Usual banality of grocery shopping with a twist, I’ve managed to prepare breakfast and lunch for the next few days with evening meals all planned as well.

Took the hound for a run, normally route, a couple of laps around the park where he can run free, sniff and piss where he wants, plus a fair ...

I regarded her inconvenience and outlay as an idiot tax for either leaving the bag on display in the car


I have explained to the Gremlinette, a few times, not to leave her [Insert designer name here] bag on the front seat whilst driving, which she does constantly, let alone whilst parked up ...

Helped the Gremlinette clear out all the broken glass from having her passenger window smashed when she was out last night. :thumbdown:

Fuckers.


She's found one on eBay nearby and done a deal at £35 and a bloke recommended by my local grease monkeys will fit it for £75.

Harsh lesson learnt ...

200+ pages…

A pair of Stanley plastic folding saw horses, a couple of lengths of CLS and a piece of chipboard flooring

My work’s IT dept…

9.30am
Me: I can’t access my emails on my work iPhone
Them: You’ve been migrated to the new MS active sync system
Me: Have I? I didn’t receive an email with instructions
Them: You should have…
Me: Can you resend the temporary access password.
Them: Yep

I start the guided process ...

Has the wonderful chillit come round this weekend to kindly service the gixer for me. (Yes I still have it) only to find two of the split coils have gone 😞 fa-harking-ell. They’re not cheap for a set of four 😳4093EE9D-3C5B-42E1-92EF-7F7D24C162F2.jpeg


Oh God. Who let her in ???


Mwahahaha ...

I passed my final roleplay assessment today which means I’m let out to deal with proper clients next week, sold a log burner I acquired last year (didn’t fit in the hole, scored some 8 x 2 22mm chipboard floorboards for the loft(s) and went for an unexpected curry with one of the offspring.

A ...

I passed my final roleplay assessment today which means I’m let out to deal with proper clients next week, sold a log burner I acquired last year (didn’t fit in the hole, scored some 8 x 2 22mm chipboard floorboards for the loft(s) and went for an unexpected curry with one of the offspring.

A great ...

I did take a photo of my nob with the huge tube coming out of the Jap eye when I had my prostate op, but everybody I offered to show it to declined. :thumbdown:

Just thinking back to when they pulled it out is making me wince...


I wish I had known it was possible to decline ...

Anyway, today I found out that my dog has been shot 😱😱😱

Not recently I hasten to add, but there's apparently something metallic in his front right chest, like a BB pellet. It's apparently really clear on the full body CT scan that he had today, the vet will show me tomorrow.

He was a rescue ...

Updates which are actually retrogrades.

For example, Google assistant has been upgraded to Gemini, however, you can’t voice control Google home devices from Gemini and I’m fucked if I’m paying £19 a month to be able to voice control my garage door, assuming the premium version reinstates previous ...

Been to the office for a few hours, im sure the novelty will wear off shortly… :D I took advantage of being in Newcastle to pop and see daughter for a coffee and drop off Easter eggs for her and her beau.

3 hours of online learning done this afternoon, I’m >< this close to being signed off to see ...

Submitted my 2024/2025 tax return, looks like I owe £200 in tax. I’m still waiting for HMRC to refund over £250 from 2023/2024 PAYE due to a tight-fisted, now ex-employer, not paying full HMRC mileage allowance and HMRC needing to see my mileage log.

According to the online timeline, they’ll start ...

Dropped car off for MOT at 8.30, booked in for 12pm but I was busy then, checked online at 10.30am, all done, pass with no advisories :thumbup:

Looked at European stock markets, meh, just looked at US, more meh, but it’ll come back at some point.

Met up with some mates for lunch, sat outside, on ...

So far, today has been a day of chores:

Rear lawn, strimmed the edges and went over it twice, at different heights, with the mower. The ground underneath is much more uneven than I recall, so I’ll take a look at getting some screened topsoil and sand so I can top dress it and hopefully get it flat ...

Two week ish update.

I’ve used both pans for the majority of cooking and they have handled the following:

Bacon
Eggs - omelette and fried
Halloumi
Stir fry veg in Satė sauce
Ragu from scratch, including browning the mince to a crisp edge, sautė of the soffritto, and simmering of the sauce until ...

Two gripes today:

The hose on the carpet cleaner has split but thankfully it is under warranty :thumbup: I called Vax nearly three weeks ago, the need to send me a letter with instructions on how to return together with a postage label, fine whatever. It hadn’t arrived by last Friday, so I called ...

gremlin wrote: Thu Apr 03, 2025 2:26 pm Was informed by the Gremlinette that one of her uni friends considers me a 'DILF'.

Bwahahahahaha!

Does this uni friend have a service dog perchance?

mangocrazy wrote: Tue Apr 01, 2025 12:42 pm April_Fools_Day.JPG

Taipan wrote: Tue Apr 01, 2025 12:45 pm

Good to see this joke works on both sides of the “pond”.