The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

[Boac]

Agreed now, but when I left the site all three were there. I had edited the text to indicate a problem but couldn’t remove the first two posts. The situation had arisen because I had edited the original post but it appeared as a new post when I submitted the edited text, no idea what was happening and presumably the first two were eventually removed ?

Whatever that means

Well done Admin. Medal in the post.

[ExSp33db1rd]

Admin/Alison cleaned it up. It's what I do when you're not looking.

No problem, necessary, but why did it happen, I've successfully deleted posts before ? I ticked the "delete post" option and "submit" but it didn't delete.

[OFSO]

Morning all. Cold but clear again. Guests coming for lunch. Mme has done a tasting menu of Indian dishes with printed menus translated into local language so they will know how the food is prepared.

[Ibbie]

Morning folks. .Temperature here has gone down one degree since I arose. Now 6c and cold. Part cloudy.

[Wodrick]

Good Morning World,
7c when I rose, going to hit 10c any moment, clear blue, not much wind.

La Gestoria is coming here to talk about things various.
Wills.
Living Wills and acting as Executor.
The complaint at the hospital.
The Private Surgeon.
All of which she is helping us with.
Should be a long afternoon.

Need Bread for Lunch.

[Pontius Navigator]

Zero this morning, ground nicely frozen and I know we were first footing as a field gate was frozen to the ground.

[Ibbie]

Need Bread for Lunch.

Got mine! Also come home with some fresh peas and onions.

Been walking with Ed around the river estuary. It was great when the sun was out, but when it wasn't and with a wind blowing up the river from the Med, it was freezing.

X-ray this afternoon for annual review of replacement knee, which takes place next week.

[OFSO]

Table set for formal lunch on terrace. It will most likely be uncomfortably hot in the sun but I've stoked up the wood stove for five p.m. when Mr Sun takes his Hat Off and Goes to Bed and the temperature descends to near zero.

[limeygal]

Hello playmates Parky again here. The north of the county got some snow-wtf? In anticipation for spring, I started some veg under a grow light. I plan on trying my hand at canning. All the tomato sauce for pasta that I made last year was lost when our fridge/freezer went TU last year. Have been buying my supplies for canning over the winter, just need some stuff to can. So far I have started peppers (2 varieties), tomatoes (3 varieties), ground cherries, and some herbs. I will direct sow some green beans, carrots, beets, lettuce, chives.

Finally got my laptop back yesterday. My neighbour very kindly picked it up for me. Hubs and I have been under "house arrest" since last week. Youngest daughter, who had visited a few days earlier, tested positive for covid. She thinks she probably picked it up on the flight home, but just to be sure, we quarantined ourselves. We will be back in general population tomorrow. Will have to go shopping as food supply is getting low.

Wods-how did SM's doctor's appointment pan out last week? Hope something is working for her

[Ex-Ascot]

Afternoon folks. Internet people here again today. They have now replaced everything. So far so good but not holding breath.

Broken Cu quite warm. Rain forecast but no sign of it.

Some folks passed by yesterday who are going to buy a plot just down river from us. We invited them in for a drink. They own this place: https://www.safaris.discoveringbotswana ... fari-lodge It is where I stayed when I first came here with HRH PC in 1984. The owner's father was on the reception committee when we took HRH into Lobatse. The Lodge has been closed for 21 months. His 60 staff have been reduced to 8. It is for sale. Not a chance in hell.

Hope it all goes well Wodders. Sort out those bloody quacks.

[ricardian]

Something to while away the hours in quarantine

[ricardian]

Slightly old news but may be of interest to the Ex-Ascots

[Karearea]

BBC news last night relegated its report after tennis and visa, BBC funding, right toward the end. Any updates?

BBC article:

Tonga tsunami sparks 'unprecedented disaster', government says

[Pontius Navigator]

Karearea, thanks for that, we eventually saw the BBC News but it waz both late and then well down the programme.

[Karearea]

After surveying Mr Molyneux’s yard, the shaggy-maned leviathan returned to sea.

Trespasser pops in from the beach

[ricardian]

Now that I have given up driving my octogenarian neighbour's wife, also an octogenarian, is giving me a lift to the GPs surgery tomorrow for my annual COPD review and HbA1c phlebotomy. After that she is taking me, 2 sacks of waste paper and a large quantity of glassware to the recycling skips, I shall be returning home afterwards. I am grateful for the lifts and repay her by fixing her elderly laptop and her husband's even more ancient desktop when they decides to be difficult. As a bonus, tomorrow one of the two companies that supply heating oil to the island is delivering 400 litres of oil which I ordered and paid for on 9 December, the other company has already delivered 500 litres which I ordered the week after Xmas. Guess which company is going to get my orders in future.

[Rwy in Sight]

Ric, the cheapest one? I am surprised they supply such limited quantities.

[llondel]

Ric, the cheapest one? I am surprised they supply such limited quantities.

Some people only have oil tanks that size. We were lucky when we had oil-fired heating, it was 2500litre tank and a single fill would generally do the whole year and was cheaper than 4x500l fills that more people got. £ouch but only once a year.

[ricardian]

Ric, the cheapest one? I am surprised they supply such limited quantities.

My oil tank only holds 1,200 litres and the oil company's minimum order is 500 litres.

[OFSO]

Morning all. Cold and clear here. Still coughing, hence sore throat. Two loads of washing done by seven am to beat the tarif. New CH thermocouple arrives today, will be interesting to see if it solves the starting problem.