😃 The Little Pleasures of Everyday Life

[scotty]

Nothing specific, but it’s going to be a very hot one. Bound to be rammed.

[Polski_Filip]

Good point, well made.
Will see how the post Summer Lightning hangover is

[Polski_Filip]

Wetherspoons.
Breakfast. + Doombar.

[Cobham-Saint]

Keeping it classy @Polski_Filip

[Polski_Filip]

Jesus and Donkey Wee.
M3 was simply HORRIBLE today.
Not going anywhere south of Salisbury Cathedral tomorrow.
Cant be a single human left in London by now, all on the M3
(And A38/35 etc)

[BTripz]

Welcome to the South Coast in the summer…

[Fowllyd]

Yesterday I took my watch into a jewellers (Constad in Petersfield) to enquire about servicing/cleaning/whatever. It’s a Longines; the movement was made in 1959 and shipped in January 1960 to Wittnauer Longines in New York, where the case, face, hands etc. were added. The date of the invoice to Wittnauer Longines is 13th January 1960 - just a few days before I was born. It was a sixtieth birthday present from my ever-loving wife, so the coincidence of dates is more than a little appealing.

The jeweller asked if it was working OK. I told him it loses around a minute a day. He then said that having it serviced is the last thing that I should do, as if a watch of that age is keeping time that well you’d end up spending a few hundred pounds on a service, with no guarantee that it would work as well afterwards.

Good service, with a genuine understanding of both the item and the customer’s interests, I like that.

[Cobham-Saint]

60 Dorian? How’s the painting in the attic?

[Fowllyd]

Looking a little the worse for wear, to be honest. And, had you been more arithmetically attuned, you’d have spotted that I am actually sixty-one. Couple of extra lines on the old painting, but little else worthy of comment.

[Cobham-Saint]

@Fowllyd

had you been more arithmetically attuned, you’d have spotted that I am actually sixty-one

I was being charitable tbf

[Map-Of-Tasmania]

@Polski_Filip

[scotty]

Harsh but funny

[scotty]

@Fowllyd

The doctor asked if it was working OK. I told him it loses around a minute a day. He then said that having it serviced is the last thing that I should do, as if a bloke of that age is keeping time that well you’d end up spending a few hundred pounds on a service, with no guarantee that it would work as well afterwards.

…that’s quite a nice analogy

[lifeintheslowlane]

Yep I have my annual blood pressure review next week, so I thought I’d better check it…123/70. Yep that’ll do.

I’ve had my analogue watch for three years now and I was wondering if it would need a service but after @Fowllyd’s short tutorial I won’t bother…loses a minute every two days.

[Polski_Filip]

Actually.

[pap]

[Map-Of-Tasmania]

[pap]

The missus has just got another job. She’s like the opposite of Yosser Hughes.

[scotty]

I’m staggered that you allowed another ginger into the pap household.

[Treebeard]

Reading that the first insurrection has been given a jail sentence.
May the other 500 follow soon, for longer terms.