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#3063600 14-Apr-2023 11:54

afe66: My faith in manufacturers is so low I would expect an iot device to either detect and prevent a generic part (vacume bags) or just connect for no reason to a server and once that server didn't work, shut down the device..Epsom printers

Or require a "subscription" to the App so that the device keeps working!

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#3063649 14-Apr-2023 13:39

Had a little smile to myself today when I received a call at work from my eldest son, to tell me he's been chosen for the first team (for the first time) and will be playing half of the U23 game preceding it as he's too valuable to lose...

He may not get off the bench, but it's a huge deal for him! I'm stoked for him.

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#3063665 14-Apr-2023 14:47

Miss 8 had a meltdown this morning about wearing what she was asked. When her sister tried to talk to her the response was “you don’t understand the struggle!”

Silent ROFL from us downstairs

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#3063676 14-Apr-2023 15:47

Its Friday, and it's almost beer o'clock.

For a short week it sure has dragged on.

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#3063677 14-Apr-2023 15:48

Senecio:

Its Friday, and it's almost beer o'clock.

For a short week it sure has dragged on.

I think this may have been the longest short week ever.

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#3063678 14-Apr-2023 15:50

Handsomedan:

I think this may have been the longest short week ever.

On the positive side, at least I'm working from home today so I don't have 60min commute standing between me and beer when its time to clock off.

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#3063814 15-Apr-2023 10:06

Handsomedan:
Had a little smile to myself today when I received a call at work from my eldest son, to tell me he's been chosen for the first team (for the first time) and will be playing half of the U23 game preceding it as he's too valuable to lose...

He may not get off the bench, but it's a huge deal for him! I'm stoked for him.

That's fantastic. Who does he play for ?

Our son also recently made the first team bench for the first time and then played for the u23's :)

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#3063820 15-Apr-2023 11:40

Receiving something in the post from Australia that you ordered so long ago, you've forgotten you ordered it and it comes as a complete surprise!

I think this one can also go in another thread.....

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#3063881 15-Apr-2023 13:23

huckster:
Receiving something in the post from Australia that you ordered so long ago, you've forgotten you ordered it and it comes as a complete surprise!

As you get older and/or spend way too much time on Aliexpress you'll find this happening more and more...

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#3064059 15-Apr-2023 21:10

Finally learning what this fruity little shrub of a tree is that the previous owners of our house planted.

Google image search suggested two different plants, both were wrong. It’d suggested it was a sweet Indian bay leaf tree initially and when I scrunched and smelled its leaves it smelt just like that. When I carefully nibbled one of the fruits the skin tasted more like something for flavouring than an actual edible fruit.

Turns out it’s NZ guava and extremely edible. The little tree is full of fruit too.

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#3064060 15-Apr-2023 21:13

MadEngineer: When I carefully nibbled one of the fruits the skin tasted more like something for flavouring than an actual edible fruit. Turns out it’s NZ guava and extremely edible. The little tree is full of fruit too.

You're lucky it wasn't manchineel, which is also a guava, but not edible more than once...

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#3064061 15-Apr-2023 21:28

Not sure if this should go into Annoy, Smile, W/T/F, or something else, but consider this photo of some letterboxes I passed by a while back in the light of advertising-industry claims that people enjoy getting advertising mail because it informs them about things they can buy:

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#3064093 15-Apr-2023 23:29

MadEngineer: Finally learning what this fruity little shrub of a tree is that the previous owners of our house planted.

Google image search suggested two different plants, both were wrong. It’d suggested it was a sweet Indian bay leaf tree initially and when I scrunched and smelled its leaves it smelt just like that. When I carefully nibbled one of the fruits the skin tasted more like something for flavouring than an actual edible fruit.

Turns out it’s NZ guava and extremely edible. The little tree is full of fruit too.

Nice! When we moved in here 12 years ago, there was a stump in the corner of the garden. I never got around to digging it out. Now it has coppiced into a guava tree way taller than me, groaning with fruit. That gets eaten straight away, or soaked in 95% spirit to turn into liqueur, similar to a limoncello.

One example where my laziness really paid off.

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#3064095 15-Apr-2023 23:49

neb:
huckster:

Receiving something in the post from Australia that you ordered so long ago, you've forgotten you ordered it and it comes as a complete surprise!

As you get older and/or spend way too much time on Aliexpress you'll find this happening more and more...

Hehe, I was also surprised yesterday when, after half a year of my visit to Brussels, an original European flag made of flag fabric arrived. The European Parliament gave it to me as a present to hoist it on the flagpole on 5 May.

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