Early Risers.

[Andy Hayter]

On 05/10/2023 at 20:02, iL Dottore said:

Well spotted, that man!  (Choice of potato being important)

I am no expert on that particular tuber, but it goes without saying you need a so-called “floury potato” for a chip.

 

As to which floury potato you should use, I leave that to the Kartoffelmeister amongst us.

 My thoughts completely, but the recommended Pink Fir Apple is anything but floury.

AS it happens it is a variety I grow so I will give it a road test.  What could go wrong?  Given the last few weeks, probably everything.

 

 

 

Well the jury has delivered on the thoughts of Pink Fir Apple as a chip potato.

 

Just don't do it.  Not disgusting but there are plenty proper potatoes for this duty.  Par boiled and then deep fried.  Tasty but chewy and did not melt in the mouth.

 

I will concede however, that if perchance you boil too many pfk pots and have some cooked ones in the fridge the next morning, they do slice up and fry well for breakfast.  But chips? - No, no, no and thrice no - that's  6 nos.

Edited October 6, 2023 by Andy Hayter

[polybear]

4 hours ago, tigerburnie said:

I take it you have armed guards next to that cake............................................

 

Bear has declared a ceasefire. 😢

Have I mentioned that?

 

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

With the CCi GmbH affiliate also being a Forschungsinstitut, research was also undertaken to determine what cake was best at staving of quantum collapse. The results were surprising: the best cake for staving off quantum disruption was the coffee and walnut cream cake, whilst the worst cake for staving off such submolecular disasters was LDC.

 

The only question that remains is once PB comes off his cake-fast, will he be Bear enough to step up to the plate and eat coffee and walnut cream cake to save Britain?

 

Since the research was sponsored by Nescafe and nutsinbulk.co.uk then a Certain Bear smells a very large rat......

[Dave Hunt]

I have seen it stated (and this is not a joke, honestly) that walnuts are beneficial for controlling blood sugar levels and are recommended for T2 diabetics. 

 

Dave

[Tony_S]

19 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

 

Since the research was sponsored by Nescafe and nutsinbulk.co.uk then a Certain Bear smells a very large rat......

I think you are safe anyway. If it is postulated that Britain can only be saved from quantum collapse by eating Walnut and cream cake you can probably achieve the same result by never observing the said cake. The cake will remain in collapsed and non-collapsed states as long as you never observe it. Should be easy enough to do.

Edited October 6, 2023 by Tony_S

[PhilJ W]

20 hours ago, Gwiwer said:

His Furship was collected at 9am and has spent the day thus far purring loudly and checking out his new abode. 

For the second time in his life with us all the familiar things and both of the usual staff are here but the surroundings are somewhat different. 

Large Billy bookcase downstairs has been disassembled and rebuilt upstairs. Small Billy which took two burly shifters to get it upstairs was brought back down by a solo Gwiwer. 

The sun is shining through newly-cleaned windows and it is time for Muggercoffy the Third. And a choccy biscuit.  

When I moved to my cottage at Burnham-on-Crouch forty years ago now we had to remove the window sashes in the main bedroom to get a double bed in. It took three of the removal men to manoeuvre the bed in. I hadn't been there long when I decided to replace the windows with 'tilt and turns' which could be opened inwards like a door. So when I sold up a few years later it was just as easy to get the furniture out as getting it in. The window sashes were all in good order and I gave some of them to a neighbour to replace some of his that were a bit past it. Some of the panes of glass were pretty old as well being of spun glass. The cottages were built in 1862 so those sashes did pretty well.

Edited October 7, 2023 by PhilJ W

[Tony_S]

10 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

I have seen it stated (and this is not a joke, honestly) that walnuts are beneficial for controlling blood sugar levels and are recommended for T2 diabetics. 

 

Dave

Aditi’s Mum refused to give Aditi any walnuts as she said they weren’t good for diabetics. Hasn’t stopped Aditi eating them. I suspect MiL misheard.

Edited October 6, 2023 by Tony_S

[BoD]

3 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I think you are safe anyway. If it is postulated that Britain can only be saved from quantum collapse by eating Walnut and cream cake you can probably achieve the same result by never observing the said cake. The cake will remain in collapsed and non-collapsed states as long as you never observe it. Should be easy enough to do.

 

… but what happens if the cat eats the cake?

[Tony_S]

12 minutes ago, BoD said:

 

… but what happens if the cat eats the cake?

Probably safer not to look.

[PupCam]

Evening All.

 

Firstly, belated birthday wishes to BoD!

 

I went for a thrash on the RD today stopping off at a car accessory tin shed to buy some bulbs for Monty.   About 40 miles in total although they weren't all plain sailing as I thought I'd had some trouble with the plugs oiling up but when it stopped completely the reason was clear (just like the fuel tubes); fuel starvation.      For some reason the fuel pipes are getting air locks preventing the flow from the tank to the carbs.  Of course, as it's a bike, that's not exactly a long way to go and relies entirely on gravity.   Trouble is it's not obvious why as with the pipes removed from the fuel tap fuel gushes forth with gusto all over the floor (well it would, some twit's removed the fuel pipe).  Put the pipes on a mere dribble runs down the near vertical pipe.     A job for tomorrow then.

 

I managed a temporary lash-up of the old basket-case rear view mirror in the stripped out mounting.  It's so much better than the horrible bar-end mirror fitted when I got it but of course the lash-up didn't hold so something better was required.   Contrary to my original understanding the thread on the mirror and in the housing were righthand not lefthand.   That makes fitting a Helicoil to do a proper repair much easier.  IIRC a certain Bear said that he'd got RH M10 Helicoils, tools and taps so I might be calling up some support but of course that's not going to be an instant solution ....  

 

Looking at the thread in the housing it didn't look too bad, it just looked too larger a diameter by a fraction for the thread on the mirror stem.    I wondered if I could make a suitable home-made Helicoil out of stainless steel wire-locking wire,  if I could insert it with long nose pliers & other sundry tools and of course, would it would work?

 

It turned out that I could, I could and it did.   Now that's what I call a result!     😀

 

Of course, when and if a proper Helicoil and tooling becomes available I will replace it and do the job properly but for now I think I've got away with it.    This what the proper thing looks like

 

 

Note:  I don't think the home-made Helicoil would be up to, say, repairing a cylinder head bolt thread but this one is only holding a small mirror on after all.

 

Night All

 

[Erichill16]

Evening All,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Warren.

Glad you enjoyed your afternoon and hopefully the evening as well.

A few more jobs done.

Goodnight.

Robert

[Coombe Barton]

... email: "I came into university today for your lecture but I entered the wrong lecture room and only realised when that lecture was finished.”

They’d gone to (and sat through) a whole two hour criminology lecture. Mine was Analytics....

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/10/06/covid-monitoring-ramping-up-vaccines-to-buy-what-hs2-will-look-like/

[Winslow Boy]

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

I think you are safe anyway. If it is postulated that Britain can only be saved from quantum collapse by eating Walnut and cream cake you can probably achieve the same result by never observing the said cake. The cake will remain in collapsed and non-collapsed states as long as you never observe it. Should be easy enough to do.

Don't you need a cat for that?

Edited October 6, 2023 by Winslow Boy
Drat beaten to it. Shush don't tell Shrodner.

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[Winslow Boy]

47 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

... email: "I came into university today for your lecture but I entered the wrong lecture room and only realised when that lecture was finished.”

They’d gone to (and sat through) a whole two hour criminology lecture. Mine was Analytics....

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/10/06/covid-monitoring-ramping-up-vaccines-to-buy-what-hs2-will-look-like/

I think someone has a problem. Not certain who but yes definitely a problem.

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, PupCam said:

Put the pipes on a mere dribble runs down the near vertical pipe.     A job for tomorrow then.

 

It sounds very odd. I assume you mean when the pipe is connected to the tap, fuel doesn’t run out of the pipe before it enters the carburettor. A simple tube connected to tube wouldn’t normally affect flow. Once inside the carburettor a sticky float would cause fuel starvation but I look forward to the answer. By the way, I hate carburettors, though I must admit the ones on my Japanese bikes were fine. Ones in my old British bikes and assorted cars were total pains! Thank goodness for fuel injection !

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[Tony_S]

9 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

I think someone has a problem. Not certain who but yes definitely a problem.

Before she moved over to the Higher Education department Aditi worked in the college inspection team. One of Aditi’s colleagues once sat in a classroom for an hour and at the end said she didn’t really understand what had happened and what learning had taken place. It didn’t seem to match the lesson plan she had been given. The explanation was she was in the wrong room and had observed a departmental meeting not a lesson. 

[pH]

The first trees to turn in the fall here are small-leaf maples. The colour can be spectacular - the Algoma Central Railway runs special trains to take people to see the fall colours in the Agawa Canyon in Ontario. Here are a couple of small-leaf maples near to us - apologies for the light pole in one picture:

 

 

Edited October 6, 2023 by pH

[monkeysarefun]

3 hours ago, Tony_S said:

I hate carburettors, though I must admit the ones on my Japanese bikes were fine. Ones in my old British bikes and assorted cars were total pains! Thank goodness for fuel injection !

 

 

See, there's your problem right there.

 

A 2 or 4 barrel Holley or Edelbrock is a thing of beauty.  My first car I put  a 2 barrel Holley  on as soon as I could afford it,  it was a wonderful piece of engineering, nothing to have to fiddle with for hours unlike the original SU set  it came with. 

 

Down here the carby is celebrated and often put on show in pride of place so the owner  can just stare at it in joy as they  drive along.

 

 

 

Edited October 7, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[Ozexpatriate]

3 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

... email: "I came into university today for your lecture but I entered the wrong lecture room and only realised when that lecture was finished.”

They’d gone to (and sat through) a whole two hour criminology lecture. Mine was Analytics....

John, perhaps the student found your material interesting?

[Ozexpatriate]

2 hours ago, pH said:

The first trees to turn in the fall here are small-leaf maples.

The tops are starting to turn here. It will likely be a couple of weeks before we see full colour like that. 

 

Autumn here is quite irregular and spread out. Instead of the intense colour burst that places like New England are famous for we get here and there patches of colour as individual trees decide it is their time over a period of a couple of months. It's not as breathtaking but it lasts longer much longer.

 

Yesterday and today saw a reversal of recent weather. It was warm and clear at around 29°C. It was 16°C and cloudy a few days ago.

[monkeysarefun]

3 hours ago, pH said:

apologies for the light pole in one picture:

 

 

No worries!

 

 

[monkeysarefun]

54 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Yesterday and today saw a reversal of recent weather. It was warm and clear at around 29°C. It was 16°C and cloudy a few days ago

 

 

See thats why they cleverly renamed it "climate change" cos its always changing!

 

Unlike "global warming",   the deniers cant deny that.

Edited October 7, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[jjb1970]

On the subject of cake,  remember that when you get your five slices a day the health benefits are enhanced by having a variety of cake. Of course you could eat a full Victoria sponge cake (based on the standard cutting a cake into 5 slices ratio) and satisfy the essential daily intake, but much better to have (purely for illustrative purposes) a slice of Victoria sponge cake along with a slice each of black forest cake, carrot cake, lemon drizzle cake and cheese cake. And remember, carrot cake is  made with carrots so is extra healthy and counts as one of your five a day of fruit and veg ( for those who still believe all the medical misinformation being pushed by big fruit and veg).

Edited October 7, 2023 by jjb1970

[Hroth]

FIVE slices?

 

So thats where I've been going wrong, years ago I standardised on FOUR...