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mybike

Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
Just finished big cup of green tea 🍵

Just started my first mug of,
 

tyred

Legendary Member
Location
Ireland
Not being controversial or sexist but just watched a small lady have 3 attempts at reversing the large BMW car she was driving into a regular car park bay only to find out that when she tried to get out she couldn't open the door enough, she found two empty bays and parked right in the middle of both

Drivers of large German cars often seem to take two spots. My uncle always does this with his Audi so nobody can dent it opening doors and considers it his right to do so.
 

oldwheels

Legendary Member
Location
Isle of Mull
Dryish day so far and the wind has gone down.
Holiday house has parked his glass bin right up against my car. I could reverse out but being perverse the bin now blocks his gateway instead.:whistle:
I am trying to find out about a monument which overlooked the bay but mysteriously toppled down the cliff face some years ago. Even somebody who wrote a booklet about such local monuments cannot remember but will find out. That is how local memory of events and local history just disappears as there are so few left here who know any real history of the town. There are lots of fairy stories but real events seem to vanish.

Apparently you have to change any postage stamps you have for ones with a bar code before 31st January next year or they become invalid.
Local post office cannot do this but you have to download a form from Royal Mail which you then post to them and get new stamps in return. Shower of crooks make it as complicated as possible in the hope nobody bothers.:angry:
 

Asa Post

Super Iconic Legend
Location
Sheffield
Apparently you have to change any postage stamps you have for ones with a bar code before 31st January next year or they become invalid.
Local post office cannot do this but you have to download a form from Royal Mail which you then post to them and get new stamps in return. Shower of crooks make it as complicated as possible in the hope nobody bothers.:angry:

I did it weeks ago. It was very easy.
 
Very mild, occasionally sunny and rather blustery here chez Casa Reynard.

Did not sleep well - the old grey cells were too busy unpicking the problem of the Higman's bodywork - so feel like a bit of a grumpy bag today. Cleared up some of my tomato plants this morning, have done a load of laundry and have washed my hair with a raspberry scented shampoo bar.

I think the night of dodgy sleep was worth it, because on the face of it, I might have solved the problem that was bugging me. In the process, I have liberated an empty washing up liquid bottle from the recycling bin, as the sides seem to have the sort of gentle curvature that I'm looking for. I have a couple of options here, so if one idea won't work, the other one just might do. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, and if all else fails, I still have that sheet of wire mesh that I bought in the model shop the other week.

Downside of that is it was rather spendy - £2.80 for an A5-sized piece, whereas the washing up liquid bottle and the cereal box would otherwise head back into the recycling.

Have to take the Skud for its MOT this afternoon. Am dropping it off at the garage, and going to have a nice walk around the local nature reserve while the mechanics do their thing.

It is time for luncheon.
 

deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way
There's a lass who sells the Big Issue outside Sainsbury's. As she's genuinely friendly, I usually pay for one but don't take one. Today, with my ONS voucher in my pocket, I offered to buy her a coffee from the Starbucks alongside.

She wanted a caramel frappucino but when I got served the waitress asked whether I wanted it with or without coffee. So I had to go back out and check. Coffee really shouldn't be so stupidly complicated.

Anyhow, I'm back to having higher level antibodies. They were just ordinary antibodies last month.
 
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