With a caviar dip of course
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Reading the weather forecast & preparing a nice crispy honey roasted Duck for dinner with a pleasant Cotes du Rhone to accompany it.
Roast spuds in Duckfat obv.
Meanwhile Bro in law & neighbours all looking for dry wind free spots to fire up their BBQs as they have no other food & all shops shut until Tuesday.
:smug emoji:
Mum has told Mrs P_F she is useless & that I have to cook all her meals from now on. 
Still, the Duck was yummy & crispy and the duckfat spuds were worldy.
Wine? Big mistake.
Only getting one bottle of it
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Mrs C_S âsuggestingâ I get out there and sweep and then pressure wash the patio - only to find pressure washer attachment is broken.
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How did you break it? 
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Yes!
Finally able to go online again.
Methinks we have a year of speculation now
You spend 3 years talking to this
Nothing.
You say that this is great.
Nothing
You mention it has rekindled your interest in something you hadnât followed in almost 30 years
- Being ordered to implement a bad technical decision by a layman, despite your objections and predictions.
- Seeing those objections and predictions come true.
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I had this very same thing with a 3rd party piece of software that was purchased because a department head had used it at a previous place. I quickly sussed the vendor out as a âman in a shedâ and voiced my concerns.
Every time they have problems with the software and ask for my help I say âI hate to tell you I told you so butâŚâ
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Iâve had to deal with the same shit, especially with a piece of software called DRS, big in the repairs / reactive industry.
Itâs thing is that it is supposedly very good at minimising travel time by heuristically weighing up all the visits and plotting little routes around wherever they need to go. And to be fair to it, I think itâs probably a very sound purchase for a council or somesuch to do local stuff.
National? Nah. See the thing was it could only deal with a limited scope at any one time. So it could deal with Liverpool, or Manchester, but not Liverpool and Manchester at the same time.
The two areas would be run as completely separate systems, which practically meant I could have an engineer in Newton-Le-Willows who could easily do a job in Lowton, but due to this unnecessary division the system would think the two places were different universes.
This was not a theoretical concern. The firm I worked for did the entire North West and beyond. Our system actually did a better job on this than theirs did. Furthermore, our system did this for free. Their system was 30p per appointment.
So I counted our appointments, multiplied them by 30p and it turned out this decision was going to have us spending last yearâs company profit with only 15k change for something weâd never paid for before. A completely new cost!
The ashen faced room of directors, contracts already locked in, did not like this news. My cards were marked after that 
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Bluebell woods in May and the obligatory picture of pooch when she keeps still enough to make a decent picture.
Molly catches a scent on the breeze. A Pheasant? A Partridge? Probably a Bluebell.
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Telling Mrs P_F she is stupid to head out on a big x-country BFF bike ride with the forecast/weather.
Then getting a call that they are stuck sheltering from a mega storm in a bus shelter about 10 miles away soaked & scared to death.
What to do.
Except NOT say I told you so.
I went with âwell, there is no way to get your bikes in the car. Can you not catch a bus?â
Think Iâm still dead.
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And on cue in comes the SMS Alert saying stay at home.
Avoid the subject event as per the instructions
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Affected Area
Krakowski
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Description
polski: Prognozowane sÄ burze, ktĂłrym miejscami bÄdÄ towarzyszyÄ opady deszczu od 20 mm do 30 mm, lokalnie do 40 mm oraz porywy wiatru do 70 km/h. Miejscami grad. Spodziewaj siÄ utrudnieĹ zwiÄ zanych z wystÄpowaniem burz. NaleĹźy zachowaÄ szczegĂłlnÄ ostroĹźnoĹÄ przebywajÄ c na otwartym terenie, w lasach i gĂłrach. english: Thunderstorms are forecasted acompanied by the precipitation amount 20 mm to 30 mm, locally up to 40 mm and wind gusts up to 70 km/h. Hail in places. BE AWARE that thunderstorms may occur. Take extra care in exposed areas like mountains, forest and open terrain. Disruption to outdoor activities is possible.
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After my fruitless search for a living rhubarb crown, and either going to or checking all major garden centres within miles for availability, was told by a grumpy woman at Dobies that no they didnât have any, hadnât been able to get hold of any for months, and the same for hostas (I only asked about rhubarb!), to be then contacted by a friend saying that so and soâs garden centre (a tiny place in the backwaters of Millbrook) have a rhubarb crown for me! Dashed straight over there, and said huge rhubarb crown is now installed in the place once occupied by a dead and expensive bit of (alleged) rhubarb. I told the young lady who had dug it up from her mums garden that she had made an old man very happy!
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Yep when you get to our age itâs the little things that make life worth living. 
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Iâve got this 4:3 LCD monitor which is perfect for retro gaming, as you can rotate it and therefore play every old game full screen.
Except⌠The bastard would not rotate. Hasnât rotated for a year. Couldnât even higher or lower the screen. I look it up on Google and it says thereâs a button you need to press, and there is, except itâs stuck.
Ginge� Have you got a mallet?
The mallet is delivered.
Thwack
The button is unstuck. The monitor now rotates. I fixed something with a mallet today. Beat that!
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As I always say, if brute force isnât working itâs because youâre not using enough of it.
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