Interesting experience

[french frank]

Cutting off your own head with shears does seem a bit drastic though!

Really interesting to learn how people open packets of biscuits, new CDs, tins of sardines &c, but getting back on topic, I'm pleased to announce that in the absence of a functioning router, my computer has duly switched its connection to the adjacent iPhone. In fact, I don't think the mini-hub worked at all - it was the iPhone all along. And when I took it upstairs to charge the battery, I lost the internet connection downstaits.

Sorry to change the subject

[LHC]

I do seem to find biscuits at the end of packets fragmenting into crumbs on being (carefully) opened these days rather a lot. Also, bananas transitioning from the inedible green stage to rotting at one end in 3 or so days as they sit patiently in my Chinese fruit bowl. And has anyone else noticed milk going off more quickly than a year or two ago? In previous times I've known pints of semi-skimmed lasting over a week - the time it sometimes takes me to get through a pint (or half litre), living as I do alone; nowadays it goes into a junket-like state on day 5: and I have checked and found the temperature inside my fridge not to have altered.

If you are storing your bananas alongside other fruits in your fruit bowl, they could be interacting with each other to accelerate the ripening process. Apples, bananas, peaches and other soft fruits produce large amounts of ethylene gas which acts as a ripening hormone on other fruits and veg (and they produce more ethylene as they get riper or go off). If you can, its better to store them separately from other fruit.