Good News stories

[vinteuil]

The product names can be quite amusing ...

... o yes -

https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/ikea-furniture-names/?srsltid=AfmBOoqOqA5ODONWov0sI0h272JfhbLQI0oNr8ro7D95hwwgBTzRbRTc

https://lar5.com/ikea/

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[french frank]

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).

[oddoneout]

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.

[AuntDaisy]

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.

[Serial_Apologist]

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.

[Old Grumpy]

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... !

[johncorrigan]

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.

[oliver sudden]

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.

[Serial_Apologist]

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

[oddoneout]

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.

[Old Grumpy]

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!

[french frank]

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

[french frank]

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

[Padraig]

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.

[french frank]

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!