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  • NickFitz
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    Oh, and I've won £50 on the Premium Bonds!

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  • NickFitz
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    Managed to get through to the Chinese takeaway on the third try, and they've only got a one hour backlog! I was expecting to be told to get there at quarter to eight but no, seven it is

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  • NickFitz
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    The lift's broken again

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by sadkingbilly View Post

    brand new = bad for environment.
    best off with a re CYCLEd one IMMHO.
    anyway, you can't get an iBike yet, can you? to match your tv/spy speakers/phone/underwear/bath salts/etc.
    Bad for the environment, but good for a small local business!

    And yes, until the Apple iBike arrives, I'll have to make do with a normal one

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  • NickFitz
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    The bike shop has been visited, where they did a good job of exploring my assorted requirements and showing me a bunch of suitable bikes. We'd finally settled on one particular model and they fitted pedals and lent me a helmet so I could take it for a test ride… whereupon I was shocked to discover that although you never forget how to ride a bike, you can still be pretty damn out of practice after twenty-five years or so

    At the first corner I veered into a quiet side road that goes nowhere in particular, and wobbled along for a fairly short distance before turning back. I'll really need to spend some time getting back into practice

    But once I settled in and got pedalling properly, I realised that this particular bike was just a bit too small, and not in a way that moving the saddle up would fix.

    It had been a tossup between this size and one size up, but it turned out all the ones they had in stock of the next size were missing something else I wanted, so they've had to order one specially

    And as bike manufacturers don't seem to like to be rushed, it should be here in early February, or maybe towards the end of January if I'm lucky!

    At least I had a good walk there and back

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  • ladymuck
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    Soup for lunch. Not entirely sure what it was as it was something HWMBO cooked up a while ago and I'd frozen for a day like today. I had the good sense on Thursday to take it out of the freezer to defrost so it only took a few minutes to warm up a portion on the hob.

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  • sadkingbilly
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Lunch: a bacon bap

    No extra rasher this time, but you can't have on every time or it wouldn't be special, I suppose

    Monkey Life has finished for today and they've moved on to repeats of Antipodean wildlife rescues. So as soon as I get myself organised, I'm walking round to the bicycle shop, where I expect to be able to get one that's brand new and fully fettled
    brand new = bad for environment.
    best off with a re CYCLEd one IMMHO.
    anyway, you can't get an iBike yet, can you? to match your tv/spy speakers/phone/underwear/bath salts/etc.

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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch: a bacon bap

    No extra rasher this time, but you can't have on every time or it wouldn't be special, I suppose

    Monkey Life has finished for today and they've moved on to repeats of Antipodean wildlife rescues. So as soon as I get myself organised, I'm walking round to the bicycle shop, where I expect to be able to get one that's brand new and fully fettled

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  • ladymuck
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    Afternoon all

    Dull and overcast. Currently 3 degrees with a high of 4 that may have been and gone as I can't see it improving. Rain expected from late afternoon that could turn to sleet or snow this evening. Barometer down to 1014 mBar.

    I keep forgetting to add this:
    Sunrise 08:06, Sunset 16:07

    Headachy today. Can't be booze related as I've not had any, unless it's withdrawal.

    Bed stripped and airing while the linen is in the WM and just going onto its spin cycle.

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  • sadkingbilly
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post

    NF & bikes have a bit of a history. Nuff said. .
    aye, i know

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by sadkingbilly View Post

    my neighbour gave me a bike from clearing a garage. you can have it if you want. needs fettling, but all fully functional.
    NF & bikes have a bit of a history. Nuff said. .

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  • sadkingbilly
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    oh, sorry, - morning all
    CBS, 2C, light wind.
    Last edited by sadkingbilly; Today, 14:17.

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  • sadkingbilly
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Just popped downstairs to my storeroom, and rearranged what's in there, including getting the washing machine from the back to the front. I still need to have that taken away and also deal with various other bits down there, but the rearrangement means it should be possible to store a bike in there now, as nature intended. So I'm going to get a bike

    I could pop down to the bike shop now as it's only ten minutes' walk, but I'm too knackered after shifting the washing machine - which is why I need to get a bike
    my neighbour gave me a bike from clearing a garage. you can have it if you want. needs fettling, but all fully functional.

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    Very grey sort of day out, though the blanket of cloud hasn't done much to increase temperatures: it's 0°C (feeling like -2°) with an expected high of a mere 2°, and snow should arrive this evening around 9pm and may carry on through the night, though reverting to sleet or even rain by morning. The barometers are down to 1005/1013mB

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    There are some on the board who had Beatles wallpaper and Beatles 45. The wallpaper is long gone along with the said 45s which my sister sold without me knowing, not that I care since I haven't got a single Beatles single (or LP). The Stones, on the other hand, a lot. .

    Morning.

    Saturday.

    Dry.

    Grey.

    Sunless.

    Cold side of perishing in here at 9.9 deg, 8 deg in the kitchen, 6 deg in the leanto, 2.6 deg in the saltinghouse.

    1013 mBar, 29.91 in Hg, 759.8 Torr, 14.692323 psi, (down from 1019 last night (assuming I tapped it)), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 16th of December 2019 NF had ribs & chips followed by coffee & walnut cake to stop it going stale, followed by yet more of The Wire, whereas DaveB watched some film or other and I watched a thing on More4 about overengineered German WWII weapons, including the MG42 which had a rate of fire twice that of other MGs of the time.

    Lunch: brunch.

    Entertainment: FOOC. Bit of Money Box.

    Freecell score: 85%, running average: 81%.

    Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloomy raw cold windy afternoon. Twas ok to start but that wind rose towards the end & it was very lazy.

    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 15:46.

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