The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

[Karearea]

As one who has 'been retired' from a large house with outbuildings to the one room of sheltered housing, it has been a painful exercise of 'Well, you won't need that!'.

I can appreciate that, and sympathise, G-CPTN,

Precipitation continues; 8.7°C now; smoke from neighbours' chimneys; volatile Spring weather and I have to go out in it in a little while for an appointment and some errands.
A remarkable lot of yellow pollen on the windscreen.
I have a car-wash ticket but today's not the day to use it.

[Karearea]

Errands successfully accomplished.
Not to put too fine a point on it, it feels cold: very dull, 7.7°C now and temp falling; raining, and even a potential later for a few flakes of sn*w, if not here then not too far away.
Just Spring weather.

[Hydromet]

Errands successfully accomplished.
Not to put too fine a point on it, it feels cold: very dull, 7.7°C now and temp falling; raining, and even a potential later for a few flakes of sn*w, if not here then not too far away.
Just Spring weather.

Last day of school term today.Doesn't affect us, but ski resorts are all hoping for snow. Some had a light dusting yesterday, but they'll need a bit more for the punters. From the temperature here it feels like they may get it.

[Wodrick]

G'day,
22c with scattered, high clouds, an impossible 28c say the runes.
A stiff, cold North wind.

There is a plan to concrete the track. I am for this of course but there are pros and cons as with any project.
It seems there is a WhatsApp group of the neighbours for discussion, I am not included. Problems problems.

[Woody]

G'day,
22c with scattered, high clouds, an impossible 28c say the runes.
A stiff, cold North wind.

There is a plan to concrete the track. I am for this of course but there are pros and cons as with any project.
It seems there is a WhatsApp group of the neighbours for discussion, I am not included. Problems problems.

Aren’t you forgetting something, it’s FRIDAY

[Wodrick]

OOOps so it is, it's an age thing I loose track.

Summat else 22nd AM 11/15

[Woody]

This is the kind of quiz that we need, none of those weird Kiwi questions

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... s-27758056

8/10

[OneHungLow]

This is the kind of quiz that we need, none of those weird Kiwi questions

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... s-27758056

8/10

So how many of those pubs have you been barred from Woody!

[Woody]

So how many of those pubs have you been barred from Woody!

Just The Brick, it’s next to Goodison, Liverpool supporters definitely not welcome

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks a quite successful town day yesterday. Transferred a whole load of dosh from the UK to pay for al the work being done at the moment. Men back again today. Got all the doors open to get some cool dawn air into the house, Got to 38C yesterday. House was 30 over night. Still do not see the need for a/c.

[tango15]

So how many of those pubs have you been barred from Woody!

Just The Brick, it’s next to Goodison, Liverpool supporters definitely not welcome

I was rubbish on that quiz. The most embarrassing one was Ye Cracke, just down the road from school. Of course, I didn't go there during my schooldays, but many times thereafter! I can imagine the reception you would get in The Brick, Woody. Touchy lot, those toffees aren't they?

[1DC]

8/10. Cloudy on the Humber 16C. Mrs 1DC and I have been pressure washing, all the pink granite is done just four times as much black limestone to do over the next few days. Our idea that we were getting too old to do this ourselves has been cancelled as people who you think are going to come and do the job are unreliable. We will now take our own sweet time over it, if it takes a week it takes a week and we just drink more tea..Went to the hospital for a blood test and went to pay for my car park, a distressed elderly gentleman (probably no older than me) who had turned up for an appointment to be told he didn't have one despite having a letter to show that he had, they still wouldn't see him, was at the machine with a notice telling him to use a different credit card. He didn't have another card and didn't have any cash, the poor old guy was at the end of his tether so I said I would pay for his parking ticket.By this time someone had fetched security whose first question was why have you only got one credit card.I said leave the poor guy alone look at the state of him. He then saw sense and agreed and told him to just drive to the gate and he would let him out. Ridiculous.

[PHXPhlyer]

use a different credit card. He didn't have another card and didn't have any cash

Why does one need a credit card at all?

PP

[OneHungLow]

Great delight at home as SWMBO had her contact lenses training wheels removed at Specsavers, and has just come home and removed her lenses "solo" as it were. Rather her than me, there is no way I could countenance fiddling in my eyes like that.

Friday has come and gone in a vague fugue. Looking forward to meeting up Woody at a watering hole in London to watch the South African Ireland game tomorrow.

[Boac]

Why does one need a credit card at all?

How do you propose paying for parking in a cashless car park?

[Karearea]

Good morning on Saturday; an inch of rain since yesterday, 4.7°C ("feels like 1°C") expecting 9°C and overcast all day.

Clock is still ticking along.

Re your quiz, Woody: "That wasn't the best attempt You have scored 2 out of 10! Thanks for playing"

The September Equinox occurs on 23 September at 6:50 p.m.NZST (06:50UTC)

11/15 in smorning's quiz: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/quizze ... er-23-2023

[PHXPhlyer]

Elevens on both

PP

[k3k3]

Today I emptied the beach hut and prepared it to be taken away for winter storage. Summer is truly over.
I wonder if they have beach huts in the antipodes?
The view from the beach hut:

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[Karearea]

Today I emptied the beach hut and prepared it to be taken away for winter storage. Summer is truly over.
I wonder if they have beach huts in the antipodes?
...

Not in NZ as far as I know. Beaches are public land.

...The "Queen's Chain" is a concept that has long existed in New Zealand, of a strip of public land, usually 20 metres (or one chain in pre-metric measure) wide from the high water mark, that has been set aside for public use along the coast, around many lakes, and along all or part of many rivers. These strips exist in various forms (including road reserves, esplanade reserves, esplanade strips, marginal strips and reserves of various types) but not as extensively and consistently as is often assumed. ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_(un ... ew_Zealand

Public Access - Te Ara Encyclopedia of NZ

Having said that, I know of a certain little cabin, or shanty, which has been just above the strand in native bush since WW2 - maybe it was an ex-Army hut originally? - on an inlet north of Auckland. It's one of several there, can't be sold, because of today's regulations, but can be "inherited" I think
Very primitive, no electricity, no indoor facilities, was paradise when my cousins and I were children. Happy days

edit to add one more link: Wikipedia: the New Zealand bach (holiday home)

noting that even the smallest pictured in the article is a palace compared to the shanty I described above!

The article mentions the use of old trams as baches on the Coromandel Peninsula, I have stayed in one of those too.

[Hydromet]

Morning all. 10/15.
Clear blue skies, currently 13c, forecast max 19c. When I went out to collect my paper this morning I was greeted by Charles the king parrot. Usually, if he's going to visit it's in the afternoon. However, the early bid gets the birdseed.
Most (but not quite all) foreshore land in Australia is public access, but in Melbourne there are some bathing boxes.

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