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[WTFH]

Morning all
Cold & frosty here, so outdoor jobs will have to wait. These include: lifting part of a path I put down to re-lay it flatter, putting preserver on a wooden frame, and then finishing staining a post which is going to be part of an installation at a friend’s house.

Good luck! <- manly

I feel a bit rested this morning, so it must have worked.

[NickFitz]

The pair of opal hunters who pride themselves on their digital/renewable lifestyle learned the hard way that you shouldn't try to carry a large solar panel in 65kph winds if you don't want it torn out of your hands by said winds and smashed on the ground

But other than that, most of them did OK

And the sapphire hunters came to the end of their seasons with a whole variety of electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic problems yet somehow still managed to find some

I do wonder at some of the mines, machines, and electrical installations in these programmes though. Is Australia completely lacking any kind of health and safety regulations?

Anyway, time to get to bed and do a little reading before lights out

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s bedtime concoction is 1000mg paracetamol, 440mg naproxen, 385mg valerian root, washed down with peppermint tea. Who says rock ‘n’ roll is dead?

Good luck! <- manly

[WTFH]

TFBSZ.

Dinner was sea bass with lemon & pepper butter, with kale and leeks, and a pint of blackcurrant cordial.

Tonight’s bedtime concoction is 1000mg paracetamol, 440mg naproxen, 385mg valerian root, washed down with peppermint tea. Who says rock ‘n’ roll is dead?

[NickFitz]

Tea, then, has been lamb scouse with a couple of slices of seedy bloomer

And four more for the freezer. Though even with two freezers, I'm going to struggle for space for them and the Scotch broth, which is still simmering gently in the slow cooker

The car earlier was a VW type 2 van, which is still apparently going strong as it's taxed until December

And some of the gold diggers had to call in a snake catcher when a deadly serpent invaded their patch. I suppose it's cool in a way that Australians can make a living out of catching snakes

[NickFitz]

The kitchen here might be a lot smaller than the old one, but it's considerably better designed, especially in terms of the amount of worktop space available. As a result, I can have both the slow cooker and the InstantPot™ going at the same time. So, having spent much of the day making the precursor stock, the slow cooker is now using half of it to make Scotch broth; and the IP is busy making scouse with the rest

I meant to do this over the weekend, with the stock bit happening overnight, but I kept forgetting to put it on

[ladymuck]

well spotted!

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and in other news.

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+ what everyone else says.

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Dipping in, life is incredibly tulip at times, hug your loved ones and for the love of god make a will if you haven't already!

Oh - that makes what was already something incredibly difficult way worse.

If you have children make sure everyone knows the plans for if the worst happens.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Bed linen being laundered.

The bed was stripped, aired and remade yesterday but the laundering part didn't really happen.

[ladymuck]

Dipping in, life is incredibly tulip at times, hug your loved ones and for the love of god make a will if you haven't already!

WNFS

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ WNFS.

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Frosty.

Cold in here at 11.5 deg, 11.5 deg in the kitchen, 8 deg in the leanto, 2 deg in the saltinghouse.

1039.5 mBar, in Hg, Torr, psi, (down from 1042 last night), 69% RH (GDR hair), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Telex machine doing its thing.

Smalls in the WM which wasn't frozen up, which is good.

Entertainment: discussion on witches on the wireless.

Meanwhile back on the 23rd of April 2019 MS was still counting down whilst WTFH was doing a hen count.

Smalls out of the WM and pegged out on the line in the frost.

Shirts in the WM.

Shirts out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Cottons in the WM.

Shopping trip to Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised and put away.

Timing was out this morning so, rather than a bus, it was shanks' pony all the way home. Jiggety jig.

Cottons out of the WM & pegged out on the line.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about something.

TWATO: waffling on about earthquakes & such like for 25 minutes.

Lunch: scrambled egg and poached tomato on Morrisons sunflower and pumpkin seed toasted crust, red corner yog (not that red, the other red), 2 x marmalade, 1 x bramble jelly on slices of toast (to get rid of the last slice), 0.91*1.57 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Almost not cold out there.

Shirts in off the line & into the TD to finish off.

The religious bed sheet and two pillowslips moved to the top line now that's free of shirts.

The rest of the stuff seems to be drying nicely in the sun.

Shirts out of the TD, roughly iRoned & airing upstairs.

Smalls in off the line & finishing in the TD.

Socks and towels in off the line & finishing in the TD.

Religious bedsheet & roller towel in off the line & finishing in the TD.

The TD had about a cup & a half of water when emptied.

Tea: meatballs in chilli sauce with rice & peas, a yog, the last of the peach slices, 0.91*1.57 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: PM. More earthquake.

Wheeler Dealers S7 E3 VW S2 Camper Panel van. Bought: £2k5, Total: £8465, Sold: £9k4 (allegedly). I knew it would end up painted orange. Edd likes orange. And yellow. The gofaster goodies were mildly inneresting.

MOT ran out in August 2020. It's had a lot of advisories since they did it up, and not a lot of miles put on it.

No Joy of Painting. I'll have to stay awake now.

Who do you think you are? Paul Hollywood.

Oak Island nutjobbery: "The Hedden Truth": what? that's there's no fecking treasure after all? .

This week on We ain't found tulipe they find a bent nail which Gary the Annoying **** thinks is a sail needle.

Meanwhile in the sea the magnetometer goes apetulip but yet again they ain't found tulip. .

There's another five eps of this S9 crap.

Secrets of the Ice: more bollox from Blaze. Aleutian Kiska Island rusty thing. Left behind by the Japanese Navy. Minisubmarine Type A.

Lead mine on some Canadian island. Frobisher expedition back around Liz I.

https://www.newscientist.com/article...obishers-gold/

Noviport Siberian tunnels. Since it's built in permafrost (by Soviet slave labour) it was a cold storage facility for fish.

Fossil found on Ellesmere Island: turns out to be a giant camel.

https://www.science.org/content/arti...-arctic-realms

Who'd have thunk?

Fishlock: wandering around the Vale of Glamorgan and waffling on about cricket.