What have you been doing today?

[ReganAndCarter]

Birthday today (actually yesterday 12th - posting this late) so cycled a few miles (just to stop things seizing up), then went for a late and large full English at 'Spoons - making good use of the bottomless tea. Hung around after with the paper and had a couple of pints as they have a beer festival on. I really know how to live!

 

[Mottie]

Had to pop over to West London today for work and as I was near Westfield Shopping centre, I called in to get some bits from Mark's. The place is absolutely massive - I had trouble just finding my way out of the store, let alone the shopping centre! On my way out, I saw a Jay feeding on berries in a tree outside the shopping centre. I drew a bit of a crowd while I was taking pictures - one person thought it was a parrot!

 

[Stivino]

I’ve been on the effing phone all day, an hour and a half to B.O.S. to find out why I had been locked out of my online banking and getting them to open it up to me again.
Then 45 minutes in the queue waiting for Virgin Money to answer.
Both of them gave a similar apology, “We’re sorry, all our lines are busy at the moment, we’ll answer asap”
Eh! I’m sorry but I’m busy too, ffs.
Please excuse my French, these things pee me off a bit.

 

[Mottie]

Just fed the dog. You could almost set your watch at 5.00 as the dog comes out from wherever she is and stares me out for her dinner. Feck knows how she can tell the time but she must have an inner clock.

Oh, and give or take five minutes, the wood pigeons turn up for some seed at 6.00 too!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I had a phone appointment for renal to ring me, and at an awkward time when I would likely be on the bus heading for a flu and covid jab, they rang and hour early, and I was able get off to my jab appointments also a bit early, in anticipation of getting waved in early for them too. No such luck, they were having lunch until four minutes before my appointed time, so I had 35 minutes to wait on my own, but not for long, a queue soon built up of other people expecting to get dealt with a few minutes early. I passed the time with them, exchanging a few laughs and jokes.

Covid jab in left, flu in right, so both arms might be sore to sleep on tonight

Then back on the bus, for a leisurely shopping trip to Lidl, with a short list. Now, having dined, I have a pile of fresh food, to prep and freeze for stock. Renal appointment was good news, no better, no worse. I have a fourth appointment tomorrow, to go in for yet another jab, then I am clear of appointments for months.

[EDIT] I forgot to mention, masks were optional on Tuesday, my first visit for two months to the surgery, rather than obligatory as before/

 

[Mottie]

Booked my 4th Covid jab.

Treated my commuter scooter to a set of tyres in advance of its MOT.

A question for @Keithmac. This is probably the third rear tyre and second front tyre I’ve had on this bike from new - a 2009 SH300. I fit them myself and balance them using an old fashioned balancer where you fit a bar through the wheel, rest it on some rollers to find the heavy spot and fit counterbalance weights. Ever since I’ve had this bike, if I let go of the bars, within 5 seconds or so, I get a death wobble. So violent I have to grab the bars. I never feel anything when I’m holding the bars though. I’ve always replaced the tyres with what it came with from new - Hoops. Today, after fitting the tyres, there’s no more death wobble. What’s happened?

 

[Diver Fred]

Been digging holes for decking aupports - in the rain. Stopped when the boss slipped over in the mud - thank ****!
Now back home to clean up.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Ever since I’ve had this bike, if I let go of the bars, within 5 seconds or so, I get a death wobble. So violent I have to grab the bars. I never feel anything when I’m holding the bars though. I’ve always replaced the tyres with what it came with from new - Hoops. Today, after fitting the tyres, there’s no more death wobble. What’s happened?

I got the death wobble with luggage on the rear, take the luggage off and the wobble would stop.

 

[Mottie]

I got the death wobble with luggage on the rear, take the luggage off and the wobble would stop.

When I was on a Euro trip on my Yamaha FJR1300, fully loaded with top box, panniers and a tank bag, I decided to see what it would do on the autobahn. I got to a true (satnav) speed of 144mph and it started the death wobble. My bum'ole took over and I backed off. That was the fastest I’ve ever been. All the time I was thinking…..if I get a blowout, if I get a blowout, if I get…….you get the picture. It was a beast of a bike.

 

[Odds]

Bang in the middle of making the first batch of chutney from the Bramley apples: chopping onions isn't my favourite part of the job but with all this fruit we'll have enough to go round the family and fill the cupboard. Had about 20lb of apples this year, most will be eaten but some others have gone into making jelly, some for pies; lovely crumbly crumble with blackberries...both windows open in the kitchen and the extractor working hard but the aroma will linger for several days. Smells like autumn, to me. Soon be time to light the fires and welcome in a new year.

 

[gas112]

When I was on a Euro trip on my Yamaha FJR1300, fully loaded with top box, panniers and a tank bag, I decided to see what it would do on the autobahn. I got to a true (satnav) speed of 144mph and it started the death wobble. My bum'ole took over and I backed off. That was the fastest I’ve ever been. All the time I was thinking…..if I get a blowout, if I get a blowout, if I get…….you get the picture. It was a beast of a bike.

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had a front tyre go down at around 70mph . Thinking this is going to hurt bike was flicking over from side to side like you would take a bend. Then at about 15mph got my feet down either side to stabilise me as it came to a halt certainly an ar5e twitching experience

 

[crystal ball]

Fourth covid jab this morning, making tattie hash in the Ninja pressure cooker, looking for all year caravan sites

 

[Mottie]

Helping out a work party over the allotment. Replacing the brackets and barbed wire on the river boundary fence. Only bit I refused to do was the compound next to the fence with 5 beehives in it. The bees were still active.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Fourth covid jab this morning, making tattie hash in the Ninja pressure cooker, looking for all year caravan sites

I think Mine was the 5th on Thursday, along with a flue jab at the same time, but in different arms. I was expecting to be woken if I slept on my side/with my weight on my arm, but no such problem this time with localised pain. My left, with the covid jam, felt very slightly achy at the joints yesterday.

 

[Mottie]

Under the close supervision of mrs Mottie, I dug up all our dahlia tubers from the flower bed at the front of our allotment, trimmed and washed them and stored them upside down in the greenhouse to drain down so they can be stored in some dry compost over winter for planting out next year. Pulled up and stored the three pumpkins that I had grown this year - one for our grandson and one each for our great nieces to use on halloween. Pulled some beetroot to pickle for Christmas. Weeded and dug over the bed that the pumpkins, courgettes and some of my beetroot were in. Came home and made a Sunday roast.