Floofah

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[–] Floofah 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It cooked perfectly, letting it cool now and will try a slice for afternoon tea. Put less cinnamon in than the recipe, but that’s a personal taste thing of course.

[–] Floofah 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just made a carrot cake. Got it all ready and in the oven, 2 minutes later the mains power dropped. A minute later it was back on. Rushed to get the oven on again, think we were lucky, if it had been 20 minutes into cooking, that could have been a problem.

[–] Floofah 2 points 1 year ago

Good plan by the sounds of it. Be careful, take pictures if there’s any issues.

[–] Floofah 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hang on, he threw punches which luckily you avoided, that’s attempted assault in my book. But it didn’t end there, he was pacing around your house? WTF?

His apology seems a bit of a "cover my ass" policy by him. Report him!!!

[–] Floofah 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good grief, hope you are OK.

As others have said, report it. Do it now, and say you’ve locked yourself in to be safe.

[–] Floofah 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True story coming up.

A local friend used to grow courgettes. He would supply to an intermediate, the only way he could sell them to supermarkets, who would then on-sell them to our local Countdown.

His courgettes, complete with his label, would be priced at $12.50 a kilo in the supermarket. He would have been paid $1.50 a kilo for them. They would of course need to be a certain size and appearance quality or be simply rejected.

He tried selling at the local markets, but customers were still so picky about the size and shape even selling them at half the supermarket price to cover his costs, he couldn’t make it work.

He gave up growing them.

[–] Floofah 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Tried one of our Warehouse purchased avos. It was great, a Haas variety which are usually nicest. Paid $6 for 5 good sized avos, seems a good price to me.

Crickey I’m starting to sound like a Warehouse salesperson, but I’m just keen to advise on better value food etc. if we find it.

[–] Floofah 2 points 1 year ago

It looks a windy few days ahead, but maybe not raining, so that’s one thing.

[–] Floofah 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AI response, hope this helps …

Legionnaires' disease can decline if the compost is infected and has been spread on the garden. However, the exact amount of time it takes for the bacteria to die off depends on a number of factors, including the type of Legionella bacteria, the temperature and moisture conditions, and the presence of other organisms in the soil.

In general, Legionella bacteria prefer warm, moist environments. They can survive for long periods of time in water, but they are more susceptible to drying out. When compost is spread on the garden, the Legionella bacteria are exposed to sunlight and other environmental elements, which can help to kill them off.

However, it is important to note that Legionella bacteria can form spores, which are very resistant to environmental conditions. Spores can survive for months or even years, and they can germinate and start growing again if conditions are favorable.

Therefore, it is important to take precautions when working with compost, even if it has been spread on the garden for some time.

[–] Floofah 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We saw that when looking at fitting tanks. I guess it depends on projected water useage, and therefore the storage needed.

I guess a simple test will be watering your beds with a watering can, counting the useage, then that’ll give you what you’d need to store. Of course watering is very much based on the number of days needed, which is then driven by the weather.

Tough call eh?

[–] Floofah 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No issues at all. I saw those tanks. We don’t have roof collection, but have irrigation supply. That said it sometimes is turned off for a few days, so we looked for an alternative supply, filling up containers may work for us.

[–] Floofah 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m very experienced with usenet, still using it since around the early 1990’s. Nowadays, the old chat forum style has basically gone, and it is now essentially just binaries used for movies/tv/audio/magazines/xxx

Indexers list the contents, and providers give the access. I get downloads from Europe at 50-60 MBytes/sec. There are automation apps to auto download what you are after as soon as it is posted.

The old text forums are still there, but are mostly just full of spam.

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