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  • vinteuil
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12793

    Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post

    The product names can be quite amusing ...
    ... o yes -





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    • french frank
      Administrator/Moderator
      • Feb 2007
      • 30250

      Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
      How is the new kitchen & is it finished?
      Look! This is the good news stories thread

      Actually, as at yesterday I have a semi-functioning kitchen, water/sink and new induction hob (). No heating but no more cooking out on the utility room floor. Two doors won't close properly and have to be adjusted - tomorrow allegedly. The worst aspect is that having crafted one's kitchen exactly how you want it, you now have a different, very up to date kitchen which in a number of respects doesn't work in the same efficient way. But I had my first stovetop coffee heated on the induction hob adapter (pot doesn't work on induction hobs).
      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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      • oddoneout
        Full Member
        • Nov 2015
        • 9145

        Originally posted by french frank View Post

        Look! This is the good news stories thread

        Actually, as at yesterday I have a semi-functioning kitchen, water/sink and new induction hob (). No heating but no more cooking out on the utility room floor. Two doors won't close properly and have to be adjusted - tomorrow allegedly. The worst aspect is that having crafted one's kitchen exactly how you want it, you now have a different, very up to date kitchen which in a number of respects doesn't work in the same efficient way. But I had my first stovetop coffee heated on the induction hob adapter (pot doesn't work on induction hobs).
        I am slightly puzzled. Why would the new kitchen, which presumably you specified to your purposes, not work as well as the old?
        For some reason stove coffeepots seem always to have been aluminium(or sometimes enamel) , so won't work on induction hobs, but I see that manufacturers now make suitable versions, either stainless steel or with an adapted base.

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        • AuntDaisy
          Host
          • Jun 2018
          • 1621

          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          Look! This is the good news stories thread

          Actually, as at yesterday I have a semi-functioning kitchen, water/sink and new induction hob (). No heating but no more cooking out on the utility room floor. Two doors won't close properly and have to be adjusted - tomorrow allegedly. The worst aspect is that having crafted one's kitchen exactly how you want it, you now have a different, very up to date kitchen which in a number of respects doesn't work in the same efficient way. But I had my first stovetop coffee heated on the induction hob adapter (pot doesn't work on induction hobs).
          Sorry to hear about the Kitchen woes - I'm sure it'll be worth all the bother in the end...
          Perhaps you can share a picture? Induction hobs are new to me...

          BTW 3-unwind is always there to destress / distress.

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          • Serial_Apologist
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 37602

            Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

            You have to follow the yellow brick road, I think.
            I'm surprised that some of them have (presumably) passed Health and Safety requirements in terms of signage and escape routes in the event of evacuation being needed.
            Presumably they would then send you a kit for re-assembling yourself.

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            • Old Grumpy
              Full Member
              • Jan 2011
              • 3596

              Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
              Sorry to hear about the Kitchen woes - I'm sure it'll be worth all the bother in the end...
              Perhaps you can share a picture? Induction hobs are new to me...

              BTW 3-unwind is always there to destress / distress.



              Careful... !

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              • johncorrigan
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 10348

                I would like to commend BBC Radio 3 for being a news-free zone for a large part of this morning...they should do it more often, in my opinion. I appreciated it very much.

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                • oliver sudden
                  Full Member
                  • Feb 2024
                  • 604

                  Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
                  I would like to commend BBC Radio 3 for being a news-free zone for a large part of this morning...they should do it more often, in my opinion. I appreciated it very much.
                  There was a period at some point between four and eight years ago when the R3 news would often begin: “in a series of tweets, President Tr…” and then it would stop abruptly because I had turned it off.

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                  • Serial_Apologist
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37602

                    I thought John was going to say he'd taken out shares in American flag manufacturers!

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                    • oddoneout
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2015
                      • 9145

                      Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
                      I would like to commend BBC Radio 3 for being a news-free zone for a large part of this morning...they should do it more often, in my opinion. I appreciated it very much.
                      It's their normal approach - short bulletins on the hour and half hour through Breakfast and then one at lunchtime. It's one of the few things SJ didn't refresh, but I suspect in due course someone will see fit to change that.
                      It's one of the things I appreciate - just enough information to have an idea what's happening, leaving me the option to follow up for myself elsewhere if I choose.

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                      • Old Grumpy
                        Full Member
                        • Jan 2011
                        • 3596

                        Originally posted by oddoneout View Post


                        It's one of the things I appreciate - just enough information to have an idea what's happening, leaving me the option to follow up for myself elsewhere if I choose.


                        Amen to that!

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30250

                          Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                          It's one of the things I appreciate - just enough information to have an idea what's happening, leaving me the option to follow up for myself elsewhere if I choose.
                          I get the Guardian newsletter with the top stories and then go to BBC online news for another version. But I do spend a good deal of time checking on news. Longer than listening to music
                          It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                          • french frank
                            Administrator/Moderator
                            • Feb 2007
                            • 30250

                            Just received confirmation from TV Licensing that they have accepted my statutory declaration that I don't need a television licence. I've been living at the same address for just going into my 30th year declaring that I have no TV and have been visited twice by amiable inspectors doing their duty. Of course they have to check, not whether I am telling the truth or not, but whether perhaps I am mistaken in my interpretation of the law
                            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                            • Padraig
                              Full Member
                              • Feb 2013
                              • 4226

                              Originally posted by french frank View Post
                              Just received confirmation from TV Licensing that they have accepted my statutory declaration that I don't need a television licence. I've been living at the same address for just going into my 30th year declaring that I have no TV and have been visited twice by amiable inspectors doing their duty. Of course they have to check, not whether I am telling the truth or not, but whether perhaps I am mistaken in my interpretation of the law
                              Just to say that is very belated good news, f f. We know the story. You have lived up magnificently to that venerable motto Nil Desperandum and emerged victorious.

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                              • french frank
                                Administrator/Moderator
                                • Feb 2007
                                • 30250

                                Originally posted by Padraig View Post

                                Just to say that is very belated good news, f f. We know the story. You have lived up magnificently to that venerable motto Nil Desperandum and emerged victorious.
                                Noblesse oblige!
                                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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