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[NickFitz]

I bet the hoses aren't anything special, other than having the brand name printed on them.

I remember trying to get a sofa delivered to the first flat I rented in Kensington. It came in a huge box. I had measured doors etc based on a sofa shape, and not sofa-in-a-box shape and therefore expected it to fit through the various corners that needed to be navigated. Turns out, they were not allowed to remove the sofa from the box in order to get it into the flat so I had to reject delivery. What a load of nonsense that was.

The drain hose doesn't seem like anything you couldn't get from SparesRUs for half the price (though with the discount, I am getting it for half the price). But the expensive one is the water hose, as that's got an impressive stainless steel braided sheath; very fancy

She mentioned that I was lucky I hadn't got one of their models with the advanced Water Protection System™, as the hose is built into said system so a longer one costs more than twice as much as it includes the whole unit, and you also need to get a plumber to install it

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^"Reassuringly expensive".

Next stop: Stella Artois. .

The hose on my Miele WM is that braided kind.

Fancy, but I doubt it's any more special than the Wilko one on the el cheapo WM.

Thankfully the waste water pipe was long enough to do the needful doings without the expenditure of more money.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the braised belly pork in coder thing, with chips

And I've watched the third and final part of Disaster at Sea: The Piper Alpha Story. It's very good; I might dig out my copy of Fire in the Night for a reread

[ladymuck]

Some delightful racists in the Torygraph comments section are complaining that the BBC put black people in King & Conqueror because apparently there were no black people in Britain in 1066 and therefore the BBC are being woke.

I responded mentioning that black people weren't invented in the 1940's and had been around for quite some time.

They then directly asked if I believed that black people lived in Britain in 1066. This triggered a memory of some archaeological research which revealed black history in Britain being much older than people think. I found a link to an easy-to-read summary of the findings and kindly shared it with them for their education. I have no doubt they will find a reason to debunk this information as fake news or some such but it brought me great joy to share it.

[NickFitz]

Some delightful racists in the Torygraph comments section are complaining that the BBC put black people in King & Conqueror because apparently there were no black people in Britain in 1066 and therefore the BBC are being woke.

I responded mentioning that black people weren't invented in the 1940's and had been around for quite some time.

They then directly asked if I believed that black people lived in Britain in 1066. This triggered a memory of some archaeological research which revealed black history in Britain being much older than people think. I found a link to an easy-to-read summary of the findings and kindly shared it with them for their education. I have no doubt they will find a reason to debunk this information as fake news or some such but it brought me great joy to share it.

Some seventh century ones in Monday Links last week too

[NickFitz]

Back to 1972 in The Rewind Files, where the already dense plot is sickening even more

Wednesday tomorrow! I wonder if the new team will just leave me to read stuff again? Not that I got much reading done with all the delivery shenanigans today. Anyway, it's a bit dull just doing that; I'll see if the other developer (who had to leave for a couple of hours in the middle of the day as one of her rabbits was poorly and she rushed it to the vet, though it then recovered) will show me more about how it all works

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Some seventh century ones in Monday Links last week too

Ah, that must be where the memory came from but I didn't twig that I'd read about it in your post!

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I swear autocorrect is now changing things I typed perfectly well the first time. For the record: pork in cider, plot is thickening

It's a sunny start, though that is not to be confused with a warm day. It is, in fact, 15°C with an expected high of a mere 19°

Looking ahead, it's predicted to be this time next week before we get back to 20°, and that looks like it's just a blip. I'll be getting the autumnal duvet out soon

[NickFitz]

^^^"Reassuringly expensive".

Next stop: Stella Artois. .

The hose on my Miele WM is that braided kind.

Fancy, but I doubt it's any more special than the Wilko one on the el cheapo WM.

Thankfully the waste water pipe was long enough to do the needful doings without the expenditure of more money.

They took the old water hose away with them at my request but forgot the drain hose. I've just measured that and it appears the hose itself was 1.5m which had then had an additional 30cm or so attached on the end via a bit of a bodge job - the bit of the extension near the join is wrapped in yellow-and-green striped tape, clearly intended for earth wiring

So assuming the drain hose came out of the same corner of the old one, which I think was the case, I'm having to get an extra metre of hose for the sake of it being a foot too short

The water and drain hoses come out at the same corner on the new machine whereas the old one had them on different sides, so the water one needed to allow for the additional distance - say 50cm versus ten or fifteen on the new one. That was a 2m hose, so this one probably only needs to be around 1.7 or 1.8m, but instead it's going to be 3

[WTFH]

Morning all
We had rain overnight, finally!
OK, it rained for about 5 minutes, but that's more than the last 3 months.

Dog walk today also included a brief shower when we were about an hour in, and in a valley the far side of another village. The same precipitation did not make it to our house.