Wednesday, 29 October 2025
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...
Tuesday, 28 October 2025
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.
Monday, 27 October 2025
Tawa Pan
We were shopping for a tawa pan. When I look at one, it reminds me of Welsh cakes.
Sunday, 26 October 2025
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.
Saturday, 25 October 2025
Chocolate Cronut
I ot a free treat from Lidl. Instead of the usual breakfast item, I got a Cronut. It turned out quite nice!
Friday, 24 October 2025
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.
Thursday, 23 October 2025
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.
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
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.
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
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.
Monday, 20 October 2025
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!
Sunday, 19 October 2025
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!
Saturday, 18 October 2025
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!
Friday, 17 October 2025
Brymor at Helmsley
I think Brymor is tastiest at the farm parlour. I just feel a massive sting when I get mine at Helmsley!!!
Thursday, 16 October 2025
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.
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
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.
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
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.
Monday, 13 October 2025
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.
Sunday, 12 October 2025
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.
Saturday, 11 October 2025
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!
Friday, 10 October 2025
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.
Thursday, 9 October 2025
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.
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
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?!
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
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.
Monday, 6 October 2025
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.
Sunday, 5 October 2025
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.
Saturday, 4 October 2025
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.
Friday, 3 October 2025
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.
Thursday, 2 October 2025
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!
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
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