The middle aged thread

Surely one sounds ones horn

I let my driver deal with that nonsense.

Surely one sounds ones horn

Correct.

Sounds ones horn is quite polite and all the beep/toot/pap/honk/bip/hoot ing sounds childlike.

Needs something more aggressive - say BLAST ?

I use my hair clippers to trim my eyebrows. Just made an error due to absentmindedness and failing eyesight. Usually I trim them down to grade 2, just now I didn’t realise I had put on the number 1 attachment.

Perhaps I can get away with those fuzzy felt style marker pen eyebrows? I can then look like a character from a Charlie Chaplin movie.

Pic or it didn’t happen

Re-kindling the slipper discussion. My trusty tweed numbers have finally died. What's good in the world of slippers? Not too warm.

I've been rocking a pair of Mahabis for about a year now.
Rubber soles make it handy for following the dog around the garden.
I thought they were a bit spendy, and the rubber heel bit tore quite early, bur they refuse to die and still stay on my feet, even with a rip in the heel (possibly puppy related damage)

Also, slippers thread >>>>>>

I wear a pair of Tom shoes around the house. Cheap, you can go outside and sole insulates feet well from cold floors.

Not very pretty though.

Glerups here, relatively hard wearing and comfortable

Hot potatoes are banging slippers

There are tickets for this festival for sale in the classifieds:

https://hideoutfestival.com/lineup/

I have only heard of one of the acts.

Mike Skinner?

Re-kindling the slipper discussion. My trusty tweed numbers have finally died. What's good in the world of slippers? Not too warm.

These are my recommendation.

Mike Skinner

Was he the one in The Teardrop Explodes ?

Went to Mildred's this weekend - they've got a new menu with a stupidly tiny font, and hand it to you telling you you're best off looking at the menu on your phone. 3 of us were passing round my mate's reading glasses to decide our order.

I consider this a micro-aggression of the most egregious kind.

In one!

Snap.

Original Pirate Material came out 20 years ago

Shy FX was way before that. Pft, you bunch of kids.

I knew of 3, 2 mentioned plus Andy C fwiw.

Also, found it hard to read. Defo fit in here.

Routine has always been a challenge for me insomuch as I would usually forget something mundane and commonplace each day - say, underarm deodorant, tooth clean, wallet - that would send me dashing back up the stairs, into the house or worse still; turning the bike round and pedalling unnecessary extra hundreds of metres.
Middle age, however, turns this safety match flicker of a habit into a Hindenburg blaze.
The worst example of this is packing the car with bikes and gear for an off-road day in the hills. I WILL forget and make individual return trips for at least four of the following:
Gloves
Helmet
Water bottle
Pump
Tool kit
Shoes
Jacket
Tubes (always have one on the bike but often it’s a dead one from a previous incident)
Shades
Grub
If this list wasn’t extensive enough I recently added a jet wash to the indispensable must-have toys.
If I wasn’t so absent minded I would have realised before I hit the ‘buy it now’ key the I would never remember to take the effing thing.

Checklists
Checklists for everything
Printed and kept inside kitbags

I even have them for work, I keep one on the shelf by my gloves for cycling in and one with my helmet for motorcycling in. They include things like whether I need to shower before getting dressed.

The latter is a problem when I’m stood outside in jacket and gloves wondering what I’ve forgotten and why I feel a bit whiffy.

Hernias - I assume there'll be some experience in here. Have an op booked in for Sat - open, not keyhole. How long roughly till back on the bike for gentle commuting? Is there much post-op pain etc?

In full middle-aged action, I did it lifting a tent into a roof box.

Hopefully not too much pain until Saturday?
Then heal up strong.