Travelling On

themadvix

What will you do with the acorns once foraged? I'm intrigued!

beanielou

Great customer service from AO 

Suffolk_lass

Karmacat said:

So, the normal nonsensical claptrap is going on, with HMRC - I decided to log on, which you have to do to check out the Pension Forecast.  They threw me off!  Told me I can apply again in 24 hours!  Maybe I answered the question about "when did you last open an account" wrongly?  So, no pension forecast for me today.

I've also added 5 items to that list   so its now twenty items, oops.  Things like a magnetic knife rack that I don't think has turned up yet, the caravan holiday refund, the Amazon writing payments (given up on the seller account), plus £240 in a dormant cahoot account. 

Anyway, for today, not bad:

- lovely AO refund started processing.

- spoke to sister.

- dishwasher on.

- washing machine on.

- pension forecast fail: do the passport-based check next time! 

For the rest of today: start updating my security document, pack up the modem and assorted tidying, possibly some gardening later on, and a bit of fun now: I'm doing a project on foraging acorns - doing a photo once a month until they're ready to mature.  I shall pootle off and take July's photograph today, I enjoy stuff like that.

You should not be logging into HMRC for your pension forecast - it is DWP via GOV.UK - here is a link

Karmacat

Thanks all!  SL, thats the page I used where it turned into hmrc - I wasn't accurate in the way I phrased that, actually, it wasn't hmrc, it was government gateway - it uses the old hmrc user id number.   I actually got there from the link you kindly provided the other day.  I *have* proved my identity to them, so I could hypothetically click another button, but I think there'd be a world of hurt there - I know I can get on to govt gateway via passport info, thats what they say, at least, so I'll try that first.  Thank you for watching out for me!

So, AO have been and gone and collected the router, all's well there.  I saw the van pull up, so I hopped outside and put it on the "gatepost" and he was very grateful.

Today - downloading phone photos - the acorn thing, technically you can use acorns to make flour, people seem to call acorn flour a "survival food" though - ie you wouldn't do it unless it was the only flour you had it's just the weird kind of thing that interests me, I suppose - and there are so many oak trees here, I watch the acorns grow every year and I find it fascinating.  I'll try to put a couple of photos on here today, thats one thing that *is* easier on this new forum: I'll do the latest acorn photo, and the photo of the actual, real live bowl cover I finally finished - to protect, say, dessicated coconut that soaks overnight.  Now that's finally finished, I'm going to investigate making cloth face masks.

The big thing today though, is phoning Three - they've been charging me for a one gig extension I bought when I went on the Canaries cruise,and I cancelled it and took a screenshot of their approval, but they've kept on charging me.  I need to get a whole load of protein inside me first, though, so I'm psyching myself up for that first thing this afternoon, that will have to be a conversation, sadly.

themadvix

Interesting about the acorn flour. I wonder what it tastes like.

Good luck with Three!

rtandon27

I remember reading once that the taste of an acorn depends on the amount of tannin in them & that the milder ones could be used in the same way as almonds. Can't remember where I'd read that tidbit, it was back in the days when I taught weekend science classes and was making natural dyes & recycled paper with the littlies😉

beanielou

Hope the phone call to 3 goes well.

apple_muncher

I thought acorns were poisonous for all but pigs. And squirrels. My source? No idea!

the_cross_rabbit

According to the woodlands trust raw acorns are toxic due to the tannins but if you leach them you can make the fit for human consumption.
CRx

Karmacat

Hello all!  Absolutely, its the leaching of the tannins that makes acorn bearable - and thats it, they're bearable, not yummy, even after it all.  Someone has just reminded me about roasting acorns for coffee substitute in the same survival type situations - I'll investigate, I've got plenty of time after all, its a whole-year project after all.

Here's my little acorn photo, big close up   its the "cups" that grow first