Living on next to nought - is that the key?

Upsidedown_Bear

Piquant wrote: »

What a pain! I second the idea of ebay being a good place for getting spare parts. I think there is also a specialist site for getting discontinued parts for all sorts of thing too. I can't remember what it is called, let me get my thinking cap on....

I can't remember the sites name either :think:
Greying - if the extractor fan has a model number I'd suggest g*ogling "extractor fan *part number* Wickes" and see if anything comes up.
Managed to get spare parts for a number of random things that way

Can I have an egg mayo sarnie too please?

Greying_Pilgrim

Upsidedown_Bear wrote: »

I can't remember the sites name either :think:
Greying - if the extractor fan has a model number I'd suggest g*ogling "extractor fan *part number* Wickes" and see if anything comes up.
Managed to get spare parts for a number of random things that way I'll try that - ta

Can I have an egg mayo sarnie too please? Of course you can, in fact I'll leave the plate on the side and hope they don't go curly - help yourself folks

:D:D

Greying

Karmacat

I've always liked the word "jalfrezi" - I've had no idea what it is, but there you go Sounds like you really upped your game today - thats a powerful feeling, good for you!

And I finally put my blog address onto my profile on here :j:o

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Ay up KC - you were around these parts late.... luverly as always to see you though hun

Well, I've had a quick look on the wunderweb for spare parts using what I thought was the most logical 'part number' for the visor hood. It brought up one spare parts co - cooker spares uk? Anyway, it came up with hygena spare parts (may well be that they made for Wickes 10+ yrs ago, dunno).

Interestingly, with the prices given (excluding postage) a visor and 2 end caps would cost £49. It is possible to get a new, complete hood system for in between £50 and £60........ how does that work????? Still, I'm going to dig the operating manual out (I remembered last night that we still have it) and see if I'm missing a trick re the part numbers. But thank you for your suggestions - it has started me on the research road.

Today could be a nsd, although if I'm in the vicinity of Ald* I may need to get another bag of sweet potatoes....... Haven't thought about dinner yet

Right, well I've been researching, rather than sorting out snap boxes, so I'd better vamoose.

Have a great day one and all.

Thanks for popping by, reading and commenting. I do appreciate it.

See y'all later.

Greying

Igamogam

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Literacy - terms and conditions or washing machine installation documents, rely on the written word. Yet it all started with Janet & John. Thank you Janet. Thank you John.

Now If I had been introduced to J and J maybe I would be able to make some sense out of "'Flange C to wingnut A' and 'crosshair thread bolt 9 into slot II via plastic threaded locator N." I was taught to read with ITA - anybody else have that inflicted on them??? And as for Biff Chip Kipper and Floppy..........................:eek:

( actually my problem with instruction books/manuals/etc is that I am visual/ kinesthetic - well thats what I tell the OH;))

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Igamogam - to be honest, the instruction pamphlet I got was very good - in words and pictorial representation - I'm sure you'd of had no problem figuring it out. And I have to say, much the same as we can all buy a 'pooter/laptop these days and be up and emailing granny in about 10 minutes straight, washing machines have gone the same way and are very simple to hook up. But don't tell DP I told you that, after all, they like to think that they are useful......... (and DP is )

Well, today has been great, but erm........ 'weird' and I mean in a serendipidittydoodaa type way, not in a 'nightmare on ashenoak street type way'....

The good news is, much like silverwhistle, we have received a gift of some 'free' apples from a colleague's tree. I'm not sure of the variety, but I'm pretty sure they are cookers rather than eaters. We've been given a load and promised some more so

I did spend money today, but it was all on 'budgetted' for stuff, with the exception of a pad that I will use for writing paper whilst we are away. Excuse me people, just WHEN did we stop using writing pads? I know I was pressed for time, but I went to 5 different places today, Wilks, HB, tHe W0rks, whsmits and RyMan to look for a simple A5 size writing pad. I couldn't find one at all, with the exception of R**** that had the ubiquitous *Essex town meets 007* pad for £4something or other :eek: I ended up purchasing a plain paper exercise book from whsmits that is about a5ish, and if I carefully 'unpick' the sheets, they will become sort of A4. That was 99p for about 48 sheets - 24 I suppose A4 size. Honestly - no A5 size plain or lined writing pads for a quid or less - jeez!

I had a note from a friend - hence the serendipity bit - we were thinking about her and there is a connection with what she contacted me about and what I have been heavily immersed in for the past couple of days. I've been invited to something and have got to try to find a way to shoehorn it in before we go off on our jaunt. I really want to go, and want to enjoy it, so I'd better get organising myself! But of course, I am also 3 letters down to friends now, so better get scribbling whilst away! :rotfl:

At least the organising for the hols is coming along apace. I do love reading about seasoned travellers, who carry 2 eyepod cases and dash off for 3 weeks in the Himalayas at a stretch. In one eyepod case, they carry, erm.. their eyepod and in the other they have 16 'separates' including formal evening wear - afterall, one never knows when one will bump into a chocolate proffering ambassador...... the ruffguide to the mountains, a toothbrush, toothpaste, skis, crampons and raymondo bands and a packet of condominiums just in case they hit it lucky with the ski-instructor Oh, and naturally, they 'wear' their hat, which has a built in charger for the eyepod and can transform into a satellite phone if you turn it inside out.

We meanwhile contemplate purchasing a trailer as we have so much 'stuff' :rotfl::rotfl:(I exaggerate un petit peu.....)

Dinner this evening ended up being 'Mexican One-Pot', a made up dish, inspired by a rather pricey franchise that specialises in readymeals for busy folk who earn the money to spend on 'convenience'. The main constituents were butternut squash (I know in the pic it looks like sweet potato, but you're going to have to trust me that it was indeed Bnut squash.....), green pepper and kidney beans. It should of had fajita spicing, but I had some of the berbere spice left and as that had smoked paprika in it, I figured it would work fine - it did. The only thing I forgot was the sweetcorn. We had been given two cobs by an allotment renting friend, but I had put the cobs in the freezer and by the time I remembered, it would of taken too long to get one out, steam it, remove the kernels etc. So, sweetcorn would of added to the dish, but it's not essential.

A photo hopefully is here;



Ald* Bnut squash and green pepper, valu kidney beans & passata and discounted price basmati rice. Another frugal dinner and there's enough for snap boxes tomorrow too

Well, I'd better wrap this up.

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

handwritten notes and letters - but no wonder H had to write on the back of the event invite, nobody sells affordable writing paper anymore..........

for walking guides - I have just finished a novel that included a walking guide to a particular place. It and other aspects of the novel will 'guide' (and perhaps enhance) some of our holiday activity. A novel with 'added extras'.......how.....novel.

the postal service - I don't need the pizza company flyers, nor the posh veg box company literature, I'm happy with my broadband co and really don't have time for satellite TV, but for bringing me a note from a friend and the NT autumn/winter magazine, Royal Mail, I thank you

If you've read this thread today, I thank you. I greatly appreciate you popping in and contributing.

See y'all later.

Greying

beanielou

I envy you your talent of so effortlessly posting picures of your lovely meals.
I cannot master this at all :rotfl:

Piquant_2

beanielou wrote: »

I envy you your talent of so effortlessly posting picures of your lovely meals.
I cannot master this at all :rotfl:

I envy the creativity of the menu. How do you not think, oh well another night of pasta and tomato won't do any harm? At times I feel that I know about three recipes and endlessly recycle those

Greying_Pilgrim

Now Beanie - you know about Elaine's 'Abbots'.... So I'm sure you'll get what I mean when I say .......ah but...you didn't see how many shots I took of an inanimate object to get the one that vaguely, yes, vaguely resembled what we actually ate. I was having to rest one arm on the kettle (still hot) because the light was so low and the rice was blending into the white of the plate....:rotfl::rotfl:

Plus there's the fact that DP has started to notice that dinner is always luke warm/cold these days because the photo 'sessions' take so long :D:D

Anyway, I'm hoping that y'all say you're bored with 'me pictures of me tea' just now - and ask me to stop :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Greying

Greying_Pilgrim

Piquant wrote: »

I envy the creativity of the menu. How do you not think, oh well another night of pasta and tomato won't do any harm? At times I feel that I know about three recipes and endlessly recycle those

Because dear friend - I have set myself up for scrutiny from the dear people on MSE - I feel I'm letting y'all down......:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Greying