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Yorick wrote: Thu Jun 22, 2023 9:57 pm Folk who bugger about with food.

Smoked salmon. I love it. Ever since I went to a smokery thingy in Scotland in late 80s.

We have a fave local place in great location that does amazing salmon baguettes with avocado, cream cheese and salad in granary roll. Yum yum

Today the salmon was bright red and tasted shite.
Apparently they'd decided to marinate it in some strange flavour. Was shite.

Won't be going back there. Muppets.

Couldn't you just explain to them it didn't work for you and you prefer the other?

You know they were only trying to improve it don't you?

weeksy wrote: Thu Jun 22, 2023 9:59 pm

Yorick wrote: Thu Jun 22, 2023 9:57 pm Folk who bugger about with food.

Smoked salmon. I love it. Ever since I went to a smokery thingy in Scotland in late 80s.

We have a fave local place in great location that does amazing salmon baguettes with avocado, cream cheese and salad in granary roll. Yum yum

Today the salmon was bright red and tasted shite.
Apparently they'd decided to marinate it in some strange flavour. Was shite.

Won't be going back there. Muppets.

Couldn't you just explain to them it didn't work for you and you prefer the other?

You know they were only trying to improve it don't you?

Yes I did. That was a bit tongue in cheek. But why change something world famous

But there were other problems as well.
Pen's sarnie was half size of last time and overall good feeling has gone.

Dust.

Been sanding the hallway floor. The entire house looks like a Saharan dust storm has blown through it. Only halfway through it as well.

More sawdust-coloured bogies for us two tomorrow

gremlin wrote: Thu Jun 22, 2023 10:44 pm Dust.

Been sanding the hallway floor. The entire house looks like a Saharan dust storm has blown through it. Only halfway through it as well.

More sawdust-coloured bogies for us two tomorrow

I did that once. We have an open fireplace which draws so much air in, so I had to use plastic drop sheet and seal off the front room, in fact every door to stop the air from flowing and carrying dust everywhere.

gremlin wrote: Thu Jun 22, 2023 10:44 pm Dust.

Been sanding the hallway floor. The entire house looks like a Saharan dust storm has blown through it. Only halfway through it as well.

More sawdust-coloured bogies for us two tomorrow

We have the Saharan dust blowing here constantly. Only 90 miles away.
Cleaned the pool today. 3 hours later the floor is covered in dust.

But I suppose there's worse problems

gremlin wrote: Thu Jun 22, 2023 10:44 pm Dust.

Been sanding the hallway floor. The entire house looks like a Saharan dust storm has blown through it. Only halfway through it as well.

More sawdust-coloured bogies for us two tomorrow

Serious answer. Attach the Hoover to the sander.

gremlin wrote: Thu Jun 22, 2023 10:44 pm Dust.

I re-rendered the front of the house (entirely by hand, I am an 'artisan' you know, might explain how fucked my elbows are). It involved chiseling century old 'render', mainly red mud, which covered everything in the street with a fine red dust for literally months.

My neighbours should have hated me, but instead frequently drove past doing encouraging arm movements.

Yorick wrote: Thu Jun 22, 2023 10:54 pm

gremlin wrote: Thu Jun 22, 2023 10:44 pm Dust.

Been sanding the hallway floor. The entire house looks like a Saharan dust storm has blown through it. Only halfway through it as well.

More sawdust-coloured bogies for us two tomorrow

Serious answer. Attach the Hoover to the sander.

Using a hired floor sander as the area is c. 50 sq meters. Mrs G is using that, with the dust bag attached. We nned the sawdust to be mixed with liquid filler and spread all over to cover joints once we're down to 120 grit, then sanded all over again.
I'm using a 150mm random orbital on the edges with a decent dust fliter. Knees fucked.

Door gaps masked over, but it still gets everywhere. I reckon we'll be cleaning for weeks to come.

Still, sanding should be done by end of today, then it's clean, prime and two or three coats of lacquer.

Been in the house for 15 years and this is the first time we've done the floor. And it will be the bloody last.

gremlin wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 5:25 am Knees fucked.

Buy some gel knee pads, they're ace.

[First knee pads I bought had a rigid plastic outer. After seeing how scratched they were, you realise how much grief knees get]

gremlin wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 5:25 am We nned the sawdust to be mixed with liquid filler and spread all over to cover joints once we're down to 120 grit, then sanded all over again.

I assume that's recommended practice but I'm intrigued as to how that lasts over the coming years. I suppose it depends on the age, condition and type of floor? If it's a pretty rigid tongue and groove and the joint gaps aren't too big.... (Just thinking 'out loud' if it would would work on a particular floor that needs doing in a friend's place - I volunteered to help. Doh.)

Horse wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:32 am

gremlin wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 5:25 am Knees fucked.

Buy some gel knee pads, they're ace.

[First knee pads I bought had a rigid plastic outer. After seeing how scratched they were, you realise how much grief knees get]

Got some. They are indeed ace.

If only I could bloody well find them...

gremlin wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 8:32 am

Horse wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:32 am

gremlin wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 5:25 am Knees fucked.

Buy some gel knee pads, they're ace.

[First knee pads I bought had a rigid plastic outer. After seeing how scratched they were, you realise how much grief knees get]

Got some. They are indeed ace.

If only I could bloody well find them...

You looked in Taipans loft ?

gremlin wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 8:32 am

Horse wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:32 am

gremlin wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 5:25 am Knees fucked.

Buy some gel knee pads, they're ace.

[First knee pads I bought had a rigid plastic outer. After seeing how scratched they were, you realise how much grief knees get]

Got some. They are indeed ace.

If only I could bloody well find them...

I have some very good De Walt ones. But when working in the garage, I have kneel mats made up of double thickness yoga mats. 1 big mat made 2 kneel mats. They work well

gremlin wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 8:32 am

Horse wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:32 am

gremlin wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 5:25 am Knees fucked.

Buy some gel knee pads, they're ace.

[First knee pads I bought had a rigid plastic outer. After seeing how scratched they were, you realise how much grief knees get]

Got some. They are indeed ace.

If only I could bloody well find them...

Found them!

Hanging in a carrier bag on a hook behind the workbench, hidden under an old towel.

I knew I'd put them somewhere safe.

Anyway...off to create a shit load of sawdust....

Ultra fat-reduced dairy products. They taste of absolutely nothing at all. Mrs Mango and I popped into a local cafe for a spot of late lunch and the only mayonnaise they had to put on our chips was 'lighter than light' mayo. It had the consistency of shaving cream and tasted of absolutely nothing.

Vile muck.

Bit of a tangent here, but it always strikes me as weird that eggs get filed under dairy . I'm sure I do it too, but makes no sense!

Lee Mack. Trying to watch that 100% club earlier and it's hard to work out the answers with his inane chittering in the background. He should just STfU as he's as funny as piles.

mangocrazy wrote: Sat Jun 24, 2023 9:40 pm Ultra fat-reduced dairy products. They taste of absolutely nothing at all. Mrs Mango and I popped into a local cafe for a spot of late lunch and the only mayonnaise they had to put on our chips was 'lighter than light' mayo. It had the consistency of shaving cream and tasted of absolutely nothing.

Vile muck.

How can it be both vile and taste of nothing?

Jody wrote: Sun Jun 25, 2023 7:02 am

mangocrazy wrote: Sat Jun 24, 2023 9:40 pm Ultra fat-reduced dairy products. They taste of absolutely nothing at all. Mrs Mango and I popped into a local cafe for a spot of late lunch and the only mayonnaise they had to put on our chips was 'lighter than light' mayo. It had the consistency of shaving cream and tasted of absolutely nothing.

Vile muck.

How can it be both vile and taste of nothing?

Celery? Crunchy (so I'm advised) or chewy stringy water

If it's chewy, it's gone off. Should be crisp and crunchy.