Mundane News

[Andy in Germany]

Lithuania.

I wonder if there's a hint of envy involved; there's a lot involved in migrating to a new country; I think just the thought scares some people.

You've achieved a grater level of integration than me as well, as evidenced by this conversation on an English language forum...

 

[classic33]

I wonder if there's a hint of envy involved; there's a lot involved in migrating to a new country; I think just the thought scares some people.

You've achieved a grater level of integration than me as well, as evidenced by this conversation on an English language forum...

No cheesy remarks either!

 

[pawl]

Wait until they start using pig . . . ., you'll know about it then. Especially if it's a warm day. Air conditioned cabs on the tractors, and they still wear a half face mask.

It's down to the price of nitrogen fertilizers this year. The only problem is that it burns the ground if it doesn't rain the same day.

A village I once lived in had a pig farm that sometimes ponged a bit .If I escaped that one there was another one I passed on my ride followed up by a chicken farm which had a unique aroma
Didn’t bother us villagers but the townies that moved into the new developments complained bitterly

 

[Tenkaykev]

Just looked at a flight radar thingy and it looks like military?

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The bottom left of the flight trace goes over us or thereabouts. There's a fair bit of air traffic that doesn't show up on Flight radar type sites as there's the Marine / SBS camp up the road. Speaking of birds, there's a chap about three houses away who keeps birds, we often get a group of white doves flying around, and he keeps tropical birds in a very large cage in his garden. It can sound quite exotic at times.

 

[biggs682]

Time to fire up the aircon

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Lovely to see Katie Archibald at the top of her already excellent game!

 

[Andy in Germany]

They would be fitted to the car (front, not the back) but you didn't need to wear them.

It would have had Static belts probably which needed to be adjusted manually to suit the wearer, not inertia reel type.

So it was a choice between hitting that dashboard in an accident, or getting clotheslined by the seatbelt.

 

[Hebe]

I do not require any additional garments

Wearing a wrongly-sized bra is a fecking miserable experience, much same as sitting on the wrong size and shape of saddle. So can't help sharing good fitting tips, because us ladies have all been there at some point...

Bravissimo for bikinis that fit. That’s all I have to say on the matter. Apart from that I would just about take 20 minutes in an ill-fitting bra over 20 miles on the wrong saddle. It’s close though.

The black vinyl bench seats in my mum's Citroen Dyane

Owwwwwwww. Burnt botty.

The steering wheel in the Mini was uncomfortably hot to the touch today.

From memory the Mk IV Cortina had an off-round steering wheel. Something like this.
There was a bit of crossover as later MKIII had this dash too. The MKIII I remember was the earlier one with the cool slopey dash.
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This photo reminds me of the transition from black and white to colour in The Wizard of Oz.

 

[tyred]

So it was a choice between hitting that dashboard in an accident, or getting clotheslined by the seatbelt.

Not really. They weren't lap belts. They were 3 point harnesses. They just didn't retract so had to be adjusted manually. If you adjusted it properly it was probably safer than the inertia reel type as it would have allowed less movement.

 

[Jameshow]

Binge eating donuts in prep for a century tomorrow and beyond....

 

[Reynard]

Bravissimo for bikinis that fit. That’s all I have to say on the matter. Apart from that I would just about take 20 minutes in an ill-fitting bra over 20 miles on the wrong saddle. It’s close though.

Both can be excruciating after about 5 mins... And at least with a saddle you don't have to deal with the fact that they're falling out of the bottom, or out of the top, the straps keep migrating, or you feel like you've got ever-tightening ratchet straps on your shoulders that leave you with deep gouges and a splitting headache...

Will definitely keep Bravissimo in mind next time I go to Cambridge. I'm not a bikini girl, but I could really use something nice that's not a sports bra. The Lonsdale racer back ones are a good fit, but they're very, how shall I put it, utilitarian.

 

[Reynard]

Lovely veggie fry-up for supper this evening... Egg, halloumi, shitake mushrooms, tumbling tom tomatoes from the garden, mexican-style beans (a can of baked beans jazzed up with onion, sweet pepper, spices and chillis), a buttered roll and a

The world is a very good place right now.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Worth a smile.

 

[classic33]

Those of us living in Leicestershire will no doubt have here’d about the move to have the name changed to a traffic island in Leicester It is and for as long as can remember the Pork Pie island It got its name after the Pork Pie Library and community centre.

Apparently a move being mooted by a Animal Rights group.

The mayor of Leicester described it as pie in the sky I can just imagine all the rush hour drivers crossing the island thinking I must call in the supermarket and buy a Pork Pie

Pork pie in the sky?

 

[Reynard]

I have a pork pie in the fridge