A random thread for small things that don't really warrant a thread of their own

[hellymedic]

We've had an open well in the garden for the last 25 years and none of our dogs has ever jumped in.  Cats, dunno - even at the best of times it's not advisable to sniff it.

Isn't there a nursery rhyme about a cat down a well?

[hellymedic]

I've been looking at bathroom fittings today.

I came across a Pashley bicycle I REALLY Do Not Want!

https://www.burlingtonbathrooms.com/Products/ProductDetail?prodId=80421&name=Pashley%20Bicycle%20with%20600mm%20basin%20%26%20tap%20%28shelf%20not%20included%29

[Kim]

For kitchen sink touring, presumably?

[SteveC]

Isn't there a nursery rhyme about a cat down a well?

There is but the cat did not jump, it was pushed (and rescued later).

[Beardy]

As you might have picked up (especially if you’ve been int Health and Fitness lately) I’m doing the Couch to 5k programme, basically so get a fit enough to ride my bike again. Well, that and I’ve signed up to do a half marathon with my boy next spring.

Anyway, I decided I’d  one out on Farcebrak and publish my maps. Being a paranoid ex-IT professional I decided to anonymise the data. There wasn’t anything worth publishing after that; I’m not running far enough to get out of the anonymisation zone 

[hellymedic]

When considering matters of aviation, do not confuse Sibson with Sipson.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-49715399
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sipson/@51.4882651,-0.4640669,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x48767217e754eaf3:0x4c5d82d751b2d734!8m2!3d51.48952!4d-0.458351

[Mr Larrington]

Yebbut, have you looked at USAnian domestic appliances, light switches, etc?   

I grant you car aesthetic design seems to be at its nadir right now, all over the world.

99% of medium-to-large saloons are identical.  Is that a Kia?  A Chevy?  A Nissan?  A Fnord?  A Honda with delusions of grandeur?  Oh, it's an Audi!  Explains the dickish manner in which it was driven.

Also, motorhomes.  Why are they all beige with inexplicable brown swirly patterns resembling, well, absolutely nothing?  It's only going to be camouflage if you're camping out in the ruins of a recently-bombed chocolate factory.

[Kim]

Also, motorhomes.  Why are they all beige with inexplicable brown swirly patterns resembling, well, absolutely nothing?

Something I have contemplated many a time while sitting in my Akto surrounded by white goods inhabited by people who make comments like "Wow, you're travelling really light." and "Oh, I used to have a stove like that when I was in the military."

I assume motorhomes and caravans are stuck in the same sort of design rut that computers were in the days before Jony Ive came along.

[Wowbagger]

Isn't there a nursery rhyme about a cat down a well?

There is but the cat did not jump, it was pushed (and rescued later).

IIRC although Johnny Stout did indeed pull her out, there was nothing to say that he pulled her out alive...

[Cudzoziemiec]

Yebbut, have you looked at USAnian domestic appliances, light switches, etc?   

I grant you car aesthetic design seems to be at its nadir right now, all over the world.

99% of medium-to-large saloons are identical.  Is that a Kia?  A Chevy?  A Nissan?  A Fnord?  A Honda with delusions of grandeur?  Oh, it's an Audi!  Explains the dickish manner in which it was driven.

Also, motorhomes.  Why are they all beige with inexplicable brown swirly patterns resembling, well, absolutely nothing?  It's only going to be camouflage if you're camping out in the ruins of a recently-bombed chocolate factory.

We had some of those in Bristol until recently but they've all been turned into "developments" now. Never saw a camper van in any though...

[Mr Larrington]

I assume motorhomes and caravans are stuck in the same sort of design rut that computers were in the days before Jony Ive came along.

European caravans seem to have made at least some concession to ærodynamics and are a bit more wedgey than of old.  Their USAnian equivalents, Airstreams and teardrop campers¹ apart, are still very much utilitarian wheeled cuboids set high above their wheels and matched only in mass and drag coefficient by the monstrous fifth-wheel campers that tower as high again above the six-foot tall full-sized V8 pickup dragging it along.

1: My grate frend Mr Mueller tows one behind his Mk 1 Mazda MX-5, which must drive the rednecks apoplectic

[Wowbagger]

I have just booked a week on a narrowboat for Jan and me. 7 nights from Middlewich along the Shropshire Union Canal. That's something we haven't done before but have quite often talked about...

[Cudzoziemiec]

I assume motorhomes and caravans are stuck in the same sort of design rut that computers were in the days before Jony Ive came along.

European caravans seem to have made at least some concession to ærodynamics and are a bit more wedgey than of old.  Their USAnian equivalents, Airstreams and teardrop campers¹ apart, are still very much utilitarian wheeled cuboids set high above their wheels and matched only in mass and drag coefficient by the monstrous fifth-wheel campers that tower as high again above the six-foot tall full-sized V8 pickup dragging it along.

1: My grate frend Mr Mueller tows one behind his Mk 1 Mazda MX-5, which must drive the rednecks apoplectic

There were a couple of fifth-wheel campers on a campsite I stayed at a couple of weeks ago, just north of Cirencester. They looked way too big to be towed by a pickup, reckon they'd have needed an HGV. The car parked outside one was... a Mazda MX5. 

[SteveC]

I have just booked a week on a narrowboat for Jan and me. 7 nights from Middlewich along the Shropshire Union Canal. That's something we haven't done before but have quite often talked about...

Enjoy. It's great fun and a very good way to relax. The first holiday MrsC and I had was on the Grand Union.

[citoyen]

I'm writing a piece about the health benefits of beetroot. I really really really want to use the headline "Won't you help me Dr Beet?" but I fear the client won't get the reference. Also have to be careful about making medical claims, so they'd probably reject it on those grounds anyway.

Pah! This job is no fun.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Last Sunday peace and tranquillity descended on city centres across the world as many went car-free for the day.

This annual event started in the UK, in Bath, in 1994 with a road closure and street party for the Environmental Transport Association’s Green Transport Week.

I was living in Bath in 1994. I don't remember this at all!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/26/pollutionwatch-how-does-world-car-free-day-affect-emissions

[T42]

I'm writing a piece about the health benefits of beetroot. I really really really want to use the headline "Won't you help me Dr Beet?" but I fear the client won't get the reference. Also have to be careful about making medical claims, so they'd probably reject it on those grounds anyway.

Pah! This job is no fun.

Detox is a lie.  Mentioned this to MrsT in another context and she replied "yes, but Americans understand it".  Still trying not to work out what that implies.

[ElyDave]

Last Sunday peace and tranquillity descended on city centres across the world as many went car-free for the day.

This annual event started in the UK, in Bath, in 1994 with a road closure and street party for the Environmental Transport Association’s Green Transport Week.

I was living in Bath in 1994. I don't remember this at all!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/26/pollutionwatch-how-does-world-car-free-day-affect-emissions

So was I, and nor do I.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Last Sunday peace and tranquillity descended on city centres across the world as many went car-free for the day.

This annual event started in the UK, in Bath, in 1994 with a road closure and street party for the Environmental Transport Association’s Green Transport Week.

I was living in Bath in 1994. I don't remember this at all!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/26/pollutionwatch-how-does-world-car-free-day-affect-emissions

So was I, and nor do I.

I don't remember you, either! Probably... 

[Beardy]

I went to Bath once, but I don’t remember the year. 

[TheLurker]

I had a bath once.  I don't remember the year either.

[ElyDave]

There's lots of Bath I don't remember and lots of Bath I do remember thats no longer there. Did I remember that right?

[essexian]

Does anyone know what is causing the smell of ironing starch out there?

Just back from a ride around the lanes around Haughton where I notice the smell of ironing starch in at least four different locations. Not noticed it before so assume that its something to do with the heavy rain we have had recently?

Any ideas gratefully received.

[Beardy]

Are fields of recently cut straw in the area? That’s usually smelly when it gets wet.

[essexian]

Hum.....can't say I had noticed when I was out earlier but as its farm land, it seems possible.

I suppose that's excuse to go out for another ride tomorrow then...…