I am going to test my new die for Ken to make pasta with
Little shells to go with pork and beef meatballs in a fresh tomato and basil sauce
It’s a while since I have made pasta so wish me luck please
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Been to the butcher and in the new shop next door to the butcher I was spoiled when the Bull treated me to a new walking stick
It’s a good blackthorn with a sheep’s horn as the handle
I am thrilled with it
Simply made sturdy and feels like the handle was made for my hand size
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Well I’m considering it but there’s no mention of tuition in flying. I realise you’d have no difficulty with that but it’s not one of my strengths. Shame.
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I wonder about pointe work
Swans are often the inspiration for dance
So who wants lessons en pointe?
And pirouettes and fouettes…
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Just removed, cleaned out, and reassembled the nearly blocked U-bend of a slow-draining wash basin.
[chest swells, Sparrerfully]
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I hope that you have had an couple of Drinks on the strength of that, Dunnock.
Minor disaster here , in that I went into the kitchen to find condensed water dripping orff the worktops & cupboards, & that the previously automatic kettle had boiled dry.
Sigh
The kettle is fritzed, so I am now trawling Amazon to find an suitable replacement. For an 1.7l 3kw Stainless Steel kettle, there are at least lots of choices & price points.
I could do without it though
Sigh
Carinthia. xx
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I took a dead kettle to a repair café for them to look at just in case it could be mended, Carinthia, and the chap who looked at it (and told me it was a write-off because a plastic part in the on-switch had broken and would not be possible to replace) mends small appliances in his “day job”. He told me that the only kettle brand he has never been asked to mend is Dualit.
They are very expensive, but given the number of cheaper kettles I have gone through this century, I worked out that the Dualit dome kettle I bought on that recommendation for about ninety quid only has to last four years for me to be in profit.
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“I’ve never had to repair one of these. The few pieces left after the rapid unscheduled disassembly are obviously not worth trying to get working again.”
(narsty cynical Sparrer, and I should say that the Dualit which That Fish got has been just fine so far.)
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I have just looked back, & the knackered kettle is 3 years & 2 months old. The one it replaced was 20 years old.
Dualit is an trusted brand, Fishy, & their reputation is excellent. Their toasters are repairable too, howsumevva, I don’t have the money to invest that much in one ATM.
Carinthia. xx
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NALL. Gxx
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Why are my peeler senses twitching wee birdie?
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All but two of the new kitchen drawer and cupboard knobs are now in place, but there is a problem: the two that aren’t are the ones under the sink, and they have corroded solidly in place. I think they may just have to stay as they are, unless three-in-one or WD40 persuades them to move.
The other complication is that in all the fiendish excitement, I managed to drop an empty drawer onto the kitchen floor, where of course it came apart along the seams. It is sitting with wood-glue along those seams, held together with the belts I got for the stool in the kitchen to hold the top on it, and I have my fingers mightily crossed that this will work, because otherwise a whole new drawer will have to be organised and I bet they no longer make them like the ones we have.
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Tenters Hitched, Fishy.
I have managed to navigate the JL website & have ordered an Noo kettle
I may need an Little Lie Down…
Carinthia, xx
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Could’ve been worse, Fishy - you could’ve dropped it onto your foot and ended up with a broken big toe, as I once did. Very painful.
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I have trained myself to step back if anything starts to fall to the quarry-tiled floor in the kitchen; otherwise reflex might lead me to try to catch a sharp knife before it hits the floor and shatters, and that would be A Mistake.
Better a broken plate than a broken toe, anyhow; I winced when I thought about that!
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