Mundane News

[oldwheels]

Still raining. Went out to pharmacy and got my repeat prescription but one item was missing and not the fault of the pharmacy.
Phoned the surgery and they were most apologetic and a further prescription is on it's way.
Came home and found my neighbour delving in a BT pit [ he works for Openreach ] opposite the house so asked if I could borrow his nice new sack barrow to remove my old freezer when the new one arrives. He has to go to Craignure tomorrow so will check with courier there and bring the new one up if they have it and offered to take my old one up to the dump.
He loaned his strimmer to somebody who seems to have broken it so he can have my one meantime if he can get it started.
Lending stuff here is pretty common but I would expect the borrower to pay for repairs if they are at fault. Knowing who he loaned it to it may have been misused.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Back lawn trimmed with the mower.
Underneath the bird table cleaned .
Tea starting to cook

Our lawns back and front got their first cut of the year today, the front one was long enough to need the strimmer on it

 

[PeteXXX]

Still raining. Went out to pharmacy and got my repeat prescription but one item was missing and not the fault of the pharmacy.
Phoned the surgery and they were most apologetic and a further prescription is on it's way.
Came home and found my neighbour delving in a BT pit [ he works for Openreach ] opposite the house so asked if I could borrow his nice new sack barrow to remove my old freezer when the new one arrives. He has to go to Craignure tomorrow so will check with courier there and bring the new one up if they have it and offered to take my old one up to the dump.
He loaned his strimmer to somebody who seems to have broken it so he can have my one meantime if he can get it started.
Lending stuff here is pretty common but I would expect the borrower to pay for repairs if they are at fault. Knowing who he loaned it to it may have been misused.

It really annoys me when people borrow stuff and don't look after it, or fail to return it without reminders!
A neighbour once borrowed my plane (not ✈!) and ran the blade over a nail shank they'd failed to remove. I'd have been more forgiving if they'd apologised rather than just hoping I'd not notice!

 

[oldwheels]

It really annoys me when people borrow stuff and don't look after it, or fail to return it without reminders!
A neighbour once borrowed my plane (not ✈!) and ran the blade over a nail shank they'd failed to remove. I'd have been more forgiving if they'd apologised rather than just hoping I'd not notice!

I used to lend my Wayfarer dinghy to somebody for teaching learners. Once they broke the stern hatch cover leaving it unsafe as there would be no buoyancy if it overturned. They never told me and acted surprised that they could no longer borrow it. Spoiled my own next outing as I could not go till it was fixed.
Lending books is a definite no no.

 

[Reynard]

Put £40 of fuel in the car. Chaos at the petrol station (Tesco) as there was no diesel. Then went to Screwfix for a few bits. They only had half my order, so have to go back tomorrow to pick up the rest. I do have rat traps though, so will set those later. Also went to the tip and got rid of a car load of assorted junk.

I also had a look at the bikes in the tip sales area. They've got LOADS of bikes, never seen that many there before. Most is cheap and / or knackered, but there's a few good bits to be had; a Scott Vengeance MTB, a new-ish Carrera Kraken, several vintage Raleigh roadies, one I suspect is a 531 frame (it's been painted with purple hammerite), a Mistral mixte and a couple of vintage-ish tandems requiring a bit of TLC, one a Dawes, one, I'm not sure.

There was also a Raleigh Ace junior roadie for sale, and I was all for buying it until I noticed that one of the fork legs looked like it'd come off a Pinarello Dogma... Bike stayed where it is, it's definitely had one heck of a front end whack at some point. Gutted, because it was red and all...

Now sat here with a nice

 

[Andy in Germany]

I have to report for jury duty in a cpl weeks. here's hoping, when I do the call-in, the nite before, they change their mind!

I recently discovered that Germany doesn't have jury service.

Apparently, judgements don't set precedent in law either, like they can in the US and the UK.

I also can't be deported to a non-EU country, which I haven't needed to invoke legally, but it may come in handy one day, you never know...

 

[Oldhippy]

Did you?

I did.

 

[postman]

Back lawn trimmed with the mower.
Underneath the bird table cleaned .
Tea starting to cook

So you are having grass and birdseed quiche then.

 

[biggs682]

Our lawns back and front got their first cut of the year today, the front one was long enough to need the strimmer on it

That was the second cut of the year

So you are having grass and birdseed quiche then.

We chicken and chips with some greenery so pretty close i suppose

 

[fossyant]

On train home, one person with hacking cough, one with cough. You should see the death stares

 

[fossyant]

On train home, one person with hacking cough, one with cough. You should see the death stares

I got out the handwash and sploshed it everywhere on exit. No wonder I bike to work. Been out for tea with a few others.

 

[Illaveago]

I went over to my brother's this evening with the Nikon camera to try it out . We fitted his battery and lens . I had put a SD card in from another camera to try it out . Things lit up and the LCD screen came to life . It didn't want to focus or take a picture . I tried my brother's D70 and that worked fine . I tried mine again and the flash went off but no picture . Err appeared ! We came to the conclusion that perhaps the the SD card needs formatting . I'll have to see if I can get a download for the camera .
At least the camera showed some signs of life !

 

[tyred]

I've run out of blackcurrant squash so I'm having orange instead.

 

[rockyroller]

got my 4th vax jab

 

[rockyroller]

On train home, one person with hacking cough, one with cough. You should see the death stares

anybody masked?

we've got a woman in our office, picked up a chronic cough months ago & says she won't get a 2nd booster. says she's "past all that" hope that idea works out for her