Author Topic: The Good News / Bad News Thread (Read 398593 times)

Canardly · « **Reply #1700 on:** 26 December, 2014, 07:18:05 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 26 December, 2014, 05:22:13 pm

Hurrah: In spite of Dr Davis' best efforts there is still half a side of smoked salmon left.
Bah: Guess what's for lunch every day until Monday?

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3221/easy-spiced-salmon-kedgeree

Karla · « **Reply #1701 on:** 31 December, 2014, 03:09:34 pm »

GN: The snow's melting in snowy Switzerland, so I can go for a bike ride
BN: I've run out of spare tubes
GN: I've found the local bike shop
BN: It's closed until funften Januar
GN: It has a tube dispenser outside
BN: I didn't have any coinage on my when I passed.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1702 on:** 31 December, 2014, 04:43:51 pm »

A tube dispenser - what a handy idea!

Pedaldog. · « **Reply #1703 on:** 31 December, 2014, 11:35:09 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 31 December, 2014, 04:43:51 pm

A tube dispenser - what a handy idea!

Ribbed, flavoured or coloured all available?

Bledlow · « **Reply #1704 on:** 01 January, 2015, 07:53:18 pm »

BN:
1. Our water pressure is low, & has been for a couple of days.
2. There's a big hole in the road near the entrance to the cul de sac in which we live, so our car is stuck.

GN: The hole is where Thames Water is fixing the leak that caused 1., had broken the tarmac, & flooded half the road. We reported it about noon.

Karla · « **Reply #1705 on:** 01 January, 2015, 08:08:00 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 31 December, 2014, 04:43:51 pm

A tube dispenser - what a handy idea!

Unfortunately, when I went back with some coins I found that they'd turned it off while the shop was closed, so it wouldn't dispense. That did seem to defeat the point of having an auto tube dispenser. Harrumph.

Ham · « **Reply #1706 on:** 01 January, 2015, 08:28:11 pm »

Quote from: Mr Bunbury on 01 January, 2015, 08:08:00 pm

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 31 December, 2014, 04:43:51 pm
A tube dispenser - what a handy idea!

Unfortunately, when I went back with some coins I found that they'd turned it off while the shop was closed, so it wouldn't dispense. That did seem to defeat the point of having an auto tube dispenser. Harrumph.

Where are you in Zurich? I may be able to recommend useful bike shops. Probably not routes, as I haven't been in Zurich over winter.

Karla · « **Reply #1707 on:** 01 January, 2015, 08:52:12 pm »

Thanks. I'm in the Langstrasse area. There seem to be a good few bike shops around here.

Ruthie · « **Reply #1708 on:** 01 January, 2015, 08:55:40 pm »

Bad news. Didn't leave the house today, not even once.

Good news. Chest not too bad and haven't needed any Ventolin.

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #1709 on:** 01 January, 2015, 11:16:36 pm »

Quote from: Ruthie on 01 January, 2015, 08:55:40 pm

Bad news. Didn't leave the house today, not even once.

Me neither. It's been miserable outside and I couldn't be bothered even going for a little walk. $:-\$

mcshroom · « **Reply #1710 on:** 01 January, 2015, 11:21:02 pm »

BN:Nor me. Heavy rain and strong winds rather put me off.

GN: Looks better tomorrow

andrewc · « **Reply #1711 on:** 01 January, 2015, 11:44:08 pm »

BN: Warm, wet & windy in Liverpool. I ventured outside to put some rubbish in the communal bins.
More BN: I'm in work tomorrow & will have to sort my quarterly performance crap out :-(

GN: tomorrow is at least Friday...

davelodwig · « **Reply #1712 on:** 02 January, 2015, 10:54:29 am »

GN: I'm working from home today to save the 85 mile each way trip to the office just for one day.

BN: everyone else in my team has taken the day off so there is no one to ask about what's happened over Christmas and what needs looking at.

fuzzy · « **Reply #1713 on:** 05 January, 2015, 01:16:43 pm »

GN- 2015 cycling has commenced for me
BN- The Christmas lurgy meant my lungs made a desperate bid for freedom

T42 · « **Reply #1714 on:** 07 January, 2015, 08:14:14 am »

GN: had a really great espresso this morning
BN: it made the tea taste bloody 'orrible.

Bledlow · « **Reply #1715 on:** 07 January, 2015, 03:39:21 pm »

I'm leading a ride tonight.

The weather forecast is horrible.

We'll be cycling into the wind all the way out.

It'll blow us home.

The publican of the Lyndhurst says because we'll be wet & cold when we get there, he'll turn the heating up ready for our arrival.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1716 on:** 15 January, 2015, 02:36:10 am »

Hurrah! Those nice people at the Mega-Global Sounds Like A Big River Corporation of Seattle, USAnia have just bunged the new Stuart MacBride (The Missing And The Dead) onto my Kindle.
Bah! I haven't yet read the same author's "The 45% Hangover" which the Mega-Global Sounds Like A Big River Corporation of Seattle, USAnia kindly put there before Christmas, because Greg Iles.

Basil · « **Reply #1717 on:** 18 January, 2015, 03:47:57 pm »

BN: The Country Girl closes today for a week for a refurb.

GN: They're trying to clear the cellar. Cask ales had gone down to £2 a pint. They have now gone down to £1.

BN: They're closing at 5pm

GN: They're closing at 5 PM (this could still get messy)

Butterfly · « **Reply #1718 on:** 18 January, 2015, 05:53:26 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 18 January, 2015, 03:47:57 pm

BN: The Country Girl closes today for a week for a refurb.

GN: They're trying to clear the cellar. Cask ales had gone down to £2 a pint. They have now gone down to £1.

BN: They're closing at 5pm

GN: They're closing at 5 PM (this could still get messy)

Basil? BASIL? Are you ok?!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1719 on:** 18 January, 2015, 06:21:40 pm »

Paging Basil! Basil to the Great White Courtesy Telephone!

Canardly · « **Reply #1720 on:** 18 January, 2015, 06:34:09 pm »

Hes probably still in the queue outside.

nikki · « **Reply #1721 on:** 18 January, 2015, 06:47:56 pm »

...or in the cut.
BASIL!

*puts frogmen on standby*

Kim · « **Reply #1722 on:** 18 January, 2015, 06:52:52 pm »

Maybe he's dressed up as his bicycle and is staying very still in the hope that they'll put him in the cellar for safe keeping during the refurbishment?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1723 on:** 18 January, 2015, 07:06:23 pm »

Perhaps it's worse than any of that... the pub could already have run dry!

Basil · « **Reply #1724 on:** 18 January, 2015, 08:10:02 pm »

Ah. How sweet! Thanks for your concern everyone.
Obv I'm not going to admit to riding a bike absolutely pissed on a public forum so, that didn't happen.

After this morning's black ice off, I was using the ice bike.¹ Happily it seems to know its way home as well as any of the others.

¹ A Dawes Discovery. ²

². Low end (3), not a proper one like Kim's

Author Topic: The Good News / Bad News Thread (Read 398593 times)

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