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Tenkaykev

Guru
Location
Poole
Shouldn't you do that before the JCB started digging?? Or does this explain why they're so many holes in our roads. 🤔
The JCB should have been the clue, we used to work in quarries with diggers and lorries whizzing everywhere and the occasional explosion as they blew a new load of chalk ( a lot of the guys who worked there had Ammonites as garden ornaments, some of them quite large )
On a side note well done on yesterday's ride, I must give it a go myself as it's quite a few years since I've felt stiff in the morning :smile:
 

Lee_M

Guru
Salut tout le monde. The new three piece suite is being delivered this morning, between 6.45 and 8.45 so shouldn't be long now before we have something comfy to sit on.
Tomorrow afternoon we are invited to a garden dinner at my BiL near Caernarfon but we can't take Molly because they don't like dogs. :sad:
I bought a new jersey yesterday, orange one, reduced from £34.99 to £17.00. and my wife said: " you can't failed to be seen with this one" as it is bright orange. I might use it today when I go for a ride later.
As it is Saturday today, I think @Mo1959 is having a lie-in or she is doing a 40 miler and isn't back yet.^_^
Au revoir.:hello:

Don't like dogs? I wouldn't be going, they're much nicer than people
 

PaulSB

Squire
Same pattern developing all over the place would be bad news indeed
I feel it will develop more widely. I've always said easing would cause this but hadn't considered another variant.

Obviously I'm close to Blackburn and Bolton and know the specific areas. I'm not getting political but it's clear in these towns infection rates are closely linked to social and financial deprivation. Although Chorley is close to both I don't consider the town to have similar issues yet our case rate is rocketing again.

Our granddaughter started nursery last week. She was sent home on the first day and the nursery closed as a staff member tested positive. We are on child minding duties Thursday and Friday next week.
 

Lee_M

Guru
Morning all. A bit grey in North Wales.

Power run day today, where a load of Kitcar owners put their cars on a rolling road to see how powerful they are.

I'm going to support them and eat a bacon roll. I don't care how powerful mine is, and I don't want to blow it up either (which has been known to happen in the past) so just spectating for me.
 

PaulSB

Squire
I must get on with stretches, especially as my PT (not as grand as it sounds) new adductor stretches.

Just wanted to quickly share these pics. In the middle of nowhere we came across a house with the most eclectic mix of things in the garden you can imagine. Would love to have snooped around. The fence was made of old bicycles, we left sharpish before ours extended it.

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Mo1959

Legendary Member
Oh gosh. Sad news. The Scottish Crannog Centre at Kenmore has burned down.

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/new...2302834/huge-fire-at-scottish-crannog-centre/
 

oldwheels

Legendary Member
Location
Isle of Mull
That sounds like a time delay pulse gubbins. When I w*rked we had a similar bit of kit that sent a pulse down an underground armoured cable and told you the distance to the short / break in circuit so you knew where to dig ( as if the JCB digging a trench wasn’t clue enough) 🤔
Does remind me of a story. The water board send a "slug" down the pipe to keep it clear of any sludge that may build up. Somewhere on Loch Lomondside they lost one as it got stuck but they did not know where so had to dig at random until they found water. I know this because being better equipped than the average distillery we had lots of assorted tools they wanted to borrow.:rolleyes:
 

pawl

Legendary Member
Didn’t back in the day the monks have carp ponds for breeding carp.I think they ate carp


Had a further thought about this Stew Ponds Monasteries often had a something called Stew Ponds.These were used to store live fish ready for eating During the Middle ages they were often attached to monasteries to supply fish over the winter.Apparently not just carp but various species of fresh water fish.

Monks could often be heard shouting Yah its fish Friday
 
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