Mundane News

[oldwheels]

Another nice sunny day but my shopping needs to get sorted, cooked and or frozen. which takes some time. Tomorrow is forecast to be wet but Sunday nice again so the timing for that suits me.
Calmac are in chaos again as so many crew are off with covid. No catering facilities on MV Isle of Mull today which does not bother me nowadays.
In the past we used to have meals on the boat most times we travelled. Once ordered fish and chips and when they did not appear went to enquire. Transpired that when the steward went around asking who wanted the f&c a couple of Americans said "yes please". They had neither ordered or paid for the meal. The system was a bit informal in those days and depended on trust as most travellers were local. We did get our meal a bit late and I do not remember what happened with the offenders.

 

[classic33]

Morning.
No sign of the fairies so far ! I am aching a bit though !

You'd know what a fairy would look like, if you were to see one?

 

[postman]

Waiting for a bus,going to the health centre,need more hearing aid batteries.Since I last used a bus to improve the timetable of our service it's gone to 30 mins and not 20.Please hit me with that one again,30mins,have I missed something it's a good job I checked online.

 

[pawl]

First cuppa went down without touching the sides
Sky is a light grey colour
For the second night running our nature watch camera is lying face down i wonder what keeps knocking it over ?

An Owl taking selfies

 

[rockyroller]

contractors done w/ downstairs bath & gout foot coming around, thanks to my regular Doc. who I haven't seen in 2 years, upping my steroids. going into the office today!

 

[rockyroller]

An Owl taking selfies

huh? what? somebody say owl? heard one the other night but you have to turn your volume up to maximum

View: https://youtu.be/QyckekkN06c

 

[Illaveago]

I was finishing off my friend's bike this morning . Gave a test ride . All seemed to be going well untill I felt a slight wobble . It was the front wheel again . I ride back and tightened up the cones again . If it does it again he will need a new wheel .

 

[oldwheels]

I was finishing off my friend's bike this morning . Gave a test ride . All seemed to be going well untill I felt a slight wobble . It was the front wheel again . I ride back and tightened up the cones again . If it does it again he will need a new wheel .

Are there not different direction of threads on the axle. If the lock nut not tight then it will undo. In any case the lock nut not tight will give problems as the cones will tighten if the other way round.
I would assume you already know that but I mention it as someone who has forgotten all sorts of things.

 

[Speicher]

@Reynard has tort me how to take propper fotos.

 

[mybike]

Isn't that classified as a cruel & unusual punishment under the Geneva Convention?

In a roundabout sort of way.

{I see Pete has beaten me to it.}

Well, I was going to do the ''roundabout'' one about Milton Keynes but found it had already been taken.

Didn't let it stop me.

 

[Grant Fondo]

I have just replenished the cat litter.

 

[Reynard]

Cool and grey here chez Casa Reynard, although the pollen count is very high. I have taken half an antihistamine tablet.

Did not sleep well (thaaaaaaankyou hot flushes), but I have managed to spend the morning gently puttering about and hauling in a bit of firewood. I shall have a nice quiet afternoon watching the snooker and working on the writing project.

It is almost time for luncheon.

 

[Reynard]

yep it's called 'boundary effect'

Good god, THAT phrase certainly brings back memories of my undergrad Fluid Mechanics courses...

 

[Reynard]

"Are there girl and boy subjects?"

A bit hard for me to say as I went to a boys school.
I didn't half get a rollicking from my mum for choosing history instead of geography ! I'm glad I did ! I found geography to be absolutely boring . From what I can remember is what countries produced bauxite! Aluminium. History was interesting until it got to the political bit !
I found some bits of maths interesting . I liked using log tables and trickynometry! I absolutely hated matrices!

I went to a girls school, and I can categorically say YES.

Not just some of the things that were taught (home ec, textiles) but a lot of things that weren't (anything techy, anything related to wars in History...) plus outside of things like medicine, we weren't actively encouraged to go into sciences and engineering. I stood my guns there, at some personal cost.

Did both history and geography and enjoyed both. Didn't enjoy maths until I went to uni and had some inspiring lecturers - went from failing my maths A-level to being one of the top mathematicians in my year.

 

[Reynard]

Plus it only ever seems to last months before it all starts breaking up again and you end up with bumpy ridges. Hate the stuff. If you ever get the chance to have a spin on a beautiful new, smooth surface before they put them on top, it is absolute bliss.

Story of the roads out here... Although this time they had to bite the bullet and fix them properly, as they were having to re-do the tar-and-chippings every few months, and the holes *still* kept on getting bigger...