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zagubov

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Well, finally managed to get through to Hotpoint. They can't get an engineer out till the 30th :eek: Hope my mate has some freezer space or I am screwed putting it politely!

We've got two appliances from Hotpoint. First was a fridge freezer with a design fault that could ruin it and the recent problem is a tumble dryer that may catch fire.

Hmmmm. Will we ever buy anything from them again? :think:

silvercar

I am sat here with foils around each nail, trying to removed gelled nails. There are resistant clumps. I bought myself a gel lamp in the Boots offer thinking it was money saving. The application was fine, the removal is time wasting.

Can't go out with clumpy nails!

altojack

Good afternoon Elite :santa2:

Up and out early this morning, so all done shopping wise apart from bread rolls but I may make some easy and quick to do by making the dough in my bread maker :cool:

Mr T was crowded but easy to manoeuvre, as we were coming out of the car park there was a queue going out to the roundabout people waiting to go in :eek:

Going to sit with feet up for half hour before I have a tidy and declutter in what was ds3s bedroom, I've been using it as my bolt hole when I can't sleep and DH gets irritated if I'm shifting around in the bed :cool:

Have a good day shopping, don't spend too much oh I forgot , you all have done so already

My other boots arrived :j they are lovely though I may cut the sequins off :eek:

There was something else but I've forgotten what it was now . I'll go and sit with perky

hornetgirl

silvercar wrote: »

I am sat here with foils around each nail, trying to removed gelled nails. There are resistant clumps. I bought myself a gel lamp in the Boots offer thinking it was money saving. The application was fine, the removal is time wasting.

Can't go out with clumpy nails!

Are you using acetone remover? I've given up with gels now as the removal leaves my nails in such a poor state. I've started using Barry M Gelly polish instead. It doesn't last as long as real gels but is much more durable than regular nail polish.

cheer1eader

afternoon all :wave:
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Dizzy_Ditzy

My shopping is very nearly almost done - I just need cream for the trifle and that's it

I normally buy whipping cream. Is double cream whippable?

silvercar

hornetgirl wrote: »

Are you using acetone remover? I've given up with gels now as the removal leaves my nails in such a poor state. I've started using Barry M Gelly polish instead. It doesn't last as long as real gels but is much more durable than regular nail polish.

Just bought the lamp, so need to justify the money. Using Boots own brand artificial nail remover that has worked with gels in the past.

Maybe I am impatient.

justmaz

Good afternoon
Just coming out of lurkdom to wish all the Elite a very Merry Christmas and hoping that 2016 brings health, happiness and love to you all. I know that it has been a bad year for some of you and I pray things improve for you.
I haven't had time to contribute for a while but have popped my head around the corner from time to time to see how you are doing.
Take care all x

simon31leeds

Yep - just takes a bit longer to whip so be prepared for an aching arm :-)

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

My shopping is very nearly almost done - I just need cream for the trifle and that's it

I normally buy whipping cream. Is double cream whippable?

justmaz

I thought this may make you smile.
IS SANTA CLAUS REAL?

As a result of an overwhelming lack of requests, and with research help from that renowned scientific journal SPY magazine (January, 1990) - I am pleased to present the annual scientific inquiry into Santa Claus.

1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT, since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.

3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding, etc.
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour. 4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.

5) 353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.

In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.

Merry Christmas.