So... What oiled your gears today?

[Polarbear]

[Islander]

[Islander]

Here you go:

"exemptions for filling stations on the Scottish islands: the proposals in the consultation document have been extended to cover filling stations in very remote areas where access to the protection grade (E5) is most sparse. Any filling station within an area covered by the Rural Fuel Duty Relief Scheme, as defined in Schedule 1 to the Hydrocarbon Oil and Biofuels (Road Fuels in Defined Areas) (Reliefs) Regulations 2011, will not be required to sell E10 petrol. This includes the Scottish islands, as well as a small number of other remote parts of the UK. E10 petrol will still be permitted to be sold in these areas, but not required"

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/introducing-e10-petrol/outcome/introducing-e10-petrol-outcome-and-summary-of-responses?fbclid=IwAR0V-Q5HqKjojXbBhqg7jTl3ev7R0bSIiucgL3xiyFbiFylhJbjiYms3nT0

[Polarbear]

Certainly long term storage issues. Stupid thing is it's more a publicity stunt than a savior of the world. Changing from diesel to HVO like we are doing for inland waterways boats is much more worthwhile.
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[Islander]

[Ste]

Hybrid boats with solar panels for the win.

[Skudd]

Getting rid of shit at the local tip. Putting stuff in the wrong category skip, blocking people and being a general Victor Meldrew about everything.
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[Ste]

[stinkwheel]

Wanted to see if replacing the landline and internet in favour of mobile was a viable option.

However if the sim card is in a router, how to use the phone part of it?

Bought a Huawei b525 4G router, slapped a PAYG EE SIM card in, plugged it into my ethernet switch and BT DECT phone.

Fuck me. It worked. All wired internet working, wireless working, can make and receive calls on the house phone using the mobile number.

Now remains to be seen if the 4G is fast and reliable enough. If it is, I'll sack off the landline and get an unlimited data plan. I can try different networks for speed/reliability using cheap PAYG cards.

No 5G here yet or it would be a total no-brainer, unlikely to be for a long time I suspect.
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[Islander]

[Easy-X]

VoIP has got to the point where it's superior to a POTS line and 4G is more than enough for most needs, if you have a reasonable signal. The only reason I burn money on fibre optic is for work purposes otherwise I'd just have a Nokia 3310 and a newspaper... that's what I like to tell myself anyway
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[stinkwheel]

[Easy-X]

Oh and despite the trials and tribulations of getting a phone upgrade mentioned previously the website said the phone I wanted was on back order (4 to 6 days) and the acknowledgement email said 1 to 2 weeks

But I've just checked the order tracking and apparently it's turning up on Monday
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[hellkat]

I fried up a bit of cooked chicken in some butter, and added some chunks of cooking bacon.

Then I stirred in a massive dollop of cheap and nasty African peanut butter.

And I broke up a chillie from one of the black-and-red chilli trees I bought back in September, most of which chillies have dried up on the stalks now

Then I poured in some water and simmered the shit out of it for about half an hour.

And its produced a very reasonable chicken and bacon satê which I have just scoffed.

It will be difficult to stop the cats from licking the gravy in the middle of the night while I am asleep.
But they will pay for it, cos its v.spicy
Perhaps I should put a plate over the saucepan
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[Raffles]

[Ste]

We Found 87 Clips With "Licking The Gravy"

[Islander]

[Ste]

Saturday morning, that's a paddlin' swimmin'.

[thx1138]

[hellkat]

[stinkwheel]

[Shaft]

Sitting at the new 3 way temp lights that appeared earlier this week (replacing the previous set further down the road, that have been causing traffic chaos for the last 4 months) and became aware of a certain amount of commotion.

On paying attention, it seems some spotty youth in a badly modified Peugeot warm hatch misjudged his speed and totally screwed up running the red and crossing the junction in time, so now he's got a guy in a very large van facing him down, who has right of way and isn't going anywhere, nor is the line of traffic forming behind him.

Barry Boi attempts remonstration, but gets nowhere and is forced to reverse, choosing to block the entrance to some shops, which then incurs the wrath of another driver who wants to turn in there; cue a very poorly executed reverse-cum-3 point turn, resulting in a severely embarrassed fan of the Burberry cap.

Karma in action
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[MCN]

[Howling Terror]

[hellkat]

I started emptying out my shed.
Starting with an assortment of bags, boxes and a suitcase belonging to my daughter.
I was hoping to score her perfume collection, which most likely would be old and "off" now anyway.

But *apparently* ... someone (I don't remember it being me!) has authorised the storage of her father's belongings from years ago when he was a bit "itinerant". And I am now plunged into the black hole of ultra-nostalgia from 30-35 years ago.

dear oh dear
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