Good morning campers, another lovely day to celebrate being on this side of the grass.
I thought I had a doctor’s appointment this morning so I didn’t go for my walk, looked it up and the appointment is tomorrow but by then it was too hot to go walking.
Turned on my old freezer on the verandah because I have decided that my smaller, newer freezer in the laundry needs defrosting. Having the old freezer is very handy but I am annoyed that the new freezer needs de-icing.
I received a frantic call from one of my fellow seniors, committee members saying that the online membership file was wrong with some members listed twice. They were right fortunately it was just a fumble in my copy and paste and easily corrected.
@Bruce I use to hate defrosting my Freezer, I made a quicker job of it by using an hair dryer , but I expect with your temps you don’t have to wait long for it to defrost .
Ive nothing to do today , just watch the Onedin Line on Youtube , maybe go a walk by the River later , to get some fresh air .I must try and do some art work , .
The Cyclamen are out , an old neighbour gave them to me , she almost made it to a 100 , but she expired a year or 2 , they are a nice reminder of her .
Morning everyone from Foxy’s World…
Felt good this morning and strutted around a nice 3.5 miles along the canal and through the streets of the village. It’s actually quieter padding around the back streets than it is along the popular dog walking routes down by the canal…And a lot safer sometimes…
7 degrees C and a hint of sunshine bursting out of the clouds, nice conditions to get out the ladder later to feed a fibre cable through the wall and into the loft. The chap yesterday left it dangling and clipped it to the wall. I told him that the router (converts an optical signal into an RF one for the wifi) would be situated in the loft, he said rules forbid him to climb high up…
My property, my rules! So I’m shifting it…
How’s your beard coming on Bob? I hear you ask…
Incidentally @Rose2 My dentist turns out to be Portuguese…I asked him yesterday while he was filling Mrs Fox’s tooth. He said he used to look after unfortunate patients who had arrived on cruise ships and needed dental treatment before he came to England. The food is that good on cruise ships your teeth really do take a pasting…
In fact @OldGreyFox, that name sounded either Spanish or Portuguese. I think many cruise ship passengers need dental treatment in modern times too, I remember we practically ate 24 hours a day on the two cruises we’ve been to, one on our honeymoon and another with the kids when they were toddlers. The sea air definitely gives you a great appetite, there was a particular moment when we had just had a huge afternoon tea with a vast assortment of cakes, and soon after that we had burgers and chips! Round the clock bingeing!
Good hazy, foggy morning from Florida! We are socked in like pea soup, but the skies are casting a strange amber fire. I am guessing the effect is from logging fires. Much of this area is pine wood agriculture. For over a hundred years the related paper mills would emit sickening sweet odor that filled the skies, but better filtration systems took care of that in the early 2000s.
I am sure you know that alcohol is your friend as you clean out the last of your freezer, Bruce, since it has a lower freezing point than water. I am glad your double contacts were an easy fix. When I purchased my most recent phone, the transfer resulted in duplicating all of my contacts - and I still haven’t taken the few minutes it would probably take to fix it.
@Eliza, your cyclamen are giving us hope that spring is around the corner! How pretty. It’s so nice to have those reminders of old friends. .
@OldGreyFox, isn’t it nice to have options for running an assortment of routes? I am sure it’s peaceful in your village that time of day. Your beard is coming in well; what does Mrs. OGF think of it?
I have a new windshield thanks to a semi truck that flung a rock directly in my line of vision. Sometimes we take for granted how amazing technology is; without that safety glass, I would probably be staring at the sky for the last time . Fortunately, replacement (the glass, not me ) is covered by insurance with no deductible. Is that the practice everywhere? Still, it is a complicated process with the camera system embedded in the glass. For every technological advance things seem to get just a little more challenging…
@Rose2 , nice to travel down memory lane with you and your family cruises!
It’s university day, so I am off to shake up my remaining neurons to teach and learn about subjects long forgotten.
Having the old freezer makes it a totally different job. When it was just one freezer everything was done in a rush but not now. I just load everything into a polyester shopping bags and dump it in the old freezer.
Turn off the new one, leave the lid open and go back 15 minutes later it is a puddle in the bottom - over 30° outside. There is a drain in the bottom but I don’t use it, just soak it up with a rag, wipe it over and wait another half an hour for it to dry out before turning it back on.
It is only a 140 litre freezer not like those massive things people in the UK have in their garages (well my parents did), the old one is 210 litres which was fine when I had a family but much too big for just me especially as the fridge has a big freezer compartment too.
What I think is remarkable is that the old freezer is over 40 years old, the lid rusty as buggery but still going fine. It was made in Australia at Orange, we don’t make any white goods any more I don’t think.
That’s similar to here, I have windscreen coverage as an extra on my insurance. costs a few dollars extra.
In the 1960s the highway north of Brisbane was known as the Crystal Highway because of the broken windscreen bits littering the dirt road in the days when they would shatter into a million pieces
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) is covered by insurance with no deductible. Is that the practice everywhere? Still, it is a complicated process with the camera system embedded in the glass. For every technological advance things seem to get just a little more challenging…