We have a new Hermes driver on our route, very good, Covid compliant and friendly. Big improvement on previous Hermes people, one parcel left in flower bed by the roadside, and another large packet bent in half and partially stuffed into our roadside letterbox. And we were in at the time, I saw him do it, but couldn’t get out to stop him before he drove off! Our local Waitrose has foot operated pumps on their hand sanitizer. I usually carry my own sanitiser for other shops. Like Nanny Beach, I am used to using the pumps without using my hands, ( years of practice!)
The birds have been fed and watered, all plants needing hardening off are out enjoying the sunshine as I was with a coffee - lovely.
Enough sunshine to test the solar pond pump now, I carefully stored the solar panel away before the winter cold so it wouldn't get damaged. So where the ******** is it?
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Had my first AZ jab on Thursday. Booked it in the afternoon thinking I'd have enough time for the jab and get the train home. I left work early for it and it took all of 5 minutes door to door!!!! Now I thought early train home. Great! Northern are still running pandemic schedules of two hourly trains during rush hours!!!! So I left the jab centre at the same time the earlier train left the station.
So I pottered around town looking in shops that interested me. So the two cycling shops later I had wasted 5 minutes or so. I do not do shopping well!! Or rather I do it very well in that I can stand and scan the shop and know if anything is worth looking at in a matter of minutes. Then I leave. I had nearly 2 hours say around waiting. It's annoying they've cut half the trains. The one I usually get us packed to n standing now?
Nearly forgot, no sure effects. Thought I was getting some this afternoon as I felt cold.i went outside and gardened and realized it was just a cool house. No symptoms is good I guess.
Enough is enough! I've decided to go for it! Everything apart from tomatoes ( and it won't be long for them) is going outside tomorrow. BBC weather app shows no frosty night temperatures for as long as the predictions go. If they die, I'll get over it. The downside is I'll have to resume slug snipping duty
I read this forum while waiting for trains. Plus a few cycling and outdoors ones. Last Thursday after the jab I also made good use finding a certain brand, model and colour of bike for my son. Very particular. Two sizes up from his last in the frog bikes range. Orange has been replaced by green as his favourite colour. However post first lockdown there's still shortages of kids bikes. Apparently trek has a one to two year wait on new kids bikes!!!!
As it was I was googling and phoning around. Then in despair I called the retailer near us we got his last bike from. They had four in his size and colour!! Apparently they got 200 new frog bikes into stock and the last lot from frog for awhile. Week before nothing in stock. Next week they'll probably be sold out. So IMHO a good use of sitting around on a platform. Although it was awkward the way a very noisy goods train started rattling through just as they answered the phone.
I never got on with books on trains and platforms. It's just that a phone is in your pocket and easy to access. Books need to be in and out of rucksacks, not as convenient. Especially since I use an alpkit gourdon dry bag style rucksack (better for guaranteed dry contents). I used to use a Kindle when I used buses but that's just about pocketable because it's slim.
Do you use reading glasses pansyface? I am slightly short sighted. Started wearing specs for distance at ,30, because you get longer sight with age,at 70 my script is a lot less. My old man is long sighted and he can spot a mobile phone at a couple of miles, he's just told me off for "staring at a screen" this is the bloke who at this moment is on the PC and puts TV on the second his eyes open!
Frog bikes. So that's the latest must have. Wondered what it might be .
Not really it's still Isla bikes if you've money, Halfords cheapo if you're not or your not a cycling family or trek and giant if you're a cycling family but cheaper than Isla bikes. Frog are like Isla bikes but cheaper by £150. It's practically as good. You don't need to buy your cheese at Harrods for £60 per Kilo when there's one that's really nice from Booths for £21 per kilo.
The key thing with kids bikes is weight. We tried Halfords for his first bike and some were heavier than our adult bikes!! His new bike is about 8.5kg which makes it easier for him to cycle. Especially important when we cycle tour longer distances than most kids of 8 ever cycle.
Our Hermes delivery guy is great too. He knows to put things into our porch but I also put a sign on the door so he can photograph it as confirmation if he needs to.
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Our local Waitrose has foot operated pumps on their hand sanitizer. I usually carry my own sanitiser for other shops. Like Nanny Beach, I am used to using the pumps without using my hands, ( years of practice!)
Enough sunshine to test the solar pond pump now, I carefully stored the solar panel away before the winter cold so it wouldn't get damaged. So where the ******** is it?
So I pottered around town looking in shops that interested me. So the two cycling shops later I had wasted 5 minutes or so. I do not do shopping well!! Or rather I do it very well in that I can stand and scan the shop and know if anything is worth looking at in a matter of minutes. Then I leave. I had nearly 2 hours say around waiting. It's annoying they've cut half the trains. The one I usually get us packed to n standing now?
Nearly forgot, no sure effects. Thought I was getting some this afternoon as I felt cold.i went outside and gardened and realized it was just a cool house. No symptoms is good I guess.
Everything apart from tomatoes ( and it won't be long for them) is going outside tomorrow. BBC weather app shows no frosty night temperatures for as long as the predictions go.
If they die, I'll get over it.
The downside is I'll have to resume slug snipping duty
As it was I was googling and phoning around. Then in despair I called the retailer near us we got his last bike from. They had four in his size and colour!! Apparently they got 200 new frog bikes into stock and the last lot from frog for awhile. Week before nothing in stock. Next week they'll probably be sold out. So IMHO a good use of sitting around on a platform. Although it was awkward the way a very noisy goods train started rattling through just as they answered the phone.
I never got on with books on trains and platforms. It's just that a phone is in your pocket and easy to access. Books need to be in and out of rucksacks, not as convenient. Especially since I use an alpkit gourdon dry bag style rucksack (better for guaranteed dry contents). I used to use a Kindle when I used buses but that's just about pocketable because it's slim.
The key thing with kids bikes is weight. We tried Halfords for his first bike and some were heavier than our adult bikes!! His new bike is about 8.5kg which makes it easier for him to cycle. Especially important when we cycle tour longer distances than most kids of 8 ever cycle.