Mundane News

[rockyroller]

the turkey is in the brine!

 

[fossyant]

Just been in a 'Team Meeting' - no-one sat near me - Covid keeps on giving ! PS I'm negative but still sound rough

 

[postman]

mrs P is on the War path.Energy company are trying to up our payments by £45 a month very soon.She got either a text or a letter.Now knowhere on this message does it say we are £483 in credit,they have this money,so by the time the new payments begin we will add anothe £260 to the credit.So that is over £700 of our money in their accounts making intrest for them Friday is going to be meltdown day,she is ready she is refusing to agree to the increase and wants the money already in credit refunding,the phone is going to be red hot you do not cross mrs P you do not.

 

[tom73]

Just been in a 'Team Meeting' - no-one sat near me - Covid keeps on giving ! PS I'm negative but still sound rough

Nothing like being a valued member of the team.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Some don't even require hinges!

Not only strange, but unhinged kittens.

 

[classic33]

Not only strange, but unhinged kittens.

Highly unhinged in some cases!

 

[classic33]

Meteorologists have in the past 24 hours sounded alarm bells after the emergence of a synoptic pattern suggesting a major freeze carrying up to four inches of snow is about to hit the UK.

 

[fossyant]

Meteorologists have in the past 24 hours sounded alarm bells after the emergence of a synoptic pattern suggesting a major freeze carrying up to four inches of snow is about to hit the UK.

Whoooo.

PS have you been reading the Daily Express ?

 

[PeteXXX]

mrs P is on the War path.Energy company are trying to up our payments by £45 a month very soon.She got either a text or a letter.Now knowhere on this message does it say we are £483 in credit,they have this money,so by the time the new payments begin we will add anothe £260 to the credit.So that is over £700 of our money in their accounts making intrest for them Friday is going to be meltdown day,she is ready she is refusing to agree to the increase and wants the money already in credit refunding,the phone is going to be red hot you do not cross mrs P you do not.

We're with Octopus, formerly Co-op, and it's all online app & emails. We're a fair bit in credit, too, so I lowered my payment amount to see how fast this credit drops once the heating is on a bit more. If it gets nearer to £zero, I'll up the amount accordingly.
The app is very good and shows bills, payments & amount in their bank.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I would have been early/mid teens then and had a team strategy. I just got the ball to somebody who was good at getting it in the net first shot. That was their whole job on the team to hang around near the net and wait for the ball. Worked every time.

I remember you saying this, and a very good strategy it was too, not only for your team but also the individuals concerned.

Alas, in my school such levels of thinking were a bit beyond most of my "colleagues", or the teachers come to that. Both saw sports as a sort of survival of the fittest that would weed out the weaker kids, and the most in depth strategy of the keenies was "get ball, beat up other team" while my sports teachers were mostly bullies with a degree who thought belittling people was teaching.

The only game I was remotely good at was hockey, because that required speed, not mass, and also because I had a weapon: people learned very quickly to get out of the way when I had the ball. We didn't play it often. Looking back it was possibly because we played on concrete and it hurt the teachers knuckles.

 

[Speicher]

A question for the chefs on here.

Someone has asked me to try out their spice blends. She has asked me to follow the recipe exactly.

Okay... the instructions are clear and straight forward. However one uses Pork Belly, and when I asked her if I could substitute pork chops or fillet, she said "No!" Eek, looking at pork belly on Asda's website, it looks very fatty. I am not keen on fatty meat of any description.

Can I substitute some other form of pork? Or cut out the fatty bits? Or should I just use pork fillet, and tell her the truth. The pork belly is boiled for an hour before adding it to the spices etc, to make an aromatic mild curry dish.

The other one she has asked me to try out is Butter Chicken. This uses, amongst other things, cream, but I am prepared to add a tiny bit of cream, and use the rest on puddings. Cream, double, clotted, or single is not something I usually buy.

Edited to add: The recipe says "four long strips of belly pork"

 

[Oldhippy]

My favourite birthday card of the day. 😁

 

[Illaveago]

I have been working on an aluminium mudguard extension for my bike. In between showers. I've been working outside as there's no room in my garage especially now that I have squeezed another bike in there .
The mudguard extension is needed as I got wet riding my bike last time . The bike has mudguards but the rear one has a section broken off , hence the need for an extension .

 

[classic33]

Whoooo.

PS have you been reading the Daily Express ?

Came up on MSN. Didn't realise it were in a paper as well.

 

[mybike]

I did use Linux years ago but nowadays don't really have the time or inclination to bother installing different operating systems. Modern versions of Windows are much better than they used to be too.

I simply don't use Windows anymore.