monkeysarefun Posted July 6 Share Posted July 6 (edited) 46 minutes ago, enz said: Would you really want your beer (national drink) indelibly associated with your Parliament? PM Bob Hawke held the Guinness world record for downing a yard glass of beer while at Oxford. Or was it Cambridge? Anyway, some posh English school. Apart from maybe the gun reforms of 1996 by John Howard, I honestly cannot think of any other Great Australian Prime Minister moments, so I guess that beer IS indelibly associated with parliament, by me at least.. 46 minutes ago, enz said: And do Aussies really need an excuse to imbibe? It gets BLOODY hot, alright!?! 🙂 Edited July 6 by monkeysarefun 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted July 6 Share Posted July 6 Have parishioners recovered from staying up all night on Thursday to Friday and/ or over-imbibing over the same time period ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted July 6 Share Posted July 6 1 hour ago, CKPR said: Have parishioners recovered from staying up all night on Thursday to Friday and/ or over-imbibing over the same time period ? It was much more Australian time zone friendly. 10PM there is 7AM here so no staying up or drinking at work was involved. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted July 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 19 I hope no members of the Parish have been caught up in all this. I'm running Debian Linux on my everyday use computer so I haven't noticed anything, but I'm certainly not going to try accessing any on-line banking or payment systems until the 'All-clear' is sounded. Just goes to show just how fragile the World-Wide Web is. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Hayter Posted July 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 19 (edited) Indeed. I wonder how the "we don't need cheques and cash anymore" brigade are feeling this evening -* especially if they are a business taking card/digital payment only Edited July 19 by Andy Hayter 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 BBC here have reassured folk that this is unlikely to affect personal computers or personal data. I've just bought something from John Lewis using PayPal with no problems. Jim 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 The local Supermarket yesterday had 80% of their self-serve checkouts displaying the Windows blue screen of death, but they all looked happy again when I went down there this morning. Home users would be unlikely to be running the Crowdstrike security software so they should be unaffected. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 (edited) I'm due to return to work in the NHS on Monday after my obligatory post-pension purdah (and a week's holiday in Porthmadoc) and already wondering what the situation will be for my clinical appointments given the Trust's reliance on Windows with it's interminable updates. Edited July 21 by CKPR 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 1 hour ago, CKPR said: I'm due to return to the NHS on Monday after my obligatory post-pension purdah (and a week's holiday in Porthmadoc) and already wondering what the situation will be for my clinical appointments given the Trust's reliance on Windows with it's interminable updates. My Geepee called off a blood test yesterday morning, just in time. It was a blood-sugar test as my previous annual batch of tests showed a slightly raised blood sugar count, and it triggered the NHS computer which shouted that I was on the diabetes threshold. [On it, not above it, I'm normally below it] Something to do with my birthday, and fathers day immediately preceding my annual tests....All that cake and sweety stuff that my family gave me....obviously it was ''too much'', and I hadn't managed to dilute the sugar quickly enough. Anyhow, the NHS and EMIS computers had gone crunch, and probably the lab computers as well, so only 'death's door' patients were being seen. My first response was to extract from my freezer, one of the slices of local farm shop Victoria sponge I had frozen some time beforehand... Two weeks without cake can have a deleterious effect on the likes of me. [The whole cake was cut in half, and one side went to my Ex wife #3....Me keeping the other half.....Trite not to buy it as it was reduced..The local farm shop gets a huge table full of cake delivered every Thursday....and they sell off the previous week's unsold stock at a reduced price. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Buhar Posted July 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 26 His Majesty's Loyal Opposition are casting around for a new leader and early manoeuvrings put me in mind of the Dutch fans at the Euros. Naar Links Naar Rechts (To The Left, To The Right) https://youtu.be/OLfKJS3VHh4 although more recent developments are firmly in the vein of keep going right. Alan 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted August 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 12 I've getten um Yorksha gowd teeur made i' 'arrogate 'n afta suppin it uz voice 'as gone orl strange. Is eur gran' drop o' teeur though. 3 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeps Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 5 hours ago, Annie said: I've getten um Yorksha gowd teeur made i' 'arrogate 'n afta suppin it uz voice 'as gone orl strange. Is eur gran' drop o' teeur though. Thank you for this ‘potentially’ valuable post. I tried using Babelfish to translate the text but it didn’t recognise it?🤔 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted August 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 12 28 minutes ago, Deeps said: Thank you for this ‘potentially’ valuable post. I tried using Babelfish to translate the text but it didn’t recognise it?🤔 Ayup lad, tis t' Yorksha way o' speytin. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 (edited) I’m not qualified to comment on the quality of tea from Yorkshire, because all tea tastes like boiled eau de cologne to me, but I can comment on Taylor’s coffee bags: truly appalling! I bought some to take on a bike camping trip, because I haven’t got a tiny, easily packable coffee-maker, and regretted it from the first sip. PS: went to Harrogate recently, lovely countryside roundabout, pretty much like the pictures on tea packets, oddly enough. Edited August 12 by Nearholmer 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 12 15 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: I’m not qualified to comment on the quality of tea from Yorkshire, because all tea tastes like boiled eau de cologne to me, Rinse the pot out. 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 (edited) 2 hours ago, Deeps said: Thank you for this ‘potentially’ valuable post. I tried using Babelfish to translate the text but it didn’t recognise it?🤔 If ye canna jalouse whit it seys, ye'll hae to spier frae a local. We use Taylors groond coffee in oor machine and it's guid. Jim Edited August 12 by Caley Jim 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 12 31 minutes ago, Caley Jim said: If ye canna jalouse whit it seys, ye'll hae to spier frae a local. Just replace every vowel with an 'i'. (Sorry @Annie) 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted August 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 12 Taylor’s!?!. Tea?? Coffee?.. Not Harrogate, Keighley!!! https://www.timothytaylor.co.uk 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted August 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 12 30 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: (Sorry @Annie) If I don't drink the tea regularly it wears off like now. It was a lot of fun though. Reading the words out loud will give the clue to their meaning. Phonetics and all that. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 I live in an area where the watter [East Yarkshoire]...comes out of the ground..being located on chalk uplands [the Wolds]... It does taste OK, but to avoid getting the coating of stuff in the electric kettle, I always empty it and refill with fresh watter after every use... The hellyment looks to be quite shiny, even after many years of usage. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Hayter Posted August 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 12 6 hours ago, Nearholmer said: I’m not qualified to comment on the quality of tea from Yorkshire, because all tea tastes like boiled eau de cologne to me, Pray do tell what occasioned you to boil eau de cologne, and then taste it - in order to make that comparison. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 A raging thirst, sir; a raging thirst. Thirty days adrift in an open boat, and the fresh water all gone on the twenty-third. Not a morsel left of the weevily biscuits, so I ate the first mate, about whom all sorts of rumours had previously swirled, and drank his eau de cologne. 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 Reet gud brew, marra... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Buhar Posted August 12 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 12 11 hours ago, Compound2632 said: Rinse the pot out. What! Maybe give it a scrape after a couple of years, but otherwise leave the inside well alone for a deep, rich flavour. Alan 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted August 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 12 2 minutes ago, Buhar said: What! Maybe give it a scrape after a couple of years, but otherwise leave the inside well alone for a deep, rich flavour. Alan In general I would agree but the issue here was to remove the taste of boiled eau de cologne with which his pot had become contaminated. We have a similar issue after using the pot for certain herbal teas. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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