Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

[Glam]

Had a horrible sleepless night after panic of doorbell ringing after midnight. Son's in Portugal so knew it wasn't him . Leant out the bedroom window in the pitch black asking who was there. Delivery driver with food and our address on the order. 2nd time its happened this month ( 1st time was a tea time though) .
Rang doorbell again after insisting it was us. Messaged son ( waking him up as he has his phone set to just accept our calls & messages when he's asleep) to make sure he hadn't ordered us something. But he hadn't.

Son said they should have contact details on order, but to ask if it has been paid for next time , to find out if someone pratting around if its not.

( years ago we had to get a place in Mill Street/ Mill Bank area to block orders quoting our landline number. Had about 10 different late night calls from their food delivery drivers sitting in Castle Street looking for a house number which didn't exist with 'pay on delivery' orders. Someone being prats using our number for a non- existant address)

Sounds like you've really pissed someone off.

 

[Glam]

Youngest and I have taken to going for a walk up the lines when we're both off. We go as far as the old part of the Cemetary, have a seat while he has a smoke, then come back down the Eccleshall Road and home. This morning, we decided walk back down the lines, passed a few walking towards North End,all said Morning to one another. Then some bloke came up on his pushbike. Jaysus Christ he stunk of cannabis. It lingered for a long time after he passed too. I don't know how people can go to work stinking of the stuff. It's an awful stench.

 

[tek-monkey]

Youngest and I have taken to going for a walk up the lines when we're both off. We go as far as the old part of the Cemetary, have a seat while he has a smoke, then come back down the Eccleshall Road and home. This morning, we decided walk back down the lines, passed a few walking towards North End,all said Morning to one another. Then some bloke came up on his pushbike. Jaysus Christ he stunk of cannabis. It lingered for a long time after he passed too. I don't know how people can go to work stinking of the stuff. It's an awful stench.

People who smoke it are rarely aware of how strong the smell is, just like tobacco you become so used to it that it ceases to register.

 

[Gadget]

Sat down the garden & planted some seeds in pots today using a desert spoon & the silver mixing bowl from the kitchen (no one tell the carer, they were fiddly little pots, & that compact compost you have to add water to before using), courgette, onion & aubergine, probably way to late, but giving the late spring, worth a go

That stuff is awful, it's just coir no nutrients in it at all. Soon as your seedlings are up and strong enough to move get them out and into something decent.

 

[staffordjas]

Sounds like you've really pissed someone off.

Probably the wicked witch down the road, who's Airbnb guest parked on my lawn, squashing a Bush, last summer & she had a go at me for daring to ask them not to.


( her neighbours cafe mysteriously got reported to environmental health the other week,straight after it's 5* inspection, after they had words about parking)

 

[tek-monkey]

Probably the wicked witch down the road, who's Airbnb guest parked on my lawn, squashing a Bush, last summer & she had a go at me for daring to ask them not to.


( her neighbours cafe mysteriously got reported to environmental health the other week,straight after it's 5* inspection, after they had words about parking)

Put in a complaint about the airbnb, say you think it's a brothel.

 

[proactive]

Had a horrible sleepless night after panic of doorbell ringing after midnight. Son's in Portugal so knew it wasn't him . Leant out the bedroom window in the pitch black asking who was there. Delivery driver with food and our address on the order. 2nd time its happened this month ( 1st time was a tea time though) .
Rang doorbell again after insisting it was us. Messaged son ( waking him up as he has his phone set to just accept our calls & messages when he's asleep) to make sure he hadn't ordered us something. But he hadn't.

Son said they should have contact details on order, but to ask if it has been paid for next time , to find out if someone pratting around if its not.

( years ago we had to get a place in Mill Street/ Mill Bank area to block orders quoting our landline number. Had about 10 different late night calls from their food delivery drivers sitting in Castle Street looking for a house number which didn't exist with 'pay on delivery' orders. Someone being prats using our number for a non- existant address)

You should write a book about all this stuff that happens to you.

 

[proactive]

Weekend away in Worcestershire for the bank holiday in what will hopefully be a nice little hotel. Taking part in the Haggerty Hillclimb at Shelsley Walsh. In what is rather a watershed family moment, I'll be sharing the car with p jr for the first time. Just hope his times don't humiliate me too much...

 

[Gramaisc]

Weekend away in Worcestershire for the bank holiday in what will hopefully be a nice little hotel. Taking part in the Haggerty Hillclimb at Shelsley Walsh. In what is rather a watershed family moment, I'll be sharing the car with p jr for the first time. Just hope his times don't humiliate me too much...

Time moves on relentlessly.

That stash under his bed is actually care home brochures.

 

[proactive]

Time moves on relentlessly.

That stash under his bed is actually care home brochures.

Yes. We've had words about that.

 

[staffordjas]

Happy happy happy! Just found North Staffordshire Oatcakes on the shelf in our local Tesco . Stocked sons freezer up with loads for us ( mines full) while they're there. Last time they had them as a one off a few years ago , but never stocked them since. ( son's been on the hunt each shop just incase)

Doesn't look like the locals are buying them though. It's only me made a bit of a dent in the full shelf full.

 

[staffordjas]

Weekend away in Worcestershire for the bank holiday in what will hopefully be a nice little hotel. Taking part in the Haggerty Hillclimb at Shelsley Walsh. In what is rather a watershed family moment, I'll be sharing the car with p jr for the first time. Just hope his times don't humiliate me too much...

You won"t be far from me then .
Never heard of it before but looks an interesting event.
Where are you staying? ( I promise I won't turn up to jinx it )

Have fun !

 

[Gramaisc]

Never heard of it before but looks an interesting event.

I went back in the 80s, a very interesting day, huge variety of vehicles involved.

I remember one ancient old bloke with a huge Porsche, His equally ancient mate was employed to squirt a CO2 extinguisher at the turbo, if it started glowing too much, whilst waiting for the green light. This involved standing behind the car, as it rested back against the sleeper at the start, holding the extinguisher with one hand, as the other hand was hanging onto his stick for support.

Might even have been @proactive ?

 

[staffordjas]

Talking of car racing has brought back memories of the car rambling (?) or whatever it was called on most weeks on the fields at the end of Baswich Crest where we used to live. Must have been 1963 onwards ...anyone else remember those events ? Must have been about 10+ different hills to get up / see how far they could get up. The minis always used to do well .

 

[proactive]

You won"t be far from me then .
Never heard of it before but looks an interesting event.
Where are you staying? ( I promise I won't turn up to jinx it )

Have fun !

A place called The Baiting House in Upper Sapey. Actually it's in Herefordshire, apparently, which would explain why the locals appear to have webbed hands. Got hear about an hour ago and already enjoying a cocktail in the beer garden.

 

[Gramaisc]

I went for my first long bike ride of the year today. This involved transiting a dangerous zone.

I stopped at this point, to do a comprehensive risk assessment. This resulted in me deciding that, in the current and immediately expected weather conditions, I might be able to proceed, with extreme caution and continuous reassessment.

I passed an isolated house with this venerable gatepost.

As old as it looked, the plaque on the front was dated 2015.

I will endeavour to find out what it's all about...

 

[littleme]

Guinness?

 

[Gramaisc]

Despite having done 60km on the bike this afternoon, I 'was obliged' to go to the second nearest acceptable pub tonight, as there was going to be a 'ceili band rehearsal'.

I took this to mean that a few old blokes would hobble in and scratch a few tunes out, but I made the effort to go anyway..

It turned out to be a load of chicks and a few lads, 'the youth of today', and was top-notch stuff that would have packed out the place anywhere else in the country.

We were there somewhat after 'official' closing time, but it would have been an over-zealous guardian of the peace that chose to interfere...

 

[staffordjas]

Be warned if going to the airport this weekend....

Just paid a fortune for a simple pickup at B'ham airport. Apparently the E-gates aren't working so chaos and a couple of hours queue to get through passport control !

Didn't set off from home until the plane had landed , no hold bags for them to wait for , but still exhausted the free drop off and then moved on to a couple of hours X £7.50 in the short stay multi-storey . Bit of a panic going round and round , up and up to hunt for a space in the multi-storey short-stay and only finding the last available space right up on the roof.

 

[Gramaisc]

Be warned if going to the airport this weekend....

Just paid a fortune for a simple pickup at B'ham airport. Apparently the E-gates aren't working so chaos and a couple of hours queue to get through passport control !

Didn't set off from home until the plane had landed , no hold bags for them to wait for , but still exhausted the free drop off and then moved on to a couple of hours X £7.50 in the short stay multi-storey . Bit of a panic going round and round , up and up to hunt for a space in the multi-storey short-stay and only finding the last available space right up on the roof.

I haven't done it for years, but, when they introduced the extra scamming charges, my plan was to pick people up from the railway station car park, after they had used the shuttle thing to get that far. It was (then) still possible to do that without feeding the scam.