The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

[Pontius Navigator]

4ma, I see we're giving you £500 again this year.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Some good news. Just had the first rational conversation with the bereaved since Friday night. Even better news, her older sister will be flying in from Australia in a fortnight!

Maybe I should spend more time helicoptering and less time worrying!

[Wodrick]

Boring as is usual,

Found horsepitil eventually - the Sat Nav's interpretation of the second exit and mine differed and then round the houses we went.

Caught a glimpse of destination and almost simultaneously a parking slot. Spent a fruitless decade trying the locate the file holder.
The surgeon's PA is going to locate and courier to us.
I feel a further visit to bang a table or two coming on.

On returning to my car, next to the crossing there was a blue parking slot, these are usually disabled parking but no it was for electric vehicles only.
No sign of a charger mind.

[OFSO]

Damn and blast. Returning from the opening event at the Stately Home, my car just brushed my steel gatepost and removed from the rear wing a thumbnail sized fleck of white paint, revealing the black plastic wing panel below. Touch-up job tomorrow I fear...

[PHXPhlyer]

Did the gatepost move or did the drive get narrower?

PP

[Rwy in Sight]

Good morning to all. Holiday here yesterday up early today I couldn't stay in bed due to a mosquito.

4ma what's the point of using gloves when boating?

[OFSO]

I think the gate post has achieved sentience*.It never liked me.

* like that Google AI program.

https://go.reg.cx/tdml/42f13/62d0adff/4 ... op-article

[TheGreenGoblin]

I think the gate post has achieved sentience*.It never liked me.

* like that Google AI program.

https://go.reg.cx/tdml/42f13/62d0adff/4 ... op-article

Not like you? What a narrow minded postl!

[TheGreenGoblin]

This confounded Fitbit (or fatbit) now has me reaching for my phone straight after I have woken up in the morning to review my sleep stats! Why was my overall sleep score only 62 last night! I intended to sleep well last night but now it appears that I may have made mistakes! How is that I while my average sleeping rate was 58 last night, it soared to 96 at 02:00 hrs? This is all so worrying that I shan't be able to get back to sleep properly now!

[Ibbie]

Morning all

Right shoulder and left knee still not back to normal and still sore.

usual warm day in prospect. Presently 21c.

Opticians for eye checks early afternoon.

[what's the point of using gloves when boating?/quote]

You use a different coloured rubber glove for right and left hands, so you can tell port from starboard, simples.

[Karearea]

Sun has set and the whole north-western sky is becoming that glorious shade of glowing lilac again.
So thrilled I have the chance to see this.
We had scarlet sunsets after the Chilean eruption in 2011 for a few weeks, but nothing like this intense purple glow.

[John Hill]

I went to the gym this morning and as usual the place is almost deserted. My trainer arrived soon after with a seemingly impossible schedule for me so we worked through that with idle chat during the recuperation breaks. The usual, dogs, pickup-trucks, cost of home ownership, covid and the challenges of finding a desirable partner. Mind you, if I was 45 years younger I would have been eager to assist!

[TheGreenGoblin]

If it's deep purple it may be smoke on the water!

Red sky at night?
Shepherd's delight.

Red sky in the morning?
Shepherd's warning.

[John Hill]

Yes, nice sunset but not quite lilac here (Ashburton).

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. One week to go to the maximum time (6 months) it should take immigration to process our permanent residency application. Their automatic phone line doesn't work and we have heard nothing. Suppose we will have to go and see the racist chief immigration officer when in town on Thursday. She made it quite clear last time that she would love to throw us out. Little bitch.

Nice day.

The hippos have been very verbal all night.

I didn't see our junior security chap (gardener) go past the bedroom at 02.00 when I was awake. Just spent 2 hrs checking the CCTV. His reported patrol times on the log were total fabrication. Twice he disappeared from his post for nearly an hour. No idea where he was. He doesn't get paid for last night. He is not happy. Neither are we.

[Pontius Navigator]

Found horsepitil eventually - the Sat Nav's interpretation of the second exit and mine differed and then round the houses we went."

Had something like that. Had to go for a Covid test. Arrived at the right place, wrong side of a brick wall. Still they did the test OK.

On returning to my car, next to the crossing there was a blue parking slot, these are usually disabled parking but no it was for electric vehicles only.
No sign of a charger mind.

There is a service area on M3 I think, whole bank of TESLA charge points and dire consequences if you park there. They were all covered up last year, and this. We are going down in September, bet they're still covered.

No one parking in the bays. I wonder what would happen if you did.

[Wodrick]

Moaning all,
Might have missed yresterday.
Same as really light overcast,high, just passing 29c guess 31c weather warning person saying low 40s further inland.

No idea for today, perhaps a tinker with the water filter which is durty.

I find I have to be very careful on stairs if they have no highlight for the edges, many don't.
At that point ascending but particularly descending I am trying to navigate via the reading bit of my varifocals.
The masks, now not required mostly, make it worse. Had a near miss yesterday in the Horsepitil.

TGG Little Brother PPL(H) cancelled, medical, wonders what the registration of your grey 44 might be ?

[TheGreenGoblin]

TGG Little Brother PPL(H) cancelled, medical, wonders what the registration of your grey 44 might be ?

It is G-RMYD Wodrick.

Flight path isn't too erratic!

[4mastacker]

4ma, I see we're giving you £500 again this year.

Thank you PN, that's very kind. If the presentation is at St Wulfram's I'll try to blag a seat.

RIS wrote:

4ma what's the point of using gloves when boating?

Keep me hands clean is the short answer.

It might be necessary to pull debris out of the water if it's fouling the prop or rudder - last week it was a pair of tracksuit bottoms that someone had discarded after a "personal accident" . Invariably, branches/twigs are covered in gooey slime and brambles don't discard their spikes. There is also a risk from leptospirosis (Weil's Disease) in canal water so a pair of gloves is generally a good idea to help reduce the risk of infection -especially as we often have lunch whilst we are out; hand sanitisers now being an essential component of our lunch boxes.

[OFSO]

Not the gatepost, but a huge pot behind it containing a cactus plus pampus grass. It had moved out about an inch from the wall, which is why I had so little damage - paint only. Cacti are, of course, well known for their malevolence and general desire to mess up your car (Arizona pinstriping!) and this one has been waiting to get me. The gatepost, I should have known, only takes bites out of Mme's Fiesta. (Twice. Expensive. ) I have apologised to it, but given the pot a good thrashing.