Author Topic: The Good News / Bad News Thread (Read 396495 times)

Ruth · « **Reply #1175 on:** 04 October, 2013, 03:55:02 pm »

You should change your forum name to MrMuscle.

tiermat · « **Reply #1176 on:** 04 October, 2013, 04:03:59 pm »

Oven are the people I get in for cleaning of the oven. Life is far to short to be doing it yourself. They do a fantastic job and are worth every penny of what they charge.

Vince · « **Reply #1177 on:** 04 October, 2013, 04:54:31 pm »

GN: I'm going camping
BN: It's with the Scouts
GN: Mine don't arrive until tomorrow
BN: I'll be chasing all over South Holland trying to find them

Actually my first cycle camping trip since 1980!

Vince · « **Reply #1178 on:** 07 October, 2013, 10:27:25 am »

Quote from: Wunja on 04 October, 2013, 04:54:31 pm

GN: I'm going camping
BN: It's with the Scouts
GN: Mine don't arrive until tomorrow
BN: I'll be chasing all over South Holland trying to find them

Actually my first cycle camping trip since 1980!

GN: All Scouts made their check points and completed the weekend.

interzen · « **Reply #1179 on:** 09 October, 2013, 10:42:42 am »

Good news: the yellow bike now has a new home.
Bad news: the proceeds from the sale are effectively spent before I even get them

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #1180 on:** 16 October, 2013, 01:11:04 pm »

BN: One of my molars disintegrated over lunch
GN: The dentist will see me on Friday morning
GN: It may finally get to the bottom of why I've had chronic pain from that area for the last few months.

mcshroom · « **Reply #1181 on:** 16 October, 2013, 06:05:32 pm »

GN: I've discovered there's another Randonneur that lives in Egremont
BN: The reason I know is because the Postman has delivered his renewal form to me along with my own

tiermat · « **Reply #1182 on:** 17 October, 2013, 07:25:04 am »

GN: I am in Limburg, Germany for the week (back home tomorrow night)
BN: See Good News

GN: Oktoberfest starts tonight, in Limburg
BN: See Good News

matthew · « **Reply #1183 on:** 17 October, 2013, 09:25:52 am »

BN: The holster for my phone is bust, and therefore I dropped the phone containing section this morning between home and the office. So was somewhere on the rail network.

GN: It was picked up at the station by a colleague at the work end of my commute (I knocked it off carrying my bike down from the platform to the underpass). He has handed it back after he saw other work names in the contact list and put the connection together. *wipes brow in releaved manner*

Ruth · « **Reply #1184 on:** 17 October, 2013, 02:15:28 pm »

Bad news: The brainweasels have been giving me Those Dreams again. The really realistic ones I believe have really happened. The kind wherr you believe you've had a conversation. And then look like a complete berk because "What change in prescribing meds law? What are you talking about" Ideal with a completely new batch of colleagues. D'oh.

Good news: Going to the teatre with some old colleagues tonight. They all get it. And the play looks fab.

clarion · « **Reply #1185 on:** 17 October, 2013, 02:34:17 pm »

I dream very vividly, and sometimes have to ask Butterfly to clarify what conversations have, or have not, taken place

Ruth · « **Reply #1186 on:** 17 October, 2013, 09:57:47 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 17 October, 2013, 02:34:17 pm

I dream very vividly, and sometimes have to ask Butterfly to clarify what conversations have, or have not, taken place

I don't know whether it's medication-related or depression-related. But it's most unhelpful.

Ruth · « **Reply #1187 on:** 19 October, 2013, 10:51:27 am »

Bad news: Dropped my mountain bike on my head. Oweee ow. Two person job really.

Good news: My next door neighbour and her daughter came out to rescue me. So the bike's on the roof of the car now, and we had a nice chat

peliroja · « **Reply #1188 on:** 19 October, 2013, 11:13:37 am »

Oh goodness. On your head?! Ouch.

Re meds, Woolly has been on something for two days now for his arms/hands/shoulder pain and is talking in his sleep for I think the first time since I've known him. He emits a sort of weird, "Oweyaweeyawee" noise several times in the night. Disturbing!

Ruth · « **Reply #1189 on:** 19 October, 2013, 11:16:11 am »

He's probably dreaming about mountain bikes landing on his head.

peliroja · « **Reply #1190 on:** 19 October, 2013, 11:21:05 am »

Oh, you are a quick one, young Ruthie! Or as my surrogate granny Ethel used to say, in a thick Lancashire accent, about Woolly's jokes: "Funny faaace!"

CommuteTooFar · « **Reply #1191 on:** 24 October, 2013, 04:58:26 pm »

Good News : On Sunday Morning Sunrise is 58 minutes later, according to the clock, than Saturday.
Bad News: Sunset is an hour and two minutes earlier.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1192 on:** 24 October, 2013, 05:01:26 pm »

Why is later sunrise GN for you?

CommuteTooFar · « **Reply #1193 on:** 24 October, 2013, 05:05:00 pm »

It's easier to get up and leave the house in sunlight.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1194 on:** 24 October, 2013, 05:10:08 pm »

Ok, so 58 mins later is 2 mins earlier. Clock change, I hate it! Even when I don't forget.

interzen · « **Reply #1195 on:** 24 October, 2013, 05:11:24 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 24 October, 2013, 05:10:08 pm

Ok, so 58 mins later is 2 mins earlier. Clock change, I hate it! Even when I don't forget.

It's just dawned¹ on me that the clocks change on Sunday. Bleh.

¹ - Bazinga!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1196 on:** 24 October, 2013, 05:15:02 pm »

Oh go on then, let's indulge our 80s crapping cravings. It is almost Haloween.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/YNgPYXJvqWM&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/YNgPYXJvqWM&rel=1</a>

Polar Bear · « **Reply #1197 on:** 24 October, 2013, 06:00:54 pm »

BN: Well, it's been one of those weeks already.

GN: No commitments tomorrow so I'm down the pub tonight.

Diver300 · « **Reply #1198 on:** 29 October, 2013, 08:05:33 pm »

BN: The water pump on my daughters car seized.

GN: The timing belt that drives it continued to keep the valves away from the pistons.

BN: I carried on driving it for nearly 100 miles, and had to keep stopping to let it cool down.

GN: The timing belt continued to keep the valves away from the pistons.

BN: The timing belt got so hot that the outside of the tensioner melted, and the timing belt was down to the cords on the outside.

GN: The timing belt continued to keep the valves away from the pistons.

BN: I had to change the timing belt, water pump and tensioner.

GN: While doing the work, I spotted and corrected the miss-timing of the injector pump that has been causing a fault code for years.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1199 on:** 30 October, 2013, 05:50:18 pm »

BN: I've just spent half an hour trying to send an email. Bloody yahoo.

GN: Eventually I closed and reopened it in frustration, and it's gone back to its former, far more legible and altogether better, layout.

Mrs Cudzo told me she grinked them today about it (before I failed to send this email). I'd like to think it's all down to her.