Tell us something really trivial about your life Volume 40
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Happy Sunday, all!
Sorry to hear that the oil pump is giving trouble again, Dicky. Hope the Nitro can help, the prospect of another by-pass can't be very welcome.
ION, it's damp, dull and blustery here in the Deep Sarf, all of which are unwelcome - I was hoping to knock off a few thousand steps this morning, then watch the Grand Prix this afternoon, before wandering around to my sister's for some roast lamb. Let's see how it goes.
My son played cricket yesterday, his team "did an England" and failed to chase down a target of 215 in 40 overs. He top scored with 16 before getting out to a half-hearted appeal for LBW, which he said was probably hitting two stumps anyway. We're going to have a net session tomorrow, as he wants to work on his batting, so I get to fire cricket balls at him from a bowling machine.
Nothing else to report, really. All is relatively tranquil in my world, apart from the wind.
Carry on.
Sorry to hear that the oil pump is giving trouble again, Dicky. Hope the Nitro can help, the prospect of another by-pass can't be very welcome.
ION, it's damp, dull and blustery here in the Deep Sarf, all of which are unwelcome - I was hoping to knock off a few thousand steps this morning, then watch the Grand Prix this afternoon, before wandering around to my sister's for some roast lamb. Let's see how it goes.
My son played cricket yesterday, his team "did an England" and failed to chase down a target of 215 in 40 overs. He top scored with 16 before getting out to a half-hearted appeal for LBW, which he said was probably hitting two stumps anyway. We're going to have a net session tomorrow, as he wants to work on his batting, so I get to fire cricket balls at him from a bowling machine.
Nothing else to report, really. All is relatively tranquil in my world, apart from the wind.
Carry on.
Exasperated said:
I went for a 100-mile ride yesterday and averaged 71.7mpg on my Africa Twin. I think I'd get punched if I posted this in Biker Banter, so I'm hoping this is a save haven for the most tedious of facts.
A nexcellent Trivial post there, 9.699 on the old Triv-o-meter, well played!
DickyC said:
Exasperated said:
I went for a 100-mile ride yesterday and averaged 71.7mpg on my Africa Twin. I think I'd get punched if I posted this in Biker Banter, so I'm hoping this is a save haven for the most tedious of facts.
100 miles. Not Paris-Dakar, then?Only a 2.024 on the Triv-O-Meter but a solid 7.170 on the Tedi-O-Meter.
So, neither trivial nor fully tedious according to the guages.
Good, steady work.
Aaahhhh, yes I see from your post that the synchronization algorithm spikeyhead wrote has stopped working, again.
Good morrow fellow Trivialities everywhere
As already indicated by Dermot O'Logical, today's weather is not a repeat of yesterday's glorious weather!!
Our plans to get out in the garden and mow and deadhead are thwarted, or at least until after 2pm when it's supposed to be better, hopefully it will at least be dry enough to have a BBQ.
It's not so bad, I have BTCC from Oulton park to catch up with so that's me sorted for the day!!
We acquired an assortment of food stuffs to make a sort of mezzo board/ploughman's lunch for today and I'm quite looking forward to it!!
As already indicated by Dermot O'Logical, today's weather is not a repeat of yesterday's glorious weather!!
Our plans to get out in the garden and mow and deadhead are thwarted, or at least until after 2pm when it's supposed to be better, hopefully it will at least be dry enough to have a BBQ.
It's not so bad, I have BTCC from Oulton park to catch up with so that's me sorted for the day!!
We acquired an assortment of food stuffs to make a sort of mezzo board/ploughman's lunch for today and I'm quite looking forward to it!!
spikeyhead said:
DickyC said:
Thanks, Dermot.
There are moves afoot locally to rename me Newbury Bypass.
Has Swampy been consulted?There are moves afoot locally to rename me Newbury Bypass.
We're all getting older, of course.
psi310398 said:
Morning all.
In another despatch from my hectic life, I can report that I think I’ll wash the car today.
And Dicky, do take care. You really don’t want to be caught short without your dilator juice!
It's one damn thing after another at the moment. Seventy years too late, I'm using sunblock liberally. Too liberally, it turns out. Yesterday I poked myself in the left eye with a fingerful of Nivea Sun. Fearing an imbalance between the protection offered to both eyes I took out the left lens of my sunglasses and the cosmic balance was restored. You have to consider these things.In another despatch from my hectic life, I can report that I think I’ll wash the car today.
And Dicky, do take care. You really don’t want to be caught short without your dilator juice!
hammo19 said:
I have a destination with 19 holes today. Tee off time forecast is 50 mph winds and rain, oh joy!
You think they'd put a tarpaulin over those holes until they manage to get them fixed. 
Honestly, the country is going to the dogs these days.
Gude Moaneve Chasps
I have overslept too much this morning after only waking up thrice. Luckily I have a bit of time to spare to reshuffle my gender, but I may have to put off my busy procrastination schedule for a while to compose a knee-mail to the bastewards who sent me a penalty charge notice for parking my (non-permissable???) C-Ma_ in the car park at the Ladybower Inn whilst we stopped for our lunch during the Brassington TT Tour.
It seems we were supposed to enter or car Reg Plate numbers on the eye pad at the bar, but no member of staff informed us and none of us noticed any signs or notices at the car park as we entered and exited both by car and on foot. Strange that, inni?
The scammers have kindly offered to reduce the penalty charge from £100 to a mere £30 if settled within 14 days of them sending out the notice.
No doubt Bobbers can look forward to receiving similar for his transgression with Ivor.
In all the years I have visited the Ladybower, often pre-booking for as many as fifty (50)
diners on our TVR tours, I have never encountered such a protocol.
But this was my first visit there since my heart attack in 2022, so I guess I am lagging behind in this brave new world of modern highway robbery. Barstards!!!
Luckily I have my (rather battered) GTN spray. I wonder if it's still in date? I hadn't thought to check.
Thanks Hammo. I'll put it on the list of Dings to Thew.
'Scuse me while I go and catch up with this morning's Trivia...
Albie Beck.
DickyC said:
Thanks, Dermot.
There are moves afoot locally to rename me Newbury Bypass.
You'll always be swampy to us There are moves afoot locally to rename me Newbury Bypass.
Last seen down near us in 2019 after blocking the road to the powerstation, which the lorries just drove around a field and ignored. The same powerstation that had just out in a huge solarfarm to significantly reduce it's consumption of gas - but no, protest, not praise their efforts...
https://www.southwalesguardian.co.uk/news/17953961...
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