Re: What's happening in your life? Part 2

by Fangirl Three Mon Aug 28, 2023 7:05 am

Butterfield wrote:You should have paid a visit to Tanya's Diner on the other side of the city.

We had such a fun thread about that in the OHOTW.

Happy times.

by Butterfield Wed Aug 30, 2023 8:29 pm

Earlier this evening from the comfort of where I am in North Yorkshire and with the use of Google Maps I had to guide someone on their phone on an hour-long walk through London's streets to catch their train at Euston back to Birmingham. It felt like an episode of Treasure Hunt, with me as the contestant ordering Anneka Rice where to go, and the train as the goal to reach within a certain amount of time. happy

They made their train with minutes to spare! But I didn't win any prize money.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Aug 30, 2023 8:35 pm

I shall give you karma for being helpful to them.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Aug 30, 2023 8:36 pm

That shall be your prize money.

by Butterfield Wed Aug 30, 2023 8:45 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Aug 31, 2023 4:14 pm

I have hurt my right calf, running.

I hope this doesn't put me out of the Olympics.

by Butterfield Thu Aug 31, 2023 4:27 pm

I try not to run these days, even when crossing the road. My insides feel like they're jangling around and it makes me feel a bit qu**r.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Aug 31, 2023 4:40 pm

by cosmictanya Thu Aug 31, 2023 11:47 pm

Butterfield wrote:Oh yes, Tettenhall (locally pronounced "Tett-null"), perhaps the wealthiest part of Wolverhampton. It has half timbered buildings, a village green with lido and everything.

Several years ago there was a campaign for the "village" to split from Wolverhampton.

You should have paid a visit to Tanya's Diner on the other side of the city.

If I’d known, I might’ve. Tettnul. It was nice. Kind of looked like parts of Chiswick. Nobody told me about the lido - I’d have happily gone for a look at that.

by Butterfield Fri Sep 01, 2023 12:41 am

I'm not sure "lido" was the best description. It appears to be called "Tettenhall pool", but is perhaps more just a shallow man made lake thing (when in use) for paddling.

Actually, I don't know what its true function is. But I'm sure I've seen families gathered around it on the occasions I've passed on the A41 onward to Telfordshire.

by Butterfield Fri Sep 01, 2023 12:49 am

August 2011. banana bones

by Fangirl Three Fri Sep 01, 2023 5:55 am

What a wholesome scene. It reminds me of the tidal pool at Maldon, before they closed it after someone drowned.

by cosmictanya Sat Sep 02, 2023 8:42 pm

I’ve just looked up Maldon. Butterfield’s local lido looks much nicer - and cleaner. And ‘the Essex park where you can meet celebrities like Olly Murs’ isn’t much of a seller either. It’s Wolverhampton for me.

by Nightjar Sat Sep 02, 2023 9:39 pm

The other day, when I was kitteh-sittehn this week (I got back home earlier) I was going to Lidl on the High Street and noticed someone had left a very stylish looking chair out the front of their house.

It was a properly cool late '50s-early-'60s dining room chair with a custard coloured ye olde plastic bucket seat and four splayed legs supported by a series of deftly arranged black metal struts.

Anyway, since I was going to the shops I passed it by, but when I came back it was still there and, since it was less than 5 minutes walk away from my friend's house, I took it.

I'd considered it a stylish IKEA-style knock off of a classic design, but it was only till yesterday that I actually bothered to turn it upside down and...

by Nightjar Sat Sep 02, 2023 9:49 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Sep 02, 2023 10:20 pm

by cosmictanya Sat Sep 02, 2023 11:53 pm

Are you going to take it back? It’s possible they might not know, and also presumed it was just old trash, so will let you keep it. But it’s equally possible they know what it is and have called the police. ‘Carpet fitter/workman/cleaner having a smoke in the garden left it outside without knowing, man fitting x description going in y direction seen hurrying off with it’.

by Nightjar Sun Sep 03, 2023 12:32 pm

by Nightjar Sun Sep 03, 2023 12:33 pm

This what it most resembles like...

What's happening in your life? Part 2 - Page 15 S-l1600

by Nightjar Sun Sep 03, 2023 12:43 pm

They seem to go for between £300 and £500. gasp

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