Mundane News

[Illaveago]

A rather fine supper of soup, then veggie chilli with all the trimmings. There's a vanilla pastry with my name on it for later.

Have had a quiet evening poking around on the 'bay and looking for some info on watch forums. Poppy is asleep in one of the armchairs and Lexi is asleep in the brass bucket full of old newspapers that's by the hearth.

Sounds like you will have as many watches as I have .
A Roamer was the first watch I started off with . You must get a Sekonda. They seem to be pretty reliable and the gold plating seems robust. Montine have become more collectable and have gone up in value. Like you I also have a Gradus which looks like it was worn by someone who had sand paper hands as it is very worn .

 

[Illaveago]

This recent snow has shown up a strange thing . A few years ago the housing association houses had their old roof tiles replaced with modern more thermal efficient roof tiles . Some houses are privately owned which still have the old tiles from the 40's. As a direct comparison there is a house which has been empty for years which still has snow on the roof . The new tiles were the first to lose the snow. Some of the private ones still have snow on them .

 

[PeteXXX]

All at the same time ?

Sequentially..

 

[Jameshow]

When and windy here in Devon,

Lazy day in I think, church online, footy then carol service I think..

 

[Illaveago]

Sequentially..

I wonder if there are any places where 3 counties actually meet on a road ?

 

[biggs682]

A grey looking day here

 

[Hebe]

It’s still too cold to wash the thermals.

 

[biggs682]

Right bit more awake now
First cuppa has been and gone
Garden birds have been fed the magpies were down first

 

[Tenkaykev]

Well, I've just had the first Christmas card of the year through my letter box. Has anyone got a forwarding address?

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Perhaps it's because they know that you're a cyclist and thought " Christ on a Bike! " ?

 

[gbb]

There will be no Sunday roast today.
Three grandkids stayed over last night, 2, 6 and 8 year olds. All have been a bit unwell lately but they seemed ok'ish Big stew eaten last night, all seeed good.
2am, 2yo is cough cough coughing then puking but its clear, just a reaction to the coughing we think.. She's been up on and off all night, still intermittently coughing.
6yo woke up with a bad tummy although that seems to have cleared. She was a bit pale yesterday, seems better now.
8 yo who was a bit under the weather yesterday is still asleep, very unusual for him.

Best not overdo it food wise. Mums on her way back, 111 ringing back with a clinician to assess 2 yo's symptoms.
Sunday is effectively cancelled

Oh, and I've been watching Peppa Pig virtually non stop

 

[oldwheels]

Back to more normal weather with gales and heavy rain coming soon.
Temp this morning is 4.7C outside but the ice has not cleared in some places. An out of town butcher is not opening today, nor is Glengorm Castle tearoom as the road to both is reported currently as a sheet of ice and impassible.
I had thought of going up to see my wildlife pal but his road is almost certainly a sheet of ice tho' he may have gritted part of it himself.
The general public were out in parts of Oban gritting bits with borrowed shovels yesterday.

Meanwhile soup is on the stove, enough to do me for the next week.

 

[fossyant]

Christmas house tidy today. MIL's stuff going in our attic. Some stuff advertised on Facebook Marketplace...



You guessed it 'Have you still got it, I'll send a courier with cash' Bye bye. Collection in person only.

I'm waiting for 'can you deliver to me 100 miles away for free' 👅

 

[biggs682]

Another hand delivered Christmas card.
We had one through the post on Friday that had our address on it but not our surnames so we took it around the corner to the house where our post goes missing to thinking it might be for them but it came back through our letter box yesterday so we have added it to our collection of cards

 

[PeteXXX]

It's snaining 🌨 ☔

 

[biggs682]

It's snaining 🌨 ☔

Yes we just half a dozen flakes of something.

Second cuppa went down well