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carpiste

Guru
Location
Manchester
What a great day! Up early and a relatively dry ride. Nice lunch, then football. West Ham v Brentford was so good followed by Liverpool v City which was fantastic! After that a delicious dinner followed by a huge helping of Bob and Paul go fishing! It was the last in the series, which is a little sad, but it was made even better by the appearance throughout of Ted the dog!
611993


Wondeful :bicycle:🎣 ^_^
 
Lovely supper of butternut squash, red lentil and roast garlic soup, plus the rest of the malaysian lamb curry, supplemented with a slice of roast pork, home made egg fried rice* and a meddley of assorted left over vegetables.

* the secret of a good egg fried rice is to use beef dripping or lard rather than oil. (From the book "How to Cook and Eat in Chinese")

P.S. I'd really recommend that little book - if you can still get it. It's from the late 1950s and written by a Chinese lady who lived first in Japan, and then in the US.
 

carpiste

Guru
Location
Manchester
Now doing a quick bit of research on the laptop that I'm looking at getting - Lenovo 430 Think Pad. A mate bought one a couple of months ago and he's really pleased with it.

Downside is it's a 14 inch screen rather than the 15 inch that I'm used to, but there's nothing with a similar spec AND a 15 inch screen in budget. Other question is do I go for a 256 Gb ssd and 8 Gb RAM or a 240 Gb ssd and 16 Gb RAM. The latter is 40 squid more. I'm angling towards the bigger hard drive.

FYI, this VAIO only has 1 Gb RAM and a 120 Gb hdd... :whistle:
I went for the Lenovo ideapad as both MrsC and I have both got Lenovo tablets. They have been really good value and the laptops seem to be the same. This one is really good. So fast up against my old, dying, Dell ^_^
Whichever spec you choose I`m sure it will be a great piece of kit :smile:
ps. I had Butternut squash again today, oven baked, and will be using one tomorrow for soupl ^_^
 
I went for the Lenovo ideapad as both MrsC and I have both got Lenovo tablets. They have been really good value and the laptops seem to be the same. This one is really good. So fast up against my old, dying, Dell ^_^
Whichever spec you choose I`m sure it will be a great piece of kit :smile:
ps. I had Butternut squash again today, oven baked, and will be using one tomorrow for soupl ^_^

Thanks for the heads up. :okay:

The think pad is the business version I believe. Apparently the keyboard is very nice, although the screen is so-so. Although the reviews I've seen that have been written recently tend to compare the screen to more modern machines.

I'm sort of taking that with a pinch of salt, as the resolution and brightness is likely to be near enough on a par with the screen on this one, which is from 2006 / 2007... :blush:

Butternut squash makes fabby soup, much nicer than pumpkin. Works lovely roasted in filo parcels with puy lentils and feta cheese as well, btw. Or in a veggie curry.
 

classic33

Leg End Member
I replaced the light bulb in the hall.
Did it need replacing, did the work involve the use of a safety net
 
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