Mundane facts about your day...

[PeterD]

But the tent survived ?

The tent, and we aren’t proud of this, was wiped down and put on ebay straight away. We aware of lingering cider over doing it smells and knew the sooner we got rid, the better. This was many years ago and we take no pride in this. This has happened before over doing the cider and having to go and buy new bedding. See also Off The Tracks Festival and also up my parents newly decorated walls. I love this girl.

 

[Gramaisc]

Snowdon might not be much of a mountain to a Venezuelan but a couple of years ago I heard Chris Bonnington saying that as a lad it was the sight of Snowdonia from the train to and from Anglesey that got him interested in mountaineering.

I went to a talk he did in a village hall at the end of 1967.

I saw a picture of him some years ago and he didn't really look that much different, all things considered.

 

[SketchyMagpie]

Is there anywhere decent to lock up a bike within a 10 min walk of Holmcroft Surgery? I don't fancy the railings on the crossing.

 

[Gramaisc]

Is there anywhere decent to lock up a bike within a 10 min walk of Holmcroft Surgery? I don't fancy the railings on the crossing.

My policy, if I have to lock up a bike in a dodgy place, is to walk away in the 'wrong' direction, so that I can return about a minute later and survey the sene again.

If I was going to nick a bike, I would try to do it as soon as the owner left the scene...

 

[SketchyMagpie]

My policy, if I have to lock up a bike in a dodgy place, is to walk away in the 'wrong' direction, so that I can return about a minute later and survey the sene again.

If I was going to nick a bike, I would try to do it as soon as the owner left the scene...

Haha good advice.
I'll probably use the bike sheds outside Sainsburys and walk up if there's no better option than a railing nearby.

 

[Trumpet]

Well as a seasoned Venezuelan coastal trader I'd have taken him up in winter, in bad weather. He'd be shouting out some names then I bet (names like 'Holy Jesus get me out of here.')

Did the horseshoe back in February 1976, followed by a great night in The Vaynol.

 

[littleme]

Is there anywhere decent to lock up a bike within a 10 min walk of Holmcroft Surgery? I don't fancy the railings on the crossing.

Does the Dr's itself have a couple of bike stands? I was only there today, if I had read this first I could have looked. What about the library next door? I'm thinking that the railings might be the best option.... At least theily are in clear view of all the boozers outside the pub!

 

[littleme]

Haha good advice.
I'll probably use the bike sheds outside Sainsburys and walk up if there's no better option than a railing nearby.

They are stolen from there all the time.... Sainsbury's cams don't cover the bike shed, and the councils only do if facing in the right direction.

 

[SketchyMagpie]

Does the Dr's itself have a couple of bike stands? I was only there today, if I had read this first I could have looked. What about the library next door? I'm thinking that the railings might be the best option.... At least theily are in clear view of all the boozers outside the pub!

Street view doesn't seem to indicate any, alas. I could chain it up to the fence where the gate to the staff carpark closes but I feel like that'd be a bit cheeky XD

 

[SketchyMagpie]

They are stolen from there all the time.... Sainsbury's cams don't cover the bike shed, and the councils only do if facing in the right direction.

Well that's useful to know, cheers

 

[proactive]

Enjoyable walk on the Chase this evening. Just as well I always carry a bin bag in my pocket when I'm on the Chase as I happened upon not one, not two but three used disposable BBQs. And this in an area where there has been no meaningful rain for a long while and with just about every suitable tree having a sign stuck to it that says no BBQs or naked flames on it.

People are fcukwits, they really are.

 

[littleme]

Thought earlier that it looked nice out, so I would walk to my Dr's appointment for my vitamin injection.... Didn't realise how flipping hot it was and how little time I had allowed to get there, ended up at the Dr's boiling hot & only just in time. Thankfully I didn't set her thermometer off so was allowed in.

Halfway home I remembered I was supposed to collect my prescription from the pharmacy next door, so back I went.... Stopped in the local co-op on the way back to get chilli powder fir tea, only to find it was twice the price of the place I work, so bought a packet mix instead,...... Disaster, absoloutly vile & nothing like my lovely chilli.

Then I fought some more wasps when I got home, can't work out how they are getting in...

 

[Lucy]

I was thinking today when did it last rain and I can't remember. It's not good.

 

[Thehooperman]

Is there anywhere decent to lock up a bike within a 10 min walk of Holmcroft Surgery? I don't fancy the railings on the crossing.

Could you chain it to the railings or the fence by the shops?

Don't know how safe it is but there's always plenty of people about to spot anyone tampering with a bike.

 

[littleme]

Street view doesn't seem to indicate any, alas. I could chain it up to the fence where the gate to the staff carpark closes but I feel like that'd be a bit cheeky XD

I think street view is out of date, I'm sure those bollards aren't there now. I can't get it to go any nearer, but I thought there were 2 tiny bike stands by the right hand window & bushes of the pharmacy. I could be very wrong though.

https://www.instantstreetview.com/@52.821968,-2.132163,292.66h,4.8p,2.11z,mJT3DorOZA3Cd-mdzC4goQ

 

[Gramaisc]

Is there anywhere decent to lock up a bike within a 10 min walk of Holmcroft Surgery? I don't fancy the railings on the crossing.

Street View shows "front wheel stands" at the library, if you have a long enough chain to secure to one those?

 

[SketchyMagpie]

Cheers all, my appointment is on Friday so I've got time to have a wonder up and see.

Whether I should be cycling to and from a blood test is another question.... I think I should be alright? I'll stick a Lion Bar in me pocket just in case.

 

[Gramaisc]

Cheers all, my appointment is on Friday so I've got time to have a wonder up and see.

Whether I should be cycling to and from a blood test is another question.... I think I should be alright? I'll stick a Lion Bar in me pocket just in case.

A chap I worked with had a heart attack in the mid-80s. He had to go back for regular tests and usually it was the same patients as the previous times. On of them was a lot older than the others, and the staff were conscious of this, treating him 'specially'. He always got first go on the test machine, failing fairly quickly, despite claiming that he was alright the rest of the time. This went on for some months, testing him first, then taking time to carefully make sure that he recovered properly. He maintained that he had no issues at all, except when they tested him.

One day, after months of this, one of the nurses just happened to ask him how he travelled to the hospital, in an effort to make sure he would get home OK. He informed them that he was cycling in from Derrington.

The next month, they arranged to have him collected, and discovered that he really was OK - they had just been flinging into the test before he'd got his breath back properly...

 

[Noah]

the cost of a single egg when you buy them in boxes of 6s or 12s?

Back in the 1950s you could go to the grocer's and buy a single egg. They didn't come in boxes.

 

[BobClay]

Did the horseshoe back in February 1976, followed by a great night in The Vaynol.

The last time I did the horseshoe was 2012. Prior to that I'd have to go back to the 70's since I'd done it. I'd swear blind that between then and 2012 somebody had been up there and sharpened that Crib Goch ridge.

For those who don't know it, here's some drone footage: