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[WTFH]

All this nonsense about deciding whether to heat a home by the date...

When I was single, I used to turn the heating on if I had a date. Always made them feel warmly welcome.

[ladymuck]

When I was single, I used to turn the heating on if I had a date. Always made them feel warmly welcome.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a roast pork and apple sauce bap (wholemeal)

With that done, I set to work preparing some large boxes and other packaging for recycling. I tend to let this stuff accumulate, until eventually it's getting in the way and I finally deal with it

So once I'd found the Stanley knife, which I'd left other than in its usual place on a bookshelf in the living room, I carved the boxes up into small bits which could easily be packed into recycling bags and topped up with cardboard envelopes from Amazon. Once I had two well-stuffed bags, I took them over to the recycling bins. First time I've been over there in a while, as I now habitually put stuff out for the management company people to take away in the morning; but these would have inconvenienced them, as they only bring one recycling bin and one general waste bin with them as they tour around the three blocks, and these were almost a bin load on their own

Returning, and with the dishwasher having finished the load I set it to work on earlier, it was time to get the mundane laundry on

I used the machine's "washing assistant", which allows you to specify the types of thing you're washing, and also prevents you mixing things that shouldn't go in together. It then devises what it reckons are the optimal settings. This will be one of my most frequently used combinations, so I remembered to save it to "Favourites" (under the title "Mundane laundry", of course) so I can go straight to it without faffing around in future

And a few minutes after it had started, it pinged me via my phone to let me know that it expected to finish sooner than its initial estimate, due to the load being relatively small!

[NickFitz]

I always find this interesting. My heating is never 'off'. There's a temperature set and should the flat drop below that, then the heating comes on. This means it's cold out. The past two mornings, the heating has been on when I've gotten up.

All this nonsense about deciding whether to heat a home by the date rather than the weather is beyond me.

I know! I should just leave it on, and let the thermostat deal with matters. I think I'll do that in future, as I've also realised that deciding something like that based on date rather than conditions is ridiculous

[sadkingbilly]

Returning, and with the dishwasher having finished the load I set it to work on earlier, it was time to get the mundane laundry on

I used the machine's "washing assistant", which allows you to specify the types of thing you're washing, and also prevents you mixing things that shouldn't go in together. It then devises what it reckons are the optimal settings. This will be one of my most frequently used combinations, so I remembered to save it to "Favourites" (under the title "Mundane laundry", of course) so I can go straight to it without faffing around in future

And a few minutes after it had started, it pinged me via my phone to let me know that it expected to finish sooner than its initial estimate, due to the load being relatively small!

What a palaver. I put everything in 'cottons normal 30degrees' with a scoop of pink stuff, a wash capsule and some relatively smell free* softener, and hit the switch.

*why does every washing product have to smell like a french whorehouse?? FFS