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Should be in the coincidences thread. Three minutes.

Part 2

My heart rhythm has been a bit unstable this past week. This despite not having any alcohol for a couple of months and keeping myself quite busy around the place and getting exercise. So, probably not the best idea but I decided I'll have a couple of beers tonight as this healthy living obviously isn't doing the trick. I fancied Miller Genuine Draft which I can now only find at a convenience store about a mile away. It has a really small car park but there was one space left between two vans. I noticed how good my recently polished car looked for its age as I walked away. Got served quickly in the shop with the van driver and his tattooed lady the customers in front of me. Got back to the car and there's those two chatting to the driver of the other van who was sitting on the wing of my car. I tried to remain as expressionless as possible given their thirty year advantage and the fact they looked as hard as nails. He got off the car as I approached but my blood was boiling. What is it with people nowadays? They don't seem capable of standing anymore. If they're not perched on some stationery object they're slouched across a supermarket trolley or sprawling over shop or waiting area counters. I am aware that this kind of getting annoyed about such things is definitely age related but it does burst my knitting. On close inspection at a safe distance my shiny paintwork was fine despite his manky plaster coated work trousers. Looking forward to those Millers.

Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on October 04, 2024, 09:19:42 PMAnd another dry and sunny day. Even warm enough to dress as though it were summer, in fact it was just right today, I never felt cold and I never felt hot. It seems that 13-14C is the ideal temperature for me.

There are still too many roadworks out and about for me, but luckily the road which was supposed to be closed from 4th October was open. Which was good for me as it's my way out to the flatter lands. Although I did encounter an unexpected set of roadworks on the way back.

The Southerly breeze today was a bit stronger than forecast, it meant that I did the ideal thing of riding out into it and coming back with it, but apart from one short stretch it never seemed to get behind me. Must be the lie of the land funnelling it round. It did however bring the smell of Goats across the road in Pilsley. Whether there are Goats in Pilsley I don't know, maybe someone had unwrapped a big Goat's cheese. It all got me another 45 miles in the bag.

https://www.strava.com/activities/12572062509

I couldn't help myself from Googling "goats in Pilsley". There does seem to be a fair bit of goat activity in the place. Maybe it's mostly famous for goats and I've just been whooshed.

Three weeks ago I phoned the  company which installed my wood burners requesting their flue cleaning service. Usual response from the type who lives in a society without pens, pencils or any inclination to help, "you'll need to email us with your name and address and a contact number and we'll get back to you with an appointment date, but we're looking at a few weeks". Sent the email on 13/9 so phoned this morning for an update. Couldn't find my email. They sent me an email to respond to in case I'd used the wrong address, but it was the same one as in my sent box. Enquired when they might be able to sweep the flue as were now heading into the colder weather. "In a few weeks, can't give you an exact date". Exasperating, but just what I expected before I dialled their number today.

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Quote from: Fishy on October 01, 2024, 10:46:28 AMJust had my flu jab.. nhs staff freebie..

Get mine at the end of the month along with the latest COVID version. Very likely a couple of crap days to follow but I'm still grateful.

Two tonnes of kiln dried hardwood logs delivered today. Driver was really helpful and managed to drop at the top of the drive, saving me a few thousand steps. I'm always glad when someone deserves their tip. I usually tip regardless but it's great when the recipient is friendly and obliging. Managed to get it all stored away before the horrible neighbours get back from their latest kerosene wasting jaunt abroad, and before any rain which has been threatening today.

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Colsterworth, that takes me back to a day quite a few years ago. My boss and I flew down to East Midlands Airport I think. We were to meet up with two colleagues from our Oxford headquarters and visit a company in Colsterworth with a view to buying specialist materials from them. It must have been prior to Satnav days as we managed to get lost in our hire car somewhere around Grantham. It was a good day, meeting really knowledgeable, nice folk and a decent amount of business was done over the years following. I was sorry to learn that they went out of business a few years back. One thing that always stuck with me after that day was the most terrifying right turn across extremely fast oncoming traffic that I have ever experienced. I don't know which main route it was on but it wasn't a manoeuvre I would ever like to repeat.

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Ah well, I'll just need to console myself with the knowledge that if it's good enough for Boris, it's good enough for me.

Conversely, I am quite superstitious. This is forbidden by the faith I follow and is probably more of a result of life experiences than any belief that it is anything other than hopeful fear cancelling nonsense. I avoided the recent thread on this subject as I knew I'd likely be ridiculed about it and rightly so. But I view the possibility of God entirely differently. I think there's a whole load of evidence in the scriptures, a lot of which can't very easily be dismissed as false.

Quote from: Slim on October 02, 2024, 03:34:07 PM

Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on October 02, 2024, 12:32:58 AMWho knows? No one.

You say that no-one knows, but really that's true only in the strictest, most formal sense. Certainly if someone were to say to me "God's not real", my answer would be "I know". While it may not be provable, I do accept the truth of God's non-existence completely.

Entirely understandable that you should have complete faith in your own method of logic. I tend to float towards what we yet do not know, be it dark matter, other physical mysteries, or the supernatural.

This type of thinking occupies my mind at some point most days. It could be argued that it is perhaps unhealthy to allow the mind to drift in this direction. I don't know. I was fortunate to receive a good education, at a strict, private Catholic school. I suppose I would scrape into the low end of the top quarter of the ability level of my year. Even at a tender teen age I was a bit in awe of the more talented individuals. There were brilliant minds on display every day and it was easy to pick up on the masters clearly getting a buzz out of teaching them. Quite a few went on to become the cream of their chosen career choices. Top surgeons, professors, guys at the very top of the legal profession in Europe and beyond. Surprisingly, or perhaps I shouldn't state this, many of them were men of deep faith. Why this gives me comfort is probably an indication of some needy trait in my make up but I do take some solace from it. My tangled mind with its internal struggle with belief, Christianity in particular, does usually end with me taking the path leading to the strong possibility of a designer. It makes more sense to me than another kind of random, pseudo miraculous occurrence. The unfathomable scale of our, or perhaps several universes is probably just a distraction from a definitive purpose for Earth's existence. Who knows? No one.

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