Author Topic: The Good News / Bad News Thread (Read 397181 times)

Kim · « **Reply #1200 on:** 09 November, 2013, 12:45:08 am »

GN: The electrified baraktacycle is perilously close to being road ready, pending the acquisition of appropriately long M3 screws and some final assembly of the wiring harness.

BN: In a moment of tiredness-induced stupidity I shorted the ground terminals of the DC:DC converter that powers the control logic and lighting supply, mit blowenfusen und spitzensparken. I now have to wait a week or so for replacement magic smoke to be shipped from Germany.

This is actually very annoying. I was hoping she'd be able to ride it this weekend.

Canardly · « **Reply #1201 on:** 10 November, 2013, 04:31:33 pm »

I hope you are applying for a patent otherwise a Chinese version will be out a week next thursday.

interzen · « **Reply #1202 on:** 19 November, 2013, 10:33:33 pm »

GN: Working at home tomorrow, so no need to commute either by car or by bike.
BN: I've got an appointment with the dental hygienist at 9am and my annual retinopathy scan at 9.50 - because of the latter, the bulk of the morning will be a write-off on account of not being able to see properly

tiermat · « **Reply #1203 on:** 29 November, 2013, 02:38:21 pm »

GN: It's Friday, so in 54 minutes I shall be heading home

BN: Looking out of the window the A14 W is stacked up, and the A1 at J35 is closed (I can't see that far from my windows, trafficengland tells me that one). Looks like I might be late getting home tonight

ExtraBN: TLD is ill, think she has caught the same bug that IZ has, for the second year in a row!

rogerzilla · « **Reply #1204 on:** 30 November, 2013, 07:38:56 am »

Rachel Riley has split with her husband.

Basil · « **Reply #1205 on:** 30 November, 2013, 09:09:09 pm »

Bad News: I just knocked someone's pint over.

Worse News: It was mine.

tiermat · « **Reply #1206 on:** 01 December, 2013, 08:41:51 am »

Quote from: tiermat on 29 November, 2013, 02:38:21 pm

GN: It's Friday, so in 54 minutes I shall be heading home

BN: Looking out of the window the A14 W is stacked up, and the A1 at J35 is closed (I can't see that far from my windows, trafficengland tells me that one). Looks like I might be late getting home tonight

ExtraBN: TLD is ill, think she has caught the same bug that IZ has, for the second year in a row!

Update, took me 5.5 hours to get home. A14 backed up, A1 backed up north of Peterborough, due to 6 car smash thenA1 shut at Doncaster, so went via M18 and M1.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #1207 on:** 01 December, 2013, 09:25:31 am »

GN: I have sold my Islabike Beinn to a nice lady in Littlehampton at a price that should see both parties happy.
GN: That enables me to buy AWL Jr's xmas bike.
BN: Despite badgering, he insists on having a BMX bike.
GN: I got an extra £15 off

Rachel Riley has split with her husband.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #1208 on:** 01 December, 2013, 01:17:31 pm »

This reminds me of the old joke where a man says to his wife, "Tell me something that will make me happy and sad at the same time."

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perpetual dan · « **Reply #1209 on:** 04 December, 2013, 01:40:53 pm »

BN: My computer is broken. Has been since Saturday.
GN: I'm in the office for the first time this week and now have a spare to use.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #1210 on:** 04 December, 2013, 10:21:39 pm »

Woo! Found something useful to do with my air miles - got a £100 Amazon voucher.

Just need to find something else useful to do with Nectar points...

David Martin · « **Reply #1211 on:** 04 December, 2013, 11:36:25 pm »

You can do that? Wanders off to check his Avios balance and whether it is feasible..

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #1212 on:** 05 December, 2013, 12:31:15 pm »

SAS miles

David Martin · « **Reply #1213 on:** 05 December, 2013, 12:59:46 pm »

Ah. Don't have any of them.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1214 on:** 05 December, 2013, 01:21:09 pm »

This morning I lost my mobile phone when walking the dog in the park.

On discovering its absence when I arrived home, I took my bike and retraced my route, telling the few dog walkers I met thAt I had lost it and asking them to keep their eye out for it. I didn't fin it nut asI arrived home Dez was striding out to meet one of the women I had met, who had found my phone and dialled my home number to let us know.

I think there is a fair chance that it might have been Rachel Riley.

interzen · « **Reply #1215 on:** 05 December, 2013, 02:35:38 pm »

GN: I now have a shiny, new, ungunged Nexus 7

BN: Thanks to the slightly breezy conditions hereabouts my shed no longer has half its roof

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #1216 on:** 10 December, 2013, 10:58:15 am »

GN
We have a new oven installed (on a set of shelves). A new, large fridge is arriving today. Xmas is saved!

BN

The washing machine broke last night.

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #1217 on:** 10 December, 2013, 11:10:21 am »

BN - the central heating didn't work this morning.

GN - James thinks he can fix it.

BN - he is at work and won't be back until 4pm.

GN - I have lit the woodburner and it's warming the lounge beautifully. The dog is camped out on the chair beside it. We also have a full woodpile so no worries about chucking logs on it all day - we have enough for a year!

BN - I have now finished all the Christmas present wrapping that can be done in the warm lounge and need to get back to work in the slightly chilly study.

GN - a cup of tea ought to help with that!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1218 on:** 10 December, 2013, 02:35:13 pm »

GN: I can still get up the Brow in my normal gear (I think it's 34x21).
BN: Despite looking like a hippopotamus, sounding like a jelly and feeling like blu tack.
GN: But also feeling pretty good just to be there, TBH.

Vince · « **Reply #1219 on:** 10 December, 2013, 02:57:44 pm »

Where is the Brow?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1220 on:** 10 December, 2013, 03:20:18 pm »

Just a little hill in Bristol. If I told you which one, it would be too embarrassing!

Vince · « **Reply #1221 on:** 10 December, 2013, 05:22:29 pm »

Cotham?

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #1222 on:** 11 December, 2013, 07:49:19 pm »

BN: The Christmas tree lights appear to be broken. Only one colour of LED is working, out of four. I'm going to bin them.
GN: I always thought they were really shitty naff lights anyway. One less thing in the house that I didn't have a say in the choosing of

clarion · « **Reply #1223 on:** 11 December, 2013, 10:12:10 pm »

Kim · « **Reply #1224 on:** 11 December, 2013, 10:50:32 pm »

I bet they didn't even have a Geiger counter, anyway...