Re-learning Typing

We requested some ergonomic keyboards, and I now have to re-learn how to type.  For example, I clearly used to typing B using the wrong hand, and now I could not reach across.  I will be spending time at http://www.typingtest.com/ to practice when I have a chance!

Great British Food Festival Opel vs Meat

I have not participated in any food challenges before, as most of them neither achievable nor paying price money, ie economical outcome.

While I was at the Great British Food Festival, the food challenge was sausage and cider for £5.  I was looking for lunch, and thought, for £5, I could be filled up with food, especially when all the other food in the festival were expensive.  The sausages were Simon's 18" British Farmhouse sausages, and the cider was cheap Blackthorn, I thought I could tolerate the cider.  So I signed up.

I was the only woman on the line up, all the men were much bigger and taller, I was sizing them up.


As soon as we started, I knew I was using a wrong method by biting the sausage.  I quickly changed my method to follow the leaders, I broke them into bite sizes and applied to face.


I made the second round.  The two losers were not trying very hard, perhaps they only aimed to get a £5 lunch with a drink.


I was clearly not making the final, so it was my final few bites. At the end of my challenge, I took 4 minutes to finish about 28 inches worth of sausages (about 6 normal sausages), and brought the remaining 10 inches back to the seat for Sarah and me to finish off.   I think I lost because of the size of my jaw and my esophagus, I must learn to chew faster!

I think I could do it again in the future, but similar to today, I would only do it when it is food that I like!

Great British Food Festival 2017

After some bargain hunting, we went to Great British Food Festival at Harewood.  Even with discount, it was still expensive!  We kept telling ourselves that since it included entry to Harewood grounds and part of the house, it was worth it.

The deal included a recipe book, which was not very exciting.  When we for a goodie bag each, again, I was not particularly impressed.  The size of the whole fair was not much bigger than the Wetherby Food Festival, and a little smaller than Derbyshire Food Festival, this has made me appreciate Wetherby Food Festival more.

We saw Bleiker's Smokehouse again, the representative remember me from Pickering Game fair and promised a good deal.  We decided to revisit them later in the day.

At one point, there were two armed policemen patrolling the food festival, and by the end, they were playing with children on their patrol vehicle.  They much have drawn the longest straw!

We arrived quite early and had a walk around before it all got busy, we saw a few demonstrations, and had a loads of free tasting.  Then I signed up for a challenge, I had to stop eating!

After the challenge, Sarah sat down for her lunch, then we went around for more freebies.  We sat to watch the Man v Heat challenge, someone did vomit.

We explored the house and garden. 

We went back to watch the final challenge, and tried more samples.  We bought more smoked fish flakes and a pair of kippers and some Bexton Cheese.  A nice sunny and fruitful day.  We can't wait to try the kippers.

Aged SRAD

I took little Rome to Genspeed for valve adjustment and carburetor clean.  It has got better and it still feels a little different.  I just have to keep adjusting to her new normal!

Cocoa Powder Brownie

I usually object brownies made with cocoa powders.  I have tried some that dries my throat and made me cough.  I ran out of chocolate and I want to run down my cocoa supplies, I made some for the weekend.  It turned out quite well except it had a sticky surface.  Now I am out of both chocolate and cocoa, I won't be making brownie for a while!

Heat Stroke in England

I was working outside for 3 hours, without much water intake, then I was playing tennis for another 2.5 hours.  I was roasted and mildly influenced by the heat.  And I scream, "I didn't move here for this!"

Microsoft One Note OCR

When the Windows ask me to turn on One Note, I thought it was absolutely useless.  Then I discovered that it has OCR function, I am now sold!  I have extracted a lot of texts from an old document, now I just need to painstakingly format it.  OCR did half the job, I could have to retype the whole thing!  Let's hope One Note did a decent job in the OCR process.