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Yes, that was super quick. I think I'll do a second run at a lower temperature with more mealy potatoes and some sweet potatoes.

45 mins @ 180 works well for roasties. Half oil, half beef dripping. Oh, and Maris Piper tatties. :hungry:

Although out here, the power supply can be variable, and at peak times or when it's cold and / or wet, things will take a bit longer. Then I have to use the "poke it and see" method. :laugh:
 
Client's Christmas meal* 1 of 2 complete. Only have to survive tomorrows now.

*Not a party because of C-19...
 

DCLane

Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
Completely mundane news for everyone except me: my Christmas present to myself this year was to pay off what remained of my mortgage. With interest rates so low it's not worth saving so as of this afternoon the pile of bricks, cement and tiles I call 'home' is all mine.

As a result I'll have £500 a month less expenses. Wonder how many bikes I can get? :blush:
 

PeteXXX

Cake or ice cream? The choice is endless ...
Photo Winner
Location
Hamtun
I didn't know whether to put this here or in the Any Good Jokes... thread. However, this isn't a joke. The person who told my wife this was absolutely, one hundred per cent serious. I suggested it may have been a wind-up, but my wife says that this is only the latest theory she's heard from this person.

Apparently, the reason for the two national lockdowns is that the government needed to change the batteries in the country's pigeons.

Yes, you read that right. Battery-powered pigeons.

You see, the nation's pigeons are really surveillance drones to spy on the populace, particularly any foreigners (there was no definition of 'foreigner', however having heard of this person's opinions previously it could be anyone they don't like / 'not like us'). This is why there are so many pigeons in Trafalgar Square where spies from the various foreign embassies meet clandestinely. Also, why you see so many pigeons perching on window ledges. The pigeons record the meetings and send them to the government.

The government thought they had recalled all the pigeons for the installation of new batteries in the first lockdown, but they missed a few and there were a few faulty hence the second lockdown.

The good news is that all battery installations were successful so there should be no third lockdown.

'So what about the new tiered system?', my wife asked.

Well, that's to control the people and so the government knows where everyone is.

Presumably, so they can send the pigeons to watch us.

I laughed myself silly when my wife told me. :laugh::laugh::laugh:
There really ain't a cure for Stupid, is there...
 
I didn't know whether to put this here or in the Any Good Jokes... thread. However, this isn't a joke. The person who told my wife this was absolutely, one hundred per cent serious. I suggested it may have been a wind-up, but my wife says that this is only the latest theory she's heard from this person.

Apparently, the reason for the two national lockdowns is that the government needed to change the batteries in the country's pigeons.

Yes, you read that right. Battery-powered pigeons.

You see, the nation's pigeons are really surveillance drones to spy on the populace, particularly any foreigners (there was no definition of 'foreigner', however having heard of this person's opinions previously it could be anyone they don't like / 'not like us'). This is why there are so many pigeons in Trafalgar Square where spies from the various foreign embassies meet clandestinely. Also, why you see so many pigeons perching on window ledges. The pigeons record the meetings and send them to the government.

The government thought they had recalled all the pigeons for the installation of new batteries in the first lockdown, but they missed a few and there were a few faulty hence the second lockdown.

The good news is that all battery installations were successful so there should be no third lockdown.

'So what about the new tiered system?', my wife asked.

Well, that's to control the people and so the government knows where everyone is.

Presumably, so they can send the pigeons to watch us.

I laughed myself silly when my wife told me. :laugh::laugh::laugh:

How do we interpret the fact that these apparently government designed battery powered pigeons keep pooing on us?
 
Completely mundane news for everyone except me: my Christmas present to myself this year was to pay off what remained of my mortgage. With interest rates so low it's not worth saving so as of this afternoon the pile of bricks, cement and tiles I call 'home' is all mine.As a result I'll have £500 a month less expenses. Wonder how many bikes I can get? :blush:
wow what a milestone! congrats!
 

pawl

Legendary Member
I've been out this morning, a 54 mile bimble over to Countesthorpe.




54 mile bumble That would equate to a full day out for me.Chapeau
 

deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way
In other news, I did not drive my little new car today but I did look at it and even put a few things into the glove compartment. I also skim read another 50 pages of the 450 page car manual.

Edited to change "skin read" to "skim read" because it probably makes more sense than predictive text does
 
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Jenkins

Legendary Member
Location
Felixstowe
I've been out this morning, a 54 mile bimble over to Countesthorpe.
Better than me - just 50 miles this morning. But then I did have to be back home as I'd been asked to listen in to an online presentation ahead of Brexit for the second day running.

Beautifully sunny and quite mild day, with a bit of a breeze and I am seriously getting narked with the state of the roads - constantly wet and slippery and now with added mud as the beet harvest is in full swing and the lanes are just too small for the size of trucks picking up the harvest to take to British Sugar in Bury St. Edmunds.

Why isn't there the cycling equivalent of a drive through car wash?
 
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classic33

Leg End Member
I didn't know whether to put this here or in the Any Good Jokes... thread. However, this isn't a joke. The person who told my wife this was absolutely, one hundred per cent serious. I suggested it may have been a wind-up, but my wife says that this is only the latest theory she's heard from this person.

Apparently, the reason for the two national lockdowns is that the government needed to change the batteries in the country's pigeons.

Yes, you read that right. Battery-powered pigeons.

You see, the nation's pigeons are really surveillance drones to spy on the populace, particularly any foreigners (there was no definition of 'foreigner', however having heard of this person's opinions previously it could be anyone they don't like / 'not like us'). This is why there are so many pigeons in Trafalgar Square where spies from the various foreign embassies meet clandestinely. Also, why you see so many pigeons perching on window ledges. The pigeons record the meetings and send them to the government.

The government thought they had recalled all the pigeons for the installation of new batteries in the first lockdown, but they missed a few and there were a few faulty hence the second lockdown.

The good news is that all battery installations were successful so there should be no third lockdown.

'So what about the new tiered system?', my wife asked.

Well, that's to control the people and so the government knows where everyone is.

Presumably, so they can send the pigeons to watch us.

I laughed myself silly when my wife told me. :laugh::laugh::laugh:
Nothing more than a variation of an old story,
https://pigeonsarentreal.co.uk
Based on what the CIA actually did in the 60's in Operation Tacana.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-cias-most-highly-trained-spies-werent-even-human-20149/

Fixed a broken link.
 
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