Slow Services

I am getting used to how slow the services can be here.  I may have to enquire about some of these to get some progress...

Bird Feeder Removal

The old bird feeder snapped in the wind, so eventually we need a new one.  Meanwhile, I investigated how the old one fast fixed into the ground.  It is just a long spike into the soil.  I left it where it is, if the new one goes into the same place, we have less bashing to do.  On the other hand, I just remember that we would be shifting it left.

Tawa Pan

We were shopping for a tawa pan.  When I look at one, it reminds me of Welsh cakes. 

Dexter Binged

I only just noticed Channel 4 has the whole of Dexter.  I have watched all of it.  Ticked.  Ending is a little sad.

Chocolate Cronut

I ot a free treat from Lidl.  Instead of the usual breakfast item, I got a Cronut.  It turned out quite nice!

Heating Calculation

One thing to do heat loss calculation, heat gain seems to be harder.  You can do air temperature gain, but all fabric and everything within the space is likely to be a heat sink.  And that heating needs to overcome heat loss before the heat gain can take place.

Small Phone Plan

When the Vodafone outage happened two weeks ago, I lost both work phone and home internet.  I bought a little phone plan to tide me over.  And it has already run out!  Vodafone better not plays up again.

Sago

After having a closer look, what we had looks awfully like sago

So some 10 years later, we cooked up the rest!

Sago is supposedly from palm, tapioca is from cassava. But it appears a lot of sago is not made with sagu anymore.

AWS Outage

There was an AWS outage, which normally does not affect me not do I care, but it affected Duolingo, and I thought I would lose my streak.  Not really, I have streak freeze.  

Anyway, it did come back before days' end and all is well.

Autumn Rides

The forecast was bad for Sunday but the forecast was fine for the morning.  I took the opportunity to do another ride before the opportunity deminished further!

Tubular Heater Season

It is tubular heater season.  I have to explain to people that insulation is great to slow down heat loss, and if the loss is not made up, it will cool down the rest of the house.  I am even thinking about buying a second one!

Gated Road

I was up at Malhamdale, it had so many 4' road and my first time through a gated road!  Neither Apple and Android mentioned the gate!

Brymor at Helmsley

I think Brymor is tastiest at the farm parlour.  I just feel a massive sting when I get mine at Helmsley!!!

External Mechanical Impact II

I have stopped my fellow repairer making the same mistakes that I made, taking something apart that cannot be reassembled.  I shared this and a few other stories at the repair cafe event.  

Flooring Saga

The flooring saga has finally concluded, for now.  The bullet proof LVT is not as bullet proof as it turns out, after much messing around, it is fractionally better.  I now understand why people like carpet.

University of Leeds Repair Cafe

We went to an event at the university.  We are quite impressed by the University of Leeds Repair Cafe's setup.  We also chatted with other areas' repair cafe.  It has been an educational evening.

Monkey Bike

I met someone with a monkey, it is quite cute.  It performs similar to what I expected, a Honda 125 motor, good little machine.

Giant Halloween Decoration

I keep seeing giant halloween decoration in my neighbourhood.  I am even tempted to stop and take a picture.  It is a lot of plastic, but whatever makes them happy I guess.

Miso Mania

Since I got a couple bag of dried shitake mushrooms, I need to find ways to use it, and I thought of miso.  So I bought a 1kg bag of miso.  It will probably be a lot miso soup!

Garage Coffee

I went to put some new tyres on Danby, the garage is quite shiny, and has a coffee machine, so I though I would try.  Awful is a compliment.  I had a small sip, and then I rejected it.  I should not have bothered.

Online Banking Pain

One of the banks has stupidly split my account, so my new account has a new login.  I had to go to a branch to try to get it sorted, but it maybe a long wait.

Crumpet Taste Test

I got some marked down Irresistible crumpets and some standard Warburton crumpet.  I thought they would be "the same", in fact, they were very difference.  I had the Irresistible ones first, as they were short dated, they were very nice.  Then when I get to the Warburton ones, I felt short changed.  I swear they used to be more substantial now they are a bit too holey?!

Pointless Hotel Points

I managed to get some coffee from my IHG points last year.  This year, they sent me a reminder that I haven't been staying with them so my points are expiring, so after browsing around, I donated them.  The best things for these points.

Off Grid Solar Review

Walt was going to do a little presentation on our little off grid system.  I have checked on the numbers for him.  They only used 42kWh of electricity, most of the time it as idle.  On the other hand, that was some 800 cups of tea in 4 months, so they had a good use out of it.

Electric Cooking Without Induction

The free electricity session made use of the excess wind power, and I had to be more creative on how to use the electric when there isn't an induction hobs.  The solution is to cook food in slow cooker and in the oven.  It does seems inefficient to roast down the vegetables compared to contact cooking on the pan, but it got done electrically, that was the brief.

Planet Money Game

I would be interested in playing the Planet Money game.  Except I am not sure who would play with me.  And that the work printer is playing up, so I cannot play the prototype.  Let see if I can get a copy when it is finalised.

Ikea Food

Ikea is going cheap breakfasts, but I wasn't early enough.  And the kiosk no longer sells meatballs, which is a shame.  I am still not sure why their hot drinks are so bad and their kiosk food so tasteless.  I think I am pretty much done with Ikea now, as in, I am really not bothered with eating there.

Garden Storm Damages

Autumn is here, a few storm has saved me the trouble to decide which plants to cut down first.  Too bad that the storm also took down the bird feeder!

Buckeyes

I just found out, buckeyes are just conkers!