Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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Similar here... though only faint sun, well over 20C, so shorts & short sleeves, and gentle tan top-up. Amusing to see those people overdressed because it wasn't properly sunny. Mind you, Wednesday here is going to be properly sunny and distinctly brrr, so might even have to cover up the tan.
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Finding how to stop those 'kin annoying random pop up ads which started appearing on e.g UTub via my FireStick app. Is in the Settings/Preferences. There must have been an 'upgrade'. But (sometimes) google is one's friend.
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Share, or useless. 😉
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80s kids TV presenter Timmy Mallett is currently doing a circumnavigation of Northern Ireland by bike and posting clips of his journey on X.
It's every bit as wholesome as you'd expect.
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More interested in the 'Doped Olympics', and the associated story about Peter Theil, which I didn't know.
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Nah, got misled, barsteward ads still self-inflicting. And no ta to UTub premium at £17 per month! F off. Instead just listen to e.g. TheMove via podcast
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FWIW, watching on a laptop is ad free after the initial ones at the beginning but I get interrupted while on a phone.
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Indeed, it's those random, interrupting in mid sentence type insert ads that are so effing annoying. I'li see if going back to casting from iPad to TV rather than via firestick app will improve things. Only get on UTub now and again.
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This, this and thrice this. I worked for an organisation that had a dependency on them at the time and ABRDN couldn't have been more up themselves about it.
Giving mirth was completely pain free.
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Someone replied to that tweet to say that this has been the HoP guest WiFi password forever... so if you need to stream something and find yourself in Westminster.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Good of them to explain that Parliament2015 wasn't set up recently
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There was a snarky comment about people being afraid to change it in case it stopped working, caught fire and burnt the place down. It's an amazing building but it's also a complete basket case that is always going to cost a fortune to keep up together.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Makes a change from riding back home from a curry in Exeter to Topsham: riding back over an alpine col in the dark after a rather splendid three-course meal at the top of another valley. The steak with morel sauce and sautéed vegetables was lush.
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Freshly resurfaced stretch of road and a tailwind.
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Ordered new contact lenses at 7.30pm last night. Free standard delivery. Arrived 3.30pm today. And there was Haribo in the box!
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My new cowbells. Not just toys, but actually needed for a Mahler symphony (No.6) performance. I discovered that there is a shop in Bourg-de-Péage that has an extensive selection, with bells of all sizes and shapes from Italy, France and Switzerland. As Mahler was Austrian, Swiss bells seemed like the best choice, and having checked they had the biggest sizes that seemed passable value for money, I rode over Vercors, tested and bought the three bells (boy, they are loud!), and caught the train back, now with my over-60s 30% discount.
Nice when you research/plan, and everything just works. Even when it is as silly as buying cowbells for a symphony.
You probably don't want to hear them, but here they are anyway. The biggest one weighs 1.5kg.
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Ha, not the most tuneful sound but did bring back memories of hiking in the Swiss alps where herds would be grazing and clanking those bells. You could tell at a distance whether there would be cows or sheep/ goats by the pitch. I also came across a small hardware shop in a village which was stocked with all you possibly want from an old fashioned style shop of bits and bobs. This had the bells as above of all sizes for the tiniest lamb to the biggest bull, and as above, not the tourist souvenir tat but the real thing.
I brought back half dozen of the little ones to hang around the bottom of the xmas tree to alert us if it was under attack from the kitten.
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Sounds like more of an amusement attraction for the kitten than a warning device. 🤣
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Believe me, a xmas tree is an amusement attraction for a moggy with or without bells. The bells were an alarm call if under attack, which is why they were at the bottom not further up. They did serve as an amusement distraction and stopped the climbing tho’. 😄
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I'm hoping if I get a bit of publicity on these bells that we might get a few more big 'uns from people who've got them hanging around at home (rather than around cows' necks).
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Having left hiring a car from Geneva at the end of May a bit later than last year, surprised that it's £150 cheaper, and that's from the Swiss side. Once upon a time, the French side was about half the price of the Swiss side, but no longer, and everything about the French side is now a faff. Learnt my lesson last year.
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In other news.... proper tan lines now. Been building up, but a fantastic day on the bike today.
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Getting my Teachers Pension (tax-free) lump sum within days of completing the online form, and in good time to convert to €s to help pay the the new French roof. (Technical report confirmed the presence of asbestos, so that's a fair chunk for removal before the replacement work starts.)
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You've just put yourself on Rick's hitlist!
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It'd barely cover cost of one of his swanky meetings with clients, but to a mere teacher, it's most welcome.
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Wait till my state pension kicks in and I'm (very probably) still working 😁 I'm sure Rick looks a bit like Edward Fox in 'Day of the Jackal'
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Still gutted every time he misses.
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