It‘s a lovely day in Melbourne. We went for a beer. The Munich Brewhouse are offering German beer at $17.50 for half a litre. So we went directly opposite and ordered two pints of Aussie beer for $6 each
It‘s a lovely day in Melbourne. We went for a beer. The Munich Brewhouse are offering German beer at $17.50 for half a litre. So we went directly opposite and ordered two pints of Aussie beer for $6 each
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Problematic choice??.
A no-brainer given that it‘s 30% more than the beer at the Oktoberfest, which we are missing this year. However the Aussie beer was happy hour price and the German beer house was river-front.
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Thanks @mikehughescq - glad to read the full Self Esteem show is so good - the various live clips on the internet are good indicators. I am struck by the power of her voice in the live clips - she really lets rip. Wonder what the London reviewers will make of the forthcoming shows? Happily, I’m off to the Sheffield Arena later in the month!
The offspring had suggested tickets for the Sheffield show, as they’re a student there, for my birthday… but then conspicuously failed to deliver.
I’d given up but then coincidence struck. She added an extra Manchester show at the exact moment Mrs. H. saw her on Later doing The Deep Blue Okay and immediately proclaimed “Why aren’t we seeing that? We have to see that.”
Amy was quite a naughty girl!
Have been away for the weekend and just got back - so far a completely trashed buckled gazebo and 2 broken garden parasols which took flight, one of which was pretty sturdy and has had arms snapped like matchsticks by the wind.
Mrs AC mentioned the storm before we went but said it was for Scotland/North Wales and as it was belting down before we left on Friday and I got soaked just putting luggage in the car I avoided fiddling with things in the garden but probably should have put the newer larger parasol down.
I see numerous trees have been uprooted locally and that a rugby match was cancelled as the storm brought down a set of posts!
Just hoping there’s not too much else damaged when I get to look in daylight tomorrow.
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This cheered me up!
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Struggled up to the surgery yesterday, to stand in a long line for Covid and flu vaccinations, in the blustery cold wind. Surrounded by moaning old people. then realised I’m one as well.
Woke up today with the usual achy arms, but also felt a bit rough, so decided to have a slow day.
Put the dehumidifier on for the first time this autumn, and it was working hard, then put on a wash. While watching TV, there was a terrible racket, very loud. I struggled up, and couldn’t see anything. Looked at the dehumidifier, as it had stopped, and thought it had a fatal error. A few minutes later it happened again, and I checked the washing machine, and turned it off.
On hindsight, I think a bearing must have disintegrated during the spin cycle, and that caused the noise.
So, a fixed price Miele repair would be about £300, and as it is over 15 years old, I think a new machine is due.
Did a search, and Miele prices start at where others finish.
The Bosch guy I know who sorted our fridge hinges, said that Miele no longer allow third parties to access their spares, so decided on a Bosch from Costco that was on offer.
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I had my flu jab yesterday, sore arm all today. Not eligible for Covid jab - too young! Arranging to go private.
Sue had her flu and covid jabs yesterday (she got the Covid jab for non related medical reasons). Knocked her out, and she went back to bed this morning - however seems to be recovering this evening.
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I am also having to go private for my Covid vaccination because the criteria exclude me, too. So I have a trip to Boots in a few weeks. I am fortunate that I can afford this; I am sure there are many my age who can’t.
I was due to have both flu and Covid jabs on Saturday, but cancelled as I had a temperature and felt rubbish. I rebooked via the NHS Covid booking website and could choose any time/day this week except this morning. In fact I’m still not feeling that well, so I wouldn’t have had it done today. Maybe by Thursday pm, which is what I have booked, I will be ok. This will be at the local pharmacist and from previous experience, I would be surprised if I had to queue at all on Thursday.
When I went to my 11 am appointment at my local pharmacist last week there were 8 people in front of me in the Que
When I was with the pharmacist having my jabs he said that they get 2 minutes per patient (and it takes 4 minutes just to do the computer side of the jabs)
He was just as frustrated as the assembled throng in the waiting room !!
People who are interested in these things may remember me reporting on a re-wiring, consumer unit change project that I described in the old 24 hour thread that was summarily pulled by one of our fellow members.
The project continued unaffected and ultimately I achieved most of what I wanted, including the change to a modern consumer unit and an upgraded main DNO 100A cutout. All the relevant testing was done at the time of upgrade by a “Qualified Electrician” (ie by someone I paid to do it, not by me.)
Subsequent to that, I changed quite a few RCBOs for AFDD-RCBOs, so the installation is way over-protected now.
But Storm Amy has caused me a little hiccup because on Friday late afternoon, I suddenly got a message from our electric car saying that the charging had been interrupted and I needed to unplug the car and plug it in again. I found the charging point had gone into a major error state (red light on). But everything seemed ok after I did what the car said, which was unplug it and plug it in again. The charging continued for a further couple of hours with no problem.
Anyway after I had sorted that, although it wasn’t dark, I realised that the table lamp in the corner of our sitting room was not lit and I knew I had turned it on a while before. I checked the consumer unit and found that all the AFDDs still showed a green light (which is an all is ok message), but two thirds of them had nevertheless tripped. Lifting the levers up one by one got everything on again. But how on earth could 7 AFDDs trip at the same time, while the electronics in each showed no issue (and from checking the event log in a couple, I could see no event recorded)?
I asked Chat GPT for help and ultimately it turned out that the manufacturer Hager has twice updated the AFDD firmware recently, once to reduce the sensitivity to high frequency noise coming in on the supply and secondly to try to avoid the situation arising where the RCBO trips but the AFDD overview software doesn’t think anything had happened.
So now I need to do firmware updates on 10 AFDD-RCBOs. This is easy enough to do, but you have to turn off the circuit and disconnect the output wires, then turn the circuit on, before using Bluetooth from an iPhone or iPad to do the update. This is a considerable faff, so I’m probably not going to get round to it soon unless I get this error again.
And updating firmware in my house electricity consumer unit is not something that I was aware of being a thing until relatively recently!
The relevance of Storm Amy to all this is probably that the electrical grid got quite noisy while National Grid struggled to cope with the massive amount of electricity being generated by the wind. (About two thirds of the UK’s requirements were met by wind power on Friday and into Saturday leading to a prolonged period where the wholesale electricity price was negative.)
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thought i would detail events for me on a very humdrum monday morning. so far i have:
- driven the car to a local repair shop to have two front tyres replaced
- completed (and passed) my annual anti-money laundering and suspicious transaction reporting training.
- booked my next set of regular blood tests at our local phlebotomy clinic
- posted two parcels at our local post office
the week can only get better from here!
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Just a flu jab for wife and myself. So far OK
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Lunch on the beach and then chilling by the pool before trying to swim some of the calories off.
It’s tough but I can deal with it. La Gomera is nice and quiet this time of year and pleasant at 26C.
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Not long back from the GP. Quite a young chap. Tall. Skinny. Slender fingers…
Willy.
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That sounds like it might be “too much information”?
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Well, let’s hope he had one if he was a chap.
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