Early Risers.

[chrisf]

In the UK Milk of Amnesia is an affectionate nickname for very strong beer.

 

Chris

[BokStein]

38 minutes ago, polybear said:

Bear is wondering if a couple of gammon steaks (still vacuum sealed) in the freezer are ok to eat.  They're dated April 2016....

 

Vacuum still holding and been in the freezer all the time; I would certainly thaw them out then unwrap to see how they look, then cook them thoroughly, as you do with porcine product usually. If they look and taste OK, probably won't do any more than give you the nutrition you would normally derive from the 'fresh' ones. It's all down to how they're stored.

[tigerburnie]

I think I might be in trouble, you see I have been looking for some more locos on Ebay and have been, how shall we say making very optimistic bids and kept getting outbid, often by a 100 percent. Soooooooo, I made a daft bid on a Heljan model and I've only gone and won it(gulp), so SWMBO has sort accepted the fact Santa might have come early, but the real problem is it's.......................a deezul, one of those smelly oil burning rumbly things, no place for water.........or coal it seems, a type 26 whatever one of those is, I recognise it as BRCW.................will I need to repent or something like that?

[Tony_S]

Our oven has died. We really liked it but the manufacturer no longer manufactures. We have replaced a few bits in the past but had decided if anything went we had identified a replacement. Of course we didn’t expect it to happen during a lockdown. However a replacement is scheduled to arrive in 10 days. Some functions like the grill still work so it won’t be too awkward. I suppose we could even make cakes in the combination microwave oven. 
Tony

[Barry O]

Goodnight all  

 

Baz

[BoD]

2 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Our oven has died. We really liked it but the manufacturer no longer manufactures. We have replaced a few bits in the past but had decided if anything went we had identified a replacement. Of course we didn’t expect it to happen during a lockdown. However a replacement is scheduled to arrive in 10 days. Some functions like the grill still work so it won’t be too awkward. I suppose we could even make cakes in the combination microwave oven. 
Tony

 

Couldn’t happen at a worse time really. I hope you manage to sort it.

 

A few years ago we bought a microwave with a combined grill and oven.  We have only ever used it to ...er... microwave things.

[Tony_S]

2 minutes ago, BoD said:

 

Couldn’t happen at a worse time really. I hope you manage to sort it.

 

A few years ago we bought a microwave with a combined grill and oven.  We have only ever used it to ...er... microwave things.

It should be ok. I have double double checked the dimensions. It didn’t help that the dimensions on the retailer didn’t match the manufacturers. However the retailers were so wrong it wouldn’t have fitted in any standard 60cm cabinet. The manufacturer had a proper dimensioned diagram of the oven and a cabinet. Doorstep delivery will be fine. Aditi and I can get it in and we will sort out disposal of the old one later. Perhaps leaving it on the front  lawn might make it disappear!
Tony

[brianusa]

Leipzig, just think, in ten years or so most this lovely city disappeared along with a lot of its people, some of which can be seen going about their business.  Only some saw what was coming in few years

       Brian.

[laurenceb]

Night awl

[tigerburnie]

49 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Our oven has died. We really liked it but the manufacturer no longer manufactures. We have replaced a few bits in the past but had decided if anything went we had identified a replacement. Of course we didn’t expect it to happen during a lockdown. However a replacement is scheduled to arrive in 10 days. Some functions like the grill still work so it won’t be too awkward. I suppose we could even make cakes in the combination microwave oven. 
Tony

Snap, so has ours, tripped the breaker just as the dinner was finishing, 15 years plus old, so I guess not too bad, we will have to do the online order tomorrow. pah is I believe the appropriate expletive.

 

G'night all

[Erichill16]

Evening All, 

Been much colder than of late but at least the sun has been out.

Housework am, and tidying up outside this afternoon and a bit of shed time after tea.

Tony_S hope you manage ok until new cooker arrives.

Sold some Milk of Mag last week in the pharmacy.

Unfortunately not much else to report so goodnight,

Robert

 

[Tony_S]

4 minutes ago, Erichill16 said:

 

Tony_S hope you manage ok until new cooker arrives.

Sold some Milk of Mag last week in the pharmacy.

Unfortunately not much else to report so goodnight,

Robert

 

We could eat Indian food for a while! That is more hob based than oven. We even have a gas barbecue but unlike some other ERs I am not enthusiastic about outside cooking in winter. 
Milk of Magnesia (in a small blue bottle?) seemed to be in my parents medicine cabinet. I never knew it had laxative properties, I only recall my Mum suggesting it for indigestion. Fortunately indigestion hasn’t afflicted me much! I don’t have indigestion now either but I think the latest medicine I have added to my intake has antacid properties to counteract the effects of aspirin daily. Proton pump inhibitor sounds grander than anti acid!

[Erichill16]

11 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

We could eat Indian food for a while! That is more hob based than oven. We even have a gas barbecue but unlike some other ERs I am not enthusiastic about outside cooking in winter. 
Milk of Magnesia (in a small blue bottle?) seemed to be in my parents medicine cabinet. I never knew it had laxative properties, I only recall my Mum suggesting it for indigestion. Fortunately indigestion hasn’t afflicted me much! I don’t have indigestion now either but I think the latest medicine I have added to my intake has antacid properties to counteract the effects of aspirin daily. Proton pump inhibitor sounds grander than anti acid!

Antacids neutralise the acid that the stomach produces whereas proton pump inhibitors don’t neutralise the acid, they stop it being formed in the first place.

 

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Missed a meeting tonight, forgot all about it, an illustrated talk by one of the SEERS members. Not to worry as it wasn't a subject that I'm terribly interested in. Ovens breaking down, as I mentioned I haven't used the oven for ages, I'm not even sure if it does work. I won't be using it, not even to cook C*******s dinner as I will be using the grill for the meat, the dry fryer as a mini fan oven for the roast veg and the micro for the green veg. I recall Christmases when I was a nipper. Us youngsters were in the living room opening and playing with our pressies with mum or dad or a visiting grandparent putting their head around the door on occasion to check that we were behaving ourselves. Mum and dad, with any visiting grandparent were busying themselves in the kitchen preparing Christmas dinner which always seemed to take all of the morning. One Christmas day we had both pairs of grandparents visiting and us (3) kids had to sit at a small side table to eat our Christmas dinner.

45 minutes ago, brianusa said:

Leipzig, just think, in ten years or so most this lovely city disappeared along with a lot of its people, some of which can be seen going about their business.  Only some saw what was coming in few years

       Brian.

That was my thought but the main Bahnhoff appears to have survived more or less intact except for some modern fast food outlets who's garish signs seem out of place. It is also the largest railway station in Germany.

 

[brianusa]

Food courts and shopping seem to be the fate of such large buildings irrespective of the original purpose.  As long as its done with thought, i suppose there are worse fates!

       Brian.

[BSW01]

Good evening everyone 

 

I managed to get the fireplace finished today, it took a to more effort than I initially thought it would! All that needs doing now is to give the back a clean, which I’ll do with a wire brush fitted to my drill, outside on a warm, sunny wind free day, as it will create a lot of rusty coloured dust!

 

 

My attention will now turn back to stripping the paint from the cellar walls, deep joy. But like I said a few days ago, if I want the cellar (which will be my model railway room) to be dry, then it’s got to be done. 

[BSW01]

Goodnight all 

[newbryford]

7 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

In lockdown 1.0 I couldn't  believe how much flak we took at Trackshack about delay in parcels arriving, many, many calls or e mails with a loud whining sound at the other end.....and we could control that delivery how, pray tell?  

 

Lockdown#2 is seeing a repeat of these.

 

6 hours ago, Barry O said:

I have had one negative comment on flea bay about the delivery time.. luckily the tracker showed where it was held up.. the person receiving it wasn't in....for 2 delivery attempts....

 

 

 

Couple days ago, had a customer asking where his parcel was.

I gave him the tracking link saying it had been delivered last Saturday. I asked him to check his "safe place".

Return email complaining that he had had another parcel go "missing" on the same day, yet still blamed us.......

 

Day after - apologetic email - they had both been delivered to his neighbour's safe place. The neighbour hadn't checked because said neighbour had never left the house.......

 

And on the same couple of days ago, we had about 8 emails asking where their parcel was. All taking 4-5 days - including 2 through the weekend FFS. I also have suspicion that there has been a nearby sorting office that has had some sort of issue - possibly CV19 related.

 

Next door (semi-detached) has been in isolation as two tested positive for CV-19.

He works at an aerospace company with unavoidable contact - he was positive, but feels OK.

She is a teaching assistant - tested negative but has spent 3 days in bed (probably more psychosomatic than CV19)

17yo sixth former - negative and OK

15 yo year 11 - positive and pretty much OK.

 

Busy day at work, but:

Couldn't decide if it was funny or not when boss' car got a parking ticket.........

 

And for the good news - I am now a great-uncle for the first time.

Congratulations to Stephanie and Jon on the arrival of Tobias (already shortened to Toby by SIL/new granny).

Mother and Son all doing well.

 

Have a good Friday folks

 

Cheers,

Mick

 

 

[PhilJ W]

Goodnight all.

[The Stationmaster]

G'night all

[skipepsi]

2 hours ago, Tony_S said:

It should be ok. I have double double checked the dimensions. It didn’t help that the dimensions on the retailer didn’t match the manufacturers. However the retailers were so wrong it wouldn’t have fitted in any standard 60cm cabinet. The manufacturer had a proper dimensioned diagram of the oven and a cabinet. Doorstep delivery will be fine. Aditi and I can get it in and we will sort out disposal of the old one later. Perhaps leaving it on the front  lawn might make it disappear!
Tony

Replaced ours last Friday 13th I managed to hurt my back juggling the microwave that sits above it... Lugged the old one outside and phoned the metal fairy and it was collected Monday morning.

Night awl.

[Tony_S]

9 minutes ago, skipepsi said:

Replaced ours last Friday 13th I managed to hurt my back juggling the microwave that sits above it... Lugged the old one outside and phoned the metal fairy and it was collected Monday morning.

Night awl.

Hopefully ours will be quite simple. I did fit the current one and the original one in 1990. Aditi is going to insist in helping with the lifting even though I have done this task by myself before. Your phone call mention  has reminded me, I think a near neighbour has a metal fairy contact number. 

Edited November 20, 2020 by Tony_S

[J. S. Bach]

Night Owl from the Piedmont.

[chrisf]

Greetings one and all

 

There is a development concerning the CT scan that I want instead of a colonoscopy.  My request has been accepted!  In due course I will be offered an appointment.  I do realise that if anything dodgy is found I might have to have a colonoscopy as well, but I will worry about that if the need arises.  All I can do for now is to thank everyone who has expressed views and concerns, with special thanks again to Twosugars who put the idea in my head.

 

Congratulations to Great Uncle Mick and best wishes to all

 

Chris

[Barry O]

Ey up!

Bit chilly here this morning up in the North West Leeds Highlands. 

 

We had a similar oven problem a good few years ago. We bought a large convi oven (which we didn't use pn the 25th December) and it is still in use microwaving items on demand.. apart from the dqy youngest Herbert switched it to oven setting and melted the bacon container.. what a banana!

 

I have a couple of parcels to prepare and post but other than that my "things to do for the house" list is empty..at the moment!!

Nedt door has left some metal items outside.. but our metal fairies  have yet to collect them.

 

@BSW01.. noce work on the fire place!

When we moved in only 1 original fire place remained..we cleaned the paint of it and it has really nice blue tiles down either side of the surround..yes it is still in place!

Of for my mugatea. Stay safe! Positive thoughts to all ERs, hope the CT goes well @chrisf.

 

baz