Mundane News

[tyred]

All this talk of Soviet cameras, I am going away for a few days next weekend and I might take my Zenit or Practika with me if I can find a few rolls of black and white film locally in time.

 

[Illaveago]

Ooh! I'm shaking .
I just had a bidding war on a lens . It seems like someone else wanted it . I waited until the last 2 minutes before launching an attack !
Nobody seemed interested until I placed a bid. Probably should have waited until today. Got it anyway !

 

[mybike]

I had chicken for lunch.

Cooked?

 

[mybike]

A typewriter would have handled better... The BT55 was notorious for having the torsional rigidity of blancmange.

Rigidity is a requirement in typewriters.

 

[PeteXXX]

I hope the gubbment doesn't read all these posts about Russian cameras & lenses. They'll go all oligarchy on them!

 

[mybike]

I have one of those, I hate loading it but I love playing around with the focus. I always end up with way under 36 exposures by the time I've got the film tail properly trimmed.
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Savernake Forest on an unfocused Zorki. Complete with dodgy light piping on lower edge.

I quite enjoyed using it, as an alternative to my Practica, but just couldn't rely on it.

 

[tyred]

I hope the gubbment doesn't read all these posts about Russian cameras & lenses. They'll go all oligarchy on them!

As well as my cameras I also have an old bike from behind the iron curtain, we've had an Ursus tractor in the family for years and I've recently adopted a Skoda too.

I've defected. Hello Comrade!

 

[classic33]

I just trimmed my beard; It was getting a bit hairy.

The beard or the trimming of said beard?

 

[rockyroller]

Amazon says they delivered our cat food, which we can not find in any local stores. they even showed a photo of front steps that look like ours but it's not ours. it's a neighbor's. we live in a condo & all front steps look the same. I checked the neighbors' front steps, no luck. who keeps cat food that wasn't sent to them? especially when it has my name on the label? wrote to Amazon, their automated attendant wrote back: "oops looks like it was marked delivered prematurely, wait until tomorrow" there was no way to send a message : "it WAS DELIVERED to my neighbor but it's not on their steps anymore & they didn't give it to us" HAPPY MONDAY!

 

[Illaveago]

I managed to overtake a lorry in my Skoda, it can be done with sufficient forward planning and plenty of gear changing.

Back in the early 80's when my Dolomite Sprint was on the road I found that Skoda Estelles would always try it on ! . They should have tried it when I had filled the SU dash pots with oil. I couldn't keep up with Citroen Dyane then !

 

[oldwheels]

Amazon says they delivered our cat food, which we can not find in any local stores. they even showed a photo of front steps that look like ours but it's not ours. it's a neighbor's. we live in a condo & all front steps look the same. I checked the neighbors' front steps, no luck. who keeps cat food that wasn't sent to them? especially when it has my name on the label? wrote to Amazon, their automated attendant wrote back: "oops looks like it was marked delivered prematurely, wait until tomorrow" there was no way to send a message : "it WAS DELIVERED to my neighbor but it's not on their steps anymore & they didn't give it to us" HAPPY MONDAY!

I am fortunate to have good neighbours as they sometimes get my post which they always deliver to me. There is also confusion caused by a faulty address generating system where my parcels get delivered to a house several hundred yards away. I also sometimes get their parcels. Most of those in our local post office are incomers who know nothing and no idea who lives where.

 

[Illaveago]

Amazon says they delivered our cat food, which we can not find in any local stores. they even showed a photo of front steps that look like ours but it's not ours. it's a neighbor's. we live in a condo & all front steps look the same. I checked the neighbors' front steps, no luck. who keeps cat food that wasn't sent to them? especially when it has my name on the label? wrote to Amazon, their automated attendant wrote back: "oops looks like it was marked delivered prematurely, wait until tomorrow" there was no way to send a message : "it WAS DELIVERED to my neighbor but it's not on their steps anymore & they didn't give it to us" HAPPY MONDAY!

I like the new Spec Savers add we have here! It's about a delivery driver having to deliver a large object like a mattress to the top floor of a large block of flats. The lift is not working and so he carries it all the way to the top . He rings the door bell and the occupant tells him it's the wrong address and points to another block of flats opposite !

 

[Illaveago]

I've had my doctor's phone call . My wife listened in as I found it hard to make out the conversation . I will have an ECG tomorrow as well as a blood test . Just to check . The niggles started a couple of weeks ago , just checking there isn't a miss fire .

 

[tyred]

I've had my doctor's phone call . My wife listened in as I found it hard to make out the conversation . I will have an ECG tomorrow as well as a blood test . Just to check . The niggles started a couple of weeks ago , just checking there isn't a miss fire .

Good luck and I hope all is okay.

 

[biggs682]

Second cuppa went down well