I can't finish the painting,Homebase do not have our order finished,Mrs P wants this certain colour and will not accept a different one,it seems Selby shop has six tins,but I doubt if it's practical to transfer stock,so I am sitting twiddling my thumbs,I am good at that.
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Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
I have a new vacuum flask - one of those stainless steel ones from Decathlon. To see how efficient it was I filled it with boiling water at 5pm yesterday and left it to stand. Just before bed I poured a bit out into a cup and found it was still too hot to dip my finger into. Then this morning at about 6:45am I opened the flask and poured the rest out into a bowl - the water was still nice and hot after nearly 14 hours, so this bodes well for making a flask of coffee up first thing in the morning and still having it hot in the afternoon when I go to race meetings.
Nothing but excitement for us Suffolkers.
Nothing but excitement for us Suffolkers.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I had ''thunder fever'' added to my weather forecast vocabulary this morning.That's just bonkers...
Here it's the height of the elderflower season - and that's one of the things that sets me off.
And 'Super Pollen', too!
I do wish these people would stop making up stupid names for stuff.
Tonight's post-work bike ride looks likely to be cancelled due to inclement weather and I may get my board and T-squatre out to design an Ark.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Double declutch was the best I could manage on an old van we had where the synchromesh did not work.
Today is the day that keeps giving. Met friend for coffee. Locked bike within sight through frame, first time in ages that I didn't lock front wheel too. Ended up sprinting out of cafe to challenge a bloke who apparently was standing next to my bike when the front wheel "just fell off". Nothing to do with him of course. Or the fact that I'd seen him leaning over the front bike fiddling with the QR lever moments earlier. Anyway my friend sent him packing with her best teacher voice and the wheel is back on and the whole thing reported to the police and informally to the local cctv guy. That bike's not being parked out again until the QR skewers are a lot less Q. 😢
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
A ham & mustard sandwich for luncheon, along with a tangerine, some strawberries and two 
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I've had a stainless steel "Thermos" branded flask for donkey's. It's one of the big 2 litre jobbies. I bought it to take to motor racing meetings as it will keep water very hot for at least 24 hours. It's just what you need to get your pot noodle going at 2 am.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Not had a rant about touroid for a while. The holiday house opposite have a particularly nasty bunch who have no regard for anybody but themselves.
They parked in residents parking and I saw one having words with them and they just looked through her and metaphorically raised two fingers and said they did not care and were parking there anyway.
Another two neighbours came home from work and cannot park as usual. One has to go to the school overnight several hundred yards away and not under any surveillance.
Some who come here think they have arrived in thieves paradise as people have up till now been very casual and leave cars and houses unlocked and bicycles lie out in the street outside the school with some helmets just lying there.
They parked in residents parking and I saw one having words with them and they just looked through her and metaphorically raised two fingers and said they did not care and were parking there anyway.
Another two neighbours came home from work and cannot park as usual. One has to go to the school overnight several hundred yards away and not under any surveillance.
Some who come here think they have arrived in thieves paradise as people have up till now been very casual and leave cars and houses unlocked and bicycles lie out in the street outside the school with some helmets just lying there.
Not had a rant about touroid for a while. The holiday house opposite have a particularly nasty bunch who have no regard for anybody but themselves.
They parked in residents parking and I saw one having words with them and they just looked through her and metaphorically raised two fingers and said they did not care and were parking there anyway.
Another two neighbours came home from work and cannot park as usual. One has to go to the school overnight several hundred yards away and not under any surveillance.
Some who come here think they have arrived in thieves paradise as people have up till now been very casual and leave cars and houses unlocked and bicycles lie out in the street outside the school with some helmets just lying there.
Must be infuriating, perhaps lobby the local authorities to pass legislation to ban the purchase of residential homes to businesses. Residents only parking permits might be another avenue.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I have a and a packet of crisps.
and a packet of crisps.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
My Jag passed it's MOT this morning .
This afternoon was nice and sunny but a bit windy .
My BIL arrived from Yorkshire and we had fun assembling cycles . He had brought a WF Holdsworth down with him which I'm swapping with my Holdsworth Avanti 501. My BIL fits the Avanti better than the WF Holdsworth which is a 24 inch frame .
The WF Holdsworth is a 1950's Cyclone . It needs some work doing to it before I can ride it .
This afternoon was nice and sunny but a bit windy .
My BIL arrived from Yorkshire and we had fun assembling cycles . He had brought a WF Holdsworth down with him which I'm swapping with my Holdsworth Avanti 501. My BIL fits the Avanti better than the WF Holdsworth which is a 24 inch frame .
The WF Holdsworth is a 1950's Cyclone . It needs some work doing to it before I can ride it .
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
The wife's Mini Cooper is poorly.
'Looks like the high pressure fuel pump chief', said the chirpy garage chap.
'Is that expensive?' I enquired, hesitantly.
'Nah, 'bout a grand fella', he chortled back.
Hilarious.
'Looks like the high pressure fuel pump chief', said the chirpy garage chap.
'Is that expensive?' I enquired, hesitantly.
'Nah, 'bout a grand fella', he chortled back.
Hilarious.
