Author Topic: 'found this on a ride today'! (Read 182396 times)

nikki · « **Reply #400 on:** 06 March, 2018, 09:14:54 pm »

A canal-based commute is usually good for a bit of random. Today:

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #401 on:** 07 March, 2018, 09:06:24 am »

And that was yesterday? You've clearly got a lot more ice/lower temperatures than here, thus proving that Birmingham is in The North. More interestingly, you've got ironing witches. Now that is a curious phenomenon!

Kim · « **Reply #402 on:** 07 March, 2018, 02:52:19 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 07 March, 2018, 09:06:24 am

And that was yesterday? You've clearly got a lot more ice/lower temperatures than here, thus proving that Birmingham is in The North.

It's more a case of having clear skies while everyone else was having a snowpocalypse. Hence more frozen canals than Venice. (We did finally get some belated snow, but it wasn't as impressive as the stuff we had in December.)

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More interestingly, you've got ironing witches. Now that is a curious phenomenon!

Probably fell off their broomstick in icy conditions on the way to an extreme ironing competition. I blame the austerity gritting.

nikki · « **Reply #403 on:** 07 March, 2018, 09:01:49 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 07 March, 2018, 09:06:24 am

And that was yesterday? You've clearly got a lot more ice/lower temperatures than here

Yes, yesterday and yes, the temperatures have quite possibly been colder up here than in The Tropical South. However, the canals have various microclimates of their own though, so they're not very representative - especially if they're in a deep cut and don't get much sun! The roads and pavements were free from ice elsewhere on that commute, with noticeably less ice on the canals by the return journey. Except for in the cold bits where the witches hang out.

On Monday I was walking around in short sleeves! (Still had my woolly hat on though!)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #404 on:** 08 March, 2018, 03:40:09 pm »

Good job the canal wasn't frozen over when you had, or didn't have, your hospital appointment!

nikki · « **Reply #405 on:** 08 March, 2018, 08:42:46 pm »

*checks photos*
The Birmingham Main Line had ice on it, but thankfully the Tame Valley didn't.

Gattopardo · « **Reply #406 on:** 09 March, 2018, 04:50:14 am »

Quote from: Blodwyn Pig on 05 March, 2018, 04:48:31 pm

Well...................not been out on the ol' velocipede for 10 days + , so wasn't expecting much of an eventful ride in this morning. About 2 miles in, I went a slightly different way to normal, .............................and saw this......................
WP_20180305_08_01_50_Pro by mark tilley, on Flickr

Hmm! me thinks , a useful empty drill case, , I can use that for something....... better go back and have a look.

Blimey ,..........................thats heavy.............................. , better open iit up then.....

WP_20180305_08_02_28_Pro by mark tilley, on Flickr

OOooooooo ,.......''I'll 'ave that', ah but prob doesn't work, but you never know.

So carried it home on the bike, one handed, which was a tad difficile,as it was heavy.

WP_20180305_15_49_07_Pro by mark tilley, on Flickr

Complete with all the unused (bar one) drill bits, works well , this one, it does.

I'm now getting a bit worried,as I'm finding bigger things tan I used too. There will come a point where I will have to 'hide' my find, for later vehicular retrieval.

I'm riding 20m in front of you from now on.

Gattopardo · « **Reply #407 on:** 09 March, 2018, 04:51:18 am »

Quote from: Kim on 06 March, 2018, 05:48:19 pm

You know those yellow and black striped pencils we had in the 80s? One of those. Well-chewed so, again, I didn't stop.

Want an unchewed and new one?

Gattopardo · « **Reply #408 on:** 09 March, 2018, 04:52:22 am »

Quote from: nikki on 06 March, 2018, 09:14:54 pm

A canal-based commute is usually good for a bit of random. Today:

What is it?

Paul · « **Reply #409 on:** 09 March, 2018, 10:22:38 am »

It's a celebration of international Women's day: a witch's hat overlooking an iron that has been symbolically discarded.

Or a failed attempt to thaw the ice.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #410 on:** 09 March, 2018, 10:28:26 am »

Quote from: Paul on 09 March, 2018, 10:22:38 am

It's a celebration of international Women's day: a witch's hat overlooking an iron that has been symbolically discarded.

Or a failed attempt to thaw the ice.

Which failed due to the lack of electric power points on the canal bank.

Candy
Is dandy
But irons
Need ions.

nikki · « **Reply #411 on:** 09 March, 2018, 12:29:58 pm »

Neither iron nor hat were there today (as far as I could see) but there's still a fair amount of ice, albeit very broken up and patchy. And a coconut. Two if you count the other one on the other canal too. Sign of Spring?

Tim Hall · « **Reply #412 on:** 09 March, 2018, 12:54:08 pm »

Quote from: nikki on 09 March, 2018, 12:29:58 pm

Neither iron nor hat were there today (as far as I could see) but there's still a fair amount of ice, albeit very broken up and patchy. And a coconut. Two if you count the other one on the other canal too. Sign of Spring?

Sign of rampaging Pythons more like.

Blodwyn Pig · « **Reply #413 on:** 09 March, 2018, 01:57:39 pm »

Quote from: Gattopardo on 09 March, 2018, 04:52:22 am

Quote from: nikki on 06 March, 2018, 09:14:54 pm
A canal-based commute is usually good for a bit of random. Today:

What is it?

Obviously,......its a discarded iron, following the purchase of a new one, based on reviews in the Which(??) report.

Blodwyn Pig · « **Reply #414 on:** 14 March, 2018, 10:26:08 am »

WP_20180314_09_50_39_Pro by mark tilley, on Flickr

ah whats this then?

WP_20180314_09_51_10_Pro by mark tilley, on Flickr

Sooo! the bungee goes in the groove then?

WP_20180314_10_05_35_Pro by mark tilley, on Flickr

carried home on Olive, thus......

WP_20180314_10_09_13_Pro by mark tilley, on Flickr

Ahhh!!! litter picking, for the use of, it is.

Kim · « **Reply #415 on:** 14 March, 2018, 11:54:47 am »

Mental note: Good application for old ~20" rims.

Legs · « **Reply #416 on:** 14 March, 2018, 01:23:50 pm »

Quote from: Blodwyn Pig on 14 March, 2018, 10:26:08 am

Ahhh!!! litter picking, for the use of, it is.

If the iron wasn't ironic, that is.

Legs · « **Reply #417 on:** 14 March, 2018, 02:23:23 pm »

After several years on yacf, I'm struggling to believe that this is the first time I've stumbled upon this thread. I've just read it from start to finish. This is truly what the internet was made for. Blodders, you are an inspiration!

Gattopardo · « **Reply #418 on:** 16 March, 2018, 11:22:34 am »

So a quick check, is skip diving allowed?

orienteer · « **Reply #419 on:** 16 March, 2018, 11:48:50 am »

Strictly speaking skip diving is theft, but since it's all destined for waste disposal unilkely to be challenged.

Gattopardo · « **Reply #420 on:** 16 March, 2018, 01:50:53 pm »

Quote from: orienteer on 16 March, 2018, 11:48:50 am

Strictly speaking skip diving is theft, but since it's all destined for waste disposal unilkely to be challenged.

I asked before going in to the skip, sonot theft. Wondering if it counts on this thread.

Blodwyn Pig · « **Reply #421 on:** 16 March, 2018, 08:22:05 pm »

Quote from: Gattopardo on 16 March, 2018, 01:50:53 pm

Quote from: orienteer on 16 March, 2018, 11:48:50 am
Strictly speaking skip diving is theft, but since it's all destined for waste disposal unilkely to be challenged.

I asked before going in to the skip, sonot theft. Wondering if it counts on this thread.

perhaps a NEW thread entirely , ''skip diving on a ride today' or somesuch, but I have absolutely no objections either way.

Polar Bear · « **Reply #422 on:** 16 March, 2018, 08:59:25 pm »

The simple question is, did you find whatever it was that you dived into a skip for whilst on a ride? If yes then post. If no, still post but expect some banter as a result.

Blodwyn Pig · « **Reply #423 on:** 05 April, 2018, 08:03:11 pm »

WP_20180405_17_12_12_Pro by mark tilley, on Flickr

WP_20180405_17_12_54_Pro by mark tilley, on Flickr

as you can see, unopened, contents intact.................................................................not any more

orienteer · « **Reply #424 on:** 05 April, 2018, 08:26:09 pm »

Can you be sure it's not "from Russia with love"?