EH - Essex > Hebrides...the next step of the adventure?

WannabeFree · 7 February 2018 at 8:30PM

Thank you for all your help with getting the diaries back EH

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EssexHebridean · 7 February 2018 at 9:06PM

beanielou wrote: »

Sorry to be dim but but what is MSE's budget brain.

WE just need SA's diary back now.

It's THIS Beanie - been about for a while but sadly as you can see from the page they've had some problems with it of late.

WannabeFree wrote: »

Thank you for all your help with getting the diaries back EH

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Ahh all I did was got a bit stroppy WF - it's the forum team who are the miracle workers of diary restoration!

Fingers crossed the other stuff that was lost will be recovered in due course as well.

beanielou · 7 February 2018 at 9:18PM

EssexHebridean wrote: »

It's THIS Beanie - been about for a while but sadly as you can see from the page they've had some problems with it of late.

Ahh all I did was got a bit stroppy WF - it's the forum team who are the miracle workers of diary restoration!

Fingers crossed the other stuff that was lost will be recovered in due course as well.

Yes, sadly just getting an error message.
Thanks though:A

Greying_Pilgrim · 7 February 2018 at 9:18PM

EssexHebridean wrote: »

Greying It might be that it's because of the distinctive taste the BG loves them rather than in spite of? I'm guessing there is some logic in children that are brought up with strongly flavoured foods introduced as at a young age being less open to blander stuff?

And yes - MrEH does indeed have odd tastes. He DOES love Marmite though - and turned me from an indifferent into a lover of the stuff, so not all bad! :rotfl: (Yes I did just mention that solely to spark the inevitable debate!)

Maybe, maybe. BG's tastes never cease to amaze me, as I was extremely lucky during pregnancy, and can't think of one food item that I couldn't eat/didn't like/made me sick/went off etc, so they were exposed to curries and aromatics, and fruits and dairy and allsorts. And yet sometimes, they won't even try things. The baybeebelle is a case in point. Wouldn't try it in toddler size slices, wouldn't hold the whole thing and munch, but has just polished some off, chopped up in their pasta and pesto............ :huh:

I've returned to marm1te. I used to eat it as a child. Went off it, and then have recently started to eat it - for the B vitamin content. I'm reluctant to introduce it to BG because of the salt content, but when proffered a tiny morsel of toast with just a smear of it on, BG said, 'Nooooo' in the way that they have of making it quite clear that they ain't touching THAT.

beanie - I'm a cheapskate and buy black olives in brine - hence the salt, but I do normally soak them in fresh water to leach out some of the salt - particularly if marinating them.

Keep up the good work EH!

Greying X

ZTD · 7 February 2018 at 11:51PM

Silver_Queen wrote: »

MrEH is so wrong...olives are the greatest food known to mankind. And olive oil. And balsamic vinegar. And bread, and cheese...basically a Mediterranean diet for me:rotfl:

Balsamic vinegar goes great on chips...

Cumbria_lass wrote: »

The car thing is very annoying , wish the government would make its mind up .

The government can never make its mind up. That's because its half made up of the "communicators/influencers/visionaries" for whom "Reality" was an optional 30 minute slot on their Interpretive Dance module, and the other half are engineers and scientists for whom reality is a very harsh mistress indeed.

So we have the "re-use bags for the carbon!" bags brigade, and the "try to avoid dying if you do" side - and BTW the carbon thing is bollox anyway.

The "we'll force you to use combi boilers because they're more efficient (according to our computer models which were constructed to our specification)" vs the "no they're not, we measured them"

And now we have the "we'll ban the sale of non-electric cars by 2040" thing, where the National Grid says "you can't charge a car and cook/have a cuppa/have a shower etc at the same time. And BTW, if 5 of your neighbours charge at the same time as you, you'll blow the substation and you'll all sit in the dark and cold"

On the bright side, the virtue signally brigade will lose influence and the realists will take over when the government runs out of money and needs to face reality.

On the dark side, it's our money they will have run out of...

ZTD · 7 February 2018 at 11:57PM

EssexHebridean wrote: »

Some info on the new MoT Test thing HERE DFD - the thing of most concern for my car is the "any visible smoke" thing - she never kicks out black or blue smoke at all but I do apparently get a small puff of white on starting - this is relating to the injectors beginning to show their age. From what I'd read though it seems entirely down to the tester's view on whether there is smoke or not, and how much of it is "any visible".

It looks like it only applies to cars with DPFs - so cars of a certain vintage (i.e. mine) won't fall under it. :T

May be worth buying a really old car...

EssexHebridean · 8 February 2018 at 12:19PM

Eh-up Z - thanks for popping by! Yes - a lot of the MoT Test stuff is to do with the DPF's - mine has one and MrEH's hasn't (Well we don't think so - trying to find a definite on this is not proving easy!) but anything we'd look to replace his with now will be our "long distance and Islands" car so we'll not be buying anything ancient. Having had the experience of breaking down in the Hebrides with an "only just" phone signal and questionable knowledge of location (as in - we knew where we were, but trying to explain it to the lass on the phone was nearly impossible!) I don;t fancy risking it again! :rotfl:

VERY glad you mentioned the thing about the National Grid's concerns in relation to all this electric car stuff too - then you have the fact that in London (And I suspect a lot of other cities too!) you can't charge the things outside home as you're not allowed to run cables over the pavement... :mad:

Greying In fairness if someone offered YOU a bit of toast with a smear of something brown and sticky looking on it, would your first reaction be to eat it?! Thought not! :rotfl::rotfl:

Lovely bright sunny day down here today and I think now *quite* as cold albeit I've maybe not been out in it for long enough to tell yet...I'll review my opinion at lunchtime!

Spends today should be limited to gym payment tonight. :T Yesterday was a NSD. :T

£10.86 cashed out from Prolific - £2.41 pending.
OnePoll now at £9.65
Must log in and sort out TCB.

**edit** £5.86 coming from TCB

Greying_Pilgrim · 8 February 2018 at 1:15PM

EssexHebridean wrote: »

Greying In fairness if someone offered YOU a bit of toast with a smear of something brown and sticky looking on it, would your first reaction be to eat it?! Thought not! :rotfl::rotfl:

Phrased like that EH.... p'raps not...........

:rotfl::rotfl:

Greying X

beanielou · 8 February 2018 at 1:19PM

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Phrased like that EH.... p'raps not........... :rotfl::rotfl:

Greying X

Indeed:rotfl::rotfl:

EssexHebridean · 8 February 2018 at 3:49PM

OK - unplanned spendiness has occurred. Hear me out though - it's all good, I think...

Had an email through last week from "Heartier" - the meat people that MSE do deals with from time to time. We had one of their meat boxes on the last of those offers and were VERY impressed - excellent quality and provenance, all high welfare etc. The offer last week was for 55% off one of their bigger boxes - and we ummed and ahhed over it. The reminder came through today and we did some more debating before deciding to go for it - but to order a few extra bits as well to bring the order to the £50 threshold for free delivery so as to increase the value still further. Spend to save - that's a thing right?

So next Tuesday I have arriving:
Roasts & Steaks box (Link HERE
1 x ham hock
1 x pack Scrag End lamb
2 x packs pork sausages
Paying a total of £50.40 - and I reckon I'll extract at least 33 meals out of that including several Sunday lunches which I always budget a bit extra for. :T Happy with that and well worth a spend. The aim between now and then will be to eat as much from the freezer as we can, naturally...!

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