Mundane News

[biggs682]

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.

Or four

 

[rockyroller]

Time to log into a Teams sleep meeting.

View: https://youtu.be/2JpC67gw7B8

 

[rockyroller]

I cleaned the aquarium filters and pump this morning..

What's it all about, Algae? 🎶

was it long & furry or did you nip it in the bud? fond memories of rusty razorblades ...

 

[rockyroller]

I know weight is just a number ... but I haven't been down to 216 lbs in a long time. kinda stoked about it

 

[oldwheels]

I seem to have got the date of the Sportif wrong. Since the signs have been up for over a week I assumed they referred to the following Sunday as the notice says.
Looking closely there is a very small bit been tagged on at a bottom corner saying Sunday 5th June.
The guy I assumed was a straggler is a bit odd as he definitely had a tag attached behind his saddle for an electronic timing system.
One day I may get everything right.

 

[Reynard]

My bread dough is galloping away. There will definitely be fresh-baked rolls for tonight's dinner.

 

[DCLane]

We've spent the afternoon in Bradford at the National Media Museum, taking a peek at their Secret GCHQ Code-breaking exhibition before it closes on Sunday. It was so well advertised I only found out about it yesterday. It's been open since February.

Lots of TV cameras outside since Bradford won the Capital of Culture 2025 thingy yesterday. Not that there's much 'culture' in Bradford to celebrate imho.

 

[Reynard]

We've spent the afternoon in Bradford at the National Media Museum, taking a peek at their Secret GCHQ Code-breaking exhibition before it closes on Sunday. It was so well advertised I only found out about it yesterday. It's been open since February.

Well, code breaking *is* supposed to be top secret...

Actually, it sounds really fascinating. Me likey things like that.

 

[PeteXXX]

was it long & furry or did you nip it in the bud? fond memories of rusty razorblades ...

Nipped in the bud. Just a coating to keep under control. I use a 'double magnet' thingie that has a scourer on the inside of the glass and felt on the outside.

 

[DCLane]

Well, code breaking *is* supposed to be top secret...

Actually, it sounds really fascinating. Me likey things like that.

Lots of different code-breaking machines from the 1800's to the current day, with detail of how they worked. As an engineer you'd have found it interesting.

There were quite a lot of primary school-age children with parents, so it seems to have been advertised there, but too much detail for young children so a bit wasted. Otherwise very few others. And yes, for an exhibition on secrecy they appear to have taken that approach with the exhibition for everyone else.

 

[tyred]

After spending four or five months hopping around on one foot only, I have a situation that my left shoe looks like brand new but my right shoe is starting to fall apart.

I wonder do they sell them singularly, or find someone who broke their right foot and wore out their left shoe🤔

 

[Reynard]

Lots of different code-breaking machines from the 1800's to the current day, with detail of how they worked. As an engineer you'd have found it interesting.

There were quite a lot of primary school-age children with parents, so it seems to have been advertised there, but too much detail for young children so a bit wasted. Otherwise very few others. And yes, for an exhibition on secrecy they appear to have taken that approach with the exhibition for everyone else.

The machines themselves AND the mathematical principles behind them. The people who come up with these things have to think every kind of sideways, which is actually kind of scary...

I do love poking around museums. Been lucky over the years, as I went to school right next to the Museum of London, and then, at Imperial, I had the Science Museum right next door to the Mech Eng department, the V&A right across the road, and the Natural History / Geology Museum halfway to South Ken tube.

 

[DCLane]

After spending four or five months hopping around on one foot only, I have a situation that my left shoe looks like brand new but my right shoe is starting to fall apart.

I wonder do they sell them singularly, or find someone who broke their right foot and wore out their left shoe🤔

If it matches, eBay might be your source since it's an 'amputee shoe' search : https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_...tleDesc=0&_odkw=right+shoe+only&_osacat=93427

 

[PeteXXX]

I'm doing a Home Economics class here in Hamtun.. BBQ chicken in the middle of the oven, Rhubarb Crumble lower down & par-baking some sweet potato for the dog at the top. All @ Gas MK 5

 

[biggs682]

Well that's me done work wise for 4 days