Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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. . . and the same ones will be back next year. I live on the same road I grew up on (albeit in a different house) and it gives me a great feeling to know that the swallows I see skimming around the skies now are the descendents of those I saw when playing footy in the street in the summer 50 odd years ago . . .orraloon said:Enjoying evening sun outside (with a glass, or 2) and there are gangs of swallows plus a few swifts just messing about, I'm getting divebombed at times. Had a group of 10+ sitting on the leccy cable down the hill, chirping, hopping on and off. Reckon it's this year's generation learning how to fly together ahead of their autumnal sub-Saharan commute. Nice to observe,
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The landscape near Tisbury. Golden August fields and a blue sky.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Part of the anti-growth coalition1 -
I was just in the garden thinking it is probably as close as it gets to a perfect summer's day for me. Maybe a few too many clouds and slightly high humidity but certainly not far off.0
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Repairing punctures the old-school way, with a patch, and it working well enough that you forget it's a repaired tube.. Did two today, one during a ride. I was in a nice enough place not to be in any hurry.0
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Remembering how much I like The Lemonheads.1
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Wandering up the road to the where we put the rubbish (a football-sized bag, after a week, which also cheers me up), and getting this view. Still pinch myself.
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Ha, my recycled kitchen sink water has brought my shrivelled-up blackcurrant plant back from the dead 😊
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People doing trivial things that conform exactly to stereotype always cheers me up for some reason.
Todays entry; my French client had been off since Monday till….September 5th.
“Don’t bother me, I’ll see you in September”
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Excellent advice! A further tip, if yopu need an extra bag, is to put the valuables in the bag that goes overhead and, shall we say, stuff you don't mind making fit under the seat in the other bag. Saved me faffing with baggage drop/claim at all. (Though others on the trip said it was about as good as it could have been - fair play LGW)briantrumpet said:That easyJet don't check rucksacks that are slightly oversized for going under the seats. It's a summer when I need to smuggle my C trumpet into France with me, and I don't fancy paying an extra £40 for the extra 2 or 3cm.
Passing my MOD 1 today!
Unfortunately the lack of available MOD 2 tests is one for the Annoying thread.We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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^^^ More the other way round from what I’ve seen ^^^
Overhead bags are quite often moved due to lack of space.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
ddraver said:
Excellent advice! A further tip, if yopu need an extra bag, is to put the valuables in the bag that goes overhead and, shall we say, stuff you don't mind making fit under the seat in the other bag. Saved me faffing with baggage drop/claim at all. (Though others on the trip said it was about as good as it could have been - fair play LGW)briantrumpet said:That easyJet don't check rucksacks that are slightly oversized for going under the seats. It's a summer when I need to smuggle my C trumpet into France with me, and I don't fancy paying an extra £40 for the extra 2 or 3cm.
Passing my MOD 1 today!
Unfortunately the lack of available MOD 2 tests is one for the Annoying thread.
Yeah, if I put the trumpet in there, I make it kind of squashable, in case they get funny about it, having packed bits and pieces to keep the trumpet safe... and then I'm very careful how I squash it, if I have to. In fact, carefully inspecting the seats, I reckon the maximum height can be exceeded in practice, as long as it's not at maximum on the depth & width, as the seat brackets have big holes in them, so you could protrude into the next space.
It always amuses me how reluctant people are to use the under-seat space, even when they've got small squashy bags, given that if you want to access your bag, it's much easier there.
And yes, there's that slightly smug feeling of not only not having to do drop bag, but also walking past everyone waiting at the still-stationary carousel...0 -
Why not buy a flight case (you nutter)?briantrumpet said:ddraver said:
Excellent advice! A further tip, if yopu need an extra bag, is to put the valuables in the bag that goes overhead and, shall we say, stuff you don't mind making fit under the seat in the other bag. Saved me faffing with baggage drop/claim at all. (Though others on the trip said it was about as good as it could have been - fair play LGW)briantrumpet said:That easyJet don't check rucksacks that are slightly oversized for going under the seats. It's a summer when I need to smuggle my C trumpet into France with me, and I don't fancy paying an extra £40 for the extra 2 or 3cm.
Passing my MOD 1 today!
Unfortunately the lack of available MOD 2 tests is one for the Annoying thread.
Yeah, if I put the trumpet in there, I make it kind of squashable, in case they get funny about it, having packed bits and pieces to keep the trumpet safe... and then I'm very careful how I squash it, if I have to. In fact, carefully inspecting the seats, I reckon the maximum height can be exceeded in practice, as long as it's not at maximum on the depth & width, as the seat brackets have big holes in them, so you could protrude into the next space.
It always amuses me how reluctant people are to use the under-seat space, even when they've got small squashy bags, given that if you want to access your bag, it's much easier there.
And yes, there's that slightly smug feeling of not only not having to do drop bag, but also walking past everyone waiting at the still-stationary carousel...
We used to fix violins which had been squashed/sat on/chucked around and besides, they would go out of tune.
Customers came in wanting their violins set up and tuned before travelling (amazing the numbers of muso's who hadn't got a clue) only to tell them altitude and humidity changes made the exercise futile. Although you don't have that problem but you don't want your brass crumpled.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
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Why not buy a flight case (you nutter)?briantrumpet said:ddraver said:
Excellent advice! A further tip, if yopu need an extra bag, is to put the valuables in the bag that goes overhead and, shall we say, stuff you don't mind making fit under the seat in the other bag. Saved me faffing with baggage drop/claim at all. (Though others on the trip said it was about as good as it could have been - fair play LGW)briantrumpet said:That easyJet don't check rucksacks that are slightly oversized for going under the seats. It's a summer when I need to smuggle my C trumpet into France with me, and I don't fancy paying an extra £40 for the extra 2 or 3cm.
Passing my MOD 1 today!
Unfortunately the lack of available MOD 2 tests is one for the Annoying thread.
Yeah, if I put the trumpet in there, I make it kind of squashable, in case they get funny about it, having packed bits and pieces to keep the trumpet safe... and then I'm very careful how I squash it, if I have to. In fact, carefully inspecting the seats, I reckon the maximum height can be exceeded in practice, as long as it's not at maximum on the depth & width, as the seat brackets have big holes in them, so you could protrude into the next space.
It always amuses me how reluctant people are to use the under-seat space, even when they've got small squashy bags, given that if you want to access your bag, it's much easier there.
And yes, there's that slightly smug feeling of not only not having to do drop bag, but also walking past everyone waiting at the still-stationary carousel...
We used to fix violins which had been squashed/sat on/chucked around and besides, they would go out of tune.
Customers came in wanting their violins set up and tuned before travelling (amazing the numbers of muso's who hadn't got a clue) only to tell them altitude and humidity changes made the exercise futile. Although you don't have that problem but you don't want your brass crumpled.
A flight case would make it too big, and you can't pretend they are squashable. It probably would fit in a proper (small) cabin bag, but I also enjoy pressing 'Skip' each time EasyJet try to prise more money out of me.
Having said that, their car hire prices can be very good, if I want a car for one of my stays.0 -
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Making my own made Pita breads.
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Making your own bread is a PITA2
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Last time i hired an Easycar, i arrived to discover that it didn't exist and customer services were less than useless. Never again.briantrumpet said:
Having said that, their car hire prices can be very good, if I want a car for one of my stays.0 -
That the pompiers managed to put out the forest fire (I hope) a couple of miles from my house, which had been caused by a lightning strike. But maybe that's not trivial... what was I saying about things literally going up in smoke, a few days ago?
It was an impressive response: four aeroplanes and a helicopter, plus several fire engines (but they couldn't get anywhere near the fire.) Also amuses me that two of the planes were Bombardier Dash 8's which were the type of plane FlyBe used to transport me to Paris in.
Ho hum, time for pudding now.0 -
I don't know how that works, but for France they seem to work as an agency to get the best price (and take their commission, I guess), so this last time was Avis, whose service was excellent.monkimark said:Last time i hired an Easycar, i arrived to discover that it didn't exist and customer services were less than useless. Never again.
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Phew!briantrumpet said:That the pompiers managed to put out the forest fire (I hope) a couple of miles from my house...
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Phew!briantrumpet said:That the pompiers managed to put out the forest fire (I hope) a couple of miles from my house...
Yep, indeed. With how dry it is, it's pretty scary.0 -
Having been running really badly even by my own poor standards since late 2020 and struggling for motivation my form suddenly improving over the last week or two. I managed my fastest post-lockdown Parkrun by over 30" last Saturday, a decent performance in the latest round of our interclub league on Tuesday night compared to the previous two rounds and then improved my Parkrun time by another 1' 40".
Just another 1'30"-2'00 to find and I'll be back where I was before the pandemic and in PB territory but my motivation is now back and I'm looking forward to upping my training again.
Slightly frustratingly I was running better than ever 2 years ago when there was only 'virtual' racing available and I ran PBs at 10k and marathon solo that didn't count.0 -
I'd be pleased to be able to run without injuries. Great for fitness.Pross said:Having been running really badly even by my own poor standards since late 2020 and struggling for motivation my form suddenly improving over the last week or two. I managed my fastest post-lockdown Parkrun by over 30" last Saturday, a decent performance in the latest round of our interclub league on Tuesday night compared to the previous two rounds and then improved my Parkrun time by another 1' 40".
Just another 1'30"-2'00 to find and I'll be back where I was before the pandemic and in PB territory but my motivation is now back and I'm looking forward to upping my training again.
Slightly frustratingly I was running better than ever 2 years ago when there was only 'virtual' racing available and I ran PBs at 10k and marathon solo that didn't count.0 -
Ah, yes, Triumph. If I was aloud to have a motorbike I'd go for one of those, Bonneville?
So much more sensible than one of these TT race bike things.
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