Mundane News

[Mike_P]

Having changed the battery the clock has spent all day stuck at 11 so if I remember tonight a slight manual adjustment coming up after 11 to kick start it. The old battery was a touch low but the Duracell has done well with a 2019 expiration date.

 

[Reynard]

Time to feed the cats, and then it will be time to feed me.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Nice and smooth drive up to Nottingham, made it in just under 3 hours and got 53 mpg while still averaging over 60 mph for the trip.

The second mug of coffee was not a good idea, thankfully the car park was right next to the train station with the loos right by the station entrance.

Good consumption figures. What car is it? (Over the last 10,000 miles I've averaged around 68mpg but it's a small hybrid [Honda Jazz]).

 

[biggs682]

It's amazing how far an 8yr old can have her nanny wrapped around her finger

 

[oldwheels]

Is it from a cousin in Nigeria ?

Nearly since it is from Yorkshire.
My experience of a business from Yorkshire is that they are less trustworthy than Nigeria.

 

[tom73]

It's amazing how far an 8yr old can have her nanny wrapped around her finger

Not just them Mrs 73’s niece has it down to a fine art too.

 

[tyred]

I've re-arranged my bookcase.

 

[tom73]

I've re-arranged my bookcase.

By height, alphabetical and subject ? Or make them fit some how?

 

[rockyroller]

Having changed the battery the clock has spent all day stuck at 11 so if I remember tonight a slight manual adjustment coming up after 11 to kick start it. The old battery was a touch low but the Duracell has done well with a 2019 expiration date.

got my elderly Mom 2 large clocks, the kind designed with extra large numbers & letters & clearly states, the time, the day of the week, the year but more importantly the time of day, such as morning, afternoon & evening. on several occasions my Mom reports taking a mid-day nap, waking at 6:30pm & thinks it's 6:30am. she goes downstairs & has breakfast & wonders why it is so dark out

here's hoping I can figure out how to set them! eek!

 

[DCLane]

By height, alphabetical and subject ? Or make them fit some how?

I would hope by the Dewey Decimal system to be appropriate

 

[tyred]

By height, alphabetical and subject ? Or make them fit some how?

To make them fit.

 

[Tenkaykev]

By height, alphabetical and subject ? Or make them fit some how?

 

[classic33]

It's a mild, breezy and grey day here chez Casa Reynard.

Slept well, but it took me an age to get to sleep as my brain refused to turn off. I have (largely) had a kitchen morning, and included in the tasks was making a large pot of leek & potato soup. That job lot of leeks I bought on YS previous week are keeping really well.

I shall have to turn lengths of firewood into logs this afternoon, as I've only enough left in the garage till about Monday, and with colder weather forecast again for next week, I want to build up a bit of a stash.

It's been one step forward, three sideways and two backwards with the short oval segment of my archive. Part of the problem is the poor quality of the reports from race meetings in Short Circuit magazine - particularly noticeable when used to Autosport and Motoring News. And just when you think you've nailed something down, you find bits in later issues that appear to contradictory, so it just keeps chucking up far more questions than answers. Aaaargh! And I've now got to work out where I can find Northern Irish hot rod results from late 1984...

Anyways, it is almost time for luncheon.

Summat like this...
https://www.nationalhotrod.com/world-championship-1984

 

[Reynard]

Summat like this...
https://www.nationalhotrod.com/world-championship-1984

Pretty well much.

But for the Davy Evans Memorial meeting at Aghadowey at some point in early 1985.

N.B. The link you posted is from the Ipswich Spedeweekend on July 7th & 8th of 1984, which as well as the World Hot Rods, also had the National Superstox championship on the Saturday night. Which was incidentally won by Paul, still, at the time, a blue grade driver.

 

[Reynard]

Lovely supper of leek & potato soup followed by pasta in a sauce made with onion, mushroom, the last of the pork chops, honey, mustard and cream.