Mundane News

[Reynard]

Cats have been fed. Soon it will be time to feed me.

 

[Speicher]

Pleased to say that the Craclay Bard problem has been sorted, with the help of a real person. She refunded the "Default Charge". I expressed my shock at her suggestion to visit a branch. What branch? The one that is now a restaurant?

Now the television has gone on the blink. "No signal" allegedly but can watch programmes via iplayer.

Tomorrow's challenge is to sort out the mobile phone. Call me old-fashioned, I only use the phone for emergencies. So due to lock down, it has not been used much.

 

[PeteXXX]

I've been to Sheldon, near Birmingham Airport. Now I'm in Central MK for my sins...

 

[oldwheels]

Strange dilemma.
I will soon have to go to a funeral of a close family member who has terminal cancer and has been given a very short time to live.
I have two suits so I thought I had better try them for size.
A dark one has a jacket that just fits but the trousers will never close at the waist unless I lose 6 inches very quickly. It is a reasonably modern style and not cheap.
The other is antedeluvian styling with wide lapels but the trouser waist just fits without too much danger of bursting apart. The jacket will never close unless I lose the 6 inches chest measurement.
I do have a blazer which again will never close and trousers which would be ok but mebbe too informal.
There is a photograph of me wearing the blazer buttoned so it must have shrunk over time.
Picture of me me and MrsOW as Vice Commodore at the opening of the new RNLI station.Wonder why I have a bemused look.

 

[DCLane]

@PeteXXX - do you deliberately search out these places of mundanity, or randomly arrive?

Tim Moore's book "You are awful, but I like you", where he visits the worst places in the UK may be your guidebook

 

[DCLane]

@oldwheels - 'mix and match' is apparently "in". So you're OK with half-and-half.

 

[PeteXXX]

@PeteXXX - do you deliberately search out these places of mundanity, or randomly arrive?

Tim Moore's book "You are awful, but I like you", where he visits the worst places in the UK may be your guidebook

I don't go to them voluterally, they send me!! If I'm really bad, the send me to Coventry or, worse still, Small Heath! 😩

 

[DCLane]

@PeteXXX ever thought someone doesn't like you if they're sending you there?

I got sent to Bhopal, Hong Kong, etc. with my job but never got to go to Mauritius, even though I helped set up the course there. Someone above me always invented reasons to visit ...

 

[Reynard]

Had salmon, sweetcorn & potato chowder, followed by sauteed leek & spinach atop a thick slice of granary toast and a fried egg perched on top.

Now watching the snooker (Selby v Yan)

Watch has been ticking away for 22 hours...

 

[Reynard]

Speaking of... I think I found @Speicher 's watch on the 'bay...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403485890315?hash=item5df1a2170b:g:IhEAAOSw~jFiETLo&LH_ItemCondition=4

 

[slowmotion]

I went back to the shop where my bike was nicked on Good Friday. There are a couple of CCTV cameras outside, and several inside, and they had caught some good footage of the dirty deed. He stuck his head round the door, saw me waiting at the till in a cycling jacket, and scarpered on my bike. The images are as plain as day. His head was less than five feet from one of the outdoor cameras.
Unfortunately, he was wearing a big "Covid" mask and a hoodie.

Oh bollocks!

 

[classic33]

I went back to the shop where my bike was nicked on Good Friday. There are a couple of CCTV cameras outside, and several inside, and they had caught some good footage of the dirty deed. He stuck his head round the door, saw me waiting at the till in a cycling jacket, and scarpered on my bike. The images are as plain as day. His head was less than five feet from one of the outdoor cameras.
Unfortunately, he was wearing a big "Covid" mask and a hoodie.

Oh bollocks!

No chance of identification from what little you have seen?
Do you know which way they left the area.

 

[slowmotion]

No chance of identification from what little you have seen?
Do you know which way they left the area.

Not really. Being London, there are plenty of areas nearby that are not exactly strangers to crime.
I relayed the information to the lovely policewoman who had asked me to go back to the shop and see what they had on film. She said that it was frustrating that they had no face to circulate and that , without it, they could do little more. I quite understand and I'm pleasantly surprised that they took an interest in the first place. Thank you, The Metropolitan Police.

 

[classic33]

Not really. Being London, there are plenty of areas nearby that are not exactly strangers to crime.
I relayed the information to the lovely policewoman who had asked me to go back to the shop and see what they had on film. She said that it was frustrating that they had no face to circulate and that , without it, they could do little more. I quite understand and I'm pleasantly surprised that they took an interest in the first place. Thank you, The Metropolitan Police.

Same as anywhere else in the areas no strangers to crime.

Keep your eyes open, you may just get lucky.

 

[Reynard]

Time for a and MOTD