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#2662217 24-Feb-2021 15:00

Handsomedan:

"Nobody makes

Soup in a Cup

Like Continental, Cup-a-Soup"

Sing along with me everyone!

Memories, I haven't heard that adv for a longtime.

I make a pot of soup in a slow cooker at the beginning of the week and heat it every day. We get mushrooms from the Wairarapa and make soup, make chicken soup which is great if one is feeling unwell and vegetables soup from our home grown veggies. I not the best at vegetarian soup so my wife makes that and she taught me how to do the mushroom and chicken soups.

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#2663301 27-Feb-2021 09:32

Managing to finish this sudoku: https://app.crackingthecryptic.com/sudoku/BJRQ4DnFp3

without help or hints.

Then confirming that I pretty much applied the same logic as 'the experts' when watching them solve it.

(Here are the rules if you want to have a go:

Normal Sudoku rules apply. Cells separated by a knight’s move (in chess) cannot contain the same digit. Digits on a line between two circles must lie between the circled ends (ie greater than the lower of the two circled digits and lower than the greater of the two circled digits). The digits along an arrow add to the digit in the associated circled cell. Digits can repeat on the arrow if allowed by the other rules.

and here's Simon from Cracking The Cryptic doing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpk3ga2T9Ps&t=1s )

Did Eric Clapton really think she looked wonderful...or was it after the 15th outfit she tried on and he just wanted to get to the party and get a drink?

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#2663407 27-Feb-2021 16:15

That the Flightradar24 app has a crash-reporting option (not that that’s funny really).

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#2663411 27-Feb-2021 16:50

I have largely purged my income of useless 'services' from parasitic highwaymen and robber barons.

- NET: FTTH, OPNsense, 10G backbone, GWN APs, ipPBX
- SRV: 12 RU HA server cluster, 0.1 PB storage on premise
- IoT: thread, zigbee, tasmota, BidCoS, LoRa, WX suite, IR
- 3D: two 3D printers, 3D scanner, CNC router, laser cutter

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#2665754 28-Feb-2021 14:48

Made pineapple ice cream with crushed pineapple (In syrup - to reduce the ice) and pineapple liquor.

Very nice, but needed 15 seconds in microwave to soften the pineapple before serving.

Just made a coffee one using Good George Brewing - Neat small batch Espresso Martini.

I look forward to trying it :-)

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#2665795 28-Feb-2021 16:46

msukiwi:
Made pineapple ice cream with crushed pineapple (In syrup - to reduce the ice) and pineapple liquor.

Very nice, but needed 15 seconds in microwave to soften the pineapple before serving.

Just made a coffee one using Good George Brewing - Neat small batch Espresso Martini.

I look forward to trying it :-)

Yummy lockdown treat. Are you sharing the recipe?

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#2665812 28-Feb-2021 17:08

Eva888:Yummy lockdown treat. Are you sharing the recipe?

Easy: 500ml Cream + 1 Tin Condensed Milk, Beat together for 8 minutes (Electric Mixer), Add flavourings and beat until properly mixed. Freeze.

You don't need much to feel satisfied.

I have tried:

Baileys, Sambucca with soaked licorice, Cassata (Brandy soaked mixed dried fruit - don't use too much brandy or it will only set to soft serve!), Raspberry with natural flavour and real raspberries,

Boysenberry using canned boysenberries.

All great.

I use about 50-70ml of the chosen alcohol for the required flavour.

It usually develops more flavour when frozen.

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#2665905 28-Feb-2021 19:55

Thanks great recipe and so easy. Maybe add 9 gin soaked raisins,I was reading a 105 yr old woman swore it was the secret to her longevity ;)

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#2665942 28-Feb-2021 22:09

msukiwi:Just made a coffee one using Good George Brewing - Neat small batch Espresso Martini.I look forward to trying it :-)

I just tried a test container I did. (Small so it would freeze faster)

Highly recommended if you like coffee and alcohol (And aren't dairy free etc). Yum! (Best coffee flavoured ice cream I have ever tasted)

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#2666020 1-Mar-2021 09:00

Buying some tyres for my MTB at a third of the cost of a larger brand, even though they're made in the same factory by the parent company of said larger brand.

I know they'll be slightly heavier, but when you weigh 95kg fully laden for a ride, a few grams of tyre weight really isn't going to affect you that much...

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#2666023 1-Mar-2021 09:05

My FIL who is 74, being nearly at the front of a large group (Many who are 20+ years his junior) cycling 3000KM's from the top to the bottom of NZ. The guy totally blows me away.

He put more KM's on his last bike, than I put on my last car.

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#2666302 1-Mar-2021 15:27

That I started to get 'paperless' to a max degree. Most paper folders have gone.

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#2666348 1-Mar-2021 17:00

Easy fix to annoying problem. CPU with slightly unbalanced fan producing just enough low-frequency vibration on the threshold of hearing to slowly drive me to distraction. I was looking for suggestions on the Oracle of ~~Delphi~~ Internet and saw a discussion about how rubber mounts don't work because the vibration still passes through the screw. I had already figured this but then some bright spark suggested using zip ties(!) to mount the fan instead! I have to admit I probably never would have thought of that. I figured they were only good for handcuffing politicians. Anyway, I thought I would give it a try and it works brilliantly! How about that?

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

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#2666349 1-Mar-2021 17:02

Rikkitic:

Easy fix to annoying problem. CPU with slightly unbalanced fan producing just enough low-frequency vibration on the threshold of hearing to slowly drive me to distraction. I was looking for suggestions on the Oracle of Delphi Internet and saw a discussion about how rubber mounts don't work because the vibration still passes through the screw. I had already figured this but then some bright spark suggested using zip ties(!) to mount the fan instead! I have to admit I probably never would have thought of that. I figured they were only good for handcuffing politicians. Anyway, I thought I would give it a try and it works brilliantly! How about that?

Simple solutions - happy people.

Who needs complex nonsense?

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#2666379 1-Mar-2021 18:26

Haidresser are reopenning today after 2,5 mo here in GER. After the last cut 5.5 months ago, I already feel a bit like Chewbacca. :-)

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