Mundane News

[Jenkins]

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!

I like to have a look at some of the call signs that are allocated to the various craft - occasionally the Apache helicopters flying out of RAF Wattisham near me are given the prefix "UGLY".

UGLY1 is currently in the air, but misidentified as a Eurofighter Typhoon

 

[postman]

I thought Lidl had stopped selling Dürum wraps.

However, they'd just moved them and changed the packaging.

Evening meal disaster was therefore averted.

Not knowing what Durum wraps were I looked them up.Oh boy they look like my kind of food.

 

[Jenkins]

Today has been a very good day with one slight hiccup

A decent night's sleep, put a load of washing in the machine, managed to bag a ticket for an artist I've been wanting to see for some time, got the last super toastie loaf in the super market and got home just as the washing finished so got that on the line to dry. Late breakfast then out in the sunshine for a surprisingly fast 50 mile ride given the strength of the wind, home for a shower and then sausage,egg & beans followed by half a slab of chocolate for tea.

The only problem was an accidental coffee/duvet interface this morning requring a bedding change today and another couple of loads of washing to be done tomorrow. I suppose I really should do something about cleaning the windows as well - the Saharan dust from a month ago is still on them as there's been no rain to wash it off.

 

[KnittyNorah]

You mean like...
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Not exactly ... I use anything from 100 to 250 needles at a time, not two. And, like Ginger Rogers, I do it backwards ... But otherwise, yes there is a certain similarity ...

 

[classic33]

Not exactly ... I use anything from 100 to 250 needles at a time, not two. And, like Ginger Rogers, I do it backwards ... But otherwise, yes there is a certain similarity ...

That's how you're doing it now.
Give it time, to act, and you'll be back to just the two needles.

 

[KnittyNorah]

That's how you're doing it now.
Give it time, to act, and you'll be back to just the two needles.

That's if I don't start retting mint and making fibre from the bast ... a sheeple in a mint cardigan ...

 

[classic33]

That's if I don't start retting mint and making fibre from the bast ... a sheeple in a mint cardigan ...

A "walk-in meal"?

 

[classic33]

Well I am disgusted from Meanwood.I sat in the garden from 09-30,something took off at 09-40 then another one at 10-15 and I raised my drink and I never got as much as a wave of thank you.

It turned left out of Leeds-Bradford, and headed off down the west side of the Pennines.
You'd not have seen it.

 

[Reynard]

I've re-baited the rat trap. No twanged fingers this evening.

The half a dried apricot has been fixed to the trap with a twist tie, so hopefully when ratty tries to remove it... *SNAP*

 

[Reynard]

And the Kelek doesn't work...

It was listed as "good working order"

Buggery. Because it's lovely otherwise.

 

[classic33]

Good point ... next time my microchip fires up and connects me to the Illuminati's control network, I'll ask them!
Bloomin heck, I've just remembered. There's said to be a network of seekrit Illuminati tunnels running underneath Blackpool - and the research centre I went to was on the outskirts of Blackpool!!!!!! Oh woe is me, the end is nigh ...

Given all the talk of cameras on this thread of late, odd that this should come up.
https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/are-there-tunnels-below-blackpool.63917/

 

[Gravity Aided]

It means I fed the cat some tuna flakes and when I went downstairs to pour out my cuppa , pesky cat had spread his tuna flakes around the kitchen floor

Perhaps he is trying to dry them...

Amazon product ASIN B09XVBQQVRView: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peaky-Blinders-Tuxedo-Formal-Casual/dp/B09XVBQQVR/ref=sr_1_omk_6?crid=35YL2F70WTPYH&keywords=mens+suit&qid=1650538054&sprefix=mens+suit%2Caps%2C181&sr=8-6


https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=mens+suit&crid=35YL2F70WTPYH&sprefix=mens+suit,aps,181&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

here's hoping you still have a nearby tailor! :-)

Choose this one.

 

[Reynard]

Perhaps he is trying to dry them...


Choose this one.
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Owwwwww, my eyes!!!

 

[KnittyNorah]

A "walk-in meal"?

... or a run/cycle-away one ...?

 

[Gravity Aided]

Most of my glass is 2.8 or faster. With the exception of the 100-400. But then most of what I do / did is outdoors. Good quality glass is always a worthwhile investment. Other than the aforementioned issues with the Sigma 300 2.8, the rest of my lenses are a joy to use.

I was a press hack back in the day. Although I had to buy my own kit.

I did as well, but all most people used then was a Canon AE-1, a 28mm, a 50 1.4, and a 135 2.8.