Well that's the last of the sunshine ferra bit.
Still dunt look like it'll rain tho, plants is fursti
Still dunt look like it'll rain tho, plants is fursti
Back from my ride (only 9.9 miles (ten for cash). 
So far that's 60 miles (20 on each 10AH battery) and 20 on the bigger 20AH brick.
A further 20 miles is expected to be delivered by the 20AH brick (2 more of these rides).
This will hopefully mean that extended daily round-trips can be undertaken in Holland between 5-Hour recharging cycles.
A proper Bacon & Egg brunch has now been cooked and enjoyed.
So far that's 60 miles (20 on each 10AH battery) and 20 on the bigger 20AH brick.
A further 20 miles is expected to be delivered by the 20AH brick (2 more of these rides).
This will hopefully mean that extended daily round-trips can be undertaken in Holland between 5-Hour recharging cycles.
A proper Bacon & Egg brunch has now been cooked and enjoyed.
35 years ago today, I asked the other half out. We are off to the pub in a while for a meal to celebrate as we always do every year well usually we go away for the week but this has not happened for the last couple of years.......
well usually we go away for the week but this has not happened for the last couple of years.......
Way to go!!!!!
I'm sorry about this but I realised yesterday, when the hinternet was down yet again, that i was talking bollix about Octopus requiring you to have a Smart meter.
They don't. (Just checked on their website)
What made me think they did was that they DO require you to do everything paperless over the internet. But the smartmeter thing came about because we had them fitted, to both gas and electricity, when we were with British Gas.
Eventually Octopus must have been able to use them, so they did.
And as I said it isn't a problem for us in fact it is a benefit.
Or simply buy the cheapest (and therefore simplest) pizza they sell then "dress it up" with your own extra toppings.Who really wants to pay for Domino's or whatever when you can simply deconstruct a cheap fresh supermarket Pizza scrape off the cheese and add your own layer of butter softened onions & peppers and make some home-made Italian sausage with quality butchers sausages and ground fennel and then put the cheese back on top? @Shimsteriom would be proud of me.
Delicious.
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I add chorizo, salami, olives etc etc.
But I guess you have sussed this already!
Good on yer!!
Enjoy!!!
Agree totally with this.
Octopus always warn you when they are going to bang up your DD. You ring up and say "Oi, no need to do this we are going away, yet again." And blokey sez "OK, sorry about that, the upping of the DD is part of an automatic computer thing, (prolly an algorithm) but we can override it and will do so for you, don't worry about any further messages about it, it'll acksherly do what we have just agreed."
And it has done.
I did try to get them to explain why the computer couldn't see our consumption year on year, some time ago, and use that, can't remember his explanation for why it couldn't but it sort of made sense. He just said, "Don't worry, all you have to do is ring us and it'll get sorted out." Very friendly and no issues.
No more estimated bills is brill tho!!
In both countries. Our bills have dropped noticeably in Frogland as a result!
We have timers on both our washing machine and our dishwasher, so we could set them and then go to bed. But in France the cheap electric starts at 10:30 pm and I am rarely in bed before then, so I can just switch them on.
It goes off at 6 a.m though.
But Tariff Tempo is fantastic as we get cheaper electric than anyone else, most of the time, and when it is more expensive, we aren't here!!
Our Microwave has just bust.
I was shocked to find that it uses 1200 watts! (Gives out 800 watts)
I thort, as a lot of peeps do that it is "the same as an electric lightbulb", what bollix!! More like 20 60 watt bulbs.
hope the new one will be more energy efficient.
Wifey has just reminded me that we have a dry fryer oven type thing that I could cook my chops and sossiges, in rather than use the electric fan oven. Must look into it.
Thanks for making us think a bit!!
Correkshun, rainin, a bit
I like this.35 years ago today, I asked the other half out. We are off to the pub in a while for a meal to celebrate as we always do every year
We too celebrate the date we first met as to us it is almost more important than our wedding anniversary as we married 9 years or so after we moved in together, which we did the weekend we met!!!
Have a lovely time!!!
Mait, dyu want to naw the maik of the polly wot we ave on ur tunnel? As it's strong stuff?
correction.
I said our internet was down.
No it wasn't, my frickin pooter decided it wsuddenly couldn't "see" the WiFi box. Wifey's tablet was fine.
Din't know what else to do so tried a system restore, it didn't like that so tried to set up anew date to restore to, whatever it took from that it obviously worked.
So, do any peeps on here have an idea as to how its sensor or aerial or whatever got switched off? Just in case it happens again?
I said our internet was down.
No it wasn't, my frickin pooter decided it wsuddenly couldn't "see" the WiFi box. Wifey's tablet was fine.
Din't know what else to do so tried a system restore, it didn't like that so tried to set up anew date to restore to, whatever it took from that it obviously worked.
So, do any peeps on here have an idea as to how its sensor or aerial or whatever got switched off? Just in case it happens again?
correction.
I said our internet was down.
No it wasn't, my frickin pooter decided it wsuddenly couldn't "see" the WiFi box. Wifey's tablet was fine.
Din't know what else to do so tried a system restore, it didn't like that so tried to set up anew date to restore to, whatever it took from that it obviously worked.
So, do any peeps on here have an idea as to how its sensor or aerial or whatever got switched off? Just in case it happens again?
Absolutely no idea.
I just had to a quick change to the I pad to watch the motogp as the laptop was having none of it on the wifi. Then just restarted the laptop and all is fine
.Motogp worth a watch
, If you like a bit of elbow saves @kermit_rr @Shimsteriom and all the other motorbike fans.But usually a restart sorts it for me, you need to stop looking at those dodgey websites
.J
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Eye was watching 'butlersempire' on youtube ealier this week. He's just bort an 'air fryer'. Looks quite interesting. Uses more power than a microwave but opens up the opertunities available for different food options. I'd never come across them before. I have seen the ones where there's a drum turning that dip's fings in fat to fry, as it turns. not sure wot they is called. But the air fryer does look interesting. We have one of them there mean green grilling fings anorl. We ain't used the oven this year.Our Microwave has just bust.
I was shocked to find that it uses 1200 watts! (Gives out 800 watts)
I thort, as a lot of peeps do that it is "the same as an electric lightbulb", what bollix!! More like 20 60 watt bulbs.
hope the new one will be more energy efficient.
Wifey has just reminded me that we have a dry fryer oven type thing that I could cook my chops and sossiges, in rather than use the electric fan oven. Must look into it.
Thanks for making us think a bit!!
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Press the windows key oncecorrection.
I said our internet was down.
No it wasn't, my frickin pooter decided it wsuddenly couldn't "see" the WiFi box. Wifey's tablet was fine.
Din't know what else to do so tried a system restore, it didn't like that so tried to set up anew date to restore to, whatever it took from that it obviously worked.
So, do any peeps on here have an idea as to how its sensor or aerial or whatever got switched off? Just in case it happens again?
the start menu will appear
Type: device manager
then click on it when yer see it in the list
look down the list for network adapters
find the wifi one
right click onnit and select disable
wait a few seconds then click onnit again and select enable
yer has just switched oft and switched on yer wifi
see if that solves the problem
Hippo
Lord Hippo
If yer meter's recently new then I would be surprised if it wurn't already a smart meter. If yer can't gerra fone signal where yer live's then it probably won't work assa meffud of automatically suppling the meter reading as they use GPRS for the comms signal. It's unlikely yer can get said signal where yer lives. Have a look at it. It will say onnit. Ovo should already know the type from the identity number. Praps they fink it's broke'd but they will be aware of signal problems in remote area's.
Absolutely no idea.
I just had to a quick change to the I pad to watch the motogp as the laptop was having none of it on the wifi. Then just restarted the laptop and all is fine
Motogp worth a watch
But usually a restart sorts it for me, you need to stop looking at those dodgey websites
J
We've had a lot of troubles with our phone lines here recently since they have been "repairing" damage done in a storm.
Reboots, even a hard one didn't do it. Hence the system restore.
Hmmmmm!
As my Ma was a doc, I never got to own a motorbike as a lad, altho i cut my teeth on them working on my mate's who had loads of old lovely ones, AJS, Matchless etc. Cheap at the time I suppose, (early 1970s)
Ma was for ever coming home from work with stories of dreadful bike accidents, "He came in one ambulance, his leg in another", "Two of them decided to play "chicken" but neither of them swerved away", "He's in bed now, with half his skull open", "crossmatching blood by the bucketful"
etc etc etc, you get the picture!!!
But tis exciting to watch!
Enjoy!!!
etc etc etc, you get the picture!!!
But tis exciting to watch!
I do. But also know a huge difference between roads and a race track as to the results
.J
