Mundane News

[woodbutchmaster]

I don't have a watch ⌚

i phone, cell phone ....call them what you will since when does anyone need a watch ?

 

[PeteXXX]

I used to have watches in the third quarter of the last century but always broke them 😔

 

[DCLane]

@woodbutchmaster - in my teaching job it's an essential. I've 50 minutes per lecture, 110 minutes per seminar and need to make sure timings are OK.

Otherwise it's for when I'm on a ride out, running late and need to dash back before SWMBO looks a bit

 

[biggs682]

We have blue skies

 

[oldwheels]

Replacement spring bars are plenty cheap enough, so wouldn't worry about it too much.

I don't mind leather watch straps and I have a few dress / formal watches on leather, but I tend to get very sweaty under them during the summer. My preference is for stainless steel bracelets. I've got a mix of link and expandable ones. The latter are a minefield because they're not always the most comfortable. They're commonly known as hair-pullers...

Funny, I've one no-name expandable that's super comfy, and a fix-o-flex one that's a fecking bloody nightmare. The fix-o-flex is going in the bin and will be replaced by a Milanese mesh bracelet.

I second the stainless steel bracelet. Previously I found watch straps had to be replaced far too often and now have had a steel one for the last 4 years with no problems.

 

[pawl]

I haven't worn a watch since I retired seven years ago.

I don’t often ware a watch apart from an Apple 🍎 watch when I’m cycling 🚴‍♀️/turbo If go out i ware my ordinary watch.

 

[oldwheels]

I haven't worn a watch since I retired seven years ago.

I stopped wearing one for a few years but have gone back to it again as some timings have to be accurate and catching ferries is one example. Long wait till the next one if you miss it.

 

[oldwheels]

Grey clouds are scudding across from the SW and rising to small gale but not yet raining.
Mainland out from Oban has problems.
The A85 at Cruachan is blocked by a landslide and the trains are also off. Diversions are long and tedious made worse by an RTC on one of them blocking the road.
Rest And Be Thankful has the main road the A83 closed due to unstable hillside but the Old Military Road is in use with a convoy system.
This does affect us as people going eg for hospital appointments in Glasgow or Paisley have a long diversion which adds lots of time to journeys and some goods and post may not get to the ferry in time.

i phone, cell phone ....call them what you will since when does anyone need a watch ?

Much easier to just look at something on your wrist rather than fish around to find your phone and then turn it on to check time.

 

[biggs682]

Second cuppa went down well
Along with toast and red jam

 

[tyred]

I weighed myself this morning and seem to have lost weight.

I might publish a book extolling the virtues of my patented Panadol, Strepsol and Beneylin diet and become a millionaire overnight

 

[tom73]

Windy cold day warm enough to get the bedding out on the line freeing up room in the house for the rest of the washing.
Had one of them addressed hand-written Jehovah's Witnesses letters. Shame the blue bin was emptied this morning.

 

[rockyroller]

i phone, cell phone ....call them what you will since when does anyone need a watch ?

I know, I agree, but how many times during the day do we look at something for the time? whether it's a wall clock, my computer or my phone. having it right there on my wrist is pretty darn convenient

 

[rockyroller]

"feels like" 21F degrees right now

 

[tyred]

I've just realised that the strap of my ancient, basic Casio digital watch is cracked and in danger of breaking very soon.

All this talk of watches and straps must have jinxed it!

 

[PeteXXX]

I don't have a watch strap either.. 👍