Mundane News

[Illaveago]

Back home now 44 glorious miles
Completed in a base layer under my night vision jacket a thin or of walking trousers and fingerless mittens and it's nearly November

Does a night vision jacket help you to see in the dark ?

 

[oldwheels]

With inflation running at over 10% I don't think it would be a good idea to delay it .

I was 20 years ago but I worked out then that it would not be a good idea to defer my state pension. It meant I could taper off my work income as I was self employed at any rate I chose and I could use any time I wanted to go cycling rather than working.
We did keep the shop going for a while and then had a sale which brought in a fair amount of cash which came in handy.
My only regret is that I did not 'shoplift' enough to keep me going and I now have to buy things I need.

 

[Hebe]

Waiting for Hebe Jr to get up and change the oven clock as that will save her having to roll her eyes at my attempt. Been for a run and had a bowl of porridge afterwards.

 

[Jenkins]

Morning all from a very wet grey Suffolk. It looks like the rain is set in for a while,so I won't be doing much today other than a bit of bike maintenance and radio listening.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

My wristwatch, which has been an hour out all summer, is now showing the correct time again. My oven clock has never shown the correct time since I've been here. Life's too short for fiddling around with it.

 

[Oldhippy]

Morning all from a very wet grey Suffolk. It looks like the rain is set in for a while,so I won't be doing much today other than a bit of bike maintenance and radio listening.

Kent is wet and grey as well. Went out, came back but will go out for a ride when it brightens up.

 

[simongt]

I have a cat dozing on my lap so clearly can’t do anything apart from sit on the sofa

With several cats, that's a wee issue I also have - !

 

[Illaveago]

It is raining here now .
I am trying to make a Skate out of a cat food aluminium lid . I have glued my Turtle bits together . I need to find a way to reinforce it's carapace which is an aluminium pie dish .

 

[Hebe]

Our cats have been caught out by the clock change and are still asleep rather than demanding their mid morning snacks

 

[woodbutchmaster]

I'm wondering why Hallowe'en is no longer spelt with an apostrophe like it was when I was at school. Surely it should have an apostrophe 🤔

Just another example of the sloppy use of the English language , since it is a short hand version of "the evening before All Hallows" or All Saints' day ....if you prefer

 

[woodbutchmaster]

I can't believe our mundane luck!!! There's a full size Trebuchet on sale for a mere £100,000!
~Blimey, that's cheap~

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I'm sure we could scrape up enough to buy it between ourselves and when we have scones or green tomatoes or stuff we share it around

Perhaps the house comes with it

 

[PeteXXX]

Perhaps the house comes with it

It's quite a big house...

 

[oldwheels]

Grey sort of day with ferry warnings about possible disruption due to high wind and some of the smaller ones have been cancelled.
Not raining but not very appealing looking outside and certainly not for taking the trike out.
A bit peeved with myself as Kinetics had a used etrike on ebay but I do not really do ebay so missed it and it went for a pretty low price. OTOH why did he not put it on his own web site which I do keep an eye on?
May have been a load of trouble and he wanted shot of it without having it on his own site.

 

[biggs682]

Just started raining here
Good job we are there now let's hope it's dry over there 😊

 

[biggs682]

Yep you can never have enough

An inter family purchase for our granddaughter.

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Handed this over earlier and it's had the seal of approval and it's been test ridden around to all the friends to be shown