Mundane News

[Reynard]

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

* I have a little fishy, to put in their little dishy...

 

[postman]

Even though I've been out of the car for a couple of hours, 300 miles and a surfeit of coffee means like I feel like I'm still moving!

300 miles is that one journey and can I ask where have you been.

 

[postman]

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

* I have a little fishy, to put in their little dishy...

I hope it's not a pirahna,is that how you spell it.

 

[postman]

Do you know it's 1948 in this house,in two minutes I get born again,let's hope I don't make all the same mistakes.

 

[biggs682]

Well the black bin is awaiting it's mothership in the morning

 

[tyred]

Enjoyed my new-found freedom with a nice bike ride

I've also found my missing Brompton spokes

 

[Kempstonian]

Anything involving music. I don't think playing three blind mice (excruciatingly badly) on the recorder counts.

I hate recorders! When we were young my sister used to have one and she drove me mad playing it (or trying to). I complained so much that she hit me over the head with it and it broke. Great, I thought, at least I'll get some peace now - but dad fixed it the same day when he came home from work. I never forgave him for that! (The fixing, not the coming home )

The devil's instrument is the recorder.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

300 miles is that one journey and can I ask where have you been.

It was punctuated by a good number of coffee stops and walkabouts but, yes, it was one journey. I went off to Bristol the other day, then went on to Penryn, which is in Cornwall, just down the road from Falmouth. I'd originally meant to break my journey back to London by stopping in Bristol again but I couldn't find a place that wasn't stupidly expensive so I did the trip back today.

 

[Reynard]

Had salmon, potato & sweetcorn chowder, followed by a steak sandwich for supper.

The girls shared a basa fillet between them. No piranhas in sight @postman

 

[Reynard]

I hate recorders! When we were young my sister used to have one and she drove me mad playing it (or trying to). I complained so much that she hit me over the head with it and it broke. Great, I thought, at least I'll get some peace now - but dad fixed it the same day when he came home from work. I never forgave him for that! (The fixing, not the coming home )

The devil's instrument is the recorder.

They're ok when played by someone who knows what they're doing. Otherwise they sound like a litter of piglets on speed...

 

[Reynard]

Note to self:

Do not try to re-bait a rat trap what hasn't been sprung.

Ouch.

 

[Reynard]

Now have a and am watching MOTD.

I forgot we were playing this evening. Ooops.

We won 4-2 away at Chelsea.

I don't get this team of mine, I really don't...

 

[classic33]

I feel sorry for you .
Greed Merchants ! We are also p****d off with all the homes being built around here. It looks like another town is being added on . The homes are being thrust upon us by County Hall . There's no real work here apart from supermarkets which seem to be popping up everywhere . The main employer basically moved out years ago . The homes are for people to move into the area and commute , not for locals .

Pointed out a few pieces of local history to developers looking to build in green fields, seemed to put them off as the applications never went further.

First was the site was the known area of a plague pit, the second being the site of a bronze age-iron age fort and on Kights Templar/Freemason land. Either would have been costly before they could have even started building.

 

[classic33]

I have become addicted to Flightradar24.
Fortunately it kicks me off every 15 minutes so there is hope for me ... LOL!
But I'm entranced watching the planes, copters, gliders, drones ... the mega-rich folk swanning about the globe, air ambulances getting busy, police patrolling motorways and autobahns, warplanes patrolling the borders, Hawks chasing each other over Morecambe Bay, the sudden 'disappearance' of Typhoons and F-15s ...

Back for another 15 minutes!

Try ADS-B, you don't get kicked off every 15 minutes.

 

[classic33]

Bugger, that didn't go to plan...

Mower started first time, so filled up with fuel and off I went. Did all the bits around the house, then went out to do some stuff further out. The steering starts to feel sloppy and then suddenly, the steering wheel turns, but the front wheels don't. Whoops.

Classic catastrophic fatigue failure of the steering linkage around a stress raiser. Would be a perfect picture for a Strength of Materials textbook...

Fortunately managed to use the car to tow the mower out of the garden and then shove it back in the garage. The steering is repairable, it's just a matter of swapping out the broken part. The only thing I'm not sure is whether it bolts in or whether it's welded in. The former is straightforward, the latter less so, because even though I can weld (MIG) well enough, I don't have the kit.

Anyways, sat here with a nice and a flat pack easter egg.

Manufacturer and model?