Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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Is it a smart bin? Like one asks Alexa / Count Binface to 'open the bin'?
Aside, on last recent visit to daughter #1 I did indeed ask Alexa, for the v first time, to play 6Music. And it worked!
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The world is a little bit brighter 😁
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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It got put up as photo of the day on the BBC Wales Instagram page in the end.
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On another note my car that is now 500 miles short of 200k miles got through its MOT with relatively minor issues (general wear and tear stuff like brakes). The mileage history also shows my mileage has more than halved since 2022, now down to 10k a year.
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Yes. It told me that Jesus wasn't a white man with a hippie beard.
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I was annoyed that my old Clio didn't make it to 200k - the engine was still lovely, but rust and other W&T made it thoroughly uneconomic to keep on the road past its 189k
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Getting my car insurance renewal quote through and finding it has gone down by £8. Fair play to Tesco Bank.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
That I'm not travelling further than the nearest col on my bike today. 700km of traffic jams!!
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Recalling my yoof days but... Enjoying listening to the Pet Shop Boys top 30 on the BBC R2. And the 'what have I, what have I' with Dusty S... 😊 Never saw them live, and NOT going to Preston in 2 weeks time. Almost did go to Proms in the Park in 2019 when they headlined, now ex went and pulled a trigger that summer, watched that on TV which show was brill. 80s innit.
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Had a rat run across the road in front of me when out for a run this morning, so close I was in danger of treading on it. The rat realised at the last second and did a panicked scamper to safety but was running so fast it flailed to stop at the fence on the other side of the pavement and ran full speed into it. It was like something out of a cartoon but missing the stars or little birds spinning around its head (it was unharmed and carried on along the verge). Made my day as I was suffering badly at the time.
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Can top that. Had a baby rabbit shoot out of the verge to avoid my clumsy feet this morning.
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1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Give these two critters guns, and it would be a proper rabbit shoot out.
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Once had a sheep bolt in front of me and repeatedly try to get through a similar sized fence to the above.
That didn't cheer me up. 😔
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 -
But if one is running in a rat run... 😳
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Being in the right place at the right time twice in one day. Even if I'm not a train nerd, I'll make an exception for this line.
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Realising that my French garden looks like the garden of Eden compared with the one of a friend who's hedge I cut the other day... she knows her plants much better than me, but her plot is on a raised south-facing slope, and absolutely everything, bar the hedge, is completely frizzled. Sad for her, but happy for me.
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This one was a touch over £3, and is eminently (too eminently) drinkable. At least there's some cycling relevance. Went nicely with an unpasteurised tomme de Savoie cheese. I shall probably cease both the wine & cheese consumption on my return in just under a couple of weeks, for the sake of my arteries, liver, and wallet 😭
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Been a good morning (clouds aside) and three things in particular cheered me up.
- Self improvement. Sat in a cafe with 3/4 of customers being women wearing leggings. Apart from the fact that some shouldn't wear them I didn't know where to look as I was surrounded, and know I shouldn't look. Then it dawned on me that I was sat there in full lycra. Don't be so judgemental. 😝
- Being on a well serviced and maintained bike with a light tailwind and the only sound is the tyres rolling over the smooth tarmac.
- On completion my Garmin told me that I was over training. Guess that means I should ease up while cycling. Think I can do that. 😉
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 -
I find Garmin quite conservative. I've accidentally recorded pumping my tyres up before a ride in the past and been told the recovery time is 12 hours.
But well done anyway.
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Not listening. La la la 🎼🎼🎼
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Ditto to a decent cycle, except brisk headwinds here and no cafe stop.....
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I got 78 hours recovery after one recent run. It was a very warm day but had only been a 10k trail race.
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As an addendum, sitting in a sunny garden watching the Vuelta.
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Probably just as well I wasn't breathalysed on my way back from a nice meal out tonight.
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Last night sat in the gloom as a result of now usual Friday power cut. We got a visit from Batty the bat. As dusk in the summer we used to get a bat that would fly round the garden feeding. He or she didn’t seem to be around last year so we thought that maybe he lost his habitat when one farmers chopped some trees back.
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Seemingly being under the migratory flight path for geese. We get numerous skeins going over everyday at this time of year and it reminds me of a bike race (the last lot had a 5 goose break being chased by a group of around 20 at a minute or so).
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Ate my first steak tartare today. Rather pleasant, à l'italien, with sundried tomatoes in the steak. Having had a splendid bleu steak last night too, I think my parents might be turning in their empty urns, as they liked their beef cremated.
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I ate steak tartare on my first trip to France in 1977. We were on a climbing trip, limited funds and very limited French between us. We didn’t realise that French shops shut from 12:00 till 4:00 so ended living on biscuits from the garage. So in the end we decided to go for broke and have a proper meal in the local restaurant.
Not being able to read the menu we thought steak tartare was steak with a tartare sauce. We all bluffed it when it came pretending we knew what we were ordering. We drank litres of wine to wash it down.
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Reminds me of a friend who ordered an escalop of something in Italy thinking he was getting scallops... or all of us ordering 2kg of tagliata thinking we were getting a big pile of pasta, but instead getting 2kg of the most beautiful marinated sliced steak, having by then already eaten a different pile of pasta. 'Stuffed' doesn't even come close to how, erm, stuffed we were.
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