Today I saw...

Mudgie

Mudgie

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Gramaisc said:
... a comedy landmine explosion.

I was, I'm sure, the only person who saw it, as I was in a fairly secluded situation and it was me that both primed it and then set it off.

I was in Castle Church graveyard, cleaning a gravestone for someone*. My intention was that, at the conclusion of the process, I would rinse off the cleaned area. To do this, I took a pressure sprayer full of water, unpressurised, with the intension of pumping it up there, to avoid incidents in the car on the way.

The sprayer is a plastic device and has been subject to sunlight exposure for many years. Pumping it up to pressurise the contents was too much for the 'bottle', weakened by years of UV exposure and it let go very suddenly and dramatically, spraying water and bits of plastic over quite an area - and me.

I wish I had seen it properly...


* The person that I do this grave for lives in New Zealand and I do need to sort out someone else to take it on, as I won't be coming back many more times, I hope. It takes two ten-minute visits per year.
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But surely they're not likely to come all the way from New Zealand to check that you've been properly attending to the grave ?
 
staffordjas

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Couldn't do my aqua class tonight as my frozen gym membership hadn't restarted as arranged today on 1st of the month after their staff c0cked up. :roll:

But ended up having my own unplanned aqua session ....

Guess who decided to have another walk this evening as it was so nice , and had just reached the furthest point away from home when it started bucketing it down . Not a good idea to wear my usually comfy flip-flops , struggling to walk sliding out of them as I was walking through flooded roads haha and got home absolutely drenched.🤣🤣🤣🤣


Now got a massive thunder & lightening storm . At least I made it home before that started!
 
Glam

Glam

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staffordjas said:
Couldn't do my aqua class tonight as my frozen gym membership hadn't restarted as arranged today on 1st of the month after their staff c0cked up. :roll:

But ended up having my own unplanned aqua session ....

Guess who decided to have another walk this evening as it was so nice , and had just reached the furthest point away from home when it started bucketing it down . Not a good idea to wear my usually comfy flip-flops , struggling to walk sliding out of them as I was walking through flooded roads haha and got home absolutely drenched.🤣🤣🤣🤣


Now got a massive thunder & lightening storm . At least I made it home before that started!
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Just been stood at my sisters front door watching the storm here. From where she is, you can see the Wrekin and all over Telford. It's a shame the storm didn't last longer.
Not like when I was younger and they'd be going for what seemed hours.
 
littleme

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Glam said:
Just been stood at my sisters front door watching the storm here. From where she is, you can see the Wrekin and all over Telford. It's a shame the storm didn't last longer.
Not like when I was younger and they'd be going for what seemed hours.
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Love a good storm... & Yes, they seemed to last all night when I was younger.
 
Mudgie

Mudgie

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Glam said:
Just been stood at my sisters front door watching the storm here. From where she is, you can see the Wrekin and all over Telford. It's a shame the storm didn't last longer.
Not like when I was younger and they'd be going for what seemed hours.
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Glam, We had a lovely rainbow yesterday evening after returning from the Green Man at Milwich, a meal for our wedding anniversary in case you're interested.
 
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Mudgie

Mudgie

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basil said:
Free beer, public hangings, stop the boats, bobbies on the beat, reopen market square toilets, St. John's Market, Juliet lounge, Wimpy kiosk, County library, stantons, Curry Kuteer, oh and the return of Tom selling The Sentinel in town square.....
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And of course a match seller outside the Picture House - in good time for Farage ending the smoking ban in pubs.
 
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DeltaHotel

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basil said:
Free beer, public hangings, stop the boats, bobbies on the beat, reopen market square toilets, St. John's Market, Juliet lounge, Wimpy kiosk, County library, stantons, Curry Kuteer, oh and the return of Tom selling The Sentinel in town square.....
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Rag Week, Stafford Pageant, a Whippet pishing in the goalmouth at half time, Segs, Clackers, Knockers, Hot Wheels, K-tel, Ronco, Taylor’s bakery, Halpin Style, Bagnalls Steam Engines, Bagnalls toy shop, Resales…..
 
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