I was surprised at how much ras el hanout the recipe suggested using, so I looked up another recipe and it said the same! Mine not to reason why, but at least it'll be spicy
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My latest attempt at making something different for dinner is in the oven for a long, slow cook: lamb tagine
I was surprised at how much ras el hanout the recipe suggested using, so I looked up another recipe and it said the same! Mine not to reason why, but at least it'll be spicy
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As your name is Nick I assume you nick them. Have to stop that soon when Sainsburies rolls out face recognition.Code:Shopping done, including the new Viz!
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Shopping done, including the new Viz!
There were three things I don't buy very frequently that I needed to get, a couple of them having been forgotten on previous occasions. I've been reminding myself about them all week, and even as I was going to sleep last night. Of course, when I awoke today, I'd forgotten one of them and couldn't remember what it was no matter how hard I racked my brains
I had to rely on being near the right aisle to jog my memory, and in the event it worked: washing up liquid!
Returning home, the preferred parking space was still free. And there'd been a delivery! This was one of the ones I couldn't track easily because they'd sent the old-style ParcelForce tracking number, which makes it a convoluted process. But it was there, just inside the front door to our staircase: a supply of Miele detergent
The new machine has this system where there are two bottles of stuff in the bottom, and it supposedly works out how much of each to use at the right time for a perfect wash. You can not bother with this and just use one of the normal methods, but as well as including a set with the machine, they also provided a voucher for a free six months' supply, so I figured I might as well get it. Of course, the six months calculation is possibly optimistic, but it's presumably also based on the number of washes done in that time by the average family (140, it says in the small print) and I reckon that for me, that should easily work out to over a year
Anyway, time to wait for the other deliveries. Evri haven't updated anything since yesterday, but that means nothing given how useless they are. The Royal Mail have apparently gone into a loop; rather than simply taking it back to the local delivery office whence it can be brought out again, it's gone to the Midlands Super Hub, then onwards to the South Midlands Hub (which is where it was yesterday). I've just been notified that it's now back at the local delivery office, and I'm hoping that they bring it a bit earlier today so they don't run out of time, which is what I assume happened yesterday. They haven't included a target time range on this notification, though who knows what that implies?
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Morning all, local time 1044
Sunny with fluff. Currently 20 degrees ('feels like' 22) with a high of 33 expected. Barometer up to 1020 mBar.
Sunrise 07:46; Sunset 20:40 CEST
HWMBO agreed yesterday that the trip to Toledo today wasn't a good idea. Not sure what we will do today but it will involve me finding and posting a postcard to my Mum. If anyone else ever wants postcards from my travels, I'm always happy to add people to the mailing list!Leave a comment:
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Morning.
Friday <checks clock>
Dry.
Sunny.
Blue sky.
Cool in here at 18.8 deg, 19 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto, 12.5 in the saltinghouse.
1013 mBar, 29.91 in Hg, 759.8 Torr, 14.69 psi, (up from 1008 last night), 70% RH.
Meanwhile on the 14th of February 2020 Brillo, BR14, Churchill, AndyGarbs and SimonMac popped in, potato peelers were mentioned.
Washing frenzy in progress.
Walk (abbreviated) walked in the sunshine on the way up and with increasingly dark clouds on the way back.
Picking with rain so the washing is in off the line & in the TD. First time in ages.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The food programme, the thing with that chap whose skool mates have ended up dead for various reasons: one of them an "honour" killing by her father FFS, another killed in a gang war, and the third went to Somalia & got himself killed there. Bliar turns up to voice the wonders of his immigration policy.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 11:00.Leave a comment:
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Morning all
TFIF, etc.
CBS, sunshine, but an autumnal chill in the air - it was 13C when we went out earlier.
No birthdays this weekend.
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Morning denizens
A sunny day today! Well, until lunchtime when it'll cloud over. No rain predicted though. It's 13°C and aiming for 19°, while the barometers have bounced back all the way to 1006/1014mB
Off to do the shopping in a bit. Neither the Royal Mail nor Evri seem to have got around to scheduling any deliveries yet, so with luck I'll be back before they don't bother arriving
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Tonight's viewing was more of the fare dodger thing. I'll have watched all of that soon, and will have to find something useful to do instead
And later, I read a bit more Rumpole
Early night now, as I want to get the shopping out of the way first thing so I can be home in time for various delivery services to send me messages saying I'm not in
Goodnight all 
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Tea has been ribeye steak with chips, fried onions, and beans
Royal Mail have proved a broken reed; I just got a message stating that they were unable to deliver as my address was inaccessible
They should have been here by 19:30 so I put off cooking until then, after which I assumed they were unlikely to arrive. I suppose it's true that it's not possible to access my address when you're back at the delivery office on the other side of the city
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HWMBO is on the mend after much sleeping. Fluids are staying where they ought to so he hopes to be able to manage a bit of dinner this evening.Leave a comment:
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