Mundane News

[Speicher]

Much as I would like visits from my many friends in this thread, please refrain from visiting Speicher Towers for a few weeks.

Next week, starting tomorrow, some men (two) will be working here to repair the bedroom ceiling and then redecorate the whole room, and the adjacent bathroom. So the contents of that bedroom are now scattered across the other rooms in the house. My sewing room is now a bedroom, and the lounge has the other contents of the bedroom.

I have no idea when things will return to normal. A partial normality may resume in between the decorating finishing and the carpet being fitted.

If anyone would like to attend a sillybration when it is finished, I will let you know the date and time.

 

[Speicher]

Well that is the weeks supplies put away .
Bed stripped and in the washing machine.
Time to bake a cake

A traditional sponge cake for me please.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Guess all those right wing white "supremes" are going to have to find someone to blame for their god ignoring their pleas?

They have the narrative that Joe Biden "stole" the election, somehow. Rotkopf will now have to find some other way to parlay his business "success" into more debt.

 

[biggs682]

A traditional sponge cake for me please.

Srry went for a walnut and coffee cake loaf in the end as Betty gave us some walnut pieces yesterday

 

[Speicher]

Srry went for a walnut and coffee cake loaf in the end as Betty gave us some walnut pieces yesterday

You should have said! My flavourite cake is coffee and walnut, so can you make it the other way round for me please?
What do use for the coffee flavour? Yes, I know it would be coffee but there are so many out there, is one particular one betterer for cakeyness?

 

[Reynard]

Foggy, still and mild here chez Casa Reynard.

Was indulgent and slept in, but then spent the rest of the morning making tomato soup. I had some sun-dried tomatoes in olive oil that wanted using, plus some of the last tomatoes from the garden that have finally decided to ripen. I roasted the latter with lots of garlic and a sploosh of balsamic vinegar.

Had lunch - ham, cheese and chutney sammich, two plus a pear and a tangerine. Now having a bit of bum park time, and then I shall make an apple crumble.

 

[Reynard]

Oh, and if anyone runs out of walnuts for coffee and walnut cake, give me a yell! I do have a bit of a stash...

And now I'm fancying a slice of coffee and walnut cake...

 

[fossyant]

Dull, but calm in Manchestershire. Roast Chicken in wine is in the oven !

Just pottered about, including a repair to the hinge on the laptop screen - bit of a weak point in the design in that after many years the captive nuts break out of the inner part of the case, so when you open the lid it pulls the case appart. Fixed one side with epoxy about a year ago, but couldn't find it this time, so hot melted the other side. The hinges are stronger than the case.

 

[Reynard]

The Orange Faced Sh*t Gibbon is being replaced! Woo Hoo!

Hmmm, I'm borrowing that... For some reason, I'm sat here cackling like a maniac!

 

[DCLane]

Been a pottering day so far as it's been cold, foggy and damp so I couldn't be bothered going out;

Repaired the watch that's been sat stopped on my desk for a month by putting a new battery in.
Did my work PDR for a review next week. I've been busy this past year!
Played with the NeilPryde and that's going on the Zwift set-up so my son can have his Boardman AirPro back for winter
Swapped the now-fixed Mavic MA2 wheel with a battered Raleigh one on my Raleigh Pioneer so they match
Got the axle out of a broken HED front wheel along with the spoke nipple so I could work out how to fix it. Putting it all back together might be a bit harder though as I'm intending fitting a new spoke without fully removing a glued tubular tyre

Oh, and I looked at the Argon TT bike that needs an upgrade (Dura-Ace crankset and rear mech, chainring swap and new chain). It looks nice without it. Decided that I might break it by doing too much today so I'll leave that for another time ...

Lunch was the remaining steaks. Only there were two steaks and three of us: I lost out

 

[Reynard]

Lunch was the remaining steaks. Only there were two steaks and three of us: I lost out

You should have sliced them up finely and *then* divvied them up. Or turned them into wraps with salad, or burritos or something like that. xxx

 

[Illaveago]

That wouldn't be a battery/power problem, would it? 🤔

It may be Norton playing up with Kaspersky? We've tried removing Norton but it pops up from time to time .
Is Norton the computer equivalent of Japanese Knot Weed ?

 

[Reynard]

I've just made myself a

 

[DCLane]

You should have sliced them up finely and *then* divvied them up. Or turned them into wraps with salad, or burritos or something like that. xxx

They could. But they didn't. I got a tiny bit and some cheese!

 

[Illaveago]

It has been grey with occasional drizzle here today . I've been outside working on my Falcon Professional , cleaning off more of the paint with a thinners soaked rag. I have also been expanding the front fork gap with a car jack . Those forks don't half spring back when the jack slips off ! . I have managed to fit a front wheel in with a bit of easing .