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Oh no there is definitely a Santa Claus - since being appointed head of logistics at Amazon HQ he has become pretty much desk-bound, and having his elves dressed as delivery drivers he has become more elusive than ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Audio Al 2
Yes there is definitely a Santa Claus - and you are right, nowadays he employs the auspices of Amazon.
Now the question to ask is whether there really a Jeff Bezos. :scratch:
Turned out ok, IN THE END! When it stopped raining I cheered up, local cafe was actually open, lovely staff in there, read for 2 hours, a most riveting book - 'A line in the sand', on the Sykes-Picot agreement, very topical. Enjoying some Beaujolais with ham and cheese now, so not bad! Roast beef to come, not sure what that will be like, the horseradish sauce I attempted is naff! Merry shitmas and a crappy new year!
I admire your attempt to make horseradish sauce. The root is very tough to grate, but I'm sure if you persevere fresh horseradish sauce is much better than that out of a jar. It's the same with mustard - freshly made mustard always tastes better. :)
I prefer the taste of no mustard. Same with horseradish sauce - I'd rather eat horsedroppings sauce :spew:Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
That’s brilliant :)
It had a nasty bitter taste, next time I won't bother with the poncy Michel Roux version, waste of time!! On the plus side the gravy was very nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Drove all the way to Newcastle and back to Brighton today, 18 hours driving with breaks, I almost went mad!!
Popped out for a take-away? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
A take a-why-aye.
a fair distance for a kebabbie:)
Did a removal.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
I think my 'fridge has packed in.
Can't complain as I bought it used for £70 twenty years ago and that included delivery, so I think I've had my money's worth.
Just a pain in the arse. If there's one thing I hate it's shopping for major appliances.
Also a pain getting rid of the old one. Try to get 'disposal of old appliance' as part of the deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
buying new your as well doing it online.. AO or summatQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I can get a mate to take it to the dump it's only a larder fridge so not that big.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Just been having a look. I can get away with one of those mini-fridges but most of the brands I have never heard of.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
This one looks like the front runner
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Russell-Hob...B/ref=sr_1_22?
Or a proper larder fridge - Kenwood so will have good sound quality:
https://www.currys.co.uk/products/ke...10248723.html?
They take away the old one for an extra £25 which I could live with.
Advice welcome.
i got a german one recently, but wasnt cheap. ive one of those tabletops upstaqirs. now my water fridge but i got it as a beer fridge.. in fact i got it for nowt second hand and its worked non stop for about 15 yrs. if you stayed local i could give you a tabletop for free
I'd rather pay more to get one that will last another 20 years i.e longer than I'm likely to.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
40L is pretty small. I'd go a bit bigger myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
okay - problem solved, I turned the temp on it to max coldness and it has now kicked in so it's not broken after all.
Can go to the supermarket now - ofc it's picked this moment to start raining...
the one i settled on was a liebherr; highly rated and big inside(149 litres) for the same basic size. its quiet and just works. Annual energy cost - £18.33 so thats also worth considering. but downside was it was nearly 300 notes. still, it will almost certainly be my last one. they are made in same factory as meile apparentlyQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I'll make a note - I don't need anything like that size though. £300 isn't much for a fridge - I paid that for one 25 years agoQuote:
Originally Posted by struth
same size aprox as a normal undercounter one, just better designed i guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Right - I misread that as 249 litres!Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
If I had the space I'd have one of those Yank ones with the ice maker. A mate has one but his kitchen is the size of my whole ground floor. And it still looks big.
Although I think some of it is a freezer.
yes my daughter has a giant yanky fridge. 2 side by side doors; or is it 4? ...its got an ice maker on front etc. and when you go, you can be buried in itQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
And if you can't afford it - 'fuckin' finance it!'Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
lol...judge reinhold..Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
As of today I am officially an old age pensioner, and boy am I feeling it. I had two pints last night and that was enough. One more record to play then I'll spend the rest of the afternoon binge-watching Cash in the Attic and checking out the funeral plan adverts.
happy birthday steve...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Thanks Grant :) I have the house to myself for a few hours, which is a good start to the year.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Happy Birthday Steve. :birthday:
Like you, I didn’t drink too much last night: only one bottle of London Pride.
So Happy Birthday and Happy New Year.
Thanks Barry, and all the best to you for the coming year :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Happy birthday Steve and wishing you many more of them
+1 Many Happy Returns Steve.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Thanks fellas, happy new year :happynewyear:
Scientists are saying that last year was the hottest for 125,000 years. How could they possibly know that? :scratch: It was reported on Sky news this morning, where some bloke was disputing this, while this skinny bird with short hair and no make up (probably knits her own muesli too) was outraged at his arrogance and ignorance of what she was calling the world's powers' "genocide". It was actually quite fun to watch :)
I can't understand how they age rocks; claiming they are tens of millions of years old. :scratch:
No doubt the answer is obvious, but not to me.
Dunno. They have 'carbon dating', but not sure if it goes back that far.
This man will have the answers, knows a thing or two about ageing rocks.
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...DPhDiTNFhqO4yA
more than one way to do it but this is probably the most accurate...
Rocks often contain traces of uranium which is a radioisotope. It is unstable and eventually decays to form lead, which is stable.
Isotopes have a property known as their half-life. The half life of an isotope is the time it takes for half of the atoms to decay, for example the half-life of Uranium is 4.46 billion years!! This means if you had 10g of uranium it would take 4.46 billion years for 5g of it to decay to lead!
:respect: brain the size of a planet :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Well done Grant! Thanks - I was only thinking of carbon dating, forgetting about other radio isotopes. :doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Doing a bit of research, it seems there are other geological phenomena which complicate matters, such as rocks undergoing change from igneous to metamorphic state and this has to corrected for, but on the whole what you say is correct.
Your post spurred me on to check my pension status (I will “qualify” during February this year).Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
As I retired early from full time work I need to make “voluntary contributions” in order to maximise my pension - so I will need to live another two and a half years in order to recoup my voluntary contribution, after that I will be making money :cool:
You may be able to "top up" your contributions to get you to a full pension. Might cost less than you think and will enable you to retire when you're supposed to. Worth checking out.
Reaching retirement age won't mean me stopping work. I'll just be reducing my workload. A lot. And I'll be cherry-picking, leaving the shitty jobs for my lad to do :)
I have - cost me about £1800 to maximise my pension.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Extra £20//week on pension, so I should be making on my extra contribution after about two years.
Actually possibly longer when I think about extra tax on my teaching pension.
I retired early about six years ago when my mum needed looking after/extra care, but I have been doing a bit of supply and invigilation (still do as it gets me out of the house - wife insists :)).
I've been telling myself all week I would resume work on Thursday, but now it's here I just can't seem to drag myself off this sofa. Plus, it's peeing down outside. Nothing that can't wait till tomorrow, so...
its winter shutdown:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony