

 

[oldwheels]

Dry with sunny intervals and temp a bit higher at 4.1C. The wind is stronger so wind chill makes it feel much colder and also cools the house down even tho' it is pretty draught proof. I need by law to have some fixed open vent since I have a coal burning stove so I suppose that lets in some cool air.
Gales followed by more gales and heavy rain forecast to start tomorrow for several days.

 

[mybike]

My Canon Ixus fulfills much the same role. It lives in my handbag.

Mum's family used to run a camera shop back in the day, so was taught the basics at a fairly early age. I started out with a medium format box and a 127 cartridge film (the type with the square prints) Kodak thing. (Instamatic?) Both really make you think about what you're doing, and certainly instilled some good habits.

I was a relative latecomer to 35mm film as dad wouldn't let me use his 35mm rangefinder. Having said that, those single use 35mm cameras that you could get BITD actually took surprisingly good photos.

As they say, the best camera is the one you have with you.

I've a very cheap, small camera that gets shoved in a pocket when I'm on the bike.

 

[biggs682]

Second cuppa went down well
Accompanied by the smell of toasted hot cross buns

 

[Speicher]

By the way, still in hospital.

Are you still there after two weeks?

 

[biggs682]

A lot of our shopping delivery today was tinned products..... just in case