Mundane News

[oldwheels]

Rooting through my food store I came on a jar of Onion and Garlic Pasta Sauce.
It contains 6% onion and 1% garlic. The rest is mainly tomato or tomato ketchup plus a scattering of minor ingredients.
How on earth can this be termed as onion and garlic?

Since my regular barber is moving away I thought it would be a good idea to take a photo to demonstrate the kind of haircut I want to a new barber.
I deleted them as I could not recognise the truly ancient and decrepit sight which I found had managed to get on my phone.

Been watching the rooks with their arial display. There are about 20 of them who must have taken up residence in the cliffs at the Lighthouse Path. They never used to be there when we went for regular walks up there at lunchtime most good days.
At one point a couple of larger birds probably young goldies or more likely sea eagles appeared who were escorted firmly off the premises.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Been for a ride on the local greenways, mix of sunshine and fog. Twas lovely.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

A fox (though perhaps a cat) has climbed onto the bonnet of my car and done a poo. A thin one and a soggy one. Is this because the car has just been washed?

 

[fossyant]

Five milkshakes straight from the cow (ish)

 

[Reynard]

Grey, chilly and foggy here chez Casa Reynard. It's a bit less murky now than it was earlier, but that's not going to lift, I don't think.

Slept well, but my get-up-and-go is still very much AWOL. I have spent the morning writing, but I also took time out to give Madam Poppy a manicure and pedicure as I noticed she was starting to velcro on her favourite cushion. She growled at me when I asked her if she wanted some sparkly pink nail varnish with that...

Am still having a good giggle about a locket I bought on the 'bay a couple of days ago.

About a year and a half ago, it was first listed with "accepts offers" - so I put a reasonable offer in. Unless it's something exceptional, I don't tend to pay more than two and a half times the value of the weight in silver for an item, as things can get a bit silly on the bling listings. Offer was rejected, and the seller sold it to someone else for a couple of quid more. Hey ho, that's how it goes. But then the buyer then listed it at a vastly inflated price, and since then, it's been doing the rounds between various different sellers, dropping in price each time. It's a very distinctive acanthus leaf design by a German maker that's based not too far away from @Andy in Germany - and it also had an equally distinctive splotch of tarnish along the bottom edge, so I know it's the same locket.

Anyways, I spotted it listed for sale again with a BIN price that was the same as my original offer, so this time, I snapped it up.

Right, time for luncheon. I has a hungry.

 

[Jenkins]

Another grey & damp morning by the coast in Suffolk. Just 30 minutes to go until the start of yet another weekend and I'm glad I will be out of here as half the IT system has gone down and the backlog is building up nicely!

 

[PeteXXX]

Foggy 3 mile walk to the shops & back to pick up a birthday and a Christmas card plus a few odds & ends.

 

[Gwylan]

It's raining. Not a surprise, just inconvenient.

That rain that hangs around in the air and sneaks through the outer layers to meet the condensation on the inside. All that kit the adverts assured you were waterproof, breathable and wicking ......

Yes, I am miserable. I have to go out on my bike. They took the bus away, the one car has been requisitioned by HID.
I am going to get damp and probably cold.

Herumph!

Well, it wasn't that bad.

Put my thermal work ( don't know what the word means, it's on the label) trousers on. Dug my roadmenders fluo jacket out of the garage. My Cardinal Richelieu hat, fits snugly over my head and under my helmet.
That should provoke the helmet less.

Then set off. Turned out to not be as damp as expected. But seasonably cold.
Not at all bad, just the bike needs a good wash to get the mud off.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Now at work. Nerxt bike onm the stand is an 80's MTB by Giant. This will either be really quick or it'll keep showing more problems that were not immediately obvious and take forever; there's no inbetween...

It was a clunker. The parts were very old and non standard, and someone had tried to "repair" the bike using some "interesting" methods. IT would have barely made a profit if I'd put it out for sale after cleaning it for a few minutes, so after half an hour spent trying to fix it and more problems coming to light I decided to cut my losses and restored a Marin which is equally elderly, but this has a cro-mo frame and better parts.

 

[Andy in Germany]

It's a very distinctive acanthus leaf design by a German maker that's based not too far away from @Andy in Germany -

I'm guessing Pforzheim?

 

[Reynard]

Lovely luncheon of two slices of wholemeal toast, one with ham & mustard, the other with camambert, plus a tangerine, a New Rock Pippin apple, some pineapple and two

Looking out of the window, the world is disappearing again. Visibility is about 50 meters.

 

[Reynard]

I'm guessing Pforzheim?

Indeed.

The maker in question is Kordes & Lichtenfels, but I believe they are now part of the Andreas Daub concern. I have a few mid-century pieces by both, and IMHO they're better made than English items of similar vintage.

 

[Illaveago]

It's been foggy and cold here all day .

 

[rockyroller]

I like Thursdays. I feel like I've gotten thru the worst of my week

 

[Tenkaykev]

It was down to 4 degrees this morning. As I looked out of my window I saw a chap on an electric scooter wizz past. He was wearing a padded jacket gloves, a buff over his ears, cycle helmet, hi-viz and a pair of shorts 😮