Author Topic: The Good News / Bad News Thread (Read 394257 times)

jogler · « **Reply #1450 on:** 20 June, 2014, 08:25:26 pm »

GN ; The recent stem fettle on the tandem has given me the desired more upright position thus alleviating the neck ache previously "enjoyed"

BN ; The recent stem fettle on the tandem has given me the desired more upright position thus
placing more weight on my sit bones.There will be,for the foreseeable future,no sans padded riding in order to avoid Tyranosorearse symptons.

jogler · « **Reply #1451 on:** 21 June, 2014, 08:57:43 am »

GN : I've just discovered a 600km audax that passes within half a km of my front door

BN : I've just discovered a 600km audax that passes within half a km of my front door

I do wish my body could cash the cheques that my mind writes

citoyen · « **Reply #1452 on:** 21 June, 2014, 01:47:20 pm »

GN: my distance vision is still "exceptional"

BN: My near vision is, as the optician put it, "maturing". I've known this for a while, tbh, but I've just forked out £135 for the privilege of making it official. Pah!

andrewc · « **Reply #1453 on:** 25 June, 2014, 08:15:15 pm »

GN: My mother & sister are enjoying their holiday in Carcassonne ...

BN: The French air traffic controllers are playing silly buggers again...

PaulF · « **Reply #1454 on:** 26 June, 2014, 09:09:31 am »

Good News: I can track the delivery of my new frame online and see an ETA

Bad News: The driver seems to have gone past the end of my road but won't be here for 2 hours

tiermat · « **Reply #1455 on:** 26 June, 2014, 09:34:12 am »

GN: A very kind friend, who lives in Leftpondia, has sent me a care package containing BBQ sauces, rubs and a Kansas City Barbeque Society book.

BN: See GN, my waistline may well suffer over the next few months (and my bank balance as I think about buying a smoker large enough to cook pork shoulder in)...

mike · « **Reply #1456 on:** 26 June, 2014, 09:54:30 am »

Quote from: tiermat on 26 June, 2014, 09:34:12 am

GN: A very kind friend, who lives in Leftpondia, has sent me a care package containing BBQ sauces, rubs and a Kansas City Barbeque Society book.

BN: See GN, my waistline may well suffer over the next few months (and my bank balance as I think about buying a smoker large enough to cook pork shoulder in)...

fantastic! My brother got married in Kansas a couple of years ago and we had our pre-wedding-lunch-with-my-kid-brother at a roadside bbq place, sitting under a tarpaulin roof at plastic tables with paper plates and it was one of the best meals I've ever had!

mcshroom · « **Reply #1457 on:** 26 June, 2014, 03:49:32 pm »

GN: Our annual cycle to work scheme is comming round again in a fortnight (I thought it was going to be October this year)

BN: Someone please remind me I don't need another bike

Ruth · « **Reply #1458 on:** 26 June, 2014, 04:17:30 pm »

Quote from: mcshroom on 26 June, 2014, 03:49:32 pm

GN: Our annual cycle to work scheme is comming round again in a fortnight (I thought it was going to be October this year)

BN: Someone please remind me I don't need another bike

Playing to the wrong crowd there M

You need a sleek carbon shiny now, don't you? Don't you? Don't you?

Gattopardo · « **Reply #1459 on:** 26 June, 2014, 04:19:08 pm »

Quote from: tiermat on 26 June, 2014, 09:34:12 am

GN: A very kind friend, who lives in Leftpondia, has sent me a care package containing BBQ sauces, rubs and a Kansas City Barbeque Society book.

BN: See GN, my waistline may well suffer over the next few months (and my bank balance as I think about buying a smoker large enough to cook pork shoulder in)...

Can make a smoker quite cheaply....

jogler · « **Reply #1460 on:** 26 June, 2014, 04:21:30 pm »

Quote from: mcshroom on 26 June, 2014, 03:49:32 pm

BN: Someone please remind me I don't need another bike

Of course you need another bike.For instance do you yet have
a recumbent (of any type of the 4 that spring immediately to mind)
a trike?
a folder?

mcshroom · « **Reply #1461 on:** 26 June, 2014, 05:11:47 pm »

This is going well

perpetual dan · « **Reply #1462 on:** 26 June, 2014, 05:42:31 pm »

BN: It has been three weeks since I ordered a XLR / 3.5mm jack adaptor. Still no sign of it coming. No one else seems to have them in stock either. I hadn't realised it was such a weird thing to want.

GN: In less than three weeks Alpkit have made and posted the bag I ordered.

mcshroom · « **Reply #1463 on:** 26 June, 2014, 11:01:33 pm »

Quote from: Ruthie on 26 June, 2014, 04:17:30 pm

Quote from: mcshroom on 26 June, 2014, 03:49:32 pm
GN: Our annual cycle to work scheme is comming round again in a fortnight (I thought it was going to be October this year)

BN: Someone please remind me I don't need another bike

Playing to the wrong crowd there M

You need a sleek carbon shiny now, don't you? Don't you? Don't you?

No, no, n... Er this looks nice

Ruth · « **Reply #1464 on:** 26 June, 2014, 11:03:43 pm »

That bike smells a bit like shyumu.

This is more 'you'.

http://www.cyclesurgery.com/pws/UniqueProductKey.ice?ProductID=CWIL0128KK&gclid=CjkKEQjwia-dBRC07eeatYGe-78BEiQArZhbgNW7dQ1-W2XvLbj08r9RA4cj9_nynmyvtevsZvbnhOzw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

mcshroom · « **Reply #1465 on:** 26 June, 2014, 11:05:15 pm »

Lovely, and only 50% over the scheme limit

Ruth · « **Reply #1466 on:** 26 June, 2014, 11:11:43 pm »

Quote from: mcshroom on 26 June, 2014, 11:05:15 pm

Lovely, and only 50% over the scheme limit

Don't bring me problems. Bring me solutions.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1467 on:** 27 June, 2014, 05:09:56 pm »

BN: The leather patch on my Barley came unstitched.
GN: An email to Carradice received an extremely swift reply saying if I sent it in, they'd mend it.
BN: It could take them three weeks.
BN: I need it before then.
GN: A shoe repairer was able to mend it.
GN: For a whole £2.50.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #1468 on:** 28 June, 2014, 02:36:38 pm »

BN: Bobb and I have only seen each other twice this year, I miss him a lot, and it's still a month till we next see each other
GN: at the end of August we're going to Mykonos for two weeks. We haven't had a proper holiday together before. Can't wait.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #1469 on:** 06 July, 2014, 08:48:54 am »

GN: my younger son is now entitled Dr.

BN: having had his thesis bound, published and placed on the shelves of the University Library, he is Dr. Dolescum, BA, MA, PhD.

delthebike · « **Reply #1470 on:** 06 July, 2014, 09:21:15 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 06 July, 2014, 08:48:54 am

BN: having had his thesis bound, published and placed on the shelves of the University Library, he is Dr. Dolescum, BA, MA, PhD.

Why not Dr. Wowbagger Jr?

Regulator · « **Reply #1471 on:** 07 July, 2014, 07:04:41 am »

GN: The TdF goes past our house this morning...

BN: I'm in Telford this morning....

matthew · « **Reply #1472 on:** 07 July, 2014, 02:19:46 pm »

GN: I don't have to fly out to Muscat this evening.

BN: I will be deploying the parachute on Saturday instead.

Kim · « **Reply #1473 on:** 07 July, 2014, 07:17:03 pm »

BN: I accidentally ate an important part of one of my molars yesterday afternoon.

GN: Rumours of a dental surgery accepting NHS patients up on the Raddlebarn Road weren't exaggerated.

RGN: They dispatched a family of smalls with healthy teeth as I arrived, and by the time I'd completed the form-filling were mostly bored and complaining about health & safety^[1], so the dentist had a look and botched my tooth back together with yet more filling there and then.

_{[1] Apparently they'd just had a bollocking for having no entries in their accident book.}

jogler · « **Reply #1474 on:** 08 July, 2014, 12:34:50 pm »

GN : For the past two weeks I've ridden the bike every other day*

BN : Untill yesterday.

* I know that many otp ride daily but it's a decade & a half since I did that so it's relative iyswim
ETA except for a e2e in 2009