Here's a completely insane and dangerous race that we wouldn't have to actually run... It's 5600 miles through South America. You can do it on motorcycles if you want to. What do you think, Greg? (I already know what you think, Sherlock.) (Mycroft is a mystery to me on this score. Sometimes he thinks we're all mad and then I'll find him and Sherlock planning a rafting trip on the Amazon together with maps and flight schedules.)
Greg was talking in the comments of the other post about moving out somewhere we could have goats and alpacas (why alpacas?) eventually, and I said what about chickens, and I was thinking of the ones that lay blue eggs, but when I went looking for a picture of them, I found this...
Q. Is this for real?
A. Yes, you fucking idiot. We spent too much time, money & resources putting this shit hole of a website up to not get paid for it.
Greg was talking in the comments of the other post about moving out somewhere we could have goats and alpacas (why alpacas?) eventually, and I said what about chickens, and I was thinking of the ones that lay blue eggs, but when I went looking for a picture of them, I found this...
...which is a Silkie and does not lay blue eggs, but just look at it. I'm not entirely sure it's not an internet hoax, to be honest, but I want one. Several.
Unrelatedly, I feel like many of you may have heard of this, but... shipyourenemiesglitter.com
Does just what it says, and the FAQ is amazing.
Q. Is this for real?
A. Yes, you fucking idiot. We spent too much time, money & resources putting this shit hole of a website up to not get paid for it.
Thanks to Sherlock, I have an unfortunately intimate knowledge of glitter, and I'm not sure I hate anyone this much, but if I did...
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it's late, and I now have images of the boys paddling down the Amazon on a raft made of twigs lashed together and a few fluffy chicken covered in glitter sitting on the front of their craft.
Wouldn't surprise me. At all.
I like this sort. Someone used to own some near where we grew up. They reminded me of the old women in Italy who always wore black and always told us off.
http://bantams.the-kozaks.com/WFF/PIC00035.JPG
Also, alpaca because...they're just great? And some ducks.
Those look fairly amazing as well. Yes, all right. And ducks. And a falcon.
A falcon? Now I have to check it's you and not Sherlock disguised as you...
Also, motorcycles are a far better way to do an insane race. I can fix motorcycles. I know you can sort of fix me...but motorcycle spare parts are easier to get.
I just think it would be interesting to train one. Have to make sure it didn't eat the ducks though.
Fair point. I like your parts as they are.
yes, no eating the ducks or degus.
I'm glad - I quite like my parts as they are too. Although I like your parts better ;)
I'm glad to hear it, you're stuck with them!
I shall dream of things we (and our parts) can do together tomorrow. It feels like the weekend! I love having days off with you.
I love you having days off with me too :)
I can fix motorcycles
then right underneath it
I just think it would be interesting to train one.
Made me wonder how you trained motorcycles because God knows some of mine could have done with it!
just what would a motorcycle treat consist of? It isn't as if they like liver or chocolate.
Maybe they like baths?
That chicken looks like something Dr. Seuss made up. No matter which way I tilt my head!
That glitter thing is both funny and a little scary...
(Happy birthday here, too, Pip!)
It's freeeeeezing. Well, you know, frost in central London, which means cold enough. And we had to go out in it. And then John said we should go for a jog, so we did that too. And then i was forced to put my cold hands down his trousers because it was his fault they were cold. And that made Maf puff up because of his yelp and Mrs H check we weren't being attacked... So a good morning so far!
A friend of mine has alpacas. They're grouchy creatures.
You could also raise bunnies. They taste like chicken.
It finally got sunny here, so I went for a run yesterday. Ended up being really fun. You know sometimes you hit that running happy place? Yeah.
Ella
Sounds like all's right with your immediate world.
I like the sound of the motorcycle race; somehow the idea you'd be doing it as a team is reassuring. And only 5 people have died in the 6 years it's been on its current (more-or-less) course, which is a pretty good record considering the range of personalities that must do something like that. And the views must be gorgeous.
Put Mycroft in charge of logistics & you'd be golden. Sherlock could probably get sponsors for you in his sheer enthusiasm, if you wanted any.
Onwards all.
fA
Go you and your running happy place Ella! That's a really good feeling.
Alpacas are grumpy you say, and I say goats are ill natured and annoying. Worst I've heard about chickens is that they're not smart, so I guess they're looking good in the future livestock stakes.
fA
I sometimes chicken-sit, and my main complaint is that they are tiny dinosaurs who are bitter about how far they have fallen in the world, and do not give me my proper due as a superior human. They cannot be trusted.
Ella
That chicken looks like a cross between a chicken and an alpaca.
but having falcons and anything else makes me think of this:
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5001/5214376913_f0102ca308_z.jpg
S
Mycroft, I just saw this video fly-through of a portion of NASA's mammoth image of the Andromeda Galaxy and thought of you. I imagine you've already seen the actual image, but this bit of it was mind-blowing enough for me!
Glad you found a running happy place. I've got to admit, ours was pretty good! Frost in the park, not too many people around, naughty swans who kept pinching John's bum and escaping before he saw them...
And to think I had no idea swans could be so stealthy!
(It finally came to me--that Silkie chicken looks alarmingly like a Shmoo.)
they've got very long necks, RR, so they can reach out and be gone before you know it. Of course, John's always that bit too slow to see them...
Ah, of course!
Is it true that the Queen owns all the swans? Because she needs to work on their manners, if so. (Although their taste seems to be excellent!)
No, it's not true. The Monarchy 'own' some swans, but given they don't eat them any more it's really just ceremonial - and it keeps tabs on the swans, their health etc. for those they find during swan upping. There's a page about it here:
http://www.royal.gov.uk/royaleventsandceremonies/swanupping/swanupping.aspx
A lot of people do think she owns them all though - especially tourists! Some get quite excited when they see swans in the parks, thinking they've seen one of the Queen's...
(At least I knew to ask! I had a feeling it wasn't quite true. :))
Quite interesting info, though, thank you!
Being the old guy, Lestrade, I suppose you're always lagging behind, and that's how it is that you can spot the swans and John can't? ;)
Ella
I don't think I would get special excitement out of seeing a swan of the Queen's. Poaching and eating, maybe...
Ella
Are swans supposed to be particularly delicious, Ella? :)
It is possoble the bum-pinching swans would bring a whole new experience to eating and being eaten.
I'm wondering if perhaps John might need to pinch YOU L., to encourage you to chase bum-nipping swans away from your husband, rather than grinning at him and blaming - I mean reporting on the swans.
fA
(Ah, Rider, sternly blocking that visual, thank-you.)
fA
RR, you are right about the Shmoo. It is kind of eerie.
fA
RR- I have no idea how swans taste, I just sort of like the idea of duplicating a 16th-century crime. :) I'm sure that stolen swan tastes better than legitimately procured swan. Also, swans are jerks, and deserve what's coming to them.
Ella
I just realized I have insulted the dispositions of many farm animals on this post, so let me take a moment to expound on the noble goat, and the many inspirational characters attributes that he possesses...
Ella
Ella I notice you did not manage to think of any "inspirational" character traits that said theoretically noble goat possesses.
fA
Ella, that is entirely correct, being older and slower I naturally spot the swans, but am sadly too slow to apprehend them.
You should ask John about goats, being as he's a goat whisperer
Swans are vicious creatures, I'm sure John's poor bum was black and blue from all that pinching. I do hope you found a way to make it all better, Lestrade.
believe me when I say John's bum is impossible to make better - it's perfect already! ;)
*hunts around for the "Like" button*
It's just that there are so many qualities to choose from, fA... I'm speechless with wonder at their superbness.
Ella
The superbness of the goats, I mean. Not john's bum. I defer to Lestrade on that score.
Ella
John, I recall you have a fondness for cute baby animal videos, so this is for you--it's from a new PBS nature series (the video is on that page, it should play for you since it's really on YouTube, albeit unlisted). To quote from the host (M. Sanjayan), "I have to tell you when they put me in a room with 14 baby pandas, you melt."
In defence of goats, we used to have a great one, imaginatively named Billy. He liked to dance, but he did not like cheese sandwiches. His best friend was a sheep who appeared in our yard one day and never left.
Ella, he has a superb bum, believe me. I've seen many bums in my time, and his knocks my socks off ;)
I think you must be putting them in the wrong place then, Greg. ;))
Sorry I hope that didn't come across as me dissing John's bum which I take your word for as being the best you've seen (certainly not going to argue with you on that :)) It was just an off the cuff joke re socks but it sounded doubtful on second read through.
Having been in a two year drought-of-record, I shouldn't complain that we're in the second day of cold grey rain. But I am. Thank god for music at work or I'd be depressed as well as cranky.
Joolz, I think the mood of mutual appreciation of physical attributes is well-enough established that no-one will take your remarks amiss. And ain't that grand?
fA
no, I didn't think you wer dissing his bum! And to be honest, I don't mind if no one else finds it as glorious as I do - all the more for me ;)
But I have to say, you definitely cannot wear socks in bed...so in some ways, it does knock my socks off ;)
If it's cold enough and they want to sleep, people can wear socks in bed. I know this from experience!
RR is entirely correct. I had some socks that were specifically for that purpose. Not anymore. Now I need at least one foot out of the covers. No idea why.
Did everyone there wake up with ice for feet today or was it warmer down there than up here in the frozen north?
I hope you're all having interesting days :-)
No, another cold day down here, still no snow though, just frost. It was certainly a cold ride in this morning.
I've been sleeping with an electric blanket, with a shocking disregard for personal safety.
Ella
Not literally shocking I hope!
:D
(Only if she spills her tea in bed. :))
Sorry John, just saw last night's tennis results.
Anonybob - It was bloody freezing further west as well today. Lots of scraping ice off the car before work. Would have actually been a glorious winter day to enjoy if it hadn't been for pesky work :-)
Thanks, Becca. I can't believe he lost to Seppi...
John and Sherlock...do you think we could host two guinea pigs and three gerbils for the weekend?? They come in cages.
Oh, I have gerbils. They're lovely, if you keep them supplied with cardboard to chew.
PS: GOT A NEW, AWESOME JOB!!!
Congrats, Becca, that's great!
I'm sure Maftet will vote yes on the guinea pigs and gerbils!
well done Becca!
I'm hoping Maf will ignore them..or at least only pay them vague attention, as she does the goos...
Congratulations, Becca!
I'm sure we could. Where did you get them from?
err...a crime scene. They may be witnesses...
Seriously, though, one of their owners is dead and the other one is in custody, and a relative has said they'll look after them, but they're away this weekend, so these guys are temporarily homeless. They're called Carrot, Toffee, Marmaduke, Lancaster and Mitchell...do not ask me which is which. I thought Sherlock could probably look after them better than a station full of coppers, to be honest.
I think I could safely describe his reaction as positive.
ha, I thought it might be!
Could....you come and pick them up? All 6 of us won't fit on the bike...and I have guinea pig poo on my paperwork and shredded toilet paper all over my office floor to clean up.
Yeah, of course. Can I bring Sherlock? Because I'll have a difficult time not bringing Sherlock...
of course! I'll hide anything really really gruesome.
See you soon!
Temporary guinea pig rehousing - now that's an unexpected benefit of your DI's job, isn't it Sherlock?!
Becca - BIG congratulations! I hope you won't have to do your new job with vertigo.
fA
Have fun being official foster pet-keeper this weekend!
(Have you already looked up what would be best to feed them, Sherlock?)
guinea pigs are very vocal. Or these are. Any experts out there? I mean...they're sort of happy sounds, I think?
Congratulations Becca!
Hope the guinea pigs and gerbils enjoy their weekend. Don't leave any curtains near the gerbils, we had holes in one of ours where it hung too close to the gerbil's cage.
Yeah, they squeal a lot (I had one as a kid) ours figured out pretty quickly that chewing on the bars of the cage got our intention and eventually food to stop the noise. I wonder what the degus will think of their new companions.
Thanks all for the congratulations.
congrats Becca
I'm jealous of good winter weather nameless, its been freezing but grey today
enjoy the animal Sherlock, its good of you all to take them in.
sorry about the case Greg it sounds rather horrid!
Sherlock is helping them settle in. With most of the contents of our kitchen, I think... Maf doesn't seem to like the guinea pigs - i think they're a little bigger than the sort of thing she generally feels like she could hunt.
Perhaps she can settle for feeling superior because they're caged and she isn't. ;)
and well played, Cambridge! ;)
Oh, hush you.
Morning all. How goes the menagerie this morning. Is everyone getting along or is Maf ruling the roost as usual. I hope you're enjoying looking after them all, Sherlock. Did you manage to get any sleep yourselves judging by your late night question, Greg. :)
Enjoy your day everyone. :)
we got some sleep... noisy little critters! And went out and bought some proper food for the Gins and the Gerbils today. I am alarmed by how much guinea pigs poo. And then eat it....
Sun. Sun! Clearing dead plants in the yard and wrangling the 'stuff' I and several friends store in my garage today.
The garage is hands down the nicest part of my house. Detached. Door & space for one compact car, easily three times that in work space. Regular & 220 volt electric, 2 pegboard walls, shelving built to hold heavy stuff, windows! The original owner had a machine or carpentry shop & someone since then set it up as rehearsal space & did some makeshift recording according to the neighbors. Some day I'm running water & sewer out to it, insulating it, moving in, & renting out my house.
Hope everyone else had/is having as nice a day as I am.
SUN!
fA
so, because I've never thought about it before, what do you lot over the pond use 220v for?
Larger appliances. That's what the washer/dryer and major cooking appliances run off. Aiir conditioning and I think electric furnaces, though I don't know for sure since I have gas.Though it was obviously run out there for some kind of tools, since the garage isn't set up for water/drainage & there's no hvac.
fA
HVAC is short for heating, ventilation, air conditioning, in case you all use different acronyms.
fA
ah, thanks. I've always known you guys run mainly off 110v, so wasn't sure what a household would use 240v for.
Edit: My peanut gallery says I am out of date. Apparently in post-dinosaur ages, 110v versions of most appliances except dryers and some oven/range combinations are in common usage. ;-)
fA
Sherlock has gleefully told me guinea pigs eat their own poo up to 200 times a day....
I admit they are quite cute.
The gerbils just want to dig burrows. And cover as large an area as possible in bedding etc.
200 times, blimey, one has to ask are they selectively eating their own or each others? ;)
Joolz, determining that is a study that Sherlock might find interesting. Or entirely beside the point, who knows? I've never had much interest in guinea pigs, perhaps because our dog's excessive interest meant that we couldn't even volunteer to keep the classroom pet over long weekends. Much to my children's annoyance.
fA
Joolz - mainly their own. And, weirdly, they know which ones to eat before it comes out...I'm fascinated, in a slightly alarmed way. But apparently they do eat each others, Sherlock told me, especially if they;re ill.
Do they not digest all of their food the first time through?
Clearly google is about to be my friend, yet again.
fA
Apparently, not, fA, although you'd have to quiz our recently qualified poo expert when he's awake tomorrow.
It's that they know, before the stuff emerges, that gets me... they just scrunch into a ball and eat it...er...freshly produced, so to speak.
I'm not quite sure why that's more disconcerting than just them eating it on and off through the day, but it is. It so is.
they do two different sort of poo but one isn't really poo I want to look at some under my microscope but they eat it too fast.
So is it sort of like chewing cud, then, Sherlock?
yes.
Thank you.
Good luck in getting samples to examine.
If you have a guinea pig and it's ill you can get another guinea pig's poo if you can get them before they eat it and then make poo soup and feed it to the ill one.
Because it's easier for the ill one to digest, or is it more like fecal bacteriotherapy?
we were blessed with so many facts about guinea pig poo over breakfast. So many facts which really could have waited until after breakfast.
:D
But what if you had needed that info right after breakfast?
(I'm just finishing my breakfast tea right now, so...)
Somehow my mental picture of Sherlock's report on his research & future research has always been of it being delivered in the kitchen. During food prep, or food consumption. It seems like the sort of multi-tasking he'd turn to to make mundane life activities better.
I am kinda interested to hear what differences he can detect if he gets hold of the right excretion. (How much longer will you be hosting these critters?)
fA
our kitchen is the place we all talk the most, probably. I mean, it's open plan to the lounge, so it's the easiest place to do stuff and talk. Meal times we try to keep ... free of details of murders, injuries, poo, and..well, it's an ever growing list.
oh, and we'll be getting rid of the furry fivesome tomorrow or the next day.
The National Weather Service is currently predicting 2 to 3 feet of snow for the NYC region between Monday morning and Wednesday morning. Not inches, FEET.
O_O
Sherlock, if you could figure out how to divert some (if not all) of that to the UK, you will make millions of people happy. This isn't Buffalo, we don't know how to cope with that sort of thing! (Sort of like what happens when D.C. Gets a quarter of an inch of the white stuff.)
I'm very glad I left for work before Sherlock saw anything about snow, and before John had to perform a full search of him and his school bag for furry four legged fugitives who he thought would like to go to school. I imagine gerbils would be particularly difficult to find.
Oh dear, it seems that Sherlock will be sorry to see your visitors depart - do you think this could lead to more permanent additions being made to your household in the near future. :)
I'm with Sherlock on the snow issue though, you can certainly feel free to send it over here, RR, 2-3 feet sounds wonderful. :)
Enjoy your day everyone. :)
I don't think we need any more additions to this household. Although i realise that apart from the goos, everyone in this household is a waif or stray which John has brought home with him.... So never say never?
Well doesn't that just say everything about John's unerring instinct for the wonderful to have brought all you lovely people (and animals) so happily together. :)
Ooh you'll give me a big head. Been a while since I was called lovely ;)
John is, however, extremely lovely, and kind.
Well, since we were supposed to have one to three inches overnight and only got a bit of white on curbs and cars, I'm still holding out hope that, forecasts or no forecasts, we won't have enough accumulation for Sherlock to feel bad about not having!
Based on a distant Internet-mediated view, you yourself have a very open heart for the young, and for those (human or animal) in need of nurturing, L.
You & John have proven to be a team (which is expanding to include the boys as a different kind of members as they mature.) The very best families are those in which people's differences in style and substance support the same goals.
Now, work. Gahh.
fA
I am a soft touch, it's true!
Sherlock is VERY jealous of anyone who might get snow. Poor kid. He needs to move out of London! He's especially irritated that John's parents have had a lot of snow, because that seems like snow he could rightfully have claimed ;)
You have a big heart, that's not the same at all! :)
We are getting snow, and it is sticking, but only time will tell if we will get the blizzard all authorities are convinced we are getting. (It seems more likely now than it did this morning, I'll say that.)
I'm with Sherlock, and very jealous of all you lovely people getting snow. I wouldn't mind if some of it, or all of it, came my way! All we've been getting damp and rain, though, which is just icky. Clearly, I live in the wrong part of my state!
Snow is well and good, but a blizzard's-worth is what I call overkill...
Even down here adjacent to hell's open oven door it's turned cool. 24C and drizzling.
I can do without the drizzle but if that's the price for down to 18C at night I'll take sleep over dry any time!
MInd you that does mean getting wet on the way to work as the pedal-powered two wheeler means waterproof gear is pointless unless it is a lot colder and a lot wetter.
Oh John, husband mine, love of my life... will you dress up as a little fluffy bunny boy and deliver me one of these??
http://metro.co.uk/2015/01/24/marmite-and-pot-noodle-flavoured-easter-eggs-are-actually-happening-5035123/
I'm girding my loins and battening down hatches and whatnot in preparation for the blizzard. My plow guy has already been by to push the little snow banks along the driveway way back out of the way, so there will be room for all the new snow, which we'll probably have to be up during the night to keep up with. ugh. Did some errands this morning, took out compost, brought in wood (not that I can concentrate on work...), untangled the cord for the electric shovel... then baked some muffins. Already coming down in NYC, ReRe? probably only another hour before it's here. I'm glad I have a housemate who isn't afraid of a snow shovel!
S
Yep, S, it's been coming down for the past few hours. Stay safe and warm! One advantage of living in Manhattan is that we won't get downed wires, I hope you don't lose power!
L - I don't even know what to say...
err...say yes?
I think I do know what to say actually - how can those really exist??
because of deliciousness and yum?
and slight unnatural horror?
no horror. Just tastiness. And definitely not unnatural.
You can still buy me mini eggs too, though... those oh so natural treats...
I will buy you both.
But no bunny costume, just to be clear.
But no bunny costume, just to be clear.
And here we were all going to ask for photos...
it hardly seems worth it, if there's no bunny costume...
And by the way, America, I hope you all know you're being silently seethed at and blamed in hushed voices for ruining the creme egg. Even people who haven't eaten one for years are tut-tutting.
...Why?
because now Kraft own Cadbury they've changed the chocolate from Dairy Milk to some other chocolate-type blend, and people here are up in arms about it. I haven't tried one, because they were already too sweet, and are now apparently sweeter!
I didn't know that. I DID know that a deal was made with the result that we won't be able to get Cadbury bars made in the UK in the US, and there are a lot of people here very unhappy about that!
yeah, I'd heard that.
Chocolate unhappiness all over... But chocolate is supposed to be a happy place!
I've tried the new creme eggs & you definitely can tell a difference, the choc isn't as nice or quite as thick either, I don't think I'll be rushing for another one.
I agree with John about the marmite egg - yuk; but I agree with Greg about the bunny suit - yum! ;)
Hope everyone with snow is safe & warm over there & feel free to still send some this way. :)
Have a great day everyone. :)
Yeah, hope anyone out there with snow is okay!
I like marmite and question its appropriateness in a flavored chocolate egg. That's just wrong.
Hope everyone with too much snow is safe & warm.
fA
So far as NYC is concerned, the Great Blizzard fizzled--we got, thankfully, only 5.5 inches in Central Park, and it's not snowing now. 6 inches we can handle! I hope everyone else in the storm zone was as lucky.
I don't think I've ever had a creme egg, but marmite with chocolate strikes me as an unfortunate combination...
RR, I will admit the heresy: I don't actually like Cadbury eggs of any variety. They are all cloyingly sweet. But possibly that's because I never had any till I was an adult. I seem to tolerate the extreme sweetness of other candies pretty well. ;-)
fA
I've gotta deliver the furry five to their new home later sorry sherlock
Aw, that's a bit sad. But hey, they had the very best of care while they were with you!
right. Piggies and Gers all rehomed. Another task people probably don't realise the police do... Another late finish.
Above and beyond, no question about it!
we only got about 6-8 inches here too, whew. I still got up in the night to shovel just in case. It would have been fun to have known it was not going to be so overwhelming, I could have left it alone and taken some nice photos of how the wind sculpts the snow in places, but, that's ok. better safe than sorry.
So, is this mess with Cadbury the reason why I can no longer get the chocolate biscuits I liked? there was a kind with I think oatmeal in them, and DARK chocolate, yum. I suppose I'll have to learn to put nutella on shortbread or graham crackers or something instead.
S
Hobnobs,, maybe?
I've even in so many meetings today I've forgotten how to use my legs.
The fun just never ends.
Yup. I thought it was a local phenomenon - that while I can still get milk chocolate Hobnobs, the dark chocolate haven't been in the usual store in the last few months? year?
I just thought they didn't sell enough of them to keep carrying them. An international chocolate manufacturers conspiracy is more entertaining.
fA
I think that's just some weird conspiracy to stop feeding us delicious dark chocolate - dark chocolate Bountys are rarer than hens' teeth.
The International Candy Conspiracy is weirder than I suspected. Bounty, as far as I can tell is the same thing as what is sold here as Mounds candy bars - except Mounds ONLY come in dark chocolate (or the chocolate-ish chocolate Hershey's produces). But Bounty are made by Mars, Hershey's bitter rival.
Like fashion designers and the people who decide what the year's "in" colors will be so that you can hardly ever match tile more than 10-15 years old, candy manufacturers obviously also have secret annual meetings in Monaco or somewhere, in a room that looks like a bar or nightclub in an early Bond film. I'm convinced.
fA
It's almost snowing but it's just ice but it looks like snow and it's good but not as good as snow and I liked the Guinea pigs but they were a bit boring and the gerbils even more degus are the best
Yay for almost-snow! Maybe you'll get some real snow overnight, too.
There's the value of good research right there, Sherlock, in deciding you'd like to have degus!
fA--I know EXACTLY what you mean about matching tile, unfortunately.
I am at the DMV. Hooray. Is there a British version of this? Is it as close to hell as the american one?
Ella
What's the DMV? It stopped snowing. It wasn't really snow anyway. I want proper snow.
DMV stands for Department of Motor Vehicles, Sherlock--it's where people in the US go to get or renew their driver's license, and the lines are known to be loooooooong and sloooooooow.
I'm sorry your snow has fizzled. But there's still more winter yet, you could still get proper snow, I hope you do!
Ella - no. We didn't used to have to renew until we were 70. Now we have photo licences you have to renew them every ten years, but you just do it by post.
I feel for you Sherlock. It is certainly not fair to get freezing rain with all its disadvantages, but not to get proper slow. I hope it happens for you this winter.
fA
Good luck, Ella! Hope you have something to read.
fA
We had about 2 minutes of snow today, Sherlock, in between a couple of spells of bright sunshine. Disappointing :-(
If you renew a photo licence by post do you have to send in a new picture too? Or can you remain forever 19?
Here your first licence has to be renewed yearly but after a bit if you keep it unblemished you can go to 5 yearly. Still have to go to the office to get it done but there are many such places (some open Sat mornings) and I have only had to wait at most 20 mins.
You take a number and wait. They call you up, look at the old one, look at the form you filled in, take your pic, and minute or two later you have a new licence.
Losing it can be a nightmare though. I was lucky in that when I lost mine I had a valid passport so getting a replacement was easy. Without it, proving I was who I said I was would have been hard.
The only reason you do it is for the new picture. Same as our passports. We never have to have face-to-face meetings.
Does the weekend offer much in terms of fun gentleman?
I hope you've had an interesting day at school Sherlock, I can't believe how quickly this year is passing, two more weeks and we'll be half way to the summer holidays :-D
Having a quiet day today?
I've been busy - getting shoes and new clothes for my new job and having an MRI to check out the vertigo.
yeah, pretty quiet. Went for a long walk with the hounds out west along the river.
I hope your MRI gives some answers.
(I also did a new post on my blog, so the quietness is mainly over there ;) )
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