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[norrahe]

Afternoon

[mudskipper]

Nice day for parkrun today. Didn't make me any faster though.

Apparently ms#3 got punched last night. No idea why, but Mr ms had to give (or lend, with no real expectation of repayment) him some dosh to get his glasses repaired.

[barrydidit]

Anyone seen my motivation? I'm sure I had it round here somewhere....

[norrahe]

Morning!

Strong blue mountain coffee for a big day of cooking curry for GF#1's family. Trying to shoehorn in a medium cycle ride at some time as the weather may be quite warm this weekend.

How was the course norrahe?

Which curry are you making, something from Rasoi Vineet or Cyrus Todiwala?

[norrahe]

It's as if Norrahe was on a very expensive, full time, total immersion Dutch course...

The Dutch people at breakfast were thrown in for free, they were all doing English and weren't in for full immersion, so I ended up speaking cloggy whether I liked it or not after classes, which on some evenings finished at 9pm.

[norrahe]

Only 2 weeks to grub club now.

[NickFitz]

Ugh! Infestation of pantry beetles in my food cupboard

They'd gone to town on a massive scale on an open packet of egg noodles that 's been lying at the back of the cupboard for months - even chewed no end of holes in the packaging. It looked like it was in training to become a sieve.

From there they'd also got stuck in to some open spaghetti, though on nothing like the same scale.

I've emptied the cupboard and chucked anything suspect, including unopened pasta. Apparently they can lay eggs through a tiny hole they make in the packaging, which hatch out ages later, so unless you chuck out all such food there's a chance they'll reappear. Now waiting for the cupboard to dry after a good soaking with cleaning fluid, so I can give it a second wipe over and start putting stuff back.

The weird one that I didn't expect is that the buggers had gone for the chicken Oxo - a packet that's been in there for ages had a few dead ones in the bottom of it, and of the four or five cubes in there, every one had a hole or two chewed through the foil. They'd also apparently gone for some beef ones on a lesser scale, so they've had to go too. And of course the flour and cornflour is too risky to keep, as they could be lurking in there and you'd never see them.

Lots of things are going to be kept strictly in airtight plastic boxes in future

[NickFitz]

Stegobium Paniceum, or Biscuit Beetles, appear to be the ones, from the selection available at Common Stored Product Insect Species | Rentokil Pest Control

Ironically, they've not touched any biscuits. I might have noticed them sooner if they had

[mudskipper]

Stegobium Paniceum, or Biscuit Beetles, appear to be the ones, from the selection available at Common Stored Product Insect Species | Rentokil Pest Control

Ironically, they've not touched any biscuits. I might have noticed them sooner if they had

I've given up trying to eradicate the weevils - I think they're gone and the buggers just reappear.

[NickFitz]

I've given up trying to eradicate the weevils - I think they're gone and the buggers just reappear.

Yes, I think there's a strong probability they'll be back, but I'm going to try to minimise their options by no longer leaving stuff just sitting in the cupboard, but putting it in sealable boxes.

This should also reduce the incidence of me accidentally knocking a jar of herbs or spices out of the cupboard when getting something else out, which happens once or twice a week at the moment