Random Stuff From Your Neck O' The Woods
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I would have been able to show you a picture .. but OH NO! .. because "it's embarrassing" *grumble grumble*
She took this picture of me with a woman dressed as a nun once, I mean, it's not like she's my paid secretary or something, I get that, but what's the difference? .. this is just as embarrassing and no, I haven't got a withered right arm .. it's one of those in camera defect type things.
She took this picture of me with a woman dressed as a nun once, I mean, it's not like she's my paid secretary or something, I get that, but what's the difference? .. this is just as embarrassing and no, I haven't got a withered right arm .. it's one of those in camera defect type things.
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I used to live 2 mins away from this.
http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=259862
We lost heating and hot water all night.
http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=259862
We lost heating and hot water all night.
Yep. I live in the future.
The whole city has an underground grid of pressurised hot water. I think it's heated using surplus energy from the power station. Almost all homes (including massive multi-storey aparment blocks) have underfloor heating that relies on steam and water.
It can get very cold here in the winter, but we never suffer. It's the summer that can near unbearable.
The whole city has an underground grid of pressurised hot water. I think it's heated using surplus energy from the power station. Almost all homes (including massive multi-storey aparment blocks) have underfloor heating that relies on steam and water.
It can get very cold here in the winter, but we never suffer. It's the summer that can near unbearable.
Surely Jack Hawkins could put up with a little heat?! He fought in the war!!!
I've spent a fair bit of time in SE Asia - Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia - doing a lot of cycling, and used to say until my last trip there that it could never be too hot for cycling. There was one day in Thailand where it was high 30s with 100% or near as humidity. I was cycling to a waterfall, just as well, and took my shirt off for the last few minutes, burning nicely. But boy, was it warm!?!?! Off the bike, into the water, equilibrium achieved.
I've spent a fair bit of time in SE Asia - Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia - doing a lot of cycling, and used to say until my last trip there that it could never be too hot for cycling. There was one day in Thailand where it was high 30s with 100% or near as humidity. I was cycling to a waterfall, just as well, and took my shirt off for the last few minutes, burning nicely. But boy, was it warm!?!?! Off the bike, into the water, equilibrium achieved.
Yep, 43°C+ with humidity would be, er, warm!
I remember a 130km/4hr bike ride (a decent pace) in Malaysia where, when you were riding it was fine, but when you stopped at traffic lights etc, the sweat came out like a waterfall. I drank about 7 litres of water and energy drinks and no pee breaks. It literally all sweated out!
That said, I also had three consecutive days riding - 250km - into a headwind in QLD, Australia. You find yourself swearing at the wind, like that's going to help!!
I remember a 130km/4hr bike ride (a decent pace) in Malaysia where, when you were riding it was fine, but when you stopped at traffic lights etc, the sweat came out like a waterfall. I drank about 7 litres of water and energy drinks and no pee breaks. It literally all sweated out!
That said, I also had three consecutive days riding - 250km - into a headwind in QLD, Australia. You find yourself swearing at the wind, like that's going to help!!
-3°C daytime, -13°C tonight--so we called up my sister-in-law and her family and went out!
She knew a new-ish bar/pub that sells a lot of beer and serves spit-roast chicken that is continuously rotating outside. I don't eat chicken, but the shrimp I had (with chips) was in KFC-style batter and I could happily go on eating it until I couldn't move.
There was a good wind blowing quite apart from the cold, so the place wasn't at all busy, but there was a party of besuited lawyers on an after-work drink and an unexpected group of sorta-rockabilllies at the next table who entertained me a good bit.
Fun place, great food--decent beer (I had Alley Cat, a U.S. Ale)--will visit again.
She knew a new-ish bar/pub that sells a lot of beer and serves spit-roast chicken that is continuously rotating outside. I don't eat chicken, but the shrimp I had (with chips) was in KFC-style batter and I could happily go on eating it until I couldn't move.
There was a good wind blowing quite apart from the cold, so the place wasn't at all busy, but there was a party of besuited lawyers on an after-work drink and an unexpected group of sorta-rockabilllies at the next table who entertained me a good bit.
Fun place, great food--decent beer (I had Alley Cat, a U.S. Ale)--will visit again.
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Which building is it?
Here?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky100
Wasn't built the last time I was there!
Here?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky100
Wasn't built the last time I was there!
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One of the Mrs's friends has just served here in Cromer today here today, gone tomorrow popstar Jessie J and Channing Tatum if that impresses anyone reading this .. I think they're famous if you're 14 years old or something? .. apparently he's an American actor.
edit: she's just shown me a photo of him. he also came into our shop today and asked me to throw some inconsequential bit of plastic crap into our bin so we did.
edit: she's just shown me a photo of him. he also came into our shop today and asked me to throw some inconsequential bit of plastic crap into our bin so we did.
