Peggy's Mundane Thread

We had our first frost this morning.

i like frosties

I'm in Sussex and just had a walk at Pagham Harbour, bleddy lovely it was.

hippo wrote:

We had our first frost this morning.  

No frost that bad last year........couldn't even get the car door key to slide into the lock to start with.....when I did it wouldn't turn for quite awhile.....afraid of breaking it.....door seal stuck to the metal as well......then spent 15 minutes de-icing the windows...plus really icy road in our cul-de-sac.......hello winter.

There is a beautiful halo like a rainbow around the moon.

Just walked from Chingford Mount to my house. 22 minutes, not bad considering I'd just given blood and was feeling a bit queezy.

Back home tomorrow, nice.

having a bath,

There's a garage near my house that has a sticker on the door reading 'Ventilation' in Russian. I think the owners are hipsters who are trying to look intelligent and edgy by having Cyrillic script on their property, but don't actually know what 'Вентнлацня' means.

Cornish Chris wrote:

There's a garage near my house that has a sticker on the door reading 'Ventilation' in Russian. I think the owners are hipsters who are trying to look intelligent and edgy by having Cyrillic script on their property, but don't actually know what 'Вентнлацня' means.

How ignorant are some people eh?

If there's one thing I know it's that I don't know how to speak Russian (or Cornish).

Cornish Chris wrote:

There's a garage near my house that has a sticker on the door reading 'Ventilation' in Russian. I think the owners are hipsters who are trying to look intelligent and edgy by having Cyrillic script on their property, but don't actually know what 'Вентнлацня' means.

Err, it means ventilation.

Hoping to be at St Emmanuel Church this afternoon for the little one Nativity, I was unable to go to TFOCP party on Tuesday.

Cooker element blown this morning. Looking online for a replacement. Will probably pick one up Monday morning from local shop and fit.

Things always go just before Christmas.

Its always the same, I have a spare for the top oven/ grill but not the bottom oven. Luckily the bottom one is easier to change than the other.

Got some beers in.

mouldyoldgoat wrote:

Its always the same, I have a spare for the top oven/ grill but not the bottom oven. Luckily the bottom one is easier to change than the other.

Not being au fait with these things, would the fact that it takes about 20-25 minutes to preheat my main (fan) oven to about 220deg would that be a problem with the element? Or is it a case of if the element goes, that's it - kapput?

Cornish Chris wrote:

There's a garage near my house that has a sticker on the door reading 'Ventilation' in Russian. I think the owners are hipsters who are trying to look intelligent and edgy by having Cyrillic script on their property, but don't actually know what 'Вентнлацня' means.

You reach a certain age and all the fashions come round again. I well remember the time when it was very hip and trendy to have cyrillic slogans on the front of t-shirts (some time in the 80s, I think). Little did they know their fabulously expensive garments said things like 'telephone' and 'radiator'.

Czarcasm wrote:

mouldyoldgoat wrote:

Its always the same, I have a spare for the top oven/ grill but not the bottom oven. Luckily the bottom one is easier to change than the other.

Not being au fait with these things, would the fact that it takes about 20-25 minutes to preheat my main (fan) oven to about 220deg would that be a problem with the element? Or is it a case of if the element goes, that's it - kapput?

Our fan oven takes a while to get up to temperature.

Normally when it goes it goes. Ours this morning knocked out the main circuit breaker for the house. Lodger number 1 was pissed off when she lost all her school work on the computer!

Of course it was all my fault!

might have a wee

Czarcasm wrote:

mouldyoldgoat wrote:

Its always the same, I have a spare for the top oven/ grill but not the bottom oven. Luckily the bottom one is easier to change than the other.

Not being au fait with these things, would the fact that it takes about 20-25 minutes to preheat my main (fan) oven to about 220deg would that be a problem with the element? Or is it a case of if the element goes, that's it - kapput?

.......of course shutting the door speeds it up.....a tad.

Bought Christmas tree, decorated and in position in the front room.

the car got stuct in gear three time today on the way home, once on the roundabout at Marsh Mills. New clutch fitted early this year. At the moment it driving alright again.


Must ask moterservice his opinion, was hoping to spend Thursday in Poole/Bournemouth this week.

Seen a few flicks with ladies getting struck in the rear too. There's a lot of it about.