Mundane News

[rockyroller]

Last night we had a female Blackbird emptying our gutters of moss . I could see moss falling down past our window like it was snowing . My wife went out to see what was going on to see a Blackbird busy tossing moss out of the gutter .
At least it will save me having to do it .

except if it lays an egg

 

[Reynard]

Cool and grey here chez Casa Reynard, with the occasional spit and spot of rain.

An interrupted night's sleep, mainly because I'm still coughing for England. Also heading towards TTOTM, so feeling fecking bloody miserable. I have spent the morning tidying up the last section of chapter 18, so that's now ready to be archived and a hard copy printed off.

Was poking around the 'bay last night. That wheel and tyre which is purportedly off Derek Warwick's Fomula 2 Toleman is still there, but has come down in price by some £200. At £550 it's still way overpriced, even if it was genuine. Which it isn't. There's also another rash of those autograph cards from Germany - the autographs are pukka, but the cards are modern fabrications. Well put together, but not authentic period items.

There's also a Footwork Arrows t-shirt for sale - which IS a genuine item - but the seller hasn't done their research. The cartoon on the front is a year too early (1992), and so it's not Derek Warwick at all, but Michele Alboreto. And who would want to pay nearly £80 for a t-shirt...

Oh, and that Vectra model that was up at £39.99 has sold.

It's almost time for luncheon.

 

[Reynard]

Because I was still up and now I'm up.. Again 😔

Awh *hugs* xxx

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Evri - ''The new Hermes'' - just sent me a photo of my parcel being ''successfully'' delivered to the wrong address. So I went downstairs to pick it up but it wasn't there any more and there was no one answering the door. This was because they were upstairs trying to get my parcel to me. It occurs to me that this wouldn't have happened if we only had one working lift.

 

[tyred]

Time to log into a Teams sleep meeting.

 

[Threevok]

I gave my Evri driver a bad review. She had taken a photo my outside wall, whilst driving past, without delivering my parcel

Later, I discovered the email I got was over a week old and the parcel in question was delivered

At least the email was late and not the parcel

 

[PeteXXX]

I gave my Evri driver a bad review. She had taken a photo my outside wall, whilst driving past, without delivering my parcel

Later, I discovered the email I got was over a week old and the parcel in question was delivered

At least the email was late and not the parcel

Give the next bad delivery a good review, then, on average, it'll be correct!

 

[mybike]

Looks like the forecast will be a good enough excuse in order to duck out of the street party I've been invited to.

Is that the one by the level crossing?

 

[PeteXXX]

I cleaned the aquarium filters and pump this morning..

What's it all about, Algae? 🎶

 

[PeteXXX]

A guy in a yellow jacket spent about ten minutes peering down a manhole cover and now they're lifting the cones and signs again.

It's all go on the Emerald Isle, isn't it!

 

[tyred]

It's all go on the Emerald Isle, isn't it!

There's never a dull moment here.

My neighbour is painting his garden gate.

 

[oldwheels]

That's what it says on the website

You are probably right as I did not bother to check. Since tomorrow seems to listed as a bank holiday I assumed they would do their usual and miss a day.

 

[oldwheels]

Nice trike run in sunshine and not too much traffic. If this continues I will have to get my shorts out.
Another cruise liner where the passengers are a bl---y nuisance.
Normally they just straggle around the Main St hindering the traffic plus motorhomes taking up one whole lane sticking their arses out into the street being too long for normal parking spaces. Delivery drivers tearing their hair out trying to get deliveries done and blocking the whole street. Cannot complain about them as they have a job to do somehow.
Today parties from the cruise ship are being conducted around the upper town and standing in the middle of the roadway expecting traffic to take wings and fly over them or something.
Normally anybody with sense avoids the Main St and uses the upper town to get around. Now even that is being hindered by the curse of mass tourism.

 

[Reynard]

Is that the one by the level crossing?

No LOL...

It's right down the other end of the road.

I just don't fancy getting wet while making excruciating small talk with people I don't really know. Mind you, since I'm still coughing like I'd been smoking 40-a-day all my life*, I could grab a handbell and walk past yelling "Unclean! Unclean!"

* I have never smoked, but my late father smoked like the proverbial chimney.

 

[Reynard]

Had a lovely smoked ham, Cornish cheddar and home made apricot chutney sandwich for luncheon. Plus a banana, half a mango and the obligatory two