Mundane News

[Reynard]

Oh dear reading that @Reynard has lost her cherry 🍒 to a cronut is not the sort of thing one expects on cycle chat

Yeah, well...

But I do still have plenty of cherries left, having bought a job lot of glace ones on yellow sticker not that long ago

 

[DCLane]

Ah, botheration... I do hope they'll cover the cost of sending it back...

I've got in touch, with a photo of the wrong wheel, and await their response.

A Fulcrum 5 LG rear was supposed to be in the box, but I got a tatty Easton EA50 with tyre/cassette. Everyone makes mistakes so hopefully it'll get sorted.

Son no. 2 and myself both run Fulcrum 5 LG's on our cross bikes, so a spare rear would always be helpful.

 

[Speicher]

Is there a news channel on the internet that does not show gruesome photos? 😢

I try to watch the news headlines once a day, but I think I need to stop that now.

 

[DCLane]

On another note I've cleaned out a sink today

It's not even anything to do with me, but a part of the house where SWMBO stays if she's working with 'contagious' patients - just so she can't pass anything nasty onto me since I'm at risk. But she's never caught any of these nasties. Covid, Sars, Yellow Fever, Diptheria, Ebola, etc. For the past 20 years she's worked with patients who've had all of them, but seems to be immune despite usually needing to work without PPE due to the close-contact nature of her type of medical care. I know she can be a bit forceful at times, but never to have caught anything . I wonder if viruses are scared of her?

 

[oldwheels]

We currently have what the forecast calls light rain. Heavy is forecast for tomorrow so if what we have now is light I dread tomorrow.
Browsing the local FB page it is full of people asking where to buy all sorts of things. These are obviously recent settlers who bought houses here with no research.
We now have no shops selling things a resident may want,the only shops now have tourist tat. There is a so called producers market today. Who wants plaques with Welsh designs? There is some food but on past observation it is sprinkled with gold dust according to the prices asked.
We were probably the last shop selling to a local market tho' we also had some tourist stuff. Some items did come from Wales as we went there to sell and buy but nothing aimed at a Wales tourist market.
When we came here to live we came to investigate the local scene beforehand and we found a real small town where you could get almost anything you may need. Even things like washing machines and fridges could be got off the shelf.
Changed days indeed

 

[Reynard]

Lovely luncheon of a chicken and avocado sandwich on wholemeal bread, a red orange, two flavourking* plums and two

* not actually a true plum, they're a cross between a plum and an apricot.

 

[Reynard]

I've got in touch, with a photo of the wrong wheel, and await their response.

A Fulcrum 5 LG rear was supposed to be in the box, but I got a tatty Easton EA50 with tyre/cassette. Everyone makes mistakes so hopefully it'll get sorted.

Son no. 2 and myself both run Fulcrum 5 LG's on our cross bikes, so a spare rear would always be helpful.

Ah, fingers crossed it can get sorted. Hope it's just an honest mistake.

 

[Reynard]

Is there a news channel on the internet that does not show gruesome photos? 😢

I try to watch the news headlines once a day, but I think I need to stop that now.

Err, the radio?

 

[mybike]

I was thinking this evening over dinner that I don't know anyone who rides a bicycle in real life, just you lot virtually.

A few doors down, the family all ride. The father rides a cargo bike, the children both ride, competently, to junior school in his company. Saw him the other day with a different bike he was planning to work on. I commented that I didn't think he could ride an ordinary bike.

 

[Reynard]

Parental unit's prescription dropped off, and a gallon of chainsaw oil bought.

The agricultural engineering place did have rat traps, but not the ones I wanted. I don't want a live trap, the cheap plastic ones are useless (The Big Cheese - waste of money), and I don't want to be putting poison bait down.

Off to Screwfix tomorrow, methinks. And take a load of stuff to the tip, as that's just round the corner from Screwfix.

Aaaaaaaaaaaanyways, time for a and a smackerel of something.

 

[biggs682]

Been as busy as predicted today
Might try to sneak a few miles in later once a few jobs have been done so fingers crossed

 

[Andy in Germany]

Started some bike maintenance today, and managed to drive a van 18km without hitting anything breakable.

 

[Reynard]

Right, time to feed the cats, and then it will be time to feed me.

 

[tyred]

Tonight's ride has been cancelled due to inclement weather

 

[Illaveago]

In 1960 it was the same all over the UK but it was worth a whole year of the allowance if claimed at the end of the tax year. Not very romantic perhaps but practical.

Didn't it end in the 70's ?