Mundane News

[oldwheels]

Many years ago, I stayed in a self-catering flat in Porthmadog, north Wales. It was described as having allocated parking. On arrival it was evident that the "allocated" parking was part of the car park for the Ffestiniog Mountain Railway.

So I though well, how is that going to work out? No cones to mark it, just small notices on the adjacent wall. Anyhoo, yes it did work, after days out and returning to the flat, there was "my" space unoccupied. I did use the train as often as possible, but was pleasantly surprised at people's respect for other people's parking.

You do say "many years ago". That would have been the same here but now that we are an unofficial theme park we get a different type of tourist. All take and no respect for those who live here.😠

 

[RoubaixCube]

Stepped on the scale to have my quarterly dose of extra humour. Lost another 3kg!

I suspect it could actually be closer to 4kg, but i've just drunk a gallon of water and scoffed down a large portion of fish & chips, some scampi after almost 6 hours of non-stop hiking

Terrain was mostly flat but i was already one foot in the grave from being on the bike for the last two days. The walk home was more of a 'death march'. The fish & chips vanished before it even had a chance to hit my plate. Time for a well earned rest and a shot of whisky.

 

[Speicher]

You do say "many years ago". That would have been the same here but now that we are an unofficial theme park we get a different type of tourist. All take and no respect for those who live here.😠

Yes, that was my point. Twenty years or so ago, attitudes seemed to be very different.

 

[biggs682]

So glad our 6 yr old granddaughter showed us how to pause live tv

 

[Illaveago]

I've been playing with my lenses. Most of the things I've been trying to capture have been a bit far away so I've had to crop them . I've got some lovely shots of a twig in sharp focus with a Robin in soft focus behind it .

 

[tyred]

I've turned off all Google notifications on my phone. I don't want news and weather updates. "It's raining" - oh I wondered what that wet stuff falling from the sky was.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I mislaid my Skoda in a car park today

A symptom of driving the same car for 16 years and then changing combined with the fact that my 205 is rare enough to stand out and be easy to spot whereas a grey Skoda Fabia is the epitome of blandness.

Over the years I've mislaid my car several times, on one occasion I was parked in a multi story with two third floors.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Things in the garden starting to show signs of life again

I know, I'm going to have to do start gardening sometime soon, I've already hard pruned my Buddleia.

 

[oldwheels]

Over the years I've mislaid my car several times, on one occasion I was parked in a multi story with two third floors.

Large outdoor car park, heavy snowfall before wireless keys were invented.

 

[tyred]

Over the years I've mislaid my car several times, on one occasion I was parked in a multi story with two third floors.

A work colleague once went shopping with a friend and parked in the multi story at the shopping centre. When they came back some hours later, she walked up to her red VW Polo and the key wouldn't unlock the door. Her friend's brother is a mechanic so they called him and he came out, eventually broke into the car, damaging the door handle in the process. When she got into the driver's seat, the key wouldn't turn in the ignition, then she thought "who moved my seat."

Her Polo was parked on the floor below and they had broken into someone else's red Polo with a similar registration number. They had to wait until the owner came back, apologise and offer to pay for the damage

 

[Gravity Aided]

-14C this morning,, but much of the 5" of snow has melted.

 

[classic33]

How to provide variety at work:

Collect items from storeroom
Forget metal framed shelf above head
Smack head on shelf
Go to hospital and get head glued back together again.
Come back to apartment for lunch.
Catch bus in ten minutes to return to shop to collect bike.

The doc asked "How did you get the injury?"
I said "Temporary geographical amnesia..."

Did you damage the shelf?

 

[rockyroller]

Right, time to put some presentable clothes on and tootle off to Tesco.

here's hoping you don't put your pants on inside-out. I did that a cpl times during limited lockdown. for some reason my track pants here stored or dried inside out & I just slipped them on w/o noticing. until I reached for pockets at whatever store I was at. doing it a 2nd time was even more funny

 

[Reynard]

Not too much luck in Tesco tonight - counters cleared up early afternoon, and virtually nothing to be had in fruit & veg, bakery or the green bins. Chilled section to the rescue though...

Picked up a tray of pork loin steaks, giant fish fingers, cod bites in batter, breaded chicken wings, smoked salmon, coleslaw, potatoes and pains au chocolat.

Going to be making schnitzel, so if you're all wondering what that banging might be at some point this coming week, that'll be me letting loose with the meat tenderizer...

 

[Reynard]

here's hoping you don't put your pants on inside-out. I did that a cpl times during limited lockdown. for some reason my track pants here stored or dried inside out & I just slipped them on w/o noticing. until I reached for pockets at whatever store I was at. doing it a 2nd time was even more funny

Nope. I'm a jeans-and-jumper girl when I go out.