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Lez
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Feb 25, 2020 06:31AM
Blimey, you can buy a telly for that price!
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Lez wrote: "Blimey, you can buy a telly for that price!"You can, but it wouldn't be any good.
Thanks for the recommendation, PS. I've been thinking of getting a bean-to-cup machine for ages. Unfortunately, I've just broken my laptop and think it will cost too much to repair, so that is probably my priority and it might be a few months before I can think about any other devices.
Ah! Sorry. My miskate. That isn't a bean-to-cup machine. It's just a grinder.Blimey, you can buy a telly for that price!
Post Soviet wrote: "nocheese wrote: "Shopping for a replacement coffee grinder after mine alarmingly went up in smoke."I've got this one. Really good.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B......"
That's a serious bit of gear Post.
Gordon wrote: "Isn't there a web site for that? Grindr, or something? Sure it can't do any harm to look.Today I have already spent 2 hours getting to work and anticipate a similar time to get home, if home is s..."
Not that kind of grinding I'm looking for at the moment thanks all the same Gordon.
I know I know. Three years ago I stumbled upon some coffee lover's blog, got heavily infected, and when I'm into somehing big way, great chance of being carried away... At the same time can be stingy to spend couple euros on more essential things. Here, this one to blame. Ended by buying freshly roasted beans from small private roasting companies on a regular basis. Supermarket coffee tastes like a turf now, and there is no turn back...
https://coffeeblog.co.uk/
I'm no expert or fan of Coffee myself..but...wouldn't it just be cheaper to buy those vacuumed pack coffee packs? Like the Kenco ones for eg?It all the same stuff isn't it? Even the freeze dried stuff, tastes the same to me!
I have ordinary instant apart from the weekend when I have Taylor’s ‘After Dark’ filter. Can’t be bothered faffing about most of the time.
theDuke wrote: "I'm no expert or fan of Coffee myself..but...wouldn't it just be cheaper to buy those vacuumed pack coffee packs? Like the Kenco ones for eg?It all the same stuff isn't it? Even the freeze dried ..."
Even the better ones, like Kenco or Taylors, don't have the same flavour as proper beans IMHO. We get ours from the local deli - http://halseysdeli.co.uk - 300g ground on their machine's no. 2 setting does us for just over a week on average. The idea of grinding at home never occurred, but hey! 😎
Goodness, what have I started? I buy whole beans a kilo at a time from a local roastery and grind as I need it. It’s fashionable these days, with lots of new coffee places roasting their own beans, but my supplier was established in 1841, and I’ve been buying their beans for over 30 years. No Duke, it’s not all the same stuff, and as for instant.....anyway, I got a decent grinder in John Lewis so tomorrow I shall mostly be drinking freshly ground dark Colombian coffee. Bliss.
Lez wrote: "I have ordinary instant apart from the weekend when I have Taylor’s ‘After Dark’ filter. Can’t be bothered faffing about most of the time."My wife prefers instant too, regular Nescafe. No coffee machine though, making mine with Aeropress or French press.
I don’t have a coffee machine either, just use filters, almost as quick as making (shudder) instant, and I prefer the end result to a machine of cafetière. May have to explore your methods though, Post.
...daydreaming about fresh coffee.Oh, and listening to students' complaints.
nocheese wrote: "Goodness, what have I started? I buy whole beans a kilo at a time from a local roastery and grind as I need it. It’s fashionable these days, with lots of new coffee places roasting their own beans,..."Fairy enuff nc.
I like a capachino fro time to time..but i'm quintessentially a tea drinker...but just the bog standard builder stuff! I haven't seen a tea pot since i was a kid!
Anyhoo....today....after weeks of the windy wet stuff..it's glorious sunny dry day.....so got stuck in building a new frmaework for yet another gate, this time the one outside our old front door. I've got 4 of the buggers to make thi year..2 new ones from scratch..and another 2 needing repair. Add to that, more fencing....a deck, a new garden shed build from scratch to my own design..and of course....the on going saga that is my man cave. One day....it'll all be finished. Oh.....and i've got to redo the garden path as well.
I 'ope the blerdy weather improves soon!
The car is in for service which means that the driveway is unencumbered and I have no excuse for not getting out and weeding, cutting back plants which are creeping ever forward and tying up that lemon verbena bush that wants to stop me getting into the car.
Taking the last remaining kitchen units out along with the sink.
Self afflicting torture (assembling sofa bed from ikea) goes on for the second day.
Trying to work out how to take out the dead strip light from the cooker hood when it's longer than the aperture and won't push to either side to manoeuvre it out.
Self isolating... not infected just anti social :)
It's been raining all day today...so back to the spring cleaning! Yesterday however, i did managed to finish building from scratch & install one of 4 new outside gates i'm doing this year. Yesterday was a great day..today...not so......i 'ate spring cleaning..but it's gotta be done.
Trying to finish off the Roy Morgan survey books I got talked into two weeks ago now. I finished the 40 page (A4) Media Diary and am down to the last 15 pages of the 116 page consumer poll. I didn't know anyone could be so interested in how I spend my money.Am I really getting twenty dollars?
Val wrote: Am I really getting twenty dollars?Well you are a guinea pig.
nocheese wrote: "Val wrote: Am I really getting twenty dollars?Well you are a guinea pig."
Shouldn't that be twenty one shillings, then?
theDuke wrote: "It's been raining all day today...so back to the spring cleaning! Yesterday however, i did managed to finish building from scratch & install one of 4 new outside gates i'm doing this year. Yesterda..."Doesn't have to be THIS Spring?
Filing, weeding out and organising bills, receipts and general paperwork, as my folder is fit to bust. Later, might tackle the crossword and do some knitting.
theDuke wrote: "It's been raining all day today...so back to the spring cleaning! Yesterday however, i did managed to finish building from scratch & install one of 4 new outside gates i'm doing this year. Yesterda..."“There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.” (Quentin Crisp) 👏😎
Not a lot. Pottering about the house - making granola, cleaning the microwave, watering houseplants. Listening to the radio/music and faffing about on the internet. Exciting stuff, eh?
Today I mostly farted about on the computer/exercise bike whilst listening to music. Tonight, I'm sat with a hot water bottle and a large red wine, about to watch "Witchboard".
Today I will mostly be entertaining our three children, their partners and the four grandchildren - or as my daughter put it: Christmas - The Sequel. I am about to bake cheese muffins and to try making chickpea dukkah crackers. 32 degrees today - not ideal for baking.
Val wrote: "Today I will mostly be entertaining our three children, their partners and the four grandchildren - or as my daughter put it: Christmas - The Sequel. I am about to bake cheese muffins and to try ma..."Have fun, Val! 😊
Collette wrote: "Have fun, Val! 😊 ..."Thanks Collette (she says through gritted teeth)! It would be better if I could recuperate tomorrow but I have to be up at the crack of dawn to drive to Daughter No. 1's house to mind Granddaughter No.1 for the whole day.
Today I shall mostly be binging on films at Glasgow Film Festival - 3 of them between 10.45 and 19.30.
Resting up after yesterday's childminding efforts and getting ready for Patty Griffin tonight.
Doing a short day at work because I have to go & get my windscreen replaced, after something fell from a tree & cracked it.
Enjoying the spring sunshine, hoping winter doesn't go 'And another thing..' yet again.
Having two strange men drilling, pumping and filling in my cavity..............walls! Yes, getting extra insulation put in, from the outside fortunately. Noisy and now my windows are all dusty and dirty :-(
Order a pizza delivery and we've got ourselves a movie!badum-tish
😀Can't get pizza deliveries to our village!!
Helen The Melon wrote: "😀Can't get pizza deliveries to our village!!"
Perhaps the two strange men could have brought them? 😀
... watching 'Plan 9 From Outer Space'. 😎
good choice. a cinematic triumph.
worrying over a threat more harmful to human life than coronavirus - genesis are deforming!
Waiting for a nurse to come and check my blood pressure.
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